if we're going to book folks for diving, we should apply the rule to all deceptions. Claiming a throw in that clearly isn't yours? Yellow card!
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if we're going to book folks for diving, we should apply the rule to all deceptions. Claiming a throw in that clearly isn't yours? Yellow card!
glad to know we can go back to remembering that all US late night TV is cringe and it's inexplicable that the format still exists
Gee golly gosh, however could this have happened? It appears that nobody can explain
I mean, England? Great bunch of lads, always get their round in. But fundamentally you have shown repeatedly why you cannot be trusted even just with flags and abstract concepts, the results are all around us and *this is why you will have to come up with some new and different ideas*.
Truck Shepard is canon. Looking forward to seeing who they cast
Sultana, move to the Greens, let YourPartyFinal(1)(2).exe.docx die a quick death, this isn’t worth it
This is an absolutely indispensable read that provides a sharp, comprehensive materialist analysis of Palestinian oppression. Get it, read it, discuss it with comrades, use it to inform your movement’s means and ends. @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social
1 year exactly since the release of my debut book w/ @versobooks.bsky.social. In February '24 I wrote down in my journal my goals for the release - audiences reached, countries travelled, connections made etc. This 1st year wildly exceeded all my expectations, I am so so grateful. What's next? 1/4
why are we building new nuclear plants when solar is easy and cheap?
The right is intrinsically opportunistic and the left intrinsically principled
I know it's deeply unprofessional that Keir Starmer was living it up at an Arsenal match when the fascists marched on London, but I suppose it's better than the most likely alternative: that he'd have been there, shirt off, nips out, wearing an England flag as a cape.
It’s no mystery: the Thatcherite Consensus went Kaboom in 2008; our leaders and their sycophants still refuse to admit it, and they have spent all the time since trying to force the square shape of their dumb ideology up the round hole of reality. They’ll continue forcing it, until something breaks.
Not certain how obvious this is to non-Brits, but every single person pictured at far-right marches in England looks like somebody you would cross the road to avoid on a Friday night, especially if they were in a group.
at a certain point i stopped apologizing for all the 'bad' socialism did because frankly i do not see the growing pains of the first socialist states in human history as anywhere near comparable to the deliberate extermination and enslavement of millions of souls to feed the capitalism machine
the existence of stalin delegitimizes the soviet union and in fact communism itself *entirely* in a way that hitler, henry ford, andrew jackson, elon musk, ronald reagan, margaret thatcher, king leopold, and george bush do not delegitimize capitalism. its very cool.
Reconstruction (Christoffer Bøe)
Have you seen Arsenal lately? It's definitely a problem. Every set piece is a huge palaver that takes ages
I need to someone to remind me how many net zero carbon capture projects scheduled to begin in 2030 to cancel out the fact Keir Starmer was operating a ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy for being friends with the most notorious child sex predator of the 21st century.
A lot of very smart people still refusing to acknowledge that New Labour isn’t an ideology; it’s a racket.
the ultimate role of the liberal is to make sure minorities don't scratch any of the paint while the fascists drag them away
@zackpolanski.bsky.social pointing out that a household budget is nothing like a national economy.
Former Sun editor saying it here
Every idiot who can read a poll knows that if you wanted to beat Reform, you would put in place a fairly radical social democratic programme. But that isn't their priority. Their priority is is demonstrating loyalty to the City, Wall Street, Silicon Valley at all costs (2/2).
I really can't stress enough the extent to which you've totally missed the point if, like every single liberal commentator, you assume that the Labour leadership are conducting themselves like this because they mistakenly believe that doing so will help them defeat Reform (1/2).
A lot of people projecting stuff on to Angela Rayner when it's as simple as: the Starmer gang didn't like her and she couldn't be reshuffled away because Deputy Leader is an elected position.
this is exactly the book publishing model as well fwiw
Living the true Britain experience at work, get made responsible for something, have all the resources taken away and then get questioned about why nothing's happening.
i constantly think about this post
this whole palaver is a real vindication of the Transfer Game "saga" rule you brought in this year. Interesting that barely any teams chose to go for it and yet here we are.
As someone who operates in the nostalgia-economy, it’s pretty horrid now with the flag shaggers. The thing is, they have every right to be pissed off at the state of things. I am livid too. But they’re angry at the wrong things. It’s not immigrants, it’s neoliberal capitalist shits.
EU accessibility law means ebooks should always be reflowable epubs rather than static pdfs so page numbers get dropped
My review of Fredric Jameson's The Years of Theory has been published in Boundary 2 read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
Are MPs supposed to conspire with media outlets to orchestrate wild hate Jihads against their own party, trying as hard as they can to ensure their own side loses elections? Are there any other examples of this happening in British history, and indeed in electoral history anywhere on earth.
I feel like the automatic position of all people in Britain should be that the national press are *scum*, to be reviled and spat upon on sight, unless they can swiftly provide evidence to the contrary.
It’s a real shame that England is now in about year 70 of its midlife crisis and I’m sad you can’t be trusted to just wave your little flags and sing your little anthems. But clearly you *can’t* be trusted, because it always goes Enoch Powell speeches and fascists running riot in the streets.
