Hi @sarahmillican.bsky.social I'm writing a last minute piece for @bylinesnetwork.co.uk to promote #joinin I know you stepped back a couple of years ago but is there any way I could get a little quote from you about it?

Very good piece. It's beyond me how anyone can still be unclear about what he is.

It's been a couple of days since I mentioned this, and I do really like people listening to it. There has been a spike in audience this week but I want more. My goal is one to two billion listeners an episode. At that point podcasts become quite profitable.

By insisting that gravity exists, physicists are excluding those who think it doesn't exist — and reducing the number of ideas by half. I am a professional political commentator.

Rewatching Music and Lyrics with Hugh Grant & Drew Barrymore. Pure fluff in the best possible way. If you were born before 1990 & are familiar with 1980s bands it will give you a proper giggle. www.imdb.com/title/tt0758...

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"Fun & joy are very powerful political forces & not ones the left are terribly used to dealing with" The final print edition of Byline Times may be my favourite of the year. What is the 'politics of feeling' & why does it matter? Plus 'A Red Top Christmas Carol' with a Mr Murdoch & his 3 Spirits 👇

Angiolini’s recommendations range from national bystander training to improving police standards and early intervention for boys. Practical, evidence-based proposals. The challenge: will they be implemented – or quietly shelved? Jenny Rhodes reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

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A baby for @toweronatower.bsky.social

If the law is too voluminous and complex for trained police officers to follow, how are regular citizens expected to know what the rules of protest are these days? Govt need to reflect, repeal and replace, but they’ll probably instead simply legislate yet another ill-fitting layer on top.

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

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'All Girlguiding members are invited to make the promise.' 'I promise that I will do my best, to be true to myself and develop my beliefs, to serve the King and my community, to help other people and to keep the (Brownie) Guide law.' www.girlguiding.org.uk/about-us/who...

Full marks to Zia for somehow managing to block out the irony of accusing someone of treason when Nathan Gill has literally just been sent to prison for being a traitor.

Hoppy Friday! 🐇☁️

From now on, anytime someone asks me why I put so much time and effort into this arguably dumb account, I will simply tell them that I do it for Tim.

Starting to remind people about #joinin on #ChristmasDay. Started by @sarahmillican.bsky.social on the other place it’s a check in & chat hashtag for anyone who needs it. #Christmas is hard for a lot of people. Being on your own or in a difficult space doesn’t need to mean being alone. #joinin

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This is very telling, but we in the UK keep forgetting that the EU don't necessarily need or want us back. We caused a huge amount of disruption & expense because we fell for a scam. We aren't entitled to just rejoin.

Are we now gonna stop listening to misinformation, eh? In 22.7 million #covid vaccinated people & 5.9 million unvaccinated people, vaccinated individuals had 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 & no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a follow-up of 3y 9m.

Brexit has damaged our economy - it's impossible to deny. "Even the vast Brexit-backing media struggle these days to find actual positives: those vaunted trade deals outside Europe offer minuscule gains compared with what is lost." https://bit.ly/48Jvh2M

The "narrow victory" characterisation is weird: Peggie won on harassment grounds relating to the employer's handling of the situation, but lost on every claim that would have established trans people have no right to use aligned facilities, and lost entirely against the trans doctor personally.

This, and the media is stuffed full of people who are personally primed to lie and twist in order to kick the shit out of trans people. You wouldn't get a wall to wall victory lap on anything this flimsy any other way.

The current attacks on trans people are a disgrace. Trans people have never been a significant threat to women. It’s vile.

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit By Anthony Robinson

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

We’re relying on foodbanks to fill the gaps left by a shrinking welfare state. Nick Gardham's article explains why that risks normalising deprivation. eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/welfare...

"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

I started getting involved with @bylinesnetwork.co.uk in the summer. Best choice I've made in some time. Great group of people passionate about what they do. Very worth supporting.

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Interesting. Media is being very quick to push the idea that a R*form gov is a done deal but I've never thought that was true. Cracks are starting to become impossible to hide.

Some time ago I discovered that each day the Auschwitz Memorial feed gives name, photo, & info about a person who was sent to the camp. Seems particularly important right now. bsky.app/profile/ausc...

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't. 'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't. 'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

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I could kind of forgive a 13/14 year old being awful but the adult needs to recognise it & apologise for any harm. How is this guy going to handle complex international diplomacy if he can't even deal with this? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My Budget Day opinion: Budget Day should be abolished. Performative nonsense that (by accident) leans into 'politics as entertainment'. Measures should instead be announced when they are individually ready to be announced – at any time in the parliamentary calendar.

It's important not to normalise spreading germs around. If someone is ill with respiratory symptoms encourage them to self-isolate and not attend in person any work or social events (if they can afford it)... or at the very least wear a mask. Haven't we learnt anything from the pandemic?

This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect. As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.

Change in Reform rating between latest and previous poll from each pollster in recent polls: YouGov -2 Opinium -1 Find Out Now -1 Focaldata -2 More in Common -1 Lord Ashcroft -3 Freshwater -3 JL Partners -1 Ipsos -1 This is starting to look like a trend...

Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you :3

It's never too late to learn something new. It's never too late to read dusty books of dark magic. It's never too late to weave a cloak of moss, feathers, and thorns and become the horror that haunts the forest north of town.

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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform's Twitter account is showcasing the new range of black shirts they plan to start selling soon. The metaphors write themselves, and they know it.