[taps the sign again] it’s not just for jokes, folks!

There are 2,500+ turbines in the UK: they should be helping bring energy bills down. Instead, Brits have paid £1,000,000,000 this year switching turbines off while overpaying gas plants to switch on 👉 octo.ps/3KiVhcu

Think I’ve ruptured lads.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Neurodiversity is not a disease.

Foreigners aren’t coming here to live off benefits. We have the stats to prove it. So let’s kill this MYTH once and for all.

"Wow you guys just call everyone you don't like a Nazi!" If you copy Nazi Chief propagandist Joseph Goebbel's speeches term for term, say hail victory (that's sieg heil, for those who don't know), & refer to the "storm" then yeah... you are a literal Nazi.

Frustrating that the BBC is still dropping the professional title for female scientists they interview! Here’s my sister *Dr* Sura Alwan on the lack of evidence that paracetamol causes autism &the dangers of oversimplified messaging that spreads fear & blame on mums. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1i4sd...

Just went to the car park got in my car, drove real far, all night (in fact) and then, saw a light. It came right down and landed on the ground and (get this) out comes a man from Mars! And I tried to run but he had a gun and he shot me dead and he ate my head. Anyway, Rapture.

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

A poorly thought out, vindictive and completely unworkable policy by Reform UK fell apart the moment it brushed up against reality? I am shocked. Shocked I tell you. It’s almost as though they have, yet again, proven they are not in any way or form a serious party.

Me on the way to the rapture.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Everyone remember to wear clean pants and socks for the rapture tomorrow.

this is why honest reporting is so desperately important even British people with deeply prejudiced views don't want what Farage and Yaxley are offering, if it's presented to them truthfully it has taken concerted dis- and mis-information to get us here, and they still require that to continue

Gvt committed to remaining in ECHR (looking at reforms). Obvs Farage needs to leave ECHR *first* and abolish lots of domestic laws too to start stripping rights of EU nationals, refugees, migrants, British citizens & everyone else Scrapping rights isn't popular & just trust Farage alone less so

4Screenwriting is open for applications to the 2026 cohort. Polish that script and send it in - still genuinely one of the best writing schemes in the UK and can launch careers overnight. #scriptwriting

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

I’m watching and it’s astounding. We all knew something like this was going on - but the extent of it! While so many were suffering, dying, sunk into loneliness - a few were absolutely RAKING IT IN. The COVID health crisis was a very, very lucrative opportunity for some.

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Instead of an account blackout to protest BlueSky’s anti-sex T’s and Cs update, how about you share content from adult creators whose work you love? We’re drowning. It’s not just me, I don’t know anyone who produces adult content who is doing well right now.

London housing officially classed as unaffordable for every income decile. Average English home costs 7.9 times the average salary; 13.5 times in London. Bad news for other regions too. Result of real wage cuts, profiteering, shortages, rentier economy. Many won't be able to pay rents in old-age

“Eye-watering waste [ie Tories siphoning off £bns of pubic money to their mates] running into £bns resulted from huge Covid contracts for mountains of PPE & tests” NB £1m spent at £1 a second would be gone in 11.5 days. £1bn billion would take more than 31 years. www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/d...

On X I used data to show London does not have the highest crime rate in the world. 10 mins later a right winger linked to my book. 10 mins after that I got 40 1-star reviews from unverified accounts (previously 4.9 star avg). Fair play to Amazon - they removed them all. But that's how it works.

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

The important thing to consider is that Reform Councillor John Allen who allegedly said he’d shoot Keir Starmer, wouldn’t have been suspended if @hopenothate.org.uk hadn’t found his YouTube clip and exposed him.. So how many other threats of violence or murder by their members haven’t been found 🤷🏼‍♂️

Pedro Pascal is a load bearing part of multiple franchises, so Bob Iger better get his act together before his choices manage to torpedo Marvel and Star Wars plans

Saturday catch-up: Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping has become Channel 4’s most successful scripted comedy debut in seven years. http://dlvr.it/TNBT0y

Meanwhile in other #Absolutelydisgusting news #NationwideBuildingSociety should Not be engaging, with the #FarRight #Fascist #ReformUK party. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If anyone did want watch Maiden’s Wasted Years youtu.be/Lsf-Xz_VPM4?... bc

Couldn’t play Wasted Years #torp

Des’ ree is hot. Has an amazing voice And, we still.. Anyway. I love her. #TOTP

The fuck? #totp

DADS! #totp

Every single thing about the lyrics of this song is problematic. #totp

Doesn’t feel great lads. Tbh. #totp

Yup. yup, yup. This is why we all went to the pubs with no money in The 90s Now, we have no money in the 20s & Aldi fizz. #totp

This is a dreadful tune but give me love? Ok. #totp

How Reform UK Ltd’s policy proposals would deepen divides Reform UK’s rise may seem like change – but its policies will gut the same communities as austerity and make the richest richer still By John Hall @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

Awesome opening to tonight's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert... youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to think for yourself anymore" THAT IS A TERRIFYING SENTENCE

Andrea Jenkyns, Mayor of Lincolnshire, DOGE warrior... A story in three parts....

It’s coming up to the time of year when you buy a new calendar (which you would know if you had a decent calendar…) From the mind of @quantick.bsky.social and myself, watch this space to find out how to be a part of it…

Louder for people in the back

After the Epstein stuff, the criminal convictions, and the general incompetence, it would be ironic if the thing that actually finished this current US administration, is a battle over the first amendment of the constitution. But these days, you can’t even say that.

Have Disney pulled the Indiana Jones movies for being mean to nazis yet?