It's apparent that at least some MPs are listening. Businesses, too, have pushed back. In the cold light of day the bigots' segregationist fever dream is being examined by ordinary people and found to be weird, unworkable, cruel and wrong. Keep writing to your MPs 👍🏻

Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits

What a fantastic piece, in which @readingtheend.bsky.social absolutely nails what's wrong with publisher-monetised fanfic. "Let’s not get into the habit of trawling the wriggling, unknowable sea floor that is fandom, only to feed its most palatable morsels into the hungry maw of capitalism."

"If there’s any fact we know about history, it’s that everybody’s been moving everywhere and having sex with everybody, forever." — Paul Spickard, professor of history, UC Santa Barbara

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

I'm losin it at the crow definitely knowing when it won, too, throwing its head back with a smile and struttin like aaaayy das right!

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

*LOUD ENGLISH YELLING!*

"How have conditions led to so many feeling unheard, frustrated and angry?" - These people have been NOTHING BUT heard for 20 years. Their views have been DRIVING our entire political discourse & bipartisan UK policy agenda. They got Brexit, it was never going to make them happy. Stop listening.

Just a reminder that if you like the work Romancing the Gothic does - free talks, free book groups and author visits, charity days, conferences, free workshops... you can support it here The project is supported by donations only www.patreon.com/romancingthe...

well fuck me

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

sorry this is sending me

I am personally of the opinion that DCMS should simply not be allowed to overrule the recommendation of Historic England

You can do really anything to a listed building except demolish it as long as you have a good reason for doing it, the money to do it properly, and the people to do it well. Listing is not what’s holding development back.

Hey, we’re historians, it’s our job to ruin everything.

Can't say it clearer than this, can you - "transphobia will absolutely not be tolerated under my leadership, and it will never be acceptable in the Green Party."

Opinions I have: 1. You should install Signal on your phone and computer. Connect with your friends and partners on it. Use it casually, regularly, for non-sensitive messages. 2. You should probably be taking vitamin D supplements.

As is this other, related one: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

This is gorgeous and I would 100% live on the top floor. THE VIEWS.

JUST IN: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement. That’s at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated—well below what Anthropic may have had to pay if it had lost the case at trial.

Just for the record, Anthropic has agreed to delete the entirety of the training data as a result of this lawsuit, and do not get a license to hold onto the work from it.

Me: Anthropic AI settled the copyright lawsuit for $1.5 bn, with each book getting about $3,000. It looks like the AI read at least five of my books! My wife: Well, at least someone read them. Me: (dead on floor, bleeding out)

Tech giant Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a lawsuit that was brought against the company by three authors, after it downloaded pirated versions of books to train its AI model ( @americanpublish.bsky.social ) 👇

On Friday, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of illegally using their books to train its AI. The filing coincided with the announcement of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement in a similar case.

Breaking: In landmark agreement, AI firm Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit brought by book authors and publishers. Story to follow.

AI company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B to settle a lawsuit with book authors 📚 • Accused of training Claude on thousands of pirated books • Payout equals $3K per book • The largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Was good to be able to point out very directly and clearly on GB News that Nigel Farage's claim that "only a fifth of new migrants are in work" is a barefaced, easily debunked lie. [at 1 hour 49 minutes.] Why can't the BBC/Laura Kuenssberg do this? www.gbnews.com/shows/martin...

Wow!!! Major news!!! The judge in the Anthropic AI case is "concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced 'down the throat of authors.'" This is what myself and many other authors were saying about the settlement. 1/ news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...

You can and should complain to Ofcom here: www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...

Great that they’re doing this project but this stuff should not be volunteer work. Pay people. “But we don’t have money!” Yeah I know, us either, tax the rich

Remember: there's no audience for AI-produced content. Nobody in the AI ecosystem is there to read or listen - only to publish their own slop.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Let’s fucking GOOOOOOOOO

It's called fascism. Fascist regimes, like Mussolini's Italy, directly nationalized some businesses. American journalists need reminding that this isn't necessarily a 'socialist' thing. Articles like this don't help the public interpret what's happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Oh HELL YES www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

This is mostly beautiful but I have a personal vendetta against those fake marble bathrooms

reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.

We are not journalists or political commentators. We can't predict the future either. But we are informed and are careful scholars. I know no other historians (and I know a lot, across the nation and abroad) who are MAGA or open Trump supporters. We don't deal in lies so it makes it impossible.

Our campaign for the rights and interests of authors in the face of big tech companies using copyrighted work to train their generative AI models continues. Read our views on Bloomsbury offering its authors an opt-in licensing deal with a 20% revenue share. societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/b...

the funny thing about John Boyne's current ubiquitous sympathy tour is, if I had a book condemned by both the Auschwitz Museum and the Centre for Holocaust Education, I'd shut up forever. I'd burn my laptop, mobile, keyboard, pens, and crayons, lest I ever wrote a word again.

I studied Dickens at Oxford including tutorials with John Carey. I've read maybe 30 books of superb litcrit on him. I don't think I've ever heard a more insightful observation than Miriam Margolyes tonight: "Dickens never got over X. Well, he never got over anything."

Excellent thread about a lazy and frankly shameful @theguardian.com piece which regurgitates Boyne's statement without investigation or interrogation.

I don’t want to be governed by vibes. I want to be governed by data, and I want the methods which generated that data to be peer-reviewed so aggressively that bias is recognized and mitigated. I want to do nothing *but* trust experts, so I can spend my time as an expert in my own tiny field.