living in the uk is like. you cant hope for any good outcomes. nothing good will ever happen. everything will only get worse forever. but you can, however, hope for really funny things to happen to your enemies while they remain in power. and thats why andy burnham needs to lose this by election

see, i didn't actually want anyone to accept the meeting request. it was purely for show, what don't they understand

Saw they’re looking for a full time librarian at Shakespeare’s Globe. £33k in London lmao

Work is going to be ok tomorrow as I have made a delicious lunch

£0.5m to specialist LGBT+ domestic abuse services literally only sounds like a lot of money to spend on that to exactly the kind of people who hate queers and think they should be battered out of existence. This is not something for a government to brag about as if it makes them sound good.

Hate to come out of a meeting with an action. Feel like I’ve been tricked somehow

There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?

I would bet a not insignificant amount of money that exactly zero people have ever used the gender filter on the Scottish Parliament website

I've got some bad news for you folks...

Hester has decided to sit on my foot during this meeting and I don’t want to move her but she’s slowly sending it to sleep

41 years of EastEnders and someone finally said it.

Have you identified a pervasive societal problem or was one person weird to you

What about declining mirth rates? Why does no one care about the utter lack of joy, of clownery?

Your daily affirmation: I am smart. I am strong. It's ok if I explode into a clattering cloud of ravens instead of answering another work email.

Had to tell myself we have perfectly good tofu scramble at home when I saw it on the specials’ board at Stereo there. Not fair

A likely email for me to receive

Had a really stressful dream about trying to play New Order’s ‘Substance’ but all the tracks had changed and I couldn’t find anything I wanted

Rude to have to go into campus on a Monday, I never do that

progressive politics is dead for a decade if Labour can’t win one (1) additional MP

Bought a bucket of nutritional yeast the size of my head. Should keep me going until next month at least

News out of Norway: a 14-year-old boy has been caught driving a stolen bus for the third time. This time he made it over 300 kilometers, from Oslo to Kristiansand!

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone

The only proportionate response is indeed murder because wtf

Totally fascinated by the queue cop kids at gigs, can’t look away it’s awful lol

Of course I own a copy of The Guardian's top novel

Look out Glasgow, a mass display of white male entitlement is coming your way. I’m actually gonna watch the match but there should be consequences when clubs take no responsibility and their fans wreck the city at tax payer expense.

Hahaha, I’d forgotten all about shit poem guy James Kelly

I see the bunting’s gone up for the racist march in London tomorrow.

Now imagining all the genders uniting to form an all-powerful Megagender.

Andy Burnham should stand aside to allow the Green candidate to beat Reform.

Wes Streeting origin story

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

The Streeting Resignation

That’s the reaction you want to anything in a group chat tbh

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

wow if only there was some quantitative way to determine the degree of fondness that the constituents of Ilford have for Wesley Streeting once and for all. I guess all we can do is go and ask someone we find sitting outside a café.

When someone asked to find a seat Andy Burnham wouldn't lose to the Greens in and you turn up this one? In the borough that just did this?!

I don't know why you're so confused? The disgraced former head of Morgan McSweeney's Labour Right think tank is stepping down to create a space for soft left Andy Burnham to run and remove the Prime Minister he closely supported. This is the Labour party, that's normal.

It is a sad sign of the times, and the state of our public discourse, that what should have been a proud moment for Scottish democracy has been marred by partisan spin, attacks on Dr Manivannan’s identity both as an immigrant and non-binary person, and media failures to confront disinformation.

We are concerned by the nature of the media attention focused on the election of Dr Q Manivannan to the Scottish Parliament at the recent election.

Kenny Gibson elected Presiding Officer. I fear that this is vote will allow the proliferation of abuse of women and minorities in parliament. I worry that it will make politics in Scotland even more toxic and I am very upset.

Looks like the SNP decided to scunner the clear best candidate for the job in order to get someone more Government/SNP friendly in as Presiding Officer. Absolute shame and not a good indication of how this new parliament is starting.

Love to join an external work-related group and discover a nemesis from way back will also be there

day one of John Swinney’s new administration and they’ve fucked up any chance of trans people being shown respect in the chamber

Fruit and falafel, the only two things vegans can eat apparently 🙃