Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

This is absurd and unworkable and the responsibility SHOULD NOT BE PUT ON PARENTS. what I’m supposed to contact every playgroup or workshop my child attended years ago to rescind photo permissions? How about you go after Grok instead you spineless idiots? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Dear Media. Vatican II wasn’t just about praying or not in Latin. *Vatican II decided to be less antisemitic. By a lot. * And now Pope Leo (like Francis) is reading the Bible HARD, all that “love immigrants” & “care for others” “🖕 Empire” stuff?! This story is not complicated.

In the trailer for ‘Elle’, set in 1995, someone utters the phrase ‘You got this’. I now cannot watch the show.

Last night around 3am my metronome app just randomly started ticking in case any of you need an idea for a nightmarish short story.

"avoiding heatstroke in the baptism tent" sounds like the name of a fall out boy song circa 2006

We need to put public outdoor pools into parks in the UK - such a good way of countering the heat of climate change. But oh yes, we decimated local council funding!

I’m on the Metro-North and there are two people with long-haired dachshunds in bags 10 feet away from each other and the two dogs are clearly aware of each others presence but the owners are not

I had to delete Instagram this week because an American cousin was arguing with me that ‘local councils are seizing people’s AC units because of woke’. Ma’am, I’m so sweaty and angry, don’t come for me with this crap.

I think we just passed oops.

The moment they cut to the goal is 👌🏻

And by ‘visibility’ do you mean the ability to just live a life like a person? And the answer is no. It wasn’t a mistake.

Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration

Her last husband was a ballerina named Benjamin Millepied. I think the weird name for her is part of it

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

It's almost like the idea that "oh its okay if we have draconian laws about minors being exposed to queer texts or receiving support for their identity as trans and/or gay" was never about waiting till adulthood and folks will always seek to control or deny queer identities no matter your age

It has just struck me that Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice is one of those rare rap songs in which the police turn up and are extremely helpful, neatly resolving the situation for the protagonist

Cheddar cheese. And everyone I tell this to (in passing, I'm not giving TED talks on it) cheesesplains to me that I just haven't tried a really good cheddar. I have, and I dislike that even more. Let me just hate it in peace.

At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.

If you ever see me doing a backflip, please note it was completely unexpected, please call an ambulance.

My niece is 11. She doesn't have a phone because her parents decided they didn't want her to have one. They haven't allowed her, so she hasn't. Just take the phone away. You're the parent! An 11 year old is not buying themselves an iphone, this is one parenting area where you do have control.

The summer I was 15, my brother & I spent nine hours a day (minimum) playing Sonic The Hedgehog with the curtains shut. We took a short break to watch Neighbours at lunchtime, and then went straight back. The pre internet era was not some dreamy time where children whittled sticks and read Dickens.

Time's Person of the Year right here

Very important now for all of us who work with young people to make it very clear to them that they can still come to us about things they see online that scare or concern them, even if it's something they are banned from accessing, and we won't be angry with them.

This is besides the point but I don’t think the Prime Minister should ever be delivering news wearing something that is done up by a zip

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

Growing up as a gay kid in the pre internet world was a very very isolating and horrible experience. The internet would have been a total game changer.

I'd make Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny re-enact all my favourite episodes of The X Files but add in snogging.

Rocky Horror Picture Show stage production, but voters determine who plays what roles. And one MUST play the role if chosen. Should they decline, they are sealed away in the Washington Monument forever.

Parents are asking for more clarity from the government. Will it still be legal for me to use WhatsApp to tell my children dinner is ready?

A ban also stops the Government from having to actually legislate on what social media companies are doing to stop harmful content being produced and shared. Just put a blindfold on your child, never mind that adults can still see all this harmful garbage day and night.

This is what you'd need to make the social media ban work, and if you think it sounds terrible, it is.

As a reminder for everyone saying, "The US had never before scored four goals in a World Cup" that they mean the men's team had never before scored that many. The women's team has absolutely scored more than four goals in a world cup, including in the final. And they also wins things.

Very tiny beautiful details of some of the pieces that will be in my etsy shop tonight…. Victorian & Edwardian etching was very often filled with meaning: ivy/bindweed leaves denoted a soul being entwined with that of a loved one, birds denoted fidelity & forget me nots are fairly self explanatory…🌿

Friends. And, dare I say it, the X Files.

I put this into What3Words and now I’m stuck in a nuclear bunker in east Mongolia

This evening at 8pm (might be closer to 8.30 or 9ish but *definitely* tonight-will post when the collection is live✔️). My shop is here🌿🪶🐚: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

me, watching the world cup: i just hope everyones having a great time out there

Actually, Brexit was a bad idea from the start. You were not betrayed. You just didn't bother to think through the consequences of your choices.

Men who commit this kind of violence with this kind of rhetoric are not protecting women and girls; they are trying to legislate which men have the right to harm women and girls (and of course it's men like them and not those other men).

Have these people never seen Blue Peter?

12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt. In 1942, on her 13th birthday, she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. 'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)

The BBC breaking news report of Hockney's death concludes with the words: 'Stay with us as we bring you the latest developments.' I am genuinely curious as to what, in the circumstances, those developments might be.

The thing about racists is they will never be happy. Not even if we all got deported

“Protesters expressing legitimate concerns“

Context for Belfast riots

CAN’T EVEN CALL MYSELF A DOOR I HAVE NO PURPOSE LIFE IS MEANINGLESS REALITY IS AN ILLUSION LEAVE ME TO MY SHAME

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.