Jonn Elledge

"grok can now be an anime girlfriend for y"

you dash awake in your tent in Carthage in 217BC, the future laid out clear for you, silicon valley cannot come to pass, rome must burn

First person, along with the other two Apollo 8 crew members, to leave earth orbit to see it as a sphere

I'm not saying the rest of it is fine, to be clear. I picked that out only because it undermines the case many transphobes claim to be making.

just found a YouTube version of this and my god it's Proustian

People are scared. the government should be reassuring them rather than helping stoke their fears.

Normally I would agree, but while there are those in government who are willing to brief that the previous position was an over reach in the hope of support from one side, I don't think it's either fair or reasonable to expect the other to give benefit of the doubt and calmly wait for clarity.

Yes - but this is why you need to draft this stuff extremely carefully so as not to disadvantage anyone, and they haven't done that.

No: I'm accusing the law the Supreme Court has to follow of bigotry.

Being rooted in law does not preclude something also being bigotry.

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New on Psychic Paper.

"BOOM!"
"Booooom???"
"BOOOOOOOM!"

It's all Greek to me.

a sign reading "I just want to say if you are trans and reading this I love you & so do all my mates"

obviously that was incoherent because I'm angry, anyway I saw this on Cambridge Heath Road yesterday and thought it was nice

Just gonna state for the record that this is appalling, and the tell it's rooted in bigotry rather than women's safety is that it risks preventing trans men - a group assigned female at birth - from accessing using toilets. It's an unworkable bloody mess, and those pushing it should be ashamed.

oh nice, I pass through often - I'm between the two BG stations

puts Harper Lee into perspective doesn't it

Abolish the Minimum Income Requirement

Abolish the Home Office

Robert Elms - 08/08/2025 - BBC Sounds Everything you need to know about London from architecture to accents and great music.

If anyone wants to hear me talk about borders in London and elsewhere (what? They MIGHT), I was on BBC London earlier. Starts at 36.40:

Public Enemy Number One This week: why Jeremy Hunt should be the new Liam Byrne. Also: whatever happened to the Near East? And the lightning map of the world.

Also, regarding Hunt, I wrote this, he's dreadful.

The problem is not "being a landlord" though that isn't great either. The problem is *she literally made people homeless*. I'm not sure you grasp what a touchstone issue renters' rights has become.

She hasn't done anything illegal. You can probably argue she hasn't done anything immoral (although many would disagree). She has absolutely done something that is incompatible with holding the post of "minister for homelessness".

I'm sure you a quick Google will help with that

oh my GOD (Ht @amynmerchant.bsky.social)

oh my god

You can't be the homelessness minister while literally evicting people. You wouldn't have the moral authority. She had to go.

Yes, which would be fine if she wasn't in politics, but alas

What do you think the solution to the housing crisis is?

okay, so you don't have to have social housing - but why should that mean no one else gets any ?

They were designed for people who see buses as street furniture nor a form of transportation.

Sure - but then the question becomes, why did neither Ali nor Starmer note the obvious problem here?

I'm also annoyed because I live in that constituency and I already suspected Labour might have a fight on their hands in what should be a safe seat and now I just feel like we's gonna get a bloody Aspire MP aren't we that's what's going to happen

thanks! rather nice down there - am a big fan of Beckenham Place Park