BREAKING: Israel has begun intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is carrying 500 people from around the world seeking to bring aid to Palestinians starved by Israel's siege. The crew includes 24 Americans, EU Members of Parliament, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, and Greta Thunberg.

Watch live so they're less incentivised to murder these peace activists. Even just putting the stream on in the background is helpful.

That Japanese edition of D&D look absolutely fire.

Labour rescinded my conference pass over an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct". 10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email. This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.

new berserk chapter is kind of weird

Again, you *have to* have a Tesco card or your shopping costs even more than the already crazy prices! Do you see how all the arguments against objections amount to tiny gilded class saying “we already treat you like cattle, so it’s stupid for you object to us fucking you in new and exciting ways”.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

One thing I've not seen discussed much in relation to Labour's digital ID plans is digital exclusion. Thousands of people cannot or don't want to use the internet. People in poverty are far more likely to be digitally excluded. Are these people to be excluded from the workforce then?

"illegal working" you should have something bad happen to you www.bbc.com/news/article...

Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.

hello I am a deeply unpopular prime minister. In a last gasp attempt to save my own skin my big idea is to launch the least popular policy of an also deeply unpopular predecessor. I am forensic.

These are all great points. I’d also add that we should oppose this out of solidarity with people who are here “illegally” and shouldn’t have to live lives that are even more criminalised, precarious and hunted.

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

And also that to be autistic is to be a tragedy, a burden on society, a problem that must be solved. This is deeply dangerous stuff.

Some on the left are more ready to contemplate throwing minorities under the bus than to contemplate the ejection of certain toxic officials and inept leaders from senior positions. But real strategic wisdom (and ruthlessness, if you like that sort of thing) lies in the latter, not the former.

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

That's a Labour government minister berating university students and staff by saying that 'too often people go to university to "explore research and knowledge"'. I'm very glad of our students who study history to explore research and knowledge.

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

V much a thought in progress, but it does feel like we’ve ceded a lot of the framing of ‘free speech’ to the right, and it’s worth pointing out that instead of producing anything artistically or even culturally interesting, it’s given us an abundance of online slop that apparently must be protected

If the UK government doesn’t respond strongly to this, then the consequences will be grave.

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Cannot be stressed enough that there is a crucial and fundamental aspect of the Jeffrey Epstein story that directly corresponds with the Jimmy Savile story, to wit: Everybody knew.

absolutely rotten stuff. horrible. fuck off

The right’s ‘cancel culture’ moral panic effectively neutralised liberalism’s ability to challenge racism by identifying it as a violation of social norms. Now the unsayable is said routinely to millions with no consequences. Unsurprisingly, the FSU’s Director is supporting ethnonationalism.

It includes audiobooks, toys, and photocopying. Just despicable

NEW from me: Trump and RFK Jr. say they want to find the cause of the " #Autism Epidemic." But one child psychiatrist at Columbia University told me that parents are scared of Kennedy creating a database and don't want their kids to receive a diagnosis. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Israel murdered five al-Jazeera journalists, including Anas Al-Sharif. They did so because they're now liquidating Gaza City, and want to silence the remaining witnesses. To Western journalists silent about the slaughter of your colleagues: Their blood is on your hands, too.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

The thing that gets to me about this is not that it's stupid (it is) or even that it could become dangerous (it could), but that so many people who do really difficult, important things are struggling while these people have infinite money for doing nothing. www.ft.com/content/0e24...

You are overqualified for this position. #TheElderScrolls #Oblivion

Age verification is creating an information desert. The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default. Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies. It's not just porn! News is being scrubbed from view ⛔ www.404media.co/uk-users-nee...

Your ADHD medication has worn off. #TheElderScrolls #Oblivion

The era of institutionalization was rife with horror, and deinstitutionalization + the rise of community care has allowed millions to live more independently with dignity over decades I hate these eugenicist fascists with every drop of blood in me

All we can do right now to fight against both government & corporate data collection, surveillance & censorship is to share the Repeal the Online Safety Act petition! Keep sharing this with your British friends & family, and if you are British: Please sign it! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

the right are incredibly effective at shaming the left into submission, even the hardest leftist seem to be embarrassed at the idea of being 'woke' these days, even though it's the correct thing to be, even if it's annoying.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: liberals and liberalism have turned transphobia into a mainstream, everyday, top tier, omnipresent social crisis. It was a niche problem driven by conservatives. Liberals blew it into the screaming global moral panic it now is.

This is performative cruelty at its most stupid. 1 - Lots of trans people have their lived gender identity on their passport 2 - Why? What's the point? What about attending a political conference relies on your birth genitals? www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/16/l...

Absolutely ridiculous response to a patently true statement. Israel IS committing genocide in Gaza and no attempt to suppress and criminalize those speaking out against it will change the fact that millions of people every day know this and will work to stop it

You have contracted Gamer Brain #TheElderScrolls #Oblivion

taking a more hardline belief in this with each passing day

Just sit with this for a moment. Israel perpetrated what is certainly the largest single mass killing of trans people in history. And it's basically a footnote in an article in the NYT covered weeks after it happened.

Had an absolutely class time at this. Hopefully there'll be many more to come.

Stop it. Stop it. My opinion of him could not get any worse.

Crying over the thought of losing her job, not watching children being torn limb from limb or burning alive, or the thought of disabled people or elderly freezing to death is just yet another indictment of this society which I feel so deeply in my bones these days. #RachelReeves