The Prophet Cassandra
@prophetcassandra.bsky.social
Talks occasionally.
Trans. 28. London. She/Her.
Trans. 28. London. She/Her.
Pinned
Wrote a short story about making the perfect Christmas Lunch since it's the season
Reviews so far:
"Gave me an existential crisis"
"Thoroughly Enjoyed that"
"Can't believe it had such a happy ending"
Reviews so far:
"Gave me an existential crisis"
"Thoroughly Enjoyed that"
"Can't believe it had such a happy ending"
Should probably reup this while it's seasonally appropriate.
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The Apartment is a perfect New Years Eve movie and a perfect romcom that reminds us all that all romcoms need one important element to work: an attempted suicide
December 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The Apartment is a perfect New Years Eve movie and a perfect romcom that reminds us all that all romcoms need one important element to work: an attempted suicide
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This was the year that they needed to do something. The year that could have set the path for their first term, and instead they went from dismissing Kemi's push to extend ILR in February to implementing it in November whilst continuing to fail on tax and spend.
Worthless, incompetent, immoral.
Worthless, incompetent, immoral.
December 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This was the year that they needed to do something. The year that could have set the path for their first term, and instead they went from dismissing Kemi's push to extend ILR in February to implementing it in November whilst continuing to fail on tax and spend.
Worthless, incompetent, immoral.
Worthless, incompetent, immoral.
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i don't think this so much about the NHS per se but about people with a vested interest in Magic Bullet Techno-Optimism, determined to push AI/Digital as a solution to all woes
December 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
i don't think this so much about the NHS per se but about people with a vested interest in Magic Bullet Techno-Optimism, determined to push AI/Digital as a solution to all woes
Well I'm bored out of my mind and I watched a lot of films this year (though not as many as I wanted) and it's the end of the year so might as well do a thread of the good films I watched for the first time this year that other people should also watch.
December 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Well I'm bored out of my mind and I watched a lot of films this year (though not as many as I wanted) and it's the end of the year so might as well do a thread of the good films I watched for the first time this year that other people should also watch.
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The 'Manchester Model' in one story...public money subsidising private profit
Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers...
Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco
Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers...
Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The 'Manchester Model' in one story...public money subsidising private profit
Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers...
Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco
Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers...
Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco
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So many institutions in ~~British public life~~ are currently in this objectively weird spot where they've quiet quit their actual responsibilities to focus on niche obsessions and yelling slurs, but still expect the people who came for their stated mission to keep tuning in and applauding
December 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So many institutions in ~~British public life~~ are currently in this objectively weird spot where they've quiet quit their actual responsibilities to focus on niche obsessions and yelling slurs, but still expect the people who came for their stated mission to keep tuning in and applauding
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This latest shitshow is another reminder why Starmer needs to go - not in May but now. He is not willing or capable of playing the role of PM. He is vindicating the far-right and demoralising the left. He should be removed for being bad for the country not merely losing Labour elections
December 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This latest shitshow is another reminder why Starmer needs to go - not in May but now. He is not willing or capable of playing the role of PM. He is vindicating the far-right and demoralising the left. He should be removed for being bad for the country not merely losing Labour elections
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The UK is a state that now experiences far-right pogroms every summer, mainstream parties call for the revocation of citizenship over social media posts and non-white MPs are accused daily of having dual loyalty. Absolutely rancid state of affairs.
December 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The UK is a state that now experiences far-right pogroms every summer, mainstream parties call for the revocation of citizenship over social media posts and non-white MPs are accused daily of having dual loyalty. Absolutely rancid state of affairs.
They should make Judge Dredds from the film Judge Dredd but just for people who play things on their phone out loud without headphones
December 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
They should make Judge Dredds from the film Judge Dredd but just for people who play things on their phone out loud without headphones
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last year on christmas eve was when i started getting really heartfelt messages about what my art meant to people so thank you for watching it. it feels nice not to feel so alone anymore. <3 i will try to make more movie in 2026.
December 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
last year on christmas eve was when i started getting really heartfelt messages about what my art meant to people so thank you for watching it. it feels nice not to feel so alone anymore. <3 i will try to make more movie in 2026.
Should probably reup this while it's seasonally appropriate.
Wrote a short story about making the perfect Christmas Lunch since it's the season
Reviews so far:
"Gave me an existential crisis"
"Thoroughly Enjoyed that"
"Can't believe it had such a happy ending"
Reviews so far:
"Gave me an existential crisis"
"Thoroughly Enjoyed that"
"Can't believe it had such a happy ending"
December 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Should probably reup this while it's seasonally appropriate.
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Happy Christmas, all. I wish my (temporarily unpaywalled) final thoughts on the English NHS in 2025 could have been more positive, but reality is what it is. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...
Cowper’s Cut 407: The unbearable triteness of Streeting
“I don’t think anyone’s really covered themselves in glory in this dispute.”
Secretary Of State For Health But Social Care Wes Streeting to the Commons Health Select Committee (about striking phlebot...
www.healthpolicyinsight.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Happy Christmas, all. I wish my (temporarily unpaywalled) final thoughts on the English NHS in 2025 could have been more positive, but reality is what it is. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...
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Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Nothing worse than seeing a film you think is shit and getting ready to rate it 1 Star and then you look at the Letterboxd and the graph looks like this.
December 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Nothing worse than seeing a film you think is shit and getting ready to rate it 1 Star and then you look at the Letterboxd and the graph looks like this.
