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Every year with this nonsense.

Right it's happened. It's dark at 5pm. I hope you're all happy now. I'll see you after easter next year.

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

Another journey on CrossCountry trains, with the inevitable fuck up on their part. I don't know why they bother to charge for tickets with the amount of compensation they must be paying, they could save some admin and just let people travel for free

I could have sworn that last month the PM was saying deregulation was one of the ways we'd gone wrong in the laat 40 years...

I'll miss Radio 4extra. I don't think its listeners will transfer to seeking the same stuff out on BBC Sounds. That's not how it works. The station introduces listeners to stuff. And I'm using the plural because individual algorithms are a lonely replacement. I don't want to be a listener (singular)

Sensible policies for a happier Britain

Not the most spectacular photo I've ever taken of Glastonbury Tor, but probably my favourite.

One specific thing I take issue with here is impacts on religious groups, because I'm sorry but why is it my responsibility to ensure that someone else is practicing their religious beliefs to any degree? Why should I be removed from shared spaces because someone else's religion disapproves?

Elon Musk’s actions are quite literally killing Ukrainian civilians, on an ongoing basis. And yesterday’s Telegraph scoop on this reported that he was terrified of a consumer backlash in Europe. If you buy or use any of his products, now is the time to boycott Musk.

I can only say so many times that politicians are microwaving their brains on social media; I can only say so many times that it's awful for democracy; I fear I'll be saying this 'til the day I die.

It would IMO be better if MPs had not utterly deranged their own brains on Twitter dot com, wildly radicalising themselves and each other.

"it's a social contagion" the insular british elite tells us as they drive themselves howlingly mad on fascist-owned media

...but putting their handy little explanation that a trans woman is a 'biological male' who 'identifies' as a woman, and suddenly the reality of so many trans women's lives and healthcare needs - not to mention safety, privacy, and dignity - completely erased. Entirely divorced from reality.

We have reached the point of fascism where you are more likely to be attacked for saying people shouldn't die than that they should.

This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.

The slithering back to even vaguely positive or optimistic analyses of Trump’s second term after the abominations of January 6th cleared the way for today’s abject betrayal of the Ukrainian people. It’s astonishing how many public figures on both sides of the Atlantic are complicit in the crime.

Cruel, pointless, impractical, and ultimately dangerous. The rooms in hospitals which will now be used to offload trans people are often required for clinical reasons ie to treat the immuno-compromised. This is the product of a country that has gone insane. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"For years, trans people have used wards in line with their gender identity, under the NHS’s own guidance – without any harm. The NHS was built on the promise that everyone counts. With this guidance, it has decided that trans people certainly don’t – and some of us will pay for it with our lives."

Another triumph for Starmer. I think firing Robbins without cause was the moment Whitehall completely lost faith in him.

It is regrettable that the many Labour MOs opposed to the Government's capitulation to transphobia don't seem to ostracise their transphobic colleagues the way they would racists and antisemites.

btw NHS England no longer exists as a quango. It has been merged with the DHSC for more than a year now. Don’t let them evade responsibility. Headlines should read Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper order segregation.

The wild thing to me is no cis people are remotely bothered by sharing a ward with a trans person. It's completely an elite manufactured problem. novaramedia.com/2023/10/04/t...

if you're forced to write a sentence like this you should quit. no sympathy for quislings and collaborators

I've switched tactics from calling "llms are sentient beings" nitwits stupid to agreeing with them and saying "yeah!! Furbies too!!!" and they get so much madder lmao

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.

Look, Zelensky signalling that the US has cut off all warning of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine.

ok but why does your fridge have an on fire setting you can get to with an http post

Can’t show “Protect The Dolls” on BBC but you can make a fluff propaganda film supporting the world’s greatest transphobe, its impartial cause we can all agree trans people are subhuman scum obviously

Making a t-shirt that spells out "Protect the Dolls" but entirely in poppies

Spot the difference. Apparently the blue shirt on the right is ok for broadcast by the BBC, but not the white one on the left. 👀

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

We have strayed so far from god we can't feel her light.

From the new Private Eye

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots