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Sorry but I'm just not going to take seriously anyone who uses the term "DEI" in a British political context.

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Adults should never try to get kids to think they’re cool both because it’s inevitably cringey and because kids are dumb.

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Actions that do great immediate harm and have no credible path to making the world better, are not excused by someone shouting a slogan you like beforehand, or having some symbolic resonance with a sympathetic cause. All the sneering at consequentialist reasoning has driven some people off a cliff.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

It was sobering to catch up with Debbie from St Ann's Advice Centre last week. We discussed the devasting impact that disability benefit cuts would have on our community. Hearing the harrowing stories of disabled service users underlined why these cuts must be opposed.

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"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"

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PM: "We are moving to a war fighting readiness...to deliver peace through strength."

submitted 1 hour ago • 25 comments

Blue Labour is four MPs - all of them 2024 vintage - and Labour can and should use parry discipline to punish them for this shit.

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One of my clients from Kenya had her visa to come and meet with us rejected twice because she "might not go back", despite the fact she's head of a department for a multinational corporate and her husband and children are in Kenya. It's fucking insulting.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

yeah, we know you don’t want to see it, that’s why you disabled replies because if you didn’t disable replies you’d have hundreds of people saying that to you

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

The cold truth the US relationship with Ukraine is that it was always just a proxy war for us to bleed Russia dry and if anything the Ukrainians actually winning is something US planners never expected or particularly desired.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

I never get tired of dealing with the Very Reasonable People and their extremely good faith defenses of their cool socialist friends.

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A thing I think about frequently is that the line between a lot of "thoughtful" genre film (particularly abstract/"offbeat" features made outside the U.S.) and carelessly-produced "junk" is that someone had the self-awareness to promote it one way or the other.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Thinking about a certain hitpiece video made about one of my peers and how it was definitely the right thing to pivot away from my own negative content. Critique is one thing, especially if justified, but negativity as your business week-in-week-out blackens the soul. I know from experience.

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

Bill Maher is a racist misogynistic asshole. www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-u...

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Feel like I spend way too much time coaching both my kid and my parents on how to discern reliable internet information from conspiracy theory nonsense. Like it takes up a shocking amount of bandwidth. And it is 100% a losing battle.

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

The same people they eventually blame every other time, eventually.

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if you’re a leftist and you’re playing dumb about the relationship between leftism and rank antisemitism I’m choosing not to believe you because it’s more insulting to you to pretend you somehow failed to notice the past few years

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

gosh it’s such a mystery why she’d have replies disabled

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

Remembering Powers Boothe, intense Emmy-winning character actor, on his 77th birthday. #botd Seen here as Corporal Charles Hardin in Walter Hill's SOUTHERN COMFORT (1981).

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

the kids who are actually playing against trans athletes who aren't auditioning for a gig as a right wing grifter are way more mature than the adults crying about it

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

Army of Darkness (1992)

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Ok, so I’ve seen the Doctor Who finale now. It’s bonkers and probably on the high end on the confusing Doctor Who nonsense scale, but moves along enough that I was fine with it. Wish like hell we’d gotten more Ncuti Gatwa. And that last shot…huh.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis. Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Notice how Zelensky conducted his strike in Russia WITHOUT using Signal chat.

submitted 12 hours ago • 233 comments

One of the most unhinged accounts on Twitter.

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

George Galloway endorses the Candace Owens dumbfuck accusation that French First Lady Brigitte Macron is actually a man, and calls Owens' bullshit "sterling journalistic work". He has "no real interest in it" but he's bringing it up anyway because he actually does.

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

And a very happy first day of pride to all my queer freinds,fans and collaborators out there. Here is a little Kevin Conroy in these trying times.

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Ah yes, because "message films" were never a big part of horror before. Wasn't the focus of George Romero's entire career or anything. Y'all are somehow both over and underthinking this.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

even in the event that Zionism were uniquely evil, which it is not, the guys picking street fights with the SA eventually convinced the military establishment to back the Nazis in order to put down the KPD

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Remember when TikTok convinced a bunch of zoomers that Osama bin Laden was good and then a bunch of journalists claimed that this didn't actually happen and now Taylor Lorenz from the TikTok beat is repeating literally that stuff verbatim

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Update: please report this post I’m about to link. This is a good example of a neonazi pretending to be a leftist, but also is a bit sloppy in execution, making it obvious. (Explanation in replies) bsky.app/profile/vsoc...

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Sesame Street can't stop taking W's lately

submitted 11 hours ago • 216 comments

Look, I'm a bit assholish here and I'll cop to that. But one of the great things about modern horror is that it has become the last bastion of the old school indie and art film. We're allowed to play around with character, theme, meaning, or even the surreal while, get this, selling fucking tickets.

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

This is a good first step. Putting the cut sequence back into the Spiegelman documentary would be a good next step.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It’s worth being more specific than this. If anyone _but_ the POTUS or another top MAGA figure had posted that Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and the person we think is Biden is a robot, that person would _never_ be used as a source by journalists again. Yet media won’t change how it covers Trump.

submitted 5 hours ago • 32 comments

I really, really need people to understand that as a function of supremacy, normal everyday people lie constantly about their intentions—to everyone, but perhaps to themselves most of all—and most often in service of protecting their ignorance and complacency, rather than any coherent ideology.

submitted 15 hours ago • 41 comments

I got British citizenship via the five-year route. Labour’s new 10-year rule will cause untold pain | Nesrine Malik

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My thoughts are with our Jewish neighbors after another horrifying antisemitic attack, this time in Boulder. Hate has no place in our country.

submitted 8 hours ago • 334 comments