Yep.

Edit: In fact, to verify this wasn’t just some sort of slang specific to my older relatives I did a quick search for “tuppence slang” and was immediately confronted with numerous newspaper op-eds so awful I never want to read anything ever again.

For verification only, major cognitohazard, NSFW discussion, unbearable cringe

Minge is more modern as far as I’ve ever heard and definitelya lot ruder.

It’s especially weird considering that when I was young older British people used it as a polite euphemism for vagina.

I want competing Kelly, Ben Garrison, & Eli Valley comics on this subject by the end of the week!

(Biden emoji because apparently I dreamed that we had a J. Jonah Jameson one and I felt it had a similar energy)

What if Octus but ?

God, I’d forgotten about this thing!

Also… new 3D, triple-tier, heatmapped political compass just dropped courtesty of NationStates:

Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty that unrelentingly bleak but personally:

• Palestinians are still fighting and continuing the struggle.
• Good old fashioned solidarity from organising and protest
• Seeing even the small wins from providing support and effort like messages from people who managed to leave, get medical care, or purchase small solar panels etc (admittedly this is getting harder and less frequent)
• Seeing the tides turn in attitude to the conflict here in the UK and elsewhere…
• Even just in terms of ordinary, not overly political people I meet in the street/at the football/in the pub etc there’s been a noticable move into the majority of people I talk to not only not buying Israel’s bullshit, but also actual loathing for Israel and its obnoxious supporters in the media.
• Over the last week the vast majority of the newspapers here in the UK have suddenly noticed that Israel is full of shit and are now trying to put some distance between themselves and Israel, taking a more critical tack, and actually talking about Israel’s plans with regard to concepts like ethnic cleansing. Don’t get me wrong, it’s entirely serve-serving and I absolutely do not have to give it to them after they cheerled a genocide for almost two years. But whether it’s the talk of America backing off from the same level of Israel support, the fact that the British government actively broke even it’s own pathetic arms license removal and is currently in court over breaking arms embargos, or just that they were happy to support the ruse of the ‘war’ but now Israel is moving into the ‘final solution’ stage they’ve got cold feet - the fact is there is less support for Israel here than any time over the last few years.
• That even though governments like here in the UK and Germany haven’t relented on their support of Israel and their crackdown on its enemies and critics, continuing to do so is creating more and more unrest and unpopularity. There’s absolutely a lot of controdictions heightening. Here in the UK too, more insidious details are getting leaked to the public too like the fact that our government and judiciary has been collaborating and communicating details of cases with Israel, perverting the course of justice and opening them up to counter-suits, mistrials etc whilst also undermining the government’s law and order narrative regarding crushing political dissent.
• Israel’s increasingly expansionist military moves in the region remind me of Aparthied South Africa’s desperate attempt to defeat opposition from within by trying to disrupt, overthrow, and control its neighbours. A strategy that only has any hope of working so long as they have the unlimited backing of the US and other highly militarised states. Admittedly, Israel seems to be doing better at it than Aparthied South Africa did, but that kind of regional dependency for domestic stability is always going to be fragile at best and gets harder the more of a pariah state they become. On that point, here’s a leaflet about opposing Aparthied South Africa’s desperate expansionist wars from the time

Harm reduction!

For a musical memorium, here’s 13 minutes of afrobeat featuring one of his speeches:

(excuse the automated translation)

We promise a life of waste and waste. Deep down, it is a countdown to nature and humanity. Civilization against simplicity, against sobriety, against all natural cycles, against all natural cycles

But worse

“civilization” against the freedom of having time to live from human relations the only thing transcendent: love, friendship, adventure, solidarity, family…

Today is the time to start fighting to prepare a world without borders

The globalized economy has no other drive than the private interest of very few

The great task for our peoples, in our humble way of seeing… is the whole

It would be imperative to achieve planetary consensus

To unleash solidarity towards the most oppressed

Tax-catching waste

And the speculation

Mobilize the great savings

Not to create disposable

With calculated obsoleence

But useful goods, no frivolities

To help lift the world’s poorest

Yes, the high politics intertwined with wisdom

Our time is potentiously revolutionary

As you have not known the history of humanity

But he has no conscious driving.

Or less driving simply instinctive

Much less still

Organized political driving

Because we haven’t even had precursor philosophies

We need to govern ourselves, or we succumb

This is our dilemma

Let’s think about the underlying causes.

In the civilization of waste

In the civilization of insisting that what you are throwing away is time for wasted human life

Squandering on useless issues

Think of human life as a miracle

That we are alive by miracle

And nothing is worth more than life

And that it is our biological duty, and above all things

Respect life and drive it."

He certainly did.

Crime Pays, Botany Doesn’t for sweary, amusing, but very informative stuff about nature and plants in particular. Always with lots of working class solidarity.

EVNautilus for submarine shenanigans and cool footage of rarely seen marine life, especially cute octopus.

LUXE37 hasn’t uploaded in almost a decade but they made cool Japanese car chase movies with stop-motion, toy cars, and amazingly detailed models.

OgmiosZen does relaxed, zen-like commentary over his dashcam footage of having to drive around London for his job. Often amusing. The channel has grown a lot and now he’s narrating other driving videos which I don’t like as much.

People Make Games isn’t specifically leftist or anything, but it’s the only place I’ve found putting out actual investigative journalism into things like workers rights, bad industry practices, exploitative outsourcing to the ‘developing world’ and more in the video game industry. They also do some fun videos on more niche or elaborate non-video-game gaming like elaborate LARPs or tournaments of competitive Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet solving.

The Craft Beer Channel makes interesting videos and documentary series about beer - from ingredients growing to breweries to pubs - with lots of focus on history and the current actual people behind beer production.

YouSuckAtCooking makes slightly amusing little recipe videos with some willfully silly editing jokes, but without any pretension. Good for basic recipes, done in the most basic kitchen with very available ingredients. Also includes little songs and pets at the end of each video.