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Happy Wednesday

Objectively hilarious.

Today marks the start of LGBTQ+ History Month, a moment to celebrate the incredible contributions LGBTQ+ people have made to our city across generations. My message to London’s LGBTQ+ communities is this: you are loved and wanted in our city. Happy LGBTQ+ History Month.

I understand how strongly people feel about assisted dying. But I do think it’s really sad that respectful disagreement seems to have broken down. Esther Rantzen is terminally ill and very unwell at the moment. Is there anything we are still able to debate kindly?

Last night, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a landmark resolution calling for a ban on conversion practices, harmful actions that try to change, suppress, or erase who LGBTI people are.

I spoke to BBC Devon this morning about the impact of Storm Chandra. The water levels are something to behold. Local information is available on the Devon County Council website: www.devon.gov.uk/news/heavy-r...

Delighted to have co-organised this special event for academics & journalists with @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Policy Unit exploring data on Gen Z identity, beliefs, & practices. Spoiler alert: there’s no good evidence of a ‘religious revival’ among British youth & plenty pointing the other way

Homicides in England and Wales fall to lowest level since records began

In 1988, the BBC paid tribute to the heroic work of the humanist Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who saved more than 650 Jewish children ahead of WWII on the Kindertransport. Winton, sitting in the audience, was not aware he was sitting among the very same people he saved. Beautiful.

27th January: Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was estimated that between 6,000 and 7,000 gay men were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and 98 of them were sent to Auschwitz. #OnThisDay #Queerstory 👉 buff.ly/8dPDaRg

This is what happens in oppressive regimes….

Police seek 'heroic' man after women harassed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yet mother storm here. Definitely not owing the climate change, definitely not that. 🫠

Something to look forward to later this year. Can’t bloody wait! 🤣🤩🤣

EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. FFS! 😩

this would quite literally be prison on a vast scale, shutdowns on a vast scale, bans and blocks, servers hauled off, doors kicked in, under any other circumstance

*Not a trans perpertrator* I hope his victims find oeace. channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

The smile! 😖

The calmish after the storm. 🌊 #Torbay #SouthDevon

The most staggering thing is that Rachel said “if I was a faithful” and no one seems to have clocked it #TheTraitors

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

#DarwinDay is one of the most important dates in the humanist calendar – a moment to celebrate Charles Darwin’s legacy, and the power of evidence, reason, and scientific inquiry to deepen our understanding of the world. Come and celebrate! Book your online or in-person tickets ⬇️ #DarwinDayLecture

45 YEARS AGO - On this day in 1981, a new entry at No.16 was... Vienna by Ultravox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2UY... 80s #Eighties #Music

In the face of hatred, Dr. King inspired us to build a society filled with hope, kindness, and love for our neighbor. Together, we must continue to work to enact his vision of equal opportunity for all.

Antarctic penguins have radically shifted their breeding season – seemingly in response to climate change #Climate

Above my home this evening. 🌌 #AuroraBorealis

Tonight's image of M33 Triangulum galaxy. earthsky.org/clusters-neb...

MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.

Pictured: Someone who actually won a Nobel Peace Prize

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

"People saw it was upsetting me and I didn’t like it and they kept doing more and more. There’s one of me just completely naked with just a bit of string around my waist, one with a ball gag in my mouth and my eyes rolled back."

Earlier this week, HOPE not hate told the inside story of White Vanguard (WV), a neo-Nazi group that broke apart last month. Long-standing tensions culminated in a mass walkout after the arrest of co-leader Kai Cunningham. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/01/07/t...

Strange isn't it... the people who actually live in London overwhelmingly think it's safe.... almost like everyone else is falling for a lie

Good night

Storm Goretti as seen by the MODIS instrument, while it was raking Cornwall last evening. At the time widespread hurricane-force wind gusts were still ongoing across Cornwall, unfortunatly causing extensive damage.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Countless people from the LGBT+ community have been warning about this since 2016 since the escalation of culture wars. And now we’re here. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

My best friend Mulberry is taking care of me while I'm sick. Rescued her from being trapped in the wall when my dumbass neighbors got evicted. Her other two sisters were harder to catch cause they threw them out the second floor window! #cats #pets

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm

X ceased being a public square years ago, and over the last month, it’s degraded even further. A platform that enables the creation non-consensual sexualised images of women and children cannot be treated as neutral ground - and governments choosing to stay are endorsing it. Enough is enough.

Shutting down X is no longer a matter of free speech. It is a matter of child protection.

On this day (9 January) in 1988, more than 10,000 gay men and lesbians took to the streets of central London to protest Section 28, the Thatcher government law that banned the “promotion” of homosexuality by local authorities.

LGBTQ+ Americans are Googling how to claim asylum in Canada following Renee Nicole Good’s death https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/09/lgbtq-asylum-canada/?utm_content=1767964801&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky