#Facts about UK

[yenvengerberg]

news from the uk right now is that our new prime minister, who was appointed little over a month ago, is now being asked by her own party to resign after almost crashing the pound and having to do a complete u-turn on her policies.

she's actually had even less time in power (because parliament has to 'respectfully' stop due to the queen dying, cos you know, the country had to come to a complete halt for ten days) and her time in control is being likened to the shelf life of a lettuce. no seriously, there is currently a live stream of 'who will last longer, liz truss or this lettuce?':

#uk politics #we have to laugh about it or we'll cry ahsjsl #the fact they even put googly eyes on the lettuce.. amazing

[invaderpinnecone]

Bae wake up Donald Trump and UK politics are trending on Tumblr

#donald trump #uk politics #i fucking hate the fact the uk politics isn't even about uk politics it just jokes

[skrunksthatwunk]

the debate continues (pt 1) but kurama gets called in

bonus under the cut (ft hiei):

gay people

#can you tell i'm much more used to drawing hiei and kurama? lol. i just love their hair sm like.. mwah #anyway idek if this is funny but here's more of it ig #also i just typed 90s yaoi cover into google so i know nothing about that image or its source material so like. open to fun facts ig #yyh #yu yu hakusho #kuwameshi #kazuma kuwabara #kurama #shuichi minamino #hiei #anyway kuwameshi bi4bi moment and i think about the discovery of that a lot. also yusuke's nb to me so im picturing another side of this #where yusuke's like oh man... maybe i AM the girl??? but for gender reasons and not like. relationship dynamic or uke/seme reasons or whatv #also poor kuwabara. that's not going to help you very much i think. he's gonna believe in the yaoi hole :( #skrunkart #thinking about how kurama uses telepathy when he's first introduced and kind of never again after that?? anyway that's what going on in tha #hiei extra fyi #kuwabara kazuma #minamino shuichi #idkkkkk #hoorayy anyway so like. yusuke and kuwabara here like each other so much but don't know what that makes them (bi in this case) bc of the #past interest in girls. like they both have been into girls but they feel so strongly about each other they can't just ignore it. so they'r #like shit i guess we're gay now. and that doesnt fit right but what else could it be? and also they have like zero accurate knowledge of #queer people and queerness. very 'completely trusts an am i gay quiz' moment to me #they don't know where to look besides yaoi and that's Not For Them so that doesn't work. confusing times for kuwameshi i spose #plus kuwabara spirit sensitivity = gaydar in this case #a little tiny tiny kurahi in there. to me :)

[satans-knitwear]

The dress.... The hair.... The shoes.... Damn, im good. 😎

Treat me ~ Tip me ~ More of me

#Shoes are La Moda! Dress is (2nd hand) British Retro! Hair is Annabelles Wigs ✨💕 #Corset underneath is corset story but i was too excited about the dress to get any pics of that 😂😅 #Satans knitwear #I think the fact this dress was £16 second hand made me even more delighted about this look #Alt pinup #Pinup girl #Vintage vibes #Vintage inspired #Retro style #British retro #La moda #bi girl #uk girl #wlw #My gif to you

[thekintsugikids]

so much for (tour) dust, the healing tour of all time

#it’s fine like whatever #it doesn’t even affect me #im totally absolutely completely chill about it!! #and i had to cut it out but after they played cfc pete made a point of saying “andy hurley's been dying to play that one” #and he seemed so happy after they played 27 the first time and pavlove the other night #just like....the fact that patrick seemingly had himself thoroughly convinced that the rest of the band hated the record #or they weren't proud of it or didn't really like how it came out #or that he “pushed them too far in a direction they didn't want to go” #but they clearly love the album and wanted to play it and have it be appreciated by the audience just like he did #whatever!! #it's fine!! i'm FINE!!!!! #and thinking about the fact that there was a chorus of people yelling for pavlove when pete said they were gonna play the Holy Grail #im gonna be SICK #also there’s one clip that’s not tourdust …. it’s from when they played headfirst slide the first time in the uk this year #but idc same energy same vibes same ✨healing✨ #fall out boy #fob #patrick stump #pete wentz #joe trohman #andy hurley #so much for (tour) dust #tourdust

[elbiotipo]

The reality of English becoming the world's lingua franca will mean that people who are not native English speakers will also have a say on how the language is spoken.

