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thoughtcat.bsky.social
Eligible/illegible lefty London guy into painting, coffee, photography, trees and buns. “An awkward mix of the very serious and the very silly” - The Times. I also make up review quotes. #freepalestine
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 18 hours ago • 102 comments

It’s great to see investment in the NHS, social housing, and free school meals. But it makes no sense to cut disability benefits at the same time. Making disabled people sicker and poorer will only increase pressure on the NHS, push them out of independent homes, and deprive their children.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

I have no problem with police showing up to a protest but their use of violence is undermining their legitimacy :/

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

submitted 2 days ago • 390 comments

Watching nearly every political party in the UK chase the same 20% of the worst people in the country, ignoring the other 80%, just to please the papers. Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

Good news for the people who are now getting the payments, but what an absolute waste of time, not to mention worry on the part of the people who'd lost it. The outcome? Another U-turn which eats even further into the government's credibility www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Can we make Prime Minister an AI position, it already does not require any sort of spine

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Never forget that he didn't call the National Guard on January 6th!!! ("AMERICA! AMERICA! 2022, 5ft10"x7ft10", charcoal & graphite on paper)

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Is this because no women in burqas ever come to speak to Kemi Badenoch at her constituency surgery

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Could this be any more obviously politically motivated? And we allegedly have a human rights lawyer as a prime minister. Pathetic. #freeWilliamPlastow www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A terrifying thought

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Greenpeace petition to stop supermarkets flooding us with throwaway plastic. Push supermarkets and the government to take bold action in global talks this August. Sick of all the plastic? Add your name: act.gp/42K7pZy

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Been watching a lot of Stewart Lee videos lately, and in an interview with Alexei Sayle they mention the Dustin Hoffman film Lenny. Just watched it. America, man. That damn America.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The leopards They are eating each other yes YES The leopards are HUNGRY

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

Isn’t this… precisely what bus driver training is meant to prevent

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

ANYONE who thinks ANY group should accept fewer human rights than everyone else is totally unfit to serve as an EHRC commissioner.

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 125 comments

I think we all knew Elon and Donny would fall out, I just didn’t think it would happen so quickly

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Bloke in the pub just told me I have a beautiful denim suit. I suppose it could look like that, but I’m just doing my usual double denim.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Noel Gallagher after he was charged £250 for a tube ticket because the tickets are 'in demand'.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Nice piece about the resilient tardigrade who will be here long after we've messed up the planet. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Israeli forces have destroyed Gaza’s only specialised dialysis facility, Al Jazeera reports. The bombing and blockade have long left disabled people without life-sustaining medication and equipment whilst disabling tens of thousands more. Thinking of every disabled and chronically ill Palestinian.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

If white people across the country started singing “Free Palestine” to the tune of “Sweet Caroline” when a little drunk this summer at their white people bars in their little polos and $70 flip flops I think the worst “journalists” in the world would actually implode

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Shirts. I am interested in shirts

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

That awkward moment when you’re trying to record your solo and the studio assistant hands you their demo tape.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Feeling really rather cruddy today

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment