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[City] were similar to Abramovich’s Chelsea or even Sheikh Mansour’s City. In the eyes of many, they were a side with ‘no history’ that had appeared from nowhere to challenge the establishment.
City in 1905, by a City fan.
Listening to my new album. As you do.
Following on from the success of Drawing Hand, Elijah has created his own version of his favourite game, Geometry Dash.
Not only that, but he wrote his own song to accompany the game play (musical accompaniment by Suno).
New Drawing Challenge dropped!
The 80s was when I was first exposed to “political news”.
Lefties like Tony Benn, who clearly spoke a lot of sense, were “loonies”.
Obvious drooling idiots and upper class twits like Cecil Parkinson and Michael Heseltine were hailed as intellectual stars and saviours, at least until they got caught with their trousers down.
Thatcher was God.
It brought out the very worst in people and us as a nation, and we’re still paying the price.
What is capitalism? It’s a much more complicated question than most people imagine. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026…
It’s like a virus.
In Southall, which is predominantly south Asian, I now frequently see and hear friends and neighbours espousing far right rhetoric about “new arrivals from India”, even when their own parents were immigrants from the same country.
Yesterday lunchtime, a friend who suffered terrible racist abuse as the only brown kid at his school, was telling me how “immigration has caused all the problems in Southall.” Nothing to do with poverty, racism, or any other political choices.
He was with a white British man, who told me he attends the local drug rehab unit recently relocated to Southall. Supping from a can of super strength lager while sitting on an upturned empty fruit box in between two greengrocers’ pavement displays, he told me how he had spent much of his life in jail for killing a man with a shotgun. He claimed it’s all right for him racially abuse black people because one of his four wives is black and one of his thirty children is black.
His advice to his kids? Sign-on, get money for nothing.
Don’t touch his daughter or he’ll shoot you, too.
And religion is the cause of all wars.
He also claimed he could buy mangoes at a third of the price local shopkeepers are paying for them, sell them cheaper and make a bigger, quicker profit.
He also described how to illegally adjust an old-fashioned tachometer with a radio battery.
He said a lot of other things I didn’t catch because I’m partially deaf and he has no teeth.
New post: Racism and xenophobia are not ’legitimate concerns’mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/r… politicians/media describe groups like those in black wearing masks as protestors against asylum seekers in small boats, they presume the motive is ’legitimate concerns’ rather than racism.
New drawing challenge today
Been there, done that.
If there were a Fediverse meetup in your city or region, would you go? #EvanPoll #poll #fediverse #meetup #FediverseMeetup Yes Yes, but… No, but… No Poll: cosocial.ca
My little lad would absolutely love it if anyone takes him up on his drawing challenge.
My six year old has been running family drawing competitions for months. He draws something and challenges family members to draw the same image he has drawn. Then he grades them using his special grading system. Tonight we built the only natural extension of this competition Elijah’s Drawing Hand. See… davidmarsden.info
My six year old has been running family drawing competitions for months.
He draws something and challenges family members to draw the same image he has drawn. Then he grades them using his special grading system.
Tonight we built the only natural extension of this competition Elijah’s Drawing Hand.
See Elijah’s drawing, try to copy it, submit your attempt and wait to get your grade!