DanC

@danc.bsky.social

255

Followers

571

Following

427

Posts

UK-based English teacher, writer & editor, anti-fascist & linguist.
One of the people behind the Lexis podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0EPs83hWYk0XX8cKkJplbT?s
Pronouns: He/him
Proper nouns: Eldritch, Marx, Bielsa

Posts Replies Media

Why can't anyone spell 'fascist' correctly?

Firebrand senator J.D. Vance was last night confirmed as Donald Trump’s pick for vice president. And it turns out Vance wasn’t so happy to see a Labour government elected in the UK. London Playbook has more on Trump’s VP choice 👇

Trump’s returnwww.politico.eu What's driving the day in Westminster. Politics and policymaking in the UK capital.

Reposted by

DanC

Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

Nearly 90 years on, there seems to be little consensus about the Reichstag Fire, so I'm not sure anyone on social media is going to solve the Trump rally shooting today. Maybe time to just turn it all off.

Promising signs from France 🙏

If France votes for fascism today, my 696 day Duolingo streak can get in the bin.

I know I've got every right to be cynical about the incoming Labour government, but I'm happy for these little squirts who have only really known the Tories. This is them on the big anti-austerity march in 2011 & yesterday we all went to the polling station together. Almost brings a tear to my eye.

Reposted by

DanC

Saw an AI fireworks show and a guy lost all 7 fingers on one hand.

So have we actually gone and fucked the Tories then?

Looks like anti-fascists in the UK had better get organised pretty damn quickly.

These are today's vibes. open.spotify.com/track/02wGz1...

Kick Out The Toriesopen.spotify.com Listen to Kick Out The Tories on Spotify. Newtown Neurotics · Song · 1994.

My feelings about the proposed Archie Gray transfer.

In the immortal words of Chumbawamba, "I get knocked down, I stay down, I get someone else to fight the existential & generational fascist threat, just anyone else, please. We beat medicare." www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Biden acknowledges shaky debate performance and vows to stay in race: ‘when you get knocked down, you get back up’ – livewww.theguardian.com Biden acknowledged in campaign speech that he is indeed old, but says he believes he can still beat the Trump in the November election

I really wish the woke left would stop banging on about identity politics all the time.

Yay, we've reached the terfy bit of the culture wars cycle in our election campaign. This will be healthy and not divisive. BBC News - General election live: Labour says it is party of women's equality after Rowling criticises gender stance - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...

General election live: Labour says it is party of women's equality after Rowling criticises gender stancewww.bbc.co.uk The Harry Potter author said she would

@aurelmondon.bsky.social I'm assuming you've seen this already? Any better than their previous positions in your view? www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Populist, nativist, neofascist? A lexicon of Europe’s far rightwww.theguardian.com There are numerous terms to describe the wide array of far right parties, but what do all they mean – and do we always use the right ones?

Reposted by

DanC

'Another election, another round of Nigel Farage hype, with no lessons learned' Some thoughts on the role of the mainstream media in the mainstreaming of far right politics and their morbid obsession with so-called 'populism' theconversation.com/another-elec...

Another election, another round of Nigel Farage hype, with no lessons learnedtheconversation.com Making a ‘boring’ campaign more exciting, or just distracting from the issues that matter most?

One of the things that The Guardian still does very well. Makes for pretty grim reading though. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

‘How do I heal?’: the long wait for justice after a black man dies in police custodywww.theguardian.com The long read: The true number of black people who have died after contact with the police has been hidden, while their families are faced with delays and denials

I swear that I am going to die shouting at an election vox pop.

Wrong guesses only

Sorry to stink out the timeline with old NF, but this is quite a good one on declinist narratives and political rhetoric. Why Nigel Farage spent his first campaign speech complaining that young people don’t know about D-Day theconversation.com/why-nigel-fa...

Why Nigel Farage spent his first campaign speech complaining that young people don’t know about D-Daytheconversation.com Research from political science shows that rightwing voters respond to narratives that harken back to a better time.

Oh hell, I've turned into Nigel Farage.

Ah it's Farage, popping up like a toad from a pile of musty compost, trotting out lines from the fascist playbook about moral and social decline. What a rancid little tosspot that man is.

This fucking dolt is my local MP. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

James Cleverly suggests asylum seekers are lying about being suicidalwww.theguardian.com Human rights charities condemn home secretary’s comments about MDP Wethersfield and say the site is ‘acutely harmful’

Reposted by

DanC

The timeline right now looks like an Ewok party after the Death Star exploded

You know they've run out of ideas when they're wheeling out Bad Enoch to attack the wokes again.

Reposted by

DanC

Lifted from Threads

Fifa are subtweetimg El*n M*sk here. Chances are he'll feel nothing but pride.

Omg.

There aren't many books I want to read again straight after I've finished them but this and A Memory Called Empire are right up there. So brilliant on language, colonialism & identity/ies. Even non-Sci-fi readers might be hooked.

Reposted by

DanC

'Hwæt The F**k' should surely be the headline here. Beyond the usual clickbait anti-woke agenda, there's an interesting story here about the term 'Anglo-Saxon' and how it's been used. I suspect there's more to this debate than we get here, though. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05...

Cambridge journal ‘pandering to mad Americans’ by ditching Anglo-Saxon from titlewww.telegraph.co.uk University accused of being ‘total drips’ over removal of phrase that has been coopted by US white supremacists