In our news, Mr Hypnotits, Councillor "doesn't regret anti-Semitic video" and the white Rastas in the front row are not convincing me, thanks @greenparty.org.uk

Call me stupid but no, it does not make sense to say that "terrorism wins" if you hold back on having a pro Palestinian Action rally two days after the people they want to kill were murdered.

Lady Mone sounds like a reaction to period pain. #hignfy

This story was explored on the BBC's 'Marianna in Conspiracyland'. Paloma is the daughter of headbanging conspiracist Kate Shemirani who now hangs around David Kurten's Heritage Party [another Farage cast-off]. Indeed she appeared at the Heritage conference about 2 weeks ago x.com/heritagepart...

2 October 1919 | A Dutch Jew, Jacob Vogel, was born in Amsterdam. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 17 July 1942 in a transport of 2,000 Jews deported from #Westerbork. No. 48420 He perished in the camp on 18 August 1942. --- Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

I have no words. www.thetimes.com/article/d00f...

German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

Husband has been away for the weekend and I've had my elderly mother staying with me and the kids, theoretically to help but in actual fact she just made more mess. Not a fan of this temporary single parenting lark TBH. Just involves me cooking more meals and washing up.

They shouldn't have listened to Stonewall then, should they?

Curbing ‘unfunded’ research ‘could chase away academics’. Researchers wary of signals from senior figures that universities “can’t afford” research without external funding. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Mom at the park just told me she wasn’t going to finish her baby’s vaccine schedule because “of the new information that has come out from the CDC”. Robert Kennedy is a fucking monster.

it's not "wrongthink" - that implies that there are thoughts you're not allowed to have. It's sad because she is a great science educator and her position on this is contradictory to her science-based approach to other topics. I think she's wrong, but that's not "wrongthink", its disagreement.

The wrong type of woman!!! (He is a man). Oh do fuck off. (I woke up grumpy today)

She really hates women, doesn't she? By Julie Bindel juliebindel.substack.com/p/how-can-ma...

I was going to put boots on today but I just can't do it. It can't be autumn yet, not even with the prospect of a 3 hour Staff Meeting For Info.

The best revenge is living well. Congratulations!

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Sam still fed up with his builders. Twas ever thus.

The divorce of LGB and the TQ+ is final, and some people find it hard to accept. It was a forced marriage with one abusive partner if we were honest. Good riddance. (Sighs of relief) Let us get on with life!

Every human, mammal (& most complex life) is a result of the fusion of two very different gametes produced by two different organisms within a species. We call the individuals who made the small gametes "males", and the ones who made the large gametes "females". Male and female are the sexes.

Same energy

Fourteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Topic: The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia Length: 3000 words. Deadline: December 1, 2025. Prize money: 3,000 Euros.

OTD 15 September 1890, the novelist Agatha Christie was born. Famous for her mystery novels she is forever linked with the town of Harrogate. Christie disappeared from her home in December 1926, sparking a nationwide search and media frenzy. After 11 days,

Another day, another conference... finishing up at #childlanguage Symposium at @uniofreading.bsky.social (conference organisation 10/10, food, drink and accommodation 0/10) and off to @royalholloway.bsky.social for @bpsdevsection.bsky.social - polishing my talk on autism & sex/gender understanding

Have gladly taken the chance to tell them how out of touch and navel gazing they are. Don't worry folx, I didn't use either of those phrases and I'm definitely not the only one who thinks this.

Who could possibly have foreseen?

💥 #FiLiA2025 speaker news 💥 Gita Sahgal, writer, activist and film-maker. She is a co-founder of @sbsisters.bsky.social and Women Against Fundamentalism and she serves as an Editorial Collective member of @feministdissent.bsky.social. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #WomenAgainstFundamentalism

Private Eye, 6-18 Sept edition

Good morning and welcome to the tightly timetabled Saturday activities chez nous. Daughter has cycling, son has guitar, there is a spider in the bike shed, and no trousers in son's drawer (he claims). Later we have riding and need to squeeze in a call to grandparents. Given them a 1 hour window!

A UK-wide wave of strikes by schoolchildren started on this day 1911. It began when pupils in Llanelli, Wales walked out in sympathy with a boy disciplined by a deputy headmaster. Walkouts spread to at least 62 towns and cities. Came at time of widespread industrial unrest.

A final little bit from me in today's edition: the south London flagger who told the BBC he was one of many “hardworking business people” hanging British flags -- and his £98,000 false injury claim When I called him, he gave this gem of a quote

obviously we all have our own opinions. I got called a nazi just hours ago for the last two things on this list. The fact that trans activism (unlike the gay/lesbian activism of my youth) isn't about any of the top three things is telling.

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HYPNOTITS FTW www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Apparently, all the crimes in the South East of England are now solved. grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/i-just-got...

@naomicunningham.bsky.social is unbeatable (from the Peggie tribunal). How I wish I could berate my reviewers (or the "three points and a question" audience member) like she does.

A colloquial Swedish word for giving a confident answer to something you know nothing about is killgissa, or “guy-guessing.” Conversely, the lesser-known word tjejveta (meaning “girl-knowing”) can describe elucidating (shelucidating?) on a topic you have expertise in.

‘The Super Exploitation of the Cheapest Possible Workforce’: How University Funding Cuts Have a Hidden Cost A dispute over the marking of a student's work at one London university illuminates a much bigger problem, writes Mathilda Mallinson

Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". -seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951. This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.

Good news. I'm pretty sure my university has never used such requirements but now others can't. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pressur...

Well I didn't have "threats to let insects loose like they did at LGB Alliance" on my conference attendance bingo card this year but here we are.

Currently reading The Stitch-Up, a book on medical misogyny, in which they talk of "pregnant men". I'm finding it unbearable so I went to check the index to see how much more of this there is in the rest of the book, only to see "see also intersex people" next to the trans people entry.

Well, if it’s 30 August, it’s the 121st anniversary of the marathon at the St Louis Olympics, which saw 32 people start, 14 finish, the ‘winner’ get disqualified for cadging a lift, and the gold medallist reach the end only with the aid of brandy and strychnine

Can't reply to this so... AW was my great-great uncle and a right grumpy sod. Met him as a child. His second wife (I didn't know his 1st but she was apparently ace) was absolutely lovely but he was grumpy af. If you want to know more, book here: rheged.com/event/wainwr...

This is the future for the UK that Farage wants.

As Hadley Freeman points out, nobody wants to claim they are women when they kill children, only when they make jokes about "the girlfriend" which are exactly the same as Les Dawson about his wife.

And finally - the flat in Brighton that’s causing all this fuss Yes, she has bought a flat in Brighton No it is not “an addition to her burgeoning property empire”🙄 This is the only property she owns There are 100s of MPs who ACTUALLY own multiple properties Rayner isn’t one of them🤷🏼‍♀️ 5/