For the avoidance of doubt, following the publication of the explicitly transphobic Scottish Labour manifesto this morning, I will not be campaigning for any Scottish Labour candidates in the upcoming election, and I will not be voting Scottish Labour either. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

A week to go to the critical Gorton & Denton by-election which is a three-way contest between Greens, Reform & Labour. For the third week in a row the #BBC programme #bbcqt has a Reform UK representative. And over the same period a solitary Green. Not exactly public service broadcasting.

That time my Dad met Andrew Mountbatten 👀

A major drag on our politics is that people who aren't in poverty comfort themselves by simply refusing to believe poverty exists.

Shame on SNL for cutting this, the cowards. youtu.be/uA8Oury0a80?...

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

This is what you sound like when you say we have to have draconian border policing otherwise "everyone would come here"

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

greetings from hell

Donald Trump's colonisation of Venezuela is so nakedly evil I don't really know how to react.

If you have ever claimed to be concerned about "Muslim grooming gangs" and don't want Shamima Begum rescued and brought home after being trafficked by one of the biggest grooming gangs in the world, you are completely full of shit.

I think I've run out of my meds or possibly I just lost them but last night I dreamt that a lizard regurgitated a centipede and I feel the need to report this omen to Caesar's soothsayers immediately

The party when it finally happens is going to make Thatcher's death look like World Seagrass Day. Rob Reiner was a genius and, moreover, a thoroughly good man. (No offence intended to seagrass.)

Sharpies and black mould or, as it's known on the street, a Hogwarts Speedball

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They're openly telling us in advance what's going to happen

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

You heard it here: if you're not a "high earner" you're not contributing to society. These people really do hate the working class to their very bones.

H.P. Lovecraft would be a good name for a manufacturer of tentacle-themed sex toys.

Kaisa is a gift

I bet she doesn't

Ugh having no money is insanely stressful isn't it?

Hedgehogs are more closely related to whales than they are to rodents. Is a thing I just learned by looking at phylogeny diagrams at 2am.

I can excuse supplying weapons to a genocide but I draw the line at a trans person using the bathroom in peace. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.

THIS YOU? MASTER THREAD 1. Jeremy Clarkson

BBC: "The UK's first 'super-university', stretching across an entire region, is to be created through the merger of the universities of Kent and Greenwich." The University of the Highlands and Islands: you are like a little baby, watch this

"I have done research on the party and Nigel Farage. Everything he says he will do – he does." But Audrey... he literally hasn't done anything. www.bbc.com/news/article...

In an extremely crowded field, scrapping deminimis allowances might be the single most moronic thing I've seen Trump do in trade policy.

I assume The Herald and BBC will be reporting extensive on this given their frequently stated concerns about freedom of speech in Summerhall lately.

To be clear what happened here. Israel bombed a hospital. They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive. Then they bombed it again. This is known as the 'double tap'. You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

The hilarious thing about Dean Cain being the face of ICE is him being lauded by the very same right-wing TV grifters that would be having a full screaming tantrum if they cast a half-Japanese Superman today.

Cambridge lexicographers absolutely throwing in the towel when asked to define skibidi: "a word that can have different meanings or no meaning"

Why are bobbit worms so long? Absolutely no need.

It's 50-50 Donnie ends up selling Alaska back to the Russians, right?

Women *aren't* "born with egg-producing equipment." They're born with all the eggs they'll ever have. Another smash hit of a tweet from Joanne the science understander.

Thinking about the Holocaust scholar who was sued and silenced by Rowling because she said Rowling was spreading Holocaust denialism (because she objectively was).

Superman (2025)

This weekend thousands of people in the UK stood up against racists and far-right thugs only to have representatives of a nominally leftwing government support, enable and empower the racists. Why do you not hear the worries of those trying to protect minority rights and liberal democracy?

I know it's far from the worst thing about this but Starmer meeting Trump *at Turnberry* is humiliating. "Oh no Mr Donald sir you mustn't trouble yourself to travel to No 10 or Chequers or even Holyrood, I wouldn't want to interrupt your golfing, I'll come to you."

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Ah, I just learned Tom Lehrer died on Saturday, aged 97. What a genius he was. youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio?...

This is utterly shameful.

This regime already considers all trans people to be both mentally ill and sexually dangerous. Expect these categories to continue to expand to accommodate anyone else Trump or his lieutenants find inconvenient.

This witless and ill-natured attack is typical of the centrist establishment panic when faced with a popular socialist alternative (see Bernie, AOC, Zohran, Jeremy himself). Caroline or Siân or Jon would never say this. It is not how a Green leader should think or speak.

I'm sorry if you're a professional journalist and you have such poor comprehension that you thought the Corbyn/Sultana party was *named* Your Party you should just hand in your resignation now.

One of my many toxic traits is despite having zero physical evidence for it I truly believe I will outlive the immortal billionaire guy

One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

As a proud member of the Italian diaspora: fuck Christopher Columbus, all my homies hate Christopher Columbus

Play it loud. youtu.be/LQUXuQ6Zd9w?...