This has me crying in real life 😂😂😂 🦁

No one will be shocked that overtly anti-trans officials have been appointed to the MHRA puberty blockers trial. What is shocking is actual journalism being done to uncover them, and that when uncovered they've been removed. An important step in the right direction. Watch this space.

BREAKING: it appears that the MHRA, in control of the UK puberty blocker trial, appointed a senior officer who had previously mocked supporters of trans rights online. Recusal is not enough here. He and those responsible for appointing him should resign. How can trans people trust them now?

So @cathynewman.bsky.social has exposed the transphobic views of the head of the Puberty Blocker trials and he's gone. Shame the MHRA's quick action hasn't been mirrored by quick action against the much criticized Cass review. www.gov.uk/government/n...

The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature. You'll never sing that, etc...

Of course, the other problem is that it’s nonsense

Just remembered I have to clean the oven. FML

Labour always going on about "the Red Wall" but I don't think those mice are even allowed to vote, no matter how good their food is.

“The Greens won for a simple reason. Many traditional Labour supporters, in Manchester and across the country, want to see progressive values robustly defended against the far-right, not gleefully abandoned." Andrea Egan, UNISON Unions reaction:

Politainment - how figures including Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump and Katie Hopkins are earning fame and (in some cases) fortunes out of the celebrification of their brands. And the very dark precedent from history... Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/politainment...

Need to stop attempting to understand that Kemi “statement”, I fear it’s actively making me more stupid each time

"Charlotte embodies the new Conservative party" -- someone no-one has every heard of, who loses her deposit? Kemi's nailed it.

"Labour has to abandon its current strategy or else face total wipeout at the next election. Trying to compete with Reform on immigration six days a week, then half-heartedly condemning them on the seventh and hoping that’ll do has just pissed off anyone voting for either of the alternatives."

Call an ambulance — BUT NOT FOR ME!

The media attack line on the Greens seems to all be variations of it being unfair that they directly appealed to Muslim voters, which they describe as "sectarianism". Tells you basically all you need to know about the Overton Window these days.

2/2 #KidsBooksFriday #KidLit Daisy Hirst's There Is Not Usually A Hole is full of drama and humour and courage and loyalty and friendship. Special mention for the worm's library. Magnificent.

Almost like doing your research about what’s important to people, rather than waiting for them to come to you and feeling superior when they don’t, really makes a difference 🤔

Scientists warn our rainfall extremes are decades ahead of models. Prof Rupert Read says our focus should be on nature restoration, flood resilience and community strength as immediate defences against mounting disruption that’s already happening. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @rupertread.bsky.social

The press has got hold of it! Yes we’re making a #bbcghosts movie.

Charlie Stayt, "A lot of people think those leaflets are the nasty side of politics" Zack Polanski, "Genocide is quite nasty"

RIP to a real one

"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out." Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian

Huge congratulations Hannah! An incredible win and a victory for hope over division. Looking forward to working with Hannah in Parliament. And a huge thank you to the thousands of people who made this happen!

“former friend of Goodwin responded: “I think ego is the best explanation of his journey. It’s vanity, he is very brittle and insecure.” “said by former friends and colleagues to have a track record of taking criticism and rejection badly” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good News Friday just keeps giving!

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

That’s the crying closet

This guy. He knows what he’s doing. Extraordinary man management.

Why are NWSL kits so… much?!

Imagine being like this. Maybe we actually were all once like this. Be more like this guy!

Dirty Business - the sewage scandal docu-drama - on C4 is staggering TV. Not only the cold rage of it, and the depiction of banal corporate evil, but the production methods and performances. Poo Chernobyl.

thought you probably needed to see this

This just popped up as a featured photo on my phone and oh wow, I really need this…

When you think it’s home time but there’s still 40 minutes to go.

Petition to replace the police with Gordon Brown heading a team of investigative reporters www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kemi Badenoch: "Perhaps, before he [Starmer] gets on his high horse, he should ask why his backbenchers are saying that they’re being called the ‘Paedo defenders’ party’?”

Delighted that I made the choice to work from home today. Got a load of STUFF off my plate, still had catchups on screen and even managed to for a walk in the sunshine.

HarperCollins imprint Fontana has pre-empted the magical historical debut novel The Alchemists by Camilla Moreau 👇 #BookSky

Faramir and Boromir couldn't work out how to block Fox News and OAN on the palantir, so Denethor just started watching Tucker Carlson.

Matt Goodwin did try to get out of eating his book by posting through the crisis, but every single reply to anything he said for 24 hours was just, “all this posting must be making you hungry” or “less tweeting, more eating”, so in the end he had to

the perfect post, cannot be beaten

Yes Gordon, go off

get weirder 🫵

New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby. Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses www.404media.co/this-app-war...

We recorded 365 videos, 1 for each day of the year, showing the making of our graphic novel Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares. We’ll show you each step from script to layout, pencils, inks, colour flats and final colours. Daily reels in Insta & TikTok and snapshots here. #KidLitUK #comics

Fantastic interview. Everyone should read it:

When my last publisher went bust I thought this book was destined to be out of print forever, but infinite thanks to the folks at Lost in Cult for bringing it back to life. New chapters! New insights! New full colour illustrations! Lavish production values! Beautiful typesetting!