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thedreadvampy · 1 year

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so to recap we're going for eyelets to lace the sleeves on

I've settled on CIS DYKES FOR TRANS RIGHTS as the thing to paint on the back and I think I'm gonna see if I can find some rainbow, trans and bi flag pattern ribbon to frame that and I might put some spikes on there too depending on if I think it'll make my backpack uncomfortable

I have several patch ideas for the front and sleeves including

MORE LIFE embroidered in white over an applique red ribbon

QUEER AS IN FUCK YOUR BORDERS embroidered quite big over a bleach painting background of a swallow breaking through barbed wire

FUCK THE FUCKING TORIES obviously

black patch. small white bird flying at the top. At the bottom, in small lowercase, I THINK I'LL CARRY ON

Bi SCUM flag based on a design @lifetheuniverseandnothing did a while back

My classic rainbow FUCK

Stylised cunt overlaid with the words EAT OUT TO HELP OUT

I am toying with some ideas about a removable spiked pauldron, and planning on attaching some miscellaneous D rings bc miscellaneous D rings are nice to have. Also gonna run a chain across the back and probably a couple across the chest, and spikes on the chest pockets. I think I would also like to write things on the sleeves and cuffs.

if I have time around cooking dinner tonight I wanna mark out and pierce the spots for the eyelets (haven't got enough to actually eyelet them yet), cut the arms off, and make a start on the bleach painting. things like the studding, chains, D rings and patches are all long term stuff but it would be nice to get a bit stuck in while I'm hyped up.

#red said #the slogan was an obvious choice once i said it to jay and they immediately lit up #i have decided my reluctance to call myself a dyke publicly is pretty much entirely Discourse Brain Poisoning #and the thing stopping me being the radgy punk i wanna be is mostly a compulsive need to never say anything wrong #which is. a bad way to be radgy. sometimes you're gonna fuck up you can't get so stuck in overthinking you never do anything #and 5bh CIS DYKES FOR TRANS RIGHTS very much sums up my personal specific part in the Gender Bullshit #cause like. me being cis and queer are really very vital to my relationship to gender and to the whole. i do not want to say question.#fucking. honking great pile of bullshit coming from transphobes.#it's about protecting and loving trans people but my relationship to the struggle is also really closely tied to my own gender identity #which is. cis dyke. among other things.#also you know it rhymes so that's a winner right there #dyke jacket

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stephensmithuk · 1 year

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The Man with the Twisted Lip

There were probably a couple of opium dens in London, but they were far common in France or the western United States.

London Bridge was the easternmost fixed crossing a vehicle could use in 1889. Tower Bridge was under construction and the Thames Tunnel was used by trains by this point. The latter still is, part of the London Overground. So, it was ferries east of that.

The wharves and docks stretched (mostly) on the north of the river east of London Bridge to Beckton. There were some smaller older quays to the west, like the now Hays Galleria shopping area. The docks at Tilbury also existed and they would take over as ships got bigger, leading to the gradual closure of the old docks, deprivation and then gentrification.

London's Chinatown consisted of less than a thousand residents and was in Limehouse. It is now in Soho, an area that was historically a red-light district but is mostly gentrified now, with a somewhat larger population due to immigration from Hong Kong.

The East End had a reputation as "a wretched hive of scum and villainy" fuelled by stories like this (also the Ripper murders of 1888), but was mainly just very poor. Slum clearance efforts were beginning, but not in any coordinated or effective manner at this point.

Threadneedle Street, in the City of London, is best known as the location of the Bank of England.

Lee was a middle-class suburb that sat on the edge of London in 1889; it had just been taken from Kent and incorporated into the new County of London. But suburban residents in London will still frequently identify with traditional counties.

However, the massive expansion of the city in the first half of the 20th century put Lee in inner London and it today sits in Zone 3 for public transport fares. Indeed, the opening of the railway station in 1866 is what made Lee a desirable area and it still is.

Bow Street police station was a famous police station in London, sharing the building with an equally famous magistrate's court - the building was pretty new, finished in 1881, but the Bow Street Runners before that (set up in 1749 by judge and author of Tom Jones Henry Fielding) were the first effective law enforcement force in London. The former closed in 1992, the latter in 2006 and there is now a museum on site.

"Hugh Boone" would have been charged and fined for breaking the Vagrancy Act of 1824, a piece of Georgian-era legislation enacted because the British government decided that the best way to deal with a surge in poverty and homelessness after the Napoleonic Wars, along with a massive internal influx of economic migrants, was to make rough sleeping and begging illegal, with a maximum sentence of a month's hard labour. This act also covered prostitution, but was in practice mostly used against gay men.

The act remains on the statute books, albeit heavily amended - and somtimes used against homeless people; with 114 people charged in Greater London in 2019-2020. The currently Tory government has pledged to repeal the act and passed legislation in 2022 that will allow for that once a replacement act is enacted to cover some of the other offences in the still-extant text, like hiring children as beggars.

