Paul Wood

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@BareLeft My order history shows 28 cases of 17 boxes of 5 lick-e-lix (liver flavour) over the past few years. Like, what the hell. That’s so much meat yoghurt.

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@GarethDennis @KSonOfABagel Yes, I mean the frustrating part is constantly being told that this is sensible and “grown-up” governance. Just throwing money at any old bollocks, no matter how useless and/or actively damaging, as long as it’s not public investment because that would be ideological.

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@GarethDennis @KSonOfABagel Still it’s incredibly frustrating that the “sensible/grown-up” Starmer government’s investment and growth strategy is basically “we’re spending the money on magic beans”.

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@CarolynMilfip @EllieChowns There’s literally a list of actions in the tweet you’re replying to.

[November @postoctobrist]

if you want to be trad you should always be voting Green - being gay, trans, high on drugs and a bit Muslim has been the highest aspiration of the English since at the *latest* TE Lawrence. Reform like crypto and post-2008 grievance racism, which makes them dangerously futurist

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

Phillips' interview with @ZackPolanski is problematic on its own terms but absolutely 🤯 if you know the full, ugly story of @TrevorPTweets and the Labour Party.

Buckle up, this is a long and depressing story.

Phillips was suspended and put under investigation for alleged Islamophobia by the Labour Party. His suspension was lifted out of the blue - a week before he got his Sunday Politics gig where he would be interviewing Labour pols. Later disclosures show that @ABarrosCurtis played a central role in revisiting the investigation under pressure from unnamed "stakeholders."

The story of his suspension being lifted soon leaks to the Guardian. The Labour Party goes mad trying to find the leaker. They end up blaming and suspending two BAME members of staff, neither of whom the Party, in the end, can prove leaked the story. One of the people suspended is the only Muslim person in the Labour Party's disciplinary unit. It is effectively the end of their Labour Party careers.

Now the kicker: the Guardian had been leaked the story during the Batley & Spen by-election, which, if Starmer loses, is predicted to led to a leadership challenge. Starmer is under threat in Batley because large numbers of Muslim voters are abandoning the Labour Party. Labour ends up winning by tiny margin, saving Starmer's leadership.

But the Guardian holds the story for three weeks. The Guardian only publishes the story two days AFTER the by-election. Would the result have been different if this story was published during a by-election where Islamophobia was a key concern? I don't know. I am absolutely certain that voters in Batley & Spen should have known about this at the time.

Now five years later: Alex Barros-Curtis is an MP after a ham-fisted "selection" during 2024 General Election. Trevor Phillips is batting away Polanski talking about his own perspective as a Jewish person. And Starmer and his Party respond to a horrific antisemitic attack by claiming its catalysed by marches against Israeli war crimes, decaying language even as they continue to supply weapons and F-35 parts to Israel even as its killed 800 Gazans since the "ceasefire" and annexing large parts of Lebanon.

This whole political and media class needs to get in the bin.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I am not a Green Party man myself, but I get questions. Let me tick a few of them off here, just for clarity…

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@ladyshippers8 @Heccles94 Very sensible! It’s just like in the Donbas, with those poor Russians being exploded by Ukrainian drones, right? Both sides 😢

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@Andrexonana @londonHenryGB @BareLeft Funny thing is, it includes the tax code (1257L) which is just standard with personal allowance still included, so this guy’s just got some very average tech/finance job but seems to think it makes him somehow special. I know dozens like him, some of them dumb as bricks.

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@londonHenryGB @BareLeft @Andrexonana Lame.

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@CecileJanty @zarahsultana Funny you should ask, but you could have just Googled it instead of being snide. https://t.co/PyaYRIgdYj

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

CEO of Y Combinator getting Claude psychosis and adding 78 thousand lines of code to his blog website is one of the funniest things I've seen

[onion person @CantEverDie]

it’s endlessly astounding how completely moronic the people ruining the world are

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@montysbiscuit @ZackPolanski You’ve somehow elided the third and most obvious option, which would have been an obvious win: tell Trump no and not get involved in his illegal war - and stick to that - which is overwhelmingly popular with the electorate.

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@StephanAJensen @owenjonesjourno @ZackPolanski How do you deal with the cognitive dissonance of being the former director for Ukraine at Tony’s slush fund when he was so friendly with Putin, and helped put him in power?

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@Hakuokigames @lloyd_rm @ZackPolanski Do you think there was on IRGC colonel sat waiting for Starmer to announce it on telly? “Okay boys, he’s finished the press conference, launch the drones!”

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@GordonW67156977 @GregHadfield @abierkhatib Looks like La Piazza, off Palmeira Square, maybe?

[katie @katefeetie]

if you hold both “the government is allowed to kill terrorists” and “the government decides who counts as a terrorist” in your head, you may be a rube, buddy

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@10DAOningSt @NoJusticeMTG Why would you want to?

[Paul Wood @wodific]

@abettercat @mstudman @SCynic1 No, this person’s ’forensic inspiration’ of the source found nothing, but he’s pretending otherwise in an attempt to impress other weirdos on the Internet