fr i place the blame for shit like this on every cishet white person who “just can’t talk politics with aunt gina anymore” & there are no consequences to “gina proposed reinstatement of slavery at thanksgiving” aside from it being awkward til pie. get your houses in order! kick your bigots out!

oh my goodness - Lieu played Rubio a video of Trump sleeping while Rubio tried to talk to him during a cabinet meeting. Then this exchange: RUBIO: I've never seen him fall asleep LIEU: I'm gonna show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress *plays another clip of Trump sleeping by Rubio*

Really useful discussion of why & how Henry Nowak's murderer was only incidentally a Sikh, and more importantly an arsehole obsessed with being dangerous, from a family of dangerous arseholes. www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comm... See also: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Incredible

X is currently full of posts falsely naming Christi Hill and another officer as having arrested Henry Nowak. One names and pictures the other PC, saying, "Wanted: dead or alive". It gives his address. What more exactly will it take to get UK MPs, ministers and departments off that hellsite?

Arguments like this remind me of undergraduate course evaluations asking students to rate the professor's knowledge of the subject. They can't, of course. All they can say is whether the professor looked and sounded as they imagine a professor ought to look and sound. That's quite a different thing.

that's a good paragraph, reading it five years later.

"... but people are not."

I'm just a regular middle-aged cis dude, and I'm taking five different pills every day. My mum & parents-in-law take so many I really don't know how they don't rattle. And, hello? HRT?

whenever transphobes concern troll about "being dependent on medication for the rest of your life" I'm just like. joke's on you I'm disabled and would take meds for the rest of my life anyways. no reason NOT to medically transition at that point really.

I want to say one thing about this. This has been the hiring process for low wage workers for awhile. Wal Mart et al have been using automated job application systems to gamify everything from postings to schedules. The crisis, such that it is, is that it is now happening in middle skills jobs.

"Iron Felix" led organisations that murdered tens of thousands of people, possibly hundreds of thousands. He's been undergoing full-spectrum rehabilitation in Russia for years. He wasn't even Russian. His family were Polish gentry from modern-day Belarus. Death-worship, pure & simple.

THE FLORSHEIMS FIT FINE is the updated version of

The next time someone writes some dishonest bullshit about "left wing political violence" send them this

🔴 The Neo-Nazi and Far-Right Coalition that Converged on Southampton Over Henry Nowak’s Murder There were Nazi salutes and ‘White Power’ chants on the streets of Southampton, after the Reform UK leader called for “pure cold rage” in response to Nowak’s death bylinetimes.com/2026/06/03/t...

No but seriously. (Yes it's Steve Hilton. Yes that Steve Hilton. Yes, Governor of California. Yes, I agree @samfr.bsky.social is probably somewhere with his head in his hands.)

This is why it’s awkward for Labour now: they’ve spent forever telling people that the crackpot right and the most depraved parts of our press are 100% correct and everyone who says otherwise is scum who needs to be crushed. And now, *they* are the scum who must be crushed. Awkward indeed.

Some excerpts. MAGA thought they were going to be cool now. But that is impossible. Enjoy their cope. www.salon.com/2026/06/03/m...

Racists in 2026 - jumping on the murder of a Polish teenager to bash brown people, any brown people, brown people in general. Racists in 2016 - writing "DIRTY POLISH" in 2-ft high letters yards from the Portsmouth war memorial, hours after the referendum.

Sexual and gender diversity is undeniably a thing that our species does, in any cultural environment. And we are certainly not alone in this. Nature is profoundly queer and restlessly inventive. https://bit.ly/4eixs0Z

Keir Starmer on Henry Nowak murder: “We must not allow this tragedy to be hijacked by anyone who seeks to divide us.” Speaker (calling the next question): “Nigel Farage”

“Woke” for me but not for thee. Confronting your boss is apparently workplace harassment now.

Stephen Lawrence was killed by six men. It took 19 years for two of them to face justice. Four never did. Henry Nowak's killer has been convicted and jailed within six months of his death. The two cases *are not the same*. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

Labour is being deliberately cruel to trans children by delaying a letter that could have profound effects on their lives and mental health. At this point I can come to no other conclusion than the fact that Labour is trying to kill or severely harm trans children.

