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Love how every single liberal party strategy is “moving right wins elections” then when moving right repeatedly fails to win elections cause they’re running against OPENLY RIGHT-WING PARTIES they just go “Well clearly we didn’t move right enough.” Like even a child could tell you what’s wrong

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Diasporists! Tune in to our discussion of radical Jewish diasporist politics in Victorian London and sing along to historic solidarity anthems sung on the streets of east London @jewdas.org @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social @clivesg.bsky.social @blbalthaser.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

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I didn’t kill Hitler with my own three hands just to see some kraut named “Keir Starmer” (Stürmer???) run England

submitted 244 days ago • 4 comments

I made so much borscht last night that I had to transfer it to a jam pan halfway through cooking to fit in all the ingredients. Anyway, it was truly and surprisingly delicious. Sorry to all the borscht lovers for being a hater.

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That's great and all but I don't think a few Jim Carrey films are really going to cut it when it comes to symptoms like being afraid of the dark and assuming every phonecall heralds the death of a loved one?? (Love u Jim xxx)

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I feel like 2024 was a total write-off of a year for me. So nothingy. Worse than 2016, when my dad died. At least I got to sit in a lot of pub gardens that year. Apologies to anyone who saw me last year, basically.

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Yesterday, I reconnected with an old college acquaintance from Gaza. I asked how his family was doing. There was a brief pause. Then, in a quiet voice, he said, “I’m okay… but my wife and babies were killed. Our home was destroyed.” I was stunned. I didn’t know what to say.

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

It's weird how they let the Michelin man judge restaurants and everyone was just like, 'Yeah, sounds fancy and sophisticated'.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

AI is a tool of fascism. Before you post AI slop or boost accounts with AI banners and avatars, ask yourself if you want to be seen as chill with fascism.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Doing my work reading in bed. Am I kidding myself?

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Episode 1 is out today! Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at shows.acast.com/the-cockney-...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Not to be dramatic but having both Stormzy and Alison Steadman shilling for Mcdonald's in one advert is a bit of a blow.

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If my dead dad were to visit as an animal, it would 100% be a red kite. Or (in Turkey) a porcupine. I am v confident of this.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

V amused to learn at the doctor’s yesterday that they couldn’t work out what to do with ‘Half Turkish, half English’ as an ethnicity, so they’ve put me down as ‘Southern European’.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Ahmed Naji & Katharine Halls, about Ahmed's ROTTEN EVIDENCE. "I wrote about the tough men I saw there... The image that first inspired me to write this book was of a thick mustache soaked in tears and an old man who couldn’t stop sobbing like a child." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

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Why is this man such a piece of shit?

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"A prominent Gaza hospital director is being subjected to various forms of torture and inhumane treatment in an Israeli prison. That's according to a lawyer whose visited Dr Hussam Abu Safiya in Ofer in the occupied West Bank for the first time"

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Hello there, poetry and translation friends! 👋 The Poetry Translation Centre is now on Bluesky ✨ Follow us to stay updated on some of the best poetry in translation from Africa, Asia, and Latin America!

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

We were lucky enough to meet Mahmoud in November. Please join us in calling for his immediate release, along with his nephew, Ahmad

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I like this. Makes me think about folk/traditional singing. Doing something not to create the absolute best final product, but because it's an expression of being human.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Gosh this is quite something.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

People in Gaza are still collecting the skulls and decomposed remains of their children from beneath the rubble, while some fantasize about building a resort on their mass graves, and others gloat over a minority that refused to vote for the party that enabled a genocide.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

What I want to know is: where are the bats that are local to me hibernating? They’re out there somewhere.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is capitalism in human form, stripped of its disguises. The violent seizure of other people's resources, the exploitation of other people's catastrophes, the predatory gleam in the psychopath's eye. #Gaza #Genocide

submitted 28 days ago • 71 comments