Simon Alvey
@salvey1.bsky.social
Still too middle class for punk, will this be the social platform that fills the screaming void?
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"It’s almost as if women’s right to say ‘no’ is seen as something that should be set aside when we become wives and mothers."
NEW blog: sex schedules are not the answer.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/sex-sch...
NEW blog: sex schedules are not the answer.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/sex-sch...
You never have to have sex if you don’t want to | Girl on the Net
You never have to have sex if you don't want to. Obvious, no? So why does this principle get binned in monogamous relationships? Let's talk sex schedules.
www.girlonthenet.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"It’s almost as if women’s right to say ‘no’ is seen as something that should be set aside when we become wives and mothers."
NEW blog: sex schedules are not the answer.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/sex-sch...
NEW blog: sex schedules are not the answer.
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/sex-sch...
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If you are eligible for the mobility component of PIP and you want to spend *your own money on top of that* on having a nicer modified car, why shouldn't you? Should screen readers only work on Chromebooks?
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you are eligible for the mobility component of PIP and you want to spend *your own money on top of that* on having a nicer modified car, why shouldn't you? Should screen readers only work on Chromebooks?
For left alliance in Ireland, read new centrist party in the UK
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
For left alliance in Ireland, read new centrist party in the UK
The black jacket and portcullis badge that the Deputy Speaker is rocking makes her look somewhat like a tour guide
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The black jacket and portcullis badge that the Deputy Speaker is rocking makes her look somewhat like a tour guide
I was asked for my Desert Island Discs and this is what I came up with, I already regret not including about 6 other songs
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I was asked for my Desert Island Discs and this is what I came up with, I already regret not including about 6 other songs
Rename it Dublin Airport Station, so that they might actually build a rail link
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
Any counteroffers?
Any counteroffers?
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Rename it Dublin Airport Station, so that they might actually build a rail link
As someone who has had a Motability car in the past (before failing my 7th driving test), you don't get any type of car - it is a scheme to use your benefits to lease an adapted car, and to get a BMW etc you would need to pay the significant difference
Let's be absolutely clear the restrictions on Motability cars is reflective of a quiet desire to see disabled people pushed out of public life because getting them in public space is sometimes a bit inconvenient and expensive
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
As someone who has had a Motability car in the past (before failing my 7th driving test), you don't get any type of car - it is a scheme to use your benefits to lease an adapted car, and to get a BMW etc you would need to pay the significant difference
Let's be absolutely clear the restrictions on Motability cars is reflective of a quiet desire to see disabled people pushed out of public life because getting them in public space is sometimes a bit inconvenient and expensive
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Let's be absolutely clear the restrictions on Motability cars is reflective of a quiet desire to see disabled people pushed out of public life because getting them in public space is sometimes a bit inconvenient and expensive
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
This is lovely
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is lovely
Well the last panel of this made me cry
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Well the last panel of this made me cry
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
The strange sneering attitude to higher education evident here goes directly against a key point of Kinnock, aspiration. The most important line in his 85 conference speech was talking about the Labour movement providing an education that went on for as long as he wanted
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The strange sneering attitude to higher education evident here goes directly against a key point of Kinnock, aspiration. The most important line in his 85 conference speech was talking about the Labour movement providing an education that went on for as long as he wanted
Guys, yes Farage is a racist - but it's increasingly clear that that won't put off a plurality of voters
Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Nigel Farage asked former Conservative MP Enoch Powell to back Ukip
Despite his ‘rivers of blood’ speech, the Ukip leader has said the central thrust of Powell’s immigration arguments hold true
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Guys, yes Farage is a racist - but it's increasingly clear that that won't put off a plurality of voters
Let me be clear, putting a penny on my income tax would have been better than trying to destroy a major export industry
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Let me be clear, putting a penny on my income tax would have been better than trying to destroy a major export industry
It's one of the best moments of the year*
*The hours of anticipation of a buzzer quiz that come before I make my first stupid mistake
*The hours of anticipation of a buzzer quiz that come before I make my first stupid mistake
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
It's one of the best moments of the year*
*The hours of anticipation of a buzzer quiz that come before I make my first stupid mistake
*The hours of anticipation of a buzzer quiz that come before I make my first stupid mistake
I have read about RFK Jr's poem and it is really testing my belief that what consenting adults do is a-ok
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I have read about RFK Jr's poem and it is really testing my belief that what consenting adults do is a-ok
Everything in this Substack by @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com is correct and profoundly depressing
open.substack.com/pub/youngvul...
open.substack.com/pub/youngvul...
aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?
Behold! I have had a thought.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Everything in this Substack by @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com is correct and profoundly depressing
open.substack.com/pub/youngvul...
open.substack.com/pub/youngvul...
I found this book in a National Trust bookshop for 50p, which I think is a very specific Simon trap
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I found this book in a National Trust bookshop for 50p, which I think is a very specific Simon trap
I misread this as The Rest Is Silence, which is about the only expansion of the Goalhanger universe I'd now approve of
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I misread this as The Rest Is Silence, which is about the only expansion of the Goalhanger universe I'd now approve of
Good thing about subscribing to @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com's Substack, is that sometimes she'll write a personalised column about my life
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Good thing about subscribing to @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com's Substack, is that sometimes she'll write a personalised column about my life
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
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When it’s 1922 and you think the Irish War of Independence is done and dusted but turns out not everyone is satisfied with the resulting treaty
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
When it’s 1922 and you think the Irish War of Independence is done and dusted but turns out not everyone is satisfied with the resulting treaty
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“And is there a Mrs Worldwide?”
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“And is there a Mrs Worldwide?”