What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Next year's @easterconuk.bsky.social bursary is now live! Do apply and don't self-reject, I hear too many talented authors and artists saying "well I would go to Eastercon but I can't afford it." eastercon2026.org/bursary-sche...

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

He's half right - he wouldn't be able to make Father Ted today because he's not funny anymore. share.google/fIDqvA7WD0TQ...

People get in a tizzy about whether to use legal or practical or moral arguments, to deploy reason or emotion, data or storytelling. The answer is: everything. Let him have it.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Even the Daily Telegraph is finally getting the point that Brexit caused the surge in immigration it hates so much. Calling it 'the Boriswave' is 100% designed to hide Farage's responsibility for both. When will Labour twig that Brexit is Farage's greatest liability, not his greatest strength?

“Hello. We’re the chickens. We’ve been observing your civilisation for many years, and we’ve finally decided that it can’t go on, so we’ve brought the noise.”

"The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Right, fuck it, it's been a hell of a couple of weeks at work, so my reward is a trip to Derby for Edge-Lit on Saturday. Some really interesting GoHs and speakers: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel...

"I have over 2,500 emails each month from constituents. I'm staying up until three o'clock in the morning answering some of them myself." So, not an insomniac? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

I tend to only see the cool part, but people like @bennjordan.bsky.social show the downsides of too many cameras and technology errors. youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ If they are popular, a regime suddenly has big brother level surveillance.

Impassioned plea for more mixed-methods research (quant & qual) from @timharford.ft.com "The hard data is never as eloquent as a good story. Humboldt would measure the cactus but also sketch it; drag his barometer up a volcano, but spin a yarn about the epic climb." www.ft.com/content/d419...

This is misinformation, pure and simple, from Shabana Mahmood. To grant the injunction the judge had to decide whether the claim was vexatious and he decided that it wasn't. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

“Offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse”

Tonight at 11:30

I want my country back … from those who profit as public transport is run into the ground , those who get rewards for putting shit in the sea, those financiers and bankers who will destabilise a country for a quick buck, basically everyone Farage will stand up for if he wins an election

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

I preferred it when he just fought daleks

Arresting more grandparents should sort that right out.

Nothing fashy about that image, eh? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Thou hast it now: King, Starmer, Windsor, all, / As the weird women promised; and, I fear, / Thou play\'dst most foully for \'t" share.google/63F7UuYAIVZa...

Some days I forget Val Kilmer was in Top Secret, Real Genius and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Genuinely funny guy.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

Like a child hiding his report card. #TrumpSlump

If you want to know about the state of British media, these 'formidable obstacles' include assault of a police officer, ABH, football hooliganism, entering the US on a false passport, mortgage fraud, stalking, endangering a grooming trial, defaming a 15 year old refugee and a lifetime of racism.

Powersauce CEO Brad has told analysts that people without Powersauce may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use Powersauce

It’s really funny that you can amass hundreds of billions of dollars, and still Be desperately uncool and dull. I know that’s gotta hurt.

Sparta was better at talking big than it was at actually waging war, was the largest slave-holding society currently known to history, occasionally sold out other Greek states to benefit the Persians, and was eventually annexed by one of its neighbors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Prime Minister is hoping that a state visit from a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein will dial down the furore surrounding the Prime Minister’s decision to promote a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s probably the best chance he’s got.

respectfully, I think every single person in the country could stand to reflect on this

This Saturday coming a genre fiction mushroom cloud explodes over Derby! We’ve Garth Marenghi and Peter F Hamilton, darn it! Tim Lennon too! And I’ll be running a workshop on writing character and dialogue! I’m presenting the charity raffle too and more! Come see!

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Who indeed?

This made me cackle. Very funny. But seriously...

Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.

Alright, enough politics. Bright side guy that I am, I am breathing a sigh of relief that the Civil War™️ has been called off on account of blinding whiteness, and we can all now get back to what's really important in life: releasing the Epstein files.

Holey molar! What a weird, but ultimately uplifting story.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

Something special today at BF! Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read @tomhumberstone.com Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF. www.brokenfrontier.com/raging-again... #NoToAIArt

OH LOOK IT'S ANOTHER GREAT DAY TO READ MY SHORT STORY ABOUT A PLAGUE THAT KILLS FUCKIN BILLIONAIRES

Trump Claims He Can’t Be Expected To Remember Every Birthday Card He Sends To Child Molesters https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-cant-be-expected-to-remember-every-birthday-card-he-sends-to-child-molesters/

And his sexual assault was done by autopenis?

Philistine Action.