this is actually good news? should probably also ban house purchase for rental. basically the same thing but way worse

I would like to apologise for calling Your Party three trot parties in a trench coat, when they are clearly three trot parties and a landlord trying to kick the trots out of the trenchcoat in a trenchcoat. I'm listening and learning.

yes, in practice, most people can access abortion if they want one. but that isn’t actually what the law says, and afaik Diana Johnson’s amendment decriminalising abortion in England and Wales doesn’t actually change this? it’s a farcical situation honestly.

Lots has been said about how evil this Labour government is, and they are indeed evil, but we must remember that they are also incredibly fucking stupid.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

"are the fae open source" is a charming question imo. to me it suggests multiple types of magic - a more accessible, messy, customisable magic of the people, practised by mischievous goblins and well-meaning nerds, versus a smug, closed off proprietary magic practised by dickheads

I would put it like this. Minority communities and the majority of the majority community have integrated v.well. However, a significant minority of the majority community and a significant majority of the political class are stubbornly refusing to integrate, and that is where the real problem lies.

not using A.I. is the slacktivism you've been waiting for, and directly hurts billionaires and tech corporations

I can’t get over how unnecessary all of our most pressing dystopian horrors are. Who elected to give all the wealth that coulda solved climate or hunger to the consent ignoring machine that only surveils you, robs you or sexually exploits you but also poisons the environment & drinks all the water?

Tbh we’ve known this since Blair cosied up to Bill Gates on the Number 10 sofa and locked us into paying squillions for stuff that open source software would have done better www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Surprisingly hard to find a nice quality chocolate advent calendar these days that isn't Hotel Chocolat

Shoutout for teachers who hold a degree and/or QTS, and think anti-trans policies are unethical... Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.

People should be prosecuted for this, and companies and their directors should be answerable to regulators and penalised with full force. It seems so evidently to be a sex offence.

Valve should make a new Guitar Hero game imo

feels a bit like the mahmood plans have tipped thing over the edge, but we must always remember: lots of things have felt this way and the sensibles sit back down every time.

Because the law is an expensive tool to use; because this means it is mostly rich people who get to use it; because rich people are usually men; the law has become a tool of the patriarchy, one which men use to impose their will on women.

The conflation of asylum seeker and illegal migrants isn't an accident.

You’d never see this level of propaganda from *my* country’s state broadcaster 😏

Is it milk? A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.

COME ON! SINGLE DIGITS BEFORE DECEMBER. LET'S GO BABY!

thinking about how ppl like carol cadwaller and sonia sodha ran around telling us that they were such brave journalists that if the observer sold & split from the guardian it would be the end of the news media landscape as we know it... and how absolutely nothing has seemingly changed since it sold

Just so: the plan is to lock the cabin doors to keep the passengers out, fly the plane into the ground and then walk out of the wreckage untouched to fancy jobs at Facebook and PWC. And if you don’t like it, fuck you.

A few years ago there was a honeytrap on WhatsApp that caught a few MPs, lords and journalists and to this day no one has explained why or what they gained. Nothing to do with the Chinese though so in the memoryhole it goes.

Tony Blair was a centre right politician whose principal achievement was luckily being PM during a period of unusual economic stability/growth he had no hand in causing. His next two achievements were locking neoliberalism in to our economy leading directly to the 2008 crisis and the Iraq war

mmmm, forbidden Haribo

If only it had been glaringly obvious that this was the situation *ten fucking years ago*, and that the Labour right were 100% on the side of the Sun and the Telegraph on this stuff: we might not have spent a decade roaring at the left for preventing exactly these clowns doing precisely this shit.

If only there were some kind of lessons to be learnt here?

Oh

Well we said Black and Asian home secretaries are used as a shield to implement racist policies a white man couldn’t get away with and there’s no starker example than this. The worst kind of identity politics.

For those wondering why the Labour Government is behaving the way it is - here is a clue.

Can't wait for the AI bubble to burst and our government to bail them all out and increase taxes on us to pay for it

Literally the only difference between Reform and Labour is that Reform is honest about how much it hates the marginalised Labour will pretend it's in everyone's best interest and they're doing it for the people and just enact the same policies

Indentured servitude as government policy? Great! Great news!!

I've lived in UK since 1988. I've seen some pretty poor government. I've never spent a day cursing any government as much as this one today. Fuming!

LOL. As if Reform won't immediately sell every single part of the NHS to the US

Don't really care too much about a zelda movie as it was never a touchstone franchise of my youth but these new stills from the movie don't exactly say "Legend of Zelda" to me. Feels more 'generic 80s fantasy adventure'

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️ Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

imagine if Nick Griffin had proposed in 2010 that we should be stealing jewellery from refugees who arrive here, we’d have spent 15 years pointing to it as a low point in the political discourse around immigration, but now we’re just suppose to accept it from our “””centre-left””” government

With impeccable timing, "Labour Together" sharing analysis that shows that immigration only tops issue-polls because politicians won't stop banging on about it. What actually matters to people's lives is the soaring cost of living.

Did nobody read those books? Yes, he’s a roaring wingnut, his take on everything from patriotism to grooming gangs is full metal Telegraph crackpot and he has been very open about this, as have a lot of MPs who agree with him. They’re just reactionary swine! It’s not much more complex than that.

Yup, he's the real power here, and will still have the confidence of many MPs since he vetted them. McSweeney is a convenient figure for suggesting things will be radically different if he goes. They will not.

Christiane Amanpour, "Antisemitism is a major problem. How do you navigate that?" Zack Polanski, "I think it is a powerful message to have a Jewish leader and a Muslim deputy leader" "Antisemitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin" "And the best response to hatred is solidarity"

"They can't just be monkeys typing out gibberish", cos if they were that would not be particularly flattering for professional politics understanders like Steve who insisted to all of us that Starmer was an intergalactic brain genius playing a game of multi-dimensional chess

The takeaway IMO is aggro centrism is an astonishing historic disaster. Not only does it not work - it delivers very little for the public, doesn’t address core problems of the era and disillusions the public with democracy itself - but it actively aids the far right and prepares the way for fascism

LEFT: You're playing into the hands of the far-right FAR-RIGHT: [gleefully] Oh man these idiots are playing right into our hands LABOUR: ... horseshoe theory confirmed 😌

Lol these dipshits are so fucking clueless that they think Labour infighting is why they're unpopular. Scheming and briefing against each other is the only enjoyable or good thing these shit sacks are doing.

At this point I feel they are just working their way down the alphabet.

Evergreen.

beyond just being wrong on the merits, the thing that bugs me about people dismissing actors and athletes as labor is that, historically, they’ve been at the forefront of a lot of labor victories that have helped labor more broadly