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Labour's private school VAT plan could hit rural areas like 1980s pit closures'

Saved this absolute banger from last year because if you told me someone had said it I would not have believed them.

Oh, I missed that one! I remember Adam Wagner tweeting that bringing up the Windrush scandal was the equivalent of saying "all lives matter"

Premee Mohamed Books Books I wrote, books I'm in! Not in any kind of order mostly.

Pinned post time! :D I am a scientist and author based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada -- I write about gods, monsters, magic, science, and people running in circles screaming "WHAT IS THAT WHAT IS IT DON'T LET IT TOUCH ME"

My Bookstore bookshop is here! :)

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I'm always super fascinated by Yvette Cooper's reputation among remain types because it's totally unearned. It's amazing how much of the nasty shit the Tories got up to from 2010 onwards can be traced directly to her.

It is the same reason Theresa May is always inches away from redemption after all the stuff she did as PM and Home Secretary

Yvette Cooper has always been cruel and anti-immigration and racist but because people don’t give a shit about immigrants in this country (unless they’re from the EU), no one has acknowledged it until now.

More countries added to UK’s ‘deport first’ scheme for foreign criminals Former justice secretaries criticise expansion of policy that they say allows perpetrators to go unpunished

In practice, "deport first, appeal later" has always meant "deport now, deny appeal". Quite a number of the countries Labour has expanded this to are not safe for a lot of people, This policy also rips families apart, and risks miscarriages of justice. #r4today
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Cover of The Crown’s Silence by Brooke Newman, forthcoming with Mariner in January 2026

Cover reveal for my upcoming book THE CROWN’S SILENCE—out with Mariner in January 2026 and available for pre-order now wherever books are sold.

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the February-...

The most recent survey on the use of AI in programming showed a decrease in production speed by 19%, though the programmers thought it increased their speed by 20%.

The success of AI is to make people think it helps when it just makes things worse.

arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089

Market shopping in Esquilino.
Rome. January 2025.

#believeinfilm 🎞️

Golden grasses are bathed in warm late afternoon light.

Late summer evening
Hasselblad 500cm + Ektar
#BelieveInFilm #Filmphotography

Today's the Dominican Day Parade in New York! I'm not there but I've been. The first photo from 2005 has been published in "Bystanders: A History of Street Photography" by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck but the second, from 2014, has never been seen before.

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night

a black dog with a blue collar is standing in a field and smiling . Alt: a black dog with a blue collar is standing in a field and smiling in a confused manner.

As a Nigerian who has lived in the UK for many, many years, one thing that will never make sense to me the idea of raising money through undue physical labour. It is such a puzzling practice.
'We need £xxx, can you donate something towards our goal?'
'Dance for it!'

Meal Train for The Poprik Family Alan has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and is undergoing treatment at MD Anderson. He is spending one week as an inpatient to receive chemotherapy, then we will be taking him every co...

As some of you already know, my little brother has a rare cancer. Less than 200 people are recorded having it since the 70's. In just a month, it's progressed to stage 3. He's only 20. It's been SO hard. If my game dev advice was ever useful to you, please consider: www.mealtrain.com/trains/y5z8yy

In and around the studio with @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social last weekend.

Shot on #ektar.

#believeinfilm 🎞️

*paying close attention*

Testing out our laser cut 11x14 easel! I made both an RC and fiber print with it last night. Works great!

#Easel #Darkroom #DarkroomPrinting #ShootFilmBeNice #filmphotography

A black-and-white study of a vine growing up a metal tiki torch holder.

Leica 280mm f4.8 Telyt v3 (at f/16), Bender Photographic 4x5, FPP Frankenstein

#LargeFormat

That there London. From an ace photo-walk lead by @westen30.bsky.social 🙌
@photowalkme.bsky.social
📷 Nikon FA - 18/35mm Zoom
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 - D23
#BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

if people were really 'naturally' subservient and easily led then authoritarianism wouldn't require so much violence

These people really are vandals

This

Call me crazy I would say the leap from 'we can't assume you're white and British' to 'so you're likely to be sex offender' is barbaric

A reminder: migrants do not have to be “grateful” or “successful” to be able to live safely. We are entitled to freedom regardless of whether other people like us.

Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b... The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…

The Observer has covered the Unbound saga. Even though I know it intimately, it is completely staggering to see it all - unpaid pensions, the lot - written down. The funniest bit is dreadful former CEO Wil Harris (one L, no socks) being written as Will. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Little Venice in London, showing a tranquil canal under a partly cloudy sky, with a fiery, glowing ball of sunlight reflected on the water’s surface. The calm canal mirrors the sky and surrounding greenery, with lush trees lining both banks. On the right, several moored narrowboats, decorated with colourful flowers on their roofs, rest beside a brick wall. The left bank is shaded and natural, while in the distance a modern high-rise building peeks above the treeline, adding an urban touch to this peaceful waterside scene.

Have a splendid weekend and join me on a wee dander in Little Venice, London, where narrowboats rest along the canal beneath green trees, and the water reflects a fire-bright fiery ball of sun.😊
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFire #Photography

I have ‘legitimate concerns’ that billionaires who dodge taxes are regularly telling us that the millions who pay taxes and live in poverty despite working more than 50hrs a week are the problem.

*waits patiently to be interviewed for a national news story*

Good morning, noticed this little moth on the window when I opened the curtains and thought it would be great for today's #bnw_macro 🖤🤍, enjoy your day ☕🚲🌞