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Grim. As. Fuck.

The Labour Party is utterly putrid.

The grotesque spectacle of a Labour government — a Labour government! — promoting the idea of stealing from refugees to appease the far right

Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones. Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.

When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.

“I know you can’t afford things but we also cannot afford things” will be, I predict, a losing message. The world’s first trillionaire is on the horizon. “We can’t afford transportation, healthcare, food and shelter” will no longer cut it for the “progressive” party.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

I've had multiple conversations over the past few days and weeks along the lines of: Where will you go if you're deported? What is your best choice? Do you have any passport options anywhere? Cd you live there/what is your language proficiency? Only somewhat tongue in cheek, somewhat dark humour

Lucy Dacus talks about why caring about others and building community can be even more important than self-care. "Go to the party. You need to go to the party for your wellness...Caring about other people is, like, exponentially more important to your health than self-care."

“Fuck AI” — Guillermo del Toro 🎥 Vanity Fair

The idea that our friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues should be summarily flung out of the country by some future Tory government because they don't fit some right wing extremist's definition of "cultural coherence" should set alarm bells ringing everywhere.

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization 1/

It's World Mental Health Day. This is all I got for you. #worldmentalhealthday

The British.

What a fun day at the office for the judge!

There is no single way to resist; only the courage to invent one. 👍

the most powerful people in the world: "it is the least powerful people in the world who are the REAL problem" everyone: "ah i see, that makes sense"

"Glad you didn't get a penny from your claim as you don't deserve fck all...go fck yourself" That's the message a director of Crussh sent to Raf just after it went into administration.Two months earlier a tribunal had ordered Crussh to pay Raf over £30k www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

But this story really isn't about the numbers, it's about the people who sacrifice everything to try and get what they are owed, spend months if not years navigating an incredibly complicated legal system, only to find that winning doesn't guarantee justice.

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help. This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

This thread, the story, the videos, what sport can spark..... total joy.

Queen

Sharp right turn there from ‘we’re not racist’ to ‘I don’t see no white kids in the school opposite my home, it’s full of Muslims and they breed like rabbits’ Confirming my sense that too many White people think that unless they’re actively lynching racialized minorities they’re ‘not racist’

Guess how many articles about this topic have been written in 2025, since Trump started demanding political retribution against universities who taught the wrong thing or allowed students to protest the wrong thing

Timeline cleanse

This is what Starmer and Labour have normalised. It's sickening. cc. @davidpintod.bsky.social you are my MP. Fuck Starmer, Labour and if you support him then fuck you too. We, non-white people, have to suffer the consequences of your hate politics pandering to the right wing. We will pay the price.

Centrism isn't an obstacle to fascism or a bulwark against it. It's a welcome mat. There's no point telling people "It's Starmer or Farage" when the dynamic at work here is plainly Starmer *and* Farage. "Labour or Reform" makes as much sense at this point as "Vichy or the Third Reich".

"Without community, there is no liberation." - Audre Lorde

Memories of UK Uncut demos. Unfortunately we apparently did not have *legitimate concerns*.

are housing asylum seekers. They were a polite friendly group who behaved impeccably and showed community spirit. Racist scaremongering is completely out of hand and our government needs to stop pandering to the Faragists and call them out.

They will be remembered for their gleefully aiding & abetting the Palestinian genocide, sucking up to American fascism, firebombing the right to peaceful protest, demonising trans ppl & decimating their civil libs, emboldening racists & ethnonantionalists, expanding the warfare & police state

You really aren't going to get a better example of how the British media works than the contrasting coverage of two Irish authors this week. The brave and sensitive transphobe John Boyne vs the vile and hateful opponent of genocide Sally Rooney.

Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre. #affordablehousingUK www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

I drew a Venn diagram between people demanding ethnicities of those charged with sex offences, and those who think (white) men accused of rape should have anonymity and I got a circle.

The parade of conservative “I was terrified in DC when…” stories about “crime” are almost exclusively “I had to be around a person I didn’t want to be around” stories. Unhoused folks, panhandlers, groups of teens, etc. Not doing anything criminal; just being in the wrong space. That’s illustrative.

This has now received national media attention in the UK, and been boosted by one of our most influential and wealthy cultural figures. This on the basis of a woman doing a normal working class service sector job in a polite way. It is *manifest* the complaint is just trans women existing in public.

Nighttime thoughts - when Just Stop Oil protesters threw some soup at a painting or whatnot, we were very sternly told that this was counter-productive and made people less likely to support them. Has anyone revised their opinion on this now that it's very clear ...

My current favourite TikTok drama is the woman who did a 20 part series about how her psychiatrist manipulated her into falling in love with him, and it’s basically that he’s the first man who’s ever listened to her without interrupting and so she’s transferred her feelings on to him.

At root of so much of this is the stoking *and* accepting of dehumanisation. Denying the human in those outside one's in-group. That's why there's never enough racism that can make the racist feel better, because in denying someone else's humanity, they chip away at their own.

hello i am the government. we have given predatory international capital everything they ever asked for but for some reason they want more things. we've already taken your entire salary so now we'd like your allotment, bin collection, community centre and lollypop lady.

This is really beautiful piece to read on a day filled with relentlessly grim news. "Tell someone you’d like to kiss them, on principle alone. Kiss lovers and friends."

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

Vagina Museum threads are never less than completely fascinating!

A global moral injury.

Watching a whole people starve to death because of Israeli policy and because of the inaction of our government is horrifying, and it is also destroying our souls, not just those of our politicians who could act and don’t, but those of all of us who are forced to watch and do nothing.

It would be a lot simpler, and more effective, to provide all people seeking asylum with the right to work. It has public and cross party support, helps protect against exploitation, helps people rebuild lives faster, and reduces Home Office costs. #r4today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

"Be kind to yourself and hard on the system."

me and @abigailhiggins.bsky.social every day