This is also very true. The establishment doesn’t like seeing young largely working class, disproportionality diverse people being fairly rewarded within a system created and run by that very establishment (even if it’s a tiny proportion of all footballers who are!) bsky.app/profile/jack...
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
Our politicians are not serious people and the media needs to stop taking what they say seriously
I'm not sure this is the thing you need to understand, because it's broadly true everywhere. The thing to understand is, in England most of the people whose job it is to explain how the world works to the public are fucking psychotic fascists who are cruel to vulnerable people for a laugh.
incredible headline
amazed you got to that without it being spoiled!
We all agreed privatisation would bring down prices. We all thought Iraq had those weapons. We all spent too much before the 08 crisis. We all cheered on wrecking the public realm with years of austerity, we all decided to help Johnson Get Brexit Done, we all believed Labour would deliver Change
funny how the moderates never wonder - in what meaningful way are we a democracy if there are issues on which there are literally no alternative options for the government to take?
Sorry for not texting you back I was obsessing about tragedies I’m powerless to change
Nobody wants to talk about it but my whole life has been a corporate psyop shifting the burden of saving our burning planet onto me, the consumer trapped in consumerism, when the reality is that my lifetime of recycling is negated by one private flight by Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, or Taylor Swift.
yeah on FM the goal is always to sign players by 18 at the latest and then refuse to loan them anywhere till they're 21
I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night
Breaking: UK Labour Party outflanked to the left by the Death Planet, the sentient world-eating black hole star set to devour the Earth in 2029, which said on Good Morning Britain that trans women should be allowed to work as baristas. A Labour staffer with a 2:2 in Political Science called it woke.
Only the highest quality candidates.
happy to announce the Austria is keeping the great tradition alive. Can't find Digitiser though.
changing the words in the title of a film to make a weak pun of some sort is never ever funny. Stop it.
publishing related emails are very, very, very rarely truly "high importance"
You can get 25% off my book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN at Waterstones, with the code SUMMER25 until Thursday 31 #WPreorder
What an utterly dogshit rebrand. Take something unique, characterful and distinctive and make it look like every other bland corporate unbrand out there.
quizas, quizas, quizas
bring back teletext
total bullshit penalty to put the favorite through right before the final whistle football heritage
appeared on the internet for the first time yesterday...
Last Year at Marienbad vibes from that opening shot...??
The great Alexander Cockburn, former @thenation.com columnist, died 13 years ago today. Here is a wonderful story from his father Claud Cockburn about lovelorn British diplomat Basil Murray & an ape in Republican Spain, republished in Alex’s diaries ‘A Colossal Wreck’ (@versobooks.bsky.social)
nice
The Dialectic of Enlightenment is a nuanced, dialectical argument about how the highest ideals of the enlightenment ultimately subvert themselves as reason becomes myth and progress becomes domination:.
🚨Cover reveal alert!🚨 “Gaza: The Story of a Genocide,” edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro, is coming from Verso Books on October 7, 2025. Read more about the book, and how the cover, designed by Chantal Jahchan, came to be in the link below.
these replies are ignoring my point about the emotions involved in being required to treat our lives as portfolios... Anyway, I'm going to look into a s&s isa now since you're so vehement, but for everyone else the only way you're going to achieve change is to get Martin Lewis to talk about it.
it's a visceral emotional reaction to be the expectation that we manage our lives as though they are portfolios. Clearly if there is some "set and forget" s&s option that's best for everyone that should be communicated, but it's not exactly the most dangerous ignorance available just now, is it?
it's not irrational to be afraid of uncertainty
it's almost like the actual numbers don't really matter...
Today is Walter Benjamin's birthday, an important reminder that you can be unemployable for most of your life, die while trying to flee fascist persecution, and still become an entire publishing niche market decades after your death. There is hope, just not for us.
VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.
since we unquestionably need higher taxes in some form, what would you do?
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just look what happened to Peter Oborne
Received my Authors copies. Never in a million years did I think my book will reach such far audiences. An absolutely gorgeous edition. Huge thanks to Acropolis Publishing! 🔥 For Traditional Chinese readers, the book is in local stores as of yesterday! ⚡ www.books.com.tw/products/001...
Rachel Reeves crying is great and all, but what I’d really like to see is Keir Starmer weeping openly as the Revolutionary Tribunal carries out sentencing
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favorite dumb comics thing is how some american guy doing too much coke in the 80s would invent a terrible superhero like "sandwich boy" as a joke and then some british guy doing too many sedatives in the 90s would be like "sandwich boy can create a 'reality sandwich' and is thus a living god"
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You don't have time for your bullshit! And yet you do your bullshit all day! Go write your book!
it will suprise no-one to hear that the NYT top 100 film list is extremely normie and deeply uninterested in the world outside America, even with a foreign film at number 1
Reconstruction on Letterboxd boxd.it/1nrK
Check out this fascinating and detailed interview with NU London's Christoph Schuringa @schuringa.bsky.social, speaking about his new book A Social History of Analytic Philosophy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_iu...
with this, the YMCA and the recent PCC nonsense, I'm so sick of all the nice things about central London just existing constantly under threat, it's exhausting
I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history
Nobody seems to hate London more than people who live just outside London but occasionally choose come to London at the weekends.
And THIS time it's a musical!
is there any better hot weather in the city film than Rear Window?
Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
