Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

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one for the british political shitposters in there

This country is the worst

Don’t all these problems go away if universities stop being businesses?

BBC managing to find the one shot of Gaza that still has buildings for its footage this morning. 5% spent on that, 95% spent on Israeli’s waving victory flags

This is just it. They’re privileged enough to know that if it doesn’t work out they won’t be disadvantaged by the consequences of their right wing political turn, but they will have made themselves desirable to a string of corporates who will offer rather lovely consulting positions.

YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SHOOT GUILTY PEOPLE EITHER

It really, really sucks that so many people were right about this from day one but everyone called them cranks and now it’s too late

When the camera turns round though 🥲

“This is all the fault of Brexit” is the liberal equivalent of “stop the boats”

okay you don't have to be so literal about the last few years

I’m a Your Party Membership Portal and so is my wife

I haven't been around here much since I was warned by @moderation.bsky.app that my account was "violating (Bluesky's) violent and threatening speech guidelines" because I asked the CEO of Bluesky if she would give the same importance to the murder of Palestinian kids as to the murdered podcast guy.

Incredible posting happening on twitter

Not Dion Dublin filming stairs leading up to the bedrooms next door 😲

We've been getting ten times as much coverage of Charlie Kirk getting airholed as this news out of Nepal, and I think that says a great deal about how craven, terminally twitter brained and America-pilled our media is, more than the relative importance of the stories. share.google/OzKpsg7gUAbn...

The impulse was already there and had been for a while, white nationalism isn’t new. GG caused the creation/expansion of online infrastructure for networking, community building (mainly among young online people) and spreading/testing of tactics and propaganda. But it didn’t invent the fasc wheel.

The UK government is signing contracts with AI companies and championing its widespread use, if they want to worry about water usage.

Liam Byrne doesn’t get enough credit for the absolute shit show we’re living through tbh

It's a paper from last year, but it still pains me to think that we could have achieved elimination without resorting to lockdown, simply by implementing universal respirator usage alone. Not masks, respirators. It's still not too late.

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

Climate change is likely intensifying the heat wave scorching the UK, increasing temperatures by as much as 4C (7.2F), according to new research

Roughly this time last year, at the end of June, we had a short heat spike of a few days. My mum always struggled when temps got above 25c. On 30th June she had a heart attack and died.

We’ve lost so much common sense knowledge about how to keep ourselves safe, all in the pursuit of consumerist pleasure.

Brain aging in COVID "We’re seeing signs of early, widespread cognitive impairment—slowed thinking, weakened memory, executive dysfunction. Not just in one domain. Not just in one region. Almost every study that looks for brain damage post-infection finds it." x.com/drseanmullen...

Dr Sean Mullin on C19 & brain changes.

"The study shows that such extreme events are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, with last year’s figures reaching twice that of the 2003-2020 average. The steepness of the rise was not foreseen."

This is incredibly funny but, also, I hope everyone who is pro AI or a teacher that allows AI can see clear as day that the ultimate goal is to put the thumb on the scale of all of this shit. That's why they're forcing it on us. It's a joke.

32C in SE England this weekend would - in the absence of global heating - only happen every 2500 years Now made 100x more likely The UK Met Offoce recently reported that 45C - even 47C - now possible in UK summers This is just the beginning folks www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat. People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.

Wait til the transphobes aren't happy with this either because they don't actually want trans people to be able to take part in public life at all, even in entirely separate categories. One day these people will realise there is no capitulation that will ever make them happy.

Just one more reason to add to the pile for why the right always attacks universities

I can understand why people do these kinds of analyses, but they will not move the dial. The people Farage appealed to yesterday have been in crisis mode for 15 years and all many of them will see is someone who understands their plight and wants to help them.

This is my friend, if anyone has a spare few quid to donate I know Andrew would be very grateful. Or just a share, if you have the time. Thank you.

Going through dad’s tool chest. Look at this, a proper whetstone. Back when tools were tools. In a lovely wooden box. So much really quality stuff in here. And 378 crowbars and 126 hammers, for some reason.

As always

The reason Civ 7 sucks is because they didn't have Luigi around to fix it

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record. Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record. (This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa) gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/

All these people getting upset about Lurpak and other dairy products because of Bovaer are going to accidentally become vegan to own the... vegans. Stopping eating dairy is going to have an even better effect at slowing climate change than using Bovaer so thank you, comrades!

Hiccups. I got sent out of the class. Not to go and seek help, but just to stand outside because it was disruptive. And while I was gone someone stole my favourite pencil.

What these lesser evil arguments come down to, a lot of the time, is that yes the harms to other people might be the same, and of course I, a caring person, am unhappy about that, but the lesser evil might be slightly less evil towards me personally, a comfortable liberal.

ngl going from feeling such an immense amount of love and comradeship and hope just a few years ago to now feeling such intense hatred and bitterness towards the same organisation is giving me perpetual whiplash

As I mourn the loss of my mum and prepare to spend Christmas morning at the hospital with my very poorly mother in law, I sincerely hope you are all able to find peace, joy, and comfort today, no matter what that looks like for you ❤️

Merry Stabmas 🎄

You know what the problem is with modern music. No sax solos.

I've been hiding in the fictional world of Dragon Age The Veilguard. Finished it once, have started it a second time. It's beautiful, has some excellent writing and acting, the combat is a lot of fun (although I swear I'll never learn how to block). Very grateful it came out this year.

Poor showing from most of the main supermarkets this year. Iceland have changed their recipe and the pastry is dismal. Lidl's pies are very decent standard pies, not a thing to take aim at. Aldi's are very nice, of course. Am trying to source some from Waitrose because they're meant to be the best.

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