Trans guys are catching strays from Ken's efforts to suggest that politicians who don't meet his gender performance seal of approval aren't real men, because everything is Gender and everyone is twelve.

In 1998, someone I love (then a white, male teenager) had a psychotic break. He had his head kicked in by bouncers, was arrested and only taken to hospital after the police custody doctor said he was dying. I don't know whether he would have survived if that custody doctor hadn't been on duty.

Cameron & Johnson in full agreement that this actually happened - PM tried to bribe Johnson to oppose Brexit, Johnson screwed him over, and thus fucked the entire country...

This is the thing that's been getting me re: the judge's remarks. "Criminals are known to lie and fake injuries, so police are justified in ignoring a slurring guy who clearly can't sit upright's claim that he was stabbed, just because he's considered a suspect" is vile

This is the position of Islamic feminism: the problem is not Islam, but the way certain men have interpreted it to serve their own interests … A feminist framework rooted in Islam rather than imported from the west, gives them a way to resist that feels authentic theconversation.com/what-happene...

Continue to be stunned by the incompetence of Outlook spam filters. They let through stuff which is obviously phishing, just because it claims to come from sharepoint.

There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.

"Our plan is working: push harder!"

All powered by advertising that had almost no other way of reaching into the homes of countless millions of people at such modest cost. And particularly in that sense by millions upon millions of small-ads as a whole mode of communication in itself.

This already happened for the NEH. I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Forced Family Returns: a violent and brutal proposal. This is being coordinated by @jcwi-uk.bsky.social. Consultation closes tomorrow so today is an excellent time to write a letter opposing this proposed change.

Your regular reminder that Martin Luther King would have been called a terrorist, and indeed would probably have been arrested and charged with terrorism, if that vocabulary had been as prominent then as it is now. They threw everything else at him.

"Look, look, but no, look, no, really, the USSR *should have* worked, and, and I *know* it was ghastly in practice, but really, really, no, honestly, it *should have worked* and I really, really think my view on that is more important than anyone's actual experience..."

Incitement to riot is a serious criminal offence (Public Order Act 1986). So are encouraging/assisting offending, causing fear/provoking immediate violence, stirring up racial hatred, & terrorism (variously under POA 1986, Serious Crime Act 2007, Terrorism Act 2006 etc). Enforce the law.

Against my will I watched part of an AI conference yesterday. Over four hours these were the only notes I took.

TFW you're just starting to work through a corpus of village cahiers de doléances from 1789, & you've already read at least half a dozen striking instances of radical grassroots thinking, including one village asserting that all parish priests ought to be elected by their parishioners...

Excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social about the Henry Nowak case and what it does/doesn't show about policing www.ft.com/content/aa94...

LOL, the USA runs the largest prison-industrial complex in the world, ahead even of China.

BBC News showing footage of both Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox at the Southampton Riots. Inciting their fans and followers. Arrest and charge them both. Arrest and charge Nigel Farage.

BBC reporter: "Some residents of this quiet community outside the city centre seemed shocked and scared by what they were witnessing." Do you think?

I am so wildly outside my expertise here but I read this report from Amnesty and they do seem to just go through, with a fairly good amount of referencing, how actively seizing information en masse can directly breach human rights? They go into expression / equality in a fair amount of detail!!

You'll be shocked to discover that this was a complete lie. But it will join the rightwing online ecosystem of incontrovertible "facts they don't want you to know" anyway...

The ramping up of establishment attacks on disabled people, trans people, Black people and protestors means we must internalise, and quickly, the commonality of our experience of being outside, marginalized. And come together in political solidarity. There is no other way.

Wonder how much it cost to "install but never commission" these water tanks, now being auctioned off with a guide price of twelve grand...

Love the description: "The largest chamber measures approximately 56 sq. metres, offering the perfect footprint for an inimitable residential development, whether for owner occupation, holiday let, or secret intelligence headquarters."

Because "economic anxieties" are what you say when you've been rigorously trained not to discuss how many ordinary folk are really racist.