Just when you think they can't go further right. Bridget Phillipson on the rise in "racial tensions" and white nationalists tying flags to lampposts in order to intimidate migrants: "we should all be able to celebrate our national identity, the flags that represent the nations of our union".

@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social Testing

BBC just there doing the important work of *checks notes* demonising GPs giving sick notes for mental health reasons. Demanding this be further regulated. Because they've increased over 6 years by 7%. Excuse you BBC? You expecting a full diagnosis? When it's already near impossible to see a psych?

Critical thinking is officially dead. This article features clangers such as suggesting puberty blockers and HRT at 18 isn't a little too late, and thinking trans girls will be mortified by the ~side effect~ of growing breasts. Which according to the muppets at Sky News is "irreversible".

"Challenge organizations, governments, and individuals to move beyond gestures and take meaningful action: closing gender pay gaps, supporting women’s leadership, addressing systemic bias, and amplifying diverse voices." "Equality is not inevitable; it is achieved through sustained action." #IWD2026

Spent the evening teaching my parents Polari. Blowing their minds with how much was hidden in popular media when they were younger 🤭

This week's book list: - Dresden Files: Storm Front (Jim Butcher) - The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (Drew Hayes) - Magical Girl Crystal Genocide (RavensDagger) And a re-read: - Red Dwarf (Rob Grant RIP, Doug Naylor)

Looks like Starmer has decided to play the Wartime PM trump card. Which tends to work better when there's a vaguely credible threat, and not literally the same one his predecessor infamously f**ked up.

Still can't get over Labour claiming that despite the Greens winning by 13% ahead of Reform and 16% of Labour, that Labour would have won if only the WPB with their 10% hadn't stood down.

Come on BBC. "Flash Briefing" Headlines today led with the Green win, yet still featured multiple interviews with Labour and Reform explaining why it wasn't really a Green win, and only 4 words from Greens.

Loving my parent's vote of confidence 🤣 "There aren't enough weirdos out there that might take an interest in you". I like the optimism, but unless you count the serial perv at work who got handsy with all the ladies last decade - no-one's taken an interest since 2011.

Lucy Powell: Greens won because they had a higher turnout Good job Lucy. Really insightful there. The humongous swing as a result of Labour being Reform stans and turning on their voter base has nothing to do with it. Just Green voters being slightly more motivated to vote 🙄

Been seeing in news outlets various wails of: "Why are the youth swinging to the left?" "Where did this Green surge come from?" Even when they publish analysis like this that show very clearly that voters haven't changed, Labour has. Instead they stare at it and deny all evidence.

Sometimes the biggest a~holes on the planet seem so far removed, that I forget there are smaller a~holes closer to home.

Part of the law Andrew's been arrested for is this thing - "misconduct in public office to further a sexual relationship" It's mostly about the police and prison officers sexually abusing victims, perps, and others in the care. 0.1% of the force are taken in just for this *each year*.

Running some numbers because I saw someone say "my monthly energy bill was £70-90 at the end of the 90s and now £150". The average bill at the end of the 90s was: E: £19.50, G: £14.00, Total: £33.50 / £65 with inflation Now it is: E: £88.50, G: £69.50, T: £158 That's an increase of 143%, £1,116/year

Just received @littendraws27.bsky.social through the post

Just in case anyone still thought Labour might ever deliver a conversion therapy ban, here are all the types of "legitimate" conversion therapy according to Labour. Personally, I'd have expected literal conversion therapy to not be on that list 🤷🏼‍♀️ According to Labour, this is a "full ban".

Ok I know he's a dead white guy, but relevant words of wisdom here on the latest moral panics Labour are busy perpetrating.

Labour planning to ban VPNs just so they can attack kids for talking to their mates over the internet. Could someone please explain to them that this will destroy most businesses? It isn't worth it mates.

Government openly admitting they just *had* to unlawfully proscribe a protest group because it's not actually illegal to support a protest group 🤦🏼‍♀️ Actual clowns running the country.

Starmer: We're *against* right wing division like the far right, Reform! *Next Day* Labour: BAN ALL THE DANGEROUS TR***IES FROM SCHOOL.

The lesson from the phrase "At least Musollini made the trains run on time" should not be that authoritarianism is acceptable if we get some comforts. It should be that getting some comforts must not be all it takes to accept the harms a government is perpetrating.

BBC headlines today with Shabana Mahmood "she will do what it takes to secure our borders". This is about blackmailing African countries to accept people she deports. This follows Starmer's speech yesterday where he was saying the same things. Not going after white people doesn't make them good.

Tired and grumpy so let's read Starmer's speech today. Tl;Dr: The speech is a fauxpology for Mandelson (not for appointing him) that descends in to vapid rhetoric and an appeal to xenophobic Reform voters, while trying to present it as being totes woke to be racist. You can almost hear the Strategy.

