Percival Fredrickstein vonMusel Klossowski de Rolo

Pro-Europe Aspie, NFFC fan. Massive geek. Was a woke snowflake before it went mainstream & got played out.

[Percival Fredrickstein vonMusel Klossowski de Rolo @sammy_boy]

@mondomascots Bit further afield but I got this optics cloth advertising the world athletics masters in Korea 2026 with this cutie on it!

[Balderdash @notDcfcBoss]

New distracted boyfriend meme just dropped.

[Paul Waterfield @pablooplywiss]

There’s a high degree of karma here. If a Just Stop Oil protestor can get 5 years for a legitimate concern then all these racist bigots deserve much longer.

[1865: A View From The Forest #NFFC 🔴⚪️ @nottm_forest]

#Euro2024 #NFFC #NEDFRA

[Stuart Reynolds @shaldonangler]

Isn’t modern technology wonderful? Who’d have thought 20 years ago that I would get warnings about sewage overflows on my watch. That’s progress, I tell you, progress… .

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Kvist @kvistp]

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Ukrainian humor! KrAZ!
#SupportUkraine !
#UkraineMustWin !

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

A very British reaction

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. TERRY PRATCHETT

[Philip Priestley 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @PublicPriestley]

Watching the free-market 'thinkers', who said that a bakery should have the right not to serve a gay couple with a wedding cake, contort themselves into saying that a bank is not allowed to refuse customers due to a lack of shared values - quite something to behold. 1/8

[Percival Fredrickstein vonMusel Klossowski de Rolo @sammy_boy]

@NFFC @JoeWorrall5 Am I the only one who immediately thought of the volleyball scene in Top Gun? 😂

[Conservatives @TheBigCons]

BREAKING:

Kemi Badenoch has just signed a trade deal with the Ferengi Alliance.

We expect this to increase GDP by 0.01% over the next 350 years.

[DECO @decobanduk]

If ‘Seventeen Going Under’ by @samfendermusic was a Synth Pop Ballad 💥🎹🎷🤔

[Percival Fredrickstein vonMusel Klossowski de Rolo @sammy_boy]

@LichfieldLore @thestymaster Glad it's not just me either. There's always something I found a little too mawkish about it, though the intentions behind it are very honourable

[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

REMEMBER: It's only a coup if it comes from the coup d'etat region of France. What's happening in Moscow right now is a sparkling insurrection.

[Daniel Austin @_Dan_Austin]

"We're still fighting for this coup d'état, and he's got to go to Rostov-on-Don and get something, and... and... I'll tell you, honestly, I will love it if we beat them, love it!"

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Meanwhile in Ukraine https://t.co/PyvRQf1zEP

[GrumpySkeletor @GrumpySkeletor]

Everything I am I owe to this guy.

Happy Father’s Day!

[Percival Fredrickstein vonMusel Klossowski de Rolo @sammy_boy]

Today I have mostly being listening to Dwarf Metal. And it's good. https://t.co/vQcA7czAdf