You know Shabana Mahmood is your MP when writing an email to them prompts you to look up synonyms for "disgust".

The government should be ashamed that its migration policies are being cheered on by Tommy Robinson and Reform. Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right. I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.

This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings

There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel. Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children. These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.

Considering she’s my own MP, I’m honestly wondering about just emailing her office with the hotdog meme. Shabana, you are part of the “dark forces”, you utter fucking disgrace.

Congratulations to Labour who have won the coveted Tommy Robinson endorsement. Excited for sensibles to explain to me why I have to vote for the people enacting actual fascist policy.

TiL that "the Butlerian Jihad" is a Dune book, and not, as I previously believed when I've seen people say it before, referring to Judith Butler.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some terrible public figures need to be Chotinered, for everyone else, there's Ziwe.

This will kill the heat pump market. And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment. And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you want a break from [gestures to The Array Of Horrors], there's new Robyn!

my mother's hearing aid has broken the doorbell

It's true I can't comprehend a civilian being able to have so much ammunition, but I think the American mind might have trouble comprehending the idea of prioritising the freedom of people to not be killed, over the freedom to own guns. It's now been 28 years since we had a school shooting here.

I'd like to congratulate Tim Kaine on earning a place in @numb.comfortab.ly's ratio feed within an hour, which I'm pretty sure is a new record.

Whenever, wherever [you want to go, the buses will be fast and free].

As a gay man, every so often I wonder how straight guys like Adams would handle gay men talking to them the way he talks to women.

I wonder if @thatsrickperry.bsky.social has seen this yet, because ooh the @dimension20.bsky.social possibilities.

Lettuce celebrate.

This person took this when they called the race

Interesting that the judge notes that it is a "political belief" Robinson holds and then proceeds to call it a "protected characteristic". Even though political beliefs are not in fact protected characteristics under the Equality Act – only philosophical ones are. Somewhat gives the game away.

Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.

nobody: the baby at 5:37am after finding her own feet under a blanket: “FEEEET!! feet feet feet feet”

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

You can't make this up.

Braiding a 75 ton Technora rope at LangmanRopes.

Oh wow, I think a trailcam might have finally captured Chris Fleming in his natural environment.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

Somehow I missed that we got @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social on #HIGNFYUS, and he very much seems to have understood the assignment:

no one has ever been more relatable answering a question about AI

Very funny - the BFI has acquired the Daily Star's lettuce/Liz Truss video for the national archive, because it is a significant piece of British content that deserves preservation www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...

Esther Ghey: "It was just that constant pressure of social media and wanting to get those likes. One of the hardest things was learning about what Brianna was accessing online that was encouraging her to self-harm and develop an eating disorder.” Did 'the pressure of social media' stab Brianna Ghey

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

I mean in a way, inhaling high concentrations of CO2 *will* deal with all of these things, even being gay, in the sense that it’ll kill you. Extra hilarious to me that they literally put shortness of breath on the list.

1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists. 1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents. 2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police. 2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.

this is accurate along multiple dimensions they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left

Thinking about starting a Gen X "Shit Old Days" group. For reasons unknown, been having flashbacks to 80s comprehensive school, and honestly I think most people have memory-holed just how racist, homophobic, misogynist and violent everything was. Also: DOGSHIT EVERWHERE (cc @tudoracid.bsky.social)

"It is a drizzly October afternoon and I am sitting in a rural Lancashire pub drinking pints of Moretti with London’s leading snail farmer and a convicted member of the Naples mafia. We’re discussing the best way to stop a mollusc orgy."

golden age

"I wrote because I believed in an idea that feels almost silly now: that visibility would lead to acceptance. That if people just knew the stories of trans people, understood our humanity, they’d stop seeing us as threats or curiosities or political pawns." @parkermolloy.com

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

It's always fun to be reminded of the extent to which our voting system means the UK isn't really democratic in practice. 10.2% of the vote? 8 seats. 20.3% of the vote? 103 seats. 31% of the vote? 351 seats and you run the entire country, even though 69% of the country didn't vote for you.

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

man.

This throwaway joke in Only Murders In The Building was fucking WILD. What a deep cut in a show for boomers

- informed consent in primary care - bulldoze every gender clinic - hold inquiries into the abuses that went on there - apologies + damages to patients denied care - bosh ✊ If someone wants to transition, at any age and for any reason, that’s their business.

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

Caroline Lucas at a Green party panel on protest rights: "I think it is clear that if the Suffragettes were around today, they too would be branded a terrorist organisation"

“Experts say attempting to extort children lost Radiant group credibility in hacking world” [Stewart Lee voice] "..the values of the Radiant group"