This going to end well. They cost more and are already dangerous on the simpler and slower roads of the USA. I know it's not the worst, but London driving is notoriously bad.

Some people seem to struggle with the idea that the lesser of two evils is still evil. The Trolley Problem is not real life. The Trolley does not have to be there; and people do not have to be tied to the tracks. You can tell by the way thousands of trains fail to run over babies every day.

James OB on the radio doing a call in about how to get kids to appreciate education and learn about the world. Then put in the middle of it a rant about why we need to isolate kids from the world by banning social media 🤦🏼‍♀️ Make it make sense.

Mum's being abusive to everyone because she's so addicted to her phone, she refuses to give it up for the few days it'll take for the phone company to replace the screen. They already offered repeatedly to repair it for 6 months.

I got myself some of the Expensive noise cancelling headphones and I just. I do not understand what they were thinking when they designed these. They automatically switch off the noise cancelling When There Is Noise 😭 As is. The one time I want the noise cancelling most. It's in the name!

Let's do some fact checking, while a Labour counsellor is attacking @zackpolanski.bsky.social rather than the right. "Interest rates down" - The BoE's decisions are not controlled by Labour, it was coming down *before* Labour, and is coming down more slowly. bsky.app/profile/kazs...

Had a Labour fan in my comments explaining that £3 a week more in people's pockets is better than £5, and that expecting anything to improve for another decade is unrealistic. And just. This about sums up the only people remaining who are willing to vote Labour.

I love how hopeful Quantum Leap (reboot) is, but dang this episode about a trans kid hits hard. Only been a few years, but the episode is like "daaayum it was tough for trans kinds a decade ago, but we threw Trump out and it got better".

Ragequit Farcry 4 because out of nowhere there's a boss fight which uses all new mechanics for both boss and weapons, the boss can kill in two hits, there are multiple filters, and I can't even figure out which blob on screen is the boss or if I've hit it.

"Why are you wearing cat ears?" "In case of e-meow-gencies of course!" Quantum Leap is so dorky, and I love it.

I have never been so quick to look at obituaries. It's OK people. He's still going.

Watching Dispatches from Elsewhere It was so good to see a show with a trans person shown as someone who gets to be loved in any way other than as a sex object. Then they had the mandatory "Trans woman gets jumped walking home at night" scene, so a Content Warning for that.

Did the GCs spam report @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social ?? Says they're suspended.

Arrghh need to learn my lesson and not buy anything in Black Friday sales - up to £300 of stuff nicked by delivery drivers reporting things as delivered, and companies not believing me.

BBC: Well ya see, the flu numbers are up 50% because flu season started early! So uhhh not because the NHS decided to cancel flu vaccinations for at risk people?

Just in case people think it stops at trans people - a friend and her partner (another woman) have just been suspended from their jobs and under investigation for holding hands in public. 😮‍💨

Hour in to trying .Net 10 and Visual Studio 2026 and I already want to throw very heavy things at Microsoft. From menus vanishing, to git integration missing basic functionality, to packages trying to build in a different version of .Net to the one selected, it's a mess. But have to use it for work.

I know I'm late to this party, but wtf? This appears to be EHRC lying as the committee didn't say it wasn't warranted as the committee hasn't considered it yet. Falkner also does the old "not our fault the law is transphobic lolololol" and "FEMALE & transphobe rights > trans soz".

BBC is bragging about personally attacking asylum seekers going to hospital. Good job BBC. Really showing that lack of bias 🙄 Let's be clear: We do not let them earn money. We demonise them. They are kept slightly better than prisoners. The least we can do is make sure they don't die.

Labour today: But if employees have rights, then employers won't ~take a risk~ on them! And then there won't be any jobs! Excuse you, Labour? You expect us to believe all employers will stop having new employees? Weird how they can break this pledge, but can't "break" one to tax the rich.

Lul. Had a £multimillionaire in my mentions explaining about how terrible it is to live in a £multimillion flat, and how they definitely can't afford to pay their taxes.

The UK could switch to renewables for the price of two nuclear reactors. Everyone's energy bill could drop to standing charge only, to cover grid costs & maintenance. If we pushed further, we could export that energy to pay for that too.

Listening to the budget. The rhetoric is transparent lies. She's not doing austerity, while explaining she's cut so much, the debt is reducing faster than expected. That she's helping workers and "mom 'n' pop" businesses, while explaining she's handing out enormous tax breaks to big businesses.

BBC on cost of living crisis: We spoke to a couple feeling the pinch with a combined income of £67,000... *Average* combined income is £35,000. People with £5,500 a month are not at the pointy end of inflation. Utterly out of touch to present them as a family in food poverty.