Ali King

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

The plan to replace pictures of old dead people with wildlife on our money is awesome quite frankly

Not only are animals cooler than dusty old nerds, but it gives us the opportunity for some great slang terms

"That'll cost you three badgers" etc.

James Mason in a cave with a cat The story behind a tiny, peculiar London pub landmark

James Mason In A Cave With A Cat, everybody.

An answer, at last.

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Would be pretty funny to end all global trade by making the Panama Canal inoperable at the same time the strait of Hormuz is mined

A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

🔴EXCLUSIVE: The vape shop at the centre of the fire on Glasgow's Union Street had not paid business rates and does not appear on a legal register to sell tobacco or vaping products, The Ferret has found.

Read the full story 👉 www.theferret.scot/revealed-com...

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Bored? Why not play my choose your own adventure Raven Simulator game.
Romance or befriend a witch
Help or hinder Edgar Allan Poe
Do some Viking shit
Eat the gods
Put the bins out
Drive Brian Blessed's giant severed head to Reading Services

All are valid options j2gb9g9f.play.borogove.io

I can't compete with this.

New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.

I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

readers often ask 'whats the best way to support an author?' and while there are MANY ways to do this, the most powerful is clear: PREORDER THE AUTHORS BOOK. i will go into why, but first please consider taking the briefest moment to preorder FABULOUS BODIES: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Union Street fire: what we know and what happens now Offshore owners and small businesses reel after 12 hours of destruction

There's only one story dominating Glasgow: the destruction of Union Corner.

How did it start? Why did it escalate so much between 6pm and 8pm? Who owns the buildings affected? What happens now?

👉 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/union-street...

The first season of Past Lives is winding down and the second starts next week! This one is all about Bodily Experiences - people from the past we know through their physical remains, like skeletons. We're going to meet Mesolithic shamans, Scythian princesses, and soldiers dropped in mass graves.

How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids | The Quietus I’m sat on the floor behind my dad’s armchair, chunky headphones on, listening to a new 12” my brother has bought. Our music centre lives in a compartment on an MFI divider unit, beside my parents’ co...

"The world Pet Shop Boys evoked to me back then was less kitchen sink drama, more film noir... This was a gay underworld, unspoken and largely invisible." Thanks @grindrod.bsky.social for this wonderful essay on PSB, the suburbs & sexuality:

thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

I love being a little older and knowing who I am. My cat wandered across the camera during an interview and instead of feeling weird I just said "and honestly, if you think this is unprofessional, we're not going to be a good match" and when I look up dude is holding up HIS cat to the camera.

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community Two brothers who were recognized by their congresswoman last year, along with their parents and younger brother, are facing deportation.

Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drone footage of the site this morning… Source Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/...

No report in the Guardian about a woman MP being attacked on International Women’s Day by transphobic fascists after just a week in the job.

They have these “news” items though

Pic of mousketeer giger

Fan letter to Starlog from 1980, featuring a rare photo of H.R. Giger in a Mickey Mouse hat

Tinderbox: The Bell launches a new map of Glasgow's many fires The propensity for so many buildings to catch fire has stoked conspiracy theories galore. Is there anything to them?

Why are there SO many fires destroying historical buildings in Glasgow? Tonight’s tragedy is just the latest.

@glasgowbell.bsky.social mapped them. ‘With every conflagration there are whispers that there’s slightly more to things than meets the eye’.

www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-fi...

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).

This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.

This is no longer about saving the corner building. It's lost. All the SFRS can do is try to prevent what would be a catastrophic spread to Glasgow Central Station.

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LIVE: Fire crews tackling major blaze in Glasgow city centre More than 60 firefighters are currently working to tackle a large building fire on Union Street, Glasgow

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Big fire in Glasgow Central station

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2591831...

I wasn't particularly trying to write about existing in public space with a gendered body this time, but it sneaks in any way - the problem is you can't get away from it even if you want to. Wherever you go there you are.