Yes we are way past the point when governments and politicians should have left X but I also don't especially want them on here. What's the third way?

These clowns have been making the case for A New Britishness - by which they almost always mean “Englishness” - for most of my adult life and it always, without fail, turns into a bunch of fat lads shouting “kill the Muslim paedos”. I am sorry your patriotism is inevitably that. But sadly, it is.

Free Speech Union is the UK equivalent of FIRE. It holds itself out as a free speech organization that leans libertarian but in reality almost exclusively supports racists, transphobes, and other bigots to ensure they can spread their bigotry under the auspice of "Free Speech."

It is entirely possible not to have a feed full of mood-sapping politics. Just don't follow those people! Or follow other people as well! Follow the amazing scientists, photographers, artists and comedians on here. Your feed can be whatever you want it to be.

We're in The Bunker meme phase of Starmer's premiership

Just checking with how Starmer's crusade to ban apps that produce deep fakes is going

I suppose after you've brought back racism, naked colonialism is just the natural next step

Nothing can tell you more about the absolute disconnect between the political class and the rest of us than their insistence that Wes Streeting is the key to electoral success.

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

Ofcom *might* "undertake a swift *assessment* to determine *whether* there are *potential* compliance issues that *warrant investigation*." Hard to believe, but we waste almost a quarter of a billion pounds of public money annually on this absolute shower of a regulator.

i agree with all of this, my concern is many centrist types don't view criticism from their left as legitimate they get normal pushback on here, fall down crying, & go back to twitter to be yelled at by nazis (who are allowed to have opinions)

Susanna Reid asks Wes Streeting if the NHS is going to get extra staff to do all the extra online consultations that he's planning. Also, notice how Streeting is unwilling to say 'the private sector' when it comes to healthcare. Instead its the independent sector #GMB

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

After Wikipedia lost their legal challenge, a case by 4Chan, Kiwi Farms, Gab is ironically the one thing that could prevent the UK government from mass censoring LGBTQ ppl off the internet. Here's why u should support them winning the suit (I say this as someone who's been a target of KF for years)

augh I cannot keep going, there are just way too many. Go read @parkermolloy.com www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Google Gemini: GLP-1 patches are a scam Google Trust & Safety: we have no problem taking money for this GLP-1 scam ad

I have written about this. #r4today screedvault.neocities.org/post/2026010...

jfc

Woo voters lmao

Amazing. Peak 2025.

you can equally easily answer this question by asking 'which members of the public is this party supposed to appeal to?' and realising that it's a demographic almost exclusively comprised of journalists

You might be forgiven for thinking this was self-evident in 2024 but the lads decided it was Labour's turn anyway

As @entirelyharmless.bsky.social has pointed out Mary-Anne Stephenson in her interview with Libby Brooks perpetuates a simple lie about the hideous Supreme Court decision: that it regulates single sex spaces. We can know it's a lie because Lord Hodge, who presided over that decision, has said so.

I've never needed a duvet day so hard in my life

Not sure about the class framing but I'm here for anyone who stands up for rock doves

Which reminds me, I could not be more excited for The Sheep Detectives

Keir Starmer's so-called AI revolution is going to be a colossal, mismanaged Silicon Valley disaster that you will ultimately end up paying for. Please read, because the AI project is completely illegitimate, and morally, and economically unaccepatable. Thread www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4...

Just discovered this amazing early 80s TV doc free on BFI. The camps and mascs are feuding. player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...

My letter on the UK Government’s recently-published animal welfare strategy - in the @theguardian.com

Enshittification as product strategy. AI will make everything worse, get used to it.

Is it really Christmas if there are no tears and tantrums around a board game?

Money well spent lol More than half a million pounds spent on influencers by UK government since 2024 | Social media | The Guardian share.google/MkeqsgaVFviD...

Tbh I've always thought smoking looked cool but it's not *coming back*. It is cripplingly expensive and everyone hates you doing it anywhere near them. What exactly is the WSJ doing here? Tobacco PR?

Love and solidarity with everyone who finds today a struggle, for whatever reason. It's just one day and you are awesome. ❤️

One of the new interim EHRC commissioners was an Expert Consultant to Reem Alsalem, a notoriously outspoken anti-trans figure in the UN Looks like another raging transphobe to replace Reindorf huh

I was particularly touched by Daneshgar's account of what it meant to her to have been given a bicycle. Daneshgar, whose activism for women's right to ride bicycles forced her to flee Afghanistan, said: “For me, it’s more than a bicycle. It’s freedom.”

We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people. Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6

Labour supporters are the most homophobic and almost the most transphobic.

Labour should have made Clarkson swear a 2-year silence to get this deal. He's going to be obnoxious.

My super power is inserting gay subplots into my homophobic dad's conservative TV dramas every time I'm home

literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable. every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.

If there's one lesson a would-be authoritarian state will have taken from Jan 6, it's not to leave a victory to chance

Strongly urge people to read Jenny Cohn’s posts on the machinations of the progenitors of the Network State, because both Tories and Labour are up to their necks in carving up the UK for Silicon Valley and corporations like Blackrock to drain public money for total privatization. Wake up people!

This kind of legal action against universities will chill the free speech of all who advocate for the rights of minoritised peoples. This was the bill’s intent. Lobbyists are already using it to shut down speech they don’t like. Unless universities stand up strongly for ALL freedom of expression…

This seems good but it's got to be enforced otherwise it's meaningless Trail hunting to be banned under new animal welfare push | The Independent share.google/tBZnvuXTlTQw...

Oh and now she's on Radio 4 complaining again about being cancelled so I've had to turn it off. The BBC is such a disgrace.

Resident doctors are striking over pay and the fact that at a time when the NHS are short of doctors they're being turned away from the NHS because their aren't enough speciality training places available Here a Sky News presenter accidentally confirms their case.

Back to my childhood home where my dad insist on keeping one room like the surface of the sun and the rest of the house sub-zero