Defence minister Luke Pollard boasting: "We've got a large amount of military assets in the region that have been involved in shooting down Iranian drones"
But remember folks, we're not involved.
🚨🎉 The Green Party BEATS Reform!!!
😮 Greens came fourth here last year.
💚 Proving once again that Greens can win anywhere.
🙌🏽 Labour tanking and Greens beating Reform!
👉🏽 Join.greenparty.org.uk
"We've been doing the same thing for 29 years now, any signs that it isn't working just show that we need to do it even harder"
Only labour can beat reform here says Emily Thornberry
Londoners may regret protest votes for reform or greens in local elections says Sadiq Khan
Emphatic green win. Labour and Reform both down.
Hi @emilythornberry.bsky.social,
You might want to chat with @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social about this whole disinformation thing....
Mask A Pony: a game much like Pin The Tail on the Donkey, but you play it while eating velvety Italian soft cheese.
Most autistic people don't want "solving", and most people don't know it
Only 5 days left to submit an abstract for the first Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference!
#AutRes #MusicResearch #PhD #AcademicSky
Interestingly, it looks like almost none of the presentations had anything to do with any of the priorities that research has consistently identified as being shared by autistic people, parents and relevant professionals.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
I used to think this, but then MPs started getting paid a *lot* more, so now I just think they should be banned from second jobs and investments.
Is there any evidence their expenses aren't sufficient already, not counting the fact that they accept secondments from companies and foreign countries?
Are we going to be asked to believe that MPs are highly attuned to the concerns of their poorest constituents, but still not able to cope being in the top 10/15% of household incomes?
Certainly not good that this technology has come along right at the point it has become absolutely undeniable that the Reagan Revolution was disastrous pseudo-science, resulting in decades of malicious neglect and nation-crippling levels of political corruption.
Surely not, if Polanski's being saying it it must be crazy!
if would be nice if companies supplied a diff when updating their terms (not that you can decline new terms in any case)
My approach is very similar: when I have to end my writing time, I spend 5 minutes brain dumping (in red) wherever I am on the page so that I don’t forget my in the moment train-of-thought. It really helps me get going again when I return the page!
A man is sitting at a table in a city park, holding a cup of coffee halfway between table and mouth. Clamped to the front of the table is a large sheet of paper, on which we read: Truss would've been more unpopular than Starmer if she'd lasted another 2 weeks at No. 10 CHANGE MY MIND
If Starmer had adhered to his leadership-campaign & General Election pledges, he'd possibly be the most popular 🇬🇧 PM since polls began.
Instead he's the most unpopular. (Admittedly, Liz Truss would probably have that distinction if only she'd outlasted that lettuce. [Discuss. 🤔])
This negative, divisive content, is the most popular content for "miserable, fascist, white, men."
You want more miserable angry white men? Increase the fashy content! They love that stuff!🤡
But it drives away both "women who aren't white," and "white women who aren't racist or transphobic."
🙂🙃
This is the fundamentally false premise that people believe, despite all evidence to the contrary.🤷🏿♂️
The truth is:
1) Negative, divisive content, is not the most engaging content. It's not close.
2) Algorithms reward negative, divisive content, because billionaires buy platforms and make it so.
Frightening Starmer is just a happy side effect!
I have a lot of entries to add! I just learned of a Palestinian horror novel coming out in September, among other works.
A reminder that my approach in curating this is just that everything speculative by a Palestinian creator goes on the list.
A very, very content-looking dog, snuggling with her human.
Blissfully unaware.
I wonder what chats he had with granddad Oswald Mosley.
Israel killed over 100 people — and wounded thousands — in Lebanon today. TODAY. April 8 2026. Just yesterday, Israeli news outlets reported that Israel and Hizb'allah were laying down their weapons.
And this has been so normalized that there are still people pretending Iran broke the deal.
Alt text though Owen
People in Spain are leading the charge for a stronger, independent Europe amid widespread wariness of Donald Trump’s America, according to a new POLITICO survey.
'We're nothing to do with the BBC, just an official social media account for a show that happens to be on the BBC.'
A reminder, again, that the establishment have to maintain that the Corbyn era was a non stop cascade of Hitlerian racism because otherwise their response - a decade of public pants shitting, Boris Johnson, diamond hard Brexit and Keir Starmer - seems like an insane overreaction.
I had to look up MENA. What a bizarre bit of case law! That's certainly not how the vast majority of US politicians think of them.
Too many people hear something like this and think 'Even brown people? Even Muslims? Be realistic!'
So much of US foreign policy (supported by the UK, Israel and others) only makes sense through the lens of brown people not really being fully human, or not having lives that are worth anything much.
Daffodils in my garden
The sun is shining, it’s not even that chilly outside, and I’m here to remind you about death and stuff!
I’m screening my short film next month - events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/cross...
In-person and online attendance options, because accessibility is cool.
After Iran agreed to open the Strait, they've already closed it again.
Why? Israel won’t stop bombing Lebanon.
More than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed since Israel began launching missiles in March. The attacks on civilian infrastructure—schools, hospitals, neighborhoods—are unconscionable.
