We're £69 away from the last milestone for Midnight of the Century (nice)! We can absolutely hit this before the campaign ends on the 31st, we just need a little Halloween spirit! 🎃

We need to start to insist people use the full term for Antifa. It's anti-fascist. Anti. Fascist. Shortening it down tries to defuse the latter and we cannot allow it to happen. Make them say they think anti-fascists are evil people. Make them say anti-fascism is wrong.

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#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

You're used to seeing mostly colour images from me but I do black and white occasionally too - though not as much as I used to. Here are a selection from over the years. #Photography #BlackandWhite #ThePhotoHour

Never Leave a Red Sock on the Clothesline — Shaun Tan

This is a must read/share thread that perfectly describes the cognitive dissonance that we've reached in this country when Politicians have conversations about "valid concerns about immigration" yet completely miss the root cause. Thank you, @tanjabueltmann.net for pulling this all together.

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

Autism is not a birth defect. Nor is it a disease. It is a difference. Those who claim to be able to cure, or want to “cure” autism are afraid of difference. Like racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, ad nauseam. Resist.

It is Hookland. There is no ‘spooky season’. Spooky is the county’s default setting because it is the English gothic, the English strange. The weird is not a costume to be warn only once a year.

I just misread "trauma dumping" as "trauma dumpling" and I want to bring forward a motion that when we are traumatised we get to have special dumplings to help us feel better.

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

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Just spotted it's the X-files 32nd birthday, so did a scribble

Op-ed: Biological Females Have an Unfair Advantage and Should Be Banned From the Hosts of the Rohirrim by the Witch-King of Angmar, director of the Nazgûl Foundation for a United Future

I have never felt more strongly supportive of Angela Rayner in my life. Fuck these people.

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

Another couple of frames of Joe Armon-Jones, @joearmonjones.bsky.social solo musician and keys for mighty Ezra Collective @ezracollective.bsky.social photographed for BassMidsTops in Waterloo, South London March 2025. @sonicpr.bsky.social @brownswood.bsky.social @aquariirecords.bsky.social

Has the “time for simple humanity” passed, Keir?

BBC News: this just in, Nigel Farage farted this morning, our chief political correspondent is on hand to catch the fart, Nick Eardley tell us more... Nick: Well this fart is significant and we'll be on hand to talk about the impact of the fart with sundry fascists thought the day in Westminster.

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

The entire POINT of fighting Nazis is to prevent them from attacking marginalized people. So forgive me if I'm not particularly convinced by folks who argue that we need to sacrifice marginalized people in order to fight Nazis.

"People as things, that’s where it starts.” “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—” “But they starts with thinking about people as things…” ― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns. They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings. That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

You've GOT to be kidding me! The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...? So incredulity aside, what about the list itself? Let's go Debunking! 1/34

These are the kind of stories I want to see about asylum seekers. Not the boats. 🔗 www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

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Independent MP Rupert Lowe has admitted mistaking a charity rowing crew for “illegal migrants”

(1/2) Key genetic differences found in people with ME/CFS > Swipe to find out more. These findings reflect the lived experience of thousands of #pwME. Thanks to all our participants & supporters who made this possible! Read a summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk

If you took a billionaire's money away, they would just earn it back again. Cream rises to the top. I'm so confident about this, I think we should prove it by taking all the billionaires' money away.

Hello again, tabletop RPG designers! The second Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant is now taking applications! I'm looking to award up to 10 grants at $200 apiece. Applications open until the end of the month. Apply here: bannerless.games/grants

This is Bug. He would like to be picked up for cuddles. It is an emergency. 13/10 (IG: bugthebrusselsgriffon)

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

A reminder for anyone going to Gen Con next week: Please MASK on the plane there, in the convention, in bars, restaurants, anywhere that isn't well ventilated!!!

I'm sure this will be fine. Just an irl lex luthor, who thinks democracy should be scrapped for a cyberpunk megacorp model of rule, enriching uranium. What could possibly go wrong?

What words remain for a government that goes to court to insist it be allowed to continue selling weapons to a state committing genocide, then sends a letter of complaint when those weapons are used?

I've had enough of assholes talking about Englishness. So here's what Englishness means to me, as someone with a Cambridge degree in early medieval history. You know, that period when we invented England. (1/12)

This is an evergreen, but it's one for a reason: A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the former with the same intensity and ruthlessness as we work to prevent the latter.

Happy Anniversary! The release day of Martha's Harbour, 18th July 1988. After the messed up mimed version, we were invited back on Top Of the Pops the following week. Sang live, and the following week, we were number 10 in the UK Charts. youtu.be/VDkwYWZTQWk?...

embarrassing myself

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Talking Horror: Running & Playing Horror TTRPGs Sit down with us folks and let’s see how we each approach running horror ttrpgs! This talk is part of the Open Hearth series of seminars, discussions & workshops. Host jellyfishlines moderates a panel with Mads, Vixie, and David Robles. #ttrpg

Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story. The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...

DJ and musician Sherelle photographed in East London July 2023. This was taken for BassMidsTops really inspiring interview bassmidstopsandtherest.substack.com/p/no-5-shere... @joemuggs.bsky.social did with her #sherelle #bassmidstops #bassmidstopsandtherest

I took some pictures of the jellyfish yesterday and I just love how ethereal they are. They look like they're in some little nebula all of their own. Wonder what they make of our big stupid faces at the glass. #Photography #ThePhotoHour

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Cartoon by Ellis Rosen for The New Yorker.