alexanderhay

alexanderhay, 1 month ago to Eurovision

Another year, another Eurovision. Here follows an increasingly inebriated series of shit-posts as I cover the most contentious contest in years.

#EuroDrama #Eurovision #Eurovision2024

alexanderhay, 10 months ago to news

Apparently, the #DailyMail has just launched "Woke Watch", where red faced pillocks send in angry e-mails, complaining about transgender asylum seekers giving their house prices pronoun cancer, or something.

Anyway, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should one e-mail wokewatch@dailymail.co.uk to #Troll, #Shitpost or just plain take the piss. No, that would be WRONG. Oh, for shame!

#News #UK #Media

alexanderhay, 10 months ago to BBC

The #BBC has apologised to the batrachian #Farage, but the sum total of it is: "We reported you lost your #Coutts account because you don't have the money. This was not entirely accurate. You also lost your account because you're a bigoted shit."

Farage and his fanbois are gloating. But he's still gunning after someone senior in the bank, because it was never about money or 'spree feach'. This is about revenge and intimidation, and always has been.

#News #UK #Fascism

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66288464

alexanderhay, 1 year ago to random

I may not be making much sense as the evening proceeds. Let's just say I won't be driving.

#Eurovision #ESC #Eurovision2023 #ESC2023

alexanderhay, 11 months ago to languagelearning

Something happening on the #Russian Invasion of #Ukraine Live Threads over on #Reddit - users are rapidly embracing #Mastodon links, and there is a demand for it as a viable #Twitter alternative.

Given how much these mega-threads have relied on the Bird Site for updates over the last 17 months, this is a very significant development. If all the main #Ukraine #War #News accounts end up on here, Twitter may lose its monopoly in this regard.

alexanderhay, 16 days ago to technology

[SLOWCLAP]

"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by #FacialRecognition tech...'

"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the #Technology.

"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.

"#Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

#News #UK #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #HumanRights

alexanderhay, 1 month ago to Eurovision

One question - if #JoostKlein is found not to have broken any law, does this not mean he's been cheated?

#Eurovision #Eurovision2024 #News

alexanderhay, 10 months ago to manchester

I'm watching #Possessed in #Manchester tonight, so if I start posting incoherent bollocks, you'll know my phone's battery hasn't run out...

#Metal #Thrash

alexanderhay, 10 months ago to trans

It's the return of #Section28, as the vile #KemiBadenoch tries to either cow or just plain beat #Trans kids into submission.

She wants them afraid, alone and unable to confide in anyone. Most abuse happens at home.

"Teachers in England will have to tell parents if children question their #Gender

"Kemi Badenoch says guidance will ensure parents know what is ‘going on with their children’ at school..."

#News #UK UKNews #Politics #Transphobia

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/17/teachers-in-england-will-have-to-tell-parents-if-children-question-their-gender

alexanderhay, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to news

Just Jay Rayner casually libelling large numbers of people, and using a tragedy as a stick to beat them with. Nothing to see here...

#News #Gaza #Israel #MiddleEast #JeremyCorbyn

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/16/my-jewish-cultural-identity-is-wrapped-up-in-food-but-some-events-are-so-momentous-they-blunt-the-appetite-jay-rayner

alexanderhay, 10 months ago to reddit

I can't muster much sympathy for #Reddit mods - they are some of the most high-handed, gormlessly vindictive people I've dealth with online, all the while allowing utter poison to be posted right under their noses.

https://mastodon.social/deck/@dangillmor/110754167226281330

alexanderhay, 9 months ago to BBC

It's worth noting how many of #GrahamLinehan's comedy characters end up exiled or marginalised because of their bizarre behaviour, vileness or stupidity.

It was as if his subconscious was trying to warn him not to be such a tosser.

(Note also how the #BBC frames this story as being due to a difference of opinions rather than Linehan being such a raging transphobe.)

"#FatherTed writer Graham Linehan comedy show cancelled over gender views"

#UK #Edinburgh #Fringe #News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66516252

alexanderhay, 4 days ago to random

Shall I watch seven political parties slag each other off on the BBC, or continue listening to quality doom metal? Decisions, decisions...

alexanderhay, 7 months ago to Halloween

What better way to start my #2023 #Halloween links thread than with this article, covering modern uses of #Níðstöng, or '#ScornPoles' in #Iceland.

