@nailheadparty I once had to subtitle a Uni Challenge where one question was "How do you spell (x word)" and there's not much you can do with that so I just had to type it. I saw someone taking the piss on twitter and it took a lot of willpower not to reply like, "Well, what would you do then?"
@McDivergence I feel like I'm going insane and the SSP etc never happened. How are we still getting condescended to abput independence by the English left?
@generalquixote At Glasgow uni I had a girl who'd spent her first three years in Glasgow but then moved to England say to me, "There's a home video of me when I was three and my accent is just awful, I sound like you!"
I know that “one day, everyone will have always been against this” but it’s still jarring to see history being rewritten in real time by a politician who literally lost his seat for opposing a ceasefire.
Keir Starmer loves to play the hard man when he’s taking on climate protesters or striking bin workers, but when it comes to standing up to vested interests, he’s an abject coward.
Jane Goodall died today. While smarter and more informed people will talk about her work, I want to share a snippet from her Wikipedia page - the two greatest paragraphs ever on Wikipedia. The first parts are amusing and interesting, but the last sentence elevates it to high art.
If the Houthis enforced their blockade of the Red Sea by boarding boats in international waters and kidnapping the crews you can be extremely sure that western media would not refer to it as an 'interception'
A 9-year-old girl shot 3 times with an airgun in Bristol, in a racially aggravated attack.
A Sikh woman in Oldbury suffering a racially motivated rape
A 15-year-old Muslim schoolgirl attacked on her way home from school in East Renfrewshire.
All happened last month.
that virtually all of the respective countries' governments of those aboard the flotilla have done absolutely nothing at all to protect their own citizens being kidnapped in international waters, a humiliating demonstration of willful impotency against israel's war crimes
An insane question just now on The View calling Zohran “inflammatory” for naming Israel as an apartheid state, resulted in the audience applauding Zohran for calling the horrors in Gaza a genocide.