so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

How far back in time can you understand English? buff.ly/FrTLiUE An experiment in language change

Who to believe? Kemi Badenoch or the most trusted man in Britain. It's a puzzler I tell you

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Our latest tactical voting advice to stop Reform: stopreformuk.vote/parl/gorton-... Parliamentary by-election 26th Feb 2026 🟢 Gorton & Denton = GREEN #Manchester #ByElection

Gorton & Denton...

British people talking about class? This could run and run

Woken up to lots of unhappy messages about us keeping on this story Sorry but if a political org - run by a now Minister - hires private intel to smear journalists then takes these baseless smears to security services, I will investigate it. And keep investigating until accountability happens

Hi Nigel Farage, just wondering when you’re going to investigate Matt Goodwin over Russian oil funding, paid through Hungarian interests?

Final weekend. One last push. This is about whether you want local plumber Hannah Spencer or the extreme Reform candidate. It's hope vs hate. It's Greens vs Reform. Hope can win.

"Tariffs on China one hundred percent. One thousand percent. One billion trillion trillion percent. Or more, perhaps."

2026 Reading 1: A Dream of Wessex, Christopher Priest. How is this small masterpiece not better known? Reminiscent of The Lathe Of Heaven, and… well, it seems certain that the Nolan read this as well as The Prestige.

Labour lost three council seats last night. 1 each to the Greens, Lib dems and Plaid. Reform were 2nd or 3rd in each. The Greens also won and beat Reform in another local election. So when they say vote Labour to stop Reform, they couldn't be more wrong. Vote almost anyone but Labour to beat Reform.

But especially stupid people

If you're researching migration & the politics of migration, here’s a sneak peek at a new tool we’re developing: the Migration Ads Observatory. This platform tracks, analyzes, & visualizes migration-related advertising on FB & IG to reveal key trends & narratives. migration.polidashboard.org/frames

IN SPACE, NOBODY CAN SMEAR YOUR CREAM

Don't access this site, for any reason. Signed, a former intel girlie

Very entertaining! Perhaps the police can also finally start looking into Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

'The research did not find a single example where popular tools such as Google’s Gemini or Microsoft’s Copilot were leading to a “material, verifiable, and substantial” reduction in planet-heating emissions.' by @ketanjoshi.co www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

2026 basically

A new report from Gartner argues that by 2028, misconfigured AI will shut down the national critical infrastructure in a G20 country. www.networkworld.com/article/4132... This should concern everyone, especially those with the levers of power #AICrisis #BlueCrew

Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

⚠️ "You want voters to trust Robert Jenrick as a potential next Chancellor of this country." "In the past year alone, you have accused Mr. Jenrick of lying, dishonesty, incompetence and disloyalty to his country." "Why would you expect any voter to trust him with the country's finances?"

Zia Yusuf murdered on live TV. Wondrous

BREAKING 🚨 | Reform announce plans to legalise discrimination. Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black, pregnant or gay.

The barrister Setu Kamal sued @danneidle.bsky.social for £8m for defamation. Representing himself in court, Kamal cited three cases that made Neidle’s case “untenable”. But, in a bizarre twist, it turned out that these cases were hallucinated by ChatGPT: https://goodlaw.social/n1cv

Wow, now that's a picture. If only women aged 18-59 could vote in the UK parliament.

Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question. Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?

If you loved the last conservative government this looks like the team for you

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Because of Brexit, the UK GDP is 6–8% lower than it would have been, business investment is 18% lower than in comparable economies, and both employment and productivity are around 4% lower. Can’t wait to see in a decade how Trump has damaged the US economically.

#Speclist The revolt of the librarians. (Tom Gauld)

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

And another bites the dust? The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“I’m really worried for my friends and neighbours who are immigrants, or the children of immigrants, who’ve kept our city region moving.” Our candidate for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, says the threat of adopting ICE-style tactics would put hardworking communities in the firing line.

The big insurance companies, inc Swiss Re & Munich Re, have been sounding the climate warning claxon for 30 years. Great data. Too many greens ignored them for too long. Now Trump is wilfully deaf. Politics trumps (sorry) hard data. Again-again.

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...

I'd had enough pictures of Tories pointing at potholes It's time for 3000 words of catharsis (fully sourced! And with new numbers!) (Apologies in advance for the AI image for those who are affected) open.substack.com/pub/cllrdrna...

Reduce, Repair, Restore, Reclaim, Recycle?

Post a tree you photographed

Reform's extreme by-election candidate for Gorton and Denton wants to tax millions of childless women more for not having kids. This is insane 🤯 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

THERE'S MASSES OF LAMB #TOTP

It's depressing that ministers ever thought this was proportionate, and disgusting that they haven't immediately accepted the judgement. I expected such levels of knee-jerk stupidity from Braverman. But we voted Labour because we wanted better. Be better. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🔴Did Keir Starmer’s Government Just Accidentally Admit Its Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes? Two statements by Government ministers, one private and one public, appear to acknowledge for the first time that Israel’s actions have broken international law bylinetimes.com/2026/02/13/d...

Terminally online “revolutionaries”: “read theory and burn down a Walmart” (does neither) Wine moms: commits arson on a possible ICE warehouse in broad daylight

COME WORK WITH US! Compass are hiring for a Digital Engagement Officer. If you're good with everything online and supporter-facing - mailings, social media - then we want to hear from you! Click below to apply. www.compassonline.org.uk/compass-is-h...