No one else is entitled to consider themselves the gatekeeper of your self-knowledge.
Not the former drummer with Roxy Music. Freelance researcher & writer with a PhD from St Andrews. Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?' Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.
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No one else is entitled to consider themselves the gatekeeper of your self-knowledge.
"Western NGOs and donors love to say 'resilience'. It is how they launder complicity. It is how they celebrate survival without ever naming the hand on the trigger."
Good luck with accusing people of political affiliations they don't have, and wouldn't have for a fcuking gold clock. Muted.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. When asked whether I want the "Labour" party to be a party of protest or a party of government, I answer that I want it to be a party that doesn't sh¡t on brown people. Cooper here is making the "Underwear will be worn on the outside" speech from 'Bananas'.
He threw my transgender friends under the bus. As far as I am concerned, he is written off, and that's that.
I'm 75. I'm still the radical ar5€hole I was at 18.
Alternatively, these are three imperative verbs addressed to the Scottish pack at Murrayfield.
Any remaining doubt about who is dominating the media and dictating the discourse?
I bloody hope so, because the alternative reset is too horrible to contemplate.
It is refreshing to hear from a mainstream politician who is not mealy-mouthed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA-g...
"This is LOCAL protest for LOCAL people. Are you LOCAL at all?" 🤣
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If I find unattributed rehashes of my work anywhere I will get nasty.
I am a great fan of the original cinema version - it gets Heart of Darkness perfectly in a SE Asia War setting. I can't get hold of it any more, I can only find director's cuts, redux, etc. etc. and they load the film with stuff that should have stayed on the cutting room floor.
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We used to be asked "Do you want the Labour Party to be a party of government or a party of protest?" Basically I'd like the Labour Party to be a party that doesn't sh¡t on brown people.
I just think he nailed the part (except for the silliness of being obliged to break the fourth wall). But to me he will always be 'Big Fry'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL4D...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocq0...
Eighty-six ringy-dingies!
*thinks up a pun about 'blockbuster' movies *bites tongue
There's one of them right outside our local railway station. The only trouble has been from Faragist-Robinsonites bused in from outside to create a fuss.
I hope I never meet him. I'd lose it and pull his nose as long as my arm. 😡
George Lazenby IS James Bond.
Ah, the season of I-can't-get-a-table-in-any-cafe-in-St-Andrews.
You couldn't make this sh¡t up! 😡
I offer the linked video without comment. Make your own mind up.
Come out from amongst them and be ye separate.
Didn't he have a hit with 'The Banana Boot Song'? 🤣
Putting it another way: "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." -- Sam Spade in 'The Maltese Falcon'
Well, I already knew that AB had been a "Big 10" college girl and had gone on to become a Professor of Linguistics!
Oh come on - they bearly resemble each other.
Bloody Kensington tractors! 😡
Only a matter of time before you see them - lights blazing, sirens blaring, squeal of brakes - in action movies and TV series.
I quoted de Beauvoir as I was preparing my thesis. My supervisor said "Was she in the discourse?" So I asked Ann Bannon if she had ever read 'The Second Sex'. "Yes," she said, "in the original French." Win!
Hoo dae ye ken it's no a wee bu? [No by the way, they havenae drapped yet]
Koontz: It's not a doggie, is it? Koontz: Koontz: Koontz: Please tell me it's not a doggie. Koontz: Koontz: Please tell me a doggie doesn't die!
"Today I killed a cat and, may I say, not in a gay way." -- Sid Vicious
2/2 *Note I did not say "Zionists." This was deliberate. Zionism is the political principal that says that Jews should have a homeland. Whatever its merits or shortcomings, that is at least an arguable position. Support for the genocidal Netanyahu is not.
1/2 I heard a brief discussion the other day about whether there had been any "good Nazis." The resolution was that no matter individual acts of generosity or courage, to become a Nazi you had to buy in to the whole political philosophy. Same for MAGAists, Farage/Robinsonites, and Likudists.* So no.
What - Kemi Badenoch lying? 😮 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The First Felon, in the gilded gallery of white gerontocracy.
Now where on earth did you get that from? 🤣 bsky.app/profile/docp...
I would make a point of seeing the Stax-Volt Tour! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUk1...
I remember when I lived in Blackpool and our local newspaper was the Blackpool Gazette, a seller used to stand on the corner shouting, "Zit! Zit!"
Britainer waives the rules.
