🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case. The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them. Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future

"30 women have been murdered in Northern Ireland in the last six years - not one road was closed, not one protest. What was the connection? They were murdered by white locals."

And yet, somehow, I’m not reading about a repeat of the protests / mob that took place outside the Epping hotel last year when they just wanted to ‘protect the women.’

I’ve got the day off tomorrow and mum is joining me in London. Usually we’d do a walk but the weather is looking atrocious. I’ve had a complete brain freeze. Can anyone think of something great we should be doing?

Library card holders of Essex! Why not make use of your council's recent decision to make library reservations free again by reserving as many LGBT books as possible during Pride month? Little accidental Pride displays on every library reservation shelf.

This is concerning: Reform UK bans promotion of LGBTQ and Pride events at Essex libraries

Feels like one of the biggest journal acquisitions in a while. At least everybody is clear about who benefits: "...adding a high-margin, recurring revenue stream that we expect to drive meaningful shareholder value.” www.researchinformation.info/news/wiley-a...

New resource: 2026 Pride Pack from Queer Rights Network #pride2026 padlet.com/brynolf/lgbt...

‼️ Amnesty's new research exposes the anti-trans movement. They have a plan - first they're coming for trans rights and then for women's rights. We'll only defeat them by coming together.

It's only an invasion if it comes from the Invasion region of Eastern Ukraine. Otherwise, it's sparkling incursion.

Can’t remember who it was the other day that recommended changing my Google location to France, but FÉLICITATIONS I no longer get AI in the search results. Bloody awesome

This is just an invasion by any other name. In a just world, Israel would face the same treatment as Russia.

Nothing makes me act more like a jealous lover than trying to book an electrician or plumber. "I can see you've been on WhatsApp a number of times since I sent my message to you - why haven't you read it and replied?!"

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

Alex Crawford: "Those being mourned are increasingly medics.. the Lebanese govt says they're being deliberately targeted. They call them double taps, & this one was caught on camera. The video we're going to show you is shocking..."

Samaritans Report a 40% increase in calls from the Trans Community since April 2025. I telephoned the Samaritans n 1969, in 1971, in 1974, and in 1978 I am still here because of those calls. Call the Samaritans, anytime for free any, from any phone, on 116 123 www.samaritans.org/news/samarit...

For someone who had sadly resigned herself to not hearing ‘man don’t give a fuck’ live again, Super Furry Animals were magnificent tonight. Pleased I’ve got tickets to see them two more times this year.

Reproductive rights come next. In the words of Florence Reece, which side are you on?

Shocked, horrified, or just downright disappointed with what they're doing? Absolutely voice it on here. But also, please... Write to your MP.

Give this a share if you get chance please. So many cisgender women who do not want this for the trans+ community or the division it causes for us all notinourname.org.uk

This guidance proposes a society where trans people can only participate in society as ourselves is in secret, under constant threat of our very identity being denied and policed and any public acknowledgement of our existence must be in segregation and humiliation

Solidarity with all trans + people today. And if you're cis like me and have any agency in shaping your institution's policies regarding toilets etc, please exercise it in defence against those who want to take away human rights.

Yesterday, 56 of our fab colleagues at the Physics & Astronomy dept in Nottingham, received “at risk of redundancy” letters. The Uni is planning to reduce the size of the Physics dept by almost a third.🧪⚛️🔭 Sign this petition to show them your support ✍️: nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/

On my way into town for this. On all previous marches the police haven’t had much to do and have just loitered outside various branches of Pret. Hopefully it will be a similarly calm day again today.

This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Serious question about whether the rule of law and basic civil liberties are protected in the UK

BREAKING Reporting restrictions on the so-called “terrorism connection” in the Filton retrial have been lifted. For the first time in British history, a judge is seeking to sentence protestors as terrorists despite the jury convicting them only on criminal damage charges. 🧵

Remember to take your photo ID with you when you go and vote to stop fascism today ✊🏼

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

As someone who has been on most of the Pro-Palestine marches, it seems as good a day as any to say that they’re not hate marches and I’ve not seen or heard anything anti-Semitic on them (or I wouldn’t be there.) Here’s some photos I took from one 6 months ago when similar reporting was happening.

👀ICYMI | "the authorities long treated adults as if they were children, dependents, inferiors, not dignified equals. They worried that ordinary men and women can’t be trusted, that their intoxicated reactions to what they read will upend social order" #Reading #Censorship #Books

New on the padlet: #ReadWithPride 2026 sign-ups now open! #ReadWithPride is a social media photo relay (running on Instagram this year) designed to celebrate and promote great young adult LGBTQIA+ literature during Pride Month. padlet.com/brynolf/lgbt...

How BBC Radio York covered York City's title-winning equaliser.

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

I liked this post about underground libraries&the power of reading."An authoritarian regime needs to control what its subjects are able to believe,but that control becomes impossible once enough people are reading past the limits the regime has drawn." cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/the-librar...

Read this: epic waste on consultants by uni VCs, superbly critiqued by @gsoh31.bsky.social. We need a positive substitute to this "hawking". There's a gaping gulf between uni practice + real research on the "Big Con" by @rosiecollington.bsky.social[email protected] www.ft.com/content/5032...

Given the diversity of Reform UK candidates in some parts of London, one might think that the local branches in the capital were home to a more moderate, inclusive version of the party. Unfortunately not. Meet David Davies, Reform candidate for Wanstead Village. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/23/i...

I’m heading up to East Yorkshire tonight and my train’s only going as far as Doncaster with various options of what to do from there. Annoying but I can cope. But no one said that the Waitrose in KingsCross has closed so I couldn’t buy fancy sandwiches and train booze for the journey?! 😩

Despite our best efforts, multiple crises in the arts and charitable sector, and the ongoing patriarchal stance on inclusiveness mean that the Vagina Museum continues to struggle. We are having to have serious conversations about our long-term future. And now, more than ever, we need your help...

Give me the confidence of people wanting to claim that the area above Heaven nightclub and between Embankment and Charing Cross stations is a ‘fundamentally residential neighbourhood’. No wonder they needed to invent neighbours who thought the same thing.

🚨 1 in 4 staff at Goldsmiths to be axed. All while senior management get eye-watering pay rises and £16m is spent on consultants and lawyers. This is the reality of Higher Education in the UK. Our members have voted for industrial action, support them. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1447...

Not only will Labour's hostile and inhumane immigration policies not provide the savings they claim, but they are also likely to create such massive external costs, including losses to key sectors and drops in income for the treasury as to crash the economy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Palantir’s tech has been linked to the Israeli military's ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, raising serious human rights concerns. This Thursday, MPs will debate Palantir's NHS contract. Email your MP to say No Palantir in Our NHS: amn.st/63328B62zaO

Yorkshire based people - what is the weirdest thing you have seen/heard in a Boyes?

Several years ago I co-started a collection of LGBTQ+ resources for library, knowledge & information workers, which I now maintain ie I add useful links when I come across them. Follow this new Bluesky account which updates when new items are added. Feel free to suggest resources!

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... absolutely bone-chilling reporting on yesterday's horrific attack on Lebanon. "There is no such thing as safety anymore"

More attacks on Beirut just now. White House saying Lebanon not included in ceasefire. Iran saying attacks must stop or they will not take part in discussions.