#fuck Tracy Ann Oberman

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

Nine would have never “Rose Tyler I….” he’d of said i love you and he’d of said it with chest

[truthundressing]

another day another gmb episode and now theres a bitch talking abt how shes had to put up home security bc of the 'anti-semetic' effect of oct 6th 😑😑

me n my mum are coplaying in the living room rn (im transcribing old documents, shes doing a puzzle) w gmb on in the background n i have to listen through this stupid ass section on the swiftie course at harvard 😑

[jewreallythinkthat]

You know what's super cool and not at all fucked up:

Tracy-Ann Oberman is starring as Shylock in a reinvented Merchant of Venice, set during the Battle of Cable Street (when 3000 of the British Union of Fascists marched to the Jewish part of London and were repelled when the Irish, communists, socialists, various anti fascist groups came out and supported the Jews against this).

The irony of a woman starring in a play about defeating antisemitism and fascism being told not to go outside because of a danger of antisemitic attack should not be lost on anyone...

[d2kvirus]

Dickheads of the Month: March 2024

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of March 2024 to make sure that they are never forgotten.  

Of course the only response Itamar Ben-Gvir had to the United Nations calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (after countless votes scuppered by a US veto every single time) was to accuse the UN of antisemitism. Hey, why not say there's some of those "Hamas tunnels" under their HQ while you're at it?

...an accusation which Eylon Levy won't be able to use after being suspended and later sacked as Israel's English language spokesman due to a one-two punch of first having his grandstanding about how Israel was definitely allowing aid into Gaza was fatally undermined by Alicia Kearns asking him to cite a source for his claims multiple times, so then Levy thought that he could get back on the front foot by raging at David Cameron on Twitter that there are no limits on aid trucks getting into Gaza...which promptly saw countless sources up to and including the UN quoted back at him saying that what Levy was saying bore no relation to this thing called "reality"

Unelected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak thought it was wise to hurriedly stage a press conference denouncing the voters of Rochdale for electing George Galloway in their by-election as "extremists" instead of, say, and example of a largely Muslim constituency registering their disgust at a party which has several MPs who are casually Islamophobic and yet Sunak sits on his hands at the ballot box. And of course he also casually folded the pro-Palestinian marchers into his talk of "extremists" in the exact same speech, because that's the sort of coward Sunak is

...so of course Keir Starmer was 100% in support of Sunak denouncing anybody who dares look at anything other than one of the two cheeks of the same arse that is the Tories or Keir Starmer's Labour Party, because apparently it's better to do that then consider that maybe spending four years telling a large section of their voter base to fuck off yet having the gall to call them "Tory enablers" at the slightest criticism is always going to blow up in their faces the moment Starmer proved that his only talent is punching left and not, say, maybe suggesting that Israel killing Palestinian children might be something that needed to be called out months ago

Oh boy, it appears that Jonathan Glazer's Oscar acceptance speech for Zone of Interest was a red rag for antisemites as it brought them out in droves, with Batya Ungar-Sargon accusing Glazer of refuting his Jewishness, while Debbie Schlussel went one further and invoked the "self-hating Jew" trope, meanwhile Justin Saba tried to claim Glazer pretends to be Jewish when he likely only visits a Jewish deli once a month while Hillel Fuld tried to suggest that the Oscars was some Nazi-Hamas joint production, while for some inexplicable reason Tracy-Ann Oberman was snitch-tagging Danny Cohen and JK Rowling's agent in her lamentations that a Jew might disagree with her rabid support of Israel, and finally Abe Greenwald decided to dedicate Glazer's award to the IDF as if Glazer's speech hadn't specifically targeted them. And yes, I think you may have noticed a common theme about these people invoking one antisemitic trope after another about Glazer

...soon followed by Ben Shapiro giving a particularly dogbrained take on the films which only served to demonstrate that he hadn't seen it and merely based his argument on reading the synopsis of the film off Wikipedia, which was somewhat of an issue as Shapiro claimed to have seen it while also demonstrating that a Wikipedia synopsis is somehow too nuanced for Shapiro as that too makes it clear there's Jewish characters in the film, let alone scrolling down a little further where the cast list also makes this clear

Isn't it funny how Frank Hester can make extremely racist comments about Diane Abbott and also say that she needs to be shot that the MPs who were just a few weeks earlier howling about their own safety (after blackmailing Lindsay Hoyle, in order to spike an SNP vote on their opposition day) suddenly couldn't find their voices to suggest someone who donated £10m to the Tories might not just be a tad racist but is also a potential threat to MP's safety?

...and yet the inflatable dartboard that is Lindsay Hoyle appears to have forgotten about his handwringing about MPs being abused at the following PMQs, as he repeatedly passed over Diane Abbott when she tried to pose a question - but did allow a question to be asked by Mark Francois, because why let someone who is the target for racist abuse ask a question when you can always let the bloke who was strangely absent from parliament for several months when an unnamed Essex MP was being investigated for rape?

...but luckily the unifying force that is Keir Starmer had a solution: offering to return the Labour whip to Diane Abbott providing she stands down as a Labour candidate at the next election - which once again serves to remind people that Starmer has a real blind spot for abuse of his female MPs if they are any colour other than white

...and then along comes Kemi Badenoch to dismiss the whole thing as "trivia" which was certainly an interesting take for an Equalities Minister to take, not least because a few days prior she called out Hester's comments for the racism that they are

The month of billionaire manchild Elon Musk got off to a great start when he had to grovel to stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik when she howled that Twitter was infringing on her "rights" be reinstating the policy against deadnaming trans people, promising her that she would not be banned from the platform for violating the Ts&Cs which the platform had just reinstated

...and soon afterwards billionaire manchild Elon Musk was using his platform (a platform he didn't create, merely bought before fucking it up for everyone) to Joe Biden of treason - on Super Tuesday

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk demonstrated just how what an authority on immigration he is falsely accusing Jhoan Boada of assaulting a police officer yet not being deported in a tweet (complete with Photoshopped image) when, in reality, Boada was exonerated on all charges, which the Community Note made abundantly clear before Musk threw the usual hissy fit and demanded it be removed - and really, at this point, maybe the billionaire manchild should shut the fuck up about migrants considering his brother unintentionally let slip how they were in the US illegally for several years

...yet don't forget that billionaire manchild Elon Musk is also capable of more than casual dogwhistling as he's also capable of having utterly dogbrained ideas, such as removing the visual record of the number of likes and comments under posts which definitely has nothing whatsoever to do with his audience crying about constantly and consistently getting ratio'd

...and soon afterwards billionaire manchild Elon Musk showed just how devoted he is to FREEEZE PEACH by cancelling the contract with Don Lemon to post his show on Twitter days before the first episode was set to debut, in which Lemon interviewer...erm, that would be billionaire manchild Elon Musk, who clearly realised a day or two after the interview that it was incredibly likely that he came across as a sociopathic weeb

...mainly because billionaire manchild Elon Musk came across as sociopathic weeb who when faced with the mildest pushback to things which he has said got super-defensive, could barely string a sentence together due to being rattled, and was trying to make excuses to get the hell out of there - and to show he wasn't mad, he spent days kvetching about Don Lemon to his echo chamber of TERFs, Neo Nazis and incels who told him he did great

...all the while billionaire manchild Elon Musk demonstrated what a crock his talk of FREEZE PEACH always was by filing a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate for having the nerve to catalogue the racism which is rife on Twitter ever since Musk's purchase, a lawsuit which was dismissed and described as "vapid" by the judge who dismissed Musk's suit and was torn apart in the courtroom by the simple question of why Musk didn't try and file a defamation suit against the CCDH - though Musk tweeted shitty comments about the CCDH that made him look like a spiteful cunt, which really helped his case...

...and even more bullshit, as billionaire manchild Elon Musk decided to flex his engineering knowledge and state that the trusses from the Francis Scott Key Bridge could be easily repaired and used to build a replacement bridge in 3-6 months, as if steel trusses which had been exposed to 40+ years of weather erosion, traumatic damage and spent time at the bottom of Baltimore harbour is definitely going to be perfectly safe when, 3-6 months from now, it's reinstalled with a new coat of paint on it. That sound you hear is a lot of people checking the Ts&Cs of their Clustertruck to see if they're due a full refund in case they find if the steel came from the wrecks of burned-out Ford Pintos

This month on Planet Zionism we started with David Collier showing just what an expert on the subject of racism he is by boldly stating that, if the disciples were alive in 2024, they would all be members of the IDF looking to free Jesus

...and soon afterwards fellow racism expert David Baddiel proudly declared that he invented the term "hierarchy of racism", which does beg the question how much research he did on his books where he says what an expert on racism he is

Mask off time for militant TERF JK Rowling as she decided to go off on a rant which she capped off by misgendering India Willoughby at the urging of one of the Gender Critical drones who wanted mummy's approval, and just kept on going after that. But remember, JK Row'ing has never said or done anything overtly transphobic...

...and because it was mask off time for JK Rowling within a week she decided that Holocaust denial would definitely make for a good career move, because we should ignore all the evidence of the Nazis exterminating the trans community and listen to the hack writer who ripped off The Worst Witch until she needed to rip off Luke Skywalker's character arc to last beyond two books

So nice of Michelle Donelan to decide the £15,000 she owed to Professor Kate Sang of supporting Hamas after falsely accusing her of being a Hamas supporter would not be coming out of her pocket but would be covered by the taxpayer, as paying out of her own pocket would be admitting guilt for libelling Sang

Fascist cartoonist Hans Christian Grabener really didn't like it when they were revealed as the person behind StoneToss and, previously, also being behind RedPanels - so they did what any whiny little bitch would do and whined to daddy, that "daddy" in question being billionaire manchild Elon Musk who thought deleting the thread exposing Stone Toss would be enough to stop people from saying that Hans Christian Graebener is the fascist oik behind StoneToss

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk showed his dedication to FREEZE PEACH once again by deleting the Twitter account of Alejandra Carabello because their username stated that Hans Christian Graebener was the fascist oik behind StoneToss, because apparently it's okay to post people's names, addresses and places of work when LibsofTikTok does it, but posting information which is freely available online is bad now

For the love of every religious deity can Rachel Reeves please find a different euphemism for being chancellor than balancing the household budget, because unless her parent's garden shed printed money there's no way of comparing that to being chancellor...but then again, she can't really use credit card euphemisms what with her government credit card being suspended in 2015

...similarly, it would be nice if Liz Kendall stopped accusing everybody between the ages of 20-30 who are on benefits of being workshy, given it is demonstrable that a large section of benefits claimants in that group are working - it's just their salaries don't cover things such as rent, food, heating bills, and everything else Keir Starmer's Labour Party don't think are issues

...although considering that when Rachel Reeves takes a break from economically illiterate drivel she's using Thatcherite economic policies while sending out Darren Jones to talk up Thatcher's "decade of national renewal", which is something that comes as news to anyone who worked in industry at the time especially coalminers, maybe obviously made up stories about helping with the household budget when she was six is slightly less horrifying

Brilliant PR by the Royal Family when they fought back against people wondering where the hell Kate Middleton has been since she was last seen in public at the end of December by posting an obviously Photoshopped picture for Mother's Day as proof of life - which only further caused suspicion while also showing people that, actually, the Royals have plenty of control of the media - as demonstrated by the tone of all the reports being "Shut up and don't ask questions" while painting those who do have questions as conspiracy theorists

...and oh boy did Kensington Palace looks like absolute wankers when Kate Middleton announced she was being treated for cancer, meaning they knowingly threw her under the bus and blamed her for the whole fake photo incident in spite knowing she was undergoing a course of chemotherapy

...yet this didn't stop the BBC using the term "conspiracy theorists" to describe people suggesting the Royal Family had been keeping things from people even in the days after Kate Middleton made it abundantly clear the Royal Family had been keeping things from us hence the very real concern for her wellbeing just like the BBC had been doing for a good week or so prior, which is the sort of disinformation that BBC Verify is supposed to call out

Congratulations are in order for Adin Ross after he blabbed on a Kick stream about how Andrew Tate was looking to do a moonlight flit out of Romania - so the Romanian authorities swooped in to arrest Tate after receiving reliable information about him trying to sneak out of the country

For some reason Julia Reel thought she could pull a Jussie Smollett by posting a video claiming she was manhandled at a bar before being tossed down the stairs - only for the bar to post the CCTV footage that showed just how much she was lying, as instead it showed her walking down the stairs with the security guard stood a good two feet behind her pointing her in the direction in which she could fuck off

The good news is that Laurence Fox has decided to stop taking people to court, which might be related to him going 0-2 in spurious libel cases in the space of a few weeks. The bad news is that Laurence Fox has pivoted to yelling online about how he won't "poison" his son by giving them their ADHD medication, which is likely going to see him in court yet again pretty damn quick

...yet because Laurence Fox cannot go a week without humiliating himself while being a cringy dickhead, he organised a march against Nike for that whole bullshit about the collar of the England kit where about forty people turned up - and would have seen that Fox was wearing a pair of fucking Nikes

...and then Laurence Fox pivoted back to screeching about his not-so-immediate family when he described ex-wife Billie Piper as a "junkie" in a rapidly-deleted tweet

...yet it wasn't long before Laurence Fox pivoted right back to being a cringy dickhead who may well have a humiliation fetish when he started bitching and moaning about not being allowed on the ballot for the London Mayoral election - at which point it was pointed out that he had not filled out the forms correctly, but on the plus side he wouldn't be losing his deposit as he forgot to pay that too

Just when you thought that Question Time couldn't be any more blatant with its far right platforming, first they host an episode about extremism with Melanie Phillips on the panel without considering that having somebody cited in Anders Brevik's manifesto might be a bad call, then the next week Rod Liddle was on the panel

After reading a whole two Wikipedia articles Destiny though that he could take his debating skills learned from years of screaming at Starcraft players into a debate with Norman Finkelstein about how Israel definitely isn't committing genocide in Gaza as an endpoint to decades of oppression - and it went so well that not only did Finkelstein clown him, but the guy supposedly backing up Destiny was laughing at how badly he was getting clowned

Noted drug cheat Lance Armstrong criticised modern cycling for not competing like they did in his day, apparently forgetting that competing like he did back in the day led to a lifetime ban from cycling and the list of Tour de France winners having a rather conspicuous seven year gap between 1999-2005, something which is much worse than teammates high-fiving each other after a race they had lost

AI scammer Billy Coull had the brilliant idea of whinging to the press about how his life was ruined by the public backlash to the Willy's Chocolate Experience scam. That would be the scam which he was responsible for. And accepted money for. And tried to stage for the least amount of money possible

Attempted wrestler Bill Goldberg probably shouldn't whinge (and definitely shouldn't sound like a bigoted moron) about Asuka having a longer undefeated streak in wrestling than he does, what with Asuka actually winning all of those matches instead of having half a dozen added to the list between episodes of Nitro and Thunder - oh, and Bill? It definitely doesn't help if you congratulated Asuka, while pronouncing he name correctly, about beating your streak when you were under WWE contract

Bonehead messiah Tommy Robinson had a real clever day where he attended the Crystal Palace vs Luton Town match, announcing he would be doing so on a podcast - and was promptly arrested due to a combination of him being under a banning order from all English football grounds as well as the minor inconvenience of having a ban order from literally the entirety of London, so violating two banning orders at once means he was effectively arrested for taking the piss

[gayness-and-mayhem]

Oh also, can't believe Will slept with a fucking nun (albeit not the most nunly of nuns, but still).

[dragons-bones]

Admiral Merlwyb, for the character ask meme!

(ARM 50 quest still the best crafting quest ever *wheeeeeeeeze*)

First Impression:

“I’m incredibly gay right now holy shit she’s fucking HOT. Oh. Oh she is ruthless as fuck, too. THAT’S EVEN HOTTER!”

Impression Now:

Hot as hell, ruthless as fuck, so tired of bullshit. Limsa Lominsa hasn’t received as much attention from the story as, say, Ul’dah, but Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn is very obviously an autocrat and the story calls her out as such, but also acknowledges she’s not fully in the wrong, and that really there’s no neat, tidy answer. Merlwyb’s goal is to ensure the long term survival of Limsa Lominsa and her citizens, and if that means fucking over the kobolds (super cold, and I love the kobolds a lot) and dragging the pirate crews kicking and screaming into something vaguely civilized, so be it. Do I agree with everything she’s done? No. (Like, absolutely one hundred percent do not agree with her view that only the strongest will prevail.) Do I respect the hell out of her? Fuck yeah.

Favorite Moment:

Her Big Damn Heroes moment in Patch 2.2. The Warrior of Light and Y’shtola are being surrounded by more and more sahagin, and then multiple shots rings out and the Sahagin drop dead. “You’ll forgive me my lateness.” And then the way she just…keeps shooting the sahagin priest until he stays fucking dead.

HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG, BELOVED DICTATOR OF MY HEART.

Idea for a Story:

Merlwyb enjoys a quiet, uneventful day off. No sahagin incursions, no kobold sabotage, no pirates banging down her door, no paperwork to sign, and no explosions originating at the Arcanists’ Guild. A nice walk through the Upper and Lower Decks, lunch at the Bismarck, a good book to entertain herself in the afternoon, and a bottle of Bacchus with dinner. Tomorrow she’ll have to knock heads together, but today she gets to relax.

(I am apparently fond of workaholic characters getting the chance to chill.)

Unpopular Opinion:

Hmm. I dunno if there are unpopular opinions about her? I suppose perhaps the fact I am so fond of her because she’s so ruthless? *shrug* Also I have no idea if this is unpopular or not, but PLEASE bring back Jean Gilpin as her voice! ;_; Tracy Ann Oberman of the London cast isn’t bad, but Gilpin put this rough gravel in Merlwyb’s voice that was just A fucking plus and I miss iiiiiiiiitttttttt.

Favorite Relationship:

Hmmmmmm. You know, I don’t think we really see enough of her in canon to say what kind of relationships she has at all beyond just her subordinates. So I’m going to lump this answer in with…

Favorite Headcanon:

She has a mentor-like relationship with Kan-E-Senna and Nanamo. Obviously they all have very different styles of leadership on top of having very different forms of government, and they by no means agree on every topic (in fact the only thing they can all one hundred percent agree on are, “Strengthen the Eorzean Alliance, keep Garlemald the hell out”), but Merlwyb’s take no shit attitude and ability to bulldoze right to the heart of the problem are both refreshing and helpful. Nanamo may or may not think of her fondly as a Cool Aunt figure.

[martinfreemangossip]

์Now that Martin and JJ have split, I get suspicious about any woman that happens to be near MF in photos lol. Do you think he has a new girlfriend now?

I definitely don’t but it’s annoyingly (sorry!) a very COMMON practice since MF and AA split. Every single woman he’s seen with they are instantly his: girlfriend or worse… WIFE.

How many times some people from a certain country have INSISTED that the was married to IO!!! And later when - idiot - MF left Labour of Love to SD and even to the fucking press night with his prop ring people kept saying he was married to IO - JJ was in the picture but people didn’t know her - and even… I’m even embarrassed to say this but they would say he was married to TAMSIN!! FFS! He was also obviously dating Yolanda Ramke too and the stunt lady he took the video with while singing. He surely must have dated Tracy-Ann Oberman because he was seen with her on some events. Let’s not forget that while he was dating JJ he took some other lady to that IAN MC thing. 

So yeah, if he’s seen with a woman on some photo then he MUST be dating her and going to be married and OBVIOUSLY kids. It’s so stupid and sexist. I wonder how old people who believe this shit is. I want to think they must be quite young.He has also been seen with some close men friends. Is he dating them too? Or that’s off limits? LOL. It’s just so dumb.

[news-mashable-yahoopartner-blog]

How the 'x' became a sign of female solidarity in the age of harassment

One letter of the alphabet has more currency than all the others combined. That letter is "x". 

Unlike in mathematics, the value of "x" is known in the era of internet messaging. That "x" is most often used to convey a kiss when affixed to the end of a text, DM, or email. 

And in an era when women are met with hostility and vitriol on the internet, this tiny, inconsequential letter can be used to communicate solidarity and support during particularly dark times.

There was a time when I thought the addition of an "x" from strangers and professional acquaintances slightly disingenuous. Those days are gone, though. After a bout of deeply vicious online harassment, I realised kindness on the internet was something that's in all too short a supply. This profoundly isolating experience made me completely change my mind about how I felt about receiving "digital kisses" from strangers online. 

SEE ALSO: Twitter cliques might feel like high school, but their existence is tied to our human nature

Last September, I endured a two-day stint of particularly aggressive harassment on Twitter after I wrote an article arguing that women and LGBTQ people shouldn't be the punchlines of political jokes. Seems like a pretty reasonable point to make, right? Well, apparently not. I ended up on the receiving end of insults from a group of free-speech defenders who decided I needed to be put in my place. As well as hurling a lot of nasty abuse at me, these trolls went through my recent tweets and personal essays I'd written about my love life. They mocked the fact that a recent Hinge match had stood me up for date, and they told me I should change careers and find something I'm actually good at. According to one troll, it's "unsurprising" that I got stood up because my dates must look me up and "realise what a childish nightmare" I'd be to date. Um, OK?

For two days straight, I lived in a state of heart-racing anxiety, constantly checking my phone to try to stem the torrent of abuse. Incidentally, this bout of trolling kicked off on my best friend's 30th birthday, which basically meant I ended up sitting in the corner of a sticky dance floor in a Clapham nightclub at midnight, trawling through my mentions to make sure everything was under control. Even though I was in a crowded room full of people, I have never felt more alone in my whole life. When friends realised what was going on, they swooped into my DMs to express their support and solidarity. They sent heart emoji and "digital kisses". It doesn't sound like much, but when you've been up against a barrage of vitriol, it was profoundly touching.

Since that incident, I've paid closer attention to women's tweets about harassment and abuse. In the mentions, you'll always find the same thing: scores of other women responding with messages of love and support — usually signed off with a kiss or a heart emoji. 

Dr Mariann Hardey — professor in marketing at Durham University Business School, whose research focuses on how women share their stories of chronic pain on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit — says the "x" has become "a way of showing advocacy and support from an anonymous internet stranger" — particularly among women. 

"The advocacy of the kiss is a really interesting new cultural form," Hardey tells me. "It's that extension of kindness in reaching out and the expectation of nothing in return." She's noticed that the bicep emoji is also a popular "show of strength" when people are sharing stories that are personal, sensitive, and traumatic. 

Hardey says that an "x" can also be used in isolation without any further words to communicate support. "Just an "x" as a reply as a response is acceptable, you don't have to have an extra narrative explaining what you meant," she adds. "In those contexts I've never read it as something that's overtly sexual or flirtatious — it's definitely like a digital hug in solidarity."

Last week was one marked by extreme misogynistic vitriol aimed at UK Labour MP Jess Phillips. UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin "joked" in a YouTube video that he might rape Phillips. "There's been an awful lot of talk about whether I would or wouldn't rape Jess Phillips," Benjamin said on his YouTube channel Sargon of Akkad on April 26. "I've been in a lot of trouble for my hardline stance of not even raping her. I suppose with enough pressure I might cave. But let's be honest, nobody's got that much beer." 

Guess what I am finding hard is the awakening to an even bigger audience of the "would we or wouldn't we rape Jess Phillips" because of legitimising of the perpetrator. I've dealt with it in drips for nearly 4 years and just deleted or blocked. It's like a torrent at the moment

— Jess Phillips (@jessphillips) May 5, 2019

The abuse didn't end there. Phillips also tweeted a screenshot of Twitter's response to her reporting someone who said she needed "a good fucking to sort out" her teeth, which Twitter said was not in violation of its rules against abuse. To add insult to injury, Phillips was accosted in the street by a man as she left parliament, who asked why Benjamin isn't allowed to joke about raping her before yelling, "I pay your wages."

Just leaving Westminster and and man ran down the street along side me asking me about why Carl Benjamin shouldn't be able to joke about my rape. Shouting "I pay your wages".

— Jess Phillips (@jessphillips) May 7, 2019

Phillips told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that she "cried in the street" after hearing Benjamin's video. Misogynist invective is something Phillips has been dealing with since becoming an MP in 2015. In 2018, she spoke out about receiving 600 rape threats in one night and said she'd "stopped counting" the number of abusive messages she's received.

One thing that was really heartening to see in the midst of this barrage of misogyny was the messages of solidarity in response to Phillips' tweets. I could see scores of women responding to her tweets with kind, supportive words, often signed off with one "x" or more. 

I'm so sorry you have to deal with this rancid shit, Jess. For what's its worth. you are ace. x

— Sarah Phelps (@PhelpsieSarah) May 3, 2019

I am so sorry you have to deal with this filth, and that those who make these threats go unregulated and unpunished. Sending love and solidarity xx

— Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) May 5, 2019

💪 we’ve got your back xx

— Caroline Criado Perez (@CCriadoPerez) May 5, 2019

Women are harassed on Twitter every 30 seconds, per a major 2018 study by Amnesty International. One of the main problems standing in the way of fully tackling this problem is social media companies' — particularly Twitter's — inaction in the face of widespread misogynistic abuse. In the report, Amnesty International’s senior advisor for tactical research, Milena Marin, said: "Twitter’s failure to crack down on this problem means it is contributing to the silencing of already marginalised voices." 

"Twitter is a place where racism, misogyny and homophobia are allowed to flourish basically unchecked," Marin continued. 

It might not seem like much, but showing your support to someone who's having a really rough time can go a long way. 

It’s an absolute disgrace that you’re having to deal with this Jess. Sending love xx

— Rosalind Sack (@Ros_Sack) May 5, 2019

These people are absolute garbage. And those who say “just ignore them” drive me almost as nuts. I’m sorry this is happening AGAIN. We are all behind you. Xx

— Sali Hughes (@salihughes) May 5, 2019

This is absolutely grotesque. Jess I’m so sorry you are feeling tired and low. The sisterhood stands with you. Courage X

— Sophie Walker (@SophieRunning) May 3, 2019

While social media companies are often slow to respond to rife online abuse and hostility, the very least we bystanders can do in times like these is express our solidarity and support — whether that means DMing a person to say that you're sorry to see what's happening and that they don't deserve it, or simply tweeting a heart emoji at someone. 

Solidarity Jess. It’s disgusting x

— Tracy Ann Oberman (@TracyAnnO) May 5, 2019

We live in an age where often it feels the default response online is to drag, cancel, and publicly shame. But, what's the opposite of that? Silence?

It's all too easy to stay quiet when our friends, acquaintances, and colleagues are being vilified. It's the speaking up and letting them know they're supported and loved that takes effort and courage. 

Besides, you never know, your message might arrive when the person needs it the most. 

Be kind out there. xx

WATCH: 82 women walked this year's Cannes red carpet in protest, calling for gender equality in the film industry

[jewreallythinkthat]

Hey you live in the UK too right? As someone in the UK who also wears her magen david out, you have my sympathies >_<

Have you experienced any antisemitism yet? G-d knows I have

Heya! Lovely to meet a fellow UK Jew :)

Because it's been relatively cold, while I wear my Magen David, it's not normally on display but I am very aware of the times it is, as well as someone of my tighter clothes that you can see it through. All the people at my work are also incredibly open minded and I know how lucky I am for this - to put it in perspective, one of my closest friends is Chinese and she was harassed by work colleagues at the start of COVID with some really horrific stuff so I know how bad it can get when an office turns against someone.

In terms of general antisemitism, I've been told to kill myself, been called condescending for talking to non Jews about the way they talk about us, selfish for talking about Jewish suffering, and also had antisemitism on my food blog after I was on television nd talked about my Jewish heritage and food I grew up with. This included being told that "Israel" steals culture from other people and foods (like shakshuka), have had comments with swearing, and have have lost 2% of my followers since I started talking about antisemitism.

I think because I'm a little over average height and quite broad, I don't make a super easy target for people which protects me a bit but frankly, it's gonna do jack shit against a group or a weapon so I am still hyper vigilant whenever I'm outside. It's not really a nice way to live.

I will, however, be getting the Magen David out and fully on display when I see Tracy Anne Oberman in Merchant of Venice because fuck the antisemites. This is a play being changed and made about the Jewish experience and I cannot fucking wait

[d2kvirus]

Dickheads of the Month: November 2023

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of November 2023 to make sure that they are never forgotten.  

Once again the Israeli Defence Forces decided to insult the intelligence of everybody else with their suggestion that it's okay for them to bomb ambulances as those were Hamas ambulances as opposed to regular, non-Hamas ambulances

...and it was the turn of Gilad Erdan to demonstrate, while once again wearing a gold star in the UN chamber, just how much of an open season on the intelligence of people listening to lie after lie by claiming that every single UN peacekeeper killed by the IDF were actually secret Hamas members, which somehow didn't have him dragged out of the chamber and told that he should fuck off and stay fucked off until he comes back to withdraw his remarks

...and when it fell to Isaac Herzog to insult the intelligence of the world, he pulled out a pristine copy of Mein Kampf and claimed it was found in the bombed-out remains of a children's living room with various Post-It notes to annotate it as if that somehow justifies bombing all Palestinian children - yet Laura Kuenssberg failed to challenge this patently absurd claim at any point in spite the claim being made on her show

...yet for some reason Grant Schapps decided he wanted in on the action, trying to justify Israel bombing civilians left, right and centre on Laura Kuenssberg's show by bringing up the Allied bombing of Dresden in World War II - which just so happened to be the exact same line which genocide denier Tzipi Hotovely used a couple of weeks previously trying to shut down Kay Burley on her show

...and then it was back to smears, with Eylon Levy dismissing the hundreds of thousands on the streets of London marching for peace by calling them "rape apologists", while David Collier accused it of being the largest antisemitic march in the history of the west, because that's going to turn the tide of the PR War that Israel have been losing one hospital bombing at a time

...then we had Aviva Klompas getting on on the "evidence" train, claiming to have found "evidence" that Hamas had tunnels under one of the various hospitals the Israelis had bombed, only for that "evidence" to not be a rota of guards and prisoners and merely just a calendar which was written in Arabic

...meanwhile along came Mark Regev to claim that Israel are not firing at hospitals but are firing at Hamas, which suggests that Israel has shitty aim since they keep hitting hospitals and not Hamas

...as opposed to Nir Barkat telling Palestinians that they should be thankful that Israel haven't dropped nukes on them - those would be the nukes Israel spent decades denying having, imprisoning Mordechai Vanunu for sixteen years for revealing the fact - while also throwing in the nugget accusing Hamas of committing atrocities worse than the Nazis ever had because why the fuck not at this point

...though it appears that Fox News were getting antsy about Israel's habitual lying without being asked to help out, which is why they were brought in to film the Israeli forces capturing a Hamas operative live on their channel - before unintentionally filming the Israeli forces chatting with the actor who they had playing a Hamas operative before being ordered to turn their cameras off

...though when it came time for Campaign Against Antisemitism to stage their own march, the main takeaway from the march was the one where Tommy Robinson was taken away by police - though some of the other attendees, such as proven liar Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and Julia Hartley Brewer, as well as other noted figures of tolerance and valid arguments such as Eddie Marsan, Rachel Riley, Tracy Ann Oberman and Maureen Lipman

Fascist pitbull Suella Braverman must have realised there was a section of society she hadn't kicked in the ribs for a few weeks because there is no other logical explanation for her deciding to describe homelessness as a "lifestyle choice" while demanding that charities stop supplying tents to the homeless

...and because Suella Braverman was on her uppers she then started ranting about a pro-Palestine march at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, which saw the Metropolitan Police issuing a statement which would not look out of place if uttered by Judge Dredd while Turning Point UK outright threatened the police by saying they had 24 hours to ban the march or they would be marching themselves and would not be taking prisoners, and then the Daily Mail waded in with a front page howling about how awful it would be if there was a riot at the Cenotaph. There was just one problem with this whole situation: no pro-Palestine march was scheduled for Remembrance Sunday and certainly not at the Cenotaph, it was scheduled for the Saturday like every other march which Braverman previously called "hate marches" - a term which, funnily enough, she did not use for TPUK's threatened walking riot

...and after all that Suella Braverman took the unusual (read: utterly fucking barmy) step of writing a column in The Times attacking the Metropolitan Police for not banning a protest which she had apparently made up judging by the numerous factual errors in her description of it, and then going further by accusing the police of bias for banning English Defence League marches (where there tend to be a lot of cases of assault from the people on them) and then foregoing her dogwhistle for a foghorn by claiming the police went easy on the Black Lives Matter protests compared to the anti-lockdown protests, at which point the question really needs asking about who the puppeteer with their hand up her backside is

...which led to a bout of hysterics from the Daily Mail as their front page screamed at the suggestion that Braverman could be sacked that "If you come for Suella you come for all of us", which only further begged the question who the us of that sentence is

...and so it came to bonehead messiah Tommy Robinson to commemorate Remembrance Day by leading his band of brainless dolts down Whitehall - a place, lest I remind you, is where there wasn't a pro-Palestine protest - where it all kicked off. However, it is highly sinister that both the BBC and Daily Mail framed their breaking story of the English Defence League et al kicking off as being the fault of the pro-Palestine march which, for the umpteenth time, was well over a mile away

...all of which led to Suella Braverman getting unceremoniously sacked the Monday morning after Remembrance Sunday, though for some reason the Daily Mail have not been particularly quick in standing up to fight for her

...yet somehow Rishi Sunak seemed to forget he sacked Braverman, as when her Rwanda policy was unanimously deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court his response was to bleat about "foreign courts" when the Supreme Court is literally across the road from the Houses of Parliament or, if you prefer, less than ten minutes walk from Downing Street

It's quite hilarious seeing billionaire manchild Elon Musk talking about how AI is the greatest threat to humanity as if AI doesn't make up the majority of his Twitter followers at this point, but then he went and showed what the actual threat to humanity by showing up on Joe Rogan's podcast a few hours later to spout all manner of medically illiterate bilge about how ventilators were the true cause of death during the worst of the Covid pandemic

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk treated us to another one of his genius ideas, one which would definitely get Twitter's revenues back up: reinstating the accounts of Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins, because the Freeze Peach absolutist didn't reinstate them the second he got his feet under the desk and hopes nobody would notice there were lines he wouldn't cross until he went full fash

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk decided that he would congratulate stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik when Raichik posted a photo of her posting with the USA Today front page stating that whenever she tweets something bomb threats inevitably follow, because apparently it's normal to congratulate somebody revelling in their being identified as a terror threat

...but because billionaire manchild Elon Musk is just that pathetic, it emerged that billionaire manchild Elon Musk programmed his own AI program - remember, this is the same person saying that AI is a threat to mankind - to say that he is the greatest memelord, which any psychiatrist would suggest is making their job too obvious

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk banned the Twitter account that was an AI bot making Junlper posts, no doubt steamed both by the fact an AI bot of someone he banned from his Freeze Peach platform where comedy is legal for making a joke about him, and because that AI was far less cringe than creating one to say the one thing nobody has ever said about Elon Musk: he is funny

...but because billionaire manchild Elon Musk cannot help by demonstrate why he needs to pay an AI to agree with him, he then responded to an antisemitic tweet directly by saying "You have said the actual truth" while also accusing the Anti Defamation League of "pushing anti-white racism" because apparently the best way to combat the ADL accounting for the casual racism and antisemitism on Twitter ever since the billionaire manchild bought the platform is to prove their point by endorsing and indulging in antisemitism

...remember how billionaire manchild Elon Musk also has a car company? Well he then demonstrated how committed to Freeze Peach he is by sneaking a clause into the contract of every Cybertruck sale saying that if anyone tries to sell theirs within a year of buying it they will get sued for it

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk tweeted a thinly-veiled threat about graves of his enemies, and by "thinly-veiled threat" I mean "twelve year-old talking like Sephiroth thinking that it makes them sound cool and edgy"

...but wait, billionaire manchild Elon Musk had even more material to sustain his perpetual case of Main Character Syndrome, and that material was...a meme about Pizzagate, as if that hadn't been debunked as hard as the legitimacy of his follower account years ago

...yet there was still time for billionaire manchild Elon Musk to show the world how fucking cool and edgy he is by literally saying "Go fuck yourself" to a social media platform overrun by racism and homophobia while the owner of the platform signal boosts all manner of antisemitic and Islamophobic conspiracy theories

Of all the lines that Lahav Harkov could have chosen to try and justify everything Netanhayu and the IDF are doing in Palestine, her claiming that they are aiming to "denazify" Palestine is easily the worst line to take what with that being the exact same line Putin and his stooges used and continue to use in order to justify attacking Ukraine last year, because that makes it a little too obvious

Remember last month when Rachel Riley swiftly deleted a tweet where she inadvertently compared Jews Against Genocide to Nazis? Well she decided to double down on it after all, accusing them of trying to "kosherise" pro-Palestinian sentiment which definitely does not sound like she is invoking the highly antisemitic trop of "the wrong kind of Jew"

So now we have proven liar Boris Johnson jetting off to Israel to state that the British public stands in solidarity with the bombers of hospitals, ambulances and refugee camps, in spite being in no position to say this due to not being a minister of even an MP as well as the hard to ignore fact that he has previous for jetting off to war zones when trying to avoid enquiries, as he had frequent flyer miles to Ukraine when the Partygate enquiry had him over a barrel - which mainly begs the question who was paying for him to be over there at a time the Covid enquiry is making it plain to see that he was happy to let the bodies pile high

Suffice to say Andrea Jenkyns did not respond to her sacking well, given she immediately sent a No Confidence letter to the 1922 Committee which was riddled with spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors that only served to justify booting her out of the Education Department

...and yet Rishi Sunak can somehow fuck up a reshuffle after kicking out truly toxic indivduals such as Braverman, Jenkyns and Therese Coffey, as he announced Esther McVey as Minister for Common Sense - the same Esther McVey who has hosted a show on GB News for the past three years in spite still being an MP, because nothing says "common sense" like GB News!

The Covid enquiry made it known that Matt Hancock wanted to use the worst of the pandemic to play God, as he wanted to say who would live and who would die - which somehow hasn't come up whenever he appears on yet another celebrity gameshow in the belief he can Ed Balls his image

...the same enquiry also heard that proven liar Boris Johnson was at one point willing to go on national television and be injected with Covid to prove that it was perfectly safe to do so, which in retrospect was a missed opportunity given it also emerged that he did, in spite of numerous lackeys' insistence, say he'd rather the bodies piled high than call another lockdown

Chainsaw-wielding berk Javier Miliei has already started wittering about the Falkland Islands and chatting about military action to reclaim them all while cutting government funding to infrastructure spending, which is sure won't lead to anything unfortunate happening to him sooner rather than later...

Nominative determinism debunker James Cleverley got off to a good start as Home Secretary when he described Stockton North as a shithole, and when trying to deny he called it a shithole first claimed somebody else called Stockton North a shithole before further digging a shithole for himself by trying to say he actually said something about a "ship poll"

Just when you think that Rishi Sunak cannot be any more of a national embarrassment he refuses to meet with Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis due to Mitsotakis saying he wanted the Elgin Marbles returned to Greece, which is really helpful for his tackling of "small boats" by immediately pissing off a key ally in the Mediterranean and further pissing them off by trying to suggest he put a gag order on mentioning the Elgin Marbles when the story was about how Sunak made himself look like a small, petty man

The suddenly ubiquitous Richard Tice decided by to dust off that old George Carlin routine about how the planet actually needs lots of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in order to feed plants, somehow unaware that Carlin's routine was this thing called "satire" and not a symposium on climate science, but no doubt the climate change deniers that donated literally every penny to The Nigel Farage's Ego Party will be happy with Tice being performatively stupid in order to appeal to people whose stupidity is not performative

You have to hand it to Spyglass Media for screwing the pooch so spectacularly when they fired Melissa Barrera from Scream 7 for sharing a Jewish Currents article written by Jewish Raz Sagal which suggests that Israel is committing acts of genocide by accusing her of sharing antisemitic hate speech (for sharing an article from a Jewish publication written by a Jew, for those at home keeping score) - and within 24 hours of Barrera's sacking Jenna Ortega left the project (as nobody believes the official line she suddenly had commitments to Wednesday which were never previously mentioned) meaning half of the core cast was gone because of Spyglass' complete overreaction

In the mind of Susan Hall somebody handing her back her wallet after she dropped it on the Tube, with all the money and other contents still inside when it was handed back to her, is "evidence" of what a lawless hellhole that London has become under Sadiq Khan - and this is why you should vote for her in the London mayoral election, because she assumes that a good deed is obviously proof that somebody stole her property and she should go on LBC and say so at the earliest opportunity. She's the one that Sadiq Khan fears, didn't you know...?

Militant TERF JK Rowling once again did something that wasn't obvious transphobic by calling the trans community "rapist rights activists" which at least can be said is in line with the usual standard of her writing

Once again Warner Bros decide that releasing films which they have spent an enormous amount of money producing is not something a Hollywood studio should be doing, this time junking Coyote vs ACME for a $30m tax writeoff - and then issuing copyright takedowns for any behind the scenes material which was already online, because apparently you can unperson an entire film now

To celebrate N7 Day BioWare took the interesting approach of taking the devs who sued for severance which they have not been paid to court rather than negotiating a settlement, which really holds up well on the day to remember the importance of loyalty to your crew

Purveyors of Freeze Peach GB News demonstrated just how committed they are to the concept of Freeze Peach by throwing Michael Crick off of a panel discussion because he was exercising his right of Freeze Peach during a GB news quote-unquote discussion to criticise the channel

Failed nepo baby Laurence Fox claimed, in court, that if he wasn't accused of racism for repeatedly posting racist things online he could have played Batman, before bleating about his good name being sullied as if he hadn't done that by failing to have an acting career in spite coming from an acting dynasty

I get the feeling that Nadine Dorries would not fare well under cross examination, given it took all of ten seconds in an LBC interview to blurt out the Dr No her utterly dreadful book keeps talking about was Dougie Smith - and as a result now she is running the risk of being sued by Dougie Smith for, among other things, saying he murdered the pet rabbit of an ex-girlfriend's kid brother and nailing its remains to their front door

And the most pathetic excuse goes to Ivanka Trump for trying to get out of testifying against daddy dearest by saying that she should be excused as the date she was slated to testify was during a school week and that would cause disruption. This would be Ivanka Trump who has six nannies and four babysitters on payroll, whose mother in law lives two blocks away, and who regularly has her sister in law babysit her kids when she's galivanting around the globe

...equally pathetic was Eric Trump tweeting an obviously Photoshopped photo of him with Daddy Dearest trying to suggest he and the kids had an inseparable bond...which would mean he wouldn't have to knock up an image on Photoshop to suggest that he was there at one point during any Christmas of their childhoods

Of course Martin Daubney and Ben Leo were both crowing about the record ratings for the first episode of I'm A Celebrity with waffling gargoyle Nigel Farage as an occasional contestant (though he isn't integrating with all Bushtucker Trials after going to another country...), but there was a slight problem: the figures they were quoting was for the 2022 edition of I'm A Celebrity, which were 2.2m higher than this year's, which had the lowest audience for a debut episode since 2002

For some reason Bethesda came to the conclusion that the best way to approach Steam reviews for Starfield suggesting the game is a bit dull is for the Steam account Bethesda use for customer support to start lecturing people for not enjoying their boring game

Noted NFT scammers Bored Ape Yacht Club manged to stage a party which blinded several of those who attended, which is the best way to treat the handful of people who haven't cottoned onto NFTs being a scam created by crypto bros to prop up the scam that is the cryptocurrency market which has been plummeting in value due to scams not being a solid foundation for any kind of market

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Dickheads of the Month: June 2019

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of June 2019 to make sure that they are never forgotten.

You’d think the Orange Overlord’s visit would’ve been the biggest farce in British politics that week, but then The Independent Hashtag Change Hashtag Now Group Ltd saw six of their eleven MPs jump ship - including lead egotist Chuka Umunna as well as company secretary Gavin Shuker

Of course it was a matter of hours before Chuka Umunna started another new political movement promising the usual yadda-yaddas about how politics was broken and he’s the one person on earth who can fix it...sort of like he did a few months earlier with his previous project that he flounced out of at the first sign of failure - and a few days later he fucked off to join the Lib Dems, meaning the constituency of Streatham has been under control of two political parties (and one limited company) in 2019 all because their sitting MP keeps party-hopping and refusing to call a by-election

While none of the runners and riders in the Tory Leadership Drug Off covered themselves in glory, particular mention has to be reserved for Michael Gove for his admitting to taking cocaine while angling for the Tory leadership job and the Premiership that comes with it considering that, as Education Secretary, he introduced legislation saying any teacher who was caught using cocaine would be fired immediately, which sounds uncannily like he believed there should be one rule for him and another for the plebs

Perhaps the buffoon act Boris Johnson has spent over a decade performing isn’t a complete act, not when he has Priti Patel running around telling everyone about how much integrity he has while he hides in his safe space in case anyone might actually want to ask him a pertinent question - yet somehow he surpassed this when convicted fraudster Conrad Black was happy to vouch for Johnson’s credibility while slagging off any journalist who dared question him

On the subject of Boris Johnson and integrity, did Alan Sugar really believe nobody would notice him go from saying Johnson should be jailed for his lies during the EU referendum to saying he should become Prime Minister in the space of six months - a 180 that had nothing whatsoever to do with him saying he’d relax the tax rate that Alan Sugar just so happens to reside in?

Almost as soon as Pride Week began we had Anne Widdecombe volunteering her ignorant waffle about a “gay cure” - which also happens to be as close to a policy announcement as we’ve heard from The Nigel Farage Ego Project - and, naturally, it didn’t take long before sentient testicle Toby Young chipped in with the usual “it's so haaaaaard being a straight white male these days” bollocks

Another month passes and the BBC once again demonstrate their inability to cover an election result properly, this time giving so much airtime to Nigel Farage after the Peterborough by-election even though not only did his candidate come second, but when he realised that Labour candidate Lisa Forbes had won Farage literally ran and hid in the toilet, all of which makes it look as if the BBC had planned for their coverage to be a victory lap for Farage and didn’t bother to change their plans even when Farage didn’t win

Of course, this has led to the Faragists claiming conspiracy with some blather about postal votes and the local South Asian community, aided by Ross Kempsell falsely claiming that 69.4% of the vote was postal votes as opposed to 69.4% of those with postal votes used their vote (which is actually a decrease on the 85.1% average postal vote turnout from the 2017 election) all of which is little more than them begging to be told “You lost, get over it” - which, of course, soon led to Rod Liddell penning yet another of his “I know this might sound racist, but...” articles that never sound racist, they just are

Add to that how there was something sad about Nigel Farage marching to Downing Street (when nobody was there) to deliver a letter demanding he be part of negotiations with the EU - which would have carried some weight had he won in Peterborough, but having lost it made him look like a tragic figure in complete denial of what had happened

Don’t you dare interrupt a black tie dinner when Mark Field is there, as he will respond by getting out of his seat, grabbing you by the throat and shoving you into the nearest pillar to make you shut up and know your place - which was followed by Peter Bottomley congratulating him for assaulting somebody and Nadine Dorries prattling some nonsense about Jo Cox, while of course Julia Halfwit Hartley-Brewer was saying how more people should feel this way about climate protests...a few weeks after howling that throwing a milkshake at Nigel Farage is a crime, and Laura Kuenssberg somehow found a way to use the story to take potshots at Labour

Yet somehow Field wasn’t the only Tory involved in deeply unsavoury incidents with women within those 24 hours, as Boris Johnson was involved in a spat with partner Carried Symonds which saw the police being called, but that’s not the end of it: first the Metropolitan Police attempted to deny they were called, and it was only because The Guardian did a journalism and were able to cite the incident number that caused the police to admit they were there, but also those looking for any defence be it sentient testicle Toby Young comparing the neighbours to the Stasi while Alison Pearson posted a tweet that was outright inviting somebody dox the neighbours who reported the story while inviting harassment against them, while James Cleverly gave the downright dangerous advice that people shouldn’t call the police if they hear their neighbours in a furious row where things are getting smashed

There appears to be a humanitarian crisis in the Slovenian education system judging by how Damir Skomina can’t tell an armpit from an elbow, let alone the complexities of the differences between a deliberate handball and ball-to-hand, judging by his giving Liverpool a penalty for no logical reason within thirty seconds of the Champions League final kicking off - and it was hardly an isolated derp, either, as Son Heung-min was also penalised for “handball” when the ball his his shoulder in the second half

Although it does say it all that West Ham United were quick to take to Twitter thinking it would be a smart idea to try and rub Spurs fans’ noses in their being fucked over by Skomina, which only made them look like a bunch of insecure children

Yet somehow this wasn’t the worst tweet about the Champions League final, as that honour went to George Galloway for his utterly bizarre claim that there won’t be any Israeli flags on the Champions League trophy, because apparently Tottenham Hotspur and Hapoel Tel Aviv are the same club - so of course Tracy Ann Oberman was quickly rushing to Twitter to declare herself a Spurs fan, because after the farces with both Peter Herbert and David Baddiel using the club’s reputation as a testing bed for weaponising antisemitism, having one of the people who apparently makes a living out of weaponising antisemitism declare loyalty to the club is just what they want to hear...

It wasn’t long after Trump stated the NHS was on the table for any negotiations before Richard Tice casually gaslighted the British public with completely fabricated claims about pharma companies ripping off the NHS that would be solved by carving it up a la the American system - rather than the reality that the NHS significantly drives down the prices of medications compared to the American system, which Big Pharma hates

Similarly on the gaslighting trail was John Humphreys when he attempted to deny that Donald Trump had said that the NHS was on the negotiating table for any UK/US trade deal - which Labour MP Andy McDonald did not take lying down, calling out Humphrys for outright lying and reducing him to a gibbering wreck on his own show

Guido blog gobshite Paul Staines obviously had a quota to fill when he posted an article claiming that Jeremy Corbyn stated that Britain should have rolled over if the Nazis arrived on British shores, which took a remarkable amount of editing on Staines’ behalf to get the quote to say that - and, of course, this was rapidly regurgitated all over Twitter by Rachel Riley and Tracy Ann Oberman because they’re so far down David Collier’s rabbit hole they’re the best advertising Guido blog doesn’t have to pay for

At last the BBC finally said they were doing something about the vetting process for their political programming...unfortunately this didn’t mean they were going to stop Tory councillors posing as members of the public in the Question Time audience nor would they stop hiring actresses to pose as Anglican vicars on Newsnight, instead they didn’t like it when a member of the public kept asking Boris Johnson difficult questions about him being an ignorant pig when it comes to race relations so are making sure that only people who follow the script are allowed within fifty feet of a microphone whenever Johnson is interviewed

It’s almost fitting that England fans decided to celebrate the 75th anniversary of D-Day by hurling bottles at Portuguese fans and scuffling with the local police - yet somehow they didn’t even end up being the scummiest involved in these incidents, as that honour went to Tommy Robinson after he posted a video demonstrating his hardman credentials by sneaking up behind one of them and punching them in the back of the head while flanked by his heavies

It appears that Suzanne Moore was a little too keen to push her narrative in the latest Guardian piece on how terrible it is that Jess Phillips isn’t leading the Labour Party, considering she not only tried to claim that Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t have any female MPs in his inner circle - which must be news to Diane Abbott, Angela Rayner, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Dawn Butler (among others) - but when she deigned to acknowledge the shadow cabinet isn’t a sausage fest she used the highly demeaning phrase "a suitable female pet has to be groomed or the revolution may stall" to describe their status within the shadow cabinet while dismissing any and all contributions they have

Rather than criticise the US women’s football team for their overly elaborate goal celebrations even when they were putting the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth goal past the Thailand goalkeeper, instead I’m going to criticise them for their response of “You wouldn’t criticise the men for doing it!” which not only showed how quickly they were willing to play the victim as soon as they were being criticised, but it was downright insulting to even use that as a defence considering that men tend to stop celebrating goals when it’s starting to become a drubbing, most notably the German players didn't celebrate the fifth, sixth or seventh goal they put past Brazil in the 2014 World Cup semi final

On the one hand Bethesda thinking that it wouldn’t look ridiculous to announce Fallout 76 would have NPCs and questlines during their E3 conference is dickheaded enough considering those are things in most Fallout games at launch rather than nine months later - but this dickheadedness was drowned out by the bloke who runs The Elder Memes for his remarkably YEAH! irritating habit of YEAH! yelling YEAH! like an obnoxious YEAH! jackass YEAH! during YEAH! the YEAH! entire YEAH! conference YEAH!

According to EA lootboxes aren’t gambling mechanics at all, they’re “surprise mechanics” so there is no justifiable reason to make them the subject of any gambling laws in any country

It was inevitable that, in the wake of the plaudits headed HBO’s way for Chernobyl, others would attempt to get a piece of that remarkably radioactive pie - although nobody could have guessed Russian state broadcaster NTV would put a series into production claiming the entire thing was due to sabotage by the CIA and nothing to do with poor design, unsafe working practices and gross incompetence 

Noted Dubai resident Jim Davidson wittered about how Sadiq Khan being Mayor of London has caused him to leave his beloved city...even though he’s lived in Dubai since 2004

And last but by no means least, failing to understand that the moon and Mars are distinct celestial bodies (let alone the difference between Wales and whales...) is Donald Trump and his attempts to deny he called Meghan Markle “nasty” before spending the remainder of the month saying he couldn’t have raped somebody as she wasn’t his type, blaming the Democrats for migrant deaths at the border, and retweeting a failed gameshow contestant who is banned from South African for spreading racial hatred

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Dickheads of the Month: February 2021

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of February 2021 to make sure that they are never forgotten.

Let it not be said that Republican senators know what is best for their country.  And what is best for their country?  Putting their party ahead of the country, because it’s far more important to show the country that Republicans stick with one of their own even when “one of their own” isn’t one of their own but stood on a Republican ticket, even though they just so happened to incite a riot at the Capitol having lost on said Republican ticket

The High Court ruled that Matt Hancock acted unlawfully when doling out contract after contract to his mates no matter how unqualified they are, and not only did he not resign, but we had the BBC burying the story with as little a mention as they could get away with when it broke while Keir Starmer said he did not believe the public wanted to see Hancock resign.  Gee, I wonder why the UK is so fucked up?

...and then Matt Hancock went one further by saying that the British public should be thanking him, because apparently we should be grateful for 130,000 dead, his mates making off like bandits on lucrative contracts, multiple spikes in death rates due to gross incompetence by him and his bosses, and him gaslighting the public by saying there was never a PPE shortage while telling the public they should be thanking the greedy, useless, sociopathic cunt

It appears that Dido Harding is the only person on earth who is unaware that viruses mutate.  That sound you just heard was the collective screaming of every biologist, virologist and epidemiologist on earth screaming in unison at the combination of her making such a profoundly moronic statement as if it was an adequate defence, and the fact she was not only given £10bn to be in charge of Serco’s test & trace but is spending £1000 a day on consultants fees in spite having less knowledge of how viruses work than a peanut

Remember how Keir Starmer said he’d unite the Labour party?  I have to ask, as it appears that Starmer has forgotten about that considering all three candidates for the Liverpool mayoral election were dropped from the ballot without any reasoning given short of some vague and meaningless wording of a vague and meaningless statement, something which Starmer has been issuing a lot of lately

Smirking bully Priti Patel seems to have finally cottoned onto the fact her role is to allow boneheads to point to the one non-white person who agrees with them and claim that means everyone agrees with their boneheaded views, which she demonstrated by making some patently absurd comments about the Blame Lives Matter movement while moaning about footballers taking the knee before every match - which no doubt had at least sixteen people named Gary tweeting in support of her within the hour

The fact that several LAPD officers decided that the discussion about both police brutality and endemic racism in policing wouldn’t get in the way of their being a bunch of edgelords and send valentine’s cards mocking the murder of George Floyd in the most twattish way imaginable sums up exactly why the “orL lYfeS mAttUH” knobheads are so far wide of the mark that they don’t even know what the fucking mark is

So the defence which Anne Sacoolas gave in the inquest into the death of Harry Dunn was that she worked for US intelligence, which somehow justifies driving over the speed limit on the wrong side of the road, before legging it out of the country at the earliest opportunity - with the full support of the UK government to make sure she got out of the country

Similarly, apparently it did not occur to Gina Carano that tweeting out all manner of batshittery, culminating with her saying that being a Republican in 2021 America is like being a Jew in Nazi Germany, is the sort of thing that has repercussions for your career.  Such as getting fired from your high profile acting gig while also having your agency drop you like an ice cold turd

Something which escaped the Tory government during their joyous pronouncement that the R number for Covid has dropped below 1 for the first time since July 2020: in doing so, they not only revealed that they pushed ahead with numerous plans, such as getting children back into school, removing employment protections for people who didn’t feel safe trudging into the office, and bribing people into restaurants with a £10 voucher when they were fully aware that the R number was above 1 - which, of course, was also missed by the supposed journalists at the BBC when joyously pronouncing the R number was below 1 for the first time since July 2020

It’s reasonably clear that Ted Cruz isn’t a champion of self-awareness, what with his response to Texas being hit with heavy snowfall and widespread power outages at the exact same time by legging it to Cancun (during a pandemic...) without realising how that made him look and sound remarkably like Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons - and he abandoned his poodle at home to do so

...and sticking with Texas, the image of Fred Meyer posting armed guards outside of their stores to prevent people from taking the produce that the store had dumped outside was one for the Capitalism family photo album

...just as Texas’ power outages led to Tucker Carson trying to blame wind turbines for the outages in spite of the fact wind turbines provide less than 15% of Texas’ power, meaning that Carlson found an entirely new way to blame minorities for problems

While it was incredible to see the ERG doing something that could be classified as research for the first time since their formation in 1992, their “research” involved them demanding that Westminster scrap Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol - the same Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol which every single member of the ERG voted for last year

Professional victim Rachel Riley came under such a vile and sustained attack when she gleefully claimed that Aaron Bastani has finally been booted out of Labour - a claim that would have a crumb of credibility if it wasn't for the fact that Bastani willingly cancelled his Labour membership a year or so ago 

How nice of Oliver Dowden to put forward the idea of all British universities installing a Free Speech Champion, whose role is to shout down criticism of Britain’s less than savoury past because statues of slave traders need to stay up because statues have more rights than people these days

It was remarkable how Andrew Neil managed to spell out exactly how the media have aided and abetted the right‘s bastardisation of the word “woke” into an insult of its original meaning - and somehow failed to notice that is exactly what he was doing as he was tweeting it

The journalistic integrity of Sarah Smith took an absolute battering when she claimed in a report on the story of Nicola Sturgeon and ministerial code - a story which the BBC are giving so much more coverage to compared to the seconds they gave to Matt Hancock being found to have acted unlawfully, by the way -  when she stated that Alec Salmond asked for Sturgeon’s resignation.  Except that simply is not true, as Salmond never asked for that, which makes it look uncannily like the BBC have the knives out for Sturgeon because Scottish lady made BoJo look bad

Man of the British people Richard Littlejohn chimed in from his gated community in Florida claiming that a statue of Captain Tom Moore that currently does not exist would soon be pulled down by BLM protesters that he has made up, which definitely doesn’t read like sixteen different kinds of bollocks to preach to the pig ignorant converted among the Daily Mail’s readership who lack the common sense to ask questions such as “Hang on, are you comparing Captain Tom to a slave trader?”

There was little surprise that The Sun responded to Harry & Megan announcing their pregnancy by trying to say that they’re hiPpPKritZ for wanting privacy yet telling the world that they’re expecting a child, almost as if they cannot understand that the couple being bullied out of the country by both press intrusion and a particularly nasty whispering campaign led by The Sun among others is what they meant when they said they wanted privacy - which seems to be the case given how many articles thundering the same line were vomited forth in the days immediately afterwards

Convicted criminal Darren Grimes didn’t seem to notice how sinister his statement (if a passive aggressive shittweet counts as a statement, which in Grimes’ world it certainly does) about BAME voters being able to vote in “our elections�� actually sounded, did he?

Amidst the accolades Andrew Butler and James Wilson have been getting for their short film Keratin, there was one dissenting voice: artist Adam Ellis, who wrote the short comic Super Chill, which Butler and Wilson plagiarised and only informed Ellis when the film was already doing the festival circuit where they asked him to promote a work that ripped off his book in spite neither asking permission nor informing him beforehand, nor did they give Ellis a single credit

There was absolutely nothing normal about how Eddie Marsan lead a particularly vicious pile-on which Ian Austin and Steven Pollard were among those who joined in, all because somebody said that It’s A Sin was let down by Tracy Ann Oberman being in the cast, which naturally must mean this one person is an antisemite who must have dozens of people dogpile onto them in a short space of time while also revealing just how insane Gnasher’s pack have gotten if they now consider a person being a Liverpool fan as one of their red flags for rampant antisemitism

Apparently nobody had the conversation with TJ Ducklo that consists of saying that threatening to “destroy” journalists is not a good look, judging by TJ Ducklo threatening to destroy Politico reporter Tara Palmeri

Waffling gargoyle Nigel Farage demanded that the EU Human Rights Act be scrapped.  Luckily for Nige, there is no longer an EU Human Rights Act so he can claim “victory” - although the fact there wasn’t an EU Human Rights Act during the video he posted demanding it be scrapped, or at any point in history before he posted the video demanding it be scrapped, he’s either lacking in any form of knowledge about the EU whatsoever or is banking on clueless boneheads who have no knowledge of the EU so believe that Acts which don’t exist should be scrapped because waffling gargoyle Nigel Farage said so

Has it occurred to Piers Corbyn that doing things such as comparing lockdown to Auschwitz, and distributing leaflets saying exactly that, is monumentally knobheaded?  Hang on, let me check...no, he hasn’t realised that doing so is monumentally knobheaded, what with him doing precisely that

Something possessed Lauren Boebert to sit in on a Zoom meeting with three assault rifles and a GLOCK precariously balanced on the shelves behind her, somehow failing to notice that not only did it look completely deranged - especially if a spot of light dusting could lead to her unintentionally shooting the neighbours on both sides of her house - but the assault rifle on the bookshelf aesthetic has already been done by Osama bin-Laden

The oppressed underclass that are Manchester United fans once again responded to their team dropping points by racially abusing one of their own players on social media, with Axel Tuanzebe once again bearing the brunt of it after their 3-3 draw with Everton

Good to see that Gab are on the grift again with their free speech device, a device which guaranteed free speech by blocking cable channels that people who still use Gab (or rushed back there after Parler got iced) don’t agree with, because nothing says “free speech” like blocking differing viewpoints

There comes a point where you hope Julia Halfwit Hartley Brewer puts her foot down and tells her paymasters she’s had enough of making moronic statements posed as a question for people dumb enough to agree with the moronic statement, but clearly it wasn’t when she was told that her response to the Perseverance rover landing on Mars should be asking why we can send a probe to Mars yet not visit our neighbours, which is moronic even by the usual bilge she's told to throw out into the world by her paymasters

Hearing PS5 scalpers whine and complain that they are disrespected, and using some patently absurd arguments to defend themselves such as saying they’re simply supermarkets - as if they haven’t emptied said supermarkets of their stocks of PS5s before they even made it to shelves - really sums up how human garbage may have gained sentience, but it hasn’t gained self-awareness

Did it really not occur to DJ Tiiny that his telling record producers that their artists would get on his radio show as long as they bunged him £200 might come out at some point?  Because guess what?  It came out that DJ Tiiny was telling record producers that he could guarantee airtime for their artists if they bunged him £200

Occasional wrestler Austin Aries reminded us why the “occasional” part is relevant, as he decided to do a signing without masks where he signed tinfoil hats for the Covid Truthers who came to reward him for finding a career where he doesn’t have a track record of burning bridges with the entire industry 

And finally, screaming and screaming until he is sick, is Donald Trump throwing a tantrum and quitting the Screen Actors Guild approximately ten minutes before he was expelled for that whole encouraging-white-terrorism-to-storm-the-Capitol thing back in January