This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

"We proudly commit war crimes."

The next Shopify Partners North Developers Meetup is at The Tetley in Leeds at 6pm on 28th Oct!! 🎤 David Warrington, Senior Demo Engineer at Shopify will be talking Liquid tips, tricks, and tooling! He is also one of the developers who helped created the new Horizon theme!

Loving this level of anger from @chrischirp.bsky.social 😁 Ridiculous idea. For shame Labour again.

The depressing thing about today is that it was sold as Starmer's answer to Reform. This is apparently what he has to offer as a vision of a confident diverse nation: ID cards. Just utterly joyless and emotionless.

“We’re not Tylenol experts, of course not.” Should have stopped there Richard, because the rest of what you said was incoherent.

Fantastic to see our TrumpActionTracker featured in this @yorkshirebylines.co.uk article! @sandylaping.bsky.social @peteduncanson.bsky.social Do have are read. Tracker is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

Dog walk Cocker picking and then Mexican Brunch made with our only home grown chilli. Now this is a Sunday! Sadly time to do some DIY now but a hell of a start so far.

Bumper conker season this year! Fresh post storm pickings!

Oh @attackmonkey.bsky.social one for you and daughter to play together 🙂

Again.

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

I don’t feel very represented on the BBC news website at the minute. Wall to wall coverage of Trump being welcomed. Nothing I can find of those in the nation who really don’t welcome him. White wash (or Orange Wash?)

Queen

With the ramping up of the zero-sum mindset language coming from JD Vance and Trump and the RE media I’m at a lost as to how you can possibly find middle ground here to work towards. I can’t see how there can be any coming together to “de-escalate” at all!

In just under 9 months, Trump’s 2nd term has racked up 230 nationalist actions - 75% occurring in the past 3 months. From executive orders to mass detentions & political violence, the darkness is spreading. Can we hold the line? My latest Substack ⬇️ christinapagel.substack.com/p/nationalis...

I’m all for this. Yes some people spoil the country side by leaving tents and fire pits and empty cases of Stella in some beauty spots. But they are doing that anyway. Let the rest of us enjoy this lovely country legally.

Not all hero’s wear capes

I’m struggling to see how cable tying (aka zip ties) a cheap flag to any bit of street furniture you can find can be deemed as patriotic. If anything it’s the complete opposite to me. It’s turning our flags into something that aren’t and making be want to disassociate from it.

Oh a 1000 times this.

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

To all the builders, creators, and problem-solvers: Happy #ProgrammersDay! 🎉

I don’t see how A&E can be seen as working when its sole job seems to be to transfer you to a new holding area/ward called “day unit” to wait for over 9 hours simply so they can get you off the A&E books and hit their “patients turned around within 4 hour” targets.

get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions

I am reading that politicians of the left should be held to standards that those of the right ignore, and I hope you enjoy your moment of purity before a populist government sweeps away norms and laws entirely

Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?

August 26, 1918: NASA's trailblazer and mathematician Katherine G. Johnson was born. Her calculations of orbital mechanics were vital to U.S. first triumphs in human spaceflight. I reshare a 🧵 about her. 🔭 🧪 #maths #science #WomenInSTEM #histsci

It is astonishing how badly suited Keir Starmer is to the current moment. Just astonishing

After all the bollocks of claiming (wrongly) that the UK has two tier justice system, Farage is planning exactly that.

The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’d really like it if you could bookmark/pin a reply in a ChatGPT chat for easier scrolling to when I’m a long chat. Sometimes there’s a really good bit but it can get lost in verbose side quests and clarifications. A collapse option for those would be great too to help clear the clutter.

Oh Final Destination Bloodlines was JUST what I needed tonight. Very much enjoyed that distraction and laughed a lot.

Oh my House of Dragons really is shit. No humour, no characters to root for, no dragon mystic just a slow long grey grind.

If you know anyone who loves autumn and books please help spread the word of my girlfriend’s wonderful new range of wax melts and bookish goodies. Make the girl’s weekend with an order too if you can. Thanks to Trump’s tariffs we can’t ship to the USA so times are tough. Shelfaware.co.uk

Aussie unions don’t beat around the bush.

When I started building this site some months back we had 200 actions logged. I’d no idea it would grow this fast. So much so I might have to rework it again to cope! Worth every keystroke to document this mess he’s creating. Hats off to @chrischirp.bsky.social for all she’s doing, proud to help

One THOUSAND authoritarian acts reached open.substack.com/pub/christin...

My brand new card game ⚔️HERO SLAM⚔️ is OUT TODAY exclusively through Waterstones (online and in store) and The Phoenix Comic online store! It’ll be on sale more widely next month. 🔥 And not only that, @waterstones.bsky.social have declared Hero Slam their GAME OF THE SEASON! Hooray!

Personally I’d like to know more widely if this is the view internally of the Labour Party or many of its other MPs?

Oh look I see the Alaska summit was a great success for someone. Russian media shows US armored vehicle with Russian, American flags storming Ukrainian positions. kyivindependent.com/russian-medi...

The fact Trump thinks this is good progress, & that he is urging Ukraine & its European allies to negotiate on this basis without even demanding a ceasefire now, shd finally convince European leaders to ignore the US & do what's needed for their own security - ie ensure Ukraine wins & Russia loses.

Big day for keeping an eye on the news, knowing something’s coming that will be both awful and very stupid, but not knowing exactly which awful or just how stupid.

My amateurish theory on a lot of the Manosphere / 48 Laws of Power / Andrew Tate advice is that it's not fundementally about trying to make you happier. It's about cosplaying attainment for others in the hopes that their supposedly inevitable envy will be a substitute for happiness.

@sheencr.bsky.social and I wrote about how Kennedy is systematically undermining vaccines in a coordinated and very effective way in the US for @uk.theconversation.com full article here: theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-i...

Had my first “AI will fix everything” meeting with the other directors at work. They were all very excited by it. As the IT director I was sad to have to be the one to tell them that it can’t and deflate a few folk. Loved the energy of the meeting but not the realistic expectations of how AI is sold