If Keir Starmer is as genuinely serious about stopping Reform as he claims to be, then there’s one thing he should do - defect to Reform. Can’t think of anything that would absolutely slaughter their popularity quicker.

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

😸😸😸😸😸😸😸😸 Matt on form!

This , y'all!!

Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things: 1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol 2. No flisking 3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology 4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on 5. No questions Good luck!

Thinking everything is doomed is apocalyptic thinking. It's no different than believing in Judgment Day, The Rapture, or any other doomsday judgment scenario that was always built from the ground up to push you into passive obedience. Life. Will. Go. On. Get off your ass and make it worth living.

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

Siemen Dijkstra, Single Oak, color woodcut, 2008.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

This is a really good 1/2 hr listen. Has quite given me the willies. #BrokenVeil

New Fairytale of New York lyrics just dropped... 😮‍💨 Grace Petrie 👏

Beautiful words from Margaret Atwood: “This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future, the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar...” #wintersolstice #linocut

Just found my old collection of return tickets. They took me back.

In conversation with Emily we've just coined the term "flu movies" - films you watch when you have the flu. Unchallenging. Feel good films you could watch with a piece of your brain missing. Current list: Yes Man Freaky Friday 13 going on 30 Miss congeniality The Mr Bean movie Additions welcome

🇸🇩🧵We’re kicking off a detailed thread to help you catch up on the catastrophic violence & humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan. If you haven’t been following closely, this will give you the essential context. ➤ Up to 400,000 people have been killed since the civil war broke out in April 2023...

complain complain complain to the bbc www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Turns out a lot of Robin Ince's books are in the sale here, if anyone wants to support him cosmicshambles.myshopify.com/search?q=rob...

WTAF BBC? This is heartbreaking.

The problem with the BBC being the nation’s finest engine for soft power, is that people have realised that they can easily exert hard, nasty, cruel power on it, and bend it out of shape. Empathy, curiosity and compassion shouldn’t be problematic qualities that need silencing. Seems they are now.

Hot tip: you can visit Honolulu on a business trip and still do some awesome birding! 🪶🦑🌿

Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.

Little Green Canal One of those scenes that has the car screeching to a halt, crazed photographer grabbing bits and pieces in a mad dash to capture the moment before it twists away and is gone. - Twizel, New Zealand - #Aurora #SouthernLights #Nightscape #EastCoastKin #Scape #bucketlist #BestWork

We love a wet-faced little duck, don't we, folks

A fun Christmas breakfast is Baileys poured over Ferrero Rocher. I call it Executive Coco Pops.

"Morning Light on a Carolina Wren" 5" x 7" Oil on panel I just think they're neat

The walk from Hove to Brighton #brighton #hove #photography #seaside

Famously, corvids are highly intelligent problem-solvers. They’re also greedy fuckers.

Controversially, I don't think Die Hard is a Die Hard movie. It's just *set* at Die Hard.

I have nothing of value or interest to say, so here is a heron blowing a smoke ring

Hope is here. Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️

Excellent, insightful article: thank you TES and @mmulholland.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not. He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions. Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Antici...

Frost on the windows this morning.

The Nerve is at the Old Bailey today for the sentencing of Nathan Gill. It's a complex story and the Nerve is here with our first print edition - a handy fold out timeline detailing the whole affair...! More soon...

Cis allies watching hormone access get cut off for trans people, there may be no more direct way to help than to seek an HRT prescription for yourself, and give it to someone who does need it

This is tantalisingly close to £3k. The news moves on, but the lives of Jamaicans are still very difficult. Every bit helps (shares cost nothing but can be incredibly helpful). www.gofundme.com/f/huricane-m...

Went to an uncommonly good gig at the weekend. I've been to a lot of gigs, and this is definitely in the running for best ever.

@christt.bsky.social Well that was off-the-charts wonderful! I'm going to be grinning for at least a month.

Going to put this on front of you again. The news moves on, but the problems faced by those living in Jamaica are still there.

China’s emissions have peaked, five years ahead of schedule. A moment of epochal importance. bsky.app/profile/carb...

Spring in the Weald of Kent by the Kentish artist Rowland Hilder I love everything about it. The blossom on the trees, the long gone Elm trees, the horse and cart slowly moving through a hedgerow lined lane, the Oasts

This is predictably great.

In yet more 'why is Britain pursuing net zero when no one else is', India's electricity capacity is now over 50 per cent low carbon and it just saw peak renewables generation deliver half the country's power. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521481...

People mistake billionaires goal to be accumulating wealth , their goals tend to be around power and legacy. See Musks Mars obsession/his eugenics kids or the using his kids blood guy or the dozen "the singularity will happen and make us immortal" guys. They'll lose money if it means power or legacy

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.