Hazel Southwell
@hazelsouthwell.bsky.social
pub manager at The Queen's Head, Stratford (E15 not upon Avon) 🏳️🌈 alewife, she/they, gay. used to write about cars https://buttondown.com/behind-the-bar/archive/
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Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview.
If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.
If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview.
If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.
If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.
A thing I think about a lot is it is fucking insane how much abuse I got when I was an F1 journalist. I was not famous, I did not have a top job, I was barely scraping by and yet some idiot whose whole thing was misogyny started the worlds biggest pile on because my tweet was on Reddit
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A thing I think about a lot is it is fucking insane how much abuse I got when I was an F1 journalist. I was not famous, I did not have a top job, I was barely scraping by and yet some idiot whose whole thing was misogyny started the worlds biggest pile on because my tweet was on Reddit
Locked in (shut my pub, did my financial admin) and ready for FP1 (I will be asleep on the sofa in 20-40 seconds)
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Locked in (shut my pub, did my financial admin) and ready for FP1 (I will be asleep on the sofa in 20-40 seconds)
all baseball players look like they were in the middle of doing something else completely and got called up to the pitch
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
all baseball players look like they were in the middle of doing something else completely and got called up to the pitch
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Cis allies can pair up and call the authorities on each other for being trans in a public bathroom, exhaust due process until medical records are subpoenaed, and tire the cops with it until they complain so much about enforcing it that they stop bothering, like they did for non-crime hate incidents.
Anyone can be banned then. I've been mistaken for a man, a trans man and a trans woman before.
It's encumbent on all of us to make this as unworkable as possible.
It's encumbent on all of us to make this as unworkable as possible.
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Cis allies can pair up and call the authorities on each other for being trans in a public bathroom, exhaust due process until medical records are subpoenaed, and tire the cops with it until they complain so much about enforcing it that they stop bothering, like they did for non-crime hate incidents.
if you've been to the Monaco Eprix in the past then tickets for 2026 are 50% off for the next two weeks (but you need to have been already registered - general sale starts December 3rd when tbh it is still pretty cheap)
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
if you've been to the Monaco Eprix in the past then tickets for 2026 are 50% off for the next two weeks (but you need to have been already registered - general sale starts December 3rd when tbh it is still pretty cheap)
I know I keep moaning about this but it's so frustrating watching a really interesting F1 title fight (for the first time in fucking forever!) get reduced to "boring" because the two main protagonists refuse to slag each other off. machismo lens is so bad in this sport.
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I know I keep moaning about this but it's so frustrating watching a really interesting F1 title fight (for the first time in fucking forever!) get reduced to "boring" because the two main protagonists refuse to slag each other off. machismo lens is so bad in this sport.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
toasters need to be listed with specs about what size of bread you can fit in them. Big Kitchen does not want us to know or else it'll expose the conspiracy theory between bakeries and white goods makers to never match their dimensions
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
toasters need to be listed with specs about what size of bread you can fit in them. Big Kitchen does not want us to know or else it'll expose the conspiracy theory between bakeries and white goods makers to never match their dimensions
not me having a heart attack because @shitposts.online got in our insanely loud shower and I forgot that existed so just assumed (very normal) that the pub was about to blow up
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
not me having a heart attack because @shitposts.online got in our insanely loud shower and I forgot that existed so just assumed (very normal) that the pub was about to blow up
the Epstein files are guaranteed to have a bunch of people in motorsport in them
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
the Epstein files are guaranteed to have a bunch of people in motorsport in them
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It is possible for journalism to still have a tangible and relatively immediate impact for good and if larger outlets aren’t doing that, it’s a choice.
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It is possible for journalism to still have a tangible and relatively immediate impact for good and if larger outlets aren’t doing that, it’s a choice.
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Williams, a reporter based out of Tennessee and not affiliated with any of the major prestige outlets, is consistently effective at exposing and creating public pressure on racist bigots trying to mobilize politically.
Notorious neo-Nazi websites go offline after NewsChannel 5 exposes targeting of children www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Notorious neo-Nazi websites go offline after NewsChannel 5 exposes targeting of children
Two notorious neo-Nazi websites have been taken offline following an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation that revealed how they have been used to target children.
www.newschannel5.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Williams, a reporter based out of Tennessee and not affiliated with any of the major prestige outlets, is consistently effective at exposing and creating public pressure on racist bigots trying to mobilize politically.
once again I have unfortunately finished work and found a compelling series of youtube videos "to go to sleep to" and guess what I am. not asleep
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
once again I have unfortunately finished work and found a compelling series of youtube videos "to go to sleep to" and guess what I am. not asleep
was coming here to say wtf it's snowing but I see everyone else in London has already but also: wtf it's snowing
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
was coming here to say wtf it's snowing but I see everyone else in London has already but also: wtf it's snowing
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
I did fuck my sources but tbf they were all cars, so
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I did fuck my sources but tbf they were all cars, so
altho it figures that they do, I did not know dogs like khinkali
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
altho it figures that they do, I did not know dogs like khinkali
hey now that would mean it'd been eighteen years since my final year at univ- FUCK
half life 2 can now legally drink and drive
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
hey now that would mean it'd been eighteen years since my final year at univ- FUCK
not only is this insanely cruel, it's fucking bonkers. why would anyone still HAVE anything worth anything? I know everyone is insane now but when you are a refugee you have lost everything, you have had to use everything you had. you're not walking around with a fucking Rolex you forgot about
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
not only is this insanely cruel, it's fucking bonkers. why would anyone still HAVE anything worth anything? I know everyone is insane now but when you are a refugee you have lost everything, you have had to use everything you had. you're not walking around with a fucking Rolex you forgot about
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People are probably calling Labour racist because Labour keep being racist. If they want to stop being called racist they should stop doing racist things.
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
People are probably calling Labour racist because Labour keep being racist. If they want to stop being called racist they should stop doing racist things.
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
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Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers.
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers.
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
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This feels like a real, are we the baddies, moment for the people in the Labour Party who still consider themselves soft left
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This feels like a real, are we the baddies, moment for the people in the Labour Party who still consider themselves soft left
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I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.