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Absolutely stonking Plaid win in Caerphilly: as I understand what by-elections mean, Labour will now have to back Welsh Independence and a bunch of left wing policies in order to win back support, right? Or is it only when they lose narrowly to the fash they take up their policies?

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Real good news/bad news thing for Starmer.

Good news: he got people to sign up for signing at a similar pace to Your Party's mailing list.

Bad news: It's opposition to his ID cards idea.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

🚨Watch as police confiscate van showing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in Windsor amid the US president's state visit

Cats say a £22bn investment in Dreamies and new Catnip technologies will boost Britain's economy in the next few years

If you views are abhorrent, I don’t care how civil you are when articulating them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The media fuss made about chalk marks on a statue (easy to wash off) because it was made by trans people, compared with the silence about this (hard to wash off) fascist vandalism says it all about British mainstream media.

Little Guys A Love Letters Feature by Shing Yin Khor - September 2025

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BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy

The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.

Instead of policing tweets, the police should be out there catching the real criminals... like pensioners with placards.

This says it all about Streeting's and Starmer's double-standards. They are just transphobes and hypocrites.

The gov really are just saying calls for violence against certain demographics are okay actually, more than okay, reasonable and maybe even policy ideas

If we reduce Linehan's threats to just a difference of opinion that we may not agree with, but surely we all agree he is entitled to them blah blah blah, then don't arrest nannas holding up signs either.

Yvette, I'm confused.

Dana Octopus-Squid (Taningia danae) Dana Octopus-Squid from Golfo de México (Golfo de América) on August 24, 2025 at 06:43 PM by Daniel Godínez

shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

A screenshot from @tomscocca.bsky.social "The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now"

I think about this @tomscocca.bsky.social post like once a week.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Wait Corbyn only got one despite being leader of the opposition for 5 years?!

The state of THIS:

I like to remind people that Enoch Powell got fired by his Tory PM Ted Heath in 1968 and never had a cabinet position again, and the Times called it an “evil speech”. Now we get great replacement theory in the Times and politicians including Labour advocating for ethnic cleansing on a daily basis

I, for one, am shocked that giving people money when they don’t have money solves the problems caused by them not having money

This is the racist intimidation outside people’s homes the government and BBC are calling “peaceful protests”

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

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I expected Israel to lie and claim this was a mistake. It’s incredible that they are now openly admitting to targeted assassinations of journalists.

I feel much safer this morning, knowing that all those sign-wielding Quakers and nuns are behind bars where they belong.

The government will listen to a few hundred fascists threatening refugees but will totally ignore 100,000 peaceful demonstrators for trans people’s human rights at Trans Pride London.

remembering the time Musk got in a twitter spat with the UN and said he'd sell $6B of tesla stock to solve world hunger but only if the UN released a spending plan

and then the UN released a spending plan

and then Musk sold $6B of tesla stock but just gave it to his own foundation instead

Screenshot of an AP News headline that says 'Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs'

Not now, radioactive wasps.