I'm in Exeter to do a panel talk with @gralefrit.bsky.social and @alicelowetime.bsky.social at the Exeter Comedy Festival this eve. Hanging with wonderful comedy chums but forgetting to take pics so here's an arty shot of a bit of ruin I took instead.

No one, absolutely no one, is saying that white lives don't matter. I know this is obvious, particularly to a Bluesky audience, but in a world of infuriating straw-manning, it bears repeating.

This is a lovely story. I might re-watch Pride (the film), the origin story for this mutual respect and support www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This game is addictive isn't it? This is the best I've done, though I was wildly off with Wisconsin. www.maptap.gg May 31 80🙃 88✨ 91🌟 93🎉 100🎯 Final score: 929

London is BROKEN (ft. Dawn Butler)

Every time trans rights are in the news, if I take an opinion I inevitably get a few ‘why won’t you listen to women’s opinions on their own safety’. A boilerplate answer: The *vast* majority of opinions I read in support of trans inclusion come from women. Presumably just not the ones who count.

The 24 I've read on that Guardian books list are almost all from the top 35, and that tells you I'm the kind of person who's read lists like this before

Super, cally, fragile, istick, expealla, and docious

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

Convert a band (or artist) Euro Sinatra

Slightly increase a band Green 25 Hours

Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people

Charles extolling tolerance, executive restraint, interfaith understanding, decency, international peace......Half expect him to chant "No Kings" at any moment.

Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.

BREAKING: Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has called Péter Magyar to concede defeat in today's election. With 53.45% of votes counted, Magyar's TISZA looks set to secure a super majority. A defeat for Putin, a defeat for Trump, a victory for Europe, and above all, a victory for the Hungarian people.

I've just now realised what Melania's surprise statement on Thursday reminded me of

Ok, that was all a bit Cuban Missile Crisis. We can breath out. Those of us in the UK can go to bed. America, over to you to start working out how to make sure this insanity can never happen again.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

I think we've overdone the Mounjaro

Hugely important thread. Laura Burns, along with Virginia Guiffre, is a hero.

I saw the Ward/Bamford combo at Leicester Square theatre about a decade ago and it was one of the best comedy gigs I've ever seen

Andrew is eighth in line to the throne, but that’s prison toilets for you!

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Every now and then I encounter someone who clearly went to Eton (or similar) and who I don't mind at all. This is one such occasion.

"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." — @lopatto.bsky.social

Though the problem goes deeper than Trump, and his cabinet are unlikely to impeach him, surely it's a moral necessity to try?

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Some good news. Here's hoping the UK can also reduce its dependence on US tech companies

Please share. 💔

This wonderful thread puts me in mind of the book A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit. Most people, in adversity, are capable of great kindness, humanity, and brilliantly effective organization.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

That last one - disengaging from US companies - is an enormous undertaking. But I don't see that we have an alternative. Can anyone more knowledgeable than me estimate how long it would take?

There's something so heartbreaking about that image: kids fighting back with all they have - walls of snow.

YES. GOOD NEWS. I don't know about anyone else but I need this kind of optimism to spur me into activism. The future is worth saving.

My sleeping arrangements haven't been weird enough to contribute to #duvetknowitschristmas but I do always enjoy this box in my mum's toilet

Loving scrolling through the comments on #strictly to find the occasional unrelated "strictly speaking it's the monster's creator" type comment.

This image from the redacted Epstein files is like a work of art, darkly eloquent about deception and impunity. The way the rectangles get bigger..

This is a perfect little spooky story for a weekend listen, with a hint of humour in its premise, as you'd expect from Joel Morris and Will Maclean

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For the record, he is a traitor, thus ineligible for the presidency, and his entire reign is illegitimate on a legal level. This seems worth stating from time to time.

I had been dreading the treaty anniversary as an occasion to note that we have not done nearly enough, but in July I thought we might be able celebrate it. Because, on 23 July, the international court of justice handed down an epochal ruling....

Don't let a little premeditated misery and death for millions of Americans by the richest people ever to live get you down.

liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/405... Boris Johnson killed as many people as 92 Harold Shipmans. We should never forgive him.

I already left the Labour party a few months ago, but I wish I could leave it again.

Gah, it needs to be funnier. It's not funny enough to stop me doing a po-faced feminist subtextual analysis of how it reinforces incel entitlement culture and legitimises insane levels of jealousy. I wish it was funnier.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk