Professor Boot

Me, 24/7.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social and Lula both have one thing in common (apart from great policies to protect the planet and promote social justice that is). They have both had their accounts on Meta/Facebook suspended during elections. Politicians being silenced by Zuckerberg are the best politicians.

Reject the Board of Deputies The Board of Deputies' declaration that The Green Party of England & Wales is a "racist" party would be laughable if it wasn't so disgusting.

When I first read that I thought it said, "I regret not making more cuts to the Chancellor when I was on benefits." It makes *way* more sense than the reality.

Neal Lawson: "I couldn't live on the meagre benefits people are getting. To suggest that we have to cut those.. actually that's where the engine of growth is, that's the people who spend.. how do you get people out spending.. not by cutting benefits of people at the bottom"

I had no idea Brendan O'Neill cameod in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, but here he is.

A competition to come up with the best portmanteaus combining words describing celestial bodies; Oortmanteau.

A competition to come up with the funniest portmanteau words wherein every participant wears denim shorts. ...don't make me say it.

A competition to see which type of fortified wine brings about the best pun-adjacent assemblage of words. Sadly this would still only be a portmanteau and, as such, will never be celebrated for its true nature.

As a persuasive strategy, how are you finding sneering contempt?

Another one here where the British press just smashed fuck out of a member of the public’s life for no good reason, just because they wanted to and nobody will stop them doing at. And they’re still going, even now.

“Israel is a very racist country, its government routinely commits horrific crimes” was a humdrum opinion, fifteen years ago: never uncontroversial, but well within mainstream though. Now, our whole political/media class believes it is insanely extreme. Who is it that has been radicalised, here?

Would highly recommend people read about Aktion T4, the nazi plan to murder the disabled & mentally ill. It was the one program that the German people protested against...but only because it also included old people. Once the old were spared, people stopped protesting & abandoned the disabled.

This is terrifying. A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a mink farm for months. Experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. And officials are refusing to act. What a story from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

Massive thanks to that gorgeous doggo that helped me through a minor autistic meltdown as the train pulled into Cardiff.

"In for forever together" is available for pick up.

Considering changing my last name for something way earlier in alphabetical order feels like I might be cheating the queue?

lol.

JK Rowling writing a whole damn essay that goes, "I know I'm a billionaire, but it's the TRANS who are the real elite, and I'm just using all my money to fight the TRANS ELITE whose only tangible power I can articulate they have outside vague fearmongering is them harassing me on Twitter!" is wild.

What is it about centrists that makes them so gullible? Everyone I know, knew Burnham would not be a left wing PM. He has never been left wing. He hasn't ever pretended to be. But loads of people just refused to believe that the widely predicted Thatcherite mess we see unfolding, was possible.

Shame on my ex-profession for failing to stand up to the rampant transphobia within NHS England and within its own ranks. ‘We know our actions will cause harm to trans people but we’ll do it anyway because we either a-believe trans people are less than or b-we are cowards’ Which one are you?

I'm about to be reintroduced to Eddington on #STDS9 and I remember him as being the most principled guy who wouldn't accept Apartheid. Am I about to be disillusioned?

You know what? I've been halted late s2 in my rewatch and you just inspired me to go back to it. God damn I love me some Bashir.

Wednesday said ACAB

Recipe for joy: Create new Wonder Woman animated series Let Gail write episodes, and Phil Jimenez and @gwillow.me and @kellythompson.bsky.social and Sophie Campbell. World peace breaks out Dogs learn to talk Beatles reform after George and John are discovered living in Akron, Ohio.

I assume Burnham was playing The Smiths while he approved this. “If it’s not love then it’s the bomb, the bomb, the bomb that will bring us together.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whoever put the Rooneys and the Rhinos together on this list deserves a smattering of applause. At least Rhinos have a point.

I feel contractually obliged to point out (as soon as I noticed) that McDonald's currently has a Szechuan Sauce currently available. Aldo take your meds. Apply for PIP. Chase up your referrals. That is all.

You didn’t have to come out and SAY that you were packing up your ocean-crossing canoe to search across the seas for a new land just to get away from your awful family, but you know that had to have been a FACTOR for a lot of history’s intrepid explorers and settlers

right wing bigots have admitted - the “trans women in bathrooms” issue - the “trans women in sports” issue and - the “trans kids getting surgery” issue were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY are you paying attention?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=0CFu...

Joelle was 27. Her family say urgent cancer treatment was delayed because she was trans, resulting in her avoidable death. Please support Trans Legal Clinic’s fight for justice and accountability. Donate if you can, and share. www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...

Impeccable thread. x