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.

Starmer can get absolutely f**ked. PMQs right now: "We should do everything we can to prevent suicides" Coming from someone who has worked hard to increase trans suicides, especially kids. And he says this on TDoR.

Headline today: Labour is removing human rights from asylum seekers - right to family life. This should be enough for anyone who isn't already convinced this "Labour" government is evil. Even the Tories knew this was a red line.

Minister trying to bs his way through making the OSA even more draconian. Keeps saying "don't worry about free speech, suppression of trans resources, etc. because nothing will become illegal unless it puts children at risk!" In the same breath as explaining anything on the internet is fair game.

Tim Davie, the Tory plant, given the shove for *checks notes* not being right wing enough.

Labour: *Points at Reform* don't vote for racists! Also Labour: "she will model her new measures on the Danish system – seen as one of the toughest in Europe" Touche Labour, I won't vote for racists. Weird of you to tell people not to vote for you, but 🤷🏼‍♀️

My D&D CV: I hope to bring this chaos gremlin energy to your campaign 💜😈

While I love that Lit RPG* is such a saturated genre that there are multiple series about being reincarnated as a slime, and "Deck Based" is an entire sub genre. I hate that I know more series about being reincarnated as a farmer, than as a woman.

Weird how he's actively opposing private trans healthcare, despite these being the longest wait lists and this being the only realistic option for trans people because of him. All while having de facto privatised 10% of all (other) healthcare.

BBC keeping up with their top class investigative reporting, opening their headline scoop with: "A BBC reporter obtained the book from a bookstore" They bought a book and then read it. This is not news, and not something to brag about.

Mae Martin's series Wayward hits hard. Not sure it's subtle enough to call it an allegory for conversion therapy and having to live as a queer person surrounded by cis/het people and being edited out of everything.

I despise how so many shows are purpose built for a second season, rather than telling a complete story. Especially when they know a decision won't be made until after it airs, so season 2 won't come for 3 years 🙄 Anyway, I'm enjoying foreign language TV that doesn't do that.

Nothing says "we're a lefty party!" like threatening to cut funding and shut down universities for not banning anti-genocide protests. This is the "free speech watchdog" who fined Sussex university, Brighton, for not being transphobic enough and not stamping out trans people protesting harder.

"We don't ride camels now. Only Ubers." 😭

Commissioner of the EHRC is doing a panel about why DEI should die. Alongside a bunch of people best known for hating trans people. Could someone explain to us all why the EHRC still has its rating?

Blue Labour's think tank explaining that the current mandatory ID cards policy is theirs, and why it's a good thing. I'm guessing that they aren't going to also explain why they subverted electoral law and free speech by burying their donations 🤔

Hot dang. Blocked by James O'Brien for saying that refusing to call out racist behaviour is bad. He's blocked at least 4 people on the thread for saying the same thing. bsky.app/profile/naff...

I'm reminded of the manga With the Light It's about a mother struggling to raise an autistic child. The struggles aren't because of the child, they are because of everyone else being turdbags. Also good for if you've a box of tissues that needed using.

My noise cancelling headphones have packed in, anyone have recommendations? I'm looking for over ear ones. I rely on them to reduce panic attacks so need good ones! The dead ones are Sony XM4 which have a manufacturing defect where the microphone self destructs and causes a feedback loop.

My noise cancelling headphones have packed in, anyone have recommendations? I'm looking for over ear ones. I rely on them to reduce panic attacks so need good ones! The dead ones are Sony XM4 which have a manufacturing defect where the microphone self destructs and causes a feedback loop.

BBC headlines today includes outrage that some people trying to evade care home fees and taxes are being scammed 🤷🏼‍♀️ We're in a cost of living crisis and the gov't keeps saying there's not money. Forgive me for having no sympathy for tax dodgers who fail to dodge taxes.

In London for work this week. Looks like the hotel booking system has been deadnaming me so the hotel check-in clerks were very confused until I pulled out an old id 😮‍💨 This is how the gov't wants it. Tl;Dr: the high court ruling & EHRC 'guidance' are entirely intended to make our lives unliveable.

Still watching The Ark. Right now I can't get out of my head that the title theme is from Kerbal and that is fitting in so many ways. The Ark:

Even accounting for population growth, WWII was at most half as deadly in the UK as COVID.

