Hillary Cass was invited to NI to review gender services here and her report is now out. She's lying about trans kids again www.health-ni.gov.uk/publications...

At the Star of Kings again for the February session of @srfantasyclub.bsky.social selling books for @allgoodbookshop.co.uk This month's authors are Paul McAuley ( @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social ) and @kimecurran.bsky.social #books #fiction #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy

Jam is welcome - always

Once again: Keir Starmer has ruined something not just for Britain, but for the entire world.

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Virtually every "AI" use case I've encountered in my work life boils down to people wanting the satisfaction of solving a problem without taking the time to understand the problem. And the actual best answer would be for them to leave the problem to people who actually care enough to understand it

Astounding, but typical, arrogance from @lucympowell.bsky.social. Labour MPs genuinely don't get how wildly unpopular their party is now. You're not entitled to progressive voters, as you're barely a progressive party anymore - no wonder Greens are doing better than ever before.

Tomorrow, I will be doing a sort-of Japanese rakugo-style rendition of The Miller's Tale at @allgoodbookshop.co.uk - come and have a listen. Just in case you're wondering what rakugo is, it's a form of #storytelling, usually humorous (sometimes ghost stories too). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakugo

If you have a YouTube creator account follow these quick settings to turn AI enhancements off. And make sure you're opted out of AI training data scraping youtu.be/WeWt8N3fjVc?...

Right now, I only partly welcome the Mandelson exposure because until the sources reveal Farage's involvement with Epstein (no-one's convincing me he wasn't), this situation just reads to me like someone really trying to push us to a Reform government, before the Greens have made enough gains.

As @lottelydia.bsky.social has said, you can't understand the treatment of Corbyn without looking at Miliband and you can't understand the treatment of Miliband without looking at Gordon Brown.

If this story is accurate, then all those stories about Keir Starmer meticulously selecting only the highest-quality candidates in 2024 were horseshit and, in reality, we are now governed by a crop of MPs personally selected by the financially compromised ‘best pal’ of a child sex trafficker.

Band persons didn't always have to look like Calvin Klein models. Enjoy... youtu.be/95ywPJ_8hV4?...

I am glad I am still someone who believes in the goodness of people enough to be surprised that there were a cabal of elites who preferred dangerous paedophiles to socialism (also, first day in office he'd have gone "hang on what's all this?" and those involved may have faced, ya know, justice.

Jeffrey Epstein took more photos of people he only hung out with once than I have of my best friends of 15 years

Does anyone know if we have something similar in the UK? If not, shouldn't we have one?

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

This should be career-ending for Starmer, McSweeney, and Streeting who all pushed for it. But it won’t be because the risk of someone to the left of Norman Tebbit taking the reins is too high for the press to do their jobs properly.

Mandelson would have had full intel vetting, Starmer would have known and still appointed him, all this theatre to make it look like he is now so surprised, shocked, and ambushed by naughty bad Peter. While Mandelson's apprentice Morgan McSweeney remains in control. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it #televisionmatters

A really successful first Songwriting Circle at the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk yesterday! Lots of productive feedback and workshopping for all attendees, and some discussion of lyrics-writing techniques. Last Saturday of every month. Hope to see (and hear) you at the next one. #songwriting #haringey

Marry shelley: artificial life wont have the same moral compass we earned in humanity and still struggle to understand. Its advent ignores all moral compasses. Tech Company: we are advancing A.I. faster than ever. Never mind if it ignores any moral compass.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

This is why people call Labour "red Tories". The smallest-minded, meanest-spirited, most cynically divisive of arguments. We all know they hate socialists, but how can they even claim to be socially democratic?

This sums it up for me. I've never understood why nobody went after this turd for his clearly-racist persecution of the CP5, even before his campaign for the presidency.

Lots of welcome & overdue noticing so can we maybe now ask how Mandelson was rehabilitated by the political media class despite lots of lesser connected no marks pointing out to them [again] what & who Peter Mandelson is & always has been

Hannah is the Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton. She is also a plumber and dog rescuer🐕💪

I'm hearing the tactics the Sensibles roaringly endorsed for a bunch of dead eyed ice chewing briefcase monsters to screw over the left & narrow the political spectrum to a nanometre of acceptable opinion is not wildly appreciated when deployed against fellow Sensibles. Who could have foreseen this?

Sunlight on brownstones - Edward Hopper, 1956. Source : Wichita Art Museum, Kansas 🇺🇸

So anyway, Andrew Wakefield should be in prison for the rest of his life.

This Saturday will see the first ever @allgoodbookshop.co.uk Songwriting Circle, also part of the Bowes Park Folk Club Month of Folk 2026. Whether you're a prolific & experienced songwriter or a sporadic novice, whatever your genre, this event is for you. #songwriting #music #londonmusic

Reminding you all that Nigel Farage has proudly claimed he is going to be setting up a British version of ICE here in the UK to terrorise us just like American ICE if he ever becomes PM. He has openly said he wants to deport legal migrants.

We loved playing @tinybookshopgame.com recently (on @steampowered.com and Nintendo). But what might a real version look like? We're a small indie bookshop so we think Interactive Tiny Bookshop would look a bit like this...

I just thought everyone should see this

X's product head has multiple brushes with death from failing to chew

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

It's certainly the most public way to say "Daddy had to pull strings for me to graduate kindergarten".

When kids ask why photos pre-2000-ish have people with red eyes, just tell them they should be glad they weren't alive during the Global Demon Uprising of 1987 ...

This is the same shit Castro, Che, Mao, Chávez, Sankara—and basically every victim of colonialism—have been saying for nearly a century. The western neoliberal world order is cannibalising itself, so now all of a sudden, you’re hearing the same critiques coming from the EU and Canada.

And sometimes just *beautiful* on top of that. (This was my first exposure to your work, and I think @theoatmeal.bsky.social did an excellent job of putting it to visuals.)

Groups? 21 Jan - Art Club 22 Jan - Sound Workshop #haringeybookshop #bookshop

what's going on at the shop this week? Sat 24th - Storytime for children with Sarah Sat 24th - Insurgent Press takeover: psychogeography turpike vs margate Sun 25 - Mixed media collage workshop with Maryam #haringeybookshop #bookshop

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#OtD 19 Jan 1969 students in Tokyo fought pitched battles with police who were attempting to evict protesters occupying the Yasuda auditorium clock tower in a long-running dispute over enforced free labour for medical students stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9091...

'Please, you don't have to have your hand on me' Watch the moment ITV News' Peter A Smith was grabbed by a Reform UK staffer after being told to move on from his line of questioning while interviewing the party's new Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord