This teacher then at Dulwich College makes it pretty clear that in his or her experience when students of that age say such things they mean it. And it confirms that the sort of thing reported by past pupils were also reported (& shockingly diminished by some) teachers. H/t @malcolm55.bsky.social

As Farage sounds extremely rattled your reminder of the greatest post the other place has ever seen

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

When you let ChatGPT generate your new nameplate

Despite much (reasonable) doom and gloom about the fact there was a vote at all it's definitely not a bad thing to have another party that explicitly supports trans rights. The launching of Your Party has unquestionably been poorly handled by almost everyone involved, but I do wonder... 1/2

If my boobs are going to wake me up in the middle of the night aching the least they can do is get a bit bigger by the morning, cmon guys, where's the team spirit?

It’s not too late, and there is a real desire for people from the trans community to apply archive.ph/UQia8 Application details here: apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9026?b...

Please help me get this story out to a wider audience. Please share everywhere. northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Then as now ...

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏 LET’S KEEP GOING! If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

So many existing oil + gas licenses, pipelines, wells are sited in Marine 'Protected' Areas, as shown on our Watershed Pollution Map. The pollution risks + risks to wildlife if existing licences are expanded are likely to be huge: share.google/dZfNuOIn5LOu...

Curse you, Rachel Reeves, for you have cost me my traditional Christmas Snickers bar!

People who voted Labour last year: did you vote for an end to the right to be tried by a jury?

I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing? And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim

Important thread from Sophia which I helpfully buried halfway down another thread, in which she describes (some of) the extent of the harassment that hasn't until now been able to be made public. Feel free to save the screenshots, share wherever and get (some of) the real story out there.

⏰ Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds consultation closes on Tuesday 25th. If you care about this, please complete the survey and say that the current arrangements work well.

YEAH I'M JOGGING....NAH IT'S RUBBISH

Every time I think I have a handle on how fast we are approaching 1939... What the fuck, USA? Also, apologies for the jumpscare in the image. www.rawstory.com/trump-swasti...

Join the Green Party!

@nytimes.com stop taking our puzzles you monsters also the transphobia but honestly I'd like the mini first

These Labour MPs have shredded any pretence of principle Posturing in opposition one minute, rolling over the next, more interested in preserving their own power than defending ordinary people - including refugees For a party that’s abandoned its soul there is no redemption Join.greenparty.org.uk

Huffpost makes a good point - Polanski has no good earworm. Can I suggest just swapping out "Bob the Builder" for "Zack Polanski"? It works 😉

Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool" "This is sociopathic behaviour" "He is toxic, misogynistic, racist" "I'm not a fan of Trump" Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"

Fox News is VERY upset with politicians who make unrealistic promises

Timeless

Hey Falkner @equalityhumanright.bsky.social , As a muslim woman, did you expect that leveraging of institutional power to legally protect your hatred of trans people would be the exact precedent used to allow hatred against YOU? Congratulations. Your lifes legacy is a punchline. archive.ph/28HxL

Proposals for an impartial BBC: - Ed Davey and Zack Polanski to have as many appearences as Nigel Farage - Trans people to have as much airtime to talk about themselves as transphobes. - No holocaust denier to be described as a grass roots protester - No treating settled science as a debate topic

A converted effort is being made to shift the window of discussion in UK politics to the right. Look to America to see where this leads us.

It is delightful to see Polanski not only holding true to his convictions, but also doing so in a way that respects that they are in some cases lofty. Denuclearisation is a fine goal - it might not be possible, but we should still try. 1/

If you care about the coordinated assault on trans rights and on our democracy, read this research from A Just Society. “This is strategic, funded, coordinated litigation being used as a policy change tool”.

White poppies were first produced in 1933 by the Co-operative Women's Guild, made up largely of women who had lost loved ones in World War One. They were worried by the growing militarisation of Remembrance events and what they saw as a detachment between the red poppy and the need to work for peace

I despise ChatGPT (and other LLMs/AI chstbots) more and more with every passing day. Every time I see an em dash, or the phrasing "not just this — that", or anything similar... I start to mistrust what I'm reading. I don't believe I'm seeing the words of a person anymore. Am I right, though? 1/

As if it wasn't bad enough that the feeble justifications given in the Cass report are used to deny young people care (despite it being provided on the same evidence basis as other treatments specific to children), now the NHS is trying to ignore the commitment to continue existing treatment.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

10/10 take. No notes.

modular synths. it's the Doepfer Test

Electoral reform has never been more pressing. The Labour result alone demonstrates the mess that is FPTP, do we want to see a repeat of that in a few years?

This person took this when they called the race

"Inequality hurts everyone." @zackpolanski.bsky.social on the lessons from Zohran Mamdani's win in New York and the case for taxing the wealth of the richest to fix our public services.

Lower bills. Tax billionaires. (And no to Rosebank!) youtu.be/em__qJO8Fy0?...

i propose (teehee) that the gender-neutral form for bride and groom should be gem reasons: - comes from a likely PIE root affix for groom, "dhghem" - sounds pleasing to the ear - isn't broom - implies your partner is the real treasure and not the ring

In most cases I'm all for tax rises... We should all contribute to society, probably more than we do now. But right now people are being squeezed from all sides - income, cost of living, house prices. And all the while the rich get richer, to the tune millions every day, every hour, every minute.

Fauxgramming

The British are by nature centrists, but our electoral system delivers ludicrous parliamentary majorities on back of minority popular votes. It’s a two party system in a multi party democracy it must be changed.

Hilarious but true. The only thing Margaret Thatcher did for this country is to negotiate the best deal the U.K. has ever done in the EU. Like having your cake and eating it. Yes Farage and Tories destroyed this deal! Zero cards me thinks not! Terms a bit difficult

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies Those companies pay billions to their shareholders And then lay off their workers Think that's unfair? Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…