#letters from watson #sherlock holmes #factoids #history

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richarlisonny · 2 years

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Top 3 fave spurs players, top 3 fave liverpool players, top 3 fave players in general

OOOOOH okay disclaimer that as a spurs supporter and liverpool supporter for their flop 22/23 season so far, fave player ≠ good player lmao

obviously if we're talking about fave spurs players i have to mention the one and only my heart my soul loml harry winks........ forever my number one he is a baller in my heart 💖 wait until he comes back from sampdoria more powerful than ever before and he scores nothing but screamers from halfway across the pitch,, haaland is shaking r*naldo retires out of fear kdb hiding under pep's office desk they will NOT be ready for winksy 2.0 but i will be!!!!!!

sonny ofc. that's bae that's thee golden boot winner and aside from being an insanely good footballer he seems like such a nice person too???? which is always a nice bonus seeing as some players are truly just the scum of the earth sigh. he really seems to champion his teammates doing well even when he's having difficulties himself and the fact that the WHOLE TEAM celebrated sonny's golden boot like it was a PL or CL trophy that's LOVE!!!!!! no one has a bad word to say about him and i think that speaks volumes about who he is 🥰🥰🥰

i'm giving the number three spot to kulu rn!!!!! truly a gem of a signing out of absolutely nowhere in the winter window he's grown on me sooooo much so quickly like he's improved the team so much like he is one man carrying a lot of dead weight at times lmao but i think also there is a sense of ginger/red head solidarity....... i saw him arrive and said "he is My Boy now......." it's red hair synergy i love his little face he is shaped like a hug and a friend ❤️

LIVERPOOL........ testing me atm i can't lie but as a spurs supporter i have so much patience for cringefail periods so. let's get into it.

number one is big virg. aside from having the important footballer traits of Big Sexy, he is also a very good player!!!! i like how he hangs back in the midfield so that any stray ball can Get Got and the tempo of play doesn't get lost........ when the liverpool backline is fuckin failing like it normally is these days (🙃🥲🙃🥲) big virg is normally the last line of defence between the ball and the goal. but let's be real the more important aspects here are Big Sexy. it's largely what he's got going for him so far this season lmao /weeps

i'm gonna pick caoimhin for the number two spot!!!!! large aspect of this pick is the irish solidarity i'm not gonna lie lmao but also he's legit a great keeper???? liverpool 21/22 season i wanna run to you so badly........ caoimhin during the carabao cup run was sooooo /chef's kiss/ and him scoring the winning penalty???? and kepa absolutely skying his???? what a moment in our Herstory....... an irishman getting to triumph directly over Team Tory his ancestors were smiling down on him extra wide that day. it's also been cool seeing him as the no. 1 for the national team recently (even if it was only bc gavin bazunu was injured) but he has such a cool head........ i hope he gets some more game time soon!!!!!

LUCHO LUCHO LUCHO is the number three pick here. the Only Player for liverpool this season so far i stg lucho just clicked the second he arrived in the winter window it was love at first sight and he gelled so quickly into the team????? he is such a talented player????? he is the only one turning in work for the shambles of a group assignment that is liverpool's 22/23 season so far. the rest of the team can be godawful but lucho could not be caught dead flopping for even a moment. he works so hard he scores screamers all on his own tbh lucho goal lucho assist starting xi of all luchos i am begging science to please make it happen. he is like kulu........ the winter signing gem. ❤️

okay let's pick 3 misc players hmmmm

i'll pick sancho first......... one of ur own beloveds eleanor. i could not stand him being stuck in the fucking car crash that was man utd's 21/22 season (even though it was funny to watch them cringefail lbr) and i will forever be angry about the fact that he was supposed to be the Big Deal Summer Signing for man utd last season and the team should have been designed to fit him in better and then that fucking old ass botox criminal showed up and literally destroyed the team around him. even tho i hate to see man utd win i love to see sancho thrive........ he is such a talented player and i will reluctantly cheer from the sidelines for a utd goal if he's the one behind it. adore him. baby boy.

ANOTHER ONE OF UR BOYS jude babyboy bellingham,, carrying dortmund on his back singlehandedly it seems dhekfjdksjdiehs what a talent!!!!! and so young!!!!! literally getting the captain's armband sometimes and dortmund planning to build their team around him is CRAZY he is THAT GOOD and he has matured so much recently altho i will always love his 😧😧😧 whenever he gets carded like excuse me....... he has never done anything wrong in his life. i like to see him get called up for the england squad too like give my boy his roses please!!!!! even if it is to play stale ass southgateball. future captain for sure dortmund need to get their shit together and build a worthy team around him QUICKLY

i must give the final spot to another man we both love........ tyrone mings. is it not enough for a man to be Big Sexy????? because oh my god. oh good gracious. oh penis christ. ahem. tyrone seems like a wonderful figure on and off the pitch........ he's always doing a lot of work for charities and the communities in need surrounding the team and guess what stEVEN GERRARD HE WAS A GOOD CAPTAIN TOO FIGHT ME U SLIPPY BITCH. he has PRESENCE on the pitch, not merely because he is Huge but he has the energy!!!!!! the vibes the role just fits him naturally. also rmr when he called out priti patel on twitter in the aftermath of the EUROS penalty shootout???? swoon. marriage material right there.

THIS WAS LONGER THAN I THOUGHT JFDJEKNEWLJEEI thank u eleanor ily mwah 💖💖💖

#ask #kylewalker-peters

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malamai · 2 years

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I don't know it anyone else thinks the same so I'm just going to come out and say it.

I'm British and find it completely inappropriate and bizarre that we as a country are celebrating the queen's jubilee.

We are currently facing a cost of living crisis where people are genuinely having to choose between heating their homes and keeping the lights on or eating. It is completely wrong that a large majority of people are literally sat without two pennies to rub together and we are parading around the queen, who couldn't have more money for doing absolutely nothing.

My kids are meant to be having a jubilee picnic on Friday, we are all meant to wear red white and blue, wave our farce of a flag and I bet there will be kids there that will be kept off school because their parents won't be able to afford to pull together a picnic or there will be parents panicking about the cost of putting a socially adequate one together for their child. I just think it's sickening in so many ways at the moment. People just don't have the money right now and the last thing anyone needs in the middle of a cost of living crisis where the wages aren't keeping up with the inflation because we are a country ran by Eton tory scum, is to parade for the Queen. It's a joke.

Maybe the Queen should send her son to the USA where he can be adequately dealt with for being a pedophile and then maybe go to see what "her country" has actually become. A run down pit.

This celebration is a joke and I can safely say I won't be partaking, it's gross.

#the queen #the jubilee #tory

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emoji-pro-wrestling · 1 year

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Brock Shamrock

Emojis: ☘️ 🕖

Name: Brock Shamrock

Nationality: Very Irish

Pronouns: Sé/Leis He/Him

Marketable Catchphrases: “It’s Shamrock O’Clock!” “Get shamrocked!” “Death to all monarchs!” “If you insist upon continuing to reap the rewards of empire then too you must account for its sins!” “It’s shamrocking time!”

Character Profile: Brock Shamrock is, at first glance, an ignorant and retrograde stereotype of the Irish people. A second glance, however, reveals a highly principled and outspoken gentleman with a deep and unrelenting hatred towards Imperialism in all its forms. …That’s just more stereotypes, huh? While Brock may have started his career back in the nineties as a one-trick stereotype, the passage of time has rendered depth to the two-dimensional parody. His pure brawn, talent for collar-and-elbow and catch wrestling, and boisterous promo delivery kept him relevant even as similar national stereotypes faded from the main event. Brock’s second coming and career revival came on the 8th of April 2013: The day that Margaret Thatcher died. Delivering a fiery and unscripted promo after a match on that day rallied a new generation of fans to his side (and against that of all Tory Scum). His third career resurgence arrived on another 8th, this time that of September 2022: The Day Queen Elizabeth died. In celebration Brock headlined his own Ireland based PPV event the profits of which went to charities helping the homeless and LGBTQ+ community. Now late in his fifties and showing no signs of slowing down, Brock’s proudest achievement remains having never lost a match to an Englishman.

Finishers: Lion Tamer (called the Red Lion Tamer), Figure Four Leg Lock (called the Four Leafed Sham Lock), and the Curbstomp (called the Seven O’Clock)

Design: I’d just finished designing Nio Folger and was feeling dissatisfied at having created such a brazen national stereotype as a Swiss Accountant. Lo and behold my next randomly selected random emojis, chosen randomly: A shamrock, and a clock pointing at Lucky Seven O’Clock! The sigh I let out was incredible, and so was the vigour with which I threw myself into trying to make an Irish wrestler who was both a stereotype, and who rose above that. Whether I accomplished that… Well, I leave that to the viewer.

#Emojimania Eliminator Tournament #Brock Shamrock #Tournament #Character Profile #Polls #Original Character Tournament #Pro Wrestling #Wrestling #OCs #Tumblr polls #Bracket

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scavengedluxury · 4 years

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The absolute state of this Guardian piece on working class voters in the Red Wall where the “working class voter” guy who says “Can you imagine what state we’d be in if Jeremy Corbyn had been in charge of all this?” is revealed to be “on the phone, sourcing nduja sausage for his artisanal pizza parlour”😂😂😂

#the graun #red wall #tory scum

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convertgrapeling · 9 months

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keir starmer's dad was "a toolmaker" in the same way that margaret thatcher's dad was "a greengrocer." it's like if i owned a chain of restaurants but called myself a bartender cos i serve a few drinks now and then.

#uk politics #sir kid starver #red tory scum

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suprememayobros2 · 3 years

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Starmer rode into the Labour leadership position on a platform of party unity. The last socialist on the Labour frontbench resigned after Starmers office told him to reject a union demand for labour to back a 15 pound an hour minimum wage.

