I am British and grumpy. Tories, Brexit and most other things make me grumpy. I am a ridiculous blue rectangle in a silly green hat and I demand that you take me seriously! Born 1970s. Unable to age verify. danielrigal.co.uk @DanielRigal@mastodon.social
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If you have to go on the television just to tell people that you are not dead then you are dead. You are double dead. You are the anti-Lazarus. Victor Frankenstein would like to help but his electricity got cut off for non-payment. You think you are El Cid but you are Chuck E Cheese.
Giuliani might seem to be a simple Fiend or Undead, but I believe he crossed the line into Aberration some years ago.
Why are the right wing only screaming about the first?
And so it begins
It amuses me that the people with English as a second language often speak it better than the morons moaning about them in fragmented sentences punctuated by slurs and grunts.
The painting of Union Jack or Irish flags on paving in Northern Ireland is done as a form of intimidation & ‘ownership’. Recently, British Loyalist paramilitaries have painted Union flags outside homes of ethnic minorities to intimidate them & scare them to leave. Starmer is playing with fire
Flags
The thinking that you can defuse the flag trap by going "yes we love flags" will lead to, within a week, all labour MPs dressing in flag suits and shouting at Farage "do you hate England for not dressing like this?" Whilst the racists don't actually give a shit about flags, as it's racism they love.
"can I shock you, there's nothing I like more than drunkenly facing off against our police and taking a brick, thrown by a comrade in arms, to the head and then the balls"
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turns out this is a thing a political system can do in defense of itself
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
Imagine going on the internet and posting that you don't like bread, accidentally giving away that you don't know what bread is.. Has anybody been round to check that she's OK? Nobody is holding her hostage and making her post shite at gunpoint, are they?
I don't even think that this is exclusively about trans people. The long term objective is to reduce AFAB people to the legal status of walking vaginas in order to reinforce the Patriarchy. Going after trans people is the intermediate step.
As a cis guy I have the nasty feeling that I have been reduced to the legal status of a walking penis but it would be nice (not nice) for one of them to have the guts to actually say it.
Evidently they were far too solemn to actually tell us what it is meant to mean. Everybody had to say it brought "much needed clarity" but not one of those bozos could say what that "clarity" actually was.
This. The Supreme Court in April decided that it was its solemn duty to introduce a new slur against minorities into the mainstream. What legal foresight. What dedication to justice.
"I hate when food tastes like food."
Well there was an England flag here yesterday but I guess the students had a busy night!
A few years ago even the lowest tabloid would hesitate to print such utter shite. Now a British broadsheet "newspaper" is wringing its hands, crocodile tears in its eyes, pleading "Won't somebody think of the white people?" Pathetic. No... This is so far beyond pathetic I'm not sure what to call it.
Didn’t you call them chavs and yobs for 20 years until you realised you could ventriloquise your posh-boy racism through them?
Trouble is that he got pushback over that and crumpled like the hollow man that he is.
Steady on. This isn't a bunch of pensioners protesting for Palestine. These are hard cases who might actually thump a cop. Even worse, it might make for an awkward Sunday lunch when they all have to sit round the same table.
People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Any "libs" pretending they don't get it are not real libs. Yeah, libs can be a bit slow on the uptake but this is fooling nobody, not even them. The "libs" pretending to fall for it have made a choice that they would rather not admit to.
And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation". If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
You'd hardly know the Guardian had partnered with an AI company 🙄
CHICAGO…
Not as powerful as the right wing media that has people believing that that animatronic corpse is alive in any meaningful sense. Might as well convert the White House into a Chuck E Cheese.
stinky…
ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it
I'm trying to watch this but it's taking forever because I have to keep pausing the video to shout "What the fuck?" and then take a few minutes to calm down again.
yes, really
I believe it failed for reasons of standing, not on the facts of the case.
What actually is their stated charitable purpose? I've not seen them do anything other than political campaigning and litigation which is not connected to any charitable purpose that I can imagine.
"Burke accused the court of denying him his religious rights, which included his belief in two genders, male and female." All he had to do was stay away from that school. He could have believed whatever he liked at home. Now he can believe whatever he likes in prison.
It is easier to imagine the president's death than to imagine Chuck Schumer effective
I'm enjoying all the posts about Trump being dead, and I don't want to sound ungrateful, but it would be even more enjoyable if he really was dead.
If Musk has recognised the Cybertruck and Doge as sidequests, as personal ego trips, then he wouldn't be in this mess. He lacks the self-awareness to realise when he is acting against his own interests.
Morning Bluesky. Tesla had its seventh straight monthly decline in European sales in July, dropping 40% to 8,837. Chinese rival BYD surged past Tesla with 225% sales increase, to 13,503.
Won't somebody think of all those maimed in bitcoin mining injuries?
hall of fame legal AI moment: a judge figures out that someone's court submission was generated using AI because it cites "a wholly imaginary judgment for which the plaintiff claims that I am the author."
The flag “debate” is simple. Is flying an England flag inherently racist? Obviously not. Are the people currently doing it en masse racist? Clearly yes.
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
I don't want to start rumors but this guy is arriving at the White House now:
A competent government comms strategy would make quite a big deal that this is actually the second Reform elected representative to be caught using the N-word this week.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
The MAGA movement had chosen its Horst Wessel figure and she's even more pathetic than the actual Horst Wessel.
DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT #FARAGE ALWAYS BEING ON TV IF YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED THIS PETITION !!! DO IT!!!!! RT and thankyou for your attention to this matter! 😰 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Actually jaw dropping from James McMurdock MP, even by his standards. We cannot become numb to this. The far right are in Parliament, and they're trying to normalise outright, vicious racism (same goes for the likes of Rupert Lowe too)
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
One thing Sensible Centrists refuse to acknowledge - and this was true during covid when people were also saying this stuff explicitly - is these people are eugnenicists who welcome a good plague to get rid of the old, botched, and bungled
Ah, yes, the dipshit who thought you could strengthen wheat by bullying it and lied about it when it didn't work...
You'd think that an Irish-American would remember how the British failing to lift a finger and letting the Irish potato famine "burn through" Ireland's entire food supply did nothing to strengthen anybody.
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
you really couldn't make many movies from 40-50 years ago today. this is due to the unavailability of certain discontinued film stocks and the deaths of many principal actors, directors, and other various crew members
RFK Jr joined the fight on deadly diseases on the side of deadly diseases.
Guy who wrote a book saying his mom is a junkie slag and his people are lazy trash thinks that everyone else should be more grateful
fascism is anti-life, not just for the victims of fascism, but for the fascists themselves. they don't want to reach their promised utopia, they want to die in pursuit of it
It's energy when you are boasting about how many there are and it's calories when you are boasting about how few there are. Anybody smart enough to know they are the same is not in the target demographic for the advert.
I think China's line to Putin and Kim is going to be "You two morons need to tone it down a bit. We're trying to make money here and we don't need you idiots rocking the boat."
If they really cared about "online safety" they'd be regulating the AI chatbots out of existence but no, there's too much dirty money in AI, so got to stop that teenager looking at boobs.
Trouble is that the internet is both under-regulated and overregulated. The people who want to regulate it more are not interested in blocking the scammers, misogynists and neo-Nazis. They just want to stop teenagers looking at pictures of boobs or finding out that LGBT people exist.
Ads for mobile gaming scams are often a two-for-one offer with maximum misogyny and scamminess wedged into one unskippable 20 second package. I mean, what do the legit advertisers think when they see that crap? Does Birdseye want to advertise its fish fingers on the same platform as that stuff?
If you haven't seen the pro-genocide ads telling lies about Gaza then count yourself relatively lucky. They're horrible. There's so many scam ads on YouTube it's no wonder that they are short of legit advertisers. At least the scam ad for detoxifying foot pads with the nasty black gunk has stopped.
Fascists like it when the law seems to be on their side but they don't really care when it isn't. Law isn't a concept they distinguish from power, and they think that's for the taking. BBC News - Councils still planning asylum hotel legal action despite Epping ruling www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not in him, in the presidency. Trump is not the brains of this operation. Sure, forcing them to replace him a year early would create some chaos but I'm sure they have a plan for that. With or without Trump, it's still Project 2025.
I once tried to explain The Black And White Minstrel Show to a younger colleague and it took quite a while to convince him that I wasn't just making the whole thing up. Nobody would want that garbage back as "entertainment". I doubt that even the racists really enjoyed it.
another win for the pro-child cancer lobby bsky.app/profile/kati...
And, yes, I'd be saying the same thing if somebody was discovered to be a descendant of Hitler. We can't oppose fascism if we buy into fascist ideas of "blood and soil". There is no good or bad "blood". Race is a lie. It's all bullshit!
Unless this guy is actually a fascist, and nothing here says that he is, there is absolutely no reason to harp on about his stinking great grandfather. Let the guy play football in peace. BBC News - Mussolini's great-grandson makes Serie A debut www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
I miss the old brand #CDC
I think the MAGA movement had been looking for a Horst Wessel figure for a while. Oddly enough, volunteers were not forthcoming, at least not once they realised that the clout on offer would be posthumous, so they went with this blast from the past instead.
I think he's far too far gone to care but it might be interesting to have him chatting to his sister. Maybe she could be the one with the doubts although I think she would stifle them and keep writing tabloid shite. Either that or maybe he could have fears and she could be egging him on.
It’s hard to write Arsonist monologues for Philosophy Tube now that so much of what the character was designed to ape is mainstream. I remember when “arresting firemen” and “setting fire to refugee hotels” was the most extreme thing I could think to make him advocate for; now it’s the news
Vance needs Trump to get two years into his term so that it won't count towards his two term limit. Of course, it isn't up to Vance. If Putin or Heritage or whoever is running this shitshow decide to put him in sooner then that's a done deal.
Every phone is sold with about two years of software updates and then they start badgering you to get a new one. Most people don't care and phone companies hate that so many people are walking around with old phones that still work. This fixes that problem. Not one of these will last two years.
Perhaps if they weren't out all day getting coked up and shouting at buildings they could hold down the jobs that they say the asylum seekers are taking?
It's that Jeffrey Epstein song again #totp bsky.app/profile/happ...
We are filled with anguish to see human beings seeking refuge facing the threat of further violence and intimidation. Too many politicians are fanning the flames of division when they should be voices for peace. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Paul Krugman had a piece on that today paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...
Anyone else notice a pattern in the government officials Trump is firing?
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When I know it's going to be a scam robocall sometimes I just answer with "Speak to me robot!" I particularly enjoy when the robot denies being a robot. They never think to program it to sound offended so it just denies being a robot in the same robotic voice as pitching the scam. Why even bother?
I genuinely can't understand why the stock market isn't down 40-70% on the year. Trump stole 10% of Intel. He is destroying whole industries and workforces. He is going to get many of the next generation killed, workers and CEOs alike. He's betting the economy on crypto scams. Why no crash yet?
“YOU’LL BE HEARING FROM MY ATTORNEY.”
Uh oh
Wanksy.
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Andrew Cuomo https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-andrew-cuomo/
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Aussie unions don’t beat around the bush.
Cowards who can’t cope with being scrutinised.
Will try my best.
