“What is clear is that the UK has amazing talent, and the opportunity to export that talent has diminished considerably post Brexit.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Yeah, a reminder that I am aggressively anti Generative AI because I'm a consent educator. I know how consent works. And a world that says "You wrote a book? Cool, let me guzzle a lake's worth of water to steal that and repackage it" is a world I don't want to participate in.

Losing is boring work

The whole government is classified now. You know what? The entire metro DC area. And most of Virginia. In fact, everybody close your eyes. America is strictly need-to-know from now on. wapo.st/4fZu2kW

if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k

Hillman really showing his arse here. After dismissing Collini’s piece as a ‘scream’ he then spends the first few paragraphs attacking Collini and his writing style rather engaging with the substantive points - either Hillman is a bad writer, a nasty piece of work, or he know’s his argument is weak.

literally moments later

May I not so politely suggest that this Labour government can yeet itself into the sun? Its transphobic policies, just as its xenophobic ones have, lead to vigilantism and harassment. Trans individuals are already discriminated against and this government is endorsing that.

Happy Pride! I made this for you all to use as you see fit this month.

Government getting absolutely and rightly thumped here by speaker after speaker. The recognition, and about time, by a significant chunk of Westminster that Parliament has been dragged into a position of pandering to hatred that should never be allowed.

Well, that’s ironic.

it’s all going great, guys, keep it up, put AI in everything, can’t wait till hackers breach my AI-powered toaster oven to convince it to launch rogue nukes at a rival hacker group

US owes UN under $2B. In today’s presser, UN spox was asked when will UN run out of money (presumably August), the answer pointed to the recent partial payment by China of $800M.

Once again, begging people to read the actual provisions in the Equality Act 2010 for the exclusion of ANY group from a space or a service, if that exclusion is objectively justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate end.

Well.

The @nytimes.com continues to show us who they are

Many MPs tell us that the current state pension age is 'unsustainable'. Which is odd, really, given that they can claim parliamentary pensions as soon as they turn 55.

Purpose of a Statutory Code is to make law easier to understand and apply by using clear examples. It's so providers avoid paying a solicitor each time they want to do something. This Code puts ALL the risk on providers. It assumes trans folk will self-exclude and be too poor and powerless to sue.

Almost amusing how some people think this isn’t literally true, as you can discover by googling what Kathleen Stock has been up to lately.

Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.

I find it moving that Lynch's legacy in the queer community is now forever tied to the phrase "fix your hearts or die". It has become a rallying cry. It is bigger than him. It is bigger than Twin Peaks. It is beautiful.

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The same bad actors that have opposed climate action for decades have now sought to weaponize the modest progress toward decarbonization we've made in spite of them. My co-author @doctorvive.bsky.social & I recently weighed in on this in the @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2026/05/sorr...

Cool, just BlueSky labelling a portfolio shot of a fully clothed Vivan as "adult content"

As well as being a generally good thing it fills my little trans heart with joy to know how much this statement will boil the piss of that foul blue-labour ex-fire bobby cunt Paul Embery

Jesus Christ. Man who ran BBC1 and Channel 4 goes full fascist.

European markets dropped like a stone earlier this afternoon; US markets have barely twitched...

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING. markets still don't get it

"he's the Business President but he's apparently incredibly shitty at business" is the kind of dipshit voter we need to switch sides, unfortunately I hate it here (the ex-Trump voter who isn't going to vote in the midterms? we take those)

A year before I lost my job because my boss was obsessed with AI. I told everyone that using them was fine but to be aware the true cost was hidden and not to become reliant on them because it's a product not a technology. Anyway I hope my boss goes broke trying to replace me with a bad computer.

Looking through the Mandelson files, has Wes Streeting said in public Israel is committing war crimes, or does he just keep that sentiment for DMs? www.gov.uk/government/p...

One cannot overstate the extent to which Russia has inherited from Soviet culture the concept that actually giving a fuck about anything is for rubes, and the important thing is to get one over on anyone, at any opportunity.

Oh, we'll all go together when we go!

Enjoy working out exactly how this has nothing to do with earphones.

"It's a symbol, but it's also... a piece of cloth, usually made in China these days... errm..."

What's so glaringly obvious is that they see the majority of people in this country as IRRITANTS

i know it's wild to think, but i'm the only employee at our museum and i'm also a human being

EVERY PLACE ON THIS PLANET is going to become less hospitable in some ways that we already know, but also in ways that we cannot possibly predict at this time. So let's sue the crap out of Exxon and Shell and use the money to help each other do better.

Brutal week at the New School though with friends fired. Tenure no protection. bsky.app/profile/news...

Ed Miliband: "New phone, who dis?"

we laugh but @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social has made this uk-wide policy this is what the ehrc guidance is. it's peering at women and trying to figure out if they're tranny or not and if you think they are you can discriminate against and persecute them even a woman as feminine as sweeney isn't safe

Not now, Cthulhu.

Remember all of this is happening because Trump miscalculated/ignored decades of analysis on Iran and cannot sell a war with real causalities to the US public and cannot look like a loser by backing down.

Aaron Mate lives for denying Assadite war crimes

This is the way.

Nobody connected with Milli Vanilli is American, except possibly whoever they lipsynced their songs to.

(1/2) "Across domestic work, care work, sex work, agricultural work, industrial work, sanitation work, gig work, and public sector work, we see women’s labour despite the many ways it is erased, devalued, criminalised, and exploited."

‘On how far we’ve come’ yes trans people who were having to go into hospital for chemotherapy or a bad bout of pneumonia didn’t used to have worry about being outed, harassed and humiliated in the process. Now thanks to your party, they do! Nice work x

Who would have thought the fans of the theft machine would be opposed to paying the true cost of the theft machine?

There was a racist white woman who used to stand outside my son’s high school holding a sign that said MLK would have wanted all black babies to be born, and she would harass and harangue students, esp. students of color, as they walked into school. Same energy here.