Dana Fox

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@danny__kruger I'll not give an inch to you. This is always the thin end of the wedge with your lot. That you see it as 'asserting dominion' says more about your own biases than the intentions of anybody else.

Nick Timothy and Nigel Farage are right, and Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer are wrong. Small groups of people, of whatever religion, praying in public places is fine. And as a Christian country we should allow a special privilege for churches to lead services in our national spaces, like the Palm Sunday celebration that happens in Trafalgar Square. What we don't want is mass ritual observances intended to claim the civic realm for another religion, or assert the domination of another culture over our own Christian traditions. What happens in our national spaces is not neutral. People use Trafalgar Square, for celebrations and demonstrations, to make a point about the kind of country they want us to be. The Palm Sunday pageant reminds us of who we are - not as individuals (many or most of us don't identify as Christians at all) but as a national community, with the roots of our institutions in the ground of the Bible and our most solemn communal moments, from coronations to funerals, mediated through the liturgies of the Church. A mass Adhan held there, or in any town square, is making a different point: that Britain is not a Christian country, and that - inshallah - one day it shall be Muslim. This is unacceptable to the British public and indeed incompatible with our constitution. As ever with these debates, the issue is partly one of kind and partly one of degree. There is an issue with Islam itself as a religion which in most interpretations does not admit of pluralism or freedom of conscience, and therefore is inherently aggrandising, including over territory. But with a bit of confidence and a bit of toleration we could handle that - if it were not for the issue of degree. It is the scale of Islam in Britain, and the ambition of its leaders for greater scale, that makes the problem. The numbers of people who assembled for the adhan in Trafalgar Square, clearly and openly claiming the territory for a faith with no connection (indeed, with strong doctrinal disagreement) with the model of Western liberal democracy that Britain has developed and exported to the world - that is the problem. The numbers, whether everyone there understood it this way or not (and I suspect many did), convey an explicit threat to the foundations of our country. Being relaxed about other people's religion is a good thing, a very British thing. I don't mind modern druids dancing around Stonehenge in my constituency (arguably, though the historicity is tenuous, they have a claim to the place). I don't mind small groups of Hindus or Buddhists or Muslims demonstrating the reality of Britain's religious toleration by worshiping in Trafalgar Square. But let's not kid ourselves about this adhan, or pretend that we're just seeing another harmless expression of Britain's religious diversity. We are seeing an abuse of liberalism, led by people who are not themselves liberal; or - let us imagine they are acting in good faith - who are themselves deceived about what they are doing. It should not happen again. And it would be good to hear the Church of England say so.

Good morning to all the poststructuralists, queers, science fiction fans, Ballard readers, guerrilla wildflower-sowers, Kristevan-threshold-dwellers and lovers of damn fine coffee.

@MarxistHeathen @BolshevikBeyond @xriskology is still working tirelessly on the subject. It's good to find people who felt the same way about it. Maybe 'good' is not the right word, but you get my meaning!

@thevoidfox @BolshevikBeyond same. it changed my perspective on politics and our situation in a fundamental way.

Good article from a comrade briefly outlining TESCREAL, its class character, the subjective social consciousness corresponding to it, and what it means for the climate. Read it if you are the least bit interested in anything I’ve been talking about as of late.

@BolshevikBeyond The first time I read the term, I did a deep dive on all the concepts comprising the acronym. I have not been the same man since.

Alternatively, TESCREAL is the highest stage of fascism. React accordingly.

@thabigsokk Thanks! It has some interviews with cast members and some others . It was delicious fun. :)

@thevoidfox ooh this looks really interesting!

Oh man, if only there were some good resources out there to learn about how they made early Doctor Who in 1963. Sadly, all that seems lost to time. I guess we'll just have to keep making inaccurate ai generated bullshit

@ILoveSnooker_ My dad, a snooker referee, did a few frames with Steve and he said he was the nicest guy. I've always found him hilarious. My Dad recently passed away, so clips like always make me smile. Thanks!

Steve Davis fed up with the ’85 banter and saying, “Why don’t you just fuck off?” to Dennis Taylor 🤭

@BDSMSIX Oh, my. Sincerely, a homosexual man who's having a bit of a crisis right now.

when she said tomboy I imagined flannels not androgynous rockstar sex symbol jesus fucking christ warn a bitch 😭

@EducationScot Countless millennia of Celtic folklore and this is the best that the curriculum of my birthplace can do? You bring shame on our ancestors! Anyway, yeah, this is crap.

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@JudgementKazzer If I were a dev, I'd be seething with rage.

Why is everyone upset it can't look that ba- SWEET MOTHER OF GOD WHAT THE FUCK

@NVIDIAGeForce You are Baudrillard's worst nightmare. I can't stop watching it. It's like a flaming hearse crashing into a clown show.

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@NVIDIAGeForce Yay, let's turn every piece of stylised art into homogenous crap. I'm gonna go and take a shit in my Nvidia GPU.

@OzKaterji Oh I'm sure you could think of a few words. I certainly can. There all quite short, simple ones.

As a British Lebanese reporter who lives in Ukraine I don’t even know what to say to this 🤷🏽‍♂️

@Katie_Classique Apparently she absolutely hated filming this. 🥲

I feel so bad for Marina Sirtis having to do this scene 🤣🤣 #startrektng

WHAT IS GOING ON?!? Why is Deanna Troi traveling through the Ghosts of Christmas Past?!? #startrektng #nightterrors

@BolshevikBeyond Nice to have found you. Best wishes, Knee-Deep-in-Kristeva-Research, UK. ;)

hello new followers stick around if you like (or can at least stand) marxism, anti-colonialism, my attempts at marxist gender theory (transphobic marxists are dumb), me hating on the US as a settler-colony, and me hating on marxists who do not hate on the US as a settler-colony

@screamfvce Not more than ten minutes ago, I was researching the demon 'Valak' from The Conjuring 2, for an article I'm writing. And, randomly, here's a stranger with the same name. So it must be a sign that I should say: I'm proud of you and wish you well on your recovery!

someone be proud of me bc lowkey i am doing a great job

@TheMG3D Wow, she really doubled down on her boring, 1990s attitude. Also, she's way younger than I imagined. I couldn't be less sad for her. What a narrow perspective she has.

And they will wonder why their kids don’t talk to them when they get older

@redblueen This is really beautiful. It takes a good hand to do this with Eevee. <3

The end of the road #b3d rendered with EEVEE

@JDIrwinbooks Yeah, I bet they're cheaper at Aldi though.

New to the middle aisle.

@Katie_Classique I watched this episode just the other night! Rossi cracked me up. '... Why doesn't this surprise me?'

SPENCER REID AS DOCTOR WHO That’s the tweet.