My serious answer is "liberal men who have been baited into paying $168 for this monstrosity in order to signal that they're not MAGA"

🎶Papal reign, papal reign…🎶

No it shouldn’t. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fare-free-...

45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.

Listen to my poem about kindness you fucking bitch

Puberty blockers are a sop to conservatives. It's a take, I guess

He's a perfect fit for The Greens

bsky.app/profile/frig... Someone who looked back on the history of the 20th Century and decided to put a hammer and sickle as their PFP has an opinion

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

This is absolutely monstrous

They won by 98 wickets? Fair play that’s a huge defeat

Two UK clinical trials to assess impact of puberty blockers in young people

Going to set my alarm for 4:30am so I can ruin my day hearing Australia hitting the winning runs

911, Lynx Africa made flesh. #totp

This is what The Cardigans were talking about when they wrote ‘My Favourite Game’ #totp

Standard stuff. Webberley talks the type of nonsense you can drive a horse and cart through

What should disturb many UKIP/Brexit/REF supporters is that Gill’s (public) pro-Russia speeches & acting were seen by them as *entirely consistent with UKIP/Brexit/REF anti-EU policies & so unremarkable. It should make them think again about Farage - & Brexit. Cui bono? Not them.

oops

Can't find the article - screengrab is from Crazy Jo Maugham - is she really saying that having train carriages from which women are barred somehow helps something?

An article by Kathleen Stock this time

"I won't share the article but here's what it says" is a bit sus isn't it

What is she talking about?

Would Clive Lewis give up his seat for Stokes, I wonder? Got to be worth asking.

Looks like it's International Ben's Day.

This is just explaining, in simple language, that if there's a bloke in space that's women-only you can challenge them based on the fact that they're clearly a bloke.

Light will actually bend around an incredibly dense object. Unrelated screenshot

Unmasked At Last: The 9 Authors of the Trump Administration Report On Pediatric Gender Medicine. So Who Are They? The authors, all of were finally revealed today after HHS published the final, peer-reviewed version of the controversial report on this field. benryan.substack.com/p/unmasked-a...

Rushing to Ladbrokes for 10 pounds on "not"

Good night.

Wow, he looks just like him!

I mean, there's anti-racism and "anti-racism" though. Let's not pretend that we don't know this

From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...

<waiting for @showerabsolute.bsky.social's bio to get to the chorus>

I've been stabbed to death in the last week twice

Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know

I'm Muriel Gray

I see Jo Maugham is trying to start a witch hunt against Muriel Gray. After all why on earth is a former TV presenter, host of the media show, documentary maker, arts programme presenter and maker, radio presenter, founder of a TV production company, and TV producer doing on the board of the BBC?

Interestingly though there are a couple of "antiwoke" moments in One Battle After Another - around pronouns and land acknowledgements - that got decent laughs in the cinema where I watched it. And the film "After the Hunt" also released this year fits into an "unwokening" movement, if it exists

A lot of the replies to this have shown me that people struggle between "woke" and "Khmer Rouge"

Reporter questions claim of BBC ‘systemic bias’ on trans issues

You're telling me

Please, just a little bit of child poverty reduced and a nicer public realm, for a treat

Does anyone know of any collated account of the total number and list of those who were convicted for primarily online content in July-August 2024?

How much were his socks? I quite like his socks

Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"

We all know that Americans don't understand sarcasm so the Beeb should just do the most ott apology imaginable to Trump and everybody's happy.