Calls for electoral reform were raised in the House of Commons during debate on the Representation of the People Bill. Do you think it is time for proportional representation in the UK?

🚨 ID checks to get online could become the new norm 🚨 A new amendment would give the government sweeping powers to block access to lawful information and communications. That's unless we submit our identification to a bounty of providers. Tell your MP to stop this broad and repressive law ⬇️

The Representation of the People Bill had its second reaching this week, and MPs from across the House recognised the stakes for the health of our democracy. electoral-reform.org.uk/the-represen...

And yes that includes the USA.

This week, MPs have been calling for a National Commission to build a consensus on a new voting system for Westminster through broad public consultation, deliberation and expert evidence gathering.

I feel so seen. 🤣🦇🤣

The deal between the Pentagon and Anthropic fractured in part over the proposed use of autonomous weapons. @rossandersen.bsky.social on the question OpenAI staff should now be asking Sam Altman about his company’s new deal with the Pentagon:

We've written briefings for all the main issues in the Representation of the People Bill, which is going through parliament at the moment. You can find them here:

Sometimes we wish we cared as little as Snake.

👻2 WEEKS TO GO 👻 5 FEATURE FILMS will be shown at Screams By The Sea International Horror Film Festival, but which one are you most excited for? Drop a comment below and let us know!

📣FRINGE EVENTS📣 How's your horror knowledge? Come test it out and see if you even have what it takes to WIN at our horror movie quiz at the Brass Haus on Wednesday 11th, 8PM. £3 to enter on the night or £2 if you book online now! the-brass-haus.designmynigh...

When you have an audience or a business you have to ensure that you always provide a lot more value to people than you extract from them. If you don't then, long term, it all breaks down. Young people I talk to today...they feel like the whole entire world has broken this contract with them.

get weirder 🫵

I see a bad moon rising... mark your diaries for the Soho Horror Fest 2026 event dates.

I have been saying that these ICE thugs look and operate like nothing so much as the paramilitary death squads in the Southern Cone countries in the 1970s and 1980s, who disappeared people and adopted out their children, and HERE WE ARE. 🥚

dawg i fuckin told you scary shit is always just a smoke and mirrors push to attract investors and more marks (users)

Part 3 in my weekly poster series for 2026 #art #knights

historian here! Yes

The lower Great Lakes region has super bad air quality today, and one of the big causes is, surprisingly, melting snow. The warm snap is melting the snow banks, releasing all the car exhaust & toxins & rotting debris in the snow. Which,coupled with lack of wind and rain, sits in the air as smog

The article doesnt actually mention them "distancing" themselves from Palantir, only that prompts to give your ID to Persona were "a test, which has concluded" Continue to cancel Nitro and migrate elsewhere

On this day in 1779 Native Hawaiians killed the British imperialist colonizer Captain James Cook after he tried to kidnap a Hawaiian chief. #ValentinesDay Roses are red Colonialism is theft Today's the anniversary Of #CaptainCook's death ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

“DHS traps people with serial killer methods” arrives in the news one (1) day after “DHS taunts jailed children with Nazi methods,” for those keeping track

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

Today, the government is bringing forward their landmark Representation of the People Bill. It's got plenty of good ideas, but there is a glaring omission. They're calling it the Representation of the People Bill, but it will keep the voting system that fails to represent the people. buff.ly/UfLUKhW

I love you fucked up indie TTRPGs

This week, MPs and peers from across the political spectrum announced plans to form a new all-party parliamentary group on ‘wholesale’ Lords reform.

Trump ordered the large, 8-stripe, original Gilbert Baker design, Rainbow Flag be removed by the National Park Service from the Stonewall National Monument today. This is the latest in a year-long chain of attacks on the representation of our communities' history in OUR park.

Polling published recently reveals that the British public are worried about the influence of money in politics, with a majority wanting to see the introduction of caps on donations to political parties.

Any doctoral student or early career scholar want to give an online guest lecture on Marcion (preferably) or second century Christianity (but not gnosticism) more broadly? I think I can offer you a $100 stipend for a 45 minute talk. Needs to be MWF 10-1050.

The 2024 election was the most disproportional in British history. 16.6 million people ended up with an MP they didn't vote for. The Elections Bill could change this – but only if we demand fair votes now. buff.ly/liRmLTs

The government’s reasons for cancelling these elections are not good enough.

“It’s like—como se dice—the militia,” says Hidalgo. “I moved from Mexico, and I saw violence in the past. This is what it looks like. There are hundreds of cases of people being abducted and beat up. I don’t think this is the American dream anymore.” daily.sevenfifty.com/its-worse-th...

Censorship of queer lives is rising worldwide - from algorithms burying our stories to AI-driven misinformation spreading division. So we asked you, our most important editors, how we can protect access to critical information for our community’s liberation. What you said 👇

Good god. We've spent a decade with the British media - including the BBC - claiming that the 'gender critical' movement wanted to 'protect women and girls'. And it turns out Jeffrey Epstein was funding part of it.

Yes, this is really Punk. 🤮

We did it! We raised the minimum for #mgclgrrrl. Even tho it's little money, I'm so touched by people giving money to this little silly thing, some folks even added an extra tip!! I'm gonna make some extra stuff for you all on release day, stay tuned! lowdensitydotted.itch.io/mgclgrrrl

If you're sitting in a cinema ostensibly watching a movie and you have your phone out for anything other than a seven-headed dragon rising in the west or other signs of the apocalypse it should be the civic duty of all others present to kick your nuts clean off your useless body.

Using gen. A.I. to make slop imagery to go with any anti-fascist statement isn't any sort of flex as it was developed and promoted by the billionaires pushing fascism. Just fucking stop using it.

The spotlight usually stays on parents, schools and institutions, but they are not the only places where values are shaped www.wearequeeraf.com/dont-underes...

I am so tired of all the things that we said would happen, and were routinely ignored or dismissed by tech bros and neoliberals for saying would happen, continuing to happen, in exactly the way that we said they would happen.

With Trump’s increasing belligerence, the UK urgently needs to establish digital sovereignty. Our country’s day-to-day functions should not rely on a handful of US-based tech giants. I am calling for a UK digital sovereignty strategy. Write to your MP! action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Dykes, protesters, bikers, butchers, punks - today is for you. Today marks the first ever International Rebel Dykes Day ⛓️💜 Why this matters👇🧵

Each constituency has a single MP, yet for most people this means the MP who “represents” them in parliament doesn’t share their politics, didn’t win a majority of the vote in their local area, and was chosen by a tiny handful of party insiders long before election day.

Just so we are clear. Haitians are currently in the United States legally. They are not here illegally. Trump is revoking their legal status Feb. 3, and then, according to reports, immediately sending ICE in to Springfield and Columbus, Ohio, to target them.

All aboard the Springfield monorail

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day BUT what good is memory if it doesn't allow us to understand the present? To recognize what is wrong wherever it happens, whoever does it? Today and always #freepalestine #stopgenocide #freeukraine #stopwars #stopfascism #stopICE

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