If anyone needs me I’ll be with my GIF of Ryan Gosling in glasses and a cardigan.

I just fucking despair.

RanV @ranv.bsky.social • 1h → Replied to RanV Besides, much (not all but certainly most) of the antisemitism would fade away if the state of Israel stopped existing, or at the very least stopped committing atrocities and war crimes against its neighbouring populations.

Little-known fact: the Holocaust, the blood libels, the pogroms, the Spanish Inquisition, Clifford’s Tower and the Dreyfus Affair were all perpetrated by time travelers who had come from the future where they had been radicalised by seeing the construction of the state of Israel.

This shambles is such a slap in the face to all the Labour councillors and candidates who are having to defend this government on the doorstep. They’re happy to use local activists as as footsoldiers/ convenient photo ops but not to make their job easier in any way.

*Wearily* Chaos with Ed Miliband, anyone?

Introvert reaction: Death holds no fear after weeks trapped aboard a vessel enduring organised fun.

Do they even know what Erasmus is? I did it in 2002 and there was zero EU propaganda of any kind.

The three stages of life:

1. Too young
2. Too busy
3. Too old

This is the worst ongoing scandal in the uk imho. It's been proven in a series of places such as Shrewsbury and Leeds, that there's a 'natural birth' ideology that's killing mothers and babies

Completely agree with this thread. It's just another example of the contempt Westminster has for local government.

UK Freshers’ week must come as a massive shock to all the American students on their year abroad.

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus?

That was this week.

I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]

London hasn’t fallen In this line of thinking, London serves as a warning of the sort of hellhole the English-speaking cities of the United States could turn into

On London, the sharia law hellhole

Péter Magyar victory speech:

"Hungary wants to be a European country again. We want to return to Europe."

The crowd immediately chants "Russians, go home" in response.

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result:

Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Whilst I very much don’t want to look at everything globally through the lens of British political culture, I also want to point out that Matthew Goodwin was getting paid a lot of money by the Victor Orban led government and highly likely he won’t be from now on and that’s y’know very funny?

incredible how low the bar has gotten, that it feels like a genuine ray of light when a terrible far right politician doesn't pretend he won an election he lost, isn't it

Is Trump going to blockade the Danube now?

Is this…hope?

it's george soros saying "tell viktor it was me. i want him to know it was me"

In the last few days we've had MPs hammered for... erm dancing in public at a community fisco and using their phone in a pub.

Genuinely, why would anyone put themselves through it?

💥🇭🇺🗳️ WOW! 54.14% turnout by 1pm in Hungary’s historic election (vs 40.01% in 2022), where voters could end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Massive participation, in line with independent pollsters’ predictions – who also predicted a massive opposition win. Polls close at 7pm.

Just seen Project Hail Mary. I am very much here for Ryan Gosling in glasses and a cardigan.

In other, related ‘everything is fucked’ news, we’re supposed to be going to southern Italy in late May. That isn’t happening, is it?

Thought of another one. I wasn’t allowed to watch Neighbours as it was ‘for adults’ (Grange Hill and Byker Grove were fine though despite the drugs, teen pregnancy, dramatic deaths etc).

That’s really weird!

Assume this will come to the UK shortly, egged on by the usual suspects. Everything is so fucked

I wasn’t allowed Barbie as she was a poor role model for girls.