Imagine if everything she says here resonated with everyone on our irreplaceable planet. Then keep trying to make a difference. RIP Jane ❤️🌍

Two people blocked and it's not even lunchtime...

“Nearly all 12 apostles” is so funny. I guess there’s no “What would Judas do?” option

This thread.... 👇 ICYM the whole 'antisemitism is just being weaponised by Zionists' thing. Words matter. Understanding matters. Dialogue matters.

Wish I could be shocked by the revolting antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism pouring out of social media today. But I'm not. And yes I do know the difference.

Terrible news that two people were killed in Manchester attending their place of worship at the synagogue in Manchester, with others seriously injured. Community Security Trust @cstuk.bsky.social who do so much to keep Jewish people safe at faith and community spaces have issued this advice.

Fuck you Starmer. Ashamed to have voted Labour (part 100)

The tree you climbed as a child. Gone. The Swifts over your town. Gone. The air you breathe. Polluted. The river. Unsafe. This is the reality of deregulation. Cutting protections would mean disaster for nature & our economy. Our CEO sets out why: rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈

The people they are talking about deporting include, to pluck one example from the air, my 59-year-old sister who has lived here since the age of six and is on a low income due to being a nursery school teacher. These plans are utterly scandalous and anyone who supports them is a disgrace.

The government are wrong to think places and nature don’t matter to the public. ❌ All evidence shows the opposite. Weakening protections for our National Parks would be a devastating step backwards for nature, and for the landscapes millions love.

And feel free to park your egos on the way out...

Asked about the UK's recently sacked US Ambassador Peter Mandelson and his links to Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump replies that "I don't know him".

Absolutely superb piece showing how handwringing liberalism is potentially paving the way for brick-chucking fascism. Also, crucially, offering some political solutions and hope. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It may then be, since the Governor’s first statement is true, that America is not now ‘a free and democratic society?’

It's the smiley face that convinced me

Still absolutely nothing to say about far right thugs rioting and attacking the police while a US tech billionaire calls for a violent insurrection on our streets

JFC

I was living in Manhattan on 9/11. I saw the towers falling from my office window. I'll tell you something I knew that day. If GWB had ordered fighters to scramble and shoot down those planes, he would have been impeached. No one believed terrorists would use planes like that until they did.

Thank fuck for that.

What @mariephillips.bsky.social says. Fucking AI

Carlitossssss! 👏👏👏

The amount of flak Alcaraz is getting for being as diplomatic as possible about the Cheeto attending tomorrow's US Open final is fucking ridiculous. It's not his country, not his president and not his first language. Wtf was he supposed to say? And why did nobody ask Sinner the same question?

"Loyalty in a political party is everything," says Nadine Dorries.

"We are the patriotic party" says Nigel Farage, who just spent the past few days slagging off his own country to a foreign superpower, while encouraging them to impose sanctions on our economy if we don't do what they say

As if I couldn’t love him more, Ncuti Gatwa trying to explain Ribena to his American co-star is the joy we all need in the world today. You’re welcome.

Another obvious way to challenge Farage is to stop giving him so much airtime. He has 4 MPs. So do the Greens. The LibDems 72 (I think). But do we hear uninterrupted coverage from them on BBC and @skynewsrss.bsky.social ? Of course not.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

As the trade union representing voice artists, including Gayanne Potter, Equity calls on Scotrail to work with a real artist for its voiceovers. We have serious concerns about AI and advocate for transparency, consent and fair remuneration for artists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

having thought about this for three days, my current status is: what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.

In the 20 seconds I could bear to watch, he also said 'I've ended six wars'. Which ones might they be, Donald?

“The right to protest is one we protect fiercely” Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said. The government has just been defeated in the Court of Appeal in its attempt to curb our right to protest. It should now be reviewing all arrests made under these unlawful powers youtu.be/vbQxagbctoc?...

Are you an Equity member working in Audio? Do you have any burning questions on the new recommended minimum rates or best practice? Just want to know more? Join us @equityaudio.bsky.social online for the audiobooks drop-in this Friday! Register: equity.org.uk/get-involved/events/audiobooks-drop-in

Lost the will to live 20 mins into episode 1.

The Met having to correct a Shadow cabinet member (who, to be fair, later deleted his post)

🤗 Join us tomorrow for our Monthly Meeting 💚 Connect with other union activists fighting for a fairer and greener performing arts sector ✊ Hear the updates on all our campaigns ✨ New and old members welcome 🔗 DM us for the Zoom link

Staple while at drama school, along with the Pollo Bar in Compton Street. Legends.

Literally any form of self improvement class that isn’t directly either business or coding. Arts. Languages. Music. Dancing. Choir. Book groups. Am dram. Gardening. Cooking. All of these will have so many more women than men. Be nice to the old ladies too. Get to know some women.

Audio artists: use our NEW recommended min. rates & best practice for recording audiobooks. 1/2🧵👇

UnBound/Boundless Authors - check this out.

RIP the wonderful Tom Lehrer. May your genius - if only through your self-effacing generosity- live on, and your works never be forgotten.

As Keir Starmer hires former Sun editor David Dinsmore as his new communications chief, a quick reminder of the sorts of communications Dinsmore helped to put out in his former job

youtube.com/watch?v=2vFQ... Yeahhhhh this is what I mean. What an astonishing opening. And that synth! And those moustaches!

Happy 50th to the ultimate 'that's what I want to do' show. 👏👏👏❤️

Horrible migrants are killing Europe, says horrible migrant arriving in Europe

'So great is the despair, so intense the desperation, that the hopes of the Palestinians of Gaza now rest on a man who covets their land and wants to see them gone.' Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are all this sparrowhawk (I think? Or Merlin?? @rspb.bsky.social )

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

If you haven't already , do follow the excellent @onekind.org here on Bluesky . They campaign across Scotland for an end to cruelty against all animals– and have lead many successful campaigns over the past decade . Go give them a follow– they deserve it !