FWIW I thought starmer’s speech was actually one of his best

A reminder he has also been told off by Keir for poor behaviour during the assisted dying debate. He really isn’t fit to be in a position of responsibility

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Got to question why the health secretary is making budget announcements ahead of the budget

Going mad seeing no journalist actually query if this means students will get any more money in their pockets

Labour MP Alex Sobel describes government fee levy plan as “stupid”, and also says ministers should never have implemented free speech act. Meanwhile, Russell Group VC describes fee levy as “utterly bonkers”. Lively session at #Lab25. Full story: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Bringing back maintenance grants is a pretty useless measure if it doesn’t increase the overall amount of money given to a student. Just shuffling the chairs. Same for when they were removed. Absolutely nothing changing policy being showcased as progressive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

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Obviously it's bad for Labour too but they have the inner city strongholds that keep them alive. There's really nothing left keeping the Tories alive.

We have gone from taking on the racists a year ago to appeasing them this summer back to taking them on

Quite the audition to be a pantomime villain this Christmas season.

What Tim has written is that he’s fine with racism and said racists normally but now he’s angry at them because said racists are being nasty to his white friend

The UK is really not as nasty as the papers or politicians would have you believe and we would all do well to remember it

Think I have broken my relationship with my phone and social media over the last couple of weeks (my screen time dropped like 60% yay) but I’m not constantly reaching for my phone now so let’s try hard app limits

I hope he runs for deputy leader so he can be forced to face how disliked he is even in the labour party

On a side note, as of March 2025 there were 516,455 civil servants I think it’s more shocking that across the civil service, employees are *only* taking 1 sick day on average every year.

Reading the BBC's page on the Strikes and it's so weighted towards an image of "how dare this thing designed to inconvenience inconvenience me!!"

The new (co-)deputy leader of @greenparty.org.uk, everyone 👇🏻

Really don't know how you can frame the (former) Deputy Leader as an underdog? Particularly when from the start he was widely expected to win

This is fun

This is objectively hilarious

Green Party of England & Wales Leadership Election Result: Zack Polanski: 84.6% ✅ E. Chowns & A. Ramsay: 15.4% Turnout: 24,265 (37.6%)

The broader Green leadership need to ask themselves why they are so out of touch with their membership because that is a thumping loss to their preferred candidates

I deleted instagram and bluesky off my phone and I have reduced my screentime by 80% wow

Are you a Ho-en? Because I’m about to get moss-deep in you

Sick of my voxi signal coverage so any recommendations

www.bbc.com/news/article... the tories spend too much time on X, green energy is incredibly popular, it’s also cheaper. The problem is, the price of electricity is set by the price of gas, which is drilling more oil won’t change

job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46... interested scholarly publishing? Come work with me!

UGH

It’s nearly 9am in DC maybe we’ll find out

I’m aboard the Trump is dead train

In April of 2025 the state turned round and told me that I had been mistaken. That it never regarded me as female. That I was male the whole time. That the marriage it annulled because it was a same sex marriage was never a same sex marriage (but it stays annulled). (8/13)

I want a vinyl player can someone advise on what to do

Violence against women is a serious and pervasive issue. Its weaponisation - whether by the far right or transphobes - to spread fear and hate towards marginalised groups is disgusting and won't make any of us safer. Our government must reject these divide-and-rule politics.

Forthcoming statutory guidance could have a profound impact on trans people's lives. I've written to the Women and Equalities Minister to urge her to reject anything that undermines trans people's rights, inclusion, privacy or safety, and for Parliament to have proper oversight.

Labour have a massive majority lmao they will go through multiple leaders before they call an election. Look at the tories? They went through 3 leaders on their majority and only called it a few months early

An excellent bottle of sweet wine I can’t wait to have. Like liquid crème brûlée, real treat.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... public friendly article. Dangerous times. Often counter argument is that we don’t have observable data for collapse but we know this occurred in the past, even in warm periods with lower CO2 than today (something I’m working on!) eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Will the AMOC collapse throwing western Europe into deep freeze winters and disrupting rainfall patterns for billions of people? Definitely a FAFO moment. "Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

So - if you run an org of any kind, take a lesson from the Quakers. The Sex Matters approach of shoving all trans people into private broom closets always as a way of "protecting women" is not a legal requirement. Stop letting them get away with pretending it is. Be inclusive where you can. /Fin

The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/

Oh Rachel PLEASE apply NI to rental income, please, for the love of god please do it

You know you start a Pokemon save and it’s like “the world is inhabited by Pokemon but we know so little about them!” And it’s like lmao how they didn’t just spring into existence, they’re everywhere, and you’ve been doing this for decades now

Machine Learning Simulates 1,000 Years of Climate The Deep Learning ESM is competitive with CMIP6 models and uses less computational power Hmm… eos.org/research-spo...

Do wonder what timeline a Farage government has for for (1) negotiating a new GFA-like agreement without EHRC mention (2) having a vote both sides of the border to receive consent to change it (3) what he’ll do when both sides resoundingly vote no

“Thank you for emailing me about XXX. Whilst you write a compelling case, my policy is YYY, which is in conflict with your query, so unfortunately I cannot help you”

I think I have 2 main concerns: 1) if you’re using chat GPT, I’d be concerned about easy accidental breaches of private information to ChatGPT 2) if you’ve trained it on your policies, you’re clearly not going to change your mind because the AI won’t so there’s no point emailing trying to do so

Original ‘HARRY POTTER’ director Chris Columbus on the upcoming HBO reboot series: “I’m seeing these photographs… and he’s wearing the exact same costume that we designed for Hagrid. Part of me was like: What’s the point?” (Via @restisents)

Ngl I cannot wait for selling sunset to come back