(To make, just add a #Horse's severed head, a pole and some #Runes. Not to be confused with the #Vindgapi, which uses a #Ling #Fish head instead, and which is used to summon storms.)

#Galdur #Folklore #Magic #Occultism

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/iceland-nithing-pole

alexanderhay, 10 months ago to uk

Two things I will tell you about life in the #UK. Always be suspicious of famous people having heart attacks, and always be suspicious of #Historic buildings catching fire.

Let's just leave it at that.

"Firefighters across the #BlackCountry battled a severe fire that broke out at the iconic #CrookedHouse pub at #Himley last night (August 5)...

"...A spokesperson confirmed that an investigation into the fire is still in progress."

#News #Heritage

https://www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/23704184.severe-fire-breaks-dudleys-crooked-house-pub/

alexanderhay, 8 months ago to uk

I've heard it said that #RussellBrand hosts so many raving nutters and fascists on his channel because, if he is ever caught up in a scandal, he can claim 'THE MAN' is trying to take him down for sharing samizdata.

Aaaaaaaaand right on cue:

#UK #News #Entertainment #Media

https://news.sky.com/story/russell-brand-denies-serious-criminal-allegations-he-claims-are-being-made-against-him-12962257

alexanderhay, 7 months ago to Israel

I see #GretaThunberg is being smeared over a dead cat, or rather, a cuddly octopus. Bullshit and dogpiles aside, these accusations are highly defamatory, as well as.frankly rather silly, and Greta needs to talk to m'learned friends ASAP.

#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #News

alexanderhay, 20 days ago to UKpolitics

By the end of this, Larry The Cat will have gone through more PMs than 'Boris' Johnson has had mistresses.

#UKPolitics #News #Politics #GeneralElection2024

alexanderhay, 7 months ago to news

The main problem with #SteveBell being sacked for alleged #AntiSemitism is that there is nothing in that cartoon that, beyond reasonable doubt, can be read as objectionable. You may FEEL it is, but as us old #CriticalTheory lags know only too well, interpretation is a funny old game...

#News #UK #Gaza #Israel #Hamas

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"Steve Bell sacked by #Guardian in antisemitism row over #Netanyahu cartoon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67122609

alexanderhay, 4 months ago to cymru

Am I the only one who's strangely excited by #RogueTrooper having a #Welsh accent?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68139233

#News #Comics #2000AD #DuncanJones

alexanderhay, 11 months ago to Russia

Over at the Bird Shite, noted #Russia watcher, #TatianaStanovaya outlines the possible reasons why yesterday's coup went wonky.

Put simply, #Prigozhin didn't know what he was doing, knew he couldn't do it anyway, and was in a bit of a panic.

#Putin, meanwhile, thinks all he now needs to win in #Ukraine is the army, for all the ways this attempted coup has weakened him.

#RussianCoup #Ukraine #UkraineWar

alexanderhay, 9 months ago to Futurology

Apropos of nothing, #UnitedUtilities are fucking scumbags. Makes a change from them pumping sewage into streams and onto beaches, mind you.

"United Utilities fined £800,000 after illegally abstracting 22 billion litres of #Water in #Lancashire

"It caused a significant decline in the #Fylde #Aquifer, which is an important public #WaterSupply for residents in the #NorthWest and also helps the flows of local #Rivers..."

#UK #News #Environment

https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/united-utilities-fined-ps800k-for-illegally-abstracting-water-in-lancashire-4257383

alexanderhay, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to uk

Who, then, is 'reputational management' guru #JustinDoherty, cited in this article, who thinks being a shifty racist and fascist isn't a good enough reason for a bank to tell you to piss off, and uses 'woke' as a pejorative?

#UK #News #Coutts

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jul/20/farage-affair-is-a-monumental-pr-disaster-for-exclusive-bank-coutts

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alexanderhay, 2 months ago to random

If I hear one more idiot refer to the 19th Century as 'the 1800s', I will start bashing them over the head with a history book.

alexanderhay, 1 month ago to news

Thanks to the antics of my local MP, we have a by-election soon, which means lots of election material being spammed into our letter box.

Apart from the Labour candidate's pamphlet looking like BNP material via all the flag-shagging, the one that stood out was from a 'Non-Political' political party.

And when it started ranting about "the woke mind virus", I knew this was yet more far right populist bollocks.

But then, isn't that UK politics in general these days?

#News #UK #Politics