British media: yeah but Widdecombe was right about trans people and nice to me personally so

2010, for example. You might ask: what had these people done to atone, at that point? Nothing: they had done a few “Sorry but were not sorry, and fuck you” interviews and they were, if anything, fucking raging that this wasn’t enough.

I find it frankly bizarre that the government should be so afraid of children wearing clothing and using names that might not align with the gender they were assigned at birth. you want me to get a doctor’s note so my daughter can wear trousers? I’m sorry but that’s just extremely weird

Exclusive: Vice-chancellor George Holmes among those arrested on suspicion of fraud. It marks an unprecedented moment in British higher education - the first time a university vice-chancellor has ever been arrested in the UK as part of a criminal investigation. manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-vi...

Remember, the transphobic EHRC code is being implemented by this government by CHOICE, not because it HAS to. Labour is CHOOSING to implement transphobic segregation.

Today it got so absurdly awful, Policer Scotland got the tenants to agree to let some of the crowd INTO THEIR HOMES to see they are not in fact a ISIS operation of groomer rapists hell bent on molesting white women and girls in South Glasgow. Yes, the cops showed the violent racist mob around.

In fairness, Kiran goes into the huge level of outrage about Gaza on the left, which - despite what you may have been repeatedly told - is actually very widespread and intense, and is not in fact restricted to placard waving extremists and ethnic sectarians.

Incredible and possibly unprecedented scenes on the Guardian Politics podcast, as Pippa and Kiran suddenly remember that the Gaza Strip used to exist, and that something quite odd and nasty has happened there that has seen most of it destroyed to rubble or bare earth

In any other business these would be record breaking 'customer satisfaction' scores. In ours, it's the background music in the VC's "hey well done everybody anyway about the closures job losses and 'voluntary' redundancy schemes ps: you didn't make your research income targets this year lol" email.

This does feel like a new and evolved form of Noticing Things, to me. More like the press just happening to be passed confidential info on Angela Rayner’s personal financial arrangements, or the Sun being handed CCTV footage of Matt Hancock necking his mistress from *inside his private office*.

Like I’m all for there being a comedy bit response to Farage, but it has to have some teeth and a wider thing behind/around it, because as ludicrous as he might be in so many ways, what he is pushing is extremely serious and not going to be humbled or vanquished by tweeness

Remembering this www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel & his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears & neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially...

I don’t ever ever ever ever want to hear one more ignorant person saying “hurp durp more vocational training”. If nursing ain’t that then nothing is. This Labour government do not want our young people educated. Period.

Particularly enjoying “this is what scrutiny looks like” from a journalist who has consistently failed to apply any to Farage

One of the most disgusting things I've read in a long time www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

doesn't look like we're getting a banter thunderstorm to delay kickoff to 5am, sadly

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN

Starmer clearly wanted to be be extremely drunk for his 9am Monday morning briefing

So far Burnham has avoided all key litmus issues, including; -Gaza -free speech/protest -trans people’s human rights/government transphobia -taxing the rich/media reform -fair votes/PR -Brexit -immigration/asylum/government racism -undoing the social media ban -zero-hours/gig economy/AI threats

When will Ed Balls shove a flare up his arse for our brave boys in the world cup 😡🇬🇧⚽

Fair play this is one of the biggest fuck yous Burnham could give and hes not even pm yet. An absolute master stroke in telling people they'll get what theyre given.

Regulation by "we can always tell"

This is what I mean when I say the McSweeney interviews are reputation laundering. It’s not just him that they’re absolving and future-proofing. It’s themselves too.

Is this seriously only €37,000 a year, or do I not understand French salaries? choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr/offre-emploi... Head of collections, Musée des Arts et Métiers (MUAM)

The Louvre is hiring (and not specifying a salary) choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr/offre-emploi...

News | Trans inclusion: Museum sector guidance updated in response to EHRC’s draft code of practice Team behind ethical framework says sector remains 'confused and concerned'

"Pride has succeeded" I say as my country attempts to implement a nationwide trans bathroom ban

We're starting a journal! We're looking for ideas for pieces that we can fold into the proposal that will go to an interested press, with the hope that if the press take the journal on we'll starting publishing in 2028. #smellstudies #sensorystudies #smellhistory #smells

The Edinburgh Joint Unions Financial Working Group has done an excellent job of going through the university's reports, finding that there's a sizeable surplus, management is using misleading metrics, and spending on buildings is *still* growing www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/ju-finance-w...

This is the language that the entirety of the mainstream UK media, including the "neutral" BBC, uses to talk about trans women and girls (less so trans men because, well, for obvious reasons).

Those close to the likely next prime minister acknowledged he would have to find nearly £5bn more than expected to fund the plans over the next four years, which one Burnham ally likened to an “unexploded bomb”.

I like the idea of a video game based on a bad Lou Reed album

NBC: “3yo shot dead in Gaza… Al-Ajeen tried to call for an ambulance, Israeli soldiers took his phone and dragged him beyond the yellow line, still carrying Rayan, who was bleeding from his chest… No medical assistance was provided to his dying son…” www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/s...

The front door of think tanks all over SW1 this morning.

The funniest part of the Kate Forbes leadership run was when her supporters would invent convoluted explanations for why she didn’t actually believe the things she was alluding to, only for her to be like “no I actually believe them in an even more extreme way” the very next day.

Heatmap News has just created a new genre of obituaries. And note the headline. heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...

This is pretty fun and it's also lowkey insulting (personally, collectively, spiritually) that Cory doctorow is the patron saint of The Union Organizer Archetype

The replies to this are absolutely full of people asking for the Greens to take an explicit stance in aupport of migrants, trans people and disabled people. If they try and do some Labour-brained triangulation bullshit around these issues they're gonna get absolutely fucked.

Certainly a good argument for keeping a few hard copy journal runs around. o_O

Reposting with alt text split over images b/c I think this is really important information for #skystorians There's plenty of productive conversation to have about the differences in citation/credit practices between popular/trade and academic publishing, but this is egregious, deliberate and wrong.

"It’s all very well putting up £1 m to explore Golden Eagles re-establishment in northern England but w/out also investing in wildlife crime enforcement capabilities, any eagle will simply be shot, trapped, poisoned or bludgeoned, with 0 consequences for the offenders, as they've been for 70+ years"

dog shit country, truly

As an aside: is it odd that Sir Keir’s fellow politicians describe him as a weirdly hostile, unpleasant little freak who goes out of his way to avoid speaking to them, but he’s apparently never off the phone to the president of Ukraine? That does sound strange, doesn’t it.

My Labour MP, newly elected 2024, cheery Instagram video about how he's decided to back Burnham, without shame or dignity, an utter embarrassment, bet all his family think so too. Free Palestine.

This is why the use of “AI” as a marketing term is so corrosive. It means nothing, hurts good tech, shields harmful/useless tech. It’s a gimmick, it’s a sign of ignorance, it’s doublespeak

they're not booing the hydration break, they're booing John Terry

Not to be all wokescold about it, but we've just spent all week yelling about how there are systemic economic, political, policy and structural issues as to why Europeans don't have AC - the same is true for Black, Hispanic and other minority communities in DC. Let's show some actual solidarity.

ffs