"Most experts say he's being misled" let me assure you that most experts, in their group chats, say he is showing his whole ass

Even among fascists, this is an extreme clothing brand, because it’s not deniable. And people now feel comfortable wearing it in the middle of Berlin, in a way they didn’t 10 years ago. I can’t describe how serious this is. It’s basically saying “I’d wear a swastika in the street if that was legal“.

I’m sorry, but everyone now knows exactly what Reform stands for, so if you vote for them, you’re a nasty racist with no respect for other humans. No ‘I didn’t know’ or ‘the other parties have let me down’ excuses now. Shame on them and shame on you.

This is like if the tobacco industry sponsored a bill to get kids smoking in class to help with concentration, kids today don't have ADHD or autism, they're just not getting enough nicotine don't you know! Give little Johnny one of his five a day (of cigarettes)

📢 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025–2026 The Women’s History Network is awarding £250 for the best dissertation in women’s and/or gender history. womenshistorynetwork.org/undergraduat... #WomensHistory #GenderHistory #AcademicTwitter #UndergradResearch #history

My very rusty German is good enough to work out that this means the SPD (social democrats), Greens and Die Linke (left-wing group) are alll leaving X. It’s sign that coordinated action is the way to go.

A man who built a career as a public intellectual by adamantly calling people delusional for believing in God has now started believing a machine is his special friend, and doesn't see the irony at all. Heron of Alexandria, who made the idols of his day walk and open doors, would be impressed.

Partridge as McCarthy was not the one.

#FridayFive is in space. 1. My Star. Ian Brown. 2. Girl from Mars. Ash. 3. Go! Public Service Broadcasting. 4. Satellite of Love Lou Reed. 5. Spinning away. Sugar Ray.

[Lion & horse in restaurant] Lion: Two prawn cocktails to start, please. Waiter: And for your mains? Lion: He'll have a brush and I just need a comb.

Humanists UK have been pioneering positive social change for 130 years! From fighting for women's suffrage and decriminalising homosexuality, to abolishing blasphemy laws, and winning equal marriage – learn more on the 130th anniversary of #HumanistsUK. humanists.uk/2026/04/30/h...

The mighty Chris Simpsons Artist is still going. youtu.be/Kb9mf2og0B8?...

#AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of #Zambia, a Year After #US Cuts to HIV Assistance A once-robust #HIV treatment and #prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble. #Money #Health #Care #Humanitarian #Ethics #Economics www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Check your Sertraline if you're on it in the UK www.gov.uk/government/n...

Don’t miss out on the fantastic SHP Summer Conference! So many amazing workshops. A great way to get ready for the curriculum change that’s coming down the road … but even more so, just to get re-inspired about history teaching.

Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

I've spent years chasing Joe Bell through the smog-choked alleys and crowded slums of Victorian Edinburgh, and I cannot wait for you to meet him. Cover reveal coming on Thursday, along with details on how to grab one of the limited number of signed copies available through independent bookstores!

#OtD 27 Apr 1976 21-year-old communist, Gaetano Amoroso, was ambushed with two friends in Milan by a group of eight fascists armed with knives. Known to fascists for his anti-fascist activism, Gaetano died from his wounds three days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1112...

I'm rewatching the Chernobyl series on HBO, and the opening voiceover from Legasov resonates: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

The absolute state of parties saying not to extend the vote to 16 year olds because they might not vote for them. Let’s restrict franchise because they might do something that we don’t like. Exactly the same when voting reform is suggested. We live in a pseudo democracy ruled by a small elite.

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Duck lips or no duck lips? So hard to decide after a staged shooting

Fuck Labour. bsky.app/profile/nati...

Even by Labour's sickeningly disgusting attitude towards vulnerable individuals, this is a new low by Mahmood. Under no possible criteria could Afghanistan be classed as safe. Labour has already prevented Afghans from seeking asylum. This compounds the inhumanity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The UK govt underestimated the carbon emissions of AI data centres. Not by a bit. By a factor of 100. Giving tax breaks for billionaires to generate with an insane, economy-destroying bubble for their word-guessing plagiarism engine will burn the planet.

Join #FridayFive in the sunny beer garden. Just the vibe is fine. 1. Drinking in LA. Bran Van 3000. 2. At the River. Groove Armada. 3. Walk of Life. Dire Straits. 4. Genius of Love. The Tom Tom Club. 5. Don't Need the Sunshine. Catatonia.

Welcome, new followers, and many thanks for all of the Neil and Del love. Here's the painting after some more brushwork this morning. #caricature #art

PabloReports: Who do you think Trump should fire next? AOC: Is he out of women? Trump only seems to have the capability to fire female secretaries. If you’re a man in the Trump administration, it seems that they reward misconduct.

TAs are leaving the profession in record numbers. So what can schools do differently to keep them in post? Nancy Gedge shares her advice for better looking after your support staff

#OnThisDay 1016 King Æthelred the Unready made an invaluable contribution to the English struggle against the Vikings by dropping dead.

Osprey perched #birds

The number of new trainee teachers needed to ensure a sufficient supply is expected to drop by almost a quarter next year, according to a new DfE forecast schoolsweek.co.uk/trainee-teac...

Please consider helping out some of the folks at Hampshire College who will be out of work in a few weeks. The Early Learning Center was one of the best things about the place. gofund.me/f01190006

This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.

#historyteacher #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation #HistoryEducation Nominate a mentor in your partnership for HTEN's Helen Snelson Mentoring Award, recognising excellent mentoring practice among school-based colleagues. #ITT & #ECT s can also nominate #mentors. Deadline: 18th May 2026. Link 👇

My tattoo artist just reposted this enthusiastically endorsing the messaging "what next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?"

An Egyptian funery technician cuts a few corners to save on costs and 1600 years later they're finally getting exposed as a shoddy operator, except everyone thinks it's really cool.

10 years since Prince died. What a talent. Not a day goes by without one of his songs bouncing around my head. What are your favourite Prince tracks / memories? There are so many for me: I'll pick "Joy in repetition" as a track and the first time I saw him play Purple Rain live as a moment.

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it. It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

'Many parents feel the system is working against them. Some get stuck in combat mode as they may have had to fight to get their child’s needs met' https://schoolsweek.co.uk/parents-send-reforms-make-the-home-school-relationship-more-important-than-ever/

Ultimately this is a story with a simple cause: the prime minister outsourced his judgement to someone he *really* shouldn’t have, and now he owns the fallout from that, and hard to see how his government gets out from under that one:

#OtD 17 Apr 1958 Belgium opened the world fair, and included a ‘human zoo' displaying Black men, women and children from the Congo. The people used were mocked by white spectators, until they left in October. More about Belgian colonialism in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

Daddy bear: my porridge is too hot. Mummy bear: my porridge is too cold. Baby bear: aren't we supposed to eat fish?

This is the inevitable endpoint of one of the truly unifying political projects of the 2010s: ensuring that comically bigoted far right crackpots should decide what is and is not racist, a thing almost the entire political/class bent their will towards.

#FridayFive. Your five favourite songs by your five favourite artists. Don't overthink it. 1. Gimmie Shelter. The Rolling Stones. 2. Come As You Are. Nirvana. 3. Let England Shake. P J Harvey. 4. Under the Pressure. The War on Drugs. 5. Don't Delete the Kisses. Wolf Alice.

I guess I need to extend my already long list of comparisons between Trump and King John to include 'has a fight with the pope'.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

my kink is seeing fascists lose