If my imaginary husband refused to ever be alone with a woman I’d just assume he was a serial sexual sadist. Absolutely nothing gives me less confidence than a man who treats women like they’re nothing but temptations or victims.

You do get the feeling that Streeting hasn't actually ever spoken to a trans or non-binary individual In his life, or for that matter any serious professional who works with us.

Standing in a long queue at the Post Office. Everyone else is sending cards and presents. I am sending in mine and my husbands Wills and POAs. Merry Christmas!

9 times out of 10 they're understaffed.

ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

The majority of the amendments have come from a handful of extremists so it’s not accurate to frame it as the whole house blocking the bill. The extremists are taking up time that should be being used to consider vitally important amendments that would safeguard vulnerable people - unconscionable.

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

'only 17 per cent of staff have been guaranteed the living wage' and yet the 'the interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, told the strike organisers that they ‘don’t live in a real world’?' Pathetic. The British Library is a wonder of the modern world - why can't its management act like it?

Wes Streeting talks about 'the collapse of the NHS' the same way a vulture would talk about a maimed deer.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition

Ah, government departments are still blatantly doing "Christian name good, Islamic name bad", then. In 2025. Splendid. Sensational.

oh wow it turns out that you can close a very important building for a period of time to do much needed restoration and renewal rather than constantly dragging it out for decades at much greater expense i wonder if theres a lesson there for someone www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bar...

I was already judging everyone involved with this as scum collaborators from the actors to the runners but when you have the royal nonce come visit you really become in cahoots with evil how do you go to work the next day

This news story is the first time I've had the thought that the dangers of AI are being treated like the dangers of mass shootings - a tragic occurrence but something we cannot address because the market needs us to look away and our way of life depends on their continuation

I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.

The thing that always gets me about these stories is that the parents seem to honestly believe they *own* their children. Then when their children grow up, they're absolutely baffled as to why those kids want nothing to do with them anymore.

“Did you like that necklace I got you? You don’t remember? I gave it to you last week. You said you loved it. You really forgot that quickly?”

Boosting the signal. Alt text reads: “Luggage still in Canada. We are definitely not getting our crap in time for tomorrow. I am currently in Zurich And Will be here until 10am tomorrow. If anyone in Zurich or st gallen have a theremin I could borrow, you would be the savior of the day.”

OMG @larkistin89.bsky.social

Student told me that writing her research paper made her realize how many opinions she has on other topics that she should learn more about before having an opinion and this is one of the many reasons that teaching writing is important even if now that LLMs can create written products.

The women who don't understand that women's rights and queer rights rise and fall in lockstep are still calling themselves "feminists", while sawing vigorously at the branch they themselves are standing on.

You thought the patriarchy was going to stop with trans people? Really? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Aaaaaand there goes another one.

One of the reasons that emergence of ‘cold spots’ of subject provision matters: 52% of 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds (the most deprived quintile in the Indices of Multiple Deprivation) plan to live at home when they go the university www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...

Anyway

How can we draw more attention to this? They're Palestine Action hunger strikers who are now in critical condition in the hospital and the UK is just letting them die. It also feels like there is a media blackout

Finally we get to be the Jetsons

What’s that saying, hit dog holler

I am utterly unconvinced that there is anything remotely "successful" about this school. A lifetime of potential mental health problems for the sake of a few GCSE passes that noone even asks about down the line. Absolutely shocking. schoolsweek.co.uk/mossbourne-s...

“and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a human rights lawyer - a *human rights* lawyer - laying the groundwork for a Farage government to gut the Human Rights Act”

It is bleakly funny that Starmer has been so easily steered by polls on his own area of expertise. It’s like Rishi Sunak deciding to abolish banks

Venn diagram of not wanting to go to the USA under it's current state of affairs and not being allowed to because 40% of my social media is calling the President a fascist manchild with a wafer thin ego is now a circle

Kids, don't take puberty blockers, but do have a good deep sniff of a Sharpie every time you use one. This tweet explains a lot.

I genuinely think none of this gets solved until we stop electing people who think in terms of "acceptable loss" and not in terms of "people"

“everything is gay except violent misogyny” is so scary to me honestly

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

You gotta imagine that there’s ten or more kids in the school that have been drawing their own comics that are getting a really rough introduction to how little people value someone with an art career

What a really weird way to tell the world that you have no friends.

Democratic congressman Shri Thanedar has filed articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth over the murderous attacks on boats in the Caribbean. https://bit.ly/44E1yqP

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

I see this sort of proud posturing a lot and it's really a wonderful way to loudly demonstrate to everyone you have absolutely no idea what's going on

I don't know what today's stupid higher ed article is but it's important to remember that the "marketplace" justification for killing humanities programs is false on multiple levels: employers like to hire humanities majors and those departments are often popular and solvent

Other day when Starmer said he's the last chance for centrism it read like a threat. "Accept everything we do otherwise will let the fascists win next time"

There's a post over on Twitter that I've been laughing to myself about. Some right-wing guy is celebrating that a school took down "All-Gender" bathroom signs and replaced them with "Single Occupancy Restroom" signs. And like... it's the same thing, man. You're celebrating a pointless relabeling.

Oh is everyone being angry about your country doing a genocide making you sad. Oh boo hoo.

Spectator HQ:

Ryan Mason wants Christmas off doesn't he? #wba