The racist anti immigration protest people have a massive, professionally printed banner that says "remigration" on it. The counter protest has lots of handwritten cardboard signs saying things like "racist are embarrassing" and "everyone deserves a safe home"

Sometimes i just take a tiny amount of solace in how absolutely cringe Elon Musk is when it's obvious he's desperate to be cool.

There's too much of just all of it. I feel like i have a permanent headache.

Any religion that says pets don't go to heaven holds literally no interest for me

A whole political movement based on anti-woke, gun rights, decrying cancel culture & trigger warnings and demanding absolute free speech has spent the last two weeks arresting & sacking people because they weren't being sensitive enough about other people's feelings about a gun death

You need a high fence in your garden for greyhounds, they say. Greyhounds can jump higher than any other dog, they say. My greyhound:

Too many people think "freedom of speech" means "freedom to chat shit without anyone saying mate stop chatting shit"

I just heard some of the speeches from Saturday's march and...yeah. I need everyone who went to that march who believes themselves to be "just an ordinary Brit worried about the country" to listen to those speeches then have a long hard look at themselves.

this response from the Quakers to a gender critical letter is an absolute banger. It is a devastatingly polite takedown of gender critical activity. I particularly enjoyed "We regret that, sadly, unanimity is not possible on this issue and kinder ground eludes us." www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...

Too many people think "freedom of speech" means "freedom to chat shit without anyone saying mate stop chatting shit"

Reposting with alt text and a plea for people to please remember alt text.

this response from the Quakers to a gender critical letter is an absolute banger. It is a devastatingly polite takedown of gender critical activity. I particularly enjoyed "We regret that, sadly, unanimity is not possible on this issue and kinder ground eludes us." www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...

It’s so weird hearing right wingers talk endlessly about how the left wants to hurt them. With what? Health care, equal rights and living wages?

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

Reposting with alt text The thing about right wing hypocrisy is there's never any accountability for it because the right will never hold itself to account the way the left do, because the right care about power more than accountability; the left care about power being held to account

It’s almost like letting young white men marinate their brains in an algorithm-driven toxic stew of nihilistic hate 24/7 and giving them ready access to guns is a bad idea

You're only truly Extremely Online if you understood the references on the bullet casings without googling Otherwise you're just a sparkling net user

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

Are there not laws in the US about right to a fair trial? Or like...due process? Or, innocent until proven guilty? Usually people are quite keen on that sort of thing.

"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage." Charlie Kirk 2022

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist

there's no such thing as "transgender ideology." the only ppl who think that's even a thing are the far right & conspiracy theorists. & given that Gr0ypers have been feuding w/Kirk in recent months, sounds like something one of them might engrave on a bullet... juliaserano.medium.com/gender-ideol...

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

Can't quite believe I'm saying this, but the probabilistic text-extruder's overlords have imbued it with a more robust editorial policy than *the actual BBC* This is not a defence of LLMs. It's an indictment of how bad the UK media ecosystem is right now

Firstly, here's this image with alt text, and hopefully this won't get me banned from bluesky because check out what Gemini said when i used it to select the text. The AI can see what the Republican Party cannot. Context warning for...literally everything.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk, 2023

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

I'm wondering at what point the current USA leadership starts trying to "deport" indigenous people and where they'll try to "deport" them to

Genuinely considering joining the green party

"Dragscrolling" By me and @nadinescholtes.bsky.social I love what Nadine did with the cat here so much! (The new political cartoon collection was named after this cartoon: www.amazon.com/Why-Must-The... ) Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon

"Collectively, these people constitute a government that is absent when required and violently invasive when not." 🔥

This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this: I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

My dog is brilliant Thanks for your attention to this matter

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: tonight i want to talk about the ssscourge of ssslightly taller than average department sstore clerksss Rowling: when will we be free of thiss long national nightmare? Kathleen Stock: a just question, my liege!

Do you ever have a moment when you're in a work meeting and you're like... How am i here Do all these people really think I'm a functional adult What if they find out I'm just three goblins in a Hawaiian shirt

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

As I keep saying to anyone who'll listen (and quite a few who won't), if we make everyone's lives better through properly funded public services, there'll be no need/excuse to be angry at minorities and blame them for everything. I'm happy to pay more tax to make that a reality.

Here's the thing. Nothing labour can do, no just-about-legal activity around immigrants, will prevent the rightward march. It won't convince Reformers to vote labour. Just like Brexit, this isn't really about immigration or sovereignity or common markets. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This morning i saw footage of 1) a lawyer being arrested for a zoom call where he provided legal advice to people considering peacefully protesting Palestine Action's proscription 2) an angry mob of flag wavers chasing down, verbally abusing & threatening a local man who didn't agree with them

ok I synthesized a few ideas and I think I figured out how to explain basically all goth music

A thing AI has done: got me shopping in real in person shops more often, because you can no longer trust online shops. Websites set up in 2025 with all AI generated images, no clue whether the stock is even real, impossible to find "about us" info. Maybe AI will, ironically, help the high street

Here's the thing about having to pay Due Regard under the the equality act. I know I have to respect gender critical beliefs as part of due regard, even though I am really not convinced many people with those beliefs respect my existence. But you know...

They lived! Three years and 2 months, my rookie adventurers completed The Wild Beyond The Witchlight. What will we do with our Tuesdays now? (Answer: more D&D)

Hampstead Ponds are in the news again with the usual lies and misinformation about who has been "allowed" to swim there, when and why. I did my dissertation on the ladies pond in 2019, and specifically looked at journalistic misinformation compared to winter swimmers own views

The adoration being shown to Lucy Connolly is exemplary.

When I see people on here unknowingly join moral panics around child safety and technology, I think about how the future of this very platform hangs in the balance of this legislation that is designed to force us back onto big tech platforms. It’s not about the kids. It’s about all of us