📍 Last week GMB members working at the BMA protested outside BMA House demanding fair pay for staff. After years of real-terms pay cuts, members are now balloting on strike action. 📮 Post your ballot now 🗳️ Ballot closes at 12pm on Monday 16 March #FairPayAtTheBMA #GMBLondon #MembersFirst

#NowSpinning Beast in Black - Dark Connection 💙 #MetalSky #VinylSky #VinylCommunity

New short album from Blackbraid, getting me through Friday afternoon. Worth a listen if melodic/ambient black metal is your jam. #BandcampFriday #MetalSky #NewMusic blackbraid.bandcamp.com/album/noctur...

Hi! Immigration lawyer here! Mahmood's view of the Refugee Convention as providing temporary protection just isn’t correct & AFAIK isn’t one anyone has ever adopted. On the contrary, the Convention is clearly predicated on a long-term need for protection. 1/🧵

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

this guy's smart and he found it useful, what does that mean for the rest of us? well it's still blood soaked machinery you rent from fascists so it's not affecting my analysis really

In his speech today Andy Burnham cited our poll finding that record numbers now think the cost of living crisis will never end. Totally right imo it is 'code red' - it's not just that life is too hard for too many at the moment - but people have also lost hope it will get better

Thank you to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for your clear support for the trans community. In a political climate where too many are stepping back, visible allyship from political leaders matters. We were proud to meet Zack at launch of the Trans Lives Report by @transactualuk.bsky.social

"You can't take away GenAI what about the people who use it?! 😭😭😭" Fuck 'em. Fuck every last one of them. The scrapers DDoS us every waking fucking hour, making it a nightmare to keep things running. I have ZERO sympathy for folks addicted to the plagiarism machine that lies to you.

I'm selling 2 tickets (at early bird prices) for Takedown Festival, 3rd-4th April 🐥 Line up ft. Phil Campbell & the Bastard Sons, The Wildhearts, Gnome, South of Salem, PRESIDENT, Wargasm, INME, As It Is, Graphic Nature, and more! #MetalSky #RockSky #MusicSky www.twickets.live/app/block/10...

The thing is, Keir, they do have the activist base, because it is in no small part the old labour activist base that you chased away. 💀

I don't know what the opposite of nominative determinism is. But Matt Goodwin does.

You got to feel for Matt Goodwin. Sorry missed a word. You got to feel contempt for Matt Goodwin.

‘hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it’

Worth watching for Zack's comments and the disgust on the face of the Sky dude that they're being called out. They really do not understand we see who they are...

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

There's still time to apply for this year’s BMA Giving awards, which support doctors and communities by funding projects that make a real impact. Grants are for UK registered charities supporting healthcare initiatives reflecting our mission, vision and values bmagiving.smapply.io/prog/bma_giv...

Oh! It does exist! 😱 Tactical-choice.uk

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

The UK parliament now has an MP who is openly racist and far right. This is, for the current era, new ground, and it will be interesting to see how - if at all – other MPs respond.

We are capable of so much more when we are in solidarity with each other. The idea that no one cares as much as you do is inherently isolating and supremely beneficial to an oppressor.

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

There's a point in this where he is clearly trying to argue that married women should not have finances independent of their husbands and also that they shouldn't be allowed to get divorced and you do basically realise this is a war against all of modernity, but particularly women.

If you're horrified by Reform's headline-grabbing racism (and you should be), you should also be horrified by our current Government's attacks on Indefinite Leave To Remain. Our head of campaigns @nbphillips1872.bsky.social in The Guardian: buff.ly/JIRAiD7

#NowSpinning Mosaic I: L'amour et l'ardeur - Unreqvited 🌸 #NowPlaying #VinylSky #MetalSky @unrqvtd.bsky.social

Something the Government want you to forget...

After some unwelcome visitors on Wednesday night, Warwick has already managed to remove all the flags from its lamp posts 👏

Lauren Hart's vocals are sounding like a good fit for Arch Enemy. Buzzing for some new music 🤘 #MetalSky youtu.be/WujjCSEJcDk?...

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

On Saturday 28 March we’re encouraging our members to join the Together Alliance march in central London. The Together Alliance is a coalition of civil society organisations representing more than seven million people, standing together against division and racism. bma-mail.org.uk/p/7IPW-BKF/t...

New Gaerea single is beaut 🖤❄️ #MetalSky youtu.be/OL-aRFJohIA?...

Imagine being one of Reform's 8 MPs and not being invited into a cabinet that lacks a health, defence or foreign affairs shadow

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Oh absolutely not, nope, nope. No.

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

“Penalise” those women who don’t have enough babies. FFS

Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...

We're told all the time there's no fucking magic money tree to invest in public spending and yet these pricks are throwing away money hand over fist on actively making everything worse, hurting free speech, expanding genocide, fucking our healthcare and privacy.

BREAKING⚡️The High Court has just ruled that the government's draconian ban of Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a massive blow to the Home Office’s authoritarian approach. They need to stop criminalising people protesting a genocide and start ending the UK's complicity

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Government consultation on 'earned settlement' closes at midnight tonight. It takes ~10 minutes to respond to. www.gov.uk/government/c... @praxisprojects.bsky.social have a useful resource to help respond to the consultation 👇 www.praxis.org.uk/consultation

Do please respond to this consultation and push back on the government's sickening proposals to fuck up the security of our colleagues, neighbours carers and friends. Closes tonight. www.gov.uk/government/c...

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

The Government consultation on 'earned settlement' closes at midnight tonight. It takes ~10 minutes to respond to. www.gov.uk/government/c... @praxisprojects.bsky.social have a useful resource to help respond to the consultation 👇 www.praxis.org.uk/consultation

In the UK, around 56% of daily energy intake now comes from ultra processed foods. This is just one of many worrying statistics from our new report on poor diets, and its health impacts. Read more about the report, and our recommendations for change: www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

I just completed this consultation. I’m disgusted at the extreme and punitive changes being proposed and I am also incensed at the grossly punitive and divisive way the consultation itself is structured /-/ questions focus either on how much should we further punish migrants,

The Government consolation on 'Earned Settlement' closes tonight at midnight. If you have 10 minutes, I'd encourage you to fill it out and challenge plans which would make settlement harder for people, undermine integration, and punish refugees 👇 www.gov.uk/government/c...

Wes Streeting is right… Israel is committing war crimes against Palestinians. What is damning is that @wesstreeting-mp.bsky.social is part of a government that has continued business as usual with Israel despite its war crimes and genocide in Gaza.

This tweet reads exactly like a teenage girl's 2009 Facebook post 💀