I love seeing big engineering when I'm out and about. Today I saw the Seaway Alfa Lift semi-submersible installation vessel at Newhaven.

All I wanted was a technically competent vaguely left-leaning government who would undo the worst of what the Tories did, and change us back to a welcoming, no longer hate-ridden society.

Boris Johnson was a product of the media and their failure to hold him to account. Donald Trump is a product of the media and their failure to hold him to account. Nigel Farage is a product of the media and their failure to hold him to account. Are these really the people we want to be in charge?

The reason I’m in favour of immigration and against the current policies isn’t because demographics mean that we need it for our economy - though that helps. No, the reason I’m in favour of it is basic human decency. These are human beings, not statistics.

Yes I've sometimes wondered if I have the imagination for proper wealth. I would buy a very nice telly and a very expensive hifi set-up, plus a big house with room to fit them in. And then I'm kinda out of ideas. Bookshelves?

"May the 4th, the 5th, the minor fall, and the major lift be with you"

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you...

NASA HAS RELEASED OVER 12,000 IMAGES OF THE ARTEMIS II MISSION. Unbelievable perspectives captured by the Crew! The aurora on the eclipse is incredible.

If a party wants to join the EU, but regards the euro and free movement as difficult trade offs to be navigated rather than central defining achievements of the project, does it actually want to join the EU?

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character(s). Wrong answers only

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

🎉30K giveaway book bundle! #💙📚 Inc @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @kerstinhall.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @neuvel.net @csecooney.bsky.social @authortrmoore.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social & more! UK/IE only. Like, repost, follow & drop a🌟in the comments! Ends 24/4

I managed to fix my rear bike brakes 😁⚙️🔧 (which is fortunate, as I wasn't looking forward to an evening trip to Halfords...)

My friend who runs an award-winning bookshop has probed the question: readers prefer paperback novels. So why are there so many goddamn hardback releases?

Brexit remains unforgivable in the damage it’s done to our country, our democracy and to people’s lives. Ruinous stupidity, vengeful prejudice and political dishonesty. And Farage wants more of that. Threatening to tear up improvements to our Brexit deal and leave the ECHR. Jeezus, UK. Wake TF up.

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

I’ve never used AI for any part of my writing process and I don’t want to use it. I love writing. Yes, it’s work, and sometimes it’s incredibly hard work, but it’s MY work, and that’s the point. I don’t even know how to access Chat GPT or whatever. I’d rather stick my hand in a toaster

Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

9 years since The Warning's debut album XXI Century Blood was released! 💥 It's still brilliant - made all the more impressive by the fact that they were only 17, 15 & 12 at the time 😱 My favourite songs are the title track and Survive: the only one from XXICB that they still regularly play live ❤️

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Can't believe that V for Vendetta, one of my favourite films, is 20 years old today! 🖤 ❤️ 🖤

The only way Reform UK could win a general election is through our first-past-the-post system. If we had proportional representation, the threat would evaporate. We don't have PR because Starmer has blocked it. This allows him to say: vote Labour or you get Farage. Because it's all he has left.

primary use cases for AI, an ongoing list: - pornslop - academic fraud - eroding our collective sense of truth - cyberpsychosis - dementia acceleration - fucking a jagged hole through the arts - search engine enshittification - fascist panopticon - anti-intellectualism - war crimes

I very much hope those in government will read this and understand the risk they're taking with one of the UK's most consistently successful sectors - a risk profoundly bound up in an enormous speculative bubble and tech that has horrific externalities and is terrible at nearly everything.

New song from The Warning - the first single from their as-yet-unannounced 5th album 🤩🎵❤️🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZCw...

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Legitimate concerns” has become a euphemism for endorsing racism and a cynical attempt by governments to hide from their own responsibility and failure. It is the slogan of cowards. The excuse for bigots. And it blocks our path to an honest national debate on immigration. Shame on all who use it.

Does anyone know why our moon doesn't have a name in English (beyond the collective noun for a 'natural satellite of a planet')? Our star has a name (just about), our planet has a name, but our moon does not 🤔😢🌑

Now up on the wall @lkcreations.art 💚❤️💙

One thing you realise as you get older is that peoples' career success/status has almost no relationship with how happy they are.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Why would you pig-headedly ignore the voice of the next generation? Why would you saddle them with debt, shrink the job market and limit their opportunities? It runs counter to everything politics and society should want for them. For all of us. They’re the future. www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

Just completed my new passport application - I have to wave goodbye to my burgundy EU passport and trade it in for an inferior dark blue Brexit passport 😢

"Looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess..." - Leonard Cohen, Closing Time

We hear way too much about angry Britain, blue-red Britain. What about the Britain of Save the Children, Oxfam, the RSPCA, the RNLI, popular environmentalism, the Britain of London's absolute triumph since its 80s nadir, its civic universities, the Britain of volunteering, giving, hoping?

It's illiberal I know but I really am starting to think that we need urgently to disenfranchise the “let’s just roll the dice” voters. They may be lovely in person but the harm they have done is incalculable. Let alone the harm that they are still to do.

I've never known anyone who was obsessed with immigration who wasn't an out and out loser and an absolute racist bigot. I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.

Seriously, there are people on here who think a numerical reduction in immigration will reduce Farage’s appeal. Immigration *never* caused the harms Farage ascribed to it. It was all a xenophobic lie. The actual numbers never mattered.

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

Today is the 181st anniversary of the publication of Poe's The Raven 🖤

Today is the 10-year anniversary of The Warning's magnificent cover of The Pretender by the Foo Fighters 🤩💥❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjDk...

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They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

Seen in a community centre in Edinburgh 😂

Queen of Rock Daniela 'Dany' Villarreal plays Automatic Sun, the best song on The Warning's latest album 🤩🔥🎸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0d...