i'm going to be beating my "get off substack" drum again.

because seriously: get off substack.

stop helping literal sex traffickers make money.

Yes, the UK Government and its ministers are still active on the Nazi site, and yes, David Lammy thinks it appropriate to call the Vice President of a nation currently engaged in <gestures widely> a ‘friend’.

Morally as well as politically bankrupt.

• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people. • Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election. • Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

Labour faces a green apocalypse at the local elections

Yes. That's the plan.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Look, this is a grey squirrel of a solecism and I hate it. The correct expression is ALL MOUTH AND TROUSERS, implying front, bravado, brashness with nothing of substance within. The needful idiom here is ALL GONG AND NO DINNER. Something that promises much but delivers nothing.

A screenshot of a Facebook post by CBS 2 Boise. The post text reads: "A new state law required the City of Boise to take down the Pride flag outside City Hall. Tuesday morning, the City wrapped flag poles in Pride colors and added a new sign to the window on City Hall. CBS2 reached out to the Mayor and Governor’s office for comment." ​Below the text is a collage of three photos showing these updates: ​Left: A tall metallic flagpole in a plaza at night, with its lower section wrapped in horizontal stripes matching the colors of the Progress Pride flag (black, brown, light blue, pink, white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). ​Top Right: A closer view of a flagpole base, also wrapped in horizontal Progress Pride flag colors. ​Bottom Right: A large window on City Hall featuring a graphic with diagonal stripes in the Progress Pride colors alongside the text, "Creating a city for everyone."

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors.

This is amazing.

the govt grandstanding on kanye west as it meekly enables a world-ending genocide is quintessentially keir starmer's labour

we had four years where we didn’t have to wake up and immediately check the news to see what new nightmare the president has threatened to inflict on the world every morning and 77 million people voted that we should have to do that again and I will never get over it

It’s time for allies in the media industry to speak up for LGBTQIA+ people We need more voices - not just in private, but in the newsrooms, speaking out in pitching meetings, and pushing back against harmful narratives.

It’s time for allies in the media industry to speak up for LGBTQIA+ people

www.wearequeeraf.com/its-time-for...

Starmer warned he could make UK ‘accomplice to war crimes’ by allowing US to use British airbases – UK politics live Lib Dems’ Ed Davey and Green leader Zack Polanski say use of UK bases for US operations in Iran should stop urgently

Zack Polanski says UK must 'immediately' withdraw all military support it's giving to US given Trump's latest threats - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Opening paragraph that hits like crack

The time has come for us, as an organisation, to boycott @pinknews.bsky.social.

Despite reservations about the company, we have sometimes worked with queer and trans reporters there to tell stories we thought were important for our community - the same as other outlets.

That ends today. Why?

If we want secure jobs, a safe climate for the next generation & true energy independence the only route is through renewables. We know it works, it lower bills & makes us safe from energy shocks.

We just need politicians brave enough to stand up to the oil & gas lobby & their mates in Reform.

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u

#transdayofvisibility #tdov

It’s Transgender Day of Visibility and this tiny cranky middle-aged feminist just wants to say she loves you and our cause is the same cause.

Terfs don't care about women's safety.
They're handmaidens of fascism and seek to harm us all.

"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Headline in today's Broadcast "Gary Barlow takes Jason Manford to New Zealand for ITV Travelogue" feels like the last straw.

Stop telling us there's no money to make TV when you're sending dull millionaires on free holidays. FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

Who is watching this shit?

*eye twitch*

A thought experiment;

Imagine Rowling had decided she hated Spanish people*, and was using her platform, her virtually unlimited funds to help systematically eradicate them.

How many think pieces would we see on "separation of the art from the artist"?

*Broadly similar population size

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

Colorful nebula in space with a white haze throughout that is more concentrated in the center with a rippling effect. Colorful gas filaments appear to splash outward from the nebula center, colored yellow, magenta, and blue. A faint black border with right angles at the corners of the images show where the telescope\u2019s field of view stopsdotted line with right angles shows the borders of the telescope\u2019s image. Small white stars dot the background.

AFTER 25 YEARS, HUBBLE HAS LOOKED AT THE CRAB NEBULA AGAIN AND GIVEN US A BEAUTIFUL NEW LOOK!!

I’ve seen so much Xander Harris is the worst character ever discourse of late. Probably fuelled by the prospect of a Buffy revival. It’s like everyone has just realised.

We are in so much trouble if we’re going down this road. Yes, I know how much trouble we’re already in, but then add this on top.

Same.

Not for the first time, Naomi unpacks so much in such a straightforward way. Love a Naomi thread.

I smell even more readers giving up on its so-called ‘reporting’.

I don't "feel" my work has been stolen.
I know it.
This kind of language use by the NYT is part of the problem.
Framing it as some kind of emotional woo woo instead of a clear copyright breach...

Please ensure if you're ever in a position to interview Lithgow, you bring this up.

Jesus Christ. We are living in an insane world.