One caveat: Don't chase a tiny person in a red, hooded raincoat in Venice.
Okay, I've read the KJV cover-to-cover 3 times, I've read the NEB and other versions - I had the NEB NT when it came out. I've read the NT in classical Greek. I still wouldn't call myself an atheist. What I see is a profoundly human document. Also read Book of Mormon. A whole nother discussion.
Ha! One minute I'm 17 hanging out at the Twisted Wheel listening to the latest Stax release, the next I'm 75 and saying "Hey, the 7:45s are pretty good." Life does not have to get uncool.
LISTEN TO THIS!
I dig chicks but - man! - Kirk Douglas is gorgeous! And a wonderful actor.
Trouble is, when you started cataloging the trees like that, I start thinking about the opening patter of Monty Python's Lumberjack Song.
The look on Ben Kingsley's face shows what he thinks of Loose Windscreen.
Crucifixion? Good...
Yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-daY...
Worf's greatest weapon, the Batleth.
Holy embouchure!
Inasmuch as thys is Þe age of "thou couldst not make it uppe," yea, verily.
Censorship by remote control. Loss of advertising revenue will cause the publications to close, thereby depriving their readership of a voice. Well, back to samizdat it is, then! www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Knowledge: 'Frankenstein' is the name of the scientist, not the monster. Wisdom: Frankenstein, the scientist, is the monster. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
Arrived in the mail today! My new bedtime reading, right after I finish Myra Breckinridge. @bitterkarella.bsky.social #Moonflow
Got mine in the mail today!
Good. He is a hole.
Frankly it has failed two out of three parts of the Abraham Lincoln definition for decades. The USA, like most north-western nations is: Government of the people by party technocrat-managers for the large corporations Its latest regime has even managed to make the 2nd "by loyal idiots."
Guilty pleasure - post yours. Mine's Jacques-Louis David.
I love actually getting the reference.
They told us privatisation would mean better services at less cost They told us the more millionaires the better because wealth would trickle down The opposite happened They lied, and despite having been proved wrong they're still lying meme via Jon Cumberbatch
I feel that way when a group of mods sit at the next table.
If this happened I would join the resistance.
The People are a political minority. Discuss.
Signed. Not going to hold my breath, though.
This is so important!
Go Mo Fo Po Ro Do Lo So!
Now THAT'll be a trip! Looking forward to seeing it in print!
Iconic photo of the 20c. #DavidBailey #Beatles #LennonMcCartney #JohnLennon #PaulMcCartney whatthehellisart.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/i...
Best news today. #Moonflow @bitterkarella.bsky.social
I read a fascinating editorial about her by John Louis Gates Jr. According to the white 'gentlemen' who sponsored her, literacy proved intelligence. They did not acknowledge that she would have been just as intelligent had she never learned to read and write. Moral: ALWAYS check your ideology.
ICE = Proud Boys in borrowed riot vests. I am going to keep repeating this.
Beep beep beep "Hey stop, kid!" "Fcuk you!" BANG! That's the inevitable sequence.
Um... what's SECOND prize?
Get rhythm when you've got the blues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=skCY...
Meanwhile the NRA seem to have forgotten why they were formed.
Farage owns four homes: Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce) Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd) One investment property in Surrey (rented out) Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home #NigelFarage
Ringing in my ears are the words of George Fox, "There can be no true fast except that which breaks the bonds of iniquity," which came from his knowledge of Isaiah 58:6. It was said of him that if the Bible was lost it could be re-written from his memory. Yet to him it was ink on paper on its own.
They CAUSED the bloody "challenges" ffs.
Preaching to the choir.
I stand corrected. They have in fact repealed the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023. Apparently only because it wasn't effective. Nevertheless I have never experienced a more dystopian Britain. It will get worse; barring a kick up our collective psyche we will have a Reform govt. in 2029.
I stand corrected.
Oh. Mon. Dieu! Carmen at the Met, 2010. What a mise-en-scène! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2sn...
The line is one-way.
... and will meane þe same thynge.
The "Labour" party already has its own Quisling.
Why is this irrelevant, mendacious has-been allowed ANYWHERE near politics, let alone international politics? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I wasn't too far away in West Wickham. Essentially part of London in the 1970s - postally in Bromley and traditionally in Kent. The nearest big shopping centre was Croydon, a very short bus ride away in Surrey.
The particular lesson I want people to draw is the fact that I attribute Animal Farm to 'George Orwell & Eileen Blair'.
