Brown burn water dropping Between the grey stones, The lapse and the murmur, The bright overtones Of cuckoo and curlew… —Dorothy Margaret Paulin (1904–1982) from Springtime by Loch Ken, & other poems (J.H. Maxwell Ltd., 1963) #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/gallowa...

A groundbreaking documentary on ME/CFS is now available to international audiences German investigative documentary on ME/CFS, Chronically Ill – Chronically Ignored, is now available for international audiences online. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

A young disabled person just shamed Treasury secretary Darren Jones over DWP PIP cuts Gigi, a resident of Treasury secretary Darren Jones's Bristol constituency, just took him to task over calling DWP PIP 'pocket money' www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Publish more of this transphobic garbage from this bigoted "journalist" and keep on wondering why you have to keep begging for money on every webpage.

Free to download from the publisher until June 13th. Grab it while you can, #AcademicSky!

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

BlackRock’s corporate creep just hit a new low. They’re suing UnitedHealth in the US for giving “too much care” to patients after the CEO’s murder—because it hurt their profits. Thread

This week it was announced that the UK's Daily Telegraph - which is notorious for publishing climate science denial & climate misinformation - will be sold to Redbird Capital, a company which has invested millions in fossil fuels... www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m... /1

I’ve just finished @goingmedieval.bsky.social’s excellent The Once and Future Sex, and I’m here to recommend it to you all: it’s engaging, interesting, and the final chapter is a call to recognise and challenge the patriarchal structures around us. This passage particularly resonated with me:

Trying to make it illegal to stop fracking, and therefore our environment will continue to degrade, oh and don’t forget the water crisis that fracking causes. Oppose this bill. Sign and share resist.bot/petitions/PT...

1/2 Cuts to support for disabled and long-term sick people would be devastating and are absolutely wrong on their own terms. But their effect is more pernicious than that, as I explain in this excerpt from a speech I gave to an anti-disability benefits cuts demo in Norwich recently.

BREAKING: new DWP figures show PIP fraud is still virtually zero Liz Kendall thinks people are 'taking the mickey' out of the DWP - but once again, her own figures on PIP show this is a lie. @rachelcdailey.bsky.social has the story www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Labour MP raises the epidemic of male suicide. Here's how Finland halved its rate. 75% of UK people who die by suicide are men. But in Finland, the country halved its suicide rate through a national strategy www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

pretty cheeky to try to conflate the Labour Party with the labour movement, which hasn't been meaningfully represented by the party in a long, long time

Get your useless leader to sort his principles out then or get rid of him. If your party decides we do not have rights then expect a reply from trans people. Labour was founded to stand up for the have nots in society. It needs to return to those principles or they're finished.

Their obsession with this tactic fascinates me. I'm in a left-leaning constituency and in 2019 I got an "Only Labour can stop the SNP" leaflet through the door, when a week earlier I'd got the SNP leaflet that - unlike Labour's - promised an opposition to austerity. Why would I want to stop that?

Labour Right sabotaged every general election since Miliband. They didn't want to be in government. That's partly why we had Tories for 14 years. When Cameron won again in 2015, he was really surprised. He quit soon after the Brexit vote.

A few years ago, Keir Starmer suggested Jeremy Corbyn wasn't pro-immigration enough. Now Starmer sounds like Enoch Powell. The most dishonest frontline politician in UK democratic history 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/starmers-e...

Whoa! Starmer has lost the centrists! Ian Dunt has turned on Starmer! 😮 We need an official investigation. Everything, money, influence, media. How did Mr People's Vote become no rejoin? How did Mr Socialist I Support Corbyn become Mr Fascist I Will Compete With Tories for Reform voters?

Finally got around to writing to my mp

In the early 80s the SDP Liberal Alliance was at 50% in the polls. But the media didn’t spend day after day saying Roy Jenkins or David Steel were certain to walk into no.10. That’s the difference now. Propaganda on an industrial scale. Sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Are you a scientist or other relevant academically qualified expert? Please join other experts & sign this letter confirming the fact that sex is not binary, to the UK Minister for Women & Equalities ▪️Please repost so everyone is aware & share with any expert you know:

Oh! And another neat tool I love to share is Kiln Share. If you don't have your own kiln you can locate individuals in your area who rent them out

Keir Starmer is primarily known for two things - kicking pensioners and disabled people. Absent of any vision for the country, he's paving the way for Nigel Farage to end up in No. 10. New post: www.owenjones.news/p/labour-hea...

