Yes, and it's also perfectly fine to like U2 up to and including Rattle and Hum and then... ...not.
My advice: Like what you like and don't worry about anyone who tells you it's cringe. Life's short and the world's on fire, and as long as you're not hurting other people, you're fine. I mean, I still like U2, too! I don't care who knows it. If other people don't like that, that's a them problem.
I love U2. I feel like I could have glided along, enjoying them, if it wasn’t for that damned internet. Now I am on the defensive or lying low with my fandom. That’s happening somewhat now with Taylor Swift. She’s the biggest star in the world but the backlash has begun. “Mom pop”?
December 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Yes, and it's also perfectly fine to like U2 up to and including Rattle and Hum and then... ...not.
Gutted to hear that the key ingredient for Janssons Temptation, classic Swedish Christmas dish, is very hard to find this year due to what sounds like over-fishing. Need to find a sustainable substitute for next year.
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Gutted to hear that the key ingredient for Janssons Temptation, classic Swedish Christmas dish, is very hard to find this year due to what sounds like over-fishing. Need to find a sustainable substitute for next year.
This looks absolutely stunning. And my favourite games are the ones where you must make story altering decisions.
🌿 Verdant is a singleplayer survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world, frozen in the 80s.
🌺 You wield the power to take or restore life - and combat is always just a last resort.
#verdantgame #indiedev #gamedev
🌺 You wield the power to take or restore life - and combat is always just a last resort.
#verdantgame #indiedev #gamedev
December 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This looks absolutely stunning. And my favourite games are the ones where you must make story altering decisions.
Well worth a read. Some real journalism. How refreshing.
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Well worth a read. Some real journalism. How refreshing.
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I really want you guys to watch this speech from Russell T Davies, the guy who brought Doctor Who back, and did Queer as Folk and loads of other iconic shows at the Welsh BAFTAs recently about censorship and TV and the rise of the far right. It is amazing. www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPl...
From the GreenAndPleasant community on Reddit: Russell T. Davies at the BAFTA Cymru Awards
Explore this post and more from the GreenAndPleasant community
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October 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I really want you guys to watch this speech from Russell T Davies, the guy who brought Doctor Who back, and did Queer as Folk and loads of other iconic shows at the Welsh BAFTAs recently about censorship and TV and the rise of the far right. It is amazing. www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPl...
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When Labour says @zackpolanski.bsky.social is "using his platform to sow division and grievance", what they mean is that he's using it to push for justice and equality.
They *hate* when people do that.
It's a bloody good speech. No wonder they're freaking out.
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
They *hate* when people do that.
It's a bloody good speech. No wonder they're freaking out.
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
October 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
When Labour says @zackpolanski.bsky.social is "using his platform to sow division and grievance", what they mean is that he's using it to push for justice and equality.
They *hate* when people do that.
It's a bloody good speech. No wonder they're freaking out.
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
They *hate* when people do that.
It's a bloody good speech. No wonder they're freaking out.
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
This is the kind of detailed and stringent questioning we need to see more of. And it needs to be broadcasted far and wide. What a clown he is. 🤡
Farage promise to "stop the boats within two weeks of winning gov't" unravelling.
Apparently, it means "after passing laws", "as quickly as possible", he "believes", the boats will still cross, but all will be deported "if necessary" and "sensible", "unless we have a duty of care".
Bravo, Beth! 👏🏽
Apparently, it means "after passing laws", "as quickly as possible", he "believes", the boats will still cross, but all will be deported "if necessary" and "sensible", "unless we have a duty of care".
Bravo, Beth! 👏🏽
September 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This is the kind of detailed and stringent questioning we need to see more of. And it needs to be broadcasted far and wide. What a clown he is. 🤡
I find the drooling sycophancy and complete lack of analysis in his report quite frankly disturbing.
Chris Mason is a profoundly unserious man who writes about politics as if it were a video game with no real consequences. True to form, this article is purely about optics. Not a single policy is mentioned
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before - BBC News
The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I find the drooling sycophancy and complete lack of analysis in his report quite frankly disturbing.
This needs to be shared far and wide.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This needs to be shared far and wide.
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If you want some slow TV over the next few days, Swedish TV is live streaming the relocation of a 113 year old wooden church in Kiruna. It's being shifted to a new site 5km away.
www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...
www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...
Den stora kyrkflytten – Första dagen
I direktsändning följer vi den världsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, från gamla stadskärnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. Den stora kyrkflytten tar två dagar och är en del av den omfattande ...
www.svtplay.se
August 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
If you want some slow TV over the next few days, Swedish TV is live streaming the relocation of a 113 year old wooden church in Kiruna. It's being shifted to a new site 5km away.
www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...
www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...
