incredible that farage gets apologies for misquotes, but can also go on stage and repeat lies that (for example) international students can bring mums, dads, grandparents etc and *nothing happens*

For all those who keep insisting that Bluesky is dead or dying... Bluesky is where you can get actual engagement with real humans.

Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century

Great thread

Widow of gambling addict takes Betfair to court in possible landmark UK case. Company encouraged addiction, sent free bets, running to £18000 debt. Companies focused on profit, don't owe a duty of care to customers showing signs of problem gambling. Don't bear social cost of their practices.

the way the dog turns his head halfway in sent me

Happy Pride Month 🌈

Really good thread (and a really good follow also)

It’s grimly funny to look back and remember that John Fetterman rose to prominence as the guy who was going to beat Dr. Oz and keep him out of government, and then to realize that now they’re both in government and they’re both just the worst.

keir about to drop the most useless speech of his life in 3 days time:

Peak hipster

CYCLE OF HATE and then the pic is this

Honest question: Does Trump think he built the reflecting pool?

lol

the AI rollout has easily the worst messaging of any technology I’ve ever seen it’s not even so much the underlying tech - a lot of people like the chatbots - but the continued promises that it’s going to ruin your life and there’s nothing you can do about it well - you can fight data centers

@jaseokundaye.bsky.social commentary says it all, really. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absolute cruelty

I guess we're really never getting the strait opened.

Henry hasn’t left our sides since we got back on Sunday (including waking me every 45 mins crying and wanting belly rubs) - and tonight it looks like I can’t move from my armchair…

I have a sneaking feeling that we will learn little of interest from yet another examination of how little Conservatives in government knew of the EU, trade, Brexit, regulation, or negotiations 10 years ago, and how that hasn't changed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The contrast between NZ and UK reporting on this was stark. NZ media went as far as not naming the terrorist so they wouldn’t be glorified. Focus remained on the victims and survivors, even when the terrorist was sentenced a year later. UK media, notoriously Islamophobic, was as subtle as a foghorn

Highly recommend reading the full statement here, especially how Disability Rights UK points out the intersection of disabled trans people and healthcare access.

Heated Rivalry (Series, 2025)

Historian of something cool and niche? i've got some episode slots available on the Untitled History Podcast in the coming weeks. so if you're up for coming on and talking about your area, DM me! Think In Our Time but more casual. ESPECIALLY if its non-mil stuff. (spread the word, peeps)

This is great, because I've been meaning to discuss the various fallacies and pitfalls that come with lumping together these things cis people do with trans healthcare and calling it all "gender-affirming". Starting with the idea that "it's okay when cis people do it but not trans people".

Want to browse the new Mandelson documents without wading through 500-page PDFs? We’ve built a custom search engine for the whole release. Search by sender, recipient, subject, date, or any text - instantly gives you individual documents.

This is obviously really bad, but what’s worse is that it isn’t headline news, and everyone concerned will still have a job tomorrow

Just reading this - Revealed: Palantir’s NHS tech is ten times slower than current system Everything about Palantir in the UK is a f-ing scam democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

My MP didn’t respond to me directly but did raise the issue in Parliament today. Write to your MPs.

trans rights and women’s rights are not in opposition, they are in fact two fronts of the same war, and cis women should support trans folk not just because it’s the morally correct thing to do but also because an attack on trans folk is an attack on us

My favourite fact about the original Pride flag was allegedly there wasn’t enough hot pink fabric in San Francisco to meet the demand at the time, so it was removed from the flag

Image using this joyous occasion for your anti-Blackness to jump the fuck out!

Too tired for this shit, because it's just too bleakly funny that Seema Malhotra has managed to sum up Labour's entire approach here. Lickspittle, speak to the manager, make someone else do the violence, I just have some concerns but my hands are clean. Cowardice on cowardice on cowardice.

If "The Supreme Court says the law is X" then why isn't the solution CHANGING the law so that trans women are protected, instead of rushing to agree with this incorrect interpretation?

The Guardian knows it is the start of Pride month. It knows exactly what it's doing publishing this anti-trans bigotry today of all days

Posting with alt text and to say that if this country put as much energy into NHS reform as it did into transphobia we would have the best health care system in the world.

"Children of those on care worker visas, who came legally before rule change, told to leave even if parents can stay" abolish the home office

"Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes" - Wes Streeting, in a private message. So it turns out that government ministers were not, after all, incapable of understanding what is happening there. Just incapable of saying it in public, and of acting on that knowledge. #MorallySupine

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

NOPE.

all else aside, I think this was the start of a shift for a lot of people- realizing their government was absolutely capable of helping them, but actively choosing not to

People who weren't alive in the 90s won't believe there was an entire genre of films about how hot women were forcing Michael Douglas to have incredibly hot sex with them but I was there.

I'm sorry but if you do this you deserve to be separated from your money. What sort of company (1) would have $500 million extra to spend (2) would have so few financial controls not to notice this and (3) would have such bad ops that they wouldn't put (easily placed) limits on Anthropic setup?

It’s honestly just so funny to me that in most of the world on a match day they close at least some of the roads approaching the stadium to cars to make it easier for fans to walk to the ground, and in the us you won’t be able to walk at all. A different world.

you know social media isn't what it was a decade ago because back then The Masshole Meteor gimmick account would already have 30,000 followers

buying my cat increasingly large scratcher lounges so that he thinks he's slowly but consistently shrinking somehow

Enjoyed this. Written by a proper Arsenal hater

"I'm sorry if you're disappointed sir, but our advertisement clearly says "A mice new set of teeth""