It's as if Labour have already decided to lose the next election, so they've collectively thrown up their hands and said "welp, we'd best build all the authoritarian infrastructure Reform will be needing, save them a job!"

The questions are available at yonderconsulting.com/wp-content/u... Q12 is Having thought more about it, to what extent would you now support or oppose the UK introducing a digital ID system? It doesn't seem heavily biased. Subtly so maybe.

Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza? Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards". This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

My nan was killed by nosocomial MRSA sepsis. This trend is extremely, extremely bad www.griffonnews.com/lifestyles/h...

Imagine someone is undergoing complicated ongoing medical treatment when they turn 18 If there are legal or bureaucratic problems with getting the ID card, will medical treatment continue? Given the way we treat foreigners, I doubt it What about uni applications? Birth citizenship registration?

Interesting point about the survey used to justify ID cards that someone noticed in the Indepedent: toot.wales/@woe2you/115...

The ID consultation will likely take longer than Starmer has left as PM. So there's that.

Basically the StarmerCard is 100% a play to placate the Fash. No more and no less. Tyranny and racism dressed up in the cloud. Fuck that guy.

What's really amusing is that many EU national ID cards can be used for international travel within the EU and EEA. More convenient than passports Which, obviously, will not be a feature of any British ID cards You've got to laugh. Well, no, you don't, but it's quieter than screaming innit?

I've got it. Starmer isn't a right-wing entryist. He's just an unpleasant man who's now so depressed he actively wants to commit political suicide!

Digital ID cards to streamline bureaucracy? Not a bad idea on the face of it, does work well in other countries Do I trust this from the same government that introduced porn IDs and use terrorism legislation against people in t-shirts? Not on your fucking life

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

You spend your time being inventive and proud and learning new things, then bloody well invent French reflexive/ambitransitive verbs 🤦🏼

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

Fuck you, public transport, for making the asthmatic with ME/CFS do a mile route march to not be late for a medical appointment

A ring galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.018 (lookback time 257.3 million years) with coordinates (169.81923, 20.81355). 42 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

Transparency in government, my arse www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-refuses-...

Oh shit...I just took an ibuprofen...am I gonna get ADHD?

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

...is ... is the antifa in the room with us right now?

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

What is the appeal of avocados? They're... ok? Vaguely green-flavoured mush?

Apparently the Kelloggs chicken is green Who the fuck would have expected a bloody chicken to be green?! #colourblind

Since the Health Sec is again calling for segregation of trans people in healthcare, a reminder of what that actually looks like in practice. Inferior care and medical neglect. transsafety.network/posts/scared...

Is there such a word as "limnotroph"? I thought it meant life forms native to bodies of freshwater, same roots as limnology and autotroph I explicitly don't mean limitrophe, which has a completely unrelated meaning All search engines are being useless and I've no access to the OED #etymology

Still really, really sad about *REDACTED* in #Foundation S03 finale 😭😭😭

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

Writing a language grammar can't be that hard, right? It's not like you could write about 1600 pages of detailed, excellently-researched prose about a single language and still leave room for more research? I mean that's impos-... oh, craaaaaap! #conlanging #linguistics zenodo.org/records/4548...

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

Wow. From an article in The Guardian.

WEBSITES ARE BETTER THAN APPS

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

The FAQ posted online for this program claims that this would be an EB-1/EB-2 visa. That is EXTREMELY illegal. Those visas are, by law, ONLY for people with “extraordinary” or “exceptional” ability, or advanced degrees (MAs or PhDs) who are being hired by an American business.

British politics really needs to wake up to what is happening in America given we have imported a huge amount of its culture war politics. Maybe there are some clues about what would be on the cards here under a Reform government?

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We are the first humans in history to ever see this sublime beauty

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

Only half the democrats can bring themselves to officially say fascism is bad

Russia is now almost daily violating NATO air space, testing Trump’s resolve to back up American security guarantees.

Are you doing a neat Ursula-related project? Talking about her work on a podcast, or reviewing the prize shortlist, or anything else? We'd love to hear about it, if so! You can always tag us here, and every email that comes through the contact form is read by an actual person.

Wonderful ideas for construct state and person-gender-number (PGN) marker stacking (Suffixaufnahme?) inspired by (mis)understanding southern African languages... but health says no, innit #conlanging #MECFS

I haven't slept properly in weeks, and it's really fucking up my health thanks to the #MECFS And now for other boring reasons I have to stay up till 8am on Tuesday and get an in-person GP appt, collect prescriptions, do grocery shopping and collapse This fucking bastard illness is unrelenting

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

Gee, I wonder why he hates a powerful leader from an ethnic minority? www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...

"...they were actually better in the 1940s. it was bad. it was evil. but what happened? something changed. they committed less crimes.” - charlie kirk on black people during jim crow, said on the talk show "jubilee"