@vittles.bsky.social is consistently publishing the most vital food writing

Did anyone ask Count Binface to stand down for the progressive alliance?

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I don’t think enough cis women appreciate how much all of this noise around ‘bathroom bans’ will affect us. (I also think it’s notable that after a chat between me, a cis woman and Steph, a trans woman, a correspondent text in to ask ‘why wasn’t there a woman in the conversation, for balance?’)

PRoTecT WomEn & GIrLs!!1!

Re: Makerfield by-election and pressure on the Green Party to stand down etc. Yes, good point.

People who still think “gender criticals” are all basically liberals with reasonable concerns really should notice the language that is now being used and the demands being made and ask how this differs from what the American religious right says

Sadly, I don't believe those at the top of government will pay much heed to this warning. It's just the latest convulsion in a broken food system that has had too many points of weakness for far too long. If Covid didn't force change then what will?

And frankly it’s not just the Socialist Campaign Group. Where are the broader social progressives in Labour and what are they doing? Nothing. They seem to be doing…. Nothing. Yes blah blah behind the scenes but the time to speak up is right now

Now we’re going to get trans segregation and Mahmood’s hideous proposals, because they spent all their ‘influences’ on replacing Starmer with Starmer with eyelashes. Nice work guys.

The solution to my problems is always finding someone else autistic who Really Knows Stuff.

"this autistic man on YouTube says it's the best toaster!" - me and @bagels.bsky.social discussing whether to keep the toaster she impulsively ordered yesterday in what I like to think of as an Autistic Secret Rules Clash (ASRC).

I’ve done something terrible

I'm not sure if this counts as conservation? More like some sort of cruel gannet torment project.

@labourlewis.bsky.social is gonna be fuming 😬

Trans people need to do this for self-protection. But cis people SHOULD do this, and refer to declare their sex or gender wherever it's asked. There are more of us and more chance of making these vile systems unworkable. #SandInTheGears

We've had a week of politicians saying that what Israel is doing is illegal, wrong, it must stop But as usual there has been absolutely no action It took them just 4 days to take action against Russia The EU/UK Free Trade agreement with Israel could be ripped up in one day

Attempted some mediation - might instead have an angry online mob because apparently we can't do compassion on the left 🙃

"The Greens should stand aside for Burnham, he will bring Labour back to its progressive roots and stop a Reform government!" Does anyone who said the above to me like to explain this? No takers? Weird. Does anyone else hear a bus?

Cis folk; we have to step up for trans ppl here. Because this might feel like it's not relevant to you, but it is. I, a 5'10" broad-shouldered, deep-voiced cis person, look forward having my gender questioned* and needing a BIRTH CERTIFICATE in order to pee. *But only in a tactful, polite way obvs

Labour are disgusting. They have pandered to a tiny band of bigots in order to ruin the lives of trans women who pose no threat at all to any of us. This is targeted at trans women who will bear the brunt of it but you’re a fool if you don’t recognise that it harms us all.

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

Malicious non-compliance, especially by cis people, is the way to fight this. I've never told my employer my sex assigned at birth, except when providing an original birth certificate for a DBS check, which they shouldn't(?) have on record. Same for most service providers, NHS as an exception. 1/3

Apart from being a gutless bigoted weak nasty man Starmer's claim to be a friend of Zelenskyy with photo-ops full of hugs and smiles didn't last long. Any PM who panders to the Trump regime and betrays Ukraine must have a political life expectancy measured in days. He has to go. No ifs no buts.

Frankly, we should be treating the environment like neoliberals treat the Treasury.

“Let’s use the Iran crisis to subsidise the aggressors in the Russia-Ukraine war” is immoral and stupid policy

I was supportive of an attempt at trying to negotiate and holding it over Andy Burnham's head every day but as soon as it became clear he wasn't going to then so be it. If he loses by 3 votes then that is on him. No-one wants Reform to win but we know kowtowing to Labour achieves nothing.

The public has a right to know that a significant reason for the increase in food prices is climate change. And they also deserve to know that neither climate change nor massive prices are inevitable, but the result of political cowardice

Listening to various Labour people over recent weeks it's evident that their hatred of the Greens surpasses their hatred of the Tories and Reform.

"Hi there, welcome to Pooh Bear's Tool Share! How can I help you today?" ... "I don't know how many times we have to tell you people, we do not supply chainsaw trousers. Look, it's just our policy, okay? It goes against our values as an organisation."

I think we should move all debates back to the letters page of the local paper. It took a full week for you to be infuriated by someone who you will never agree with anyway and would last six months.

The best feature of Bluesky is that little ➕ to add another post. Now I can release all 10 million thoughts I have at once in 30 separate replies, just to dunk on Some Guy. A tidal wave of Discourse

I think the bit a lot of people here are refusing to acknowledge is that Josh Simons is standing down for absolutely no reason other than internal Labour fuckery. There is no reason for this by election to be happening, Labour are doing this for no reason. Them making demands looks and is stupid.

I sometimes feel insane that we don't constantly talk about the time Labour gave a black guy who was poised to unseat Nigel Farage the sack because he was a better poster than Keir Starmer

This really feels like a threat 😅 Drop the antisemitism or else our Pickle Sleep Paralysis Demon will come for you. Anyway I love him

Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social I know you read these - please make some time for yourself, refocus and GET OFF X/TWITTER! Get some sleep, stop saying stupid stuff because you're doing 20 thousand interviews a day and don't try to do it all. The Party needs you on form.

Devon and Cornwall have real, serious poverty, but because they’re places where journalists go on holiday and don’t have the right kind of regional accent, nobody cares at all

Wes Streeting origin story

[every labour MP and aligned journalist] mostly we have a comms problem solution: PUT AKEHURST ON TV

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

Accelerating the rollout of homegrown renewables will insulate us from the geopolitical shocks of the future. 3/3

The day-to-day reality of our lives will be far more impacted by the effects of Trump’s war in the middle east – so making the UK resilient to these global crises should be the focus. 2/3

Today’s GDP figures are the last before we begin to see the impacts of the US war on Iran. Minor changes in growth are far less important that the effects of the war coming down the line. 1/3

NEW: Our latest analysis shows the affordability crisis in private renting is now a national phenomenon. With rents rising by between 6 and 9% each year across Britain since the pandemic.

Also, it sounds a lot like what conversion therapy abuse practitioners do say while forcing their LGBT+ clients not to be LGBT+

Wes Streeting has resigned to take the job he was born to do…regional sales manager for Moss Bros

This is fucking mental. Protesters in the UK can now be convicted of criminal damage but be sentenced as terrorists despite never having been convicted of a terror offence and without the jury knowing anything about it. Just a un unbelievable abuse of power by Justice Johnson.

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