helium-heeled jack

literal vampire potbelly goblin, hobbling around coming after you

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@Sket_Jaguar I love him sm 😭

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@Sket_Jaguar Clussy incoming 🫡🫡🫡

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

Hips & pits or something idk

[Pierre L’Fauex @LFauexProd]

Why is no one else talking about how the social media timeline has become virtually all clown pornography?

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@LovejoyActual Human baby 🥹

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@Sket_Jaguar Got that high-end clussy 💅

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

Im considering walking around west street asking if people want blowjobs for £50 levels of stressed about money rn dawg i cant do this cost of living crisis shit anymore

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

Do they think we forgot about the videos where they talk proudly about how lying and stealing and cheating is a part of Israeli Culture and they have a special slur for the cucks that dont constantly lie and steal and cheat?

[usaama @yoUsaama]

well this is interesting. what in the hasbara is going on

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@LovejoyActual Lil spoon of pesto on the side never hurt anybody

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@CertifiedOmlet @SamuraiApology Whereas an open-late shop where i can get a lighter and a drink and a chocolate bar and some vape juice does have genuine utility for me 😅

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@CertifiedOmlet @SamuraiApology I feel neutral on them because even if theyre a symptom of decline they do at least have a function. Im so used to gimmicky highstreet shops with 4 month turnovers that sell nothing but plastic crap or else some ridiculous specific luxury I can never afford

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

Who up glazing they crucible

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@SamuraiApology Very telling aesthetic of a decaying britain to have city centres mostly boarded up ruins aside from the glimmering lights of the Stimulants & Sweet Treats shops

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@LovejoyActual He’ll be so cold :,(

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@LovejoyActual Nooooo 😢

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@Sket_Jaguar The story here is all of the posh cretins salivating at the opportunity to prove The Lower Races tarnish their noble power and noncing academy, to the point that they hounded a man to death for doing far less than like… every member of the British Press & Political Elite ?

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

Phenomenal stuff here. I mean a 14 paragraph screed where you wank yourself off over how noble and even-handed a journalist you are for participating in a racist lynch mob is phenomenal in and of itself. But this bit really tickled me

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

I hope I'm generally viewed as fair and even-handed in how I work (while being open about my own political commitments and views).

I'm happy to talk to just about anyone, and I'm always looking to meet people who I disagree with.

That isn't because I'm inherently like that as a person (anything but) but because I've seen the damage of a highly polarised media, where we only scrutinise our enemies and only defend the rights of people who we already agree with (ergo: "you can have free speech as long as I agree with what you're saying"; "you've a right to protest because we're on the same team").

That stuff is a problem. I especially know that because I've been a part of it in the past. But I gradually came to see it as corrosive to the things I really care about: free inquiry, debate, truth. If you want people with opposing views to take you seriously - and perhaps even to persuade them - you need to be regarded as fair. It took me years to understand that. The political implications of a media that collectively moves away from such a position is terrible.

And that is why, sometimes, I'm happy to follow a story which has started with the right-wing press. A story is a story, and facts are facts. If I disregarded those things because of where they first emerged from I wouldn't be adhering to the kind of journalism and work I want to do. Something is true or false, regardless of who is saying it. That to me is the heart of the Enlightenment project.

In the case of the Jason Arday story, we covered it a single time on Novara Live - our nightly show on Youtube. Our coverage, I think, was even-handed and well researched - words I generally associate with the show (it's online so you can judge for yourself).

It's important to distinguish between what goes into NM shows, articles or social content - and what individuals might tweet (although, of course, we are rightly associated with the organisation).

I say that because I also tweeted about Jason Arday - the first time being to make clear we had covered the story that same week and I that had previously not been familiar with him or his story. Most of my tweets concerning Mr Arday that followed, in my view, also adhere to the kind of debate I'm interested in: illuminating a subject rather than obscuring it, being fair regardless of sides, providing information and context rather than polarising people.

One exception to that was a post where I referred to Mr Arday, who took his own life yesterday, as a 'conman'. Such a phrase is clearly more in keeping with hyperbole and sensationalism than getting to the truth and facts of the matter - which is what I'm interested in. I'm really sorry for writing that given what has subsequently happened. It was injudicious, unhelpful framing given the deluge of media coverage sent Arday's way. It was precisely at that moment that the opposite approach - of sober analysis - was needed.

My personal view is that the Jason Arday story clearly met the threshold for coverage (and then some), and that there was a major public interest in reporting on it (although it's beyond doubt that a part of why it garnered *so* much attention was the time of year). Arday was a professorial chair at Cambridge (not simply a professor) and was set to publish a hugely consequential autobiography. The Times Higher Education supplement thought as much in 2025, and when they tried to get to the truth of the matter they received legal letters from Carter Ruck. The THE is a highly reputable publication, with strong, thorough journalists. Jack Grove, who contacted Arday from the THE, was subsequently reported to the police (for doing his job) and was investigated for 4 months. These aren't trivial, minor details.

Arday was also a public figure hoping to shape the national conversation (he guest edited the Today program on Radio 4 in 2024, for instance, and appeared on BBC Question Time). As a result, he would have expected scrutiny. Again, if journalism - or just debate generally - is exclusively about scrutinising those we dislike and already disagree with, we are going to have major problems operating as a pluralistic, relatively free society. In many regards such problems are already visible.

Shortly after that tweet someone I admire and respect got in touch to explain the situation with Mr Arday, and that he was personally in a very bad place. I said we had covered the story, and that I had already made my views clear. Given Cambridge had also announced there would be an investigation, I proceeded to say I would leave the story alone, both on my personal social media accounts but elsewhere too. He was a father of two - and as someone expecting a second daughter I immediately understood the significance of what I was being told. As already mentioned, I believed (and still do) that there was a major public interest with the story: British higher education institutions are regarded as some of the best in the world, with Cambridge itself regularly figuring among the most prestigious universities anywhere. Personally I'm proud of Britain's university sector - which makes me even more angry with its treatment for the best part of 30 years - and besides any political coverage think its important such places adhere to rigorous standards.

But all that pales when compared to children potentially losing a father. Once Arday resigned from Cambridge, which was a few days later, such a conclusion was even more obvious. Frankly, it would have been wise for the whole media to take stock for a week or two after Arday announced that resignation. Of course hindsight is a wonderful thing.

It's worth saying, nobody has asked me to write this. And I'm not doing so to change anyone's mind. I've not deleted anything (a personal rule, so that people can see what I've said for themselves). But, when something as tragic as this has happened - and two children have lost a father - I wanted to record it and make clear my reasoning for things.

[helium-heeled jack @goopyfag]

@Sket_Jaguar Like the guy that started this British Institutions-wide dogpiling is a chinless race scientist who claimed Cambridge would have 0 black professors if it was truly meritocratic.