Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone. And you're cutting... the sleeper? www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Meanwhile Reformorons: Digital ID - can’t stop scammers or illegal workers, also government is going to control your thoughts. 🤔

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Hey @lauralaker.bsky.social @peterwalker99.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social @modacitylife.com — all of your books, like mine, were used for this LLM and you could get $3k per book. List of nicked books here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Good @privateeyenews.bsky.social Three common themes across the stories: 1. The lack of accountability in public life 2. The ultra-rich have essentially declared war on civil society 3. The UK lacks the staff to run core functions like tax and probation. Happy lunch :)

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

We the people elect a parliament/parliaments. The voters have spoken. We want to hear from all the parties we’ve elected. Sign sign sign and keep passing on. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

I'm not the only one to make this point, but there will need to be the equivalent of Nuremberg Trials when this is all over (however long that takes). If there are no consequences for fascists, we'll keep having fascism.

Dan survived the 7/7 terrorist attack. He lost both legs, an eye & his spleen. He suffers from anxiety & PTSD. Hes able to work because he receives Access to Work, but the govt is cutting that from 40hrs/wk to 13 & he'll no longer be able to work This is Dan on Kendall & Starmer

Love Halt and Catch Fire. Wrote a thing about it years ago. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Excellent thread about a lazy and frankly shameful @theguardian.com piece which regurgitates Boyne's statement without investigation or interrogation.

We’re well over the half way mark now. A month to get this to 10k. BlueSky members have been great. Please continue reminding folk to sign when you can. We want new rules that ENSURE we hear from ALL our parties year round. We need it for democracy to work. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

If we continue to allow the over platforming of one party over any other we sadly prove we’ve not learnt the lessons of history. Democracy matters particularly in what is now a multi party climate. We MUST hear from ALL our parties otherwise it’s propaganda. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

As we watch Keir Starmer and his team expand NHS privatisation, please remember that he was elected to become Labour leader saying specifically that he would remove NHS private outsourcing. He then quietly dropped this pledge in Summer 2022. This isn’t OK 🚨

Disinformation. Austerity. Vaccine fatigue. Measles is back — and the consequences are landing on the smallest shoulders. Liz Crosbie explains how & why...

at the core of all the trans people in public spaces "debate" is this: I don't care if you don't personally like seeing someone in public shut up, keep it to yourself, and let them live their fucking lives

this was always the endgame, the complete erasure of trans people from public life and - if these people get their way - from existence entirely it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society fuck your "just asking questions" about sports

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

AI is the new microwave.

Just to say that every age-verification is an identity verification. This creates the long held, never-possible dream of surveillance agencies everywhere of a full, Govt-backed record of Internet habits linked to ID.

It baffles me how the Left, who seem to take decent positions on many things, have got the Online Safety Act so wrong. Opposition to it is being portrayed as right-wing, whereas it's pure common sense. It doesn't do what it was designed to do, AND it has tons of negative second-order consequences.

If the oceans die, human civilisation will already be on terminal palliative care ... "Marine heatwaves may have driven the world’s oceans to a critical tipping point, scientists warn" www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Motherfucking wind farms…

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

A map of countries that recognise the State of Palestine. You can now add France… but apparently not the UK, Germany, Canada of Australia. Shameful.

We talked about this back when the first trial for lenacapavir first said the magic words everyone wants to hear, "halted for efficacy"(*), so a recap: this is not a vaccine or a treatment. It's PrEP aka "pre-exposure prophylaxis": you take the drug so if exposed to the virus, you will not catch it.

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep! Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications. This should also be banned? Influence being bought in Govt? Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

We go live to 2029, where a Reform government backs the mob that's terrifying the occupants of an asylum hotel... Then the mists clear, we realise that it's still 2025, and it's Labour who are legitimising the hate-mongers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

For Labour supporters, the key issue is not: "Are Starmer and Labour's current incarnation better than X really bad alternative?" The key issue is: "Are they good enough to win over a jaded frustrated electorate in 2029 and stay in power?" At the moment, I estimate that probability at 0%.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

This is abominable and everyone involved in the series of events which led to it, from the Home Office to the police, should be ashamed of themselves. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

You'd probably like to know, right, that this piece arguing against consumer protection was written by an organisation funded by the US and British Chambers of Commerce? But the Daily Rowling doesn't tell you that.

“This is not my America. This is not the America I know!” America just 60 years ago:

If y'all thought book bans could never happen here, I've got bad news for y'all. BBC News - Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#meta is killing #dma #niics / #messaging #interoperability through a hundred petty (and not so petty) restrictions, which are questionable under the law. I hope: 1. @EUCommission will do something about this fundamental obstacle to the functioning of the #DMA...

I always think about the part of Ender’s Game where two teenagers manipulate global politics through their… basically BBS posts Way ahead of its time

i know this is very targeted abstract discourse (i just don't like quoting posts often so you can seek out the context yourself) but: you know what is amazing placeholder text? lorem ipsum. it was literally made for this purpose!! it can be any length, fits any use, and isn't ai gen www.lipsum.com

Labour should say ‘we can’t afford everything we used to have because Brexit leaves us £40 billion a year short on tax revenue’ make the cuts constantly repeat the message and see what happens to public opinion.

Seriously, I was sure that libxml2 was maintained by someone at Redhat or something. Apparently it's used and deployed everywhere (from Apple to Microsoft, Google even) and they're not contributing and of course not even donating money. socket.dev/blog/libxml2...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Brilliant. I love a dedicated librarian youtube.com/shorts/64vi7...

In 1988, IBM tried to seize the whole PC market back and make it proprietary again. Everyone KNEW you couldn't win against IBM. Compaq, and founding CEO Rod Canion, decided to try. Read my latest #history longform on the fight for the soul of the PC. And how Compaq won. every.to/the-crazy-on...