Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A reminder....

“The Prime Minister has jumped into yet another Middle East illegal war failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya, and Syria.” Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social quoted by Joe Pike on BBC News at 10 - after Farage, admittedly, but no mention of Tories or Libdems ✊🏾

Starmer must withdraw permission for the US to use UK bases to launch airstrikes on Iran and parliament must be given a vote on any UK involvement.

The events of the past 48 hours have laid bare Keir Starmer's utter inability to stand up to Donald Trump - and this weakness could have serious consequences for the safety of British people.

To be fair, the UK did hold out for nearly 48 hours, which is a new record.

New Labour’s lust for illegal wars as yet unquenched I see.

Walking along the canal today and the Spartan Works, is looking magnificent. Newly re-roofed, new windows, solar panels and swift boxes. This should be an exciting year for the Attercliffe Waterside scheme #Sheffield

An independent investigation is needed for the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school massacre in Minab. The culprits, whether it's the US, Israel, or Iran, need to be brought to justice in an independent international court, and the truth must be protected.

When I saw the news story about the girls school being bombed, one of my first thoughts was about how unlike American physics, Iranian physics is 50% women at the undergrad level and how some of those girls who had been murdered were going to be physicists one day

85 girls who would’ve had their own lives and futures. 85 girls who had dreams of their own. 85 families who will never see their daughters alive again.

Successive interviews by Nick Robinson this morning perfectly sum up the BBC: with Zack Polanski: sneering, aggressive, constantly interrupting. with David Bull, Reform's Chairman: polite, nodding along, barely any interruptions. Amazing. Will share the link when it's up so you can listen too.

Breaking: UN experts have again warned the United Kingdom to respect trans+ rights 🇺🇳🏳️‍⚧️ “Frameworks permitting routine exclusion or discretionary verification of sex based on appearance or stereotypes would raise serious concerns under international human rights law” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

I've said it before and I will say it again- Iranians are some of the coolest people in the world. I love working with them. Our governments are ridiculous.

L'esprit d l'escalier is thinking of 'Green shoots' 3 hours after the original post.

Staff at SHU have been informed by the University Executive Board that the university needs to make further savings of £27 million pounds, with £16 million savings coming from job cuts and £8 million coming from changes to staff pensions. Read more at: ucuhallam.org/eqi6

Yes, media, take responsibility

the Greens keep saying the kinds of things that people who vote Labour agree with and Labour keep calling it dangerous extremism, and I’m not sure you could plan a better voter alienation strategy

Lets hope its infectious come the local elections and the devolved parliament elections. We need a bit of hope and a bit of energy.

It's amazing that a Labour right apparatchik like Lucy Powell, firmly committed to the third way privatisation of her dying party, seems unable to stop being publicly owned.

If that televised shit show is the state of the nation of the USA... thoughts and prayers to all over there.

The Epstein files grant us a rare glimpse into the kind of machinations that must be happening all the time. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals, Trump's fixer, Steve Bannon, helped Boris Johnson overthrow Theresa May. Blatant foreign interference in our politics. 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

OoOoOo look out, its Polanski in the eyes of a Daily Mail reader 💀

: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close. That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education? #Universities #HigherEducation

You can list Keir Starmer's modest achievements all you like. But as he has actively alienated his own voters - on Gaza, protest rights, benefits, green policies, cruelty to immigrants etc - it makes no difference. It's not a mystery. When you tell people you hate them, they will hate you back.

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Quite literally the last thing the population of any country wants to import from America is their heath care system. Leave the ship at home.

Words can't really captures the love and admiration I feel for Ukraine every day. Glory to the heroes, victory to Ukraine.

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Also, here’s a useful reference from June 2025. The British Medical Association, representing nearly 200,000 UK medical professionals, passed a resolution condemning Palantir's involvement in managing the country's patient medical data. www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

Entertaining, fascinating and informative

Okay, sign me up!

I am so lucky. I have a group of amazing kids They have put up with all my **** over the years The kids are alright. My future in their hands and I am absolutely fine with that. Be you, gen z, gen alpha. Gen X salutes you xxx

Visa free travel to #China? Yellowstone on pause then... let's go! Nǐ hǎo !

Turns out that all of us were downloading and never reading paper pdfs because we intuitively knew that one day the shitty publishers would lock us out of it all! Who knew the instincts of our distant, squirrel-like ancestors would be so valuable when academic publishers became "content providers"?

Is Sheffield council on Bluesky or still on "the other place"

Too ratty to be polite: F off data harvesting billionaire-owned tech scumbags

The UN on the Epstein files. “So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,” [UN experts] said. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Buy the thing I’m being paid to tell you to buy, says discredited toff. The question is why @theguardian.com thought a sales pitch was news.

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Vote #GREEN for your grandkids Vote reform for.. the rich? Vote Labour for... a bunch of liars? Vote Conservative ... ah... I'm out!

Nearly 3am and I'm awake thinking of (but not eating) toasted cheese.. Where are Wallace and Grommit when you need them?

This is the chart in question

I feel so miserable about this. Nearly broke myself working 16, 18 hour days during the pandemic. We did everything we possibly could, then doubled it, tripled it. HE is still struggling to get back off the floor, years later. Now another financial punch in the face. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult). I got my MMR about 10 years ago! www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

I thought folks with ADHD loathed spreadsheets I love them... mostly because I can find NEW FORMULAS to do NEW THINGS! (Especially when I should be doing something boring with words) ... is that odd?

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life