Public Service Announcement for lesbians! Marks & Sparks are selling this lesbian top

🥳 Good news (if you are an energy CEO) National Grid profits rose15% to £1.65 billion for the half year to Sep 30.  😥 Not so good news if you are a consumer. Energy companies made £30 bn profits last year. That is £500 on every household bill going to dividends, shares buybacks & bonuses for CEOs 💰

He looks exactly as excited as I would be! And how’s *that* for soft power??

Today marks 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights. The product of high aspirations & the ultimate step in taking seriously the idea that every human being should be treated with equal dignity 🧵 #ECHR #ECHR75

A Scottish charity wants to reintroduce state-subsidised diners for all—a potentially a big ask in the current political climate. #universalbasicservices www.sower.world/public-diner...

Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

EL. TRABAJO. NO. CUALIFICADO. NO. EXISTE.

Drill baby drill! Because salt-water laced with cancer causing chemicals doesn’t contain autism causing Tylenol. But don’t worry, they defunded all the environmental laws and cancelled childhood cancer research and are already tripling your healthcare costs and cancelled EBT/WIC for Thanksgiving. 😱

Politicians have chosen to be in the public spotlight. We choose intense scrutiny and everyone is entitled to an opinion. And that's right. But how do these nasty digs about physical appearance serve anyone? It's no wonder so many people - particularly women - are put off ever getting involved.

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If you feel suicidal yourself please reach out to friends and family if you can. Or reach out to support agencies. You can get through this. It’s ok to ask for help. This link has international suicide crisis lines grouped by country. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Don't you love going through a workplace video training course on how to travel while also having the additional risk factor of being female and it ends up saying, when you are away on work business take a door wedge.

Let’s go purple! 💜 The Council of Europe is launching the #EuropeGoesPurple campaign with OII Europe, to promote the adoption of the new Recommendation on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons and raise awareness about intersex people and the challenges they face. europegoespurple.org

For generations, intersex people were told to hide who they are. Tonight, as @coe.int shines purple, Europe says:   💛We see you, 💜We hear you, and 💛We stand with you.   The Palais de l’Europe is the first to light up today, setting an example for others across the continent. #EuropeGoesPurple

Kathryn Bigelow loves men, she loves the military, she loves military men...and I'm here for it! Jfc, A House of Dynamite is one of the best films I've seen for ages. Bureaucracy operating on critical alert, does it still work, and for what? How does the human machine respond? Brilliant. Watch it.

Renter's Rights Act will make it easier for those renting their home who have cat companions! www.cats.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

1/🧵 I am viewing a never-before-seen file on “gender reassignment” or trans inclusion policy at the National Archives, Kew. The Supreme Court should start sweating. A bagful of receipts!

Unreal!

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People aren't leaving the Labour Party. The Labour Party have left them. I spoke today with Sky News - live from Swindon. youtu.be/hJ0EJTakhxU?...

Coming up soon! Really looking forward to this one! 👇🏼

“More than 32,700 migrants have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean since 2014, including an estimated one in five who were children, according to data from United Nations agencies”

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

Trying out some real-time video recording of tonights #aurora display from #rousay #orkney #astro

When nonviolent social and pro-democracy movements reach a certain critical mass, they overwhelmingly tend to succeed. Read our democracy-by-the numbers analysis of how protests can break an autocrat’s illusion of invincibility: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/whats-so-special-about-35-percent

Just a reminder that you can help cats & nod towards anarchisty statements with these cool hats! catsprotectionteemill.com?cgi=1&gad_so...

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Beautiful poem by Benjamin Zephaniah, read by @zackpolanski.bsky.social Moved to tears... Keep telling the truth about migration 🌍💚🙏🏽

Women-led DIY courses in #Bristol #DIY #women beginners, how to use power tools, plumbing & much more bepractical.co.uk/diy-courses-...

Went to Tyntesfield today, reminded of the time when my now 10yr old was a toddler & we were at another busy National Trust house & he said v loudly "are we going to see rich people's stolen wealth again mumma?" & I replied yes my darling, yes we are.

"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis ultimately, he can't be held accountable for the actions of every single person who he comes in contact with." -Zia Yusuf, head of Reform UK Department of Government Efficiency.

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."

@zackpolanski.bsky.social stopped by #Handsworth yesterday and was welcomed by @edfreshwater.bsky.social of #BrumGreens in front of the #BenjaminZephania mural to show what a vibrant, diverse, integrated neighbourhood it truly is. Don't let anyone tell you #Birmingham is not multicultural and proud!

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Toddlers do not ever stay still, especially when they are going to sleep. Lying next to one trying to get them to go to sleep is honestly like being spun around in a washing machine.

Are you a Bristol-based poet? If so, we’re inviting you to creatively explore the city through Pin the Tale — a digital platform for mapping stories, poems and place. Join us for FREE online Thu 16 Oct 18:30. https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/13457/pin-the-tale-poetry-workshops

Wayward is fantastic. Interesting & I think provocative but important commentary on the stuckness, trap of co-dependency & toxic relationships in the pursuit of attachment as well as bending towards the lure of gender affirmation & recognition no matter how unhealthy.

I don't know how you can read this and not cry.

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This temple is just up the road from where I grew up. I first remember it as a commune, farm & old farmhouse. It's a massive centre now, with retreat centre (that my dad helped to build), accommodation, huge Tibetan temple, peace gardens. Worth a visit. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I was in Bath today; Passenger has its fleecy grip on that city. But anyway, I was there with my 10yr old for Children's Literature Festival & discovered that the Phoenix comic has a Philosophy penguin! Grooming children into Philosophy!!

Fascist Gestapo says: "We are just getting started!" 😏

Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist “More than 48,000 people in the UK were waiting for their first NHS gender clinic appointment as of March 2025, a 12.5% increase since the previous year” cc @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

New book review out in Signs of the fantastic A Short History of Trans Misogyny. Great issue too, check out lots of brilliant articles www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I am alarmed and upset by this emerging news of attacks at a synagogue on Yom Kippur. The rise in religious hate crimes in this country is totally unacceptable - there is no excuse for antisemitism and no excuse for violence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Christina McAnea: "All of us at UNISON are horrified by the attack on the Jewish community in Manchester. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families, and all those marking this holy day of Yom Kippur."

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Only a few tickets left for this Bristol event on new book "Planet Patriarchy", book signing & discussion with Rahila Gupta, specialist on Rojava, which is close to the hearts of many in Bristol. Come along,Watershed later this month www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/new-events/p...

The youngest human in the family, age 3, is unwell. In her unwell state, overhearing us saying she has a bug, she said "have I caught a bug mumma, like an ant?". I said no my love not that kind of bug, and she said "a ladybird?".