Humanism is six words! 🎄🎅🎁❄️🎊🧦

Genuine question: Why's the reaction of many politicians to AI 'it's transformational, we must go faster, we can dismiss concerns over energy, copyright, job losses', yet the reaction to a clean tech transition that's more advanced and has less overt downsides is 'steady now, we need to slow down'.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

🇺🇸 attempts to force 🇺🇦 surrender are currently 0 from 3. Europe is winning, even if it doesn't realise. Trump's national security strategy exposes weakness. Its attitude to Europe is like the obsessive ex stalking the former partner, wondering who that new guy is. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

Ps always important to remember she went out on Newsnight and defended the cutting off of water and electricity to the Palestinians. That's who our competition is - and that's why they're terrified.

Despite what others may think , dehumanising trans people is just the start and before long people will say, “i didn’t know the trans haters wanted my rights too” @amnestyfeminist.bsky.social #translivesmatter #reproductiverights

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy is now within touching distance of 80,000 signatures! LET’S KEEP GOING! If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population. How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich? They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.

Labour’s awful migrant policies are helping pave the way for the racist far right. And they are also building a gold-plated shed at the end of that road - full of tools for a far right Govt to oppress us all. 🕵️ Digital ID database 📸 High St facial rec 👨‍⚖️ Removing trial by jury

I think it really would be helpful if there was a public explanation for this unusual decision, in this highly charged and important case. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This little transphobic rant by Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times really shows how pathetic gender critical ideology is. They play victimhood every day from the national media, while childishly insulting the existence of trans and non-binary individuals, calling any criticism of that 'silencing'.

Notice that @aptshadow.bsky.social ’s Children of Time is 99p on kindle in the UK. If you have any interest in SF and haven’t read it, this is a no-brainer.

You're gonna be unpopular. Be unpopular because you're fixing things, not because you aren't.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

"And why at the next election it won't be Conservatives Vs Labour but Reform Vs The Green Party." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can see why Labour waited for Lords stages before adding THIS to the Crime and Policing Bill. Extending protest suppression to include vague ‘cumulative’ impacts (that could include OTHER protests!) will clearly be misused by police. Lords must oppose this attack on our rights.

Tax wealth. Not work. Join.greenparty.org.uk

If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard. If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller. But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment

Late period Osborne: interest rates at zero and 50-80bn of headroom: and his priority was “don’t invest”.

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies Those companies pay billions to their shareholders And then lay off their workers Think that's unfair? Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

Sultana’s position on Ukraine is not just morally reprehensible but juvenile and trite

£20bn sounds like a lot, but just a 2% tax on assets over £10 million would raise £24bn. That’s a tax that would only affect the top 20,000 richest people in the country. The idea that Rachel Reeves needs to raise taxes on working people to balance the budget is simply false. Tax the ultra-rich.

Sorry but 💀 Our rivers and seas can’t wait FIFTEEN YEARS, Thames Water.

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested. Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

The Chancellor says she 'fixed' a problem caused by “some snails or something”. Comments like this pit nature against growth – it’s the wrong target. Here, the system has worked: protecting one of UK’s rarest species while allowing 20,000 homes to proceed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

20,000 new members have joined the Green Party in the past month. This is the Green surge. Want to be part of it? Join the Green Party today ⤵

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists." The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

Green Party membership is soaring — we’re now bigger than the Lib Dems 💚 Real hope. Real change. Join the Green Party today.

What a first day of conference! @greenparty.org.uk is here - and ready to win. www.channel4.com/news/zack-po...

“From Russian bribes to Musk beaming onto big screens advocating violence, we can’t go on pretending that this isn’t happening. That there are not powerful interests, state and private, East and West, pouring billions into destabilising our democratic processes and institutions.”

"For the next 15 years, give us a subsidy from public money, and remove the disincentive for us to stop dumping raw sewage, so our creditors are rescued from the consequences of their own greed" is not, I have to say, the world's most appealing pitch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK, London: Unfolding Futures: Power of Visibility in STEAM. Join Stemettes in celebrating Ada Lovelace Day with the launch of our latest trifold report, showcasing the power and influence of STEAM. 16 Oct, 6-7:30pm, free #ALD25 findingada.com/event..#ALD25

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

We know Badenoch was talking bollox about the climate and net zero - she rarely talks anything else But here's the evidence - line by line www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A question for Times columnist Sebastian Payne: What is this cheaper source of "energy" that you speak of? The world's energy experts would like to know…

As with the Tilly Norwood scam, journalists really don’t have to play along with the AI industry’s propaganda and publicity stunts

The UK public, all demographics, support climate action. A huge public campaign led to the Climate Change Act, and it has meant more action on job creation, nature protection, energy security, and wellbeing. It is obvious the Conservatives are listening to vested interests not the public interest.

Badenoch and Reform stand with the profiting polluter elites, not working people. Renewable energy = cheaper energy. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪

Scary to watch the Global Sumud Flotilla being intercepted by Israeli forces - we know how brutally the Israeli military has treated those on previous flotillas. The world is watching - the Foreign Secretary @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social must urgently step up to ensure safety of UK citizens on board

"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.* www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

Today seems like a good day to remember that climate action is far cheaper than inaction, according to those lentil weavers at the OBR

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

it's not possible for a fiat economy to have a 'black hole' of any size. they literally jus trot this line out whenever they don't want to do something and want to blame the tories for their lack of will.

the ‘fiscal rules’ are literally made up to justify continued austerity.

When the Greens are your enemy, you've f'ed up. Guess what, people want a progressive, green, inclusive country. Not a party that thinks we're an "island of strangers", racism is a "valid concern", trans kids are too dangerous to exist, and the north sea should be drill, baby, drill.

Labour stand for one thing to everyone - to protect the super rich. @greenparty.org.uk will cut bills, bring public services back into public hands, and protect our NHS. Labour takes cash from oil & gas, gambling, and the arms trade. Make your choice. 👉🏼 Join.greenparty.org.uk