They won't. They are going to get shafted. They are going to deserve it. And it's going to be hilarious.

I want to see a version of Star Trek's Enterprise with tech and services from 2026. "Replicators now offline on basic subscription deal. Upgrade to premium." "Sickbay next available in twelve weeks. Please use Sickbay app to join waiting list." "To request reinforcements against Borg, press 3."

Thrupp (Stroud) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 67.5% (+3.1) ➡️ RFM: 16.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 7.3% (-10.3) 🌹 LAB: 5.8% (-12.3) 🔶 LDM: 2.8% (New) 💷 UKIP: 0.3% (New) Green HOLD. Changes w/ 2024.

@caitoz.bsky.social put it best on the other site

My SS officer fit raising questions already answered by my SS officer fit

If I can manage to look barely human today I'll be updating my PFP with my actual face. From the side that isn't all swollen anyway (ENT appointment at long last next week)

I've had three letters through the post from Reform in as many weeks. Presumably via the electoral roll That's about the same number as I got from the Tories outside the election cycle in over 7 years I don't think I can prevent it so let them waste their money I'll be voting Green regardless.

Started World Book Day by shouting at a six-year-old that while Frozen is indeed loosely based on a Hans Christian Andersen story, Elsa is solely a movie character so her costume travesties the whole concept of World Book Day, no, stop, why are you crying?

the racists are the ones who have 'failed to integrate' in to modern britain.

Gave a speech he hadn't read, sends letters he doesn't read, hires people he believes despite a history of lying. Keir Starmer's entire defence since he got in to power is 'I'm shit at everything, it's not my fault'

Extremely upsetting that the fate of the entire world was left in the hands of Americans and less than 80 million of them decided to vote in a man who has taken us into potentially the third world war. We must never allow one country to have this much power over the world ever again.

A bit of humour on this dark evening

idk who needs to hear this... But it's not a demonstration of media literacy to pretend you don't understand publications have often picked a side and will commission pieces that support that narrative over others. It is quite literally a failing of your media literacy to do this, in fact.

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

saw Doctor Who Earthshock last night at my local arthouse cinema, very enjoyable after an edible during the scene where they're all activated on the ship, a guy in my row stood up in full Cyberman regalia and i was not ready thankfully he leaned in & said "scuse me mate i need to use the shitter"

My guess is it's more specific. They don't think a woman can or should be a plumber and do plastering for a living.

Remember when parties who lost elections used to be like "This is a strong message from the electorate and we will listen and learn and change" rather than "Fuck everyone who didn't vote for us, you're all extremists trying to destroy Britain"

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

This is absolutely what will happen; the full power of the establishment will be turned on the Green Party. Every newspaper, every TV channel, every social media algorithm. The whole lot will be focused on discrediting the Green Party.

and THAT’S Numberwang!

"If I add all the votes on the table up and pretend they're ours, then we've actually got a total majority. I am very smart!" You don't get to turn around after telling everyone on the left to fuck off and claim that actually they're all still in the same tent and it's all good. Cope harder.

Starmer: “If you don’t like our policies you can leave.” Voters:

Chris Mason on the BBC's Gorton and Denton by-election 'Newscast' suggesting that Reform's massive defeat is somehow still good for them because they collectively (alongside the Greens) got such a large section of the vote, like in Caerphilly with Plaid. I'm not sure that's how elections work...

Grew up watching a Trans woman win Big Brother, hearing music with lyrics that celebrated Trans people, seeing folk flourish as themselves. Now we’re going backwards I will ALWAYS stand against the politicisation and degradation of human rights. Solidarity to our Trans family 🏳️‍⚧️ 💪🏻

so I hope nobody seriously thinks Labour are going to do anything other than tack further to the right

The Gorton and Denton by-election demonstrates you can be unashamedly pro-trans rights and win. It shows that Labour's policy of doing everything JK Rowling wants to trans people is a losing policy. Who knew that a billionaire smoking cigars on a superyacht would be so out of touch with voters?

You don't work towards equity or inclusion if you solely think about the marginalised group you are a part of and deny the barriers that exist for other marginalised groups. You're just working towards self preservation.

Oh! It does exist! 😱 Tactical-choice.uk

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

The BBC are not allowed to say "trans children." It's a bit like the nonsense that one shouldn't mention trans children committing suicide because that's what makes them commit suicide. As long as they are "questioning" they can be pulled back from the brink. The language supports conversion.

stole this off reddit for the very niche group of you who will enjoy it as much as I did

Here's a whole fancy web page to tell us what we already know - the biggest parties are all fighting it out to sound the most like the BNP. Just as with Brexit, Nigel Farage has changed the political landscape. And Starmer's Labour party have absolutely jumped on board and bought into the lies.

The 1st time the nyt leadership engaged me on trans issues, in 2021, they asked my opinion of a Jesse Singal review of a book by the transphobic writer Helen Joyce. The piece had been assigned by Pamela Paul 🧵

One of the side concerns I have about this BAFTA news cycle is that, as a trans woman living in the UK I can attest to the fact that pitting a clash between a poorly understood oppressed group's human rights and a more culturally legible group's rights, even with it not being a deliberate set up...

okay what the fuck was the BBC doing with that broadcast? because at this point it could be mistaken for intentional… variety.com/2026/film/aw...

Reform, the party of hate and division. Suella Braverman, Reform’s new education and equalities spokesperson wants to get rid of the Equality Act. So basically it’s not just women they hate but everyone who isn’t an able bodied English speaking, white Christian straight man.

btw this all started with @maitlis.bsky.social, @jonsopel1.bsky.social, and @lewisgoodall.com treating EIGHT complaints about tavistock as a national scandal and a medical outrage more children have died as a result of the panic they created than ever complained are they now criticising cass? no

of the thousands of patients tavistock treated only EIGHT ever complained. that sparked 'the cass review' set up by kemi badenoch more children have died as a result of labour implementing cass then complained to begin with @lucympowell.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social are killing kids

Dear Lucy Powell, A response to your letter:

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

I've watched the exorcist in a cinema, at a midnight screening. You don't have to go back in time to see stuff in a cinema, you just need to find somewhere showing it. If you've already seen it, it's not like you can see it for the first time again even if you could time travel.

Labour lost three council seats last night. 1 each to the Greens, Lib dems and Plaid. Reform were 2nd or 3rd in each. The Greens also won and beat Reform in another local election. So when they say vote Labour to stop Reform, they couldn't be more wrong. Vote almost anyone but Labour to beat Reform.

…extreme right-wing money & mainstream/oligarch media support was lavished on organised transphobia in the form of well- but opaquely-funded “women’s concerns”/faux-“feminist” transphobic hate groups to campaign to strip trans people of our human rights. Everyone like Sodha is to blame for this.

Trans people warned the “gender-critical’s” like Sodha that rights-stripping from one group makes rights-stripping from everyone much easier. GCs like Sodha were told this repeatedly. Judith Butler warned the transphobes against rights-stripping also. None of them stopped to think why… 2/3

More than almost anyone else Sodha’s faux-reasonable anti-trans diatribes in the Guardian - claiming *concern* about women’s rights - contributed to undermining the Equality Act. If Reform gets in cis women will lose every gain they fought for since the 1960s, thanks to “journalists” like her. 1/3

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Just saw a post asking what Superman’s Kryptonite was, someone correct me if I am wrong but…isn’t it Kryptonite? @gailsimone.bsky.social thoughts?

Trying to evoke this I suspect. youtu.be/XvoQAUmB7g0?...