Tony Kennick
banner
thegreatgonzo.uk
Tony Kennick
@thegreatgonzo.uk
390 followers 1.4K following 2.1K posts
Expat Bournemouthian in Sheffield Digital Swiss Army Knife. Tickets on sale for Much Ado About Nothing https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/midlandplayers
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Pinned
Intro post:
My day job is helping people and companies make the best use of the internet. I create and support theatre, spend a lot of time in cinemas, love Terry Pratchett (GNU), and have a tendency to waffle.

I had 15 minutes of fame back on the bird site:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...
Social media v the News of The World
Twitter users have mounted an extremely effective campaign to dissuade advertisers from using the News of the World.
www.bbc.co.uk
When you want to ask a genuine question on the socials, but the subject matter will make it sound like engagement farming at best and NYT Pitchbot at worst.
Reposted by Tony Kennick
Look I am just saying that if we simply threw women, Black folks, immigrants, LGBTQ people, Muslims and other minorities under the bus we could go back to discussing the class-based white people politics that I, a white male pundit, am most comfortable discussing. Is that so hard?
Reposted by Tony Kennick
Reposted by Tony Kennick
Y'all Come Teat! ❤️👍
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Reposted by Tony Kennick
The blanket use of "pregnant women" doesn't just erase the existence of trans and nonbinary people who can and do get pregnant, it also implies that every pregnant child is an adult, which is pretty fucking disgusting in a country that widely allows legal marriage between children and adults
Pregnant women are people. “Pregnant people” doesn’t erase cis women’s experiences with pregnancy — it expands the frame.

It helps make all reproductive health safer and more accessible for everyone.
Reposted by Tony Kennick
I just cannot take this shit seriously. If you're a senior Labour figure and think that the party's stance is cowardly but are too afraid to put your name on the record saying it YOU ARE A COWARD.
Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home".

"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
Exclusive: Labour Anger Erupts Over Party's Response To Katie Lam Immigration Row
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
Reposted by Tony Kennick
Most of Westminster is still on X.
This is a "recommended" tweet pushed to a (very much not-Nazi) contact's iPhone lockscreen last week.

Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?

It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
Reposted by Tony Kennick
I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
Reposted by Tony Kennick
The best way to counter this tactic is to familiarize yourself with the database of dogwhistles. The ADL is deeply problematic in so, so many ways, but they maintain the best and most solid database of symbolism: www.adl.org/resources/ha...
www.adl.org
I see the American left has decided on yet another of their pernicious purity tests to keep ordinary ex Blackwater military security contractors out of politics. This time it's (checks biro on hand) not having nazi tattoos.
Reposted by Tony Kennick
i believe that if you decide to get a nazi tattoo instead of make out with your friends , then you are unfit for public office
Reposted by Tony Kennick
"What treasure did your adventure yield?" villagers would ask on her return.

"None," she would laugh, "except memories, scars, and a favour owed me by a wolf!"

Or a dragon, toad, sow, or gorgon.

"When will you call in all the favours owed you?"

"Only when I must," she said.

She never had to.
Reposted by Tony Kennick
There was a 'womp' sound from the yard. I looked out the window.

Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat.

"Oi!" I called.

"The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it."

Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.
Fellow white people, when someone of a different ethnicity tells us politely that on of our number has been disrespectful to their culture. The correct response isn't to tell them they are wrong.
That wasn't even the really weird bit, she said she worked for Yahoo and they were ramping up their in-house journalism team again.
Something weird happened yesterday.
Somebody approximately a decade younger than me said I couldn't possibly have some of my internet knowledge first hand as they were obviously older than I was.
Reposted by Tony Kennick
this particular rake wasn’t even in the path of the government until they decided to march straight towards it for some reason
A Labour minister has admitted that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans barred from going to a football match in England are 'reprehensible' – after pledging that their attendance would be ensured by the Government
Lisa Nandy: Maccabi fans 'reprehensible' – but must be allowed into Birmingham
www.thenational.scot
Reposted by Tony Kennick
right wing bigots have admitted

- the “trans women in bathrooms” issue

- the “trans women in sports” issue and

- the “trans kids getting surgery” issue

were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY

are you paying attention?
Halloween has only caught on recently in the UK, we used to spend all our energy on Guy Fawkes night, burning catholics in effigy and blowing stuff up.
But now the weird holiday is a popular
Although I might just pop out for some chips
It is all a bit meh out, I am definitely unlikely to go anywhere without purpose
Why is my brain so insistently suggesting I should be getting on outdoor clothes and leaving the house?
I can't see anything in my diary or remember what on earth I might be supposed to be doing?
Reposted by Tony Kennick
There will genuinely be conversations today in companies where management will ask "hang on, when you say the cloud is someone else's computer, you mean that someone is in America" several of these companies will have text on their websites about data never leaving [territory that isn't the US]