What are abstract ideas like “being happy” and “having fulfillment” compared to real world achievements like “working full time for a company and still needing food stamps”

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

Is welfare spending ''out of control''? Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP. That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u

The right to trial by jury has been a fundamental feature of the British Justice System for over 800 years. Any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom - a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism - must be opposed

The irony is that one of the reasons Harriet Harman decided not to pursue Badenoch for hacking her website was a belief that more black women in politics was a good thing. So, in a small but salient way, Badenoch owes her position to the very solidarity she now mocks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"...the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public." 📃✍️💥👀

Israeli army imposes siege on northern West Bank for second day - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-army-imposes-siege-northern-west-bank-second-day

You know she is being entirely accurate here as both countries have long histories of freely perpetuating genocide, racism and apartheid 🤝

Research shows unequivocally what the benefit limit means: kids go without food, clothes, and heating. You can think it’s unfair some parents get cash you don’t or made poor choices you didn’t. But if you think that resentment is more important than a child, I’d suggest you might reflect on that.

The two child limit is and will stay popular with the public. It jars a sense of “fairness”: if I have to assess my finances before having kids, why shouldn’t you? But people get sick, sacked, and contraception fails. Crucially, fairness isn’t always what matters. Whether a child goes hungry does.

“There are moments to celebrate and there are moments to not be complacent. Sometimes, it is both. Eight years of work have at last rid the country of the benefit limit. And yet the backlash it provokes shows starkly how progress is an uphill battle.” My col. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lunchtime reaction from the #spycops public inquiry hearing from MWS and MSS, siblings of Michael Menson who was killed in a racist attack. The police tried to convince everyone it had been suicide & spied on the family's camapign for justice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4rd...

EXCLUSIVE: Two prominent pro-independence presenters have been arrested and charged with terrorism offences 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Since October 2025, it costs £3.40 to buy a stamp to send a letter outside the UK. Same price to every country for up to 100g. Last year, it was £2.80. Two years ago, it was £2.20 3 years ago was the last time you could pay for two different weights of post, 20g (£1.85) and 100g (£1.85 or £2.55).

According to figures just released by Medical Aid for Palestinians, 1,686 health workers have been murdered in the last two years. Fucking shameful and heartbreaking.

The end of a hugely emotional day at the #spycops inquiry, hearing from the family of murdered youth Ricky Reel. These families were subjected to sustained intrusive spying because exposure of police racism is damaging to the police's image. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_DW...

It's not a coincidence that the four most damaging politicians of the last two decades (Cameron, Osborne, Johnson and Farage) are all the products of English public schools.

Examining the role Britain plays in the war in Sudan. | Peter Sagar

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

The great thing about this debate is that Zack comes armed with facts and figures whilst the Labour MP and the Tory only have the "it won't work" argument, whilst continuing to support a system that hasn't worked for over 40 years. Labour are dead #VoteGreen 💚💚

Musk actually killed people by withdrawing their aid. Estimated 15,000 in March. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

I don't think anyone is saying his racism doesn't matter and of course it should be called out The issue is that it is done so as an individual flaw rather than as part of a wider political project which has been cleared for decades and enabled by mainstream actors. The latter matters far more

Very good thread

“For those who claim that I am posting from Poland..” Gaza journalist Motasem Dalloul responds to Israel Foreign Ministry’s propaganda.

About 83,000 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide last year.

tech companies continually learning people don't want these things

A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers. "Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns." It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

Sky News presenter: "UNICEF have got a striking stat that two children have been killed every day on average since the ceasefire started" Killed by who?

Curacao Became the smallest Country to ever qualify for the World Cup . No names on the back of their shirts, no budgets,no big tv deals or sponsors , the magic of football !

every social media company is bad but Meta really is uniquely evil

I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*. Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”

BREAKING: At least four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza this morning, hospital sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/mj3j3z

It makes a loot of sense. The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty. Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

One dad before I shuffle off an die Everyone in tech will realize that if people respond when the racism and fascism starts That protects kids because surprise surprise Black kids, Latine kids etc are also kids www.wired.com/story/roblox...

Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America. Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

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This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year

I've already stated my opinion on this matter. To reiterate, she's racist and so is the Prime Minister because the buck should stop at his desk. I am never voting for Labour again. bsky.app/profile/samo...

Rachel Reeves ditched the 28 billion pound green investment plan after recieving 10 grand from climate sceptics at Davos. I'm going to start saving up to bribe someone because they're cheap as hell

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

He is not challenging scientific orthodoxy. He is trying to destroy public health in the United States by lying about decades of data on the safety and efficacy of vaccines.

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

I don't ever wanna hear someone from the UK talking shit about the US court system again, lol www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...