This is an excellent article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

lucky workers don't have the vote.

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

"The fire department in Jerome Township, Ohio has grown increasingly annoyed at two Amazon data centers...Since the first site was approved by local officials in 2021, first responders have answered a combined 84 emergencies...on top of regular safety inspections" #AI futurism.com/future-socie...

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – it's time to fight back https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

‘The Crow Trap’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox

When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!

Last night there was an arson attack on a mosque in Peacehaven.

The instinct of this government is ever further restrictions on civil liberties. It is authoritarian at its core, and at this stage needs to be opposed by anyone who at all considers themselves a progressive.

UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜

‘Say You’ll Be There’ - Nina Millns #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are 🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally 🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face 🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose #r4today

Again, are we saying that all Jews in the UK are representative and responsible for the actions of a completely separate country on another continent who are reviled the world over, hence the protests? are you arguing they’re the same thing? seems like you are.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Greta Thumberg posts what is likely her final message before interception tonight. 👇

‘The Woman Who Stole My Life’ - Marian Keyes #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

‘A Lesson in Dying’ - Ann Cleeves #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox

There is nothing "open, tolerant or generous" about Labour's anti-immigration, anti-trans/non-binary, anti-disabled policies. When you start reducing the rights of marginalised groups, telling them they are unwelcome, treating them as second class, you lose the right to claim otherwise.

‘Sushi For Beginners’ - Marian Keyes #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

‘There and Back: Diaries 1999 - 2009’ - Michael Palin #sharingmyreading2025

Kier Starmer's digital ID proposals are a terrible idea from our perspective. There's already more than enough hassle navigating the system as it is. Often, people who are homeless or living a difficult life dont have a basic phone, let alone regular digital access.

I’m not It isn’t. It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.

‘The Cut Throat Trial’ - S.J. Fleet #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox

‘The Killer Question’ - Janice Hallett #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

‘Consider Yourself Kissed’ - Jessica Stanley #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

Have been with Nationwide since I was about 7 - so about 42 years! Sorry @nationwideuk.bsky.social but if you're going down this road, it's time for a change.

Louder for those at the back. "Gender-critical"...? You are a fascist, no two ways about it now. You align with Putin, Orban, Le Pen, Meloni, Bolsonaro, Braverman, Robinson and Trump. End of.

I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

Ban AI.

It’s a good day to buy a copy of The National

‘Fundamentally’ - Nussaibah Younis #sharingmyreading2025 #applebooks

Poverty porn still alive and well in 2025. Fuck the Guardian and fuck Rowan McCabe

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Queen

‘Are We Having Fun Now?’ - Suzi Ruffell #sharingmylistening2025 #borrowbox

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

I support this. If you visit a house where people take their shoes off at the door, don't traipse in with your big muddy boots.

HOPE not hate has written to the Prime Minister, urging him to speak up and defend multicultural Britain. Now we are gathering messages from supporters across the UK. secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/177398/...

‘The Eights’ - Joanna Miller #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Racist, homophobic, misogynistic, transphobic views aren't 'controversial'. I thought we had got to a stage where we agreed these things were backwards and vile. The sooner we start calling bigots by their name the better

‘The Husbands’ - Holly Gramazio #sharingmyreading2025 #borrowbox

I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going. Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk Thank you.

‘Rivers of London: The Fey and the Furious’ - Aaronovitch, Cartmel, Laclaustra, Color-ice #sharingmyreading2025 #essexlibraries2025

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "This government always talk about tough decisions, but they're always tough decisions for the poorest people. people. Why are they never tough decisions for multimillionaires and billionaires?" Spot on!

📣 Reminder: Refugees welcome, always.

Disabled people’s organisations have expressed shock and alarm at the disability minister’s “completely unacceptable” decision to impose gagging orders on members of his new “independent” advisory panel. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/shock-and-an...