Is it me of is it exceedingly worrying that the government want to change the law so they can deport a specific person? How does that protect girls from him?

Being afraid to go for enthusiastic consent is the absolute weakest bullshit imaginable. The fact that they all glorify violating consent as ~masculine~ and strong and tough, and that we've let them pigeonhole consent as weak is the most aggravating bullshit imaginable. Be someone folks wanna fuck.

This is something I should probably talk more about, because we have all seen people who try to write their parody of what consensual sex would look like and it's awkward people saying "do you consent to me putting my hand here" and that is what you get if you haven't thought deeply about consent.

Consent is not a checklist, consent is not the right words. You can get all the right words and not have consent because someone is not in a position to freely say no. You can get all the right words and not have consent because the power differential is so staggering, consent is meaningless.

also i feel like if youre a man doubling down on platner or trying to defend your previous support of him after all this nonsense started coming out.... your psychosexual insecurities are showing

I’m really upset by the possibility that we now are going to get fascism every 80 years or so as living memory of how much it sucks dies out.

Count Binface just tore @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social a new one. In response to a request by Paddy O'Connell to take his bin off: "Here we go. You want to get serious? I would say, what are we doing on a programme that used to do proper investigative journalism and now is a souped-up podcast." Ouch! 😂

Yeah - precisely. These lunatics want opponents to live in constant fear and be convinced that the fascists are an unstoppable juggernaught... so they give up in advance. It's a psychological con-trick. But ridicule changes the dynamic. bsky.app/profile/ianf...

There is a lot of "too clever by half" discourse decrying Binface as absurd and I'm like ....that is literally the point The point of the clown is to reveal that the emperor has no clothes, to puncture the air of infallibility and "strong man vibes"

Read and resist if this is coming to a country near you 😔

In this wild news cycle, it feels like one of Farage’s claims has got lost. If a mob of 50 people attacked him in a pub then wrote off his car, surely there’s photo or video evidence, or a police report or something? Why did this not make the news? Investigative journalists please do your thing!

Not just PIP, Universal Credit & pensions too. 🤷 At the moment we spend £Bs on running the various benefits systems, when using a "negative income tax" UBI, would shift it all to the Existing HMRC infrastructure, & cost no more to administer, than if everyone was employed. 👍

Replacing PIP with UBI is worth considering. Cut out the pointless, expensive + dehumanising assessment process. Give people the security they need first, then they can look for work (if they are well enough).

This is all part of this government repeated attacks against disabled individuals though, and a complete lack of understanding about ADHD, autism, anxiety etc. Neurodivergent individuals are among the highest groups not to be in full time employment. 2/

Cutting PIP for ADHD, autism anxiety etc is the perfect example of government policies looking to grab headlines while actually costing more. PIP helps support many people to work. Cutting it means they risk being unable to, that means more costs in the long term. 1/ inews.co.uk/news/politic...

The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.

Ooh a breeze, a gentle breeze as I sit under my tree at the allotment having picked a courgette

Never start a land war in Asia, or an electoral war with a bin.

Something I definitely didn't appreciate in 1994 was the accuracy of the book bindings and stationery, which 2026 me is very impressed by. Maria Lucas's paperbound notebook is spot on.

I live in England it is 9pm (or 8pm sun time) it should not be 27°C

Had arranged to go and submerge themself in a lake on Saturday morning

It also literally used to mean “Meemaw fed Peepaw rhubarb leaf pie and everybody looked the other way.” I think it was @karnythia.blacksky.app who did a brilliant thread on this one day. Mariticide rates dropped quite sharply after no-fault divorce.

We could undermine a lot of it by using it to promote _Prairie Fires_, which does a pretty effective job of deconstructing the myth Rose Wilder built around her mother. (It is a bit long, though.) prairiefiresbook.com

I met a lot of men in my day-to-day life, and I'm afraid most of them just aren't well-written male characters. I realize script writers don't like notes, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to send these characters back for another draft.

I am hot and tired, so allow me to be blunt. If you support remigration, if you support removing some people's rights etc etc, you are a bigot. Nature of my work is finding that 5% level we can all agree on and build from there, but don't be shocked by being called a bigot when you side with bigots.

Blah blah blah British values. You know what IS the ultimate British value? Relentlessly taking the piss. And that’s what we’ll all be doing this summer 🇬🇧

Sir Patrick Stewart grew up poor in the north of England. He trained in the UK and had critical success there before becoming Captain Picard on Star Trek: TNG. A big part of the franchise's longterm success is down to him. Without postwar arts funding who knows if he would have become an actor?

It’s sad, borderline cruel, that we’ve landed on a form of college that seems built to beat the idea that “learning interesting stuff is fun and good on its own merits” out of students

Also I would note, we never see them tested from the other direction here. Would he so bluntly give that answer directly to a trans woman on camera?

(My discomfort is not the point, but I think it is still worth saying: I am a cis woman and this is creepy and weird and doesn't represent me or make me safer)

I changed at Crewe last week and the sign on the platform for the gents said "gentlemen" but the sign for the ladies said "Females". I have to say, even as a cis woman who is unlikely to be misgendered, it made me feel quite uncomfortable.

News outlets don't need to "cover the controversy" if the "controversy" can be explained by one word: racism. There's nothing to unpack

It came as a surprise to many students of British politics that it turned out to be Nigel Farage who would deliver on the final unmet Chartist demand of annual parliamentary elections.

It would be cool if instead of talking about the Paradox of Tolerance we talked more at least in Europe about Article 19 of the human rights convention and the fact that it's specifically and always been not a protected matter to use your rights (freedom of speech, movement, association, right to...

“Generative AI doesn’t generate information,” Cyrus said. “It generates words.”

Zia Yusuf claims Farage is bravely "bringing forward" the judgment of "the ultimate authority": the people of Clacton. Two problems here: 1) He's insisting they judge *before* the full evidence has been heard, not *after*; 2) No constituency can exempt its MP from rules designed to protect us all

Still time to apply for Chapter Arts Chair role. You’d be chairing the charity at a challenging but exciting time - helping to shape the next phase of Chapters life as a local, national and international contemporary art space rooted in the diverse communities in which we are nestled in the heart of

because the only thing the British mainstream press love more than an upperclass fascist is men in silly costumes. (the latter is partly why they love the former, but i digress)

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

So the Clacton by-election is going to be a run-off between a clown solely interested in media attention via cheap stunts who plays a cartoon villain for social media idiots without the slightest interest in representing Clacton or doing the work of a parliamentarian... and Count Binface?

Here is the Hansard from 1842 which appears to show when the government (last?) refused to allow a MP to resign (ie, apply for the Chiltern Hundreds). May write on this later.

But arts and drama aren’t MANLY jobs like British Steel and Jaguar Land Rover. They can’t do a photoshoot in a hard hat at RADA

He will regret going up against Murdoch. Sky seem to be going all out to get Farage now!

I think Elizabeth is doing that thing that we all do where we are correctly identifying a thing that sucks but instead of seeing the system behind it, we lash out at whoever’s in reach.

Best article on this topic: orthodoxkorea.org/en-bread-or-...

The Green Party say they will not stand in the Clacton by-election either. Zack Polanski: "This is a desperate stunt from a desperate politician whose lifetime of grifting is finally catching up with him. Greens will play no part in his political circus"

I think I’m even more anti establishment than Nigel Farage but when I go to my bank statements I still don’t seem to have £5million payment from the anti establishment establishment and no emails from BBC’s Question Time to be the most established anti establishment guest either

Nigel Farage v 'the establishment'. Farage went to Dulwich College, worked in the City, been a serial politician for three decades, led three parties, owns one, has his own TV show, is pals with Trump, accepted a £5m gift he didn't declare, and owns at least five homes. He is the establishment.

NEW: The Greens won’t stand in Clacton either. That’s a clean sweep. It’s essentially Nigel Farage versus a bin.