Shadow Secetery of Energy Ed Miliband stated he wanted nationalisation and public ownership of Energy, Starmer has rejected the idea of Labour nationalising the big six energy firms if they got into power.

Starmer has purged left wing groups from the party such as Socialist appeal.

Starmer has broken his leadership pledges and rejected a 2021 local election shortlist because a socialist was on it.

Starmer has made it more difficult for a left wing member of the party to become leader by requiring more mp's to nominate candidates (the parlimentary labour party is overrun by the party right)

This is not unity. This is lying for your own benefit. This is tory tactics. Starmer is a tory in a red tie. He does not and never did want to unite the party. He isn't quiet about his policies because he doesnt know what to do. He knows exactly what he wants to do and is currently doing it. Starmer is fucking over the left. That was always his policy. Starmer is Tory scum in plain sight. Infiltrating the party and steering it to the right. Fuck him for lying, fuck tories and fuck tory entryism!

#labour #keir starmer #socialism #uk politics #labour party #uk labour party

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encounterthepast · 3 years

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If you enjoy this please follow @RussInCheshire on twitter for his regular threads on UK politics.

As it’s the weekend, let’s start #TheWeekInTory with a frivolous and jolly story about our own govt deliberately starving hundreds of thousands of children...

1. In May, Boris Johnson promised “nobody will go hungry as a result of Coronavirus”

2. He then denied school meals to the 600,000 poorest children

3. So Marcus Rashford ran a campaign to get the govt to feed children, which - just think about that: he had to *campaign* for it

4. Then Boris Johnson congratulated Rashford on his campaign to overturn the cruel policies of, erm, Boris Johnson

5. And then 3 days later, Boris Johnson refused to feed those kids during school holidays

6. So this week Labour organised a parliamentary vote about it

7. And 322 Tories voted against feeding hungry children

8. Vicky Ford, the Children’s Minister (who you’ll be surprised to hear neither looks nor sounds like a ludicrous Dickensian villain) went ahead and voted against feeding children

9. Tory MP Jo Gideon voted against feeding children. Jo Gideon, in case you didn't think things could get any more unbelievable, is also the chair of "Feeding Britain", a charity that campaigns to end food poverty and hunger in the UK.

10. Tory MP Paul Scully waved away the grumbling parents of kids with grumbling tummies, and said “children have been going hungry under Labour for years”, seemingly forgetting Tories have been in power for a decade

11. Tory MP Ben Bradley, who once had to apologise for suggesting sterilising the poor, said feeding children will simply “increase their dependency”. On food. Yeah, wean the little bastards off it. It’ll do them good in the end, which will be around 3 agonising weeks.

12. At this point, pause to consider that MPs get their food and drink subsidised. A £31 meal in a parliamentary restaurant costs MPs £3.45. In 2018 this subsidy cost the taxpayer £4.4m. I can’t find any record of Tories like Ben Bradley voting against this.

13. Pressing on: Ben Bradley also said “Some parents prioritise other things ahead of their kids. Small minority, yes... but some do”. Yes, and a small minority of Tory MPs have been arrested for rape. Should we send them all to prison?

14. Also, Mark Francois voted (by proxy) to keep kids hungry. Not related to the previous item. Why would you think that?

15. Tory MP Nicky Morgan said the govt voted to starve 600,000 children cos a Labour MP called a Tory MP scum. And that’s not a scummy thing to do at all.

16. Tory MP David Simmonds said Marcus Rashford’s experience of poverty in secondary school “took place entirely under a Labour government”. Rashford was 11 when Tories came into power, making David Simmonds are rare example of an ad hominem attack on yourself

17. Simmonds then said Labour’s parliamentary vote was “all about currying favour with wealth and power and celebrity status”. He might be right – the govt managed to unify Gary Linaker and Nigel Farage in condemnation of their denial of food to kids

18. Brandan Clark-Smith (who voted to starve kids) demanded “more action to tackle the real causes of child poverty”

19. So at once, the govt cut minimum wage for furloughed people. They now get 2/3 of the money the govt says is the absolute minimum it is possible to survive on

20. And then it was revealed that low-paid workers who have to isolate due to Covid can claim £500. Yay!

21. But if they’re told to isolate by the govt’s contact tracing app, they can’t claim anything. Un-yay.

22. Long story short: the govt cannot spend £120m feeding children. But it can spend £522 on the Eat Out Scheme, which its own report said contributed “negligible amounts” to the hospitality economy, and Boris Johnson admitted drove up infection rates – especially in the North

23. Those infection rates caused the govt to move Manchester into Tier 3

24. So the Mayor of Manchester asked for a £90m support package (1/6th of the money the govt spent causing the problem in the first place)

