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Using this for email signatures and greeting cards for children

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This is horrific but the alternative shouldn’t be locking children away. Starmer has never shown an interest in funding places with a proven track record of reducing reoffending rates. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today @polphilpod.bsky.social gives us a very important breakdown of what has happened to trans rights in the UK and what it means for the freedom of even cis citizens there. We published it because the UK press is completely captured on this topic. Please read & share with folks who live there.

I’ve got myself into a situation where I’m the admin of a WhatsApp group for 70+ Arsenal fans travelling solo to the parade from all over the world (Egypt, Texas, Montreal) and the kindness of strangers has been overwhelming.

Tony Wilson didn’t die for this

trying not to be mawkish but i guess it was so evident that loads of people living around me day to day have just not really had a reason to celebrate for a long long time. what i'm trying to say is arsenal winning the league is the only thing holding the fabric of society together

really hungover so can't express this well but something about being at the emirates last night with everyone celebrating just felt like the complete antithesis of everything the right has tried to imagine london is. people want to get along, they just need a reason to be happy and have purpose

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Bristol Friends: please go to Keynsham Civic Centre today & tomorrow to support the @unisonsw.bsky.social picket line. 💌 Or email solidarity to [email protected] Children’s services at Bath & North East Somerset Council deserve better. @unison.org.uk www.communitycare.co.uk/content/news...

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If you want to know how and why we've ended up in a situation where tens of thousands of people rally in support of a far-right influencer, backed by wealthy North American fascists, I just wrote a book about it. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

As I explain here, the Labour party in power think the scum left are the few people they abuse online and not a large proportion of the 10 million Black and Brown people, whose votes they lost in cities, and we talk about how vile they are to our white friends, colleagues, and partners.

“Are they a proud people?” - my wife, just now, about Juggalos

Funniest Prime Minister in modern history. Fuck it, I’m with him, let him stay.

Naturally, the UK media barely registers the UK’s Black/Asian/Mixed population as a voting bloc other then incredibly racist discussions about Muslims’ “sectarian” voting - a word they don’t use for the white nationalists voting Reform.

It turns out when you support a genocide against Muslims, demonise asylum seekers (but not white Ukrainians), fail to call race riots racist, stand up as PM and do “Rivers Of Blood” speech, offer no hope but more border violence and draconian settlement laws one of your core voter blocks leaves you

Seen very little discourse about how Labour’s support has tanked amongst Black and South Asian (particularly Muslim) South Asian Britons. My local Evri delivery guy a middle aged Somali guy who loves online conspiracy theories and hates Low Traffic Neighbourhoods told me he voted Green.

Media twunts will bleat about “just wanting to fix the bins over foreign policy issues”, then furiously promote politicians who don’t give a fuck about fixing bins and are crackpipe-hitting hardcore partisans for America mass-murdering whoever they especially hate this week

The “just wait until these Reform councillors can’t fix potholes” take is a little naive.

In a pub toilet in Belfast and a guy just dried his hands by shadow boxing.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

I watched the trailer for the Anthony Bourdain movie and immediately searched on X for this tweet - a superior tribute.

Brilliant to see this being reported on - I’ve been saying for a while how dangerous these people are and they’re programmed to prey on vulnerable parents www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vinted has been absolutely flooded with A.I models. It’s getting harder to spot, but it’s usually a very tawny woman smiling to the side.

If you bring your pre-existing ideological pet causes to antisemitic attacks, trying to use them to crack down on pro-Palestine protests or to criminalise dissent then you don't care about Jews and you are really not helping.

And remember: the whole purpose of flooding the zone with shit *is not* to convince the public that shit is smart and good. The whole purpose is to ensure literally nothing else can be discussed except for OMG why is there all this shit everywhere.

This seems really obviously a grift and she is really obviously an idiot. But that’s how the right works, constant foot in the door tactics, constant pressuring, endless money to do so, when its targets don’t have the same resources to fight it. It might feel ridiculous but it creates pressure

Speaking from outside the US, there is a concerted, top-down backlash to neurodiversity here in the UK, driven in no small part by the same right-wing newspaper columnists that are driving the persecution of trans people.

Someone is scrolling TikTok without headphones in the library so I’ve started repeating every A.I generated voice as they scroll and they are horrified.

I’ve spoken about groups that prey on parents by signposting them to pseudoscience. These groups operate like cults & co-opt mutual aid lingo (‘your village’ etc) This is a recent one. They signpost to ‘experts’ who include a member of ‘International Homeopaths for Autism’ antenatalsocialclub.com

J. H. Prynne is dead. This was the message he circulated when a convicted paedophile kept his job at Cambridge. It really gives you an idea of what victims and whistleblowers are up against in that cesspit. www.varsity.co.uk/news/1077#go...

we all know I have no life, so:

Described to me as “Uncut Gems x Jam” and holy shit…. I feel like Carrie Bradshaw when she’s sniffing a handbag and going “it’s good…it’s good” youtu.be/4AfAGE1r4Ew?...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

They give whole figures of people seeking asylum or needing protection for one reason or another, domestic abuse, being LGBTQIA+ etc, without contextualising it. They are making out based on a handful of incidents and anecdotes that there is widespread abuse. That is not "balanced journalism". 4/

This is such a fantastic book cover

Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word. IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it. Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

New EYFS guidance on safe sleep from Olivia Bailey MP is out of date. “Where blankets are used, the child is placed feet-to-foot at the bottom of the cot, with blankets tucked in” Cots need to be clear of blankets. America and Australia are ahead of the Lullaby Trust. ndna.org.uk/changes-to-e...

Trans people and allies predicted with absolute crystal clarity exactly how this would go down, that they'd start with anti-trans talking points and then come for same sex marriage and abortion, not because we had any special precognitive abilities, but because THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO!

I have 3/4 cup of pasta water if anyone needs it

CAPTOR (waving phone): tell mama how nice we've been ME: mom i'm ok. all these guys want is to have gay sex and worship my— CAPTOR (yanking phone away): dude what (to phone) we're NOT having sex (to me) TELL THEM ME: sorry my bad "making love" CAPTOR: jesus christ ME: mom, these are very sensual men

Spotted in Muswell Hill: a chest of drawers covered in a kid’s stickers and graffiti including this memory of @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

Donald Trump is a white property developer from new york and that is literally all you need to know to understand his behaviour.

Remember that most of this shit is the fault of white American WASPs or neo Catholics with names like Chet and Dooger, that they all went to places like Stamford and Yale to learn eugenics. I find the idea these guys were innocent babies until Israel corrupted them to be laughable.

Peter Sellers did what now? www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Truly a perfect news alert

Pretty sure she wouldn’t call a tomahawk missile blowing up a school in HER neighbourhood “realities of war”