Switching off in a few hours!

Lads I'm really not liking the number of fellow children's authors who are experiencing homophobia/queerphobia in relation to school visits - lots of cancelled visits. If you happen to be a school governor/head teacher, can you give everyone's head a shake please? #KidLitUK

Scott Weiner changed his position from being an ardent supporter of Israel to being a vocal critic, including calling what's happening in Gaza, a genocide. He did so while being the biggest steadfast supporter of the trans community. Pushing him out of the trans march is not a good thing to do.

Congratulations @laylamoran.bsky.social all your hard work paid off 🥰 It was always a disgrace that those affected were criminalised now we need to ensure that people get the support they need to stop them ending up on the streets in the first place

UK authors! If you haven't done it yet (I haven't) it's time to update your PLR account! The deadline is June 30th!

Pass this on. You never know who might need it and it could make a huge difference if someone is struggling for whatever reason

Along with the prior repost of UK being halfway to net zero and Australia getting free electricity from renewables there are a lot of these quiet victories going on. The fossil fuel industry is in full thrash and thunder trying to assert how irreplaceable it is but inch by inch we’re getting there.

Well Keir, this explains a lot…

Living with a stoma shouldn't mean you have to stay home. Yet for many people, inadequate facilities and being challenged for using accessible toilets are everyday realities. Hidden disabilities deserve visible support it's time for more stoma-friendly public toilets.

Exempting broadly-defined "health" services from this bill would be a bit like exempting "fuel" services from a bill about CO2 reduction. There must be no carve-outs or loop holes for abusive practices, in healthcare or otherwise, for this to be anything like what has been promised, for years.

Well I am *very* happy with this result tbh

No it is not an "unwritten rule". It is a possible choice that is not made 66-75% of the time Yes: 1955 (snap, success, then failure) 2017 (11 months, failed) 2019 (6 months: success, then failure) No: 2022, 2022, 2007, 1990, 1976, 1963, 1956, 1937.

Yeah - the single hive mind that is “Europe” completely fails to understand the conceit of federalism despite having numerous federal states and cannot understand size despite the US and Europe being about the same size.

Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.

I’m sure none of you decent people would do this, but I’m just sharing it because my goodness, what appalling behaviour. I hope credit card companies at least keep an eye on people doing multiple chargebacks and investigate them.

The modern world in old Ladybird books. “Fleet Street - the Street of Ink” (The story of Newspapers, 1969) Artist: Ron Embleton

Having lived through the Paris 2003 heatwave it really seemed elderly women were at greatest risk of death. Now we know. I've also read much anecdotal evidence (make of that what you will) that estradiol HRT can reduce heat tolerance, so be careful out there <all> my sisters in oestrogen-taking.

Lots to say about this quote from Phillipson but I think a key element is how cis people are understood as 'biological' and therefore as having material needs (services, spaces) where as trans people are an 'identity' and therefore only have cultural/recognitional needs ('not being pilloried').

Unions are bad on climate change. They just are, because we don’t have unions for people working on renewables and environmental progress yet, but we do have very entrenched and old-fashioned unions representing people in deeply polluting sectors. Join your union but tell them to ram it on climate.

roses are red crimes can be heinous

Anti-semitism is absolutely a real thing and as a Jew I am deeply nervous about the worst faith people in public life working relentlessly to rob the concept of all gravity by making it synonymous with "anyone not fully supportive of Benjamin Netanyahu and everything he does."

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

Er...

See below my latest piece for Lib Dem Voice titled 'One year on, and I’m still finding it hard to feel pride.' Goes into some detail on the complicated feelings I have with pride as a trans person in 2026. See below: www.libdemvoice.org/one-year-on-...

After ten years of the Conservatives’ Brexit experiment, the British public have had enough. Nigel Farage pocketed a £5 million ‘reward’ for the damage he’s caused, while the rest of us are paying for it dearly. It’s time to end the chaos and fix our broken relationship with Europe.

Tbf to her she's doing an excellent job at portfolio without minister.

Demanding that a new PM call an election but only when they belong to a rival party is one of those ritual hypocrisies that is beyond shame. Everyone knows it’s not how a parliamentary system works but you gotta say it

Sharing again and pointing out LNER are offering full refunds. “If you no longer wish to travel, you can claim a full refund directly via your LNER account.” @transsolidarity.bsky.social

As the Proportional Representation Society warned in *1910*: "A small majority, which would be returned again were it necessary to appeal to the country, affords a much stronger basis for a government than a large majority that might disappear". The fatal error of Labour's 2024 electoral strategy.

Wonky books are back for the last time! Just £3 for some of our books that have been a little battered through the distribution process but still have some life left in them yet! www.404ink.com/wonky-books

British politics is so fucking stupid that we can be in the second extreme heatwave of the year, in the middle of the second major oil/gas crisis in 5 years, and one of the biggest union leaders will be briefing against ed milliband cause net zero bad and middle class

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

Womp x2

I fucking hate this poseur pish.

'In my day we enjoyed the sun' yes it was considerably cooler and also you were seven and your mummy done you a paddling pool

i think if you dress like this, you deserve to do a little corruption

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

We need to resurrect the Google Glass term "Glassholes" to refer to the people who use these things:

If politicians really want to “save childhood,” they can start by ensuring every child has three meals a day, a safe place to sleep, and safe access to education. Banning social media does nothing to help kids who don’t have basic resources.

Digital ID in through the back door. How else are they going to check the age of SM users unless by asking us all to show any appropriate ID.

This reminds me of the time I ordered a burger and it arrived wrapped in a tortilla instead of on a roll/bun. Nothing on the menu to indicate it. Burger was cut up to fit. Just mental.

The government's own ad campaign about recognising abusive relationships specifically and correctly highlighted cutting someone off from friends and stopping them going online as a sign of abuse. So what is it when the government itself does it?

detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.

Funny that, if you remove the roof of a historic building, and leave it lying open to the elements, it becomes unsavable...

Palestine Action is not like the suffragettes, it’s true. Because one suffragette threw a hatchet at the prime minister, while another bombed the chancellor’s house.

Newsom spent the last year working to prove he's an across-the-aisle guy who can work with — and befriend — even fascists. This is what it got him. This is why you don't associate with them in any capacity whatsoever.

Everything about Vance is basically fake. He grew up in a middle class exurban family; used the GI Bill to go to a public university and then an Ivy League. He “wrote” a completely bullshit book about this and cashed a bunch of checks to buy a senate seat.

Imagine STILL being on twitter 😂 How embarrassing.