Fifteen-plus years of intense pandering doesn’t seem to have pleased or cheered up elderly racists, does it. If anything it seems to have encouraged them to be much nastier, much more openly.

The Just Stop Oil actions are interesting because they provoke the kind of emergency outraged all-hands physical response to an attack on cherished collective things that climate change itself should yield

nothing could encapsulate british politics better than everyone performatively losing their mind over Just Stop Oil spraying some cornflour over stonehenge, which will wash off instantly, but not batting an eyelid about the plans to build a fucking motorway right through it

Pogromists handed their rhetoric by government, genociders handed their weapons by the West, the state here seizes the excuse to expand police powers and the media mock and shout down a Muslim woman worried about mosques under attack. We all win or some of us burn.

today in future Adam Curtis b-roll

kafka

The Girl Chewing Gum (1976, dir. John Smith)

in the NYT: saying the quiet part loud on the role of 'independent' media in the state and in war

what the fuck is this bro

BREAKING: I publish here for 1st time the 'D-Notice' censorship instruction sent out to media editors by the UK military after it leaked that the SAS had deployed to Cyprus for Gaza ops in Oct 2023 There's been zero information in UK media about SAS and Gaza since it was issued

The Lumiere brothers were Vichy collaborators and pro-Mussolini so in a way, all film is fascist

super cool that we never found out the provenance of this image, how it was captured or by whom

BREAKING: Approximately a thousand protestors sat in Parliament Square with signs which read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" In a collective act of resistance, people are risking their liberty for our civil liberties and for the Palestinian people.

when you haven't lost your head x.com/LornaLong1960/…

They ain't making multiple TV dramas out of this pathetic excuse for an interview

"If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open and you can leave"