The torygraph here promising us all a good time. It all sounds very utopian to me. I'm in

This is very cool. What’s not mentioned in the headline is it’s for walking and cycling only. This is good news. New river bridge to connect east and west parts of city www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

If you want free art let’s start with Universal Basic Income and see how we go from there.

Jack Black, but far too often for it to be flattering, from primary school children 🙄 Frank Gallagher 😐

Don't plan to come to the US for the World Cup. Trump will deny you entry last minute and cost you thousands. Especially if he thinks your country was mean to him. www.bbc.com/news/article...

@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social - you were at Oxford Pride yesterday but you haven't yet signed the motion against the trabsphobic EHRC "guidance" Why not? You can't have your cake and eat it. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... @laylamoran.bsky.social thank you for attending AND signing @tacc.org.uk

Syed is an absolute cretin, of course, but once again let me point out that every single one of these bought and paid for right wing fucks with a "AR KULTSHUR" agenda is explicitly using American culture as the starting point. Not one, not ONE person in the UK used "DEI" until like 6 months ago

Cannot disagree with the spirit of no.3 at all!! No. 1, more complex, but comes down to land value tax before everything else. As well as enforcement at every level.* 2. Complex to the max. What if it's raising for things we say should be state-funded?

Never fails

OK, Wes, while you're cosplaying as historian: Tell us about what happened to the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.

Particularly pissed off that this ignores that French troops *also took part in D-Day*. It's important symbolically and practically that the first troops to enter Paris weren't Soviet or American, but Free French

What I like about this is, let us imagine it were correct for a moment. (It's not but never mind) Sorry, it is in fact good Bergen-Belsen was liberated and good that *all of continental Europe* did not end up being absorbed into the Soviet empire!

I tried to help a UK counter-misinformation effort in 2018-2019. Got hacked by Russians, had weirdos sending documents with my bank account everywhere, had pro Russian “journalists” doxx my house, and got threats. Nobody helped me

A reminder to live your joy and to be as geeky as possible

Have we ever had a more cowardly government before? "We can't do anything about sh!t in the water. That's the Water companies" "We can't do anything about gas prices. That's Russia" "We can't do anything about persecution of trans people. That's the courts." Gutlessness pretending to be impotence.

It's always a good game to check Google streetview when people complain about loss of car parking outside their shop. 2025: white mini 2024: white mini 2023: white mini. Excuse me, Mr Shopkeep, do you drive a white mini, by any chance?

Ok. Then repaint car parks so the spaces are 50% bigger. Obviously prices would need to go up and there would be fewer car parking bays as the space is finite.

More than a quarter of UK musicians lost all EU work since 2021, report finds. Average tour earnings down 45%, with nearly three-fifths of musicians saying touring in Europe is no longer viable. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... @theguardian.com

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

'Shared use' 50-shades-of-beige at work. Anything that a driver can fit a vehicle into, that's vaguely off the carriageway, counts as 'a parking space'. Confident that they'll not get a ticket, and if they do, they'll appeal on the grounds that the markings were unclear.

When you are quite literally paid to loudly pretend that you don’t understand things which you do, in fact, understand perfectly well.

And if you tolerate this, then your cheese forks will be next

When I saw a poster for this film, with the strapline "Every line will be crossed", it was clear that they'd be doing full-on fascist propaganda, normalising hatred while hiding behind "it's just a joke".

"My name's Paul Nuttalls of the Ukips, and I say that the brightest and best pizza delivers of Gorton & Denton should stay there, not coming over here and stoking up racial tensions with their microwave-reheated white-supremacist trollop."

Wait until MattGPT discovers that Pakistani is a nationality, and there is no majority ethnic group within Pakistan.

worth reemphasing who palantir is

It's up there with "These days they throw you in prison just for saying you're English" except for some reason it's now mainstream media outlets repeating it as fact.

Been a grim, grim fucking week man iandunt.substack.com/p/an-abysmal...

“Given the minister responsible for the passage of the Equality Act has confirmed the ruling reflects the intention of the then-government” Wait, what?

got some very flattering emails about my new book this week. can anyone spot the subtle tells that let on this was an AI generated scam?

Turns out the extra business case and task force was just pointless busywork and all that was missing was political will. Let's keep shaming them into doing the right thing.

I’m old enough to remember some rightwingers calling out Obama for having an opinion on Brexit, presumably they’ll be shocked by this

"Computer, enhance image"

Goodwin's ethnonationalism is a niche view even for Reform voters! This is not a contentious debate.

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her

Interesting choice of words. "PEOPLE wouldn't be able to get past." People can't get past now unless pedestrians - particularly disabled pedestrians - don't count? And the assumption that the alternative to parking on the pavement is blocking the road rather than not parking there. Jesus wept.

Man, I remember the Jon Pertwee stuff seeming way more scary as a kitten.

Doesn't really look like the American's give a shit about world peace - everything is adolescent antagonism. If they can't grow up, the climate will only worsen. Not many will find this humorous - they'll view it as dip-shit stupid. I'd fire the people responsible.

DfE pupil data is out today and shows that the number of private school pupils has dropped 5.6% since VAT was introduced. Not 25% like the independent schools council predicted. Or the 50% we saw in some right-wing papers. 5.6%.

I am SO sick of headlines like this. The public sees "AI" as being LLMs/ChatGPT, not an ML algorithm - and articles like this mislead the public into thinking that LLMs are discovering novel things. It's a cool thing! I'm excited! But it is lazy reporting to suddenly use "AI" as such a broad term

Signage by Robert Kenyon's grandad.

Labour in Scotland absolutely rooted at the 16% level on *every* metric aside from 2014 referendum vote.....this is how a political party slides into irrelevance.

Sorry should have mentioned: 4th August 1626. The day 60 enslaved people from Africa were brought to England's first colony on St Christopher to labour on English tobacco plantations. This is the topic of my next book. I'll do a post/thread commemorating the 400th anniversary in August!

Well I think I've just definitively dated the arrival of the very first enslaved people from Africa to an English colony in the Caribbean - the exact day which launched a slave plantation system that would see 3.5m people trafficked in its wake. And it seems that 400 year anniversary is upon us.

Rob Kenyon has called for all knives to be banned.