25. The govt said no, £60m

26. The Mayor said, how about £65m?

27. The govt said no, £60m

28. The Mayor said ok, fine, we’ll take the £60m

29. And then govt offered Manchester £22m, and then went to the press and said the Mayor was "being unreasonable"

30. The negotiations were led by Robert Jenrick, who recently set up a fund for the poorest 101 towns, then awarded his town £25m even though it is the 270th poorest, and therefore not even eligible

31. £25m is £237 per person

32. Manchester gets £7.85 per person

33. Robert Jenrick gave Manchester (2.8 million people) £22m

34. Robert Jenrick gave Richard Desmond (1 person) £45m

35. The talks broke down when the govt wouldn’t spend an extra £5m

36. The govt plans to spend £7m vitally rebranding "Highways England" to "National Highways"

37. Manchester Young Conservatives tweeted “Boris has lied about helping us in the North. It’s time for him to go". Don't look - they deleted it. Suspect somebody had a word.

38. Meanwhile the govt said Manchester will get the £60m after all, and chaos continue to reign supreme

39. But that £60m is brief reprieve for the Tories of Manchester, as a govt report said Tory seats in the North of England (the so-called "Red Wall" seats) can expect to lose at least 4000 jobs *each* as a result of Brexit, even if we do get a deal. More if we don't.

40. The govt rushed to begin its first airport Coronavirus testing, a mere 211 days after mandatory airport testing was begun in South Korea

41. South Korea has had 8 deaths per million

42. The UK has had 665 deaths per million

43. More airport news, as the govt finally accepted Brexit will cause “up to 8-hour delays at passport checks” and asked the EU to allow UK citizens to queue at EU-only lanes. Like we did when we were in the EU. But we aren’t now. So tough.

44. A senior diplomat said, “Having grown up in Brussels, Boris Johnson values the ability to travel freely to the continent”. You’d think Boris Johnson would foresee this problem when he led the campaign to stop that freedom.

45. The independent reviewer of Terrorism Legislation said the UK “will be increasingly unable to cope” after Brexit, as we lose access to EU data-sharing agreements

46. And a No-Deal end to UK/EU scientific collaboration will leave London with a £3bn annual deficit

47. In the space of 38 days, the govt announced the £100bn "Operation Moonshot" to solve Covid; then cancelled it; and then re-launched it again after it was found they’d accidentally continued to pay over 200 private consultants up to £7000 a day to work on it.

48. So this week, Boris Johnson said Moonshot would continue, but it’s goals “would take time”, which is the literal opposite of what he said it would do when it first announced it, and makes the entire thing absolutely pointless

49. And now it’s been admitted that Operation Moonshot would be quietly folded into the existing £12bn Test and Trace programme, and the £100bn has vanished. Apart from the bits the Serco consultants took for doing… nothing.

50. But Boris Johnson said the Test and Trace programme was “helping a bit”, and “a bit” is the least you’d expect if you’d spent £12bn

51. And then the £12bn Test and Trace programme fell to its lowest success rate so far, identifying only 60% of at-risk people

52. Local councils, with no additional funding, are tracing 98% of cases

53. A quick sweep though other epic successes you may have missed (or deliberately blocked out): Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch declared that it should be illegal to teach about inequality

54. The Cabinet Secretary said the report into “vicious and orchestrated” bullying by Home Secretary and Dementor Priti Patel “may never see the light of day”, cos if you have a report that vindicates you, you definitely sit on it as long as possible

55. And the appeals court unanimously overturned Priti Patel’s policy of removing people from the UK without giving them access to legal process or justice because – and I’m paraphrasing the judges here – what the fuck, Patel? What the actual fuck?

56. Undeterred, she announced plans to make rough-sleeping “grounds for removal of permission to be in the UK” and "denial of legal aid". So if you’re too poor to have a home, you must pay for a lawyer or she’ll shove you in the sea

57. After an unnamed Tory MP said it “looks bad to be handing top jobs to your friend and old boss”, Charles Moore, Boris Johnson’s friend and old boss, withdrew as next BBC chair.

58. The new favourite is Richard Sharp, the - yep - friend and old boss of Rishi Sunak

59. You’ll be amazed to hear this: Richard Sharp is a major donor to the Tory party. These little coincidences keep on happening

60. The govt decided to prevent EU citizens from having physical proof of their right to live in their own home

61. Grant Shapps threatened to “seize control of Transport for London” to save it from financial ruin at the hands of Sadiq Khan, who – the bastard - achieved a mere 71% reduction in the debts caused by his noble predecessor, Boris Johnson

62. Matt Hancock, facts at his fingertips, told MPs from Yorkshire their constituents could go on holiday abroad

63. But not in the UK

64. And then that they CAN go on holiday in the UK

65. But can't leave Yorkshire

66. He then said “I'll get back to you” about the details

67. A cross-party report found “the UK’s foreign policy is adrift”, that it lacks “clarity, confidence and vision” and that Britain is “absent from the world stage”. All of which is very soothing, as we move into the govt's proclaimed goal of a post-Brexit Global Britain.

