it's important to call things what they are "mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy

Genuinely DISTRAUGHT to find that the essay about the modern world I have been slowly and vaguely composing in my head was already written, and in much better style, half a century ago.

ive crunched the numbers, and its not looking good. theyre pretty much ruined by all the crunching, i owe you new numbers

InfraSisters in Edinburgh campaign for safer cycling, especially for women riding after dark. This Friday night they will hold a mass glowride in Edinburgh. Ladies in the lead, but everyone is welcome to light up the night. www.cyclinguk.org/event/glow-r... #OurStreetsOurNight #MyRideOurRight

With the demise of Ange Postecoglu I have no choice but to announce that the ceremonial title of Big Ange (bestowed upon the most important Ange reigning, and previously held by Angelas Rayner, Merkel & Lansbury) has passed to Angela Eagle. I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this

bluesky: the early years

When they set out on the way to the recording studio there had been eight non-blondes so it was actually a pretty reasonable question to ask.

I've written a poem, but it's maybe a bit too political for Bluesky. It's called 'The Problem with Populism'. The problem with Populism Is that it's quite reminiscent Of some other words which you *do* know the meaning of.

He's with the Angles now

Wow! It's good that AI is going to unlock massive productivity gains and unleash the fourth industrial revolution, or else we'd really be in trouble.

People nowadays sure do seem to love doing two things at once.

They might as well rename the 'ratio' feed 'the Sally Jenkins feed' at this point.

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

i made a UK version of my model & applied to it to 10 politicians, aiming for consistency in grading with the US one method QTed, results below

real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

For sale: baby. Feet don’t fit these rad shoes I bought.

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet. Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile? My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

'Touch grass' is actually science.

🚫 No more PBSAs in Leith. Leith Central Community Council has agreed its final position on Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA). Leith already has 2/3 of all PBSA beds in Edinburgh — 6,332 out of 9,873.

Now playing: open.spotify.com/track/5hL2Vk...

this all day www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

I was gonna post something about 'tyranny of the minority' but that's just 'tyranny', isn't it? Original flavour. But yeah people arguing for electoral reform (small r) should use Tyranny of the Minority more i think. A good slogan.

If you’re a parent in London interested in mutual aid and community organising that benefits children and their families then I’m always up for a chat as I’m struggling to meet other parents who are into that instead of say, raw milk and being anti-vax

I didn't actually realise that I could vote for labour deputy leader until the email arrived just now (member of affiliated union innit). I thought it might be spam tbh but the number of people interested in politics probably isn't high enough to make that a scam worth doing.

I mean, this is bad. But i'm already excited about getting to bust it out (sorry) when some incel who's older than me is talking smack about women's 'fertility window'

It is not possible to guarantee safety for a minority group except through a multicultural society. This is a basic fact of hard reality. Wise up, Steve.

And as we learned from that, the first step in all of these things is framing something with an obvious and well studied correct answer as a debate knowing that doing so means that ~20% of people will choose the wrong answer just out of contrarianism, and immediately you've created a split

People who complain that there is a 'war on cars' don't seem to realise that it was them who started it. "no we did not start it" Yes you did, you invaded every square inch of public space in our cities and killed loads of innocent people.

“The advantages of a first past the post system, of course, are that it prevents an overly fragmented parliament in which a stable governing majority cannot be found, and that it keeps the radical right down.”

I mean, a lot of people seem to be objecting on other grounds. But they are even worse. This, THIS, is what we're up against.

A whole thread

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

My experience is that there was a an absolutely huge gap between people’s beliefs about how their immigration systems work and how they actually work, and if you’ve had experience of the immigration system in the US or UK, you’ll spend a lot of time with one raised eyebrow when the topic comes up!

It’s happened again

Green aviation is essentially hogwash go give people false hope and designed to put no limits on aviation travel despite ever faster extreme climate Some of these bio fuels will actually increase emissions e360.yale.edu/features/cor...

Not "extremes". ONE extreme. There are no front-line governing politicians in the USA, UK or most other places promoting Stalinism. And it is not extreme to be wholeheartedly in favour of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.

Since it is mostly no longer possible to distinguish between information, misinformation and disinformation i am proposing we use the neutral term mxsinformation for everything until proven or otherwise. Mxinfo: statements whose veracity is uncertain/unconfirmed

Video game where you have to solve increasingly difficult problems and your only action is to strategically re-introduce beavers and wolves to the local environment.

"last time I checked" when she clearly never checked is absolutely Bluesky

H/t to below post for alerting me to this factoid, which i had missed at the time. "Buy-to-let businesses have become the largest single type of business in the UK" www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...

hardly anything is on fleek these days

There will be more rough days ahead. Maybe tomorrow will be one of them. But there are lots of us, and these fascists are bound to lose if we keep showing up. Take heart.

(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

I endorse this statement

Government needs to argue for immigration not because it will make liberals happy, but because in 2029, there will still be 200k people a year coming to the UK, and the position can’t be “the experiment is now only a little bit squalid”.

Am I depressed or is literally every sporting team I have any sympathy for actually just absolute dogshit right now?