Some of you had inquired how the Bambi BBQ (raki firing) went the other day. I think she came out looking delicious! Introducing 'Bambi'. Amateur botanist, woodland icon, garden grazer, originator of the 5 mile diet. What animal would you love to see in raku? #sciart #art #pottery #furryart

When the BNP won a single council seat in 1993 it was a national news story for days. Horror. Condemnation. Now an even more far right party is getting 11% across a whole county and it's just normal.

Now I'm wondering how the whole concept of "going vegan" could apply to an alien in a universe full of alien diversity See that Doctor eating fish fingers? 👇 He's pals with Jim the Fish.

Reading a history of queer (well, gay male) politicians where the author is very scathing about a prolific political biographer who left out all the gay bits, but has himself done a whole Ted Heath chapter without ever mentioning The Rumours

i always like plugging two USB-C devices into each other and seeing which charges which. i figure if i do this enough eventually i'll uncover the true winner of consumer electronics

not the point at all, but one of the few measures of real technological progress over the last decade is the fact that you can now charge your laptop, phone, vape, sex toy, and chainsaw with the same cable

When the heatwave word cloud mostly just says “hot”, maybe a word cloud isn’t the most effective way of visualising that data

And if Amnesty AND the Quakers AND the Church of England in Wales have to be evil for you to be right, then MAYBE the problem is you.

I suspect there’s almost a perfect overlap between the people harassing this language hub and the people who regularly have fannywobbles about immigrants not speaking English.

Oh great, the religious anti-abortionists are eagerly hopping on JKR's anti-Amnesty bandwagon - once again the transphobes are endangering all women's rights and making us less safe

“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things.

As a Gen X/Millennial cusp I have a house and a job and depression and anxiety 👍👍

Boomers have a house and a job and a pension. Gen X have a house and a job and depression. Millennials have a job and depression and anxiety. Gen Z have depression and anxiety.

Ban this sick filth

When will my husband return from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Dang they really got a category for everything

I like having an email job, I don’t want to work in an ‘industrial’ job of any kind - nothing wrong with them whatsoever, but that’s not what I want to do. I don’t want to be ‘communitarian’ - I want to live in a big busting anonymous city where people hook up and you hear a 100 different languages

I like living a diverse city, I want more immigration and would love it be easy for many more people to come and live and work here. I want trans rights and freedom of movement and for us to be in the EU again. I think the university sector is an incredible economic and cultural tool

"When Jo Cox was murdered in the street at the height of a polarising referendum, the shock brought politicians across the spectrum together in soul-searching about the culture in which such horrors could happen." And then they, almost without exception, shrugged and carried on making it worse.

The most metropolitan thing about Labour is their belief that everyone outside central London is some sort of racist troglodyte.

Axel Springer just bought The Telegraph

Oh no :(

Counterpoint: how about not

*The entire UK is melting in a heatwave and the Scottish highlands are literally on fire* Andy Burnham: Ah yes, this is the time for more fossil fuels.

Come on guys, there's no way there's going to be another Falklands War, last time that was because Argentina was run by an opportunistic right-wing authoritarian madman a the UK by an embattled and increasingly nationally jingoistic government trying to paper over their domestic failures...

Honestly, the amount of time I spend adding and removing hyphens in subtitles

Burnham's victory is a victory for 6Music's Britain. By me, for the New Statesman.

It seems worth mentioning that Beira’s Place is not actually a rape crisis centre, but a support service, and the rape crisis centre that has actually been attacked in recent years is Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, following a harassment campaign led by JK Rowling.

Swear I just saw Burnham say "I've got a style and I won't change" while wearing a suit and tie he'd never have worn as mayor

Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...

I know people see the Daily Mirror as being reasonably decent at reporting on trans issues, but I do think it’s worth being aware of the Daily Record, also owned by Reach plc, now reaching the point where they misgender trans people in reporting, and use the anti-trans slur “trans-identifying men”.

YOU'VE GOT BRAILLE, a new audio sitcom starring Steve Pemberton, Alison Steadman, Chloe Petts and Reece Finnegan is OUT NOW! it's been one of my favourite things to work on, please please please do give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...

Toby Young's the Free Speech Union says it will help Heather Herbert if she becomes a member. nitter.net/SpeechUnion/...

Pro football is a top-to-bottom corrupt institution www.theguardian.com/football/202...

It's very tempting to ask "why is nobody covering something worse than Section 28? Surely by now everybody knows how bad S28 was?". But you have to remember, at the time the media had no issue with S28. The BBC even helped cover up its immorality. There's no evidence to suggest anything's changed.

Well, we had an answer for you and you decided you wanted this one instead.

The media really want this to be a political killing so they can continue to scold us about being mean to politicians

It seems unfair in this instance that the campaign should have to pick up the legal bill, but it would also be a dangerous precedent to say the council should pick up the legal bill for anyone who wants to sue them www.heraldscotland.com/news/2628725...

Leather scene photography show in Queen's Park, possibly relevant to some of your interests www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The Picts could draw animals accurately. Which makes it all the stranger that the one creature they carved more than any other – whose depicted features remain consistent on stones right across Scotland, & presumably across several centuries – doesn’t seem to exist: the so-called “Pictish Beast”

Convinced that the Buzzworks hospitality group must be super dodgy - who's got the goss?

Seems like today was the last day to see the Egyptian Halls scaffolding-free for the foreseeable future

Put simply, J.K Rowling seems like she's genuinely having fun engaging in her cruelty, is smug about the fact that she's allowed to do exactly as she likes and is enjoying it. It's part of what makes the display so sickening, I think: this is genuinely something she likes and is fulfilled by

I don't want this to come across as victim-blaming at all but I do think anyone left-wing (especially if trans or disabled) should restrict more things to the DM groups these days, because the government WILL just make posts from people they dislike retroactively illegal.

You might think speaking ill of the dead is uncouth but it should not be a crime. ‘Charging’ someone for doing so is ridiculous. Then again, proscribing Palestine Action was ridiculous. We live in an age of surrealist fascism.

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: finally my evil plan reachesss fruition Rowling: it'ss taken me yearss of careful planning but finally Rowling: finally!!! Rowling: finally we can defeat the sscourge of human rightsss

Reposting this; Labour’s new schools’ “Section 28” for trans kids should really be called Labour’s “Ambient Conversion Therapy”. It is way, way worse than Section 28 ever was. We must never allow anyone to forget Starmer’s & Philippson’s culpability (& Burnham’s if he fails to change it).

In the UK, if you criticise a dead woman whilst being trans, you get charged for committing a crime, but if you incite violence against trans people, you get paid £25,000 by the police. There is no way of saying this truth without sounding like Yeonmi Park in that Joe Rogan interview.

BAN EVERYTHING

JK Rowling is going to deliberately destroy Amnesty UK and the media are still going to position her as the good guy