Reform keeps arguing immigration is an issue when it isn’t. There is a by-election right now in Caerphilly and Nigel Farage’s party keeps saying that immigration is an issue there. BUT over 97% percent of people in the area were born in the UK. We need to debate based on facts not scaremongering.

This is beautiful, Elliot and E.T. escaping from a bunch of ICE goons (sound up!)

If you see people having fun discussing horror movies, don't do this. It's not witty. It's not helpful, and it's certainly not original. At best, it's INCREDIBLY annoying, and at worst, it sounds like you're shaming someone for daring to not think about politics 24/7. Either way, you're an asshole.

*uses time machine to burst into a room in June 2024* *Neil Kinnock voice* "A Labour government, a *labour* government will introduce mandatory Duke of Edinburgh in immigrants free time just to get permanent residency after already working and paying taxes and years of visa fees*

I feel so awful for parents of newly diagnosed autistic kids right now, being drowned in such hateful nonsense. You deserve better. Your autistic kid deserves better. My kid was diagnosed 20 yrs ago; please let me give you hopeful advice: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/afte... #autism #parenting

5️⃣ reasons to vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May 2026. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 5️⃣ rheswm i bleidleisio dros Blaid Cymru yn 2026. 💚

@sirlarr.bsky.social love the show but next time you discuss the Xbox price hike could you be a lil bit braver and discuss the fact that Sony is making us Europeans subsidise the US PS5’s so they don’t have to raise prices. The US PS5’s WITH tariffs are the same price as our PS5’s pre-tax

Mecha Hitler said a few unsavory things about Jews, women, minorities, and called for the subjugation of anyone who wasn’t a straight white Christian man, but it’s important to remember he argued with civility.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

People say the BBC lack flexibility in the modern digital era, but the launch and roll out of their 24 hour Charlie Kirk News channel in a matter of hours was pretty impressive.

Here’s I wrote about gamergate 11 years ago. Almost nobody major in the media got what this was or why it mattered. “Eh, it’s just nerdy Online Drama.” The difference now? The cluelessness remains, fewer publications & reporters—& gamergate took over the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-...

Everyone seems allergic to the word, but Charlie Kirk was not an activist, he was a propagandist. Turning Point was a meme factory backed by a billionaire designed to steer kids towards Christian Nationalism. He didn’t advocate for policy; he spun narratives to change beliefs. Propaganda.

Just listened to BBC Wales News and when talking about the Charlie Kirk arrest they said one of the casings had “Hey fascist, catch”. They did not complete what was written on the casing or any of the other phrases, including the homophobic ones This changes the context from alt-right to ANTIFA.

I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has finally confirmed that his party would cut support for many claimants of disability benefits if it won power at the next general election, with the cuts focusing on those he claims do not “genuinely deserve help”. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/farage-final...

"My political opponent should be deported" is not a "civil" form of debate. No one should be killed for saying it, and no murder should be celebrated; but equally their death is no justification for falsely praising them, or for whitewashing their racism.

What’s really telling here is that the BBC is okay pointing out his anti-trans stuff position but at no point discuss his violent rhetoric towards political opponents, ethnic minorities, women and LGB people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour blocked Plaid Cymru’s proposals to devolve the Crown Estate, promising instead a commissioner for Wales. 10 months on from that pledge, the recruitment process hasn’t even started. Labour wants profits from Welsh resources to stay in Westminster, not Welsh communities. shorturl.at/nV8y7

"Most of the UK is well behind the productivity frontier.We don’t need to be pioneering. We can focus on what has worked here/the rest of the world. What works are local projects, funded by local governments, chosen by local democracy, focused on cities." www.economicsobservatory.com/what-transpo...

British politicians and journos writing heartfelt tributes to Charlie Kirk is at least as weird as when they were writing heartfelt tributes to George Floyd. What happened to This Is Not America.

Thresher sharks have the look of an autistic child being taken to a social event …I was that child

Seeing lots of posts saying we shouldn’t be celebrating Kirk’s death. Didn’t realise anyone was celebrating the JJ Abraham’s version of events.

wild that MP3 is an audio file, MP4 is a video file, but MP5 is a submachine gun. Digimon-ass evolution line.

Imagine if these people put this same effort, time, and money went into housing homeless veterans or picking up litter or running a food bank. You know, ACTUALLY looking after "their own".

In the real world, the last PM, a Conservative, actually defended this stuff, to the point of saying that British multiculturalism works and taking real political damage to do so. Some Labour people are so convinced of their superior virtue they don't seem to realise it's about what you *do*.

I am getting sick of certain politicians telling the people of Wales that they don't deserve their own democracy. Let’s stop discussing whether Welsh democracy is allowed to exist, and focus on how to make it work. My latest Guardian column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Such an important piece by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Why, uniquely, does Cymru have to justify our democratic institutions? Over and over and over again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fifteen minutes to kick off #WalvCan

Some people have trouble interpreting abstract art. For example, many men can't see Mary's head in the design of this statue.

🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

Don’t think I’ve seen a better description of “freedom of speech” in the UK.

It’s noticeable that when Reform platformed a Covid conspiracy theorist and were challenged on it their entire response was “Freedom of speech. We don’t agree but it’s important to have that conversation” They do agree they just want someone else to say it so they can claim plausible deniability

This dynamic keeps repeating. Respectable commentators want to have a philosophical debate about (e.g.) Britishness or the definition of "woman", because they don't want to spell out the unpleasant things they think should be done to certain people.

Most workers would be sacked if they treated a full-time job as a part-time gig. Farage has raked in nearly £1 million from outside work - over ten times his MP salary. Clacton is being treated with contempt. We must not let the same happen to Wales. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him

Every leftist knows fellow leftists are some of the most annoying people on the planet but there's a gigantic difference between being annoying and having institutional power. If you spend most of your energy punching left instead of right you simply do not have your priorities straight

@sirlarr.bsky.social this is probably why Inside Games is getting half the views. Not very brave of Google and YT.

I'll nominate sentences that begin with "Honestly," as well.

Reform want to silence Wales' voice and hand all power back to England. We won't let them. Only Plaid Cymru can stop Reform from using Wales as a playground for their dangerous policies. Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May 2026.

On behalf of my Celtic forefathers I would like to apologise for not trying to stop the Saxon invasion. Had they known this would be the result I'm sure they would have fought to the death...

As much as I want to ditch Microsoft products, this is the fourth time this year my Linux machine decided not to automatically download updates correctly forcing a complete reinstall.

Good and important thread, especially as someone with a peanut allergy. As an aside, I’m not too keen on using terms like hallucinate or makes shit up. It suggests sentience which gives it a form of mystique. It’s not sentient. It’s a tool that’s dangerously inaccurate and incorrect far too often.

Slightly diminish a book Stone Squint.

Slightly diminish a book Wuthering Hillocks

me, to the judge: “Well if THAT’s what they meant, they should have used punctuation.”

Polanski was on any questions Friday where he stated that Wes Streeting has received millions in funding private health orgs. I'm no fan of Streeting but he's actually recieved around £350k, which is an obscene amount in itself. But if we're going to challenge politicians we have to do it factually.

Men: “Not ALL men.” Men to their daughters: “Yes, all men. Every single one of them.”