Swing Labour to Green is 26.4% For the history fans: Orpington, 1962, swing 26.3%

Wooo. 4.5k majority over Reform, Labour in third.

Botched Execution

Fascinating innovations in the EU-UK Gibraltar Agreement - www.gov.uk/government/p...

A friend has just typed “Rizzo” instead of “Rizzio” and I now want The Muppets Do 16th Century Scotland. I am especially here for Miss Piggy v John Knox. He doesn’t stand a chance.

we choose to go to the moon and do those other things not because they are easy but because we were bored

Colonial Bank v Whinney (1886) 11 App. Cas. 426

Turns out I needed wine to approach legal discussion of cryptoassets.

Among my objections to cryptocurrencies is that I find myself reading gibberish like "Darby stopped baking the Tezos".

I often get very sad looking at the wonderfully goofy Billingham town centre in its heyday. When even a small town on Teesside could, with a bold district council and a tax windfall, build a really forward-looking walkable community-centric piece of urbanism.

The Speaker's information must have been very persuasive: enough to force the police to act in the afternoon. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026...

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

Gordon Brown's vengeful streak hasn't been this fun since like 2006

It feels out of fashion but a reminder that if you want to be a woman you can just be one.

Coming in November from @brisunipress.bsky.social, In the Aftermath of Empire explores the impact of British imperialism on gender and sexuality law in four jurisdictions. Please tell your libraries to pre-order! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/in-the-after...

This is excellent. Now I want the one about the jackdaws and the sphinx of quartz.

On the one hand, thank you GP for getting my ADHD referral moving. On the other hand, could you at least try to settle on what to call me in the letter?! (This is the first time anything like this has happened since I got a new NHS number six years ago so I have no idea why I’m confusing now.)

When a trans femmes tits start growing

Power is the ability to cause change in others that would not otherwise occur. To cause someone to cringe is therefore an act of power. If you're cringe hard enough, you can become a god.

Title text: "My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3209#Transcript

Suggest Congress closes the door in the President's face so as to remind him not to seek to arrest politically opposed members of Congress. It's what we do, over here, at our equivalent annual address to the legislature.

If one is in an English court and brings up a US case in argument does one use the English way of pronouncing “v.” in case names (“and” or “against”) or the USian one?

Good therapy session earlier, with big discussion of the importance of autonomy in my mental makeup. Suppose I knew I was trans but hadn’t taken any action about this. If I were forced to transition, I’d resist strenuously and probably subsequently detransition.

Poetry doesn't do well over here Nobody knows if it's good Did you read a poem and like it a lot? Maybe you misunderstood. Maybe you'll share an unlikeable verse Maybe you'll say "this is nice!" And all of your timeline will lean back and laugh; Maybe you ought to think twice.

some years back i ran a private multiplayer Europa Universalis 4 game for a cross-party group of MPs. All of whom played it regularly already single-player. It was gloriously fun, full of unexpected alliances and the odd backstab.

can't believe i almost forgot

Nadine!

Wah. Partner goes home and I have to apply my own hormones at night again like some kind of savage 😭😉

It's 2026 and we have to get therapy for our Linux kernel build scripts because someone pretended they were going to off themselves.

Nobody should let me judge anything, let alone public procurement contracts, because I am far too easily swayed by an Eliot reference. “These fragments I have shored against my ruin”? That’s reassurance enough for me: have £75m This is probably another reason why public procurement rules exist.

welcoming Hilary Cass to the resistance (but on the way to the resistance there’s a box propped up with a stick and a glass of sherry and plate of aged cheeses underneath)

Turns out penguins do have knees. They're just not where you think they ought to be. (Can you tell I'm trying to distract you from our collective sense of impending doom by putting out the most random content imaginable?!)

Rugby match 🤝🏻 academia 🤝🏻 lefty politics = We all hate the Ref

Unalive to me is redolent of Kangs and the Secret Alleviator.

Gorton and Denton. Or possibly Tajikstan.

The people who understand podcast voodoo maths tell me my new podcast is hovering just outside a lot of weekly "top listened to" lists. Which is crazy. So i guess if all of you could tell just one weird IRL friend to listen that'd be ace. I mean c'mon. SHIPS CATS cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-...

How far did Rome fall and what sound did it make when it hit the ground?

Argh. I’m less ill than I was but my brain is doing weird hyperactive things so that I just can’t sleep. Mostly running the end credit music of the Owl House very insistently and cartoonifying my self image, but also making thoughts feel kind of jagged.

i fear abi cooked with this one

sexting you one handed because, y'know (sexting another gf with the other hand)

'The MHRA's rigorous trial of the efficacy of condoms - placed on the member post-coitus - concluded that their benefits were overstated. The Secretary of State for Health, Wesley Streeting, heralded the trial as exactly the sort of evidence-led medicine for which he had always advocated.'

It's been a good six months and I just mentioned it to someone again, so I am once again bumping the Dupuytren's/Ledderhose PSA about radiotherapy. If you get this diagnosis and your doctor tells you to wait because there's no treatment, they are actively fucking you over! Do not let them!

They want a Britain that simultaneously has Ian McKellen's beautiful theatrical voice reading Shakespeare making them proud of British culture and history, but not the ass fucking gay guy who reads from another ass fucking gay guy who's play denouncing race riots was censored 400 years ago.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll tell you a story. My second-favourite coming-out story, a funny one for #LGBTHistoryMonth You know the excuse ‘Of course *I* don’t have a problem, but old people won’t understand’…? OTD 1996: I wrote a letter to my Grandma… 1/6

OK has there *been* an anteater kaiju movie, just tearing into an office building with its claws and slurping up people with its big sticky tongue? cc @restingdinoface.bsky.social

1) Ban medication being prescribed because you say there is insufficient evidence to support it, even though it's prescribed internationally 2) Say you're going to set up a trial to get evidence that it's safe and effective 3) Pause that trial getting evidence because of "unquantified risk"

Little bit of a thread about Thatcher and antisemitism, which I did not know.

Skin’s bad again. Added to the cold lurgy I’ve got and I feel like some kind of zombie.