What if the plastic bags that blow around on windy days are actually the ghosts of dead pterodactyls? 🦕

Caught up in a big women's right march, gang. Which is pretty great tbqhwy. Favourite sign so far: I'M TOO CLUMSY TO DEAL WITH FRAGILE MASCULINITY.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

The Pentagon’s dispute with AI company Anthropic underscores the gridlock in AI governance – and just how far the Trump administration will go to ensure major tech companies fall in line. https://bit.ly/4sk49iO

Now seems a pertinent time to repost this. I absolutely hope I am wrong in thinking this will last more than a year, but the Iraq war lasted 8 years…

If only she were here to see this day….

Dear #NigelFarage 40% of working popn of women in the UK work from home. I imagine many have caring responsibility they couldn’t do whilst in an office/factory. 20% of folk who work from home are disabled-workplaces can be inaccessible. Despite crossover,LOTS of working taxpayers Just saying!

Is my maths awry or have I just worked out need 80+ days Annual Leave this year to cover school holidays? Even if ex did 50% I’ve 29 days leave,so need 40 days min to cover -parental leave is still unpaid. I can’t afford not to work, somethings gotta give…what about parents with no support!

Never forget this. Never let it disappear.

Reading some of the reported email exchanges around Epstein, around how his friends and associates rally around him, makes me sick as someone who has experienced SA. Words like “hysteria” “vultures” “trumped up charges” “didnt say no” “manipulative girls” are typical MO of gaslighting abusers

For those keeping score at home:

This has to be stopped. Ideas on how to be a good ally in the UK please? My Grandad didnt fight WW2 to see this rerelease

#Arsenal playing the old Arsenal way: "we're a goal up, it's not like the other guys are going to score". Cos that's never bitten them on the arse, oh no.

News reporting on smartphone ban in schools Where is the absolute drive for metal detectors in school?! Harvey Wilgoose’s Mum on the radio told lad was known- “it is about the reputation of the school” that action isn’t taken she said. The school haven’t contacted her after failings established.

He deserves the world

Marginal tax rates for graduates with student loans – add interest and another 6% for postgrads. £25,000: 37% £50,270: 51% £100,000: 71%

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I love that Prince Andrew had a codename email address to avoid suspicion and all the emails are like 'Had to spend the weekend at Balmoral, Mother wants me to look after the corgis, my brother's here too - not Edward, but Charles, you know the heir apparent.'

Love Jane 💪

Having to watch news presenters pronounce “Schitt’s creek” could be a new extreme sport. The amazingly professional Barbara Serra on Sky is doing a magnificent job of staying professional in the face of this.

The public really aren't buying this anymore...

Forgive me,the algorithm and its racial bias showed me nothing on Keith Porter being shot by off duty ICE agent. Off. Duty. I’d like to know what the remit of ICE are, because if they can shoot people dead on their own, off duty, they have so much power.Too much power? And what accountability?

Reform seem to have been charging people £125 to put themselves up as potential Gorton and Denton parliamentary Candidates: Applications closed Sunday. When did they select Goodwin?

My kid just said they wanted a snack, but my house is more of an “ingredients house” than a snack house. Music to my ears. One thing working from home as a single mum allows is to cook, from scratch, and to look after all our health. Its not woke,not luxury, its necessity so parents can work.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

If folks disliked Alex Pretti, out there protesting for peoples rights (with a broken rib from ICE assaulting him the week prior) they would definitely not like Jesus Christ either, with his radical action in face of injustice. I imagine he got called all sorts too..and also paid with his life.

Alex Pretti is 2nd white,US working citizen,engaged in what appears legal bystander, slaughtered. It was never about immigration. It was always about the optics, the psychology, seeing how far they can push people to get on board when they see peers slaughtered publicly. We know what this is.

What it feels like to live in America and believe ALL people should have basic human rights.

All the kids laughing at 6-7 not realising thats the age they get to retire if theyre not dead already and heres me sat here crying about it and Im only 48 😭

The “no wind farms in China” Trump talked about, is actually the MOST of any country. Awkward! www.forbes.com/sites/mattra...

🚨 BREAKING: Over 100 clergy at Target HQ in Downtown Minneapolis demanding justice #ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood 🎶 “We can stay here all day, we shall not be moved. We are shopping elsewhere, we shall not be moved.” 🔗 Watch live: www.facebook.com/share/v/1ALf...

All Americans should see how these “professionals” are behaving towards unarmed citizens.

Second time (why did I go back) and last time I delete X (Dont worry I wasnt using it anyway)

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

Well, Holiday Inn is off the list when I’m on tour www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”

I tried to argue this with someone recently - that social mobility, regardless of education, is dead. Yet apparently the figures show the no of people earning enough to pay tax is expanding. Fiscal drag means can argue those paying higher rate is increasing, to whip support away. Worrying.

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

A little known fact about A Muppets Christmas Cameo is that Charles Dickens himself insisted on a cameo part. Very few people realised he was the most accomplished amphibian author of his time, but of course few people remember what he looked like now…

Budget day is here. For all the reasons in this thread & for hundreds more, let’s hope @teamlabouruk.bsky.social does the right thing and gets rid of the two-child limit, a callous policy that has no place in a compassionate country largerfamilies.study

There’s a lot in social media shaping policy that sits ill. Influencer makes AI videos about migrants, comments appear to back him and create consensus(if you go by dead internet theory many aren’t actually people) Then UK Govt makes policy around “what public want”yet this info is questionable?

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract. Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.

Our colleague Raj Kaur Bilkhu is on BBC Radio London now talking about our work with the Royal British Legion to raise awareness of South Asian service in the world wars, and the My Family Legacy campaign asking British Asians to share their family stories of service www.myfamilylegacy.org.uk

My newest phrase re dire living standards/inflation is a #ThrivingWage - not just minumum/living,but a wage where we can eat nutritious food,keep warm,better our prospects, nurture kids in a secure home.We need a #ThrivableSociety -happy for any politician to steal this off a struggling single mum.