Lyra

The 14 year old saying something embarrassing while trying to express how they relate to their self and their gender is being more authentic to the spirit of the 80s queer community than 10,000 scolds like this combined

hot take:

You can't like any country if you're European/white american anymore, you can't like your own country because then you're a nationalist, you can't like any country slightly to the east because that's orientalism, you can't like any country to the south because it's fetishism

I think a lot of western progressives seem to believe that indigenous practices were more sustainable because of some inherent mystical balance with nature rather than existing as a result of indigenous modes of production

The major event of the next fortnight will be the King's Speech on 13th. May. Watch out for a set of major radical proposals to be introduced by Keir Starmer's Labour Government. Then the media will have real news, not gossip and speculation, to report.

Y’all ever noticed how the midnight motorist road looks like Willian afton’s sprite?

NEW: How many people really know who the UK party leaders are? We ran a representative poll of 5,000 British adults and showed them pictures of the main party leaders and asked them to identify them. Starmer and Farage top the poll, while only 12% know Rupert Lowe 👇

Socialist Pete Seeger, widely acknowledged to be one of America’s greatest folk singers, was born on this day in 1919.

A bit of me’s hoping he gets in simply because the inevitable backlash will destroy twee synthetic Norfernness as a cultural force. Alan Bennett diaries burnt en masse; the Angel of the North toppled.

Ironically, the proliferation of porn has not resulted in greater sexual freedom or authenticity. Zoomers who talk about getting “stepped on” don’t actually want to be stepped on; their authentic sexual desires have been totally replaced by empty pornographic memetic signaling

The new Banksy sculpture in London is brilliant

This is basically just the demolition of the private renting sector. Its legitimately so over.