Would you like to have to present your ID every time you want to go to the gym, or the swimming pool, or try on clothes at M&S? That's what Sex Matters are suggesting for *everyone*, in our new gender-policed world.
Don't know if this was deliberate by Labour but an unusually brilliant move if so: the row will bring the PPB (and the remarks) to a much bigger audience than it would otherwise hit. And they can still run the "uncensored" ad online.
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Tweet from Reverend Jordan Wells: "Why So Many Protestants Are Done with the Modern Papacy I respect Catholicism deeply, but this is exactly why so many Protestants have major issues with the current direction of the Vatican. The Pope’s clear liberal political bent is impossible to defend."
This is an incredible tweet.
Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’
3 sentence horror story
Ed Miliband has said he'll “double down, not back down” on government’s clean energy mission in the face of critics calling on him to change course
The Energy Sec said "solar panels, heat pumps and EVs are not woke, or a left-wing conspiracy, or even a Marxist plot. They're actually common sense"
As it's 10 years since Prince died (and the world went to hell), please enjoy this pic of Ed Miliband photoshopped into the Lovesexy album cover
the Militime has come
just saw a guy on twitter get shit on so bad that some dude posted a picture standing at his dead brothers grave with a fucking shovel
Not a comment on the specific issues involved, but not sure the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act can really be described as "obscure" as per Playbook this morning.
It's a pretty significant area of legislation in many areas and was only passed in 2010!
there's some seriously dark humour in the IRGC coordinating antisemitic hate crimes around the globe & getting absolutely no credit because people are so keen to blame the victims
ME: (shivering, stripped naked and tied to a chair) Drag queens have pretty privilege…
CIA AGENT: Again. Do another.
ME: Please, I can’t, I—
CIA AGENT: (dousing me with a bucket of ice water) Another take! Hotter!
ME: (sobbing) Dating someone who needs glasses is a predatory power imbalance…
You always get a lot of angry replies here if you complain about the Greens blocking solar farms or power grid upgrades. Maybe they should stop instigating pile-ons and start instigating pylons.
Counterpoint: no, it isn’t. Leo is in line with the traditional teaching of the church. Trump is a warmonger, corrupt, delights in humiliating others, and is blasphemous on a level that wouldn’t even occur to most people.
This isn’t hard.
I now see what happened with the Mandelson vetting. Ollie Robbins treated it as a normal ambassadorial appointment, where he had sole discretion on vetting. In fact, he should have treated it as the equivalent of a Ministerial appointment, where the PM would expect to be told of any issues. 1/
A colleague didn’t recognise me in my glasses so I tried to joke “I’m Clark Kent” but accidentally declared “I’m Ken Clarke”
I've lived in Northern Ireland all my life and I have heard stupid shit you wouldn't believe about religion. The dumbest stuff from people who think dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago.
Never heard anyone say 'the Pope doesn't represent the Catholic Church'
The key issue is whether Starmer misled Parliament. If he did, he has to go: parliamentary democracy cannot function unless we uphold that norm.
We'd demand it of Johnson & we should demand it of Starmer.
Future PMs (including a possible Prime Minister Farage) must know that this is inviolable. 1/
The thing with Starmer is I can believe he didn't know and I can believe he wasn't honest. Neither are good for him, obviously. Should have left the competent woman in the job, lads.
BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)
faux liberalism (ezra klein) vs actual liberalism (mill)
Oh Christ the Americans have ruined football
Ugh - the Royal Marsden helped to save my wife’s life, and they’re trying to do so for many, many more people. And NIMBYs are trying to stop it because the lifesaving building is taller than they’d like?? Give me strength. (Via Looking For Growth)
I feel ‘serving kings’ is a rather charitable description of the activities of the best-known Thane of Cawdor.
1967 was such a weird year for music.
Half the hits that year were like "I'm Injecting Heroin Into My Eyeballs, Ha-Ha!" and the other half were Engelbert Humperdinck.
Scientists have been working very hard and have finally achieved what many thought impossible: a Mail Online comments section defending a Labour MP.
Screenshot of Elmo next to his pet's fishbowl in Elmo's World. The subtitles say "We. Dorothy's been thinking abou and down to what’s her daughter."
four birds in a cartoon from Sesame Street, with the caption reading "Oh, shit"
Another Sesame Street cartoon saying "Oh shit"
Screenshot of Big Bird in Hooper’s Store with live human Alan and a flying red bird. The subtitles read: "Time for the birth of terror. Me"
Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad