DanC
@danc.bsky.social
Ex-English teacher, writer & editor, anti-fascist, linguist, LUFC-enjoyer & 6Music dad.
EngLangBlog: https://tinyurl.com/5n8kmxwy
Lexis podcast: https://tinyurl.com/mr4atnkh
Pronouns: He/him
Proper nouns: Eldritch, Marx, Bielsa
EngLangBlog: https://tinyurl.com/5n8kmxwy
Lexis podcast: https://tinyurl.com/mr4atnkh
Pronouns: He/him
Proper nouns: Eldritch, Marx, Bielsa
Yup, what could possibly go wrong here?
The son of a Nazi party member and an admirer of Pinochet, Kast built his campaign on a promise to expel tens of thousands of undocumented migrants.
It won’t end well
It won’t end well
Ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast elected Chile’s next president
The son of a Nazi party member and an admirer of Pinochet, Kast built his campaign on a promise to expel tens of thousands of undocumented migrants
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yup, what could possibly go wrong here?
Another day when the news just makes me want to puke.
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Another day when the news just makes me want to puke.
Have descended so far into my manflu hole that I am now listening to the Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary reissue and sniffling pathetically.
December 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Have descended so far into my manflu hole that I am now listening to the Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary reissue and sniffling pathetically.
Squeeze the anal glands of a dog directly into my own face.
I challenge you to think of one thing you would less like to do
December 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Squeeze the anal glands of a dog directly into my own face.
This ('Kavanaugh stop') is one of the potential WOTY2025s we talk about on the latest pod episode. podcastaddict.com/lexis/episod...
December 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This ('Kavanaugh stop') is one of the potential WOTY2025s we talk about on the latest pod episode. podcastaddict.com/lexis/episod...
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New episode just out! It features an interview with John Kelly aka @mashedradish.bsky.social on #WOTY2025 and the whole Word of the Year phenomenon. Word nerd heaven or cynical marketing ploy from BiG dIcTiOnArY? spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/pnwYbTXR3Yb
Episode 78 - John Kelly and the 2025 Words of the Year by Lexis
Welcome to episode 78 of Lexis in which Raj & Dan talk to John Kelly, former head of content at Dictionary.com, previous contributor to Merriam-Webster and Oxford Dictionaries, emoji lexicographer for...
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December 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
New episode just out! It features an interview with John Kelly aka @mashedradish.bsky.social on #WOTY2025 and the whole Word of the Year phenomenon. Word nerd heaven or cynical marketing ploy from BiG dIcTiOnArY? spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/pnwYbTXR3Yb
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Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like
Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like
Nigel Farage’s party is gunning for power – so what is it like in the places where they’ve already got it? We embedded with Lancashire county council to find out what happens when rhetoric meets…
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like
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Apparently this is the last day! Murderbot plus Witch King and more Humble Bundle! 14 books total and charity is World Central Kitchen.
(nearly) ALL OF @marthawells.com MURDERBOT FOR $18 PLUS MORE AND YOU CAN DONATE TO CHARITY www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR ENCORE
Pay what you want for <<<product>>> and support a charity of your choice!
www.humblebundle.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Apparently this is the last day! Murderbot plus Witch King and more Humble Bundle! 14 books total and charity is World Central Kitchen.
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"What is emerging about Nigel Farage is not a single stupid comment or heated moment. Former classmates are describing a pattern of behaviour. Not just a bully, but a racist bully of the ugliest kind, directing hatred at black and Jewish pupils as a kind of sport."
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse'
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues Clive Lewis MP
bylinetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"What is emerging about Nigel Farage is not a single stupid comment or heated moment. Former classmates are describing a pattern of behaviour. Not just a bully, but a racist bully of the ugliest kind, directing hatred at black and Jewish pupils as a kind of sport."
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
We've actually got a “We’re not racist. One of my best friends is black” in the wild here.
1/5 The Crowborough camp protests are a case study of a media-manufactured moral panic in real time. In these protestors’ imaginations the men seeking asylum to be housed there are not people with real stories and personalities: they’re all predatory rapists.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Not in our village’: asylum camp rumours prompt fear and night vigils in East Sussex
Crowborough on edge as unconfirmed plan to house asylum seekers in training camp spurs street patrols and pre-emptive protests
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
We've actually got a “We’re not racist. One of my best friends is black” in the wild here.
"It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person..."
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person..."
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
"Coffee and cake on the sofa" is definitely some kind of filthy German chemsex code, isn't it? Watch him touch his nose and his cheeky little smile. If he's having a quiet Sunday, I'm a Scum supporter. #LUFC
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
"Coffee and cake on the sofa" is definitely some kind of filthy German chemsex code, isn't it? Watch him touch his nose and his cheeky little smile. If he's having a quiet Sunday, I'm a Scum supporter. #LUFC
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The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism:
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism:
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
If the abiding image of UK 2025 is a load of tatty flags hanging limply around patriotic roundabouts, then at least it's good to see that plenty of people don't want them up, see them as fascist territorial pissing and are getting organised to remove them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
‘A mini Battle of Cable Street’: the English neighbourhoods still grappling with the meaning of the flags
The controversy over flags has faded from the national agenda – but street by street, late at night and with ingenious new equipment, their raising and removal is the subject of a roiling dispute over...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
If the abiding image of UK 2025 is a load of tatty flags hanging limply around patriotic roundabouts, then at least it's good to see that plenty of people don't want them up, see them as fascist territorial pissing and are getting organised to remove them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
I was squarely in the Farke Out camp after that run from Burnley to Forest, but he's shown flexibility and tactical sense, plus the performances have been better than results in games we've lost (Bournemouth, Spurs, Fulham). I'm back to Farke In, as he deserves the credit for turning this around.
December 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I was squarely in the Farke Out camp after that run from Burnley to Forest, but he's shown flexibility and tactical sense, plus the performances have been better than results in games we've lost (Bournemouth, Spurs, Fulham). I'm back to Farke In, as he deserves the credit for turning this around.
I bet the 49ers sack him tonight anyway.
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I bet the 49ers sack him tonight anyway.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Reform UK's Staffordshire council leader made series of racist posts including telling British academic to "f*** off back to Nigeria" and liking white supremacist posts saying "White Men Have The Best Lives Because We Are White & Better Than The Rest Of the World" hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Reform UK's Staffordshire council leader made series of racist posts including telling British academic to "f*** off back to Nigeria" and liking white supremacist posts saying "White Men Have The Best Lives Because We Are White & Better Than The Rest Of the World" hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
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They frame it as asylum seekers living high on the hog, but you click through and it turns out the people in question got arbitrarily moved to the other side of the country and the home office didn’t update their GP so they had to drive back. Layers & layers of cruelty and incompetence
This is just revolting cruelty, done to pander to racists who won't give it the time of day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
They frame it as asylum seekers living high on the hog, but you click through and it turns out the people in question got arbitrarily moved to the other side of the country and the home office didn’t update their GP so they had to drive back. Layers & layers of cruelty and incompetence
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse