leicester

Stabbing

There was a stabbing outside my workplace today which made the BBC news. All pretty shocking to be honest. I was one of the people standing around gawping at the aftermath, I sort of wish I hadn’t been, but I guess it would seem callous to go straight back to work in that scenario.

The victim is reportedly doing okay at least. Crazy day.

Flags again

It wasn’t just my Pride flag that got torn down. (Course, I say torn down but I didn’t actually see that. It could have been that the wind just blew it away. I kind of doubt it given the area I’m in, though.) They’re being torn down elsewhere in Leicester in direct acts of intimidation towards LGBT people.

Someone posted about it on r/leicester. I joined in. It wasn’t fun. There was the “clearly a hoax, no LGBT person has ever been abused” person:


The people who insist they’re not allowed to fly the English flag despite one flying in virtually every town for as far back as people can remember:


Guys who just really, really want to be allowed to say the r-word:


And same old tiresome , tiresome storybook monsters who think I’m a fool and a hypocrite for caring about other people.

Meanwhile, people have been killed for flying Pride flags.

expressionofthevoid:

ceevee5:

Good morning to everyone, especially Gary Lineker. It’s a badge of honour if Tories are mad at him over this.

A reminder of the Daily Mail headline from 1938 – “The way stateless Jews and Germans are pouring in from every port of this country is becoming an outrage.”. I’ll just leave that here.

Gary is from my home city and he’s a Good Dude.

(Funny how that “cancel culture” works, innit.)

Huge sonic boom heard throughout Leicestershire and beyond β€” Leicestershire Live – News

Fire control received several calls but think it was a plane causing a sonic boom

Huge sonic boom heard throughout Leicestershire and beyond β€” Leicestershire Live – News

Leicester has been sonic boom’d. How fun! I heard it and thought it might be a car crash on the nearby road but thankfully no, just a fighter plane doing fighter plane things.