I can't stop fucking laughing at this

I fully believe the queen is dead and they just don’t wanna deal with a funeral before Christmas so they’re keeping her on ice (aka life support) till spring.

apparently the entire country has to do a 12 day long mourning and the BBC is legally banned from putting on any comedy show during that week AND they have to shut down the London stock exchange for one whole day... now I'm not saying they're weekends at Bernie's-ing that colonizer to keep the stock exchange open, but....

I think you're right

Dartmoor National Park, Devon UK

if you pay for a tv license in the uk here's your reminder to cancel it right now and let the bbc know you're doing it because they hate lgbt people

As long as you don't let them into your house to check if you have a tv they can't do shit and their threats are empty bc it is probably never going to be worth their while taking people to court for £100.

Thank you for reblogging this, I forgot to add a warning for anyone who doesn't know: cancelling your TV licence will cause them to harrass and threaten you for the rest of your life and they will follow wherever you go. Their letters are very intimidating and made to sound like you are breaking the law and they know it so let me clear things up:

I have never had a TV licence and you are not obligated to have a TV licence even if you have a TV. You only need a TV licence to be allowed to watch BBC programmes (broadcast or on demand). Nobody can tell if you are watching BBC programmes without you allowing them into your house or admitting to it. You do not have to allow anybody in your house no matter what they threaten. No, TV licensing are not driving around in little sci-fi vans scanning for what programmes you have on. TV licensing have no legal power over you and they cannot do anything to you.

Also take note that the letters you receive have no information on who you are or who your local authorities are. Do not communicate with them and do not give them any info, if that's not obvious. If anyone comes to your door asking weird questions about whether or not you have a TV and what you watch, tell them you'll call the police if you see them in the area again.

Enjoy a low effort meme

Anyway I've never paid for my TV license and I would encourage everyone else to do the same 🥰

for the people who are confused why you have to pay for the bbc license fee: it goes to pay for the bbc and in return we are supposed to get a balanced and neutral public broadcaster.

this concept of balance is the stick that they’ve been using to beat lgbtq people (especially trans people) with. the most recent being withdrawing from the stonewall charities equality guidelines because stonewall supports trans people. and that would be “unbalanced”

people are talking more about the grammys than the uk govt trying to screw over queer and abused kids but sucks to be us i guess

read this thread too

look ik the uk sucks but if this law goes through so many queer kids and kids living in abusive households are going to be put in danger. ‘the govt won’t pass this law haha’ they have shown time and time again that they don’t give a fuck. they literally do not give a fuck, ESPECIALLY where lgbtq+ kids are involved. they would rather have the personal information of minors spread around the internet than keep queer kids safe and nobody gives a fuck

the stated purpose of the proposed law is to “Make it a legal requirement when opening a new social media account, to provide a verified form of ID. Where the account belongs to a person under the age of 18 verify the account with the ID of a parent/guardian, to prevent anonymised harmful activity, providing traceability (…) To make the law work needs the removal of anonymity to ensure that users cannot cause harm by using online platforms to abuse others. Where an offence has taken place they ought to be easily identified and reported to the police and punished.” people this law would harm:

even if you’re not from the uk, please reblog this to raise awareness! if you ARE, go here to email your MP and ask them to oppose the law.

katie price is framing this as a crusade against online bigotry on behalf of her disabled son in order to garner sympathy, and my heart goes out to her, but this is incredibly dangerous. she has a LOT of clout, and the petition to pass the law has ~150,000 signatures right now, more than enough to be considered for debate in parliament.

Also, on top of being a human rights nightmare, this law is also an information security nightmare. The only social media site that’s ever tried requiring ID was friggin’ infamous nazi haven Parler, and we all know how that turned out.

Most social media websites don’t have the security required to prevent someone from getting at that information and selling it to the highest bidder. And the UK government wants to make giving out that information required? Do they want an epidemic of identity fraud when everyone’s personal information inevitably gets stolen and sold to the highest bidder?

As someone from the United Kingdom this shit terrifies me. Please do not sleep on this!

This is an excellent sum up of why Gollumy Scummings is one of the worst shit stains in English politics today and why we are spitting mad about the whole affair.

There are also allegations that, not only did the pissgargling bastard travel the 260 miles up with his infected wife but also that they took various days out while there to leisure spots up to 30 miles away. Some of which have credence because a witness reported the licence plate of the car to the police and Cummings has been seen driving that car before. All whilst the official government rules were to STAY HOME and SAVE THE NHS. (No links to sources because I’m on mobile but it’s all over the UK newspapers. Sky news broke the story about the car licence plate)

So yeah. The message from Boris Johnson and his crony Tories is loud and clear:

a) that description of Michael Gove is spot on and will be forever how I see him, and

b) I only have this image of Dominic on file

[Alt text: Gif of Dominic Cummings’ face superimposed over Nosferatu’s face, as he emerges from a basement, creepily]

Oh, and if you’re wondering how badly they’re doing with this: they’ve held 3 press conferences addressing this, and every time the public has come back and said ‘nah he’s a twat, sack him’. Yet they keep holding more press conferences to defend their stance. It’s got so bad that the Daily Mail* is no longer supporting them. 

No really they lost them.

[Alt Text: Daily Mail front page for 25th May 2020. Headline reads “What Planet Are They On?” in large capital letters, alongside two large photos of Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings.]

Then after the press conference last night, some legend tweeted this from the official UK Civil Service account. They deleted it quickly, but not quick enough for the internet.

[Alt text: Tweet from the official UK Civil Service account that reads ‘Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?’]

*if anyone was wondering whether well known bland racist Christmas ham Piers Morgan was supporting this, then the answer is no, absolutely not. He’s been railing against the government for weeks that they’re doing a terrible job. Which is honest to god really confusing and I don’t know what to think anymore.

Legitimately, this guy is holding a press conference this afternoon to explain himself, and he’s not even an elected official. But now it’s clear who controls this government, and it’s not our ham wrapped gargoyle of a Prime Minister.

I really must apologise for extending the post so that it’s now even longer than Demonic Cummings’ completely unnecessary jaunt to Durham, but I feel like I am now morally obligated to provide a rundown of what went down at that aforementioned press conference, because I watched it barefoot whilst yelling insults around a mug cake in the kitchen and honestly I’m just mad that I cooked the mug cake before I turned on the press conference, because I could have saved some money on the electricity bill by cooking it with the sheer heat of my incandescent rage:

Perhaps the most disappointing element of all was that this is how he deigned to dress:

[Image description: Dominic Cummings at the press conference in the garden of 10 Downing Street, dressed casually in a white shirt with no tie, the top few buttons undone, and the sleeves rolled up to his elbows]

Which as anyone knows is absolutely not how a burgeoning supervillain should comport oneself. He should, at the very least, have worn a cape.

All of this. I an just SO furious at this - this COCKWOMBLE.

OH MY GOD it’s PERFECT

Pls listen to weed dad english fellas

They burnt to death because rich people cared more about their own comfort than about human life. 

Don’t forget that as Home Secretary, Theresa May made unprecedented cuts to Fire Services and that last year it was reported that “Chief fire officers have warned that further budget cuts pose a risk to community safety as official figures revealed the biggest increase in fire deaths for a decade.” 

The first Pride was a riot.

Wall sticker in Marlborough lesbian pub, Brighton.

i’m actually realizing this now

but the original poster said “queer power” and someone erased that and replaced it with “gay power”

real classy

#is this real Well. I’m not exactly an expert at image analysis, but the bottom text in the first one looks much cleaner than the top text while the second one matches better. Also, the creases in the second one on the Q and U seem like the sort of detail that wouldn’t be faked. Finally, this actually matches up significantly better to “queer” politics than “gay” politics; it was always queers who advocated and took the front lines in direct action.

If you put the image in an editor or just view the full size of the first image, it becomes very obvious that the text on the bottom was added later: all of the vertical lines in every letter are pixel perfect straight lines. That is basically impossible with a photo of a poster that is both visibly at an angle, and has paper weathering and other distortion. Look at the verticals of the white text to compare. The only distortion of the text is the jpg artifacts we would expect in that level of contrast. There is no lighting on the pink text either, another highly suspicious trait.

Additionally, if you crop out the pink text in op and run an image search you get the second photo, as well as four or five other photos of the poster, all reading “queer power.”

With the pink text left in, however, the only version of the poster is this exact image, sourcing to op.

I want every single person who ever argued with me on That Queer Post to take a long, hard look at this. I have been told at least dozens of times that “nobody is saying you can’t identify as queer,” that I’m “ignoring history,” that they’re not trying to shift back to gay, etc.

Now, here’s this post, in which queer people are having their art defaced in order to rewrite their identity. Where they’re being forcibly rewritten as gay. Where history is being literally goddamn erased. It’s got three times the notes of That Queer Post, and as far as I can tell, @bifoxstiles is the first one to challenge this narrative. And I’m not gonna hold my breath on y'all to call out OP.

They’re literally stealing our history, rewriting it into a new version that excludes more than half of the community. And nobody’s challenging this. You’re too busy trying to shut down inclusive, egalitarian language.

Shame on every last one of you.

Queer is a slur and not everyone wants to identify as it stop using it as an umbrella term

MOTHERFUCKER don’t you start that here.

