Kate

[sash✩on the yuribus @gentlemanlister]

reform has banned the pride flag at shibden hall, aka anne lister’s house. i am so fucking angry. how fucking miserable and pathetic do you have to be to ban pride flags at a place that means so much to so many people.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

[🕷️Smart Alec🕸️ @_TheSmartAlec1]

All the Stranger Things finale reveals to me is that Alex Hirsch did in four years and two seasons what the Duffer Brothers could not in nine years and five seasons

[Jessica 💚 @Greenpartygirly]

Someone said that they’re all just
‘eternal sixth formers’ and I don’t think I’ve ever heard an more apt description.

[marc @feelingsplain]

absolutely insane that everyone who lives in Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh knows that the 'random fires' in their cities are 100% deliberate and done so property developers can make a few quid but there's seemingly nothing anyone is able to do about it

[corb @awshuqs]

spotify wrapped is SO LAZY this year

they didn’t tell me whether that gay little town in Vermont still matches my music taste

[lilyanna 💌 @mistynatisms]

she was not joan of arc, she was julie d’aubigny who set fire to a convent to excape with her lesbian lover <3

[Brooks | 🏳️‍🌈 @brookstweetz]

Retweet if you want to #SaveTheAcolyte

[double chomp nation @katycorfish]

You know what kills me the most about this? It all boils down to the fact that Jordan Chiles went last bc of a randomly generated order based on qualification scores, set by the FIG.

She didn’t dope. She didn’t cheat. She just went last. And they’re punishing her for it.

[Joe Glass🏳️‍🌈 @JosephGlass]

The way JK Rowling is gleefully going after a c*s woman for the crime of having higher testosterone levels, but not said a word about an actual convicted child rapist taking part in the Olympics says everything about her real thoughts on “protecting women”

[Kate @KateHLeather]

@triptoyourshore @Shirlainephoto you're work is 90% of my twitter feed and I'm obsessed

[just æd 🏳️‍🌈 @liverfrog]

sorry but this is one of the most stupid ideas in the world. most restaurants i go to in london have ONE toilet. do you want me to piss outside on the streets to just so you can spit on trans people some more 😭😭😭😭😭 this is such deranged and pathetic behaviour

[Louis Staples @LouisStaples]

so you agree, the voter ID law is punitive and makes it harder for people – including those with conditions like dyspraxia – to exercise their democratic rights

[Kate @KateHLeather]

@hemlockesprings is anyone else able to find the presale link cause I can't find it!

[Mind @MindCharity]

The news today might feel scary if you're currently off work for your mental health. We get it 💙

We just want to reassure you that these changes are *not* coming into effect right now. 1/2

[music struggles @musicstruggles1]

i feel as if i’ve listened to Midnights and Evermore back to back

i think jack and taylor have pushed each other as far as they can as collaborators in regards to a whole album, and certainly in this musical direction. taylor certainly seems to write a lot of hits with jack—fortnight and the title track are destined to be huge—but over the course of a whole album his production for taylor has become washed out, repetitive and limp—despite a few new synth flourishes added to their audible pallet along the way

in spite of what twitter might have you believe, jack antonoff is a great producer and taylor swift is a great songwriter, but neither are pushing each other to reach their best work anymore, a fact which becomes particularly noticeable when contrasted with the primarily aaron dessner produced “anthology” tracks; this is when taylor comes closest to reaching the heights of folklore and evermore, and the beautifully subdued production of Evermore—all but one track of which was produced by dessner—is a far better fit for taylor than the often limp synthpop of the non-deluxe Midnights. taylor’s lyrics and songwriting seem far less overwrought and far more natural on the “anthology”, and dessner’s production brings out a beautiful quality in taylor’s voice that jack’s production often can’t. jack tends to wash out taylor’s vocals with his preferred reverb effects, where as dessner’s subtle production allows taylor’s voice to float effortlessly over the instrumentation. disappointingly, jack’s production on the florence & the machine collaboration Florida also seems lacking, with florence’s vocals on the second verse seemingly being levelled too quietly in comparison to taylor’s on the first. i like the collaboration for the most part, but it does sound a little disjointed, as if all three of them were in three separate locations while piecing it together. it is a bit of a disappointment to me after florence and jack’s great work together on Dance Fever

in simplistic terms, i view producers like camera lenses that capture the beautiful work of an artist, sometimes highlighting things about an artist’s work that they themselves couldn’t see. no camera is able to capture the beauty of every scene. a camera suited for concert photography will not serve a deep sea photographer. disposable film cameras can take beautiful candids, but they wouldn’t be of much use to a nature photographer. lately all of jack’s best work as a primary producer has been on *more* guitar-focused albums, such as Sling, Folklore, Dance Fever, and Ocean Blvd; that’s the kind of music that his “lens” best captures. i think taylor and jack can push each other further as a collaborative duo, but not purely under the label of synthpop. i think taylor can make a great “synthpop” album, but not with jack as the primary producer; ultimately he should be brought in as a guest producer on such an album. if we were to have another album with jack as a prominent producer i think it should be in service of a more guitar-focused “rock” album, as i think it’s one of the only directions taylor can move to stop her sound becoming stale and repetitive, as any great artist’s sound would become if they (or their collaborators) failed to push their sound. or else i think she should continue making beautiful folk-tinged pop music with aaron dessner, with jack coming in as a guest producer to bring out the hit singles

taylor is the biggest artist in the world and has full agency over her songwriting and musical output, i just think she needs to try out a few more “cameras”

a full list of tracks i liked the most on the first listen:

fortnight
tortured poets department
so long, london
florida
gulilty as sin
loml
but daddy i love him
clara bow (my favourite)
the albatross
chloe or sam or sophia or marcus
how did it end?
i hate it here
cassandra
peter
the bolter

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

The pro-war propaganda is not sustainable in the modern world. Millennials and Gen Z are seeing right through it and calling it out.