Charles Casetti

In love with words and patterns. Currently transitioning, and it's not the strangest thing I've ever done. (he/they/lui)

[Myfanwy Alexander @lodeslan]

@frankcottrell_b @Leigh_Phillips They also wrote poetry and competed against each other to write the most technically difficult. My grandfather, a coal miner, built a library for his village in the Valleys and filled it with all sorts of books, classics and light-hearted entertainment

[Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrell_b]

@Leigh_Phillips The men working in appalling conditions in the slate mines at Blaenu Ffestiniog had half an hour for lunch. They spent 15 minutes eating and 15 minutes reading aloud. They kept a record of what they were reading. It's one of the most beautiful things you'll ever read

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Yesterday the Telegraph reported on my comments about air conditioning.

The comment section is quite something. I have apparently become a hero of the anti net zero crowd by saying something what I think is sensible about air con.

Allow me to point out three ironies in this 🧵

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal @patrick_kidd

[Trafalgar Square Tree @trafalgartree]

Official statement from the Trafalgar Christmas Tree @UKinNorway

#worldcup #england #norway

[Charles Casetti @mmcasetti]

@datadriven_tdoc Same, the other way round. That said, if you have to accomodate for a G cup, your fashion choices are either “high femme” or “circus tent”…

[Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @JewishWonk]

The way to understand the people leading the far left movement is they are dissatisfied elites seeking an alternative path to power. You'd be surprised how often this model holds up.

[Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ @razibkhan]

this is like a bunch of white british ppl going to a retreat in zimbabwe and calling it rhodesia

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

Elite leftists are eager to back individuals who look or sound like a stylized, Hollywood version of the working class. But they don't actually like real working class candidates like Biden or Torres. They want someone that comes from privileged backgrounds and therefore possesses the "correct" elite vocabulary regarding race, gender, and social justice jargon. Their preferred candidates know how to speak the language of the professional class, making them safe, palatable, and highly electable or promotable to the liberal left.

Elevating working class larpers allows the liberal left to feel altruistic while completely ignoring the real working class. It's a self-masturbatory psychology that is inherently narcissistic, seeking to create a world in which their privileged echo chamber is never punctured by the realization that the issues they care about the most, like Palestine or abolishing the police, are considered pathetic and ridiculous to the working class, who sneer at their skewed priorities.

To the elite leftists, the concept that their economic and moral lessers could possibly deign to sneer at them is blasphemous to their ideology, which is more like a religious cult that separates everyone into sinners and the saved than an actual political movement with somewhat consistent ideological principles.

While elite students and professionals are busy championing stylized or hyper-articulate progressive "working class" people who are no such thing, they are completely blind to the actual, diverse working class right in front of them. If a Mexican campus landscaper, Black security guard, Armenian maintenance workers, or single mother food prep coordinate ran for office, without knowing the highly specific, evolving vocabulary of "right" modern social justice, they are immediately dismissed and shamed as the establishment, conservative, genocidaires, or "white" feminists.

[Professor Sue Black OBE Keynote Speaker 🇺🇦 @Dr_Black]

CAN YOU HELP?? Just had a not so fun experience! 🤪 went down in the lift at St Michel Notre Dame station to level -2 “tickets and trains” signposted at top. Couldn’t buy a ticket at level -2 as I need a travel card. Got the lift to level -1 to buy a ticket to the airport. Got fined €70 for fare evasion!! Can I get my money back?😳 #Paris #publictransport

[Joe @JCS_H94]

Underrated moment in the fall of Corbyn was the Salisbury poisonings and Jez insisting that we give the Russians a sample of the novichok so they could tell us whether or not it was theirs

[Redfoxi 💙 @Redfoxi]

Christ how powerful is Camilla’s fan ! #wimbledon #Fery

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

People in NYC used to say that Trump was "a poor person's idea of a rich person"--which was supposed to be a dunk and actually described his political appeal. Dems trying to tap that same populist energy instead selected a rich person's idea of a poor person.

[Louis Elton @LouisElton96]

I had a very fun morning at Freed of London — a 97 year old factory in Hackney specialising in making the world’s finest point ballet shoes 🩰

Each year they sell over 300,000 shoes, all made in London by a team of exceptional makers and exported to the world.

My favourite bit: each shoe carries a mark that uniquely connects it to its specific maker - like a crown or a castle.

[Andrea Zanardo @ravnahum5729]

Alberto Negri ritiene che chi dà una educazione ebraica ai propri figli non possa fare il primo ministro. È vergognoso. Oggi se la prende con gli ebrei domani potrebbe prendersela con voi. Aiutatemi a esporre i suoi pregiudizi, grazie.

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

My pretty simple rule of “never vote for a guy with a Nazi tattoo” has a 100% success rate, while dudes with Substacks are pumping out 2000 word pieces explaining why they were correct to give the Nazi tattoo a pass and can’t be blamed for what inevitably happened after that.

[Archie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @CymraegATFC]

Back in the day you could wear full suits of armour into parliament until woke came in 1313

[DiggerCrave 🧡🪏 @CruiseCrave]

Reminds me of Baz Luhrman talking about using modern music in Moulin Rouge since accurate music would seem old and boring and audiences wouldn’t understand that this was rebellious at the time, so they used modern music. Removing the barrier of antiquity for emotional resonance.

[Lorenzo 🕊️ @LVTornh]

Lol, good luck finding out who runs our country and which one of our 6 governments you want to take over.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Stop trying to present this career politician, millionaire grifter Farage as some kind of man of the people. He’s using the people of Clacton as top cover because his shady financial dealings have been rumbled. It’s pathetic and the other parties have called out his bullshit.