marcusjdl.bsky.social
Gay with husband and a dog called Dusty. You may find me left wing, that’s due to life experience. Transphobes not welcome here. All the man, all the man you need. Not British, not English but Londonistani. he/him
Blog: https://london-whiplash.ghost.io/
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It literally went from “sexy actress” to “Straight Outta Compton”
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In another life I’ve written a piece called “Doria at the wedding” because the minute she turned up the tone of both Black AND white Twitter shifted
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really bad
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my nieces have one Black grandparent/three white and aren’t considered white so blood quantum nonsense doesn’t apply either this is because race is not based on logic
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The one-drop rule has always been in effect if you don’t look white. And sometimes it is even then, as Meghan Markle and Mariah Carey found out.
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Stephen, no don’t do this. Your white parent is not going to save you. Also it’s positioning yourself as more worthy of citizenship as people pf colour who aren’t mixed. Which is a nonsense and lacks solidarity.
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Thank you! 🫡
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He sounds like my old Twitter mentions became sentient. He’s deep in the online right wing cesspit
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Yeah dry air -30° in Norway feels very different than -2° in London
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As a working class person, I gave up on news and journalism over 20 years ago. It’s class ridden and patronising like so many things in the country. It’s beyond hope.
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All her tales about gross casual racism are when she and my dad started moving among middle class people.
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our house isn’t bad because we spent a lot of money insulating it. I was amazed to find that in the upstairs bedroom if you lifted the carpet in the spot above the front door you could see outside air between the floorboards.
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we occasionally consider the idea of moving to South Woodford but it is quickly shot down with “Central Line”
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The UK is simply not designed for sustained heat. Aside from our old housing stock (my house was built 1891) even the rail tracks were designed for a 30°C maximum air temperature
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It’s classism as well: so many middle-class people have no idea what the working class are like and assume they’re all chavs, lads, footie hooligans, unemployed and on benefits.
Honestly, so many professionals have lived such sheltered lives that they don’t even know how sheltered they’ve been.
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*walls but her ears are probably mouldy too
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she’s staring at her mouldy ears, fuming
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I suppose it'll be a more realistic portrayal of what MI5 actually do, then
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I really want that outfit in adult size x
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How do I, a member of the ethnic metropolitan middle class know about white working class people? I’ll show you how
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I mean, pick your 21st century topic - the 9/11 attacks, the 2004 EU expansion, the Gillian Duffy incident, the 2015 “migrant crisis” - and they’ve all been the same: opportunistic land grabs for nastier, meaner and more inflammatory bullshit, that swiftly becomes Common Sense in elite circles.
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70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s & now the 20s…
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We had this discussion in the 1970s I believe