The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

The entirety of Powell and Pressburger's THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COL. BLIMP (1943) is available on YouTube for free, so you have no excuse not to watch it One of the gayest antifascist stories ever filmed, as well as just one of the best goddamn movies ever made, period Hit that play button, folks!!

Santa told us that people that don’t add alt text are getting coal in their stocking this year.

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

to put it in terms they will understand: if you want to run a pancake store, but then millions of people who only want waffles turn up, fuck you, you run a waffle store now

i resent how every time i do an internet search for something now the browser takes a guess at explaining what i am searching for at me. i know what i am looking for actually, do not presume i need it explained, how insulting

my only new-user harangue is just use the damn alt text: • it's searchable • you can explain a reference/what the fuck that thing is to help people get it, or tell extra jokes • it's not hard, and you're not special • that you're posting in the first place tells everyone you've got the extra minute

Here's a slightly crazy diagram illustrating today's major Cabinet reshuffle You're welcome

You are not persuading the text pipeline! You are stumbling on to a mathematical vector in which you are causing the word delivery mechanism to replicate sequences other people typed up in which they are persuaded and that OpenAI likely stole without permission!

Machinarium is free on the Epic Games Store for the next 6 days! store.epicgames.com/...

There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

If you wanna read it, the translation I’m using is by Emily Wilson, who is a brilliant translator and also reads the hell out of it herself

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

Not to keep going on about it, but I see a lot of well meaning takes on the left about the Ian Dunt thing saying, "Well it's bad that when boys search for 'why don't I have a GF?' fasc stuff comes up, but it's complex...." Pals, Justin is *doing this work on the left and you can help fund it.*

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New blog! Political parties won 12.9% of English town and parish council seats in 2024/2025. But party involvement at this level is controversial. We take a look at what the data can tell us about partisanship in England's first tier of local government. democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2025/07...

I did some research and reporting to try to understand why Elon turning Grok "anti-woke" also made it into MechaHitler, some interesting stuff in the guts of LLMs. feat @theophite.bsky.social prospect.org/power/2025-0...

In 2020 @moreincommonuk.bsky.social launched the British 7 Segments. After a pandemic, major global conflicts, political upheaval, cost of living crisis, changes in work/social/information habits it’s time to update them for 2025. Here’s an intro to our new tribes of Britain (Quiz link next)

REMINDER: HS2, delivered in full, was the most effective single investment to reduce the UK's emissions. The last government cancelled it, this government doubled down. Until they reverse the cancellation, Labour cannot be taken seriously on the climate.

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Honestly? Best project you can support if you actually want to help people, especially queer youth.

No. You didn't have him blocked already. One day everyone will realise how the block function on Bluesky works.

I'm proud to #BackZack @zackpolanski.bsky.social Labour's right wing escapades are only handing this country to Reform whilst making everything worse. Yet the GPEW have not filled the gap - we must grasp the opportunity, be bold, and paint the picture of the inclusive future nobody else is!

Why trying to out-Farage Farage is just never going to work for Labour. The most hardline, anti-migrant set of policies from any UK Government in recent years and the Daily Mail still portrays it as a betrayal

Majed is in a particularly horrible position, because he is helping multiple families with their fundraisers while also struggling to get any traction at all for his sisters' fund. If anyone can really commit to consistently sharing their link, it would mean a LOT.

It’s polling day! 10,000 polling places are open across England for council and mayoral elections. Find out if you have an election, and get your candidate and polling station details: whocanivotefor.co.uk

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Actually fuck off. Who is the EHRC to tell voluntary associations what to and what not to do?

The previous Government made a wrong turn with the introduction of Voter ID. Scrapping it would be a positive step for democracy. www.electoral-reform.org.uk/whats-the-pr...

My own favourite April 23 fact is that both Shakespeare and Cervantes died on April 23 1616, ten days apart.

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

Katy is right about this, as usual, and further, what this ruling does it basically make it unsafe to be a non-feminine woman, or one who doesn't meet the beauty standard generally, in public. It's a movement to push women back into the domestic sphere.

I just cannot believe that people use breast cancer of all things as an example of why you should treat trans women - people who have breasts and experience breast cancer like cis women - as men Just so overwhelmingly ignorant and ridiculous. The weakest possible argument

Being a prompt engineer is like yelling at the characters on a movie screen to do something different. You're just the person who describes a book idea to a writer then tells them, "But YOU write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50." It's ordering a drink and claiming it makes YOU the bartender.

Please help this Spider Pot find a forever home

This year's English local elections will be the smallest since 1975, following postponements in nine areas. 1,657 councillors are due to be elected across 23 councils. Six mayors will also be elected. More detail in our latest blog: democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2025/03...

Coming to the view that it would probably have been *a little* useful to force a vote on the net zero target back in 2019. 🧵

Removing the hereditary peers must only be the start, we need a smaller, democratically accountable second chamber.

♿ With record numbers of disabled MPs now in the Commons, Tali Fraser speaks to a selection about how they are navigating the parliamentary estate and the tricks they use to make it work for them www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

I want to read you an email that I was asked to keep confidential because I think it explains some of my worries about academia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFU...

I always enjoy this annual Politico list as it is presented as a bit of fun, yet is always inadvertently revealing about how Westminster actually works. www.politico.eu/article/west...

if I just refresh the timeline enough maybe someone will do something to stop all of this