The point of fighting disease at a distance is that you don't have to get into an up close and personal punch up with it. Cuts like this are grotesque and utterly self defeating. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Guns N Roses rocking up the place with a certified banger now on unmistakable 1988 #totp

If I'm honest I've had doubts about Cycling UK since, year back, they refused affiliation of a cycling club because the members worked in porn and rode charity rides for the Terence Higgins Trust. There's a strange, hard right twang to cycling UK.

That's incredibly disappointing and rather spineless. Trans rights are human rights.

Not many people spoke up for Charles Manson. Trump would.

The Trump admin is making the planes run on time in the same way that Mussolini made the trains run on time—by not actually doing it, but by pressuring everyone to just say that’s what’s happening.

I've never really wanted to own a sword. Or an umbrella stand. But there's an episode of Daryl Dixon where someone casually takes a sword out of their umbrella stand on the way out, and now I want a sword and an umbrella stand.

This should spell the end of corrupt FIFA once and for all. And it may well do that, because everything Trump touches turns to shit. #PlanetTaco

They never dealt with the complaint. They're now fighting to avoid giving us a letter of disupte to take to offcom. Seems to me this is an effective way of keeping your complaint stats good - make it as hard as possible to complain.

You can't have institutionally racist policing in a non-institutionally racist sociey @mrjamesob.bsky.social - yes, you're coming at this from a position of white privilege.

You know, I think @mrjamesob.bsky.social is finally getting it on how racism works with regard to the police and healthcare. If the cops won't be on your side when you ring them, you won't ring them. One day I hope he'll get it on class too - he's not there yet.

Its hard for younger folk to understand the hardship we older gamers faced having to crayon in the sides of your dice. Oh, and the fact that a set of dice was 6 rather than 7, and in your first games you'd have to roll a single d10 twice for d%

On the Mary Rose we found an Italian Gentleman's chest. In the chest, we found a lidded 'till', or side compartment. #Museum30 #Box

As is so often the case, this article on motoring taxes misses the fact that drivers of petrol and diesel vehicles pay NOWHERE NEAR what they cost us. Start there. www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

I mostly agree with Gaz here - but before charging EVs we need an evaluation on how much can be raised first by taxing cars by weight and size, and on imposing real coats on diesel and petrol drivers.

Said it before, will say it again. The rule must be if you're an MP, that's your only job. Property above, say, £400k should be held in trust while you're an MP. These jobs must be above corruption.

The US government's decision to stop supporting a telescope facility that would have given us unprecedented insight into the early universe is calamitous, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Extraordinary story from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social: A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived. One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.” www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

Corporations as well as Oligarchs like the Kochs have long used Think Tanks to manage public opinion. They thought they could fool us by putting a intellectual veneer on what amounts to lies and propaganda. /1 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dear news sources. Celebrity game shows aren't fucking news.

“You know what they call the Hunger Games in France?” “They don’t call them the hunger games” “No man, they got the welfare state, they don’t know what the hunger games are” “What do they call them?” “Battle Royale With Cheese”

Explain a film plot badly. Making soap rocks unless you're a schizophrenic split personality terrorist who frustratingly doesn't remember booking Helena Bonham Carter.

A new @climateanalytics.org report has come out today, with a profoundly hopeful message: even though the world is on track to exceed 1.5°C of global warming, we can peak at 1.7°C and get temperatures back down well below 1.5°C by end of century. But.... only if we phase out fossil fuels, fast. 🧵

My email to @cyclinguk.bsky.social. I do not support transphobia, and I do not support organisations that are transphobic.

One day this social media exchange will be presented as evidence in a court room, and I cannot wait.

Another Reform councillor has quit the party. Isabella Kemp now sits as an independent on Kent County Council. By my calculation, that’s nine Kent Reform councillors gone since May. Joke party of amateur hobbyists.

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group www.euractiv.com/news/belgian...

“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.” -Zohran Mamdani

There are many things the BBC could do investigations of: eg, banks funding fossil fuel expansion, companies greenwashing, billionaires eroding workers’ rights Instead they are focusing on migrants If you play from the far right’s songbook, they’ll soon be calling the tune

Can't make him though.

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

Fuck you, Cycling UK "this year, Cycling UK updated its eligibility criteria to mean that only biological women could be nominated. A statement on their website reads: "This is in response to the recent Supreme Court decision..."

Always struck me as likely that they'd build the resort by the sea, maybe make a start heading inland, and stop. Roughly what they've done.

Personally, as someone who can't trace English ancestry far because frankly families as basal working class as mine can't, but who certainly has urban English peasantry in his background as far as we can find, fuck this ethnostate shit. Colour and nationhood are not the same thing.

If a chemical is too harmful to use here, it shouldn’t be used anywhere. I’ll be asking the government what steps it is taking internationally to prevent this. #Pesticides

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Bonfire night used to be cold. You'd wear gloves and a hat and break the ice on the surface of puddles with your toes. Teeshirt weather these days. We are in deep, deep trouble.

Get off X. Leave your account live if you need to, but get off X. Twitter is fascist.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

A very clear and easy to understand example. A diesel and electric car park side by side. Photo credit: nextmove

Suella Braverman has every right to make her own choice for herself about her own identity If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip

Happy flux capacitor day everybody! Here's my rucksack mounted model powering my steampunk time gun.

Must ask, the messaging from Labour now that Brexit is a disaster but they're going to do none of the things we need to do to mitigate or reverse that isn't going to win any voters back. Who, precisely, is this aimed at?

The latest releases from Florence and the Machine and Mumford and Sons should spell the end of their commercial success. And rightly so

We abandoned public health as too expensive due to austerity, and a generation without support, good housing and even affordable food entered a respiratory disease pandemic that we went on and handled like idiots, because we had idiots in charge.

Swiss government put forward yodeling as candidate for UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/11/05/swiss-government-put-forward-yodeling-as-candidate-for-unesco-list-of-intangible-cultural-

November 1965. Sixty years ago. An official White House report on the dangers of climate change. Nineteen sixty-five.