The people who made this poster? They wanted to identify as queer. How do I know? Because they fucking did. And now you’re supporting someone coming along after the fact and literally stealing their identity from them.

Here’s a better idea: I will continue using “queer” as an umbrella term for groups of people who happily identify as queer, and if you don’t like it you’re cordially invited to never talk to a queer person again.

Stop stealing our identities.

You are welcome to identify as queer if you reclaim it, and many ppl do, but that doesnt change the fact that there are plenty of lgbt ppl who think of it negatively (personally i am not one of these ppl so i cant speak for them, but i respect their wishes and i hope u will too). A better umbrella term to use is LGBT, imo.

That would be a lot more reassuring if you hadn’t shown up specifically to defend taking the word queer out of someone’s mouth and relabeling them as gay.

LGBT is a shit umbrella term. It prioritizes the historically-centered parts of the community over historically-marginalized groups, it completely leaves off swathes of the community, and these days it’s habitually used by the sort of gatekeepers who want to actually throw out sections of the community.

Again: If you don’t want to identify as queer, you don’t have to. But you don’t get to take that word away from any member of the community. If you don’t like it, just walk away and make your own shit.

I never thought I’d have to say this to members of the community, but: We’re here. We’re queer. Get used to it.

I’m not trying to take it away from people. If you want to reclaim it then good for you, but I’m just saying that not everyone wants to be called queer and using it as an umbrella term to include those who are potentially triggered by it or just dont like it is shitty. Also did u practically just say “Im using this slur as an umbrella term and if ur uncomfortable with it then get over it and walk away” or am i reading that wrong

You literally showed up to defend someone who had taken away a queer person’s words to put gay in their place. Stop pretending otherwise. If people don’t like that word, they’re fine not using it - but they can create their own works, rather than stealing and defacing ones made by queer people to erase us from them.

No. I said that if you’re not comfortable with someone using queer as an identifier, the responsible thing to do is disengage from them and make your own art, your own statements, instead of stealing and relabeling theirs.

If you’re not comfortable with someone else labeling you “queer,” you have zero right to label them “gay” without their consent.

I feel the nuance that people keep missing here is that queer is not only acceptable to reclaim on a personal level, because queer groups exist. Groups that gather under that label exist. It is absolutely an umbrella term for those groups. Honestly people hear “umbrella term” and they lose their shit because they think umbrella terms can only be used to encompass the entire community instead of subsets of it, so that must be what you mean, and how dare you! :/

But, honestly, this isn’t a nuanced discussion – it’s an insistence that if you use queer to refer to more than one person at a time and that person is not your own self, you’re coercively labeling other people who don’t want that label. Except… this is incorrect. It is so incorrect it erases swaths of queer people who have been gathering in groups under the label for the last 100 years. It’s a push to eliminate the label altogether, by reducing it to something you have to keep to yourself.

The only coercive labeling going on in this entire post was the OP who changed the poster (and a little the person insisting on using LGBT). Queer is not a super-private self-identifier only that isn’t allowed to be used for finding community, ffs.

I would add something here, but there’s nothing left. @opalescentlesbian nailed it.

Not Gay as in Happy, But Queer as in Fuck You! Every time I think about the Queer Community this is the phrase that I think of.

Thank you @wetwareproblem for standing up for the rest of us.

The real question is: What lake is the Once and Future King gonna pop out of now that Albion’s need is greatest??

Oh my god.

At this point, it’s a valid system of government.

TO ANYONE LIVING IN THE UK

There is a petition to try and call another referendum about the EU, with a rule asking for a 60% majority before a decision is made. Yes this is a shitty time, but hopefully there’s still a chance to fix things. The Leave campaign have already gone back on some of their promises before the referendum, so please, if you can, can you sign this? If we get 100 000 signatures parliament have to debate it, so please. Even if you’re not in the UK if you can share this to try and get it out there, that would be fantastic. Here’s the link:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215

Hello yes, UK followers who are registered to vote, I am here to say: OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE VOTE REMAIN BECAUSE THE LEAVE ARGUMENTS ARE BASED ON AN UNDERCURRENT OF RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA AND ALSO I KIND OF LIKE NOT HAVING THE ECONOMY THROWN INTO THE SHITTER! I ALSO LIKE MONEY FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT AND NOT GIVING OVER TOO MUCH POWER TO THE FUCKING TORIES!

Please and thank you

When even half the Tories are also saying this is a terrible fucking idea, you *know* something is fucking disastrous. If you’ve not already by post, please vote Remain.

If you are undecided, vote remain. A remain outcome can be reevaluated, a leave outcome cannot.