The reason why When Harry Met Sally remains the ultimate romcom is that the romantic fantasies for 30somethings are
1. you meet someone through mutual friends who read your writing
2. someone you already know has an epiphany that they love you
No further dating required.
“The EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatising and in breach of basic democratic values…”
This is a crucial decision. The court rejected the political claim that LGBTQ+ representation is “propaganda.” We must keep fighting politics that dehumanise us.
It's way past time to learn that a truly staggering amount of social media sociology takes are just someone who refuses to pay a professional for the purpose taking out their pathologies on you instead but framed as advice
It truly was! Oh, and a nudge to send me some good dates for your remaining singing lessons!
A complete stranger bought me a coffee today in the park - the card machine was broken and I didn't have cash. He wasn't flirting or trying to push any agenda - he just said he hoped I had a lovely day and went back to his friends.
Easy to forget the small kindnesses, but they're everwhere
(Lots of other things going on, and lots of other motivations, particular from trans people within those tech organisations. But firmly believe this was one of them. Don't get me started on the exploitative trans businesses that sprung up in the wake of that...)
Not sure if this counts, but that the 2010s corporate level 'your gender is valid and that's why we've given you 30 options in our drop down menu' trans 'inclusion' moment was a savvy way to fold disruptive potentials into an itemised, monetised, atomised social media model for the model's own ends.
I love this - genuine belief that world-revolution is built on the back of sewage farms (and solar energy, washing machines, free vaccines, clean free water etc.)
Thanks!
Have never heard the term 'sewer socialism' before, and will now be using it everywhere.
Toni Morrison: “Access to knowledge is [the] supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission."
The only people who are impressed by the ability to stay just on the right side of culpability are pundit weirdos. Ordinary people just look at it and go ‘he seems like he’s lying’.
Like, the big thing missing from the whole ‘who knew about the results of Mandelson’s vetting and when’ thing is undermined slightly by the fact that the word ‘Mandelson’ has been a universally understood byword for political misconduct for like thirty years.
The parlour game convinces nobody.
I remember thinking in March 2020 that we were now entering the most online period of human history out of necessity, and this was probably going to rot a lot of brains: unfortunately I think I nailed that one.
for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.
If you are 'anti-Zionist' then you must be pro-Jewish settlement in Europe, in North America, in Australia and NZ, etc, and should be in favour of the return of stolen Jewish lands and homes across Europe.
If you're not in favour of Jews living *anywhere* then indeed you are just an antisemite.
We lived all over Europe! In countries that often put up only token effort to stop the Nazis murdering their Jewish populations. And which to this day have mostly done fuck-all about trying to return Jewish lands to the families of those who were murdered.
I had a brilliant conversation about this recently with Mungi Tutu, the granddaughter of Desmond Tutu. She said: when non-Jewish Europeans said "a land without a people for a people without a land" about Palestine, that was racist both toward Palestinians and toward Jews. Jews had land!
you won't like him when he's angry. or, indeed, if you check polling, when he's not angry.
I don't know where to start talking about the ongoing media/government attacks on higher education, except to say that it's all lies and vibes. Treating those attacks as sincerely held viewpoints to be reasoned with through data and logic isn't going to work because of the aforementioned lies/vibes.
Hello the internet, I've got a crowdfunder up to help transition the bi+ advocacy group I run to a registered charity.
Please consider a donation
The Uk needs a version of Hot Ones but for desi food called Curried which is hosted by Tim Curry, there you go, I just made your network eleventy billion dollars
If you haven't seen a group of total strangers come together in a tube carriage to play peek-a-boo to entertain a baby then you haven't lived.
Getting to experience this on the regular is balm for the soul.
It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.
I didn't know this, and now it's grinding my gears. Jesus, everything new thing you learn about them sinks them lower.
This from Palantir, the company Starmer and Streeting have trusted with our NHS data.
these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.