Llongyfarchiadau Cymru! I’m so used to dealing with heartache I was not expecting that score! Diolch yn fawr tîm pel-droed

Worth reading Laura’s whole thread, and try to give blood if you can! Lots of altruistic reasons to do so but also free biscuits and a shiny badge if you do it enough.

This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation

Yet another strike day for Imperial staff today. Here are some of us on yesterday’s picket line- a much sunnier day than today! #ICLstrike

On my way to yet another picket line as this week’s round of strikes starts again. Management are still refusing to reopen negotiations with the unions. #ICLstrike

I FINALLY got around to cancelling my Spotify account. I've signed up to use Qubuz instead. Moving my playlists over was free and easy to do. It seems to have all the songs I've searched for too. However, it would be great to have more playlists @popjustice.bsky.social - please move yours over!

As the vultures swirl around the BBC today, I'm reading this BBC/EBU report that says that 1/3 UK adults trust AI news summaries(1/2 of under 35 yrs.)But research across 18 countries found 45% AI answers had at least 1 significant error and major accuracy issues in 20% www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

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I've been helping this researcher with her PhD and it looks like she's doing really interesting work. She's looking at the health needs of people who are now adults but were born prematurely. If you're 18+ and were born in the UK before 37 weeks of pregnancy please do this 20 minute survey. Thanks!

The racism was bad enough, the subsequent lies, gaslighting and bullying campaign against the people who pointed it out was beyond disgusting

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests. Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not. This is worse than we feared.

A reminder Kate Clanchy received justified criticism for what she wrote, tried to set a twitter mob on a Goodreads reviewer because of it, then denied that she'd written what she wrote, then accepted it while setting a Twitter mob on three women of colour who criticised her.

Get your nominations in for our Community Champions 2026! I know there's loads of you out there doing great work in your respective professional communities. Calling all librarians, learning tech folk, teaching and learning and IT crew.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Sad news that @teenvogue.com have laid off all their politics staffers. I’ve learned so much from them over the last few years.

Global weakening of human rights protections, particularly driven by hostility towards marginalised groups, puts everyone at risk. When you start saying it is okay to reduce protections for one group you open the door for someone else to reduce them for yours. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

I’ve just been asked, while walking through Soho, if I live locally. I’m going to pretend that they thought I was expensively dressed rather than them thinking I look rough as chips.

It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

I've been helping this researcher with her PhD and it looks like she's doing really interesting work. She's looking at the health needs of people who are now adults but were born prematurely. If you're 18+ and were born in the UK before 37 weeks of pregnancy please do this 20 minute survey. Thanks!

In her new book, People Without History are Dust, Dr Anna Hájková explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors. Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:

On my way back after another picket line. Now the proud owner of a @uniteunion.bsky.social bobble hat which will help keep me warm on our next round of strikes in 2 weeks (if management doesn’t reopen negotiations) #ICLstrike

Having a really interesting evening watching @faizashaheen.bsky.social talking to @garyseconomics.bsky.social about class, inequality, the tactics of the far right and the need for a wealth tax. Even better, it’s happening a10 minute walk from my flat!

On my way to South Kensington for the 3rd of 10 days of strike with management currently refusing to reopen negotiations. We’re asking for a pay rise that would take us back to what we were paid in 2018. Currently staff are working the equivalent of 1 month a year for free. #ICLstrike

The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better. Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!

I’ve just seen my first mention of Black Friday for the year. So that’s inspired me to start to list some independent places I like to use for online shopping. Partly so you know alternatives to Amazon. But mostly so I don’t need to keep these tabs open on my phone. Please recommend others too!

Thursday, 30 October 7-8.30pm Queer Fantasy: with Juno Dawson, Samantha Shannon, Tash Suri and TJ Klune. Livestreamed from the @britishlibrary.bsky.social to Hull Central Library. More info in alt text. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fant...

Solidarity to all staff at the British Library! 98% in favour with 75% turn out is an astounding strike ballot result, truly shows the strength of feeling. www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

There is a letter to sign if you are fed up of trans women being used as a scapegoat for cis men abusing power

So, the UK ends up spending vast sums to dump people in a third country, one with fairly significant issues of human trafficking, to be locked up indefinitely, because they still can't be returned to their countries of origin, instead of investing here. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

As far as I can tell, this policy would deport my Swedish wife (who has a well-paying job and pays thousands in tax each year, not that that should decide these things) because she "took" from society by going on maternity leave when our kids were born.

How UK aid cuts will lead to global health programme closures—and deaths www.bmj.com/content/390/...

And this is how I discover that Robert Jenrick is younger than me.

It‘s an emotional rollercoaster. When we’re up, we’re up, and when we’re down, we’re down.

As it's World Menopause Day tomorrow, check out these resources for LGBTQIA+ people. So much of the menopause information out there is cisgendered-focused so it's great to find a place that acknowledges this and offers support to all people www.queermenopause.com/resources-1

We’re too smart and abortion rights are too embedded and socially accepted for the ADF to succeed here, say guys who’ve uncritically promoted anti-trans activists funded by the same people and using the same lawyers for a decade

Yesterday I marched with 500,000 people to celebrate the ceasefire & commemorate 2 years of genocide in Gaza. The only mention of it on the BBC is reference to it as a hate march. www.bbc.com/news/article... They have never been anti semitic. Here are some of the Jews also marching in solidarity

Sat on one of the Central Line’s plush new trains. And 4 were coming every two minutes in a row rather than my usual long wait. Is this the future?!

The Cass review into children's gender services in the UK continues to be terrible. A new report from Australia led by the fantastic Dr. Julia Moore - and featuring me - looks into the issues in detail. My new piece. gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...

If you're as fond of library facts as me then there are some great ones in this @londonist.com article londonist.com/london/histo... (thanks to @librariannb.bsky.social for the link!) London librarians should use the 1st public library opening here on March 10th as an excuse for an annual party.

Even if I didn’t have a personal interest in librarians, I would be urging all of you with access to iPlayer to watch this documentary www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... It’s about the censorship of books in US school libraries but also about how right wing money, not facts, is influencing politics.

Currently on my way to the picket line for what looks like it’s going to be the first of 10 days of strikes over the next two months. We are asking for a pay rise that will give us the equivalent of what we were paid in 2018. #iclstrike

Essex Police admit the protests at the Bell Hotel in Epping have already cost £1.7m – money that must come from local budgets. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

This also isn’t true!!! There is a public consultation NOW OPEN and you can go have your say. Obviously they want to present it as a done deal but it’s not. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/

'Five years after having their first child, mums' earnings drop by an average of £1,051 a month compared with their salary one year before having a child. But let's put that one into the "too hard to deal with" box and instead propose ICE-style arrests of migrants to grab the headlines.

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants. Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

I'll say it again. Our horror at the Gaza genocide and at the atrocity in Manchester comes in both cases from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity in the face of both these evils as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

The idea that being a refugee is somehow a “golden ticket” is genuinely awful. These are people who the government have recognised are in need of protection. Do they think people chose that? That that’s what people wanted? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important