From Wikipedia in "World Englishes"

When the number of bilingual English speakers, as it will likely be the case in this century, equals or outnumbers the ones in the "homelands" of English like the UK and the USA, they will soon start adapting the English language to their own worldviews and uses, and in fact they are already doing so, but they will do it with full confidence. For sure, speakers of "proper English" will complain, but what are they gonna do about it?

We will see some interesting developments in our lifetime.

#cosas mias #in fact if you read about it there is a possiblity that there will be a language divergence between international english or global english #and english from the 'inner sphere' such as the USA and the UK #that is of course assuming the whole thing doesn't just collapse and it is replaced by another language which is not impossible

[dailykafka]

++(adding on the last ask, sorry i just forgot to put this there) it's also the very very VERY weird way they keep talking like the jewish culture was completely erased from the rest of the Europe and the german speaking countries, like we didn't know how there were people fighting and resisting and trying to create communities before and after holocaust. this does NO erase holocaust, and that's one of the most enraging parts for me too: talking like the resistance of jewish people outside israel would somehow negate holocaust and antisemitism. this is fucking bonkers?

during the whole article i was thinking "why would the Germans have ownership of the works of an writer who is from PRAGUE? writing in german does not immediately imply this, and the fact that he was born in Prague does not negate the antisemitism he faced"

Kafka writing about his experience with oppression inside a country where antisemitism was so recurrent does not make him an symbol of the israeli state, and that's mainly what they're trying to affirm. by doing this they're trying to erase the way his works relate so much with the oppression other groups suffer inside other places, including the ones being attacked by the israeli state.

Yes, Israel's whole rhetoric is very deliberately constructed narrative which often raises uncomfortable questions.

And I also agree I think it's weird how there's complete exclusion of the country that Kafka was from (but then again, was he from Czech Republic (because that didn't exist back then) or was he from Austria? That existed in some sort). In any case, Kafka identified with the minority in the Austro-Hungarian empire (Hermann also), that is with Czechs.

What Kafka's nationality was is a tricky subject overall but the reality is that Prague is in Czech Republic so it is Czechs' "responsibility" to preserve Kafka in that city. Israel and Germany are just both weird about Franz Kafka and are trying to have hegemony over his legacy when none of them actually have tangible credibility.

#what matters is that kafka was a jewish man living in prague speaking german #the jewishness the city and the language all matter at the same time and thats why kafka isn't one thing #and cannot be claimed by one state #i think israel has the least credibility based on the simple fact that israel didn't exist back then and kafka wasn't living in israel #even austria could say more than israel lol #also about speaking german #imagine how ridiculous it would be if UK claimed every person as English just because they spoke english… #asks

[anitalianfrie]

i think that the weird obsession that the drivers have with the word mate has to be studied

#yall are european #i know for a FACT that you studied UK english at school #why are you going around talking like aussies #f1blr #formula 1 #max verstappen #charles leclerc #this is about you two in particular #now i don't speak dutch nor french #but i'm 99% sure that both language don't have the “mate”equivalent as they use it in english #nobody goes around saying “how is it mate” in FRENCH #so WHY are they doing it

[tesco-finest-aromantics]

what's the government's response to the awful waiting times to access medical transition? make it harder for people to get referred in the first place. if we can gatekeep a bunch of trans people from ever getting referred in the first place, the waiting lists will be shorter! genius! /s

#caique posts #this is specifically about trans kids and the inhumane waiting times at the *only* clinic for trans kids in the whole england and wales #the proposal would mean GPs will not be able to refer trans kids to clinics directly #they'd have to go through counselling with a separate children and young peoples mental health services before being able to be referred #despite the fact that a psychological evaluation is part of the normal process of receiving hrt/surgery referrals in the first place!! #it literally takes place already in the clinics!! why do they need to go through it twice?!! #i hate this country #vent #uk politics

[nowshesdoingitallthetime]

@trumanblackblog for the Valentine’s Day show, just hear me out okay? Consider:

Loving Someone

Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy)

Love Me

Guys

Then Because She Goes

Mine

Me & You Together Song

I Couldn’t Be More In Love

#kirke’s inner dialog #JUST THINK ABOUT IT MAN #it’s worth a shot😭 #this is in fact me shooting my shot #traveling to the uk for this show #matty healy #the 1975 #still… at their very best

[pemberlaey]

#one thing about me: I’m gonna be dramatic in a windowsill #also fun fact this quote was written about me actually b/c my name means daughter of the seA #coastal granddaughter #coastal aesthetic #phototgraphy #uk #Cornwall #blue hour #my face #period drama #period dress #ocean aesthetic #mermaidcore #typography #piratecore

[factorialsotherfandoms]

Mini-event tomorrow as well lol? But early. Guy Fawkes Night the 5th Novemeber! But the event is 3rd!

Remember, remember, the 5th of November,

Gunpowder, treason and plot.

I see no reason

Why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.

#qsmp #qsmp twitter #i have an hour but I know if I open Pac or Fit's streams I'll miss stuff I have tonight #maybe it's so Phil doesn't need to stream seven days this week and can explain #given its a very UK thing #and tubbo's laptop is dying #and wilbur is never online #or maybe its because whatever is happening saturday prevents them using sunday #who knows! #them summarising this will be so funny lol #'some catholics tried to murder the government over a religious dispute #and now we burn an effigy of their ringleader and set off gunpowerder fireworks #in memory of the fact they failed to blow anyone up' #like... that's the summary lol #and for once this one was actually celebrated where I grew up! #I'm not sure I can post the whole poem either #an early version I was taught talks about hanging people (Pac would love that) #but even the less expilcate ones are a bit murdery #so just take the bit people remember lol #its been celebrated since at least 1607 when it happened in 1605 #but um early versions were super anti-Catholic #which is bad #and it was protestant church thing with bonus sermons for a /while/ #as well as blowing things up in controlled conditions #stopped being celebrated after the civil war came back again with the monarchy and more party #it was a national holiday for a while (not any more) #and people would sometimes burn other unpopular figures as effigies #and in the Victorian period the newly instated Catholic bishops #which um got them into trouble #now its mostly cool fireworks and warm bonfires and doesn't have the religious or rioting bits often

[bitterscampi]

internet critics tm getting so mad about black mirror doing supernatural themes in their episodes like girl. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic! also maybe you should consider that the core conceit of black mirror is really “our contemporary unease with the modern world” and not necessarily ‘instagram bad’

#also I thought mazey days was pretty decent (although SUPER in your face even for bm) and demon 79 was great #though I think bc demon 79 went SO heavy on the political commentary you really needed to be british to appreciate it fully #like everyone who has experienced racism and esp indian diaspora can likely relate to a lot of the racism in the episode but a lot of it #was just so specific to the turn into thatcherite uk #also the demon in the guise of the guy from boney m. oh my god #black mirror spoilers #I guess? #people who just didn’t like the episodes I respect. because that’s just personal taste & yeah bm is uh. not the most subtle of dramas #but the internet critics being like ‘bm is out of touch!’ is just SO funny because yeah they were out of sync with ‘really modern concerns’ #like… two seasons ago? #the fact they only just got to stuff about deepfakes and ai is pretty telling lol

[theguiltinessisyours]

I never was so mad at a Eurovision result. Germany deserved more than last place and Sweden deserved way less than first place

#barely hanging on #what is thisssss #I'm sorry it was a good song it really was but it also wasn't a somg worth winning #also the fact ?? that she already won??? #finland deserved it way more #and can we please talk about how germany #I can understand that it's not a popular genre but how the fuck was it lower than Poland and UK??? #i hate it here #esc #eurovision #eurovision song contest #germany #german stuff

[it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined]

is Farscape the sort of thing that takes a few episodes to find its groove? should i be patient if we're not besties right away?

(i'm prone to snap judgements and don't want to make a mistake here)

Ahhhh so Farscape can be a WILDLY interesting study in complete contradictions. I agree with everything Cat Valente says is brilliant about it in this thread and this very long and detailed essay about why you should watch Farscape and yet also I will sit there fast-forwarding great chunks of season one especially because the quality control from episode to episode is so wildly variable. When I say variable, I mean some episodes feel embarrassingly amateur at times, especially after twenty something years of higher budget, vaguely more evolved TV SF. Occasionally it doesn't know what show it's trying to be, or what show it was the previous episode. It has a terrible weakness for bad puns in episode titles. It can be trite. It can feel weirdly childish, for a show that is frequently about aliens fucking. It's really really very silly on occasion and I have a particularly very low tolerance for second hand embarrassment. Farscape can be frequently embarrassing, but the fact I'm still flailing about it after twenty something years despite that is kind of significant.

Because when it's good, it's so incredibly fucking high quality excellent. It's got all the chemistry, all the high stakes heists and the high melodrama sacrifice, all the dealing with grief and trauma and how do you deal with a legacy of repeated genocide and fascism. Everyone is a space criminal on a stolen sentient prison ship. What the fuck even is the greater good. How do you deal with being a parent. Most of the cast are emoting through inch thick layers of foam latex and the other half are wearing fetish gear (OR THEY'RE PUPPETS. OR CGI ORGANIC SENTIENT SPACESHIPS), but they're really fucking good at said emoting and it's still heartbreaking. It's been twenty years and I will still start crying if I so much as hear the season three version of the theme tune (oh god the theme song evolution).

The silly episodes throughout season one are even weirder because it does pretty much find its feet straightaway with the pilot ep - it's snappy and emotional and charming and clever, and yes the tropes are there but the tropes didn't have quite the same level of tired significance back in 1999? I watched that first ep and was cackling over how fucking fantastic it was. It was such a refreshing change in 1999 that it sailed me through any of the occasionally dodgy stuff that followed.

It's also very very... Aussie, which to me covers a lot of the humour and the sheer demented glee of what the creators wanted to run with? The cast has chemistry, in spades, and the characters flirt and fuck (and... one of them is a hot blue zen plant priestess who orgasms in bright light. Obviously.) and everything is just a little bit.. extra. It has an episode where everyone is a loony tunes cartoon. It has an episode inspired by A Clockwork Orange. It has small stabby robots. It's squelchy and makes fart jokes ALL THE TIME (mostly because one of the main puppets is a former emperor who farts helium and okay yep it's pretty funny. The other puppet is wise and kind and troubled and possibly complicit in war crimes. This fucking show I can't even).

...I'm just going to apologise for this essay, and say probably go read the Cat Valente thing because it includes much more key whether you should in fact watch Farscape information such as:

“They’re all gonna be Australian or Kiwi! Except for one guy! It’s basically gonna be a tour of Sydney’s underground club scene, even for the smallest parts! And I mean that, everyone is going to be wearing leather BDSM gear 24/7, even the heroes. I’M TELLIN’ YA WE GOT MAGDA SZUBANSKI! THIS THING IS GOLD! Literally, the whole color palette is like really gold. With most of a Crayola box taped on top of it. SPACE IS AUSTRALIAN NOW. ALL OF IT. DEAL WITH IT.”

there will be an almost unbelievable amount of goo involved. Like if there is a Goo Department, and anyone is left over after Nickelodeon’s job fair last week, we need all the goo.”

“Because of all the sex and violence that just barely doesn’t cross the decency lines we’re still kind of feeling out right now?”

“That, too. But mostly because we need all the makeup and then after we’re done turning regular humans a TON of nutbar colors, everything else is going to be just…dripping. All the time. Just drenched in slime. Good slime, bad slime, it will constantly be hard to say. But it’s like Coco Chanel always said, before you leave the house, look in the mirror and upend a bucket of colorful sludge over your head.”

#farscape #space is australian now #i am incapable of writing about this show normally #also i just realised it's no longer streaming ANYWHERE in the uk ffs #I HAVE TO DIG OUT MY DVD BOXSETS #god it's like it's 2007 all over again #i feel like i should stress that my super low tolerance for shows being embarrassing is the biggest issue here #coupled with the wild emotional rollercoaster of farscape quality #i didn't even mention john/aeryn because i'm trying to be normal about this #but i an incapable of being normal about it #also we won't talk about the fact it got cancelled with two seasons worth of plots left and then wrapped up in a four hour miniseries... #...but at least we got the damn miniseries and an ending. small mercies.

[welshlesbian]

Craig Murray: Something Has Snapped

"The strange thing is, the BBC and The Guardian, and nearly the entire rest of the MSM, pump out their propaganda as though we have no other access to information or understanding of what is happening.

More than that, there seems to be a presumption that the general population harbour the same Zionist assumptions which the journalists are paid to promote. Well, we don’t.

It feels like something has snapped, not only in Palestine but in the U.K. and much of Europe, where the process of alienation between the governed and the ruling classes has been accelerated.

Democracy has been failing in the West for a while – to take the U.K. as an example, the idea that a “choice” between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer offers any kind of democratic alternative is risible.

There are key moments in societal breakdown, and this is one."

#palestine #uk politics #idk much about consortiumnews my mum just sent mw this article and...yeah #british press are completely untrustworthy #but some people still seem to think everything the bbc says is a fact. like they dont remember how they protected saville #money is all they care about