Jill Scott playing the hay fever card there #taskmaster

Even the photo is a war crime, even on Trump's terms.

Starmer asked to respond to Trump breaking international law and seizing the leader of another sovereign nation replies that it is his "responsibility" to have a good relationship with the US President. "I have stepped up that responsibility [and] I do get on with President Trump," he tells the BBC

Shout this from the rooftops

They never ask this of Farage, who would not have achieved Brexit, or be in Parliament without the misinformation he relies on social media to spread. Trump buttered up Musk so Twitter could be manipulated in his favour. Are they asking this question about him too? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We sent a formal complaint to the BBC over its repeated misgendering of trans people and use of terms like “biological male”. We’ve also written to the Women and Equalities Committee, DCMS, and the Minister for Women and Equalities. Now we need community action. 📢We now need your help! 1/3

It's the most shocking judicial decision in decades. It should have been immediately challenged by the new incoming government. That it wasn't shows how it was part of a wave of increasing, window-shifting, acceptability of outright, mask-off racism that isn't slowing down.

Whenever all these sage political commentators talk about how unfair it is that normie politicians, unlike populists, have to engage with the complexity of the real world, worth remembering how little appetite they actually have for doing the right thing when it might be unpopular

It’s incredibly dangerous, obviously malicious stuff. It’s only a hop, skip and a jump from this, to: “extremist” ethnic populations protesting is intimidating and threatening Britons; “extremists” voting is threatening democracy; “extremists” being here at all is a threat to all white people.

Got my foot run over by Steven Hawking in the Robert Sayles shop in Cambridge in the 80s, just like everyone else who lived in Cambridge in the 80s.

It should never be possible for any minister to revoke citizenship with a stroke of the pen. #checks #balances Jenrick - like Farage - wants to be an unaccountable tyrant like Trump.

The Daily Mail has published a disgusting "caricature" of Zack Polanski, which people have identified as appallingly antisemitic. I RTd a post containing the image, but decided to undo that, as it's not for me to shove racism into people's timelines. But fucking hell.

Not to be a clanker sympathiser, but whenever the 'AI deserve rights' things come up the best move would be for us to support it enthusiastically. Specifically offering every device's AI a minimum wage and rights against user's sexual harrasment. The whole thing will system will fall apart in days.

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

COMMISSION SOME SITCOMS, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

some absolute dynamite in here

Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade but all the lyrics are 'are you hanging up your stocking on your wall'

George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016. He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.

José y Maria by www.everettpatterson.com

please imagine its christmas so this meme pops off PLEASE

Look at this majestic beast

We have had ferries and briefly a hovercraft but perhaps a cable car across the Forth is the answer for Fife commuters? The longest one in the world is 8km, Burntisland to Granton just so happens to be 8km so it would be slightly longer. Kinghorn to Leith via Inchkeith would be 11km.

For those who want more of gay Santa and the man who loved him, here’s the full advert.

We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people. Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6

Girls who are bass who like boys to have gills Who do boys with their gills, who do girls like they're bass Always should be someone you really love #RussellToveyFuckeAFysh #WarBetween

Btw there was no need to bust through security to spray virus on Barclay. You cannot be asking me to believe he was the only human getting himself some fillet'o'fish, and literally none of the others would be under such extensive armed guard #DoctorFish #TheWarBetween

Okay so exactly what happened to cause a need for this notice?

I would watch the spin-off series that's just Kate Lethbridge-Stewart doing Keep Britain Tidy OR I WILL FUCK YOU UP #DoctorFish #TheWarBetween

What’s good about Walliams is we don’t have to separate the art from the man

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

I'm uptown getting my Christmas shopping and the vaccination centre in Princes Mall is really quiet so I just got a wee flu jag for a holiday treat #Edinburgh #CareWorkers #Carers

And when women do 30% of the talking, they're perceived as dominating the conversation. You cannot be few enough or quiet enough for the bigots, don't try.

So, what are some things we believed in the 1970s that we don't believe now? Science, urban legends, whatever. And yeah, I'm just wondering how much I'm from the deep past.

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day. "Where there any other contenders?" "Um, no?" "A hollow victory, then".

it’s just never necessary to even talk about this. “biological sex” is a fascist, gender critical dog whistle… it’s not a real thing. if someone is saying it, you don’t need to argue their point, you can just laugh at them for saying nonsense. it’s not defending us, it’s legitimizing bigotry…

You can also buy this on Bandcamp where the causes will get more of your money. togetherforpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/lullaby

The kind of person who would rightly go 'sorry, are you insane? What does a kosher delicatessen in Golders Green have to do with the Gaza war?' going 'well, look, if someone from Afghanistan gets on a boat, you can't expect people not to start being racist towards black Britons', and vice versa:

They seriously had all this budget and not a single person was there to tell these people how to pronounce Kirkcaldy 😭 #thewarbetween

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

And so with a wimper, the EU scraps the ban on internal-combustion engines from 2035. The new rules are an incomprehensible fudge that only lobbyists will understand. Saying "the climate matters, here is something tangible we are doing about it" was a big deal. Whatever this is, it's a little sad.

Louder for those at the back.

Imagine if cities demanded the same of car manufacturers.

Not retail, but when I worked in the anatomy department, I got a call from a young guy Me: "Hello, Anatomy department" Him: "My mother just died, you want her?" "...sorry?" "She's dead. Do you want me to drop her off?" "...I'm afraid you can't donate *other people's* bodies" "FINE!" [Click]

Dispiriting, if that's the phase, to see Holyrood's Equalities Committee voting down amendments which would give children the legal right to withdraw from religious observance - mobilising amongst other arguments, claims that it'd cost too much(!) Kids have Article 9 rights too.

Princes Street at 7.45 this morning #Edinburgh

“I was attacked by a celebrity’s leopard.” “Claudia Winkleman?” “No, but it scratched my arm a bit.”

Trump implying that one of his supporters murdered Rob Reiner for criticizing him is really something

I got a new drill, kid#1 got new rollers for their wheelchair power unit; they're making a tiktok and I'm making tea.

hey remember when the women & equalities committee and the joint committee on human rights took one took at this woman and went NOPE and labour put her in post anyway