If you spend money on anything Harry Potter, you are funding this.
If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.
"Is this a [PIPE CLANG] I see before me?"
No! It's another episode of the FAB podcast. It's, THE TRAP! Painting, dungeons, magnacopter, binding and gagging, oh my!
open.spotify.com/episode/68fp...
For 1 undergrad degree and 1 masters, including maintenance loans, I was in for about £47k by 2017
Love to see how that has now ballooned to over £75k. Getting the real US experience here.
Just *SINCE 1ST MARCH 2025... So, you know, NOT EVEN A YEAR AGO*... £2757 of interest. FFS
like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.
Haven't been signed up to the @wtyppod.bsky.social Patreon for a while, but have enough money now to do something for Christmas
Donated a year's Patreon to Lutheran Settlement House, who help teens, seniors, and victims of domestic violence in Philadelphia
A happy Yay Liam! to all who celebrate
The notice of the trains where the M and F trains switched places for better service
Queer-coded transit news: the M train is taking over some of the F train’s service and the F train is taking some of the M train’s service. So, put simply, F to M and M to F.
A cartoon drawing of a podcast audience in an auditorium. A speech bubble leading off screen reads "we have a segment on this podcast called 'safety third." In the foreground, an anthropomorphic fox wearing a shirt that says "you're boeing to die" side-eyes an anthropomorphic airliner weearing a shirt that reads "I'm boeing to kill you."
On the contrary, its far more expensive not to do it
Of course I'm away the one time someone from WTYP visits, my luck. Hope you have a good time! 👍
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
New awareness campaign
...to run for office in future. He's everywhere now, rising very fast, he's popular sure but there's money and effort going into this - he has the funds, after all!
If he isn't, he's doing a good impression of it
I get the point, but this is strongly tending towards being groundwork for a future 'hey we should be nice to the right and form a coalition with them'
Hopefully he doesn't mean that, but I've seen this script before. And I live what Stevenson does, but let's not pretend he isn't preparing...
My thoughts are with the nation of Bulgaria in this difficult time
Twenty years ago today, Jean Charles de Menezes was assassinated at Stockwell station. Head of the Met Police, Ian Blair, was made a Lord. Cressida Dick, who led the operation, was promoted to Blair's position.
we produce tonnes of marketable, valuable, productive stuff that we could sell to the world — like university education, and television programmes, for example — but the government has no interest in improving the conditions for making and selling these things
This shit makes me want to *scream*.
IT CANNOT SELF-REFLECT BECAUSE THERE IS NO SELF
IT IS NOT ACKNOWLEDGING ANYTHING
IT APOLOGISES FOR SHIT ALL THE TIME BECAUSE IT MAKES STUFF UP ALL THE FUCKING TIME
By getting express trains off the existing network, HS2 clears space for others - particularly FREIGHT. Fewer lorries on roads = major CO2 win.
The northern legs, presently "cancelled", are the crucial part. We need to safeguard the routes and BUILD THEM.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Seattle has its own Zohran v Cuomo mayoral race going on: A young charismatic upstart who actually wants to make the city cooler vs an establishment dinosaur who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a road rage incident.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/29/o...
Good! Because it isn't.
Speaking of SCOTUS - they're going to try and repeal Obergefell when they get round to it. Look at the slew of fascist crap coming out of there in the last week, let alone the last year.
A supposed republic ruled by 6 lifetime appointees (and 1 who's going to try and make himself one)
Apparently yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Obergefell, the SCOTUS decision that legalised equal marriage across the US
I can vividly remember it happening - of all things, I was recording an EP with my uni band at a USW studio in Cardiff. Feels like yesterday. And a good feeling it was too
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
Calling this a 'half and half' in Scotland specifically is really adding insult to injury, it's like shortbread-tin marketing for transphobic policing
Sorry to anyone in central Malmö who just saw me laughing like a madman for a minute straight - blame @killjamesbond.bsky.social for their extended bit in The Bank Job which i'm calling The Mountbatten Droideka
If I hadn't been sat down already, I would have collapsed laughing, jfc
I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace.
And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
gingerly reading reviews of the Phoenician Scheme as a former Wes Anderson fan who's felt vv let down by his last few flicks and ohhhh this is such a perfect way to describe the undercurrent of all his early (and best) movies: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
It all tracks. He instantly deploys the military (in a (literal) domestic theatre), all for his personal insecurities.
He's created a cult of personality, of which Slinky is a devour footsoldier (Potato Head is a cynical anarchist who sees through this)
*Boris Lightyear
"To the Bullingdon, and beyond!"
You can also just do the Mrs Nesbit scene 1 for 1
Such a rich idea to explore
You either lean into Woody being a Cameron esque Tory undone by the UKIP/Reform Sid, or you have Andy's new toy be Boris Johnson
