As mentioned in what now feels like my live coverage of Nigel Farage finally getting what he wants (all the media scrutiny in the world), I made the point that it would extremely unlikely that Rachel Reeves would decline his resignation. What I did not expect is this level of shade. Bra. Vo.

Settle a work debate. What is the 'proper' British pronunciation of tortoise. Tortoys (like) or Tortuss (retweet). Now go!

“There’s a real mismatch between the bonhomie character Farage likes to present and the reality of Reform's policies.” TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak on losing traditionally Labour members to Reform.

Kids are out here paying like $60 for vinyl records and overpaying for CDs and cassette tapes and you’re telling me you can’t sell physical games anymore? Skill issue. This is a mistake.

Venus and Serena, or as they're collectively known, the Tennisy Williams

Yep! That’s a perfect analogy. #BookSky

Microsoft this week: We're laying off half the industry. Sony: We're ending physical games. Nintendo: have u seen this splatoon weapon we call it the bloblobber

“Eat the rich” is an ideologically reprehensible statement. Proportionally, there just aren’t that many of them. They’re not a viable long-term solution to food insecurity.

BORN IN THE USA

Lol. @typewriteralley.bsky.social and I drew a bigger crowd for our tour of historic traffic calming in Seattle.

#SpotTheScammer @markhenry6.bsky.social bio: "I’m looking for a long-term arrangement with a sugar baby who I can help with her living expenses." Sugar daddy scam. How it works👇 www.avast.com/c-sugar-dadd...

Even more pertinent today. #DemocracyDiesinSilence #SpeakOut

They’re going to call you a socialist regardless. So be a socialist.

Reform UK Councils have already started handy out dodgy contracts to companies which donated to Reform's election campaign and they've only just got started ... meme via Barry Page

asking players how they feel after a world cup elimination should be automatic revocation of press credentials for foolishness

A bit more of Mahmood’s performative cruel stupidity here Most asylum seekers have no control over where they are housed or for how long or how long it will take the H.O. to make a decision and for appeals to be heard AND, meanwhile, THEY‘RE NOT ALLOWED TO WORK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

The WHO announced today that the deadly heat wave now boiling across Europe—which has caused more than 1,000 deaths last week alone—is the predicted and horrifying result that climate scientists and human rights advocates have been warning about for decades.

People shouldn’t keep peeves as pets.

Just realised who Scotland should hire

Supportive.

The instinctive reaction right now is lazy, sleep-walking cynicism, or sullen don't-give-me-hope despair. But the truth is: someone with very good communication skills, the right diagnosis and a reforming zeal is about to become prime minister. That seems pretty fucking encouraging to me.

Such a dilemma! #BookSky

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."

It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.

Trump is Governor Le Petomane re-imagined. Isn't he? I can't un-see it.

WTF is wrong with UK media? Farage claims he wasn’t in politics prior to receipt of the £5m. He was majority shareholder (53%) of Reform. May 2023–April 2024. Farage served as the party's Honorary President. How can you be an Honorary President of a political party and not be involved?

truth

Why it’s time for Democratic socialism!

We are living in a time of emboldened racism. It's like the 1950s, only sadder because we actually went through a few decades when most people knew better. (Or at least knew to keep quiet in public.)

All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening

On the 10th anniversary of Brexit, we now know: Cameron had no plan regarding the referendum Johnson, Gove, Farage, no plan Teresa May triggered article 50, no plan And people wonder why our economy is in the shit. The time has come where Labour start spelling this out and plan to join SM

Why are we having a debate about air conditioning when we could be getting on with using solar power to make all the air conditioning work

Look, everyone was told to respect Qatars beliefs during the last World Cup, so please respect Seattles right to be gay as fuck.

Bluesky launched in February 2023 as an invite-only platform. As of June 2026, we have 45 million users. For reference, that's almost the population of Argentina. Thank you for being here with us 💙 Here’s to the next 45 million accounts.

This angers me so much. Look outside. The planet is boiling. People are dying. Nature is struggling. I feel sorry for the people of Sunderland. They deserve better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A word from Paola Fish

*Whispers* Amazon doesn't need your money, but your local independent bookstore does.

Very true. #BookSky

"Net zero" is not ideological zeal, opposing net zero is.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

Sally died because the supported living home she lived in forgot to give her her medication for 300 days. An inquest found she died from neglect but the CQC failed to bring forward a prosecution The problem isn't just the regulator. Its the fact that we've privatised social care

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