Diolch for this

This is all so interesting. I lived off grid (incompetently) for 9 years so i often can tell if something's off with the way people write light/dark/seasons but I have never even remotely considered concepts of time.

Make it make sense...

I've always been wary of using the 'f' word. But if ICE isn't a tool of the fascist-adjacent at least, I don't know what has ever been in my lifetime in the Western world.

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?

Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.

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Old Soviet joke: They rewrite history so much, you never know what's going to happen yesterday

(please use alt text, it's a small way we can all be better than the Fash)

BBC traitors really highlights how much white people love to justify racism

'How much does the aurora borealis weigh?" It's pretty light.

Nice of genitally-obsessed bigot to use #NotInOurName

70,000 women have now signed, saying clearly that exclusion is not in their name and that trans people deserve dignity, safety and belonging.

🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk

#NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite

This is really interesting because I wanted to argue that lots of old films are about reassigning power but I guess often they are actually about the ‘goodies’ (white cis men) maintaining power

ReCalibri They always make us do everything ourselves, anyway

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.

I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

I HATE when that happens. So much sympathy

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

In occupied East Jerusalem, the United Nations has condemned a raid by Israeli forces on the headquarters of the U.N.’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, known as UNRWA. A spokesperson for the secretary-general said the raid directly violated international law.

I grew up in a suburb, West Drayton, where it was (rightly) news if there was a far-right protest every couple of months. Now there is one of them each week. inews.co.uk/news/inside-...

100 of them will use enough energy to power 10,000,000 homes: "Figures shared with BBC News in August showed an estimated 447 data centres currently in the UK, with that number set to rise by about 100 in the next few years."

Profit is being prioritised over people.

Enchanted today to discover I am listed on Twm Siôn Cati’s Wikipedia page as the author of a reference. It’s a nice reassurance as I try and wrest my re-telling into some kind of shape 😂

Thousands of Scots nurses 'with Long Covid left destitute begging for handouts' Nurses who quit their careers due to illness they got caring for others are pleading for Long Covid to be treated as an industrial injury so they don't have to beg for handouts.

This is how our government treated nurses with long Covid.. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...
From 2023. Still no preventions in place.

"The big orange elephant in the room that we're all tiptoeing around is the fact that Mandelson was chosen for that position, to be the interface with President Trump, not despite his questionable connections and his rather ephemeral morals, but because of them. Because he shares them with Trump."

Same. Last time I went to London I saw a billboard that said something like 'you are welcome here' and I was nearly crying on the coach 😂

In London, hate will never win.

oh my

The UN has only confirmed what we already knew: Israel is committing genocide.

64,000+ killed, whole families wiped out. Yet UK Govt rolls out the red carpet for Israel’s president & Starmer stays silent.

Labour - this is a genocide. Are you going to continue to ignore that?

“A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past.”

UK "Free Speech" latest:

Four members of @ledbydonkeys.org were arrested for this.

a support group for people mesmerised by the fact that the clumps from their cat's clumping litter look exactly like sesame brittle

Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles

Four people were arrested for an “unauthorised projection”.

This is apparently what counts as a crime now

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A second mass shooting of a homeless encampment in Minneapolis. Five more people died. Meanwhile, congress is working on passing the ability to jail homeless people for up to 30 days or charge them $500. It bans camping on public property. abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

Trump's lawyers won't stop lying in court It's past time for judges to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.

"The courts have no roadmap for this. They have generally not been faced with repeated instances of high-level government officials and attorneys routinely lying or perpetually insisting they have no idea what’s actually going on, but that’s where we are now."