PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

So harassing journalists is bad but putting fathers with seven-day-old hospitalised children in the way of harassment is acceptable? Just checking we've got the rules straight.

Don't think Brits realise just how much of a fucking shithole their media is. God knows the Irish press has a million problems but the UK papers are now, en masse, scoring points against an anguished father of a hospitalised baby.

Just to be clear: this doesn't happen elsewhere. https://t.co/gJpB9adJs8

— Séamas It Ever Was (@shockproofbeats) September 18, 2019

thread undoubtedly already aware of our unofficial uk correspondent but anyway

I bet they've got a bunker in Bletchley Park just dedicated to gaming social media for the tory establishment, cunts.

God knows the Irish press has a million problems but the UK papers are now, en masse, scoring points against an anguished father of a hospitalised baby. a bitch aint one

but

fucked that right up

"a bitch aint one, but"

flawless irish idiom tbh

so

Dan Hodges is such a disingenuous, insincere cunt. A huge portion of the people angry about this aren’t even Labour voters or supporters. Yet somehow this is “planned”. Ok lad.

I have to go, but please autofill one of the following responses as what I would have said to anything further that is posted about the press being a gang of bootlickers itt today:

- fash adjacent cunts
- moronic cunts
- dangerous cunts

Increasingly the job of 'journalism'seems not to ve speaking truth to power but obliterating anybody who attempts to do that, and that, my friends, is terrifying.

— Joe Kennedy (@joekennedy81) September 18, 2019

Bunch of yellow melts crowing on social media today because they think Tonty Blair might be mulling over becoming a Lib Dem (I’m thinking specifically of Mr. Helen Lewis whose every tweet as Guardian tech editor is about bad days for Labour).

Blair finally joining the team he belongs in would be good not bad imo

looking forward to QT, when laura k will doubtless be exposing and sharing the personal details of every conservative party activist who asks a question

Dad coming out in support of LauraK

Mr Helen Lewis

I hate myself for knowing who this is

tony blair joining the LDs would be unequivocally good btw

no way blair is joining lib dems, for all his many faults he isn't that particular strain of idiot, surely

Helen Lewis apparently went to the convent school round the corner from my catholic comprehensive secondary school, not surprising tbh, she seems the sort

Heard from friends in her age/education cohort that she bullied another undergraduate so hard on a college forum that they left Oxford. I wonder how that person feels, seeing her hired by media orgs to write about cyberbullying?

if they were going to do a live action production of spoilt bastard from viz, Helen has the perfect face for that role.

I was hoping that Suzy would have a story about Helen Lewis.

And she does!

Any more?

I agree actually that she can be a bully, in writing or online.

I think she looks like a mash-up of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, and disliked her years before I found out she was a TERF.

it’s funny how much quitting twitter insulates from having to read about lots of nonsense - assume the labour students thing has been big on there this week (? may be wrong). saw the story on the guardian front page and seems like such insider baseball fraff

it’s funny how much quitting twitter insulates from having to read about lots of nonsense

I've never had a Twitter account and have but the foggiest idea of what's going on.

twitter may be bad but if you don't follow morons its p good and certainly better than reading the guardian, whose reporting of the labour students biz is extremely bad.

I mainly just follow sound archivists and historians and mute lots of words, which sort of works

also blocking any accounts you don't want to see, piers morgan, etc.

actual incredible run of posts itt u love to see it

just emphasises how little cut through to real life there is for many twitter brouhahas - vast majority of ppl not on twitter. yesterday they will have seen the PM get a doing about NHS underfunding not fact the dad was a labour activist

p good as a news source, I mean. the ability to follow chat from all sorts of ppl from all over the world is p incredible, so much stuff that I would never hear about through UK media

@bbclaurak is doing her job without fear or favour, which is a vital part of democracy.

I don’t think “Labour activist cares about NHS” is a huge scoop though... https://t.co/GiSeSmzZ7m

— Omar Salem (@OmarSalem) September 19, 2019

Suzy I see what you mean, but still hoped for more insider info!

Unsure that LK is doing her job without favour.

I like it as a news source and also to note the posturing of certain prominent media types v their IRL behaviour. Also has exposed me to things I’d otherwise not get IRL eg. BAME opinions and good exchanges with ppl who basically undermine prevailing centrist/RW narratives.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE0AmLkWsAEFk6F?format=png&name=360x360

"Look at him go!"
"Theeere's the bus coming!"
"Is he under the bus?"
"He's under the bus!"

I've got no bone to pick with Twitter per se, it's just that I'm already addicted enough to the internet as is and would rather not tempt the Fates any further.

Twitter is pretty good for all sorts of chat and you find yourself learning a couple of things you didn't know about a week. Lots of funny things too.

But you also see a lot of ugliness and it drives a lot of older UK media, for the worse.

I do look at it sometimes which is why I can say...

fuck up you hat tip cunt

I’m always going to bat for @bbclaurak, on here or anywhere else, Grace under extreme pressure.

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) September 18, 2019

I would happily burn the entire site to the ground. The benefits that suzy are describing accrue to it because it's the site that everyone is on, they're not specific to it being designed towards half-thought arguments ripe for taking out of context.

Nah, that's our job

I quit cold turkey over a year ago. I do use it sometimes to look something up, but I can 100% say it's been better for my 'well-being' to steer clear. Also, it's funny how when you don't use it, people don't notice you're not there, so I've hardly lost followers :) There's a wise lesson in there somewhere.

I’ve stayed off Instagram, even though there’s an argument that I need it for work as much as Twitter. Pretty sure I’ll register there when I get my own dog, so I can bore the internet to death with #whippetsofinstagram

I restrict my twitter Douglas the cutie big boy labbie posts to about once every 3 months, to spare my massive legion of followers my sloppy doggo side!

Meanwhile, the case at the Supreme Court, Lord Pannick had the government in a, er, panic on the first day but the efforts of a showboating Scottish lawyer yesterday and a bellicose whingeing Ulsterman today may have swung things back in their favour.

Guardian reporting the government are pessimistic though?

Wishful thinking if you ask me.

is that whingeing Ulsterman called Lavery? I've just caught the odd bit of fragmented commentary on this probably predictable waste of time.

He is. I'm only following the Guardian feed, I've no idea how he came across irl but he did get, more or less, told to sit down and shut up.

i look forward to seeing some piss-funny articles from Spectator hacks about how public schools serve social mobility, actually

― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:42 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol guess what i've just been listening to on the radio

Nelson Fraser ?