Catching up on Race Around The World and fully undone by the 19yo Scouse lad being blown away seeing Mongolian throat singing irl, supremely wholesome content

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

because I know y’all can’t click and read

The important point to remember is NO SHE DOESN'T. What was published yesterday were guidelines for service providers. They impose NO obligations on individuals and are NOT the law. People want you to believe otherwise, to intimidate trans people. But they haven't yet criminalised their existence.

I keep boggling at this. The Westminster bubble does something to people’s minds. Was this really why you joined the Labour movement? Was this what moved you, when you were young, and you heard the word “equality”? Do you see what has happened, in that last sentence?

once again, @themerl.bsky.social posting hog on main smh

this is a lovely interview with the late, great Felicity Lott but boo hiss to the editor who cut four bars out of the ending of Beim Schlafengehen www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Ooh this is a good idea. TO ETSY

Scotland, not renowned for its hot weather, suffered a "megafire" in 2025 that saw more than 30,000 tonnes of carbon emitted from burning peat #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Times coverage of what the Code is likely to contain is embarrassingly wrong. It talks repeatedly about what it will tell employers to do – but, of course, the guidance is only for service providers and associations. This is a question of basic accuracy and understanding. Shameful.

[me, turning up to the science museum demanding that they take my kid's old chemistry set] another clear example of broken britain!

The NRM has over 1,000 model locomotives, among 10,000 items in the North Shed, and 250,000 in the collection overall (if I’ve understood their website correctly). ‘Not enough stuff’ isn’t a problem they face. What would their curators say if front of house started accessioning things on spec?!

Solidarity with all trans + people today. And if you're cis like me and have any agency in shaping your institution's policies regarding toilets etc, please exercise it in defence against those who want to take away human rights.

Israeli fascist and minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, posted a video of himself on Twitter abusing the illegally kidnaped and detained members of the Global Sumud Flotilla while yelling “Welcome to Israel, we are the owners of the house".

Great news, obviously. But why is government letting this agency carry on as normal after it drove its mission into a ditch with the quixotic and vindictive case against Sussex?

I say this every day! George Osborne should be in prison!

People: it's outrageous that my local council can't fix all the potholes. Also people: I'm driving around in a very heavy SUV, parking on pavements and I want to pay less tax, not more.

vale, Flott. 🕊️ Dame Felicity Lott (1947-2026) youtu.be/9pO-zbfpXKc?...

I’d like you all to run “transgender extremists captured the BBC” through your deranged conspiracy theory bullshit detector, and see whether it pings

Let it be clear: you are wanted here.

I didn't have that experience but I did do Tess for GCSE as a nerdy and romantic adolescent and found it absolutely thrilling

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Four years for murdering a black Muslim man in his 60s - manslaughter because of course when he punched the old guy in the back of the head he didn’t expect him to die. Just an accident! to add insult to injury, they’re keen to call his an “isolated incident“ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK is not ungovernable, and claiming that it is is a dereliction of responsibility. Government has serious deficiencies but we have also had a series of leaders who lack the skills to govern - my latest comment for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/is-u...

Attention, extremist , race-hate scum: assuming we can pull you away from feeding heroin to toddlers for five minutes, would you mind awfully not standing a candidate in this seat, so that we can rescue ourselves from electoral oblivion? Thank you, and fuck you

An essential element of this story that journalists will largely deliberately omit.

sorry to report that i will now be exclusively referring to the Russell Group as 'Tesco's Finest institutions'

So Luke Akehurst's pal who has been banging on about narrow boat tax was also the one who did the job on Rayner, and she's just been cleared of any wrongdoing. So looks like he is indeed just a slimy little factional snitch trying to whip up scandals out of stuff nobody should be caring about.

This is not about policing the actual, physical, marches themselves. It is about policing public perception by making them equivalent so far right racism & violence becomes the same in the public's mind as pro-peace anti-violence & anti-racism

These folk want to take us back to a world in which putting everyone who's not a straight white man in their "place" is "normal" again. This is obvious.

Newly-elected REFUK councillors are being exposed as actual Nazis at a rate of one a day. Somebody needs to think on, and it isn't the left.

The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out

45% of brits support ending all immigration that drops to 15% when you tell them it would lead to nhs staffing shortages

Please retweet.

This is a long shot because this isn't the old twitter, but I'm looking for history articles/books that look at cases of British/Irish settlers/squatters being prosecuted for crimes against Indigenous/colonized people. It can be anywhere in the world, but ideally the late C18/early C19.

Labour's Immigration Bill is the most immoral and repugnant thing this Government has done. It would mean a care worker who came to this country looking after our elderly, working night shifts on low pay, would wait 10 years to apply for citizenship But an investment banker could apply in 3 years

Here's one for the connoisseurs: an entire page on Johan Hari's website dedicated to mistakes he made in his book Magic Pill; the book his publishers Bloomsbury insisted had been thoroughly fact checked when he libelled me. They are not trival mistakes. magicpillbook.com/corrections/

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Insane dystopian shit here, totally unacceptable. I expect politicians and commentators to be outraged by it, regardless of their opinion of the crimes these people were convicted of.

insanity

much to enjoy here, unlike watching the tonight show

Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data. This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide. We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.

Dig a hole in his garden, cover it with leaves and sticks then dangle some Champions League final tickets over it

Steel industry: £1.1bn in GDP and 20,000 employees University sector: £265bn in GDP and 400,000 employees What the fuck am I missing here.

Isn't it funny how when the Greens win something, Reform say "this is not the true will of the British people" and when Reform wins something Keir Starmer says "we must accept the that this is the will of the British people". Does this seem like a good choice, strategically?

people are making fun of this but what if he pulled out the most badass speech out of his ass, huh? he looks at the speech on the podium and RIPS it up, and his advisors are like "Mr Starmer what are you DOING" and he's like "something I should have done a LONG TIME AGO" then he gets out a guitar

NHS England went out of its way to tell us (www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechn...) our data was safe. It wasn't. And we are right to worry. Palantir is deeply political. And highly unethical: it paid for a smear campaign against Good Law Project. Did they also access my medical records? My family's?

If you oppose antisemitism from the left but don’t oppose antisemitism from the right, you don’t oppose antisemitism. You oppose the left.