the thing about boots theory is that we're converging on a phase of capitalism where you kind of can't buy good stuff that lasts even if you can afford it, because there is simply no reason for any company to sell you something once that they could sell you 100 times
being a trans man is seeing 3 different posts telling you that you inherently have it less rough bc you're a man, and then also scrolling down and seeing a young trans boy took his own life due to ridicule and another had his life taken by his partner.
love how thick people are on this app, just because the uk has had a rainy july they think this proves that global warming and climate disaster isn’t true
I could be on the verge of financial ruin and still spend £ on events or clothes that bring me joy or drinks with my friends. idk money will always come back to me that may be delusional but I believe it lmao
£108bn to shorten a 90 minute train journey to 70 minutes, that less than 2% of the population will ever use, finished in 2045.
HS2 isn’t a complete waste of money It is complete FRAUD.
Dido Harding wasted £37bn in two years, what happened to it all?
Truss and Kwarteng wasted £74bn in an afternoon, why aren’t they on trial?
Yesterday evidence was produced showing Kwarteng was told exactly what his 'mini-budget' would do by OBR. But he did it anyway for Odey
1 in 6 UK adults say they have experienced suicidal thoughts or feelings as a result of the rising cost of living. This would amount to nearly 9 million people across the country if reflected nationally.
Meanwhile 🙃 :
It would take the average UK worker more than 32,000 years to make what British Gas just made in 6 months.
This is a cost-of-greed crisis — and millions of people are paying the price.
There is an alternative: bring energy into democratic public ownership!
Congratulations to British Gas who made record profits of £969,000,000 in six months.
That’s almost *ten times* more than last year, while millions are struggling to pay the bills.
We must end this daylight robbery and bring energy into public hands, now.
in 1992, sinead o’connor shocked the producers of SNL when at the end of her performance, she tore up a photo of the pope to protest child sex abuse in the church. her career was totally derailed and the church’s abuse did not re-enter the national spotlight for another 10 years