this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

I'd partly forgotten this but if you present yourself as the radical political force able to solve deep rooted problems, then you encounter a deep rooted problem and say actually, this is too difficult, I wish we hadn't bothered...it ought to be a tell. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC: "of course in this heat its only tiny babies and the very elderly who are at ri-" Me: MOTHERF

We broke the weather lads

I was there for this and yup.

Duncan MacLeod: "I was born 400 years ago in the Highlands of Scotland. I am an Immortal. I can only die if the stroke of a sword removes my head." This tin of Branston Baked Beans: "Bitch you ain't shit."

I'm rereading Willard and Odell Shepard's JENKINS' EAR, a splendid historical novel from 1951. And there, on page 226, I find the phrase "stupidity on stilts." There is truly nothing new under the sun.

I used to be paid good money to be an expert on policing. If I hadn't been driven from that job by a terf/boss combo, by now I'd probably have finished my 'Vimes and the vision of the the ideal copper' paper/article -- and it would have been good. Tra la, got other stuff to do now.

This. I was that second child. Also I was a parent of that second child.

Nothing annoys the British establishment more than a working class person having any of the same opportunities they have

few tweets have so perfectly encapsulated up the attitude of british politico/journalist contempt towards normal people as this

#Glyphosate and #AMR - we are powering up resistance in multiple ways on this #PoisonedPlanet www.earth.com/news/glyphos...

King Canute strikes again.

The far right is being racist. Here's why it's the left's fault. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Foxy hedgehog renders 'hedgehog or fox' question complex.

Bet he wishes he was Prime Minister and could actually wield power to make this sort of thing happen.

If you're trans and work for a sizable UK company or organisation, now is a great time to log into your HR portal and remove any information you can on your sex/gender, e.g. by replacing any information with "prefer not to say".

When I described our staff as scum, what I really meant was I respect their skills, loyalty and, above all, their dispensability www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

6.1 million people across the UK are living in fuel poverty. Meanwhile BP are doubling their profits during the energy crisis. Pleased to see the Mayor agree with my call to keep the energy cap in place. We have to lower people's bills.

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that posting, raising awareness and staying informed were effective political actions

this Labour Government has largely presided over the sharpest uptick in racial, religious, and LGBT+ violence in my lifetime and it's hard to really stress just how much Labour actively chose this

Do you remember when WPUK started up and they all claimed they didn't want to ban trans people from public and they just "had concerns" about GRA Reform lol

Our colleague and comrade geographer Dr Antonis Vradis has been abducted by Israel and his whereabouts are currently unknown

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

Damn. Vila was the one I identified with the most.

For context: Ben Gvir is the National Security Minister and he’s a completely open and unashamed murderous fascist. When groups like LFI say they disapprove of his behaviour, they 100% mean “doing it to Europeans” and “then sharing video of him doing it”.

A non-problem intentionally turned into a national travesty by the world’s most malignant media outlets, who recognised the self-radicalisation of their nastiest colleagues was an excellent opportunity to push back hard against ideas like equality and inclusion, and to beat down people they despise.

The Code unfortunately still represents the culmination of years of anti-trans campaigning from a small, well-funded minority who have had outsized influence in the media and in politics, and have weaponised the courts for their own ends. [3/5]

Two true things: 1. The outrage about the treatment of the flotilla activists by the State of Israel is entirely justified. 2. That there seems to be more outrage about the treatment of the flotilla activists than about the torture and mass murder of Palestinians is reprehensible.

I don’t think anything sums up how ridiculous the new EHRC guidance is than the fact it describes those protected by the characteristic of gender reassignment to be those undergoing a process to “reassign their sex”, a thing the exact same part of the document says isn’t legally possible. Nonsense.

This is why you should never vote Labour.

I’ve said this before but, do you know why the new EHRC guidance doesn’t make any sense? it’s because when you try to write clear laws or guidelines based on bigotry, they don’t make sense. they can’t. because they’re not coming from a place of reason, they’re coming from fear and hate

Palestinians missed a trick, they should’ve been like “these militiamen are an extreme fringe, they don’t represent us”: western governments might not have provided the military and diplomatic support required to slaughter them en masse and bulldoze their city and towns off the face of the earth.

The EHRC’S new code has been published. We’ll have a detailed analysis out shortly. The guidance has been toned down from the previous draft – but it still treats trans people like they’re a third sex. This pushes trans people out of public life and violates their human rights.

this is supposed to be practical guidance for businesses to follow and instead it’s hedged to the point of incoherence because the politics behind it (~trans people aren’t real) is not compatible with the legal underpinning for it

The reason this is so especially egregious is... the previous EHRC guidance passed in 2011 right after the law was passed.... was SIGNED OFF BY TREVOR PHILLIPS WHO WAS THE CHAIR OF THE EHRC AT THE TIME!!!!!

Von Braun spent about the same amount on the Saturn V as Musk has spent on Starship. One big difference is that the Saturn V worked first try.

Nominating someone without their consent is a specific offence with an unlimited fine attached to it.

Do we think this would be used to snare and block e.g. infamously corrupt politicians who stitch up British politics in the interests of Russian oligarchs and foreign sex traffickers? Or would it be used against people who have protested against countries with utterly horrifying human rights records

This is why you really shouldn't trust the immediate reporting on, eg, the code, or about legal cases. It is genuinely remarkable the extent to which reporting does not get even the most basic details correct. Please wait for actual analysis from the law and policy experts working in this space.

Labour needed 1 vote for control, but rather than work with the 1 Green councillor they ceded half their power to the Tories.

The West, all too aware that the coming decades will see millions upon millions of climate refugees fleeing the uninhabitable tropics, is paving the way for making sure they can keep all those people stateless.

A couple of weeks ago I went to the loo in a pub. While I was there, the staff queried my gender with my partner. I've got a v stereotypically female body- FF boobs and big hips. I'm tallish (5'9"), with short hair, but was v surprised to learn people were feeling uncertain about my gender. 🧵

38 million deaths since 1971. “When you consider the scale of the violence and damages, it becomes clear that this system is not something we can continue to accept.”

Political news coming out of Israel gets more and more extreme, and I think politicians in allied countries pretending it isn’t the case will cause tremendous damage in the long term as long as they continue to do so.

Vote Labour get Tory.