Society would be vastly better if saying "the government must aet aside a group or groups of people with particular characteristics that I am allowed to treat like shit" got you treated like shit, instead of like a hero worthy of being appointed to chair major policy reviews.

@gailsimone.bsky.social Not in Canada, just in SPACE

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

I love this. A lot.

Ever been in a pub and seen a bloke show off to a girl he fancies, who clearly despises him, by bullying his partner and his mates in a way he obviously thinks is clever banter? That's Starmerism.

#mediocreclimberhavingfun #eustonwall The Perilous Overhang

This week two legal judgements, concerning employers based in Scotland, have shown that employers are not obliged to exclude trans people from facilities that align with their gender. Full statement: transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/12... #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC

There's a man sat next to me on the train who seems to be working on something for @thegameawards.com and his testicles are so, so swollen that he has to sit with his legs at right angles and his entire right thigh is just taking up half my seat.

Pro-tip: If your work laptop has water damage, your IT team will find out. When you hand it to us dead and swear blind you didn't spill anything on it, the first thing that happens when we can't fix it is we send it to the manufacturer under the warranty and they tell us what was wrong!

Capitalism was born with slavery fully baked in - integral, natural, necessary - and forever strives to replace that part of itself wherever it has been cut out. (Which still isn't everywhere.)

So fucking bored of the eternal grift of 'this country is shit now, and we're going to make it more shit, please read my column where I get paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to tell you how shit things are, and also it's the migrants/disabled/transes' fault' in the UK. Empty, pathetic, weak.

Why could a government that has form for prescribing peaceful protest orgs as "terrorists" and is planning to remove trial by jury possibly be interested in weakening rules on torture? It's a mystery.

Here we go

Here's a tip about adult politics. Support, loyalty, affiliation to a party is buying into childish football scarf nonsense. Adults support and vote for a manifesto. For policies. For what is being promised or against what is being done. Trust in top decision makers is a factor. But not a party.

When train companies use "a shortage of train crew" as the excuse for cancelling your train, remember that they decide how many train crew to employ, and the pay and conditions under which those crew operate. What they actually mean is "because we prioritised shareholder profit over your train home.

RETIRED GHOST TRAIN ANIMATRONIC 😂

Apparently Streeting's new review into ADHD, Autism, and Depression Diagnosis is being conducted under the Hilary Cass methodology: Appoint someone who already agrees with your desired outcome to write "once we eliminated all the studies that conflict with the desired outcome, what remained didn't".

I am quite enjoying seeing the fascist press screech itself hoarse over Question Time "ambushing" Reform's ambulatory wallet by allowing a couple of immigrants and a handful of One Nation Tory types sit this one time in an audience that is normally 100% Al Murray Pub Landlord clones.

As A Jew™️ who loves Christmas music but came to it late, here are what the genres feel like to me: - A Magic Baby Was Born, And Now Everything Everywhere Is Perfect - Holy Fucking Shit; Thank Fucking God It's Finally Christmas - Do Me (It's Christmas) - I Want To Fuck Santa

Wes Streeting, going purely on evidence from his statements and policy decisions, wants more suicide in the UK. He isnin favour of people he doesn't like removing themselves from his equation and is committed to causing that to happen at the greatest scale he can accomplish.

Capitalism was born with slavery fully baked in - integral, natural, necessary - and forever strives to replace that part of itself wherever it has been cut out. (Which still isn't everywhere.)

m̶o̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ c̶u̶t̶s̶ Literally everything

Less comfortable for genocide-supporting Zionists is not the same thing as less safe for Jewish people. And the equation of Zionism with Judaism is itself antisemitic.

truth coming out of her well to shame humanity

#BakeOff Gothic You pull off the gingham, there is a chicken that might lay some time today, and some wheat. A grindstone, some milk and a small churn. A foot of sugar cane. The timer says 90 minutes. The instructions say "do a brioche".

"Hurrah for the Blackshirts!"?

The word ‘tariff’ is a foreign import into English from Arabic.

happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote

If anyone doubted the bellends in power were still owned by the petrochemical industry, taxing EVs harder than polluter cars should settle it.

No idea what the dot is, but my phone's notifications are done with it!

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

No :) I don’t need to do that right now :) I’ll remember it I'll remember it because it's important :) www.thechatner.com/p/what-it-fe...

Dualtex holds are so much worse than they look! #mediocreclimberhavingfun #harrowall #dualtex #worsethanitlooks

Today's particular language hatepost. Absolutely pervasive, inexplicable,and dreadful abuse of "as" in news site headlines and links creating completely nonsensical timelines. Hatehatehate and I don't care if that makes me a proscriptivist, I don't care anymore at all.

Chickens coming home to roost: Businesses, especially in tech where the GenAI brainrot has really taken root, arw starting to suffer along with the rest of us as the AI data centres consume all the online bandwidth, and are about to run into a big hardware cost hike as they've bought up all the RAM.

I wish the fact that were used to seeing Amnesty call out human rights abuses in far-flung dictatorships and warzones would mean that seeing them focus on our own shores would shock some people into a reassessment . But we don't live in a universe where more than one or two bigots a year do that.

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

Labour are sick, sick, sick. Beyond redemption. Let the party sink below the waves and give it the middle finger as it drops. Fuck the Labour Party. Never vote Labour again.

To anyone still paying membership fees to the Labour Party. I'm an immigrant. Please don't talk to me all smiles, friendly and respectful while you're paying for these nasty racists and their nasty racist policies. You are a hypocrite and my enemy.

Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.

All these U turns on their "tough decisions" makes me wonder if Starmer is actually botching a Feyd and Rabban style bait and switch. In Dune, Rabban is there to be brutal and and hated, and then at the last Minute the Baron would get rid of him and Feyd would take over and be kinder and be loved.

Just signed this, and (if you're in the UK) hopefully you will too action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC...

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

Interesting. Further to my observation, Starmer and Streeting may have made a pact that the leadership blowout isn't happening now, but Milliband is definitely positioning himself as the grown-up in the room for when it does. Labour might be able to begin to redeem itself if he pulls it off.

The next leader of the Labour Party talking about busting one of the most important unions in the country.

The thing about Transphobia, is that it connects with everything else. Transphobic campaigns are funded by the same people as anti-abortion campaigns. It's about controlling other people's bodies. They mingle with those seeking to kill worker's rights. They want to control bodies - own slaves.

Delighted to see Starmer and Streeting at each other's throats. Just worried in case it ends with Streeting as PM. On the other hand, Milliband is apparently interested in a second go at leadership and seems to have improved significantly as a human since his Work Experience tenure.

Goes for our country too.