I like it when anyone criticises London, and Sadiq posts something saying, “we are all multilingual and bisexual”

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

The UK has officially recognised a Palestinian state, as Starmer has just announced melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2025/09/uk-r...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

"a man two friends short of a podcast" is an INCREDIBLE turn of phrase. Language is beautiful

What a snowflake.

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

A gold star to whoever is doing Channel 4's social media today:

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

This country's most celebrated achievement was to fight fascism. Now fascism itself has hijacked our national identity.

I think a UK politician brave enough to stand up for basic human rights and decency would win big here. Wouldn't even need to be especially on the left, just refusing to let pass violence, racism, homophobia, misogyny, and hatred of the other.

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Just saw someone refer to AI animation at "slop motion animation" and that is pure human perfection.

🎉BREAKING: Scotland has joined the global movement to boycott Israel! The proposal put forward by Green MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social was supported by a majority of members in the Scottish Parliament.

A reminder that it is not illegal to claim asylum in the UK, no matter how you arrived here.

I think this is the best way to deal with these idiots: use the flag, use "their symbol" to show them what Britain really means: so many beautiful, diverse and amazing people from all over the world! Every restaurant, mosque, church, temple and group these people hate should fly the flag proudly!! 👏

The "Lily" floating airstrip during trials off Lamlash, Isle of Arran, on 30 August 1945. Created by R. M. Hamilton, it consisted of hexagonal buoyancy drums connected to form a flexible landing surface. It was intended to support the planned invasion of Japan. 📸 Lt D. C. Oulds / IWM (A 30255)

There can be absolutely no “shock” about this. The media has been shamelessly platforming Reform all summer. All summer, we’ve had hate-mongering headlines about immigration. It’s a tedious and grim inevitability that you’ve made people angry enough to want to vote for this shit in response.

idk if this is a thing, but are there historians with a specialty in the use of public transportation during war?

Reminder that the famous pictures of the Nazi book burning that you’re used to seeing, show them burning books about trans and queer, people at the Hirschfeld Institute. (after which Ireland’s first LGBTQI+ community centre was named, until it burned down in 1987)

"It is the dog’s sole responsibility to discover any and all squirrels in the vicinity. I acknowledge that this service predates our contract by 30,000 years, and I am obliged to go along with it."

breaking out the Mr Brightside eyeliner and using them to our advantage

We're going to need to reset the "days since Starmer showed his whole arse in public" counter to zero again.

This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"

More well-deserved success!

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

if I disappear, it's possible I have been squashed by this book

How do I get myself cancelled so that I too can give interviews to newspapers about how cancelled I am? (Also, not entirely clear how other people withdrawing their own books from the longlist amounts to cancelling him, it's almost like it's nonsense...)

UK govt wants to deregulate nuclear safety rules The complaint is regulators have a “culture of risk aversion” Personally, I like my nuclear regulators to be risk averse. "Economic growth" shouldn't be their job Nuclear accidents damage land & sea for generations www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This is an utter joke. Please, tell me how preventing access to information somehow protects children. I'm all ears. Ignorance isn't safety.

Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne. Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.

Of all the items of ephemera I have collected over the years, this is, I think, my favourite —a tiny silver diary owned by a 10 year old boy who lived in Arras during WW1. One entry says "Grandma was killed by a shell on the Grand Place". He talks of his uncle who was serving. A real gem #WW1 #FWW

Day 14: people keep asking so I figure I'll keep putting out updates. Except, there are none. Still no word from the Home Office on whether they'll issue the emergency travel document. If I was at risk of dying, I would have died by now. This whole process is crazy. I'm okay though. Just frustrated.

So much this. The point of an assignment isn’t the assignment, it’s the process to generate the output. Confusing product with process only hurts students.

This probably sounded better in their heads... #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA

Motherfucking wind farms…

Noooooo, there are too many 😱 probably Vienna or An Innocent Man. Or Goodnight Saigon. Or Piano Man. Or Scenes From an Italian Restaurant. Or Only the Good Die Young. Or This Night. Or Leave a Tender Moment Alone. Or... ... ok, if I HAD to choose ONE. Final answer: An Innocent Man. Probably.

that’s not even how you spell turnberry 😭

An excellent thread, as usual ❤️

I'm in Scotland, you're not, suits me.

Both thin and deep crust. It's what they would have wanted. A healthy slice of #Respect.

🎶Fly me to the moon and let me eat the flesh of god Lunar transubstantiation in my landing pod🎶