Listening to this, I realised @tombaldwin66.bsky.social ‘s defence of Kier Starmer sounded increasingly like the Democrat’s defence of Biden before he dropped out of the 2024 presidential race: ‘no, but behind closed doors he’s *so* passionate and on the ball!’ I’ll believe it when I see it.

Pope Magnum VI. Happy with that one!

And of course he has ‘Respect👍’ in his bio because yeah, so much respect on display here.

a south african billionaire sieg heil'ing in front of the presidential seal on martin luther king jr day. what strange new horrors we have to ponder! a mad lib of blasphemies and indignities.

We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow said earlier this year.

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