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This is a great post, I wish someone handed it to me when I was 13. If you watch one thing today, watch the clip with Nina Simone at the bottom of the page. Filled my eyes with tears and my heart with joy. And I don't know if it was intentional, but it's made even more powerful after that long read.
OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
How to be a man
The right story narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?
iandunt.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
This is a great post, I wish someone handed it to me when I was 13. If you watch one thing today, watch the clip with Nina Simone at the bottom of the page. Filled my eyes with tears and my heart with joy. And I don't know if it was intentional, but it's made even more powerful after that long read.
Sounds like something universities all over should do. A bit like how that internet thing happened.
For Google, Meta, OpenAI & Grok, AI is a monster that feeds on planetary-scale data lakes while boiling the oceans. But other than these losers’ need to make up for getting flushed in high school, there's no reason why this tech should be harnessed in the service of gigaprofits and neofascism.
Defeating the fanboys of the Torment Nexus.
There’s so much that sucks about Large Language Models, machine intelligence, spicy autocorrect, whatever you want to call it.
open.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Sounds like something universities all over should do. A bit like how that internet thing happened.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
This is spot on. And if you like it, or don't like it, I recommend reading "Talking to my daughter: A brief history of capitalism" by Yanis Varoufakis. It's how the economy really works written in a beautifully simple way, giving you plenty of time to think about what's going on in the world.
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This is spot on. And if you like it, or don't like it, I recommend reading "Talking to my daughter: A brief history of capitalism" by Yanis Varoufakis. It's how the economy really works written in a beautifully simple way, giving you plenty of time to think about what's going on in the world.
Completely unhinged.
Hang on a minute. It was *Republicans* pushing the “Epstein Files’ for years, not Democrats.
The entire point of Republican rhetoric for years and years have been that these files would reveal *Democrat* crimes!
Now it’s a Democrat conspiracy?? This reeks of desperation and fear.
The entire point of Republican rhetoric for years and years have been that these files would reveal *Democrat* crimes!
Now it’s a Democrat conspiracy?? This reeks of desperation and fear.
July 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Completely unhinged.
"Guest, host, ghost." This post by @timothysnyder.bsky.social hits home. Beautiful writing about the horror show reality of the war in Ukraine.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Guest, Host, Ghost
A Dinner Party in Kyiv
open.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Guest, host, ghost." This post by @timothysnyder.bsky.social hits home. Beautiful writing about the horror show reality of the war in Ukraine.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Has someone made a petition yet to urge the government and BBC to stop using Twitter / "X" and delete their accounts?
I obviously can't speak for other jews, but to me the world's richest man tweaking his AI so that it now describes things it doesn't like on a scale of "bagel to full Shabbat" and "Peak Jewish" is a somewhat higher priority than people being mean about the IDF at Glasto.
In case you're think Grok isn't being blatantly antisemitic, here's a few more posts from Grok on this topic.
July 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Has someone made a petition yet to urge the government and BBC to stop using Twitter / "X" and delete their accounts?
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Self Esteem gives me hope for humanity.
June 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Self Esteem gives me hope for humanity.
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"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."
👏👏👏👏👏 @iandunt.bsky.social iandunt.substack.com/p/they-hate-...
👏👏👏👏👏 @iandunt.bsky.social iandunt.substack.com/p/they-hate-...
They hate London because it is beautiful
Matthew Goodwin went to that there London the other day and what he found shook him to his core.
iandunt.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."
👏👏👏👏👏 @iandunt.bsky.social iandunt.substack.com/p/they-hate-...
👏👏👏👏👏 @iandunt.bsky.social iandunt.substack.com/p/they-hate-...
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This is spot on on the distinction between Powell and Starmer's speeches and the much more meaningful criticism of the latter.
To be clear, Robert *is* a supermodel. But apart from that it's all entirely correct
To be clear, Robert *is* a supermodel. But apart from that it's all entirely correct
Starmer's language was deplorable.
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
May 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This is spot on on the distinction between Powell and Starmer's speeches and the much more meaningful criticism of the latter.
To be clear, Robert *is* a supermodel. But apart from that it's all entirely correct
To be clear, Robert *is* a supermodel. But apart from that it's all entirely correct
He just threw the Overton Window out of the building site.
Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?
I ask again, what is he playing at?
May 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
He just threw the Overton Window out of the building site.
Tax the shit out of them.
"BP, Exxon & Shell, who have recently noted their exit from renewables, are also withdrawing from core oil & gas production investments too.
Over 50% of their operating cashflow is now going to shareholders, not explorers or construction crews."
Over 50% of their operating cashflow is now going to shareholders, not explorers or construction crews."
Leaving the battlefield: oil companies are quitting renewables, yes, but also quitting energy
The future of energy is clearly being left to others
harrybenham.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tax the shit out of them.