Look, at this point *everyone* agrees we should spend more time away from screens, children and teens especially, outdoors even. But it's not going to work if you say teens should never do physically boisterous stuff in large groups. They're gonna do it anyway because it's thrilling and fun!

Something's got to give. You have to either stop pretending you genuinely want teens to go outside and do things, or you have to massively increase the amount of funding and, crucially, *space* for activities for young people – some of which will be self-organised and, yes, a little bit scary.

When people use AI for writing assistance, it can shift their political attitudes by autocompleting sentences in biased ways. Yet people are often unaware of the AI bias & it's influence This is not merely about the facts presented, but how autocomplete worlds www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Students own the copyright in their work. Unless they have given explicit individual consent to share that copyrighted material with a commercial company we simply do not have the right to do this. I doubt the company points this out. Article via @risu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

everyone is understandably insanely stressed out right now. we could all probably use a little extra grace in our day to day interactions

@robfordmancs.bsky.social Hi Rob - what's the best way to drop you a message?

The real issue here is that Tice has not, as far as we know, broken any law, & has paid the tax HMRC says he owes. If you and this Labour govt think "aggressive tax avoidance" should be stopped, as you all said before the election, it is now in your power to end it. But you won't. Why?

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

The baffling thing about this age is how this utter chump gets routinely held to much lower standards than anybody else anywhere just by normalising being an utter chump & everyone just accepting that's how it is and who he is

For sometime now the arguments against renewable energy have been almost entirely motivated by narrow, greed driven interests. If you can reduce dependency on fossil fuels for more stable, less scarce, cleaner alternatives, it’s really very hard to see the downsides IMO

That Starmer keeps Mahmood in post shows this is not just the actions of an inhumane Home Secretary, but a deeper rooted ideology of hostility and xenophobia within this government. No-one benefits from blocking Chevening scholars. This is cruelty for sake of it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

Absolutely, 100% this. Creating an environment in which patients can feel safe and heard is so important, and yet so rarely prioritised in healthcare.

Las instrucciones del Eurosky👇

Emily Thornberry’s words on Radio 4 in response to the Green win in Gorton and Denton. This is why wins like this are so important, whatever you may think of the Greens (much like the immigration rebellion brewing).

This! People often tut at Greens who feel very negatively towards Labour - but remember that we've been dealing with exactly this attitude (locally and nationally) for years.

Labour after coming third in a 'two horse race': "just one more attack on immigrants will do it..."

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Dunno Ed, if I had to pick a party in Gorton that's "playing with fire" I think I might take a closer look at the Blood and Soil chaps micro-parsing who gets to call themselves English and flirting with Great Replacement Theory, not the nice Greens lady encouraging brown people to vote.

Look, I know apparently no one in British politics can count, but my very white neighbours who all had Vote Green signs outside their houses *might* have had something to do with the result.

If you're having a tough day, remember that at least you're not a Labour MP being sent out to explain to the media how your party came 3rd in a two horse race. 🤷‍♀️

Just to add to this, the people that teenagers most often need privacy from is their parents, because their parents have the most power over them. I realise this may be an unpopular view, but it's true. It's also their *right*.

My proposal for cleaning up political donations: No corporate donations, at all. Companies aren’t people. All donations (over, say, £500) must be from UK resident tax payers and limited to the amount they personally paid in UK income tax (not capital gains or whatever) in the previous tax year.

It wanted to start a SubStack after redundancy!? Lads, you've successfully simulated a middle-aged journalist.

SEND plans: 'good intentions, progressive instincts – and a terrifying loss of rights' 'But what happens if power passes to a party whose senior figures not only endorse the “overdiagnosis” myth, but have lately been heard suggesting that Send children might be educated in empty churches?'

Labour's anti-immigration policy isn't based on 'grimy reality', it's based on right-wing lies about immigrants. 'Grimy reality' would be acknowledging the real and positive impact of immigration, and making policies accordingly. Labour's not based in reality. It's based on lies.

Telling me the Greens are like Reform won’t make me think that the Greens are like Reform, it’ll make me think you’re desperate. And morons.

Yes. Exactly what happened in Caerffili. Labour lied blatantly throughout the campaign. We didn't listen, voted Plaid, and beat Reform.

"One conclusion is clear, and it is this: a population’s health is primarily in the hands of the government, and it is a responsibility that politicians must embrace fully." @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in Editor's Choice https://bit.ly/40cMzRJ

it's bleakly hilarious to have people complaining that using the word "nazi" to describe people calling for racial cleansing and forced breeding is "rendering the word meaningless," while supporters of the US government use the word "communist" to describe having a functioning healthcare system

one of the weird things about Hannah Spencer Discourse is that the media have spent decades telling us that getting a degree is a waste of time and if you want decent pay you should be a plumber. but it turns out that any sign you actually get decent pay is proof you’re not really a plumber.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to be middle class to water your plants with Keir Starmer's tears. Just vote Green in Gorton and Denton on Thursday! @hannahspence.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

The Representation of the People Bill doesn't cap political donations. Super-rich can buy/bribe political parties to protect their interests. The poor can't. The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth and the bottom 20% has only 0.5%. 24m live below minimum living standards.

At this point, Labour is a protection racket cosplaying as a political party. @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @electoralreform.bsky.social

But 'Government tax receipts slightly bigger than expected in month where everyone does their tax return' doesn't make for quite such a good headline.

BBC complaint of the day: One week before a crucial by-election that Greens are favourites to win, Question Time has on a Tory, a Reform MP who was also a Tory until recently, a Labour MP and 'centrist' journalist Jon Sopel. My complaint follows. Get yours in now? www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Goodwin: "I can't help that Tommy Robinson endorsed my campaign" I'm no political strategist, but have you tried... saying things he might disagree with?

"They’ve attacked all these people, in a desperate attempt to make clear to racists and social conservatives that they hear them. If the racists and social conservatives were actually going to vote for them this would merely seem abhorrent. When they clearly aren’t, it’s stupid too."

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.

Our current voting system leads to: 🐎 narrative of two horse races 😨 fear tactics don’t vote for this or you’ll get that 🗳️ gaming the system with tactical advice I’m elected to @londonassembly.bsky.social We’ve had proportional voting for 25 AMs to represent Londoners for 25 years. It works.

"The polls say Labour are ahead in G&D" "Which polls are those?" "Oh, you wouldn't know them, they went to a different school..."

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 50 leading academics, former senior public officials and politics, law and policy experts warn about the risks of First Past the Post. Letter in @politicshome.bsky.social today 👇

"Green Party leader loves dogs" may not be the savage attack the Daily Fail thinks it is. 😅

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented. Tell Keir Starmer to change this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...