This is what two tier policing looks like. Numbers arrested in the past week: Peaceful, anti-genocide protesters - 890 Violent, racist, protestors - 25

Watching the Ark today. It's got a great concept behind it, but between the wobbly styrofoam sets, inconsistent plot, next to non-existent world building, deus ex machina at every turn, and characters that are all one dimensional high school cut-outs; it's almost painful to watch.

Watching Strange New Worlds. I'm liking that the season plot is the same as Pratchett's Moving Pictures, right down to the level of having secret guardians of a prison full of demons, brought by destiny to be in the right place at the right time. But Pratchett did that as a joke.

I don't know if I love or hate that this is being sold as a serious thing. But I do hate that it's not even rated to pick up AM radio. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FK9SRF86

I just received a meter long chainsaw through the post and I'm not sure how I feel about this.

On Radio 4 is a "panel of experts" in criminal justice. Three of them are actual experts and all agree that prisons are largely pointless, the fourth is a tabloid journalist making the argument that people shoplift more now because sentences aren't long enough. As opposed to because poverty is up 🤦🏼‍♀️

There are two single occupancy toilets where I work. One is in a different city, the other is in the basement of a different building. I work on the top floor. There has never been a problem. But apparently it's about to be illegal *just in case* some transphobic pr*ck gets the ick.

Just the "Labour" Home Secretary suggesting we throw asylum seekers in to concentration camps, and remove everyone's human rights. Ya know? Because apparently running around screaming "Farage is right!Farage is right!" is the greatest plan ever.

Spent far too long this week debugging a circular, sorted, doubly linked list. I now despise anyone who would want to implement one of these 😭

Headlines today are uncritically politicians lying through their teeth: 1. Green energy is driving up energy prices 2. Asylum seekers are just people wanting to extend their visas 3. Addressing sentencing leniency "amounts to differential treatment" All of these are far right conspiracy theories.

Starmer appointing a guy as Comms Director directly from Sex Matters, the anti-trans hate group is so cartoonishly evily on brand, I can't even be surprised at this point. And of course Sex Matters have promptly scrubbed his page from their website 🤔

@mrjamesob.bsky.social lamenting the lack of inclusive sports, after years of saying people might have a point about banning queer kids from sports 🤷🏼‍♀️

TIL WildTangent is still alive and well. This games company was notorious for covertly installing their stuff, then making the computer run terribly while harvesting user information. Added to this, their programs were incredibly difficult to remove.

Idk if I should laugh or cry. Think Dad's having a breakdown. This has manifest as suddenly deciding to violently destroy and rebuild the kitchen because I think he saw a mouse dropping from before lockdowns in a building 40 miles away??

Weird how the government think spray painting is a reasonable concern when white nationalists are protesting against brown people, but terrorism when anti-genocide protesters are protesting the genocide of brown people. 🤔

The cost of UK GICs is about £24m a year. Most is spent *preventing* medical transition. The cost of HRT is less than paracetamol. There are about 45,000 on the wait lists. £24m/year could cover everyone's HRT, tests, etc. but they'd prefer to use it stopping us transitioning 🤷‍♀️

Alt text doesn't have to be hard, but sometimes it can give something... Extra. Ok now tick the button so you don't forget next time 💜✅ bsky.app/settings/acc... ^ Link to Settings -> Accessibility

Why are they called fireworks if they explode 😭

Guy today on the radio arguing that inheriting £2,000,000 would make him a pauper who desperately requires 100% tax relief.

My sibling's Ukrainian friend just came back to the UK from the dentist. In Ukraine. Because it's easier for her to see a dentist in a warzone than in the NHS.

Alien: Earth has some uhh odd decisions going on. The first episode opens by turning on the exposition tap to retcon in new lore, then introduces a Peter Pan themed series plotline which leads on to them having to insert scenes to explain why it's OK to age up & sexualise a very confused 6 year old.

Watching the first couple episodes of this season of Strange New Worlds and wtf was with that timeskip and all the completely unearned character development? Like. I am in no way invested in character relationships involving a brand new character. Especially when they have zero chemistry.

£88m sounds a lot right? It's only £2.50 a year.

Parents just came back from holiday, so mum's complaining about people not being careful not to spread around COVID. Does a test that immediately shows she has it. So she procedes to stomp up and down the house coughing everywhere. I've had a compromised immune system for about 30 years.