matt
@kermithall.bsky.social
i have a heart that whistles everywhere
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
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box of cereal is like a quid more than it was six months ago but at least now disabled people can't put their own money towards a car that's nicer than the government thinks they deserve
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
box of cereal is like a quid more than it was six months ago but at least now disabled people can't put their own money towards a car that's nicer than the government thinks they deserve
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"Don't call your soul your own" – what a fucking line.
1900s America even
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"Don't call your soul your own" – what a fucking line.
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Harman explaining that actually, horrible migrant crackdowns are left wing politics and if you - a white person - don’t like it, then you are actively harming people from ethnic minorities. An outrageous insult to the public’s intelligence IMO, offhandedly dropping a dog turd onto your dinner plate.
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Harman explaining that actually, horrible migrant crackdowns are left wing politics and if you - a white person - don’t like it, then you are actively harming people from ethnic minorities. An outrageous insult to the public’s intelligence IMO, offhandedly dropping a dog turd onto your dinner plate.
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Joe Hill is everywhere.
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Joe Hill is everywhere.
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British Liberals 2015-present: "Everyone to my left is a vile antisemite and should be purged from public life."
British Liberals now: "Criticising Labour for promising to steal refugee's jewellery is completely unreasonable and only helps the far right."
British Liberals now: "Criticising Labour for promising to steal refugee's jewellery is completely unreasonable and only helps the far right."
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
British Liberals 2015-present: "Everyone to my left is a vile antisemite and should be purged from public life."
British Liberals now: "Criticising Labour for promising to steal refugee's jewellery is completely unreasonable and only helps the far right."
British Liberals now: "Criticising Labour for promising to steal refugee's jewellery is completely unreasonable and only helps the far right."
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"When the teams come out of the tunnel, they are accompanied by children. The Basque players are anyway... [carrying] with it a power that hits hard. Palestine’s players instead carry white roses, symbols of the children they have lost."
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘It touched us from the start’: Palestine savour historic night in Bilbao | Sid Lowe
More than 50,000 fans cheered on Ihab Abu Jazar’s team with the coach and players ‘shocked’ by the outpouring of support during their visit
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"When the teams come out of the tunnel, they are accompanied by children. The Basque players are anyway... [carrying] with it a power that hits hard. Palestine’s players instead carry white roses, symbols of the children they have lost."
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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We’re about 72 hours from Trump invading Venezuela to take back the headlines, aren’t we.
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
We’re about 72 hours from Trump invading Venezuela to take back the headlines, aren’t we.
Only learned fairly recently that in the USA this was also the case until it was marketed heavily as a feminist badge of honour to smoke
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches...
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Only learned fairly recently that in the USA this was also the case until it was marketed heavily as a feminist badge of honour to smoke
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches...
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For the latest @prospectmagazine.co.uk I wrote about the extensive destruction of buildings in Gaza >>>
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
For the latest @prospectmagazine.co.uk I wrote about the extensive destruction of buildings in Gaza >>>
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
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The Joyce Carol Oates and “books written between 1890-1930 are so ALPHA” thing struck home because it showed how many elites nowadays lack the ability to be moved or find meaning in art beyond what we did watching John Wick and going fuck yea this rules and that explains why they believe in AI art
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Joyce Carol Oates and “books written between 1890-1930 are so ALPHA” thing struck home because it showed how many elites nowadays lack the ability to be moved or find meaning in art beyond what we did watching John Wick and going fuck yea this rules and that explains why they believe in AI art
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It's sort of interesting to me that for a lot of British journalists, "success" largely means reducing people's access to essential services
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
It's sort of interesting to me that for a lot of British journalists, "success" largely means reducing people's access to essential services
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You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
can somebody please tell me which 'Great Films' Elon is replying to on twitter with "great film" I need to know the specific banality of the choices
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
can somebody please tell me which 'Great Films' Elon is replying to on twitter with "great film" I need to know the specific banality of the choices
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The important thing to remember is that, yes, they would pick fascists over leftists, but they also went to school with the fascists and, deep down, believed that the fascists wouldn't *really* dismantle the good old BBC. Stop scaremongering about good old Adolf, dumb lefties.
Tbh the bbc has been on a downward spiral for a long time and this is self inflicted
Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The important thing to remember is that, yes, they would pick fascists over leftists, but they also went to school with the fascists and, deep down, believed that the fascists wouldn't *really* dismantle the good old BBC. Stop scaremongering about good old Adolf, dumb lefties.
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If you live in Britain, your experience of 21st century government has been relentless escalating calamities by ruling parties: disastrous wars, financial catastrophe, destructive austerity, plummeting living standards, soaring prices, unaffordable housing, constant lying and comical incompetence.
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you live in Britain, your experience of 21st century government has been relentless escalating calamities by ruling parties: disastrous wars, financial catastrophe, destructive austerity, plummeting living standards, soaring prices, unaffordable housing, constant lying and comical incompetence.
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I keep seeing supposedly progressive podcasts saying “the problem is that people feel like they just can’t talk about these issues” while these issues are frequently the *only* thing that people are talking about 😩
Am struggling with the idea that people like me somehow don't understand the legitimate concerns of people who attended the Tommy Robinson march. I literally had National Front fliers through my letterbox in my childhood in Greater London and I went to school and university with actual fascists.
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I keep seeing supposedly progressive podcasts saying “the problem is that people feel like they just can’t talk about these issues” while these issues are frequently the *only* thing that people are talking about 😩
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It is actually fairly unhinged that this is happening in the UK. We are such freaks, like it’s actually embarrassing
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It is actually fairly unhinged that this is happening in the UK. We are such freaks, like it’s actually embarrassing
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What happened when, after decades, there was finally a serious risk that Britain might elect a PM who was likely to e.g. ask to see the Northern Ireland files, just to have a look at what was in them. Was that welcomed, was it encouraged
Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.
October 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What happened when, after decades, there was finally a serious risk that Britain might elect a PM who was likely to e.g. ask to see the Northern Ireland files, just to have a look at what was in them. Was that welcomed, was it encouraged
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No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.
October 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.
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The way I have made sense of the government’s handling of Maccabi Tel Aviv is demonstrating an expectation that the ceasefire should settle any questions about Israel’s character and conduct over the past two years, and a desire to now aggressively re-assert their place among ‘decent’ nations.
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The way I have made sense of the government’s handling of Maccabi Tel Aviv is demonstrating an expectation that the ceasefire should settle any questions about Israel’s character and conduct over the past two years, and a desire to now aggressively re-assert their place among ‘decent’ nations.
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I’m being forced to side with one of the two worst groups of people on earth: Starmer’s Labour Party or the fans of Aston Villa.
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’m being forced to side with one of the two worst groups of people on earth: Starmer’s Labour Party or the fans of Aston Villa.