Immigration is good. I like it. There should be more.

Morning. I'm at a campsite just outside of Eastbourne. Two days of reffing roller derby on the seafront.

Mrs Jeffries at Thurston Upper School in Suffolk in the late 90s. A stern Carribbean lady who wouldn't take crap from the students and who kept the library in excellent order and was super helpful. She knew everything in that library. Librarians are super important.

Here are two things that are true: 1. Trans people in the UK (and elsewhere) are suffering immense harm and persecution, and it's affecting almost of all our mental health. 2. Being vile to other trans people (or anyone) on here is still completely unacceptable, and there is no excuse for it.

I suppose I just think I would find more dignified ways to celebrate than to try and make a righteous cause out of the failed military adventurism of a fascist junta. It’s not as if there aren’t options.

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

mandatory reading

440 people died every day during the last heatwave and there are huge wildfires all over the country.

"Roundabout" by Yes was 1971, so clearly "Underpass" by John Foxx. Which was 1980.

a thousand monster / dinosaur / megafauna movies since Jurassic Park have tried and failed to replicate its magic, but the thing Jurassic Park understood is that we aren’t just hooked by the Big Toothy Creature, we’re hooked by the moment a crotchety old grump rediscovers his sense of wonder

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

Nobody pearl-clutching and whining "don't speak ill of the dead" today, I see. Because nobody is speaking ill of him. Because he was lovely.

Funny. I don't cry that often when celebrities die (Leonard Nimoy, Iain Banks), but Sam Neil, that's a real kick in the tits. I think it's because I first saw him in Jurassic Park. I was 9, and it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. Such an important film to me growing up.

A man who made me cry watching a film where he was able to perfectly sell to the audience that he was a man remembering his past life as a dog.

Reffing roller derby. Another convo with a trans person about which country we could potentially escape to.

Wheeling out this classic. RIP Anne "Bone Farmer" Widdecombe

Properly laughed at this.

I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.

This thread is horrifying. Labour's cruelty towards trans people honestly knows no bounds. In this case, children.

I love my job and I am very lucky to have it. My employer is complying in advance to the ehrc guidance. So now I love my job less.

Today the Parliamentary scrutiny period for the draft Code of Practice ends. It still requires a commencement order to come into force. It does not happen automatically today. Labour could still, in theory, choose not to do this.

I mean who needs nurses anyway? And people’s career in cyber is now replaced by chatGPT so there’s no point in computing. And what, with the world burning we can ditch all the archaeology because no one will survive to look at our bones. All very sound business decisions.

“In a letter to the Office for Students, which distributes the funding, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, said funding should no longer be given to support nursing, computing, history, creative arts, performing arts, archaeology, and geography courses.” removepaywalls.com/https://www....

for my non uk friends, what's happened is the fascist leader has resigned his seat as an mp just to run for it again in order to dodge investigations + seek attention other parties arent falling for the stunt so arent running against him, so his only opponent will be a man with a bin on his head

These fuckers held a referendum on Brexit because they were afraid of this man, then enacted more and more draconian border controls because of this man, and he was a mighty weapon all along. So what does that make them??

By resigning as Clacton’s MP, Nigel Farage is betting a by‑election will let him frame investigation into allegations of financial irregularities as establishment persecution before the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner's report. But it is a high risk strategy. Read Searchlight's take here:

Now is the time for Labour, Lib Dems, Tories, and Greens to all get behind Count Binface. Do it.

skunk anansie also says trans rights! but we all already knew they were cool

she also wrote trans rights on my copy of the painful truth

Talking of "the poem", I saw Skunk Anansie last week. Their singer, Skin - an out queer Black woman - gave a speech that basically began with "first they came for the trans people", and clearly made the links between transphobia, homophobia, and racism. Most cis queers *know* what is happening.

I love that as I descend into middle age there is still so much music out there that can wow me. I had never heard this before and her piano solo is pure genius. I knew Nina Simone was great but oof. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAvQ...

So last night I played a fun gig (small pub). They had a nice new PA (wireless touchscreen controlled) but the sound guy said that he had asked ChatGPT to teach him how to use it. But he clearly didn't know how to use it. The sound was not great.

I watched this with my first girlfriend in the tiny cinema in Bury St Edmunds. I was 12. Where does the time go? www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

lmao absolutely banger complaint. "i would be more popular if I weren't a twat". an all timer. get this woman a special hat or something

Drop an image from your favourite film.

Actually, it was a volunteer archivist at The National Archives, Kew called Michael Scurr who found it, not the "UK" that found it. (with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It can be so good having a big ol’ bunch if nerds following you. I once asked “what piece of music is it that goes bum-da-da da-da *pause* bum-da-da da-da” and had half a dozen people correctly say John Carpenter’s theme from Assault on Precinct 13

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

Solutions to all the world's problems #cartoon

I'm confused. Is he lying or does he genuinely think that his government hasn't completely fucked us?

NASA. They went to the fucking moon.

So sad that on for the 250th anniversary of the US all we are seeing is tacky fascist crap. For all its faults, there is so much to celebrate. Like rock and roll, can you imagine a world without it? Or the polio vaccine, or Star Trek, or Martin Scorsese. So many thinkers, scientists and artists.

Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood