When the big and slightly intimidating bodybuilder in the gym says hello and offers fist bump you know you've been accepted and recognised as someone coming in regularly at 6am. Not quite sure how I feel about it but let's go with good.

He will always be Herc Shipwright to me.

📢 "Your voice is needed." UNISON general secretary @AndreaEganGS.bsky.social is calling on members and trans allies to oppose the EHRC guidance. MPs will decide on it in the next 30 days. Tell us why it's unworkable in your workplace. 📩 [email protected]

Charities Mencap, Mind and the National Autistic Society warn this could lead to “the biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation”. I am questioning the government on how it plans to respond nataliebennett.org/2026/06/03/d...

MPs warn that Palantir’s increasing presence in the UK public sector is an “unacceptable point of weakness” committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...

A brilliant statement by Disability Rights UK "It is a vain attempt to get two marginalised groups to blame one another for our lack of facilities, when the blame lies firmly at the feet of policymakers" www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

‼️ Amnesty's new research exposes the anti-trans movement. They have a plan - first they're coming for trans rights and then for women's rights. We'll only defeat them by coming together.

If you are in a trade union, ask them to do something similar to the FBU. We all have to stand up to this hateful, incoherent, bigot driven nonsense from the EHRC and the hate brigade. bsky.app/profile/fbun...

I was really proud to chair the Fire Committee last year in London. And particularly proud to see the Fire Brigade Union come out so clearly on this. 👏🏼🏳️‍⚧️

And our non-Reform politicians could get together, recognise the common threat they face and stop this now. What’s to stop them, other than their inherent spinelessness and the tantalising example of TBI?

Next, nationalise the rolling stock companies 😁

As always the reward for all this ecosystem restoration was heat exhaustion and six more ticks. That’s 17 ticks for May alone. I’m not happy. Dad had to get one out of my back and he wasn’t happy either. Couple of quid might cheer us up. We need more kit. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...

Really not very helpful for the large crowds at Waterloo.

The hoopla about social media is an excellent example. No one is even asking whether older people are radicalised, or damaged more, or in greater number, than digital natives. We just kneejerk demand the removal of the autonomy of younger people.

Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry

HISTORY IS COMING: 40c IN EUROPE This will arguably be the harshest spring heat wave in European history We can see up to 40C in Spain,35C in Central Europe for days. Thousands of records will be pulverized in Spain,Portugal,France,Benelux,UK;SCandinavia,Germany,Alps,Czechia,..

It's 02:30 and I am on an Elizabeth line train. Such fun.

Under the Equality Act 2006, MPs or Peers can pass a resolution disapproving an EHRC Code of Practice. It would be good to see some "put your money where your mouth is" allyship from MPs and/or Peers to get the Code of Practice struck down for being discriminatory & ineffective.

It's a beautiful day and I've gone for a short* walk. Am 17km in and stopped for a quick refreshment before I scale the heights of Leith Hill.

That interesting point where a Mosely, you know, the Nazi supporting family, working for a war loving human rights hating company complains about not making money? Yeah, ignore them. Sadiq did the right thing here. F**k Palantir, kick them out of everywhere www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No SWR. A train due to leave at 2053 is not "on time" if it doesn't even have a platform at 2054.

Is it elitist to learn how to do your job? Asking for several million voters.

I cannot begin to express how much I do NOT want agentic AI anywhere near my work. Last thing I need is some random bot deleting years of documents, files and briefings with an "oops never mind". Talk about adding cost, risk and danger to a project...

So, if he's going to stick with a hardline and frankly cruel immigration policy and thinks we should stay out of the EU and wants to reform the election system but only after the next election, what, I ask, is the actual fucking point of it all?

vote green

OK Brits, get ready because according to official advisers "aspects of our British way of life are now really under threat from climate change" There'll be a need for air con in schools, hospitals, & over 90% of homes And there'll be shortfalls in water supply www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quite hard to save for your pension when you are paying off someone else's mortgage.

Some insanely binary questions in this "National Conversation" thing. And only a few free-text boxes to really give views. www.thenationalconversation.org.uk

Whenever I get the call from the garage after dropping off the car I have a moment of wondering if I ought to have done mechanical engineering rather than archeology as my first degree...

Everyone else has gone in or gone to bed. So I am sat here on the terrace with the fire, my book and a glass. Not bad for gone 0100.

Kilometer 0.000, het begin van mijn weekje vakantie. Op zaterdag 23 mei ben ik terug in de stuurcabine te vinden. Tot dan 👋 (Wie hou ik voor de gek … mezelf kennende passeer ik tussendoor nog regelmatig hier op BlueSky 😅)

"and are these numbers in the room with us now?"

That Wes Streeting leadership bid in full:

<in Number 10> STARMER: Okay. So how are things looking? ALAKESON: Great. Great boss. CUTHBERTSON: Yeah absolutely smoking it chief. GREAT speech yesterday. Nothing to worry about everything is- ED MILIBAND <sticking his head through the door>: CHAOS MOTHERFUCKERS! WOOOO

In 2015, the UK was ranked first in Europe for LGBTI rights. Two years ago, just before the election of Keir Starmer, we were 16th. Today the UK is ranked 22nd.

Also, for the bus cranks (and those who love them), come summer you can have the London day hopper fare for the weekends. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not even 6am and I'm waiting for transport. With a bag. Could I be about the shenan, again?

Ah Doesn’t it warm your heart? When the person working there has just done this! www.heise.de/en/news/Halt...

Morning! Elections day for many here in the UK. Do please go out and use that vote - people fought and died to get us this ability to vote. I won't tell you who to vote for, but I will absolutely ostracise you if you vote for homophobic transphobic racists and billionaire bootlickers.

I agree - let's get rid of that 2% of antisemites from the Greens. Let's not pretend that the Greens aren't the LEAST antisemitic party though, with the Lib Dems coming a very close second. No surprises who the MOST antisemitic are.

so sorry.

Protesting against genocide is clearly not anti-Semitic, but these depictions of Zack categorically are.

LW Politician: let slightly raise taxes on the incredibly rich to invest in public services. Media: woke idiot will ruin us all! RW politician: lets burn public services to the ground to pay for a tax cut for people so rich they won’t notice it. Media: this man speaks for us all, he the chosen one

I see no lies here

"Spain's pivot to renewables has been a big win for household energy bills. In 2019, prior to its wind and solar revolution, it had some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. Now it has some of the cheapest." www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

If your constituency voted for Brexit, your constituency should pay 100% of the cost of Brexit. That town down the road that voted against it, but still lost 8% of its income anyway? We’re adding an extra 8% to your taxes to compensate them. Because apparently that's "democratic consent" now.

🗓️ zondag 3 mei 2026 Dienst 114, dat is veel Leuven - Antwerpen-Centraal met breaks 🚆 ‼️ Beelden uiteraard gemaakt in veilige omstandigheden!

So a quick jaunt on an AM08 (L4866) and then a one minute cross platform at Jurbise to pick up an AM96 (IC3717) with the rubber ring front that I am told by the lively @traindrivertom.trains.blue are a pleasure to drive.