The clearest evidence that the increase in atmospheric CO₂ is due to humans is in carbon isotopes. Fossil fuels have no ¹⁴C and are depleted in ¹³C. As we burn them, the ratio of ¹⁴C and ¹³C relative to ¹²C in the atmosphere drops (look up the Suess Effect).

The thing I love about the people saying that nobody wants a new prime minister is that they really do, he's the least popular prime minister since they started recording it, and every day he stays makes people dislike that party a little bit more. So you guys stick with your boy!

my biggest beef with Starmer is that he's made me watch televised news coverage

If women were 9 out of 10 stalkers, it's all we would talk about. If women committed 97% of sexual assaults, it's all we would talk about. Men wanna squabble over "62 million views doesn't mean 62 million men" & we're giving them the space & grace we would never afford women in ANY circumstance.

Occam's Razor—which journalists have never heard of—suggests that Olly Robbins is what our American cousins would call a "Patsy"

it's completely insane that people are demanding a couple of resignations. at any previous time in history this is a scandal that would have brought down a government. it's incredible how low we've sunk.

and I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: the Mandelson scandal should be as big as Profumo. trading secrets to a foreign spy who's job is to use a paedophile ring to collect kompromat on the highest elites AND THE PM KNEW HE WAS A HUGE RISK is MUCH BIGGER THAN Profumo

the answer to the question "OK, you're allowed *one* purity test"

Of course our bestest boy gets his cushy job just pop a stamp on it there ya go we’re all friends here

I hate getting drawn into conspiracy thinking but if the open secrets are this bad you have to wonder what the closed secrets are, other than "the world is run by a cartel of child rapists" of course

we will never find out what kompromat Peter Mandelson holds on his colleagues in the Labour Party

I reckon universal provision with proper progressive taxation is just better on every level than targeted provision that is withdrawn at different income levels.

8 years ago, I told a story which changed my life forever. Shortly after, an old pal from college asked if he could turn it into a film. So I am DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE that 'Me, Myself & Mary' is not only finished, but has been chosen to lead the Tribeca Festival's animated shorts roster this year.

incredible the amount of shit Yanks and Brits sling at each other given that our societies are fucked in exactly the same ways for exactly the same reasons

It's a year today since the Supreme Court decision on the meaning of "sex" under the Equality Act 2010. Jolyon Maugham and I have written a reflective piece with our thoughts on the judgment, everything that has happened since, and why it's so important that we are still fighting - together 👇

If Liz Kendall is telling me to use AI that just vindicates my AI hater position.

Exactly one year ago today:

It’s illustrative to recognise when the Guardian uses the word investment (straightforward handing over cash to the private sector) and when it uses spending (welfare, public sector wages)

TOMORROW! It's me in gorgeous Bath, one of my absolute fave bits of the country. And at 7pm I'm performing at the Bath Comedy Festival for just a tenner. 🎟️ www.bathcomedy.com/whats-on?id=... 🎟️

Of course the really fun one here is if it turns out that the person who overruled the security vetting on Peter Mandelson was… Peter Mandelson. But that would be too on the nose to be true.

logging off, defeated

is bsky being weird for anyone else?

I'm old enough to remember when this would have meant at least four resignations and if you're old enough to vote then so are you

We must accept now that the Code of Practice will be draconian. Unfortunately the Good Law Project Failed to defeat the interim guidance in court, now we face a Code of Practice that will amount to trans exclusion from public life. Do not comply. I repeat do not comply. Let them sue, we won't obey

Normal brain: Bluesky has been a dick all, day, you're free to do what you want. My brain: refresh refresh refresh refresh refresh

An analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's first queer kiss, by Elliot B.: 

The systematic destruction of feminist spaces online is what inspired us to start  The Flytrap. Since last year, part of this work is archiving key Bitch Magazine articles that have disappeared from the internet. Here's some pieces we reprinted this year!

I know this outage isn't directly related to vibe coding I just think vibe coders are fuckups and so everything they do will fuck up eventually

i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew

I deserve compensation for a full day lost of telling assholes to eat shit

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This BBC immigration and asylum story is a moral panic. Poorly evidenced, generalised panic about a marginalised social group. Next week, the government will respond with a new 'crackdown'. This will then further exacerbate public anxiety. You know who wins from all of this, Nigel Farage.

Sharon Osbourne is a Tommy Robinson supporter. Tommy Robinson was quoted in a video uploaded to Instagram under the account GauciReports, with details of the planned ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march to be held on 16 May 2026. “See you at the march.” was Sharon Osbourne's reply. www.nme.com/news/tv/shar...

Red is the rose, Bluesky is crap,

the Yanks should never have been allowed near football

we call these "corridors"

jfc

I usually try to explain it like this: picture JB Pritzker as Ed Balls. Now imagine they're Latvian. Doesn't look so much like the Erfurt latrine disaster was caused by uncles having their penises pinched by a crab now, does it?

The BBC undercover investigation into false immigration claims is deeply irresponsible journalism. It does not highlight that exploitation by unregulated advisors occurs because legal aid was cut and the system is insane to navigate.

Important; the Starmer regime has repeatedly LIED about the “Supreme” Court misjudgement. They can overturn it or amend the Equality Act any time without even going through parliament but ARE CHOOSING not to. They are imposing trans segregation because they WANT to while pretending they HAVE to.

No surprise BBC News and its war on trans people is fanning out to encompass the rest of the LGBTQIA+ community, or that they've combined it with racism and made it the top headline as a treat for conservatives. Why pay £180 a year to fund this culture war? Cancel the licence fee. Defund the BBC.

The BBC is basically The News of the World now

I don't add outlets to my News Trash list by virtue of them being outlets, they actually have to be trash It's not my fault they all end up there

Val Kilmer doesn't do anything in the upcoming movie As Deep As The Grave, a digital ghoul made by cunts is being used as a fucking corpse puppet show This sucked when it was Ian Holm, it sucked when it was Peter Cushing, and it sucks now He deserves better and so do we

journalistic malpractice is the norm at the BBC

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

can I poast? is this poasted?

Wow what about women who grew up during the utter peak of rape culture in this country makes them so left wing? Is it the woke epidemic? Or can we blame Instagram?

Do we think people are not going to get upset when their government makes it crystal clear everything the political class has ever said about justice and human right was horseshit, and that all of that goes out the window when America declares the world’s first good and admirable genocide.