The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Intelligence and Security Committee to launch a new probe investigating Russian interference in British politics, after Reform’s former leader in Wales Nathan Gill admitted to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia

We could charge every (*) household £174.50 a year and give it to an organisation dedicated to informing, educating and entertaining. Then thanks to the unique way it was funded it wouldn't need to resort to clickbait, gossip and hysteria and could inform and educate people about these topics

Just saw this great post again and it reminded me of my old beef against "spoilers don't matter, a good film isn't spoilable": The timing with which information is revealed is important in every movie! It's as much a part of the art as dialogue or lighting,it matters at least as much as aspect ratio

*thumping the table* KRYSTEN RITTER KNITTER KITS FOR YOUR RITTER KNITTING BITS DON'T BE BITTER OR A QUITTER DON'T BELIEVE YOUR KNITS ARE SHITTER DON'T GET JITTERS, KNIT OUTFITTER KNIT LIKE KRYSTEN RITTER KNITS

Alien, 1979. (Directed by Ridley Scott)

@katwhen.bsky.social apropos of recent discussion. Not convinced Richard Bignall has ever been north of the M8.

Hence liberalism.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

OTD 1999: A Labour Govt loses its legal battle to *keep* the ban on gay and bi people serving in armed forces. After spending taxpayers’ £millions and 2 ½ years *defending* discrimination, Labour later claimed credit for being forced by the courts to stop inequality. Shameless! Yet…

Well don't I feel stupid

The strongest ever confirmation that there’s nothing cool within the CIA classified archive is the fact that Donald Trump is president and we haven’t seen an alien body or whatever yet.

the real, massive problem Britain has seems to me to be that Labour *will not* behave like the largest party of a centre-left bloc; it wants to be hegemonic. In Scotland and Wales this is most apparent but it's most damaging in England.

Given the recent (couple of weeks or so back) gov suggestion that women (not men) should show id to use bathrooms, etc. No I don't want digital id. Because though I'm not trans, this is still not ok. This is about controlling women. And don't get me started on where this puts anyone intersex or NB

So there is actually, quite literally no level of fame that you can achieve without some nowhere talentless asshole insisting you work for free in exchange for “exposure.” Good to fucking know!!!

I worked on the ID cards project in the Home Office under Blair. I was charged with coming up with a high-level benefits case for the scheme. Everything you say was discussed at the time back then. To be useful and to justify the massive cost of introducing a universal, compulsory scheme 1/

hello I am a deeply unpopular prime minister. In a last gasp attempt to save my own skin my big idea is to launch the least popular policy of an also deeply unpopular predecessor. I am forensic.

Also, inevitably "Our FOI reveals a year of correspondence showing how ministers and senior officials at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) met repeatedly with the anti-rights group Sex Matters while shaping the government’s new digital identities framework"

Already looking forward to the rollout of the Brit Card in Armagh.

The main aim is to have the slogan be earnestly explained by newsreaders, so I'd have to go with: "Tom's putting it in now"

Being a bisexual emperor must be the most stressful shit in the world. You go to the inner palace and your wives are scheming. You go to the outer court and the male concubines that you promoted to viziers are fighting. Your wife just poisoned your favorite twink eunuch. There’s no peace

How not to illustrate the similarity of bone structures between humans & horses.

“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas." Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Harvard Observatory

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

"Why, psephologists wail, has Labour not realised that its voter base is now university-educated middle-class liberals?" ✍️ @philipjcowley.bsky.social

A lot of the suggestions in replies and QTs to this are actually Lib Dem coded, which is why the Tories are in trouble.

Ed Davey has clocked that "we're not those cunts" is an enormous gap in the market right now, and fair play to him. You don't need "this is what we stand for" when no-one else is prepared to stand against the despicable.

Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like

CHOTINER: But you’ve had romantic entanglements in the past. For instance, Lucy Westenra? DRACULA: Tragic case. The poor girl. CHOTINER: Died of acute blood loss, I believe? DRACULA: Attacked by a wolf, I think. CHOTINER: You can turn into a wolf, right? DRACULA: That’s right. CHOTINER: Thank you.

In which Anneliese Dodds MP is quite rightly ripped a new rear end.

Please do not read this as an endorsement of Scottish Labour in any way, but I do think it would be useful if UK Labour felt about Reform the way Scottish Labour felt about the SNP. It’s PERSONAL for them. There is a nastiness there. They want them finished! And the ground salted!

Once you know this, it is impossible not to hear the line as "I'm addicted to you, but you know that your dog's sick".

TIL

someone should write an article contrasting journalists’ please for us to “listen to all sides, even if we disagree with them” to how those journalists react when faced with some minor criticism. sadly, it would have to be a journalist that writes it, so it’ll never get written.

Nah this is BS. You can't expect the LibDems, who already struggle for coverage, to abandon a platform that the Government, BBC, most major newspapers, other major parties, etc still prioritise. It absolutely sucks but the people they're in conversation with are there, not here.

Death of the Author? had it coming, to be honest, after what happened to all those darlings

It is of course fortunate that media executives are completely immune to embarrassment, otherwise the combined presence of Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy and Diego Luna would cause a mass fatality incident.

Lots of big names on here, but from the Disney megabucks franchise point of view they should be most troubled by the presence of Florence Pugh and Pedro Pascal.

He's trying to get his polling low enough to cause an integer underflow. The first Prime Minister to be 2 billion percent ahead.

And he said, let's do it, let's do it Make it better than it's ever been Jon Pertwee Nick Courtney And monsters that are always green Dramatic And classic Let's make it even better than it was with Patrick Lets do it, let's do it tonight

Women Liberal Democrats have these bags on their stands

If you replace all the parts of the Ship Of Theseus paradox with Trigger’s Broom, is it the same paradox?

I have to admit I underestimated how much Elon buying Twitter would influence our politics - not because of its influence on ordinary people, which I predicted accurately as "significant but not extraordinary," but because I didn't realize how addicted all our journos and politicians are to Twitter

If you see this share a batman

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

The problem with the Cameron/pig stunt is that it’s a good deal less funny when you consider it was made up to sell a book by Ashcroft and Oakeshott.

OTD 1976: I, Claudius – A Touch of Murder One of the greatest TV series ever made begins. When just a *touch* murderous this is phenomenally dramatic, bitchy and hilarious mafia-inspired family comedy… Then turns compellingly nasty Before outrageously horrid.

a philosophical debate that apparently everyone has conceded but I have not: "Fairness in sports" is not actually an important thing and thus should not trump gender exclusion or segregation