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Who remembers the starmer operation pushing Sadiq under the bus over ulez
Sadiq gets a lot of stick (some entirely justified) but he’s been an utter zealot for clean air via ULEZ, been re-elected twice, and it’s meant fewer kids dying from asthma, and you can see the stars again.
And the air is noticeably cleaner! Literally we can all breathe better thanks to the law!
December 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Who remembers the starmer operation pushing Sadiq under the bus over ulez
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Sometimes an effective government will do something they think is necessary in the long run, and campaigners will be able to paint them on the wrong side of public opinion over it. The task isn’t “be on the right side of public opinion on every issue all the time”.
December 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Sometimes an effective government will do something they think is necessary in the long run, and campaigners will be able to paint them on the wrong side of public opinion over it. The task isn’t “be on the right side of public opinion on every issue all the time”.
Anyone still remember the Trump Phone "T1" that was gold and made in america and $499 (with a $100 deposit) and was annouced on 16th June for a September 2025 release, that got quietly pushed back to "later this year"?
Well it's still "later this year" and they're almost out of year.
Well it's still "later this year" and they're almost out of year.
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Anyone still remember the Trump Phone "T1" that was gold and made in america and $499 (with a $100 deposit) and was annouced on 16th June for a September 2025 release, that got quietly pushed back to "later this year"?
Well it's still "later this year" and they're almost out of year.
Well it's still "later this year" and they're almost out of year.
Got tired of having those stories break out where the spokesperson says something stupid when asked a moderately tricky question because the direction from upstairs is unclear, contradictory and bad.
So they've decided to solve the issue which was the questions.
So they've decided to solve the issue which was the questions.
Keir Starmer’s No10 is cancelling afternoon briefings for journalists and instead replacing them with occasional press conferences.
At those, it will be limited hand picked questions
At those, it will be limited hand picked questions
December 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Got tired of having those stories break out where the spokesperson says something stupid when asked a moderately tricky question because the direction from upstairs is unclear, contradictory and bad.
So they've decided to solve the issue which was the questions.
So they've decided to solve the issue which was the questions.
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Defeated Ted Knight (through the passage of time). Retook Lambeth (through mean reversion after 2002). Beat the BNP (because 2010 was a general election year). Masterminded the 2020 and 2024 elections (by going “just tell them what they want to hear and worry about implementation later”).
Another McSweeney profile talking about rescuing Lambeth from Militant and Ted Knight
By the time McSweeney arrived in London, Militant had gone and Lambeth Council was led by Jim Dickson - a Blairite and now Labour MP for Dartford
It's mad mythology www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
By the time McSweeney arrived in London, Militant had gone and Lambeth Council was led by Jim Dickson - a Blairite and now Labour MP for Dartford
It's mad mythology www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Defeated Ted Knight (through the passage of time). Retook Lambeth (through mean reversion after 2002). Beat the BNP (because 2010 was a general election year). Masterminded the 2020 and 2024 elections (by going “just tell them what they want to hear and worry about implementation later”).
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Defence Investment Plan due date: Autumn, before Xmas and now next year.
And this isn’t an especially hopeful sounding para.
www.ft.com/content/6e96... Defence spending plan delayed over Starmer concerns
And this isn’t an especially hopeful sounding para.
www.ft.com/content/6e96... Defence spending plan delayed over Starmer concerns
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Defence Investment Plan due date: Autumn, before Xmas and now next year.
And this isn’t an especially hopeful sounding para.
www.ft.com/content/6e96... Defence spending plan delayed over Starmer concerns
And this isn’t an especially hopeful sounding para.
www.ft.com/content/6e96... Defence spending plan delayed over Starmer concerns
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I think it is possible that Russia might invade European countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, primarily because the Russian state keeps saying it wants to invadw European countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland
What are you even talking about! I am saying it is a delusional fantasy to suggest Russia is going to invade European countries like Poland, Germany or indeed the UK, which is the insane drivel currently being promoted in support of a disastrous arms race.
December 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I think it is possible that Russia might invade European countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, primarily because the Russian state keeps saying it wants to invadw European countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland
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One crucial thing I've observed (in middle class circles) is that everyone thinks that apprenticeships are a really good idea and more people should do them instead of degrees except for them/their children, who were perfectly suited for higher education
With a report suggesting half of graduates would earn more if they had done an apprenticeship instead, our polling shows that 46% of Britons think apprenticeships better prepare young people for the future - only 6% say the same of degrees, while 43% say both equally
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
One crucial thing I've observed (in middle class circles) is that everyone thinks that apprenticeships are a really good idea and more people should do them instead of degrees except for them/their children, who were perfectly suited for higher education
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At some point, Gareth, you ought to consider that at no point during 2010 to 2024 did government ministers describe the far right marching through London as a good sign for free speech!
At some point you’re going to have to consider and address the ‘environment’ that the right have built, and not called out. Blaming the left is bizarre.
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
At some point, Gareth, you ought to consider that at no point during 2010 to 2024 did government ministers describe the far right marching through London as a good sign for free speech!
Its actually very hateful when your highbie friends refuse to take your very good advice for good posts even though it's about raising awareness (cc: @cisgirl.space )
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Its actually very hateful when your highbie friends refuse to take your very good advice for good posts even though it's about raising awareness (cc: @cisgirl.space )