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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I’ll tell you who definitely didn’t give consent - the CHILDREN whose images were turned into pornography on the very platform you’re supporting by still posting on, Joanne! The whole “Protecting children” schtick is just such gaslighting BS! 😣 Just call it what it is: TRANSPHOBIA!!!

The cartels or other illicit drug orgs didn’t force the US to shove shit into their bodies, that guilt belongs to the billionaires, politicians, and corporations that stripped people of the resources, medical care, and housing and placed them in situations where they’d choose illegal narcotics.

BREAKING: “We have given strident powers to ofcom..from heavy fines all the way through to banning X from our country if deemed appropriate and this government stands full behind ofcom in their ability to do this and they should do so” Secretary of State for Business and Trade Peter Kyle

"Many expected the EU to back down on the “green tariff” rules, but the bloc has pressed ahead despite protests from China, the US, Australia and others. Chinese steel could lose its price advantage over European steel." This is how tariffs should be used. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Actor Sam Buchanan speaks to the Big Issue about his journey with type 1 diabetes, including the shame he has felt on film and TV sets.

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Really interesting SD article specifically on the East Oxford LTNs, assessing support and opposition from those who live inside and on the boundary roads. It would also be interesting to see how this now looks given the Congestion Charge. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Police arrested over 20 people protesting in Oxford against the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as ‘a terrorist organisation’ The protests were part of a day of action, in what Defend our Juries describe as “the most widespread civil disobedience campaign in modern British history.”

Stoked to have been part of making this, and very pleased and big thanks to Roger and the Clarion for featuring it in their excellent newspaper,

Hundreds of Oxford residents marched across Oxford to demonstrate against racism and in solidarity with migrants in an ‘Oxford Unity March and Rally’. Chants included ‘this is what community looks like’ and calls to ‘fight back’ against racism.

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map

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A Baptist minister has been arrested in Oxford for holding a placard reading ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. Rev Grote of New Road Baptist Church said ‘I am doing this because of my faith. I’m doing this because I’m a follower of Jesus Christ, who broke the rules and created peace.’

peace is terrorism

Wakefield women led the fight to prevent infant blindness – pushing policy change long before the government acted. ♥️

I'd pass on Tesla even if Musk weren't a Nazi www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

What’s a worse lie: The lie from the US that Iran is close to nuclear weapon, which US intel & the IAEA disagree with. Or the lie from the EU that Iran could avoid all this by returning to the negotiating table when they were ALREADY at the negotiating able & heading to Oman when Israel attacked?

Me crying at the screaming of an injured Palestinian child isn't antisemitic. Her screams aren't antisemitic. The Israeli government isn't doing Jewish atrocities. None of this is Jewish. Every Jewish person I know denounces this. I'm only a little bit Jewish, not religious, but I denounce this.

Hundreds of thousands of people living in disabled households will be at risk of needing to use a food bank if the government goes ahead with its plans for benefit cuts, new research has found www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

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The world is laughing, even the island of Penguins.

Oh I get it now!! 🤣

BREAKING: Water regulator Ofwat has fined Thames Water almost £123 million following two investigations into the company

We acknowledge that many are not comfortable calling out Israel, whether its due to guilt or sycophancy, the point isn’t to attack Israel for their identity but actions & supremacist ideology. Israel is committing war crimes, land theft, and genocide. It doesn’t matter why, only that it stops.

So in the last month, Oxfordshire's Conservative Alliance has told @theoxfordmail.bsky.social that the £44k/year additional payment to THEM is a "drop in the ocean" but the £55k/year cost of the LTNs is the reason that there's "no money left" at the County. Which is it lads?

“I wish ministers would stop staying it brings ‘clarity’, because it doesn’t,” one MP said. “It just opens up a huge legal can of worms. And then the EHRC just put rocket boosters under the uncertainty… …There appears to be limited confidence in the organisation and its chair from some MPs”

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’

@pzmyers.bsky.social I saw this and thought of you!

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Oh the irony! The scourge of the religious right's bigotry and motivated, counter-scientific reasoning succumbing to the motivated, counter-scientific reasoning and bigotry of the religious right