Alan.Steve
@alansteve.bsky.social
Roller derby
Movies
Video games
he/him
Movies
Video games
he/him
Reposted by Alan.Steve
The public inquiry into the Iraq War was as damning as it’s possible to be within this system. The parliamentary report on Libya tore the government a new arse. Both of them were instantly thrown in the bin and never mentioned again, in favour of inviting the culprits on TV and giving them peerages.
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The public inquiry into the Iraq War was as damning as it’s possible to be within this system. The parliamentary report on Libya tore the government a new arse. Both of them were instantly thrown in the bin and never mentioned again, in favour of inviting the culprits on TV and giving them peerages.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
The fact you can't tax billionaires without them sinking millions and millions into pushing fascism kinda provides the exact reason that billionaires shouldn't exist.
December 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The fact you can't tax billionaires without them sinking millions and millions into pushing fascism kinda provides the exact reason that billionaires shouldn't exist.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
Nice one, Spidey.
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Nice one, Spidey.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
Day 12 of #NeilsAdsventCalendar brings this proper earworm from Woolworths. You too will soon be thrilling to the sounds of Juran Juran and Yourivmix
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Day 12 of #NeilsAdsventCalendar brings this proper earworm from Woolworths. You too will soon be thrilling to the sounds of Juran Juran and Yourivmix
Reposted by Alan.Steve
The World’s Richest Man
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The World’s Richest Man
Reposted by Alan.Steve
Spot the point at which UK governments decided austerity was a good idea
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Spot the point at which UK governments decided austerity was a good idea
Reposted by Alan.Steve
This is what my landlord's hearing next time he comes knocking for a rent hike
Richard Madeley "How realistic is it for any profession to expect to be paid in real terms what they were paid in 2008?"
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This is what my landlord's hearing next time he comes knocking for a rent hike
Reposted by Alan.Steve
NEW | The countdown of this year’s most contemptible columns continues…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
Our annual look at the commentariat's most contemptuous content continues.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
NEW | The countdown of this year’s most contemptible columns continues…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
Reposted by Alan.Steve
Krampus has met his Max…
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Krampus has met his Max…
Reposted by Alan.Steve
Clearly Palestine Action's mistake was using paint instead of *checks court report again*
Pipe Bombs
Pipe Bombs
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Clearly Palestine Action's mistake was using paint instead of *checks court report again*
Pipe Bombs
Pipe Bombs
Reposted by Alan.Steve
This is from the McDonald's AI Christmas advert.
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This is from the McDonald's AI Christmas advert.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
Anti-AI posting today
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Anti-AI posting today
Reposted by Alan.Steve
People do not want to think about the fact that America did to North Korea what Israel is doing to Palestine.
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
People do not want to think about the fact that America did to North Korea what Israel is doing to Palestine.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
Hitler originally thought that the British would be on his side, because so many of the upper classes agreed with his genocidal eugenicist policies.
The British upper class, barely even bothering to deny the allegations any more
December 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hitler originally thought that the British would be on his side, because so many of the upper classes agreed with his genocidal eugenicist policies.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
Reposted by Alan.Steve
We must #ChangeTheNarrative!
Dr Beth Upton was fully acquitted of all wrongdoing in yesterday’s Employment Tribunal decision. Yet she has been vilified by a toxic & poisonous media for months.
It must stop!
Congratulations, and solidarity, to you, Beth!
Dr Beth Upton was fully acquitted of all wrongdoing in yesterday’s Employment Tribunal decision. Yet she has been vilified by a toxic & poisonous media for months.
It must stop!
Congratulations, and solidarity, to you, Beth!
December 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We must #ChangeTheNarrative!
Dr Beth Upton was fully acquitted of all wrongdoing in yesterday’s Employment Tribunal decision. Yet she has been vilified by a toxic & poisonous media for months.
It must stop!
Congratulations, and solidarity, to you, Beth!
Dr Beth Upton was fully acquitted of all wrongdoing in yesterday’s Employment Tribunal decision. Yet she has been vilified by a toxic & poisonous media for months.
It must stop!
Congratulations, and solidarity, to you, Beth!
Reposted by Alan.Steve
Waking up at about 10am, sleepily picking up my phone as I drink my bean to cup automated flat white and checking WhatsApp to see what I will be writing about today in my job as a columnist.
We're going after the wheelchairs! Finally!
We're going after the wheelchairs! Finally!
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Waking up at about 10am, sleepily picking up my phone as I drink my bean to cup automated flat white and checking WhatsApp to see what I will be writing about today in my job as a columnist.
We're going after the wheelchairs! Finally!
We're going after the wheelchairs! Finally!
Reposted by Alan.Steve
The determination to present Peggie as "gender critical" really just shows the bad faith bankruptcy of the whole label and movement. There was no deep theory to Peggie, she was just a garden-variety bigot engaging in crude gutter-level slurs.
Time after time, these tribunals are uncovering the abuse of trans people by 'figureheads' backed by far-right & anti-gender movements. Often these cases are based on dodgy funding, fabrication, prejudice, hate, and the egos of deluded zealots determined to eradicate a marginalised group.
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The determination to present Peggie as "gender critical" really just shows the bad faith bankruptcy of the whole label and movement. There was no deep theory to Peggie, she was just a garden-variety bigot engaging in crude gutter-level slurs.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
The 2010s opened with a televised public inquiry into the crimes and malfeasance of the tabloids. It ended with the same papers hounding the PM’s neighbours for phoning the police at 2 am during his drunken, plate-smashing argument with his wife. It’s only got much worse than that since.
so Beth Upton was - very publicly - put through hell, monstered, harassed, abused by the press, by politicians, by her opponents lawyers and by the most rabid, fanatical online hate movement for... nothing
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The 2010s opened with a televised public inquiry into the crimes and malfeasance of the tabloids. It ended with the same papers hounding the PM’s neighbours for phoning the police at 2 am during his drunken, plate-smashing argument with his wife. It’s only got much worse than that since.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
Reposted by Alan.Steve
I am every bit as worried about this as I am about e.g. the terrifying allegation that the police unlawfully discriminated against fascist football hooligans by banning them from a match, and indeed any other absolutely insane shit that our crackpot MPs keep telling our abysmal media outlets.
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I am every bit as worried about this as I am about e.g. the terrifying allegation that the police unlawfully discriminated against fascist football hooligans by banning them from a match, and indeed any other absolutely insane shit that our crackpot MPs keep telling our abysmal media outlets.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
No matter how many times I watch it, the picture at the end of the Shining ALWAYS gives me chills.
December 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
No matter how many times I watch it, the picture at the end of the Shining ALWAYS gives me chills.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
It says a lot that This lady was cited in the manifesto of Anders Breivik and she is still invited to be on TV over 15 years later
Everyone involved knows Mel is a virulently racist fascist lunatic with horrendous views on the use of massive, murderous violence against civilians. But there she still is on Sky News, because her crackpottery is well within acceptable opinion, for our political/media class.
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
It says a lot that This lady was cited in the manifesto of Anders Breivik and she is still invited to be on TV over 15 years later
Reposted by Alan.Steve
And also, life is not supposed to be *permanently* stressful. We're adapted to short periods of stress. If you maintain that kind of thing for weeks, let alone months or years, with no respite or hope, that's putting people into PTSD territory.
Right, but is it that we’re “forgotten life can be stressful” or is it that neoliberal capitalism doesn’t allow us to have natural, normal reactions to stress, so we seek treatment? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
And also, life is not supposed to be *permanently* stressful. We're adapted to short periods of stress. If you maintain that kind of thing for weeks, let alone months or years, with no respite or hope, that's putting people into PTSD territory.
Reposted by Alan.Steve
a word that literally just means "people who aren't transgender" isn't allowed to be used - because bigots said so - and so everyone from EHRC to BBC are coming up with weird expressions to say "people who aren't transgender".
It's so pathetic. what a weak country of cowards.
It's so pathetic. what a weak country of cowards.
December 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
a word that literally just means "people who aren't transgender" isn't allowed to be used - because bigots said so - and so everyone from EHRC to BBC are coming up with weird expressions to say "people who aren't transgender".
It's so pathetic. what a weak country of cowards.
It's so pathetic. what a weak country of cowards.