I didn’t realise how often parenthood would involve repeating, “I am NOT a poohead”.

Lobbying against the Corn Laws, just to repeal something…

Using a natural fertiliser on my garden, just to bonemeal something…

Visiting a city in Northern France, on the Deûle river, just to Lille something…

Visiting a city in Northern France, on the Deûle river, just to Lille something…

Wearing a jumper knitted from a soft yarn with a velvety texture, just to chenille something.

To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.

Maybe it's time to dial up our reaction? @ucs.org

The Labour govt are going to kill a hunger striker to prove how 'ard they are to voters who think they're secret pedo communists. They have been doing so stochastically with attacks on trans people, migrants, etc - but the brazen directness of this particular state murder is crossing a rubicon.

Is there a Moore’s Law type law about how little time it takes for any new technology to be used to abuse women?

My friend just handed me a Bloody Mary, and he was right, it is exactly what I needed.

History shows that Britain has always been multilingual theconversation.com/history-show... #immigration #multicultral #multilingual

Slicing a thin strip off the outside of a potato just to peel something.

Painting a wall a dark blue-green colour just to teal something.

What fun. ANOTHER reason to hate AI.

It’s all very well making a 3.5 hour film, Mr Cameron, but my Fitbit hourly moving reminders are not going to like this.

How reassuring that the two men with their fingers on the biggest nuclear buttons are so calm and stable.

TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...

My son and I were returning down a street where earlier in the day there had been scaffolding outside a house, and now there wasn’t. We joked maybe we’d slipped through a time portal and should ask someone what year it was. A women walking the other way called out, “1981”, and started laughing.

Plus ça change…

Why are the bedside tables in TV shows so neat? A lamp, and maybe a framed photo, or a snowglobe. Where’s the half-used tissues, painkillers, bobbles, water glass, notebook, pen, teetering pile of books, lip salve, moisturiser, discarded jewellery…

Who owns more wealth - The Bottom 80% or The Top 0.1%

Everyone else already knew: it was always projection.

And maybe it's been kinda nice knowing our work wasn't being judged on whether or not some dude wanted to bang us, idk.

One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵

He’s Not The Dune Messiah: He’s a Very Naughty Boy.

Yeah well my buddy already lost his job to artificial intelligence. He was an art thief.

“If Russia can fuck up the UK for fun and profit, why can’t we?” say American fascist billionaires.

Reform is pursuing the same anti-science playbook as the administration in the US, presenting a narrative in which scientific consensus on such things as vaccines and climate change is challenged and undermined. Essential that this is challenged in media - and in schools.

Jesus, my dad has started sending my Facebook reels. We should never have let old people on the internet.

This is absolutely wild, and super important. There are zillions of studies claiming that fMRI signals indicate increased brain activity, and it looks like that's often just wrong. If confirmed, this means we've misinterpreted a lot of research.

Arundhati Roy, absolutely spot on here. The normalisation of the killing of children, and the lack of compassion of the daily trauma inflicted on children, has been the most chilling of all feelings in recent times. Our leaders should hang their heads in shame.

I have big butts and I cannot be on time…

Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

So much this. I adore my floating ear ghosts. I don't need to know what they look like.

Unthinkably, I have run out of Baileys. Where has it on offer? Supermarket knock-off versions welcome.

UK: GMB win £1billion in equal pay cases www.gmb.org.uk/news/gmb-win...

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Agree I worked in a school for children with profound disabilities and had to counter argue weekly with non disabled people who said “chat gpt is a disability aid, it helps students to write”. No, it does not, and in fact it steals work from other disabled creators- it isn’t safe or an aid.

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024)

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

The Countryside Alliance are once again talking out of their (top) hat. 80% of the public, rural & urban, think fox hunting should remain illegal. The ‘rural culture war’ is a myth, as @jon-moses.bsky.social shows here: national.thelead.uk/p/the-rural-... bsky.app/profile/theg...

Why did I invite people round this afternoon? I don’t want to tidy up. Past-me is an idiot.

‘AI…saves time, spares effort & crucially offers a new way to offload responsibility. …Fromm argued that the rise of fascism could be explained in part by people preferring to surrender their freedom in exchange for the reassuring certainty of subordination. AI offers a new way of surrendering’ #ai

In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: showing up at protests has real impact - - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tiny Tim, who did not die, rides the sandworm of space.

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

Happy Christmas, Winterval, Yule, or anything you would like to celebrate today. May your oven shelves fit everything on…

#OtD 25 Dec 336 was the 1st recorded celebration of Jesus' birth on Dec 25. His early followers practised an 'informal communism', following Acts 4:32: "No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own but they shared everything they had" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9728...

getting prepped for our night in the kitchen, in-laws happily tucked up in our room #DuvetKnowItsChristmas