It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate interests are buying access to the Government via the Tony Blair Institute. My letter to the cabinet office. 👇🏼

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

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Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

I know it’s exhausting to do this endlessly but do write to your Labour MP opposing Labour’s bathroom ban. The party does this because it thinks it’s making the problem go away.

First glance at the CoP and it’s so fucking bad, like stating that trans inclusion will constitute unlawful harassment and that protecting women’s dignity (hint: by excluding trans people) is a legitimate aim Written and approved by by some seriously sick, twisted people

Gov straight up admitting that any attempts at gender policing are unworkable because "There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex." So bin it??

The argument that you're the only thing standing in the way of a Reform government holds less water the more far-right policies you enact.

Destroy the Labour Party.

Even violence, state or otherwise, will not stop me living my life. I will not change a single thing about how I've been living for over a decade regardless of what some new garbage "guidance" might say. If they made it illegal to breathe I'd still do it. Fuck you

you see, I'm an immigrant, a lifelong "other" and I call bullshit. Abolish the Home Office (abolish the sambowmans too)

May not keep this one up too long, but here is a temperature check of where we are at these days with formerly 'just a normal classical liberal' types

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

FYI, Neil Gaiman appears to be lurking around Bsky again All are encouraged to block: bsky.app/profile/neil...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

I love how you can tell it's a @jimmfelton.bsky.social written piece on @iflscience.com without even checking the byline. "So, how close are we talking? Is it time to crack each other's heads open, and feast on the gooey bits inside? As usual, no." www.iflscience.com/newly-discov...

This doesn’t fill me with an absolutely enormous amount of confidence

"When you lose an election in a democracy you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them, 'what were you thinking'?"

YES YOU DO, YOU DO ACTUALLY DO THAT, ESPECIALLY ON LONG FLIGHTS. CHANGING PILOTS DURING A FLIGHT IS A THING THAT REGULARLY HAPPENS, DAVID

Often funny, but ultimately disturbing, this history of the Sun newspaper shows the depraved garbage it has produced for decades. It's deeply rooted racism, homophobia, xenophobia is exposed for all to see. A disgusting rag that has blighted the discourse in the UK for far too long.

President so bad he reverses 600 years of Protestant-Catholic infighting

a second article in as many weeks listing @jessicaelgot.bsky.social as an author, where the home office again mentions that settlement is automatic. it is not automatic, it is a lie, the home office is *lying*. it isn't true!

I'm sorry I said you weren't very scary.

Recreate your own Artemis splashdown with three Tunnocks teacakes and a Nespresso pod

The new VERY hagriographic Michael Jackson biopic starring MJ's nephew is out at the end of the month. But back in 2004 an unauthorised and EQUALLY flattering biopic was made in Canada. Here is a clip and I promise you have NO idea where it's going. I haven't done a single edit here.

Astronaut: "And next... tank pressure reading... 10111953 pascals." Outlook: "October 11th, 1953" Astronaut: "What? No! Dammit.... how do I shut this of..." Outlook: "November 10th, 1953"

this is ground control to major tom you should've hit upgrade

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working"

This was the shot.

Hello, internationals! Forgot to mention our episode of You’re Dead To Me about the history of the Spice Trade is now available globally on all podcast apps With ace comedian @paulsinha.bsky.social and expert historian @davidveevers.bsky.social Here’s a lil’ clip from our funny, facty chat

A new report shows hitting our climate targets by 2050 costs less than one oil shock costs the UK. We need a rapid transition to clean energy to shield people & the economy from price spikes every time oil prices jump. Some commentators still can’t connect those dots…

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.

Please have a play. You are a raven. A creature of myth and legend... or just a big bird, your choice. Eat the gods! Dance with a Dracula! Take Edgar Allan Poe to Alton Towers! Ruin a Zumba class! Drive the M4 w a mythic princess! Get very lost & end up in the wrong game! j2gb9g9f.play.borogove.io

Hahahahahahaha cc @paperghost.bsky.social

Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years. That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”. Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives. This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

Labour's changes to immigration rules, including potentially applying them retroactively, would be some of the most draconian anti-immigration policies in decades. They're the hostile environment on speed. This is pure cruelty as policy, with absolutely no merit to them archive.today/2026.02.03-2...

[explaining to a child why they are living in poverty] for every hundredth pint i drink i can get one free pint

Waterstones, where I used to work as a bookseller, have made Pagans their Science Fiction/Fantasy book of the month (with two quid off). THE MOTHERSHIP HAS CALLED ME HOME. www.waterstones.com/campaign/boo...

christ what an inexplicable, baffling life this horse had

*hisses like a cat* BAD www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit

this would quite literally be prison on a vast scale, shutdowns on a vast scale, bans and blocks, servers hauled off, doors kicked in, under any other circumstance

I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In 1932 The US Began The Infamous 'Tuskegee Experiment'. Could History Be About To Repeat Itself?

Don't know who needs to hear this, but Unclench your jaw Let your shoulders drop Liquefy all your connective tissue for the nutrients Slither bonelessly off your chair Wick yourself up the walls through capillary action Envelop the room Become a new god Become a new god

the European mission to Greenland was fourth in the BBC news running order this morning, which feels a bit like doing a light "and finally..." item about the archduke's motorcade taking a wrong turn in Sarajevo