UK immigration is about 1/3 as much as births. And the birth rate is low. If you neither care about nor notice the number of babies coming in to the UK, you certainly shouldn't care about the number of immigrants coming in.

Just got the weirdest compliment(?) from someone 10 years younger "I thought you were my age. Do you botox?!"

@profanity.accountant please sir, can I have some swears? 🥺🙏

Idk how Labour does this. We have them cheerfully discussing disposing all their political opponents like Bond villains and despots, yet still have people explaining that the problem with Labour is that they're "cringe".

In petty things that bug me: People who use "an h-" out of misplaced Correctness. It's only "an" if the 'h' is silent so don't pronounce both 😭 It's there because it's hard to say a vowel after 'a', not just because language is weird.

James O'Brian on the radio explaining that the only reason the serfs pay for anything is fear of being beaten. As opposed to, ya know? Wanting to do the right thing 🤷🏼‍♀️ Meanwhile in a discussion on theft, he's only talking about tens of pounds rather than things like wage theft of billions.

Whenever there is an AMA with a CEO of a large business I've been to, one question always comes up: "How did you get there?" The answer is never "My talent". It is always equivocation around saying "My mates". There is no way these 100 CEOs are doing the work of 30,000 people.

If the problem with global warming is too much Sun, why not make less Sun!? 🤔

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Rewatching Underworld and oh my gosh it's somehow even moodier than I remembered.

Dad keeps saying he's going to feed us all with a spanoptikon. No dad. That is very different.

Thank you @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social you have done us all a service

I stood up for these d*ckheads far too long. They used to be the ones defending us. Now they pinkwash our oppressors. Archive link:

BBC headline today: Minimum wages are bad because they make business owners sad. Not an April Fools. It's just the BBC being awful. As usual. Like sweeties. These are just interviews with people who admit underpaying their staff, and are threatening to fire them if they don't like it.

Parents: House next door's up for sale. How about it? Me:... Parents:... Me: Oh. You're serious? *Checks price* £600k The deposit and stamp duty are the price of an entire second house. No, this isn't an option.

Ghey's mum in the media again. Is she talking about transphobia? Course not. She's blaming the murder on Brianna being "addicted" to social media. Forgetting to mention she was at the park meeting kids from school because her mum wanted her offline 🤷🏼‍♀️

Dude retrofit an old Ford with an ebike engine. I've ridden in smaller cars, but there's just something particularly bonkers about this hotdog car.

Have a good one out in the marches today in Bristol (10:30) and Edinburgh (12:30) 💜🏳️‍⚧️✊

"We want to be sure that public authorities will treat us with respect and not arbitrarily interfere in our lives. That we won’t be ignored or written off because of our age, disability, race, sex, or beliefs." Just casually forgetting her job includes queer people.

"for the first time, the government is stepping in with clear, trusted guidance" Idk. I remember this in the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and yesterday. And it definitely goes back much longer. Meanwhile, this guidance is based on what parents said, not based on any evidence. From Wes, of course.

In other things - Just saw a bunch of people complaining they couldn't get A Thing delivered, and complaining they shouldn't be allowed to list their products online if they won't ship them. They were ordering from a company going through Iran and the business has been in blackout.

Mahmood is pushing for deporting migrants, especially low wage ones based on this graph. Little explainer on why it's bs but in keeping with a eugenicist government. "If we dispose of anyone who is a net negative to the economy, line goes up right!?" Forgetting low wage jobs still need doing.

Huh. SNL UK was disappointing. It seemed to be: "Lol pedos." "Lol tr**nies." "Lol gaaaaaaaay." And "by golly oh croyky aren't the Oyreesh ~quirky~." I went in to it hyped, and came out thinking the writing team must be sixth formers trying to be mildly edgy.

While we're on the subject of dipsticks cashing in on transphobia - sick of having HP audiobooks advertised at me with people I hoped knew better reading it 😓

🎧📚 Just finished listening to @tatianamaslany.bsky.social reading The Hunger Games (Special Edition) Really feeling the care and emotion in the reading. It's not the best written book ever or most subtle, but couldn't stop. On to Catching Fire!

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".

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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.