The BBC’s description of people who choose to attend a Tommy Robinson march. “Peacefully expressing their interpretation of British identity”

Well, that took less than 24 hours, lads. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

People make fun of politicians who dress differently to how they think they should be dressing, but Parliament staff learn their names much more quickly than those of the endless men in suits.

Confused by people saying how weird the weather is today but then remembered not everyone spent part of their childhood in Orkney.

BBC News at 6 cover Nigel Farage's £5,000,000 gift from a foreign based crypto billionaire They don't mention the latest revelations from Ben Habib alleging that Farage and Johnson both previously received £1,000,000 from the foreign based billionaire

In a week of deeply depressing news at home and abroad, take five minutes to be inspired by Tala and Farah’s grit and tenacity. Tell your kids what they achieved, from a tent in a bombed-out city. Gaza sisters win prize for turning rubble into reusable bricks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"who is Wes Streeting?"

Are…are Charles and Camilla the “Streeting allies”? Coz honestly, I could see it.

245 major cultural figures have signed a letter in support of Misan Harriman after a disgraceful and dishonest smear campaign by the Telegraph. Thanks to the Guardian for covering the letter, and for linking to the open letter where you can add your own name.

THE CITY IS WILDER THAN YOU THINK AND KINDER THAN YOU THINK. IT IS A VALLEY AND YOU ARE A HORSE IN IT IT IS A HOUSE AND YOU ARE A CHILD IN IT SAFE AND WARM HERE IN THE FIRE OF EACH OTHER —Robert Montgomery, Light Poem (recycled sunlight) www.robertmontgomery.org/9g9r6ri42z6v...

This is such sad news. Apart from the terrible loss to her loved ones and to #anime this is another longstanding #Ghibli colleague, and #HayaoMiyazaki hasn't got so many of those left to lose.

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

A beautiful thread for all fellow library lovers. #librarysky

Not Wes Streeting, please not Wes Streeting. Never met anyone with a good word to say about him (and that includes several people who knew him in his NUS days).

Yep. I didn’t leave X the day Musk bought it, though I considered doing so. But it quickly became apparent that there could be no “stay and fight to win.” It was more like “stay and fight, cook your own brain in slime, probably end up significantly less mentally well than you were, and still lose.”

At some point there needs to be a *proper* conversation about how cruelty has become a new normal for so many people. And we can't just keep putting it down to structures. Too many people with plenty of agency are actively choosing this.

Ooof that’s brought back memories, I never read this (I did read Bernard Ashley’s Running Scared after it was adapted as a series for Children’s BBC) but I remember seeing it in the local bookshop.

Ah, Britain. Global leader in sliding backwards.

It is objectively insane that all the money the average renter earns until mid May every year goes straight into the pocket of their landlord.

Eurovision voting has ALWAYS been dodgy. i talk about this on the Eurovision ep of Untitled History pod later this week. the difference now is that Israel weaponises the public voting in multiple countries. it doesn't break the rules. but it is so far beyond the spirit, it stains the whole event.

Incredible that Starmer said the Greens push fear and then followed by saying Labour offers the Green's slogan of Hope. Has he had a knock to the head?

Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork

Snufkin is upset with us because we bought her a new scratching post.

Here's where Louis Mosley, the black-shirt wearing grandson of the black-shirt wearing fascist Oswald Mosley, who runs Palantir in the UK, says how and when they might use your medical data for "immigration enforcement" and, by logical extension, whatever other purposes became convenient.

In fact, yes, I do think it’s a widespread social crisis that students are going to be graduating without the capacity to think critically and without subject matter knowledge. At a time when technofascism prevails, more of us should be terrified about the consequences of universalizing gAI use.

Further evidence for this piece - a newly elected Reform councillor called the Holocaust a hoax - silence from all the voices who have said the Green Party has an issue with antisemitism.

Bloody hell.

Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people

🚨BREAKING: We've run the numbers. Independent Green Voice, a "fascist front" for Holocaust denier Alistair McConnachie, cost the Scottish Greens an MSP

Amused that Country Living claims that Ilkley Cinema is Europe’s smallest, I’m guessing they just stood outside and didn’t go in? Very easy to fact check that it is not, plus I feel like they’d advertise that more if it were true?

and as trans people have already pointed out... It is literally just recycled "same sex attracted" or whatever. It's just some kind of shit euphemism where they avoid just calling gay people gay or trans people trans. Why? cos conversion therapists don't believe you can really be those things.

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

Your new record-breaking group of 15 Scottish Green MSPs!

I like that the story of the day so far is that Scottish Greens got two trans members elected in the face of the cowardly transphobia and hypocrisy over the gender recognition act.

This.

The way they asked him the question *twice*, and he was like "oh, did I not give enough examples the first time" and added more examples of how labour are not a progressive party

Husband put Children of Men soundtrack on at dinner time, if you want to know how we’re feeling about English politics. The film opens on what will be my 50th birthday, next year, and as a gift I’d like our politics to stop hurtling towards that kind of world.

🟢 @hollybruce.bsky.social elected to represent Glasgow Southside! Holly is the second Scottish Green MSP to be elected today, and the second Scottish Green constituency MSP to be elected ever!

Have I just spotted that one of Scottish Labour’s candidates was someone really active on the craft scene 15-20 years ago?

Selfie taker on the end makes it 👌🏻

Getting annihilated in Scotland should’ve been a devastating shock, a wake up call. Instead, they point blank refused to believe they were the problem and spent the next ten years shitehousing their colleagues, squealing at journos and frottering union flags. And here we now are.

🟢 @lornaslater.bsky.social elected to represent Edinburgh Central! Lorna is the first Scottish Green MSP to be elected today, and the first Scottish Green constituency MSP to be elected ever!

Burns Night is cancelled if he loses his seat.

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🚨 GREEN MILESTONE 🚨 For the first time, the Green Party has 1,000 councillors 💚 Congratulations to Cllr Maxine Webb - the 1,000th Green Party councillor - on being elected to Norfolk County Council 🎉

YES YOU DO, YOU DO ACTUALLY DO THAT, ESPECIALLY ON LONG FLIGHTS. CHANGING PILOTS DURING A FLIGHT IS A THING THAT REGULARLY HAPPENS, DAVID

Well a friend of mine stood for the Lib Dems in her local council and won a seat so that’s something. She’ll be a force for good.

Local radio station is running a competition to win a full MRI body scan worth £1500. I laughed but then thought if you’re stuck on a long waiting list you’d probably enter and that’s a really sad state of affairs.

Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind + solar Now that's flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels

Stop the clock! Who had two days-from-report-to-grifting-dickheads-pushing-ivermectin for the hantavirus outbreak?