I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.

Swansea - Protest the Budget! No disability cuts. Hands off motability. Living wages. Pension justice. Rent control. Trade union rights. No to hate & division. Make the rich pay! Saturday 29th Nov, 1pm @ Swansea Castle.

Sign and share our petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... Read in full: inews.co.uk/news/68-diab... 2/

A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights. But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

My last research project showed that many mammals now live in climates different from the ones they occupied for thousands of years. Publishing it made me realize how often important science stays inaccessible and why I now focus on sharing it clearly. Full story ↓ 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/WMgl3kB

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

🕐In just over a week Rachel Reeves will be revealing the Autumn budget. We’re making sure the government knows that its proposals for private finance are not welcome in our NHS. ✍️Write to your MP - give them all the facts about NHS private finance by reading our briefing.

Getting a cover issue would've been a formative experience for an artist or a photographer. Instead we're impeding someone's career using slop art.

How many disabled people here are up for forgiving the #LibDems for the number of us & the poor they killed with austerity? Yeah. Didn't think so. It's VERY easy to forgive what you were always completely unaffected by.

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We urge the unions to demand protection for their members now and not just voice outrage retrospectively.

“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.” Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.

Forest sunset, before the frost (Cefn Digoll/Long Mountain)

Yeah, but voters do care, Mahmood, they care a lot They care that you’re tearing children away from the only home they’ve ever known and sentencing them to years of fear, instability, and trauma They care that violent racist criminals like Tommy Robinson are applauding your policies

Social justice and environmental justice are one and the same thing.

MP Tessa Munt has tabled a debate on UK Gov support for ME/CFS in Westminster Hall on Wed 19 Nov 2025. #ThereForMe have further information and a template letter people can use to ask their MP to attend. tinyurl.com/4x9sp6jp

(2/2) Please write to your MP and ask them to attend! You can find your local MP here: members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP  @thereforme.bsky.social have produced a template letter to help: www.thereforme.uk/p/westminste... 🔗https://whatson.parliament.uk/event/cal53589

(1/2) 📢 Westminster Hall debate on government support for ME Tessa Munt MP has tabled a debate on government support for people with ME next week in Westminster. This is an important opportunity to make sure the voices of people with ME are heard in Parliament.

I am currently reading 'Hild', a fabulous novel by @nicolaz.bsky.social that explores her early life, immersing the curious reader in the rhythms of 7th century life. Would heartily recommend it to anyone curious about Hild and her achievements. nicolagriffith.com/2023/11/17/h...

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

We won't stop until the govt has heard us: the only lesson that can be learnt from the disaster of PFI is a fully publicly owned and publicly funded NHS - like this government promised in their manifesto. We're handing in our petition tomorrow. Make sure your name is on it! ✍️ vist.ly/4eu4p

Massive credit to Nadia for once again having the courage to call out her own party’s dangerous and reckless policies At this point, she’s one of the last Labour MPs still willing to stand on principle - one of the only voices pushing back as Labour slips further into its own dark shadows ✊🏼

The economic sense is so extremely in favour of renewables now, Pakistan is even paying Qatar penalties to rather NOT deliver the fossil gas that Pakistan already placed orders for, because their Solar PV and batteries make much more sense. It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!

PLEASE read this thread. I remember seeing the headlines about the Trocadero and thinking it all seemed a bit dog-whistle Islamophobic... and it transpires my suspicions were bloody correct.

Just once, I'd love one of these cunts to say it's just because they don't want to pay tax on their dividends and they don't mind governments that forcibly disappear dissidents

The reason I have to do this privately is that the need is urgent, and appointments in the state Health Service are stretching into 2027/2028. Thank you very much to all those who have reposted and donated so far. I really do appreciate it.

Thousands and thousands of socialists, trans people, disabled people, Muslims, Black people, parents, the elderly, etc etc from 2020 onwards. Anyone who wasn't expecting exactly this from this government is either utterly deluded or a liar.

You can say what you will about the quality of the new Jurassic Park movies but the core plot conceit that capitalists would completely ignore past experiences and keep opening new dinosaur parks even when the last one led to mass death is spot-on

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

A reminder to please teach the kids in your life, we don't approach or touch or talk to any service dog in harness. That dog is working and we don't distract it. And also for adults: don't take the arm of or otherwise touch another human without asking if you're required. #blind #lowvision

The BBC was founded to “provide impartial news”. If it's going to be the UK's biggest media organisation, it has to follow the rules. Hold the BBC to account 👇 https://bit.ly/4oJd6B0..

An #Egyptian glass inlay of a jackal. Jackals were linked with the dead, because they were present in the desert regions near to the cemeteries. The most popular jackal-shaped god was Anubis, the god of embalming. Dating 5th -1st c. BC. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

Looking for Christmas presents for folk who love #nature & #landscape #history or someone who lives with #chronicillness? What about a signed & red kite stamped copy of Land Beneath the Waves? "A brave and beauifully written memoir of a life lived close to nature" @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social

Next time a doctor tries to tell you that "it's all in your head", you can wave this study at them. There are plenty more where this came from if they need further convincing. #disability #healthcare #MillionsMissing #MECFS #chronicillness

"I witnessed insinuations about capability, dismissive attitudes and language that carried, at the very least, veiled prejudice.'" Wait until he hears how he treats trans people. 😒

And if you prefer to read by listening, the audiobook’s great, too.

This was Alessandra Korap Munduruku this morning. She lives in the Brazilian state where COP is taking place this year! She was not given a pass into the Blue Zone. These are the voices you should be listening to, boosting, and celebrating. Not the politicians who are attending #COP30!

She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.

What a truly vile and hateful set of people we have running the country.

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

The BBC, quite consciously, sets out to demean and belittle trans people. This is both morally contemptible and in breach of its Charter obligations. We've made it super easy for you to write to the BBC and tell it to stop. Please use - and share with your networks. goodlaw.social/2j5q

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont

Alice Wong made me feel that, as a chronically ill disabled person, the small actions I manage to undertake, letter writing, signing petitions, donations when I can, matter. Rest in Power Alice. Everyone: wear a mask 😷 And donate to: chuffed.org/project/crip...

Just your regular reminder for Autumn that public ownership is hugely popular in the UK. ✅ Join the fight to take back control of our public services and run them for people not profit. 😀 Sign up to our newsletter. Link in comments 👇

Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany. The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

ALSO. If you're just coming across this news now, and thinking about what you can do to support disabled people like Alice in your community. WEAR A MASK.

If you're just stumbling across everyone's posts about Alice Wong ( @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ) today, she was an active writer and editor, in addition to her work as a disability visibility advocate with disabilityvisibilityproject.com