68. And we can all relax: the govt is finally supporting culture in the UK, specifically the Nevill Holt Opera, which performs private operas, and is owned by Boris Johnson’s friend (and - jaw on floor! - Tory donor) David Ross, who is worth £700m so really needs the money.

69. The Nevill Holt Opera only functions in the summer, so thank god it has been prioritised with £85,000 to “maintain operations” in October.

And now, in honour of the opera, the fat lady can sing, cos I’m off to drink myself into oblivion. Join me.

We live in interesting times.

#tory scum #tory britain #uk news #uk this week #free school meals #andy burnham #marcus rashford

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politelymenacing · 3 years

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I really need Georgia to finish counting their ballots soon. It's 5:30am here and my tired brain keeps forgetting that in America blue is preferable to red unlike here where it represents Tory scum and it is stressing me out.

#help a brit out #i meam i could just sleep #but we are in full lockdown so it really doesn't matter what time i get up here #georgia run off #american politics

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goodbysunball · 4 years

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Quarantine Rock

Been a minute. I’ve been driven back to the ‘net by the unfortunate situation the entire world is in. I’m trying hard to keep occupied and keep cool instead of binging news and Instagram, and music, as always, has been a salve. Most of the below titles are just new to me, though not necessarily new - but we’ve pretty much all got the time to reminisce or to go back and search for buried gems, so here goes.

Tori Kudo, The Last Song of My Life LP (An’archives) / Tori Kudo & Kayo Makino, Ein Traum Für Dich LP (Black Truffle)

Tori Kudo’s always been on the periphery of my listening, but aside from the Mu Ji Ge 7″, this is really my first time diving into his extensive body of work. His newest solo LP is The Last Song of My Life, where as bandleader Kudo leads a melancholy saunter meditating on one motif for its duration, occasionally pocked by noise, apparently “depending on their response to the film work that was being projected.” You don’t need the film to get to the emotive heart of this, and the motif will be stuck in your head for days. Strangely beautiful, and somewhat disarming, even if the errant elbow strikes you in the ribs now and then. My go-to reading soundtrack lately. Beautiful presentation by An’archives, as usual. This one flew off the shelves, so be sure to grab it if you see it in the wild.

Last year Kudo released a collaborative LP with Kayo Makino on Black Truffle, and if you’re daunted by The Last Song of My Life, this one goes even further down the rabbit hole. I prefer Ein Traum Für Dich though; Kudo’s on piano, playing Satie on the A-side and some meandering progression on the flip, and Makino digitally distorts and heightens Kudo’s playing, occasionally adding spoken word samples and processed noise. The A-side is interesting, both of them playing with the possibilities of this pairing, Makino layering and offsetting Kudo’s melody to nauseating effect. The B-side is the reason for tuning in, though: Makino’s static stretches and overwhelms Kudo at points, making for a hypnotic and immersive 20+ minute ride. It’s a trip, the whole album acting as an audial blackout curtain, or the mesmerizing escape we all could use. Grab the LP from Forced Exposure for 15% off now.

Hardijs Lediņš, Tiny Crabs of Deep Waters LP (Musiques Electroniques Actuelles)

Been digging into the NSRD collective’s work a bit lately, though I’m not gonna pretend like I’m some sort of expert - the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art published a comprehensive book about the group a few years ago if ya wanna become one, though. I’m partway through the book; my takeaway so far is that the NSRD collective, led by Hardijs Lediņš and Juris Boiko, found ways to subvert oppressive Soviet rule through a freedom of expression and thought seldomly encountered. Part of that expression was of course music, and the Workshop For the Restoration of Unfelt Feelings compilation on Stroom is the best introduction (good luck finding the LP). The music was largely electronic, somewhat ahead of its time and also totally cracked given the relative isolation of Latvia during this time. Tiny Crabs of Deep Waters is another entryway to the group’s music, this time a reissue of an impossible-to-find CDr from Hardijs Lediņš. The synth-heavy, largely instrumental record should appeal to fans of the soundtrack work of Tangerine Dream or John Carpenter, but the whole thing carries this strange sense that something is a bit off. Cartoonish keyboard effects collide with rich bass tones in a conventional yet dizzying manner, if you lean in close. The LP’s been a great shot in the arm when the day gets too sleepy, especially when the beat kicks in on the 13-minute “La Danse Binoculaire De Paris.” Top notch reissue, released at the end of last year, and can still be had on Discogs.

Teitanblood, Death 2xLP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli/The Ajna Offensive)

Yeah, this one makes sense right now: absolutely blistering black metal from Spain, the 2014 follow-up to modern classic Seven Chalices that I didn’t check out for some reason until now. Teitanblood is smothering and chaotic, and hardly conventional, but an admittedly complicated method exists behind the screen. There’s hardly a more cathartic record available to me than Death, especially the duo of “Plagues of Forgiveness”/”Cadaver Synod” that takes up face B. The band released The Baneful Choir last year, and that one smokes, too. Grab both LPs from Hell’s Headbangers or direct from the Ajna Offensive and burn straight out of this reality.

Martina Lussi, Diffusion Is a Force LP (Latency)

A totally engrossing and absorbing sound world created by Switzerland’s Martina Lussi on Diffusion Is a Force. The samples used - wheezing breaths, dribbling basketballs, roaring crowds - introduce a human element to the rich, warm tapestries. No beats to ride on here, but a track like “Higher Energy” cuts to the core with a Loren Connors-esque guitar part, which is then slowly displaced by rumbling, punctuated bass. The album feels very light and warm, as if in a fog, and the careful sequencing shifts the mood imperceptibly from track to track. Obviously I am not well-versed in electronic music, and there’s probably a name for what Lussi does so well here, but whatever it is, Diffusion Is a Force hits me right in the chest while gettin’ the synapses firing. Find the LP on Discogs, or support 2 Bridges Music Arts during this time of small business strain.

Reek Minds, s/t 7″ (Edger) / Suck Lords, True Lords Music 7″ (Edger) / Pig DNA, Mob Shity MLP (La Vida Es Un Mus) / Pig DNA, Strong Throat 7″ (Square One Again)

It’s inevitable that some anger will boil over from time to time, from the ineptitude shown by governments worldwide to the jackass hoarding hand sanitizer right here in Tennessee. These four records will stomp the anger right outta ya so you can get back to staring at the ceiling and forcing yourself to breathe calmly. Reek Minds’ 7″ is new this year, and they blaze through 8 tracks, coming off like the late, great Sickoids while still sprinkling in some mosh-worthy bits (see “A.M.”). Matt K. at Yellow Green Red thinks Iron Lung will be calling for Reek Minds to join their ranks soon, and I agree. Apparently there are 2 copies of Reek Minds’ self-titled 7″ left at Bandcamp as of this writing. They share members with Suck Lords, who somehow play even faster, approaching powerviolence speeds, their drummer giving Jerry’s Kids’ Brian Betzger a run for his money. The Lords are a little more goofy than Reek Minds, though you wouldn’t know it if they hadn’t included a lyric sheet and a “Getting to Know the Lords” insert with last year’s True Lords Music record. Grab some Lords from Not For Everyone.

Pig DNA, for their part, drop an atomic bomb on the whole thing, their 2015 MLP Mob Shity sounding strangely prescient and utterly unforgiving. From the opening track “Foire,” Pig DNA throw down the gauntlet, every track seeming to possess more ludicrous levels of noise smothering the piledriving riffs than the previous one. There’s d-beat in there somewhere, but I’m not gonna stick my hand in the caustic stew to find it. “Scums (City Rockers)” is my pick, but the whole thing is an unrelenting assault and worthy successor to Kriegshög’s s/t LP. Hard to handle nuclear material, so it’s still available for as low as $6. The band followed up Mob Shity with Strong Throat, possibly the shortest 7″ record I own, that continues down the same path. It’s worth hunting down (here ya go) for the B-side, where the drums drop out and the band still gnashes and claws at the walls with all its got. Insane. May their message live on in these chaotic days ahead.

#Tori Kudo #Kayo Makino #Hardijs Lediņš #NSRD #Teitanblood #Martina Lussi #Reek Minds #Suck Lords #Pig DNA

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Name: Kit

Gender: Female

Species: Half human half feline (due to experimentation)

Age: 18

Height: 5’7”

Weight: 153.6

(Adopted) Family: Asgore, Toriel, and Frisk

Biological Mom: Eliza (deceased)

Biological Dad: Unknown

Likes: (secretly) flowers, baking, drawing, sports, anime, manga, marvel movies and comic books

Dislikes: Drama, gossip, revealing clothing, bitter things, wearing makeup, high heels, needles, visits to the doctor or hospitals, small rooms, and being grabbed

Personality: A huge tsundere, touch starved, protective of her friends, is actually super shy, has a bad temper, spunky, bold, refuses to let anybody get involved with her problems, and tends to wander off by herself if feeling inadequate

(Trigger Warning???)

Story: Eliza became pregnant with her in a laboratory of people conducting experiments to create a “shape shifting human.” They injected chemicals into her while she was still in her mother’s belly and this is how she gained her ears and tail. Because of the experiment, Kit was nearly stillborn and Eliza was in bad shape from all the chemicals. When the experiment didn’t work, they kept Kit alive in case they needed to do more tests and they tried to make Eliza have another baby. Their attempt failed and she had to be put on life support to keep her alive. Kit was forced to stay in a room separated from her mother but she would always sneak out to go visit her. Every time she was dragged back to her room, she would kick, punch, and try to bite the scientists for what they did to Eliza. One day Kit didn’t realize that she would be seeing her mother for the last time. Eliza had managed to snatch a keycard off of one of the scientists and when Kit snuck into her room, her last words to her daughter were “Be free.” And fell still. Kit, in a midst of fury and grief, obeyed her final wish and escaped. She was pursued by the humans up Mt. Ebott and when she reached the hole at the top, she faced her pursuers with a seething glare before letting herself fall. Kit survived the fall but not without a few cuts, bruises, and a broken arm. She was found by Toriel, who had followed the sounds of her cries and immediately took her back to her home. When asked what happened and why she was down there, Kit’s only explanation was “I was running from the people in white coats.” When asked about her mother, Kit was silent for a moment before just hugging Toriel, crying. Kit was about 6 or 7 when she first fell down to Mt. Ebott and Toriel took it upon herself to raise her like her own child. Kit only addresses Toriel as “mom” and grew to dislike humans for what they did to her, Eliza, and the monsters. Aside from her short temper, Kit gained a spunky and bold personality. When she turned 18, it took a lot of convincing for Toriel to let her venture outside the ruins. She told Kit to wear a dark purple cloak with a white Delta Rune sewn onto the back to hide herself in case she gets attacked, but Kit refused to. She got dressed and headed out to Snowdin, giving any monsters who were staring at her a stern glare. Then she met the skelebros. Papyrus was just as puzzled as Sans was to see someone that looked like a human, but wasn’t. Kit bluntly and quickly explained that she wasn’t a human, adding in that she hates humans. While Papyrus offered to show her around Snowdin, Sans visited Tori and asked if she was the one who let Kit into Snowdin. Toriel explained to him that she had found her when she was just a child and needed somebody to take care of her. Sans then asked “What about Asgore?” Toriel responded, while glaring, “He won’t lay a finger on her.” Toriel asked Sans to promise he would protect her and teach her how to survive in the underground. Sans was hesitant and told her “Gee Tori, yer really makin’ me put a lot of backbone into these promises… Alright, I’ll keep her safe.” With that, he kept his promise and kept an eye socket on Kit. Eventually, Kit came to decide she actually liked Snowdin and wanted to move in. Papyrus offered her to stay with them, due to there not being very many available homes and she took the offer. It took a tremendous amount of convincing for Toriel to let her move out and Kit promised to come visit her every chance she got. After packing her belongings and moving in with the skelebros, Kit felt a familiar feeling resurface. The same feeling of when Toriel took her in. The feeling of being accepted.

Kit in the Pacifist Run: Kit does not trust the human at all. You can try to approach her at first, but she’ll swing her bat at you if you get too close. She also becomes infuriated when Papyrus lets them into the house and locks herself in her room, refusing to let the human in. It will take a lot of convincing and Mercy to let her know you mean no harm.

Kit in the Neutral Run: If you kill anybody, Kit will come after you. You will encounter her numerous times and she’ll give you a beating until she’s exhausted and flees. If you kill Toriel, Papyrus, Sans, or Asgore, this will just fuel her rage. If anybody has died, Kit will be mournful in every Neutral ending. Any close friends or family that are still alive, she will go to stay with them and become extremely protective and concerned for their safety. If Sans calls you and leaves a message about the results of your actions, Kit will snatch the phone out of his hand and say “I have one thing to say to you, you damned scum…” before saying in a low voice laced with venom “If I had one wish, it would be that you didn’t survive your fall.” before hanging up abruptly.

Kit in the Genocide Run: Kit will not show or accept any Mercy for what you’ve done. You took her mother and her closest friends from her, and there is one thing she will take from you. Your life. The true fight with her will begin when you run into her after you’ve killed Sans. As you’re making your way to Asgore, she’ll suddenly appear from hiding and knock you backwards. When the fight begins, you will see that she is wearing a red scarf around her neck, a dusty, bloody blue jacket tied around her waist, and a dark purple cloak with a white Delta Rune sewn onto the back draped around her. The only expression on her face is unspeakable rage and her bat has been upgraded with a saw blade sticking out and the wood of it is layered with duct tape and wires to keep it in place. The beating is brutal beyond imaginable and she will not offer any Mercy, nor accept any. The only thing she will say is “No more.” “I should have killed you where you stood.” and “Give them back.” The longer the fight lasts, the harder it will get and she will begin to screech her words in an almost animalistic way. If the fight lasts longer than intended, her bat will eventually snap in half due to the force of her swinging it and she’ll move on to using her claws. The way she can be beaten is if you flank her from behind and stab her in the back. She won’t die immediately though. Kit has a few things to say while sitting on her hands and knees, a pool of blood forming below her. “H-Heh… Hehehe… Go ahead.. C’mon, finish me.” (You have a choice to end her or let her suffer) “... Heh, doesn’t matter.. *cough* *cough* … I’m in trouble n-now… but s-so are you. Once you reach the surface, all this blood on your hands… The humans will see what kind of monster you really are… And they’ll kill you for it.” She says this with a diabolical grin on her face. “See you… in HELL..” When Kit finally collapses and one last breath escapes her, her body doesn’t turn to dust. She just remains there lifeless in a pool of her own blood and wearing the clothing of the ones she was closest to and loved the most.

#undertale #undertale oc #my art

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