Please sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

David and Robin are joined by the very insightful and entertaining @justinleeanderson.com to discuss his wealth of experience of the publishing industry, providing great insight on various topics, in particular treatments of Politics and Religion in SFF longstoryshortbfs.podbean.com/e/long-story...

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

There are loads of great items from genre creators to bid on. And the auction is organised by the wonderful @laurenbeukes.com and @ngjeannette.bsky.social. Please get bidding! www.32auctions.com/genrefortran...

"Local" Facebook Pages are not always as local as they pretend... some are set up by actors with goals further afield- goals that need angry locals all over Scotland and beyond. Eilidh McIntosh investigates one such page in Clackmannanshire... leftungagged.org/2025/04/19/c...

“Disabled women are seen as statistics and stereotypes – reduced entirely to our disabilities, or robbed of the dignity of being believed we have one.” I wrote about Britain’s growing cohort of disabled women and why we need to change the narrative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Let other secret societies take the skilled, the hopeful, the self-confident. He'd take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones in which venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and paranoia." - Terry Pratchett: "Guards Guards"

The DWP PIP survey on how people spend their money is being sent out. Here's what's in it. For once the rumours are actually true: the DWP survey on how people spend their PIP is arriving in the post. In short: tell them to Fuck Off. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do

Coming this June... Inspired by British 1970s TV horror, Sapphire & Steel, A Ghost Story for Christmas, and creepy Doctor Who stories of the era. The Residents of James Hotel is my latest spine-tingling novelette. 🌈🖤🩶🤍💜 demi rep 🌈📚💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚

📚Suzanne O'Sullivan in her new book 'The Age of Diagnosis' has claimed that Long Covid is psychosomatic There has been ALOT of media attention on this 👉Our contribution on the tropes, techniques & tricks used... www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/the-suz...

The DWP is facing a 'Disability Rebellion' - and it's starting online Disability Rebellion is a brand new inclusive online group gearing up to take on Labour's brutal disability benefit cuts www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

It's been confirmed (by their website) that they are trying to do this. So if you are a Green member please find out about your local candidates and support and ask others to support pro Trans rights candidates.

"There is strong evidence of a causal association between growing inequality and the rise of populist authoritarian movements... The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality." TAX WEALTH. DO UBI.

"The Left wanted to help vulnerable people, and we want to abuse those people." That's what I've seen from right wingers, in my lifetime. Everything else they claimed to stand for has been a lie.

Also if the left allegedly going too far pushed you to support the right, how much further does the right have to go before they push you to the left, and why hasn't it happened yet?

Al Jazeera English TikTok is nominated for Webby awards in the Social - News & Politics category. We need your help to win! Vote for us here ➡️ vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Labour tried to push through #WelfareCuts bypassing consultation. So now it's going to court. Three firms of solicitors working with disabled people on possible benefit cuts legal cases www.disabilitynewsservice.com/three-firms-... via @johnpring.bsky.social on Twitter x.com/johnpringdns...

UK petitione: Please sign to ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Please sign and share this petition: campaigns.scope.org.uk/page/165719/...

9th April #NationalUnicornDay The Lady and the Unicorn is a series of six tapestries, woven in Flanders, using designs created in Paris in 1500. Now on display in the Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris. Five of the tapestries are said to represent the senses–taste, hearing, sight, smell and touch.

A disabled person from Liz Kendall's constituency has launched a petition against her brutal DWP cuts Disabled people who cannot work should not have their DWP benefits cut - yet this is exactly what Labour is doing. So, PLEASE sign and share this petition. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

The unkindest cut: what PIP changes mean for torture survivors Torture survivors seeking safety in the UK risk losing vital support due to government plans to restrict disability benefits By Jennie Kermode for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk