Commiserations to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday, as he is now too old to be allowed to play with LEGO.

When this is a policy is there any wonder unthinkingly racist and xenophobic parties are surging? When you open the overton window wide enough all sorts of crap blows in.

Conservatives here just straight up ignoring the fact they lost all 20 of the seats they held in Sutton, almost all to the Lib Dems

Or I like to distract myself by learning about science

At times like these, I like to look at Henri Zuber’s L’Eglise de Ferrette

Reform plans threaten maternity leave and job security for half a million pregnant women, analysis shows

Sharing in gratitude and also some trepidation- this is a story with real joy and insight, but also terrible terrible sadness. And covers some very disturbing themes. TW suicide.

Any serious wizard would want to keep track of their research in order to roll back to earlier spell versions should any unexpected effects arise. They could simply employ a small, unpleasant and rude, but useful demonic familiar to curate the multiple spell variants. A little git, if you will.

What the fuck do ReformUK Ltd. think they're doing? Here's your lovely expensive house, wouldn't it be awful if we planted a concentration camp beside it and crashed your property values? That's what you'll get if you vote Green, haw haw haw Don't vote for obnoxious bullying shits, Vote Green

Bluesky (users): "We fucking love trans people!" Bluesky (team):

Wow… the unraveling really is rather fundamental:

Reform manifesto: If you become unemployed and don’t get another job within 4 months, your benefits will be stopped. Also Reform: Pull a sickie on the day of the election to canvass for us

"No Mr Prime Minister, those are the only three people in the country. Those are your options." "That... doesn't seem right." "But it is. The population of the United Kingdom is 3." "Well, if you say so..."

you fucked up a perfectly good freedom of navigation is what you did look at it, it's got tolls

Keep Britain Kind

we need to talk about what Louisiana Republicans are doing to Calvin Duncan, who deserves so much better than this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

If the mainstream press refuses to investigate Reform’s candidates and their scandalous backgrounds and attitudes, I guess @bylinetimes.bsky.social will have to do it. These are just some of our exclusives from the last couple of days Www.bylinetimes.com

An autocratic figure needs to seize political power and take away the right of women to vote because, when left to their own devices, women “vote for being raped,” a trio of Christian nationalist pastors agreed in a recent podcast. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/women-vote...

Just heard self-centred hypocrite Nigel Farage on BBC News say that no British politician has been physically attacked more than him. An insult to the memory of Jo Cox and David Amess, both murdered.

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

It’s not hindsight. The people who wanted to go after Trump and his enablers were blocked from positions of power and influence by Democratic leadership, who didn’t want to rock the boat. None of us have gotten apology notes, piles of money, or invitations to go help kick ass in 2026 / 2028.

in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

Still can't get over how SCOTUS says you shouldn't change voting laws in middle of election and then demolishes Voting Rights Act in middle of election to turbocharge Trump's gerrymandering war

Still kind of stunned that they just paved over the Rose Garden. Not that I have such a massive nostalgia/respect for the Kennedy era. But it's wild. Also a strong indication of how we should treat all of Trump's work. Destroy it, replace it, never mention it again.

Indie games getting patches = the devs launched a broken game AAA games getting patches = look at how much support the publisher is giving the game after launch

@auroraorchestra.bsky.social on @bbcradio 3 now playing Fantasia in a theme by Tallis! Amaze amaze amaze!

Counterthought: the Right's loathing of us, the actual British people, has already ruined Britain, time to rebuild. I wouldn't have a pint with any of these fucking key-speaker wankers.

Iran war: UK borrowing cost highest since 1998 as oil price shoots up

If you’re going to engage in Potter content I’d recommend buying the books and dvds in charity shops. She won’t get a penny and the money will go to an actual good cause, and then you and your kids can enjoy watching and reading the material (and learning to criticise lazy racist writing together).

There's been a lot of hand-wringing around JKR lately, and again i need to say that the key difference between supporting her work and others is that buying into Potter stuff right now, in this moment, is directly supporting her. It polishes her image and her ceaseless campaign against trans people.

Ceci n’est pas un état police

Campaign videos both at home and abroad. The American President just repeatedly mashing the "Global Fuel and Fertilizer Shortage" button over-and-over again when he could just... not... could be a real challenge for politicians typically closely aligned with the US.

More and more public figures are now openly talking about joining the EU Things are changing!

Ted Cruz is the #1 lifetime recipient of fossil fuel money in the entire U.S. senate, receiving over $1 million from the oil and gas industry in the 2024 cycle alone Now he's proposed a bill to give the fossil fuel industry lifetime legal immunity from climate lawsuits

This Earth Day Ad hits HARD Trump spent billions of our tax dollars to CANCEL green energy contracts, good jobs for us and Mother Earth herself. SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE! #EarthDay

hard to believe this guy couldn't win a statewide election

I really struggle with the idea that this isn’t parody. That’s a US president with his cabinet. And they are all performative cretins.

2/ Link: www.commondreams.org/opinion/pala....

What if a key ally had kicked off a pointless and illegal war, was crippling the global economy, riding roughshod over their own constitution at home, and was blatantly corrupt? I mean, would you do something? And I don’t mean send the worst human being you knew as ambassador.

Ukraine Is Shielding Europe From War 2014 — it began 2022 — it escalated 2026 — we stand ”Families being murdered, cars burned down, houses erased to the ground.” Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social International advocacy/ ICUV, AntAC. Stand With Ukraine 💙💛 Thread 1/5🧵

Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw it as an opportunity to make 💵 & exploited a deadly vaccine accident. His rhetoric during a ‘19 visit added to a measles outbreak resulting 83 kids dying. His anti-vax disinfo undermined vaccination efforts during the crisis.

This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.

Labour is laying the ground for Reform's mass deportations. Good article in the FT about Reform's and Labour's plans, though it seems to me that the threat of Labour's proposed reforms to UK citizens' spouses who don't work/work part-time keeps being underestimated. archive.ph/ZYj3F

World Cup kit reviews. Sober, smart. Anyone got a set of fabulous fashionista reviews please.

🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄 We now have an entire media who would rather see a Farage govt, leading to the demise of the NHS and an alliance with the far right US Christian Nationalist fuckers than support the govt we elected And its drift towards EU alignment Putin must be laughing his head off.

New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk A chart mega-thread follows 🧵

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.