Yes, BlueSky is a bubble. No, it's not enough of one and it won't be until the Great Firewall is extended.

18 months ago I set myself a challenge to cycle through every townland in the west of Co. Derry. I figured it would take me about 6 months and be a good way to get fit. It took a lot longer and I'm still carrying a bit more ballast than ideal, but today I finally finished it off.

Stopped for a breather on my cycle and my life choices are being judged by cows.

Think it's very illustrative of their being a skillset/personality that allows you to be very successful in business that also hugely overlaps with going properly mad.

It is extremely clear that Reform capped out a year ago at 30% have fumbled their way back down to the low 20s because they cannot be normal and are eminently beatable by whichever of Labour or the Conservatives remembers that the average voter does not have a Klan hood first.

You don't even necessarily have to move to an area to get a different accent. My siblings and I all grew up in Essex. I have my parents' more or less RP accent, with mild Essex hints when drunk.y sister has a strong Estuary accent and my brother spoke MLE before he moved to Melbourne.

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Lord Reed clearly has an ideology that informs his most high-profile judgments - you don't end up that influential a figure without having one, Hale had one too and it was diametrically opposed - but the insane norms of the senior legal profession forbid stating this outright

Zionist has an actual meaning that does not mean either "jews" or "defenders of Netenyahu" and the choice to use it in a way that equates all three is the exact thing we can recognise as bad when the far right do the same with Islamist. We can and should be better.

In a previous job, I met quite a lot of men serving long sentences for offences committed in toilets. None of them needed to pretend to commit those crimes.

Some recent posts over on the Nazi site by men whose beliefs have been declared "protected" by UK courts under the Forstater precedent, who you're not allowed to call bigots or you're discriminating against them.

Entirely evidence-free wibbke from @rentouljohn.bsky.social/ @the-independent.com here. Has cutting immigration been good for growth or public services? No. Has it reduced racism/community pensions? Also no. Has it helped Labour politically? Also no. Also LOL But.. "it's a good story"

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Not sure if this is one of my most rightwing or my most leftwing takes, but if you believe there is such a thing as “excessive profits” in a sector you really should just go ahead and insource the service you’re paying for:

I can't believe how many politicians are saying "let's ban trans people from public life, but in a way that is respectful". Are you fucking thick? Who is this for?

Somehow, Ask Jeeves returned

Hilarious how the 'Red Wall' a phrase coined by a yougov guy to describe average places with unusually high levels of labour voting due to historic reasons, has been comprehensively misunderstood as 'wretched blessed left behind centres of the deprived true Englishman'

❌: Telling friend to buy a cargo bike. ✅: Cargo bike-pill their child and let them do it.

You must understand: Lily, who works doing data analysis for the University of Bristol and lives in a house share is middle class. Brian, her landlord, who is a self employed plumber declaring around a third of his income is working class.

Just saw @petefrasermusic.bsky.social talking about how on trans rights he is sometimes told to “listen to women”. He has QTs disabled (I do too!), but I wanted to add in the spirit of his post that one of the fundamental problems with the anti-trans POV is that cis women are not a homogeneous group

This is just an incredibly verbose paraphrase of "lanyard class", isn't it?

If you want a live and let live approach, the only way for that to work is to reject the guidance and fire the leadership of the EHRC, because they want exactly the opposite.

Amateurish, secretive, and refusing to apologise. Truly the Greens are replacing Labour

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.

It is now clear that the only solution to the impasse created by the Supreme Court judgement is legislative change. Without bold action to reverse our current course, the Labour Party’s relationship with millions of LGBT+ voters and allies will continue to degrade. (3/3)

Instead of making this Code statutory, the government should be legislating to clarify and protect trans people’s rights, privacy and inclusion. [5/5]

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]

There's going to be a great Film4 film in 30 years time about the staffers conspiring to send him to Macclesfield rather than Makerfield to keep him away.

As @williambone.bsky.social illustrated here a few months back, what they want is not really any particular legal architecture - that's at most a means to an end - but a reversal in the change in social attitudes that became more accepting of LGBT people.

On the one hand, the EHRC's Guidance is monstrous, but on the other hand it's completely unworkable, so congratulations to them for achieving their lifelong ambition of becoming villainous henchmen?

I really don't get what the fuck Bridget Philipson thinks she's doing. This guidance is worst than useless. Why not just push through legislation to tell the Supreme Court they're wrong?

I lied, because “it is a stereotype that gender critical people are nasty bastards” is actually written into this code and sorry you can’t legislate to make people like you

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!!!!!

Sometimes the best thing to do with heirlooms is use them. Take the train set out of the box and let your grandkids play with it. Use the fine china. It might break. Let the doll’s lace dress get dirty. Not all value comes from being untouched for eternity.

need a German word for the disquieting experience of thinking a poster must be young because their views about the world have the raw dumbness of a teenager and then realizing they're in their 40s.

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The 2026 Labour leadership contest is a large scale social experiment to determine what exactly it would take to get BlueSky to begrudgingly root for Wes Streeting

This does pose the question of how many arrests for racial hatred offences a march needs before is stops being "pro British".

Asked if Kemi Badenoch had changed her view on last weekend’s Tommy Robinson-led far right march and whether it was OK in the light of some of the racist/antisemitic banners on it, her spokesperson described the march as being “pro British” rather than explicitly seeking to generate hate.

I think they've nicked my workplace's new slogan?

Believe it or not I'm actually watching PMQs today, because I wanted to see the level of anger - and predictably the debate is being framed as a debate on North Sea oil and gas licences rather than the reality, a gross act of moral cowardice and abandonment of duty.

Skimming the Granta story and I'm really unconvinced it's the work of AI, and not just because AI detection is somewhere between useless and fraudulent. A lot of the syntax and vocabulary is not British/American English and I doubt AI will regionalise that well without a lot of prompting.

transphobes: we can always tell also transphobes: how can people tell which of their MSPs is a women if it isn't listed on the website? they think you are breathtakingly stupid

I don't really understand the passing the buck here - the decision was formally made by the Secretary of State for Business and Trade and if it wasn't just a departmental decision then it falls to the PM. Trying to blame DESNZ or the Foreign Office is just pathetic.

The government seems to believe it's main problem is Comms, not policy, but we could now be six weeks into a big "This is what is happening, this is what it means" campaign about oil prices... And we just aren't?

this is so funny, why the hell isn't this a line in a comedy!!! this made me honk with laughter

Loosening sanctions on Russia is wrong morally and politically, but it's not even very useful for reducing fuel prices - the supply crunch still exists, the most you're doing is staving it off for a few weeks whilst making it worse in Asia.

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

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