Chris Philp repeatedly repeatedly and exclusively referring to Alaa Abd El-Fattah as “this scumbag” while calling for him to be stripped of his citizenship on the Today programme feels like a deliberate and dumb coarsening of rhetoric

As Tressie McMillan Cottom said recently about GenAI, nothing is inevitable, in getting academics to think GenAI is inevitable we work to make it so.

Lots of lovely pics of Riyadh’s Jimmy Carr with David “dropped by publisher” Walliams - ain’t showbiz wonderful

All I want to do next year is kiss lovely women and hold the people I love close

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

Seven years since I watched one of the most important documentaries ever made. A masterpiece

"Come, come, Mr. Bond, you enjoy murder as much as I do."

Neuroscience right now:

LeMonde said, not on our watch

sex symbol, married four times with numerous affairs, retired before 40, convicted for racial hatred was there ever a more French person??

With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.

That For Women Scotland (and other anti-trans groups) get so much attention and coverage for persecuting a minority, while doing absolutely naff all to minimise the very real risk to women by men, speaks volumes. Revolting.

2/ The article also noted that the Scottish Government has not yet paid the costs, as it is entitled to challenge the amount claimed. This is because Four Women Scotland plainly did not win the case. It has nothing to do with any supposed grand strategy they imagined on the part of the government.

Mullally needs to look at the beam in her own synod. A lot of those conservative African bishops would welcome Robinson

We wouldn’t lose anything if we got rid of all the political appointments and the bishops, either. Abolish or elect

This is such an obvious playbook when you consider the right's theory of change today is fundamentally one of reversing what they see as equality. They want to pre-modern hierarchy and religion, with its moralism, its traditions. We should judge poorly any religion that acquiesces in this.

All of this information is publicly available actually! No exclusive necessary!

They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it. Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.

You can read the hypocrisy here right?

I see yer da popped out earlier

Cry harder (and stop trying to undermine the civil service). Oh and Hadley? Stick to defending paedophiles

Had some kids shout some homophobic abuse at me and I’m like…you’re literally 14 and hanging out on the street in 7C, on what planet do you think you’re cool and not cold?

Gaylord rillettes (I can’t tell you what they’re like, I can’t digest red meat)

This is because for every dollar you spend on Harry Potter media or merchandise, a large portion of it goes to Head Bigot JK Rowling, who specifically uses that money to finance her fellow raging bigots threatening ruinous lawsuits against UK people who point out their raging bigotry.

Someone compared her to a soviet political commissar and the reason that comparison falls short is that a political commissar wouldn't insist on pretending that all their changes were the result of non political good faith disagreement.

There are rich teenage boys in inordinately expensive puffer coats everywhere in the city centre, braying

This Peter Rabbit film really is offensively bad

this entire article is just a complete fiction. inventing a narrative of football deliberately screwing over fans by not having PL games today, when the truth is they were incompetent and messed up the contracts. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

So… did everyone have a good Christmas?

There’s a certain type of person who think everything they don’t like was done by foreign bots. Likes, comments, votes, political movements. Never accepting that polls consistently show that at least 30% of people are horrible, have been for decades and they didn’t need interference to get that way

But the key one is that there is now a viable career path here. There is nothing you can say that won't stop you being invited on GB News. There is little you can say that won't get you your seat back on Question Time. You're making far more as a racist than as a spad.

The energy I’m bringing to 2026. George Michael, gone too soon 9 years ago today. Rest easy Queen of Kings!

this looks genuinely good, non police affiliated and it looks like they need volunteers in case anyone is looking for a volunteering opportunity for the new year

1/🧵 I take it for granted that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. The real question is whether trans people get equality and justice: specifically, whether the law protects trans people and provides effective remedies against wrongful discrimination. Also…

We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

My gf normally plays spelling bee every day and she hasn’t got the pangram yet, despite what it is today

Meanwhile, I’m making chainmaille very slowly on a tray, and that’s very Christmassy imho (new hobby that I am not great at and have no desire to monetise)

Good that Webb couldn’t do Peep Show Bake Off so I can enjoy it sans transphobe

And Jesus Christ, who DID die (but he came back a bit later, it was a whole thing)

Mumsnet, Christmas Day:

Afternoon

I nearly forgot the most important well wishes of them all: happy meet Ray at 5 pm at the Bromley Primark day!!

Went for little walk. It’s Baltic out there in that wind

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016. He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.

this isn’t just about academics as a whole. this teacher was trans and she was targeted for being trans.

#TodayInQueerHistory December 25 (2016) Remembering George Michael; pop star and all around good egg who passed #OTD. George did a lot for charity. Royalties from hit Jesus to a Child supported Childline. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me supported HIV charities. He often donated anonymously too.