Make it make sense... I've always been wary of using the 'f' word. But if ICE isn't a tool of the fascist-adjacent at least, I don't know what has ever been in my lifetime in the Western world.

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

Old Soviet joke: They rewrite history so much, you never know what's going to happen yesterday (please use alt text, it's a small way we can all be better than the Fash)

BBC traitors really highlights how much white people love to justify racism

'How much does the aurora borealis weigh?" It's pretty light.

Nice of genitally-obsessed bigot to use #NotInOurName 70,000 women have now signed, saying clearly that exclusion is not in their name and that trans people deserve dignity, safety and belonging. 🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk #NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

In occupied East Jerusalem, the United Nations has condemned a raid by Israeli forces on the headquarters of the U.N.’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, known as UNRWA. A spokesperson for the secretary-general said the raid directly violated international law.

I grew up in a suburb, West Drayton, where it was (rightly) news if there was a far-right protest every couple of months. Now there is one of them each week. inews.co.uk/news/inside-...

100 of them will use enough energy to power 10,000,000 homes: "Figures shared with BBC News in August showed an estimated 447 data centres currently in the UK, with that number set to rise by about 100 in the next few years." Profit is being prioritised over people.

Enchanted today to discover I am listed on Twm Siôn Cati’s Wikipedia page as the author of a reference. It’s a nice reassurance as I try and wrest my re-telling into some kind of shape 😂

This is how our government treated nurses with long Covid.. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis... From 2023. Still no preventions in place.

"The big orange elephant in the room that we're all tiptoeing around is the fact that Mandelson was chosen for that position, to be the interface with President Trump, not despite his questionable connections and his rather ephemeral morals, but because of them. Because he shares them with Trump."

In London, hate will never win.

oh my

The UN has only confirmed what we already knew: Israel is committing genocide. 64,000+ killed, whole families wiped out. Yet UK Govt rolls out the red carpet for Israel’s president & Starmer stays silent. Labour - this is a genocide. Are you going to continue to ignore that?

“A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past.”

UK "Free Speech" latest: Four members of @ledbydonkeys.org were arrested for this.

a support group for people mesmerised by the fact that the clumps from their cat's clumping litter look exactly like sesame brittle

Four people were arrested for an “unauthorised projection”. This is apparently what counts as a crime now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A second mass shooting of a homeless encampment in Minneapolis. Five more people died. Meanwhile, congress is working on passing the ability to jail homeless people for up to 30 days or charge them $500. It bans camping on public property. abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

"The courts have no roadmap for this. They have generally not been faced with repeated instances of high-level government officials and attorneys routinely lying or perpetually insisting they have no idea what’s actually going on, but that’s where we are now."

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

Nobody has ever told on himself more only to have so many people pretend they didn’t hear it.

The utter ludicrousness on the UK’s flagship and most-watched breakfast TV programme: “The last Home Secretary did a fantastic job” - the last Home Secretary’s husband. #gmb

Who could possibly have foreseen?

Today on The Tudor Notebook @bec1926.bsky.social tells the story of Dolbadarn Castle amymcelroy.substack.com/p/castle-of-...

"Zack Polanski said it was 'rank hypocrisy' for Nigel Farage to call for Angela Rayner's resignation and not to do so himself." inews.co.uk/news/green-p...

THREAD🧵🧵🧵 A couple of the key things to remember over the next few weeks. Things the government will lie about repeatedly, after all, it is led by a serial liar... 1. The government does not HAVE to accept the EHRC transphobic "guidance". It can ignore it, it can reject it, it can amend it... 1/5

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Europeans are in danger, but they are sleeping through it. What can be done to wake them to the American threat? My piece: davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-has...

waka wake

Might have a go at this. I'm funny, right?

What human rights shall the labour government trample on this week

Ok but hear me out, what if we taxed the fuck out of really rich people

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

Nigerian composer Ayo Bankole explores African Pianism beautifully in ‘Egun Variations’ based on an Egun theme of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. 🎥Video courtesy of Onassis Stegi, Athens, part of my African Pianism recital programme.

‘Who is actually running the council?’: Chaos continues as Reform UK remains silent on new cabinet

Israeli forces are continuing deadly attacks on Palestinians, with at least 21 people killed since dawn, 13 of them while seeking aid.

SO clever. I might actually get one of these for medical appointments because nobody has less accessible seating than the NHS.

With arrest warrants issued for Netanyahu by the 💥literal ICC💥, why isn't #Israel a proscribed organisation? Why isn't Keir Starmer committing an offence by supporting it? www.thenational.scot/news/2532523...

My wife Tessa Finn has three figurative ceramics pieces in this exhibition in Llandrindod Wells. www.celfogwmpas.org/herebedragon....