I'm not Siouxsie (obviously)

First they erased a ‘Protect the Dolls’ t-shirt from Strictly Come Dancing. Now they’ve erased Pride badges from University Challenge. The BBC are saying that our visibility as LGBTQ people is a political issue. Meanwhile they’ve commissioned a 2-part series on JK Rowling. Impartial? My arse!

I'm not criticizing those who are showcasing the accomplishments of scientists, artists, and writers to debunk RFK Jr.'s comments but I think it's also important to treat them not as ignorance, but as the outright malice they are. He made those comments to claim a US citizen is unfit for the Senate.

Same with gay people. Behave as you wish, but the minute someone tells you you’re “not like other gay people” and “why can’t they be more like you - reasonable and quiet”, then you’ve fucked up and must disabuse them of this notion immediately.

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

The NHS Guidance on trans people in hospital will protect zero women but will badly harm trans people. What a hateful disgrace and will be remembered by future generations as a stain on us all.

Reminder that the EU had no compunction about banning Russia Today. If anything, Musk’s behaviour is more egregious - directly assisting a foreign enemy's military attack. And this is on top of his support for race riots, Nazis and CSAM! By any measure, a threat to national security.

It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Speaking of voting, if you're a member and you'd like to keep the National Trust's Council free from interference from Britain (and the US's) richest financiers, don't forget to vote before the end of the month. Quick-vote takes moments and avoids the Restore Trust slate of candidates.

Street Dance With Mark Zuckerberg

right I see what happened here

This Is Just to Say I have trained the AI to read to our baby the one you were probably expecting me to interact with Calm down AI is awesome so sweet and so cold

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

Your gentle reminder that the selection at @bookshop.org is just as good as at Amazon, and that using them doesn’t enrich someone who’s never missed an opportunity to fall on his knees and kiss an authoritarian’s jackboots. Seriously, what’s the point of “fuck you” money if you’re this servile?

Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.

tl;dr a manic enthusiasm for abandoning the world and annihilating personal relations and social ties? looks to me like a suicide cult

Engineering (to me) is "design within constraints". Human safety, budget, time, hardware limitations are all constraints. Dudebros don't like being constrained, it's too much like consideration for others. They write code instead of engineering software.

I also want to challenge the people integrating it ino workflows to think about how OpenAI and Anthropic are going to act if they successfully enmesh themselves in society. Because I'm pretty sure they'll need to monetize everything so hard we'll think back on Adobe and Microsoft fondly

Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"

Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

More pointless wars, more pointless tariffs, more targeted hate against minorities, much much more corruption.

Mike Johnson on what Republicans will do if they hold the House: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already"

You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,

Well this is wild. Why the fuck should we trust anything these people ever tell us?

What all #Meta product announcements look like to me by now. #charm #muse

Any lives lost due to this closure should be laid firmly at the feet of the far-right agitators who caused this. The way in which anti-asylum activists are putting more and more people at risk should be a wake up call that it is time to genuinely combat them, rather than pandering to their ideology.

Fascinatingly brilliant satire of Brexit. They want to do something performative to express their dissatisfaction but if they actually did it they’d realize that their tiny village couldn’t actually function without the support of the rest of their union. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

They’re just pouring more fuel onto the fire. Why are the racists consistently called legitimate, whilst in a world that’s burning people who protest over climate change and genocide are not being afforded even a smidgeon of the same grace?

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.

What's most scary about this isn't the violence or even Farage clearly enjoying the spectacle. It's the fact these people feel they can violently assault protestors without consequence. The same tactics the British Union of Fascists used at their meetings in the 1930s. When did this become normal?

Have to say, if I was in charge of a regulatory body, and someone had been caught on camera calling us "completely useless... dumb and ineffective" while boasting about breaking the rules we're meant to enforce, I would be doing everything I could to make that fucker rue the day he said it.

World, meet Gerald. He lives in a rockpool and he’s got some very important life lessons to share with you.

You may think I post too often about trans people? Tough. I want them to have lives of joy and freedom and safety and love. But until all of us are free, none of us are free. Protect queer kids. Protect trans kids. Rights can taken away in an instant. That’s why I shout.