Alex

Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.

At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.

Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "we have a govt that is always talking about tough choices. Why are they always tough choices for working class people, for unemployed people, for disabled people? It's time to make tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires. It is time to tax the rich"

Software utilities, I think, must be treated the same way: regulated (including price) and operated under oversight. Otherwise, they're just a robber-baron monopoly with a stranglehold on the economy.
4/5

When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities.
3/5

#VoteLabour

I remember being told that it was me that was the Hitlerian menace to civil liberties, and that these people were the antidote to my racist hatred. Chat, would we say this seems like that's turned out to be true?

Literal nazi shit

The takeaway IMO is aggro centrism is an astonishing historic disaster. Not only does it not work - it delivers very little for the public, doesn’t address core problems of the era and disillusions the public with democracy itself - but it actively aids the far right and prepares the way for fascism

I was like, wait a minute, I KNOW THAT JUMPER!! 😈

Cryptpad will destroy the left

CCTV catches moment intruder torched asylum centre housing children Gardai have rebranded attack in Drogheda as a potential attempted murder after camera footage was released

In Drogheda, fireworks thrown at an asylum accommodation centre resulted in a fire, with four children including in infant needing hospital care. 28 people resided in the hotel. In addition to arson, Garda is looking at attempted murder charges - which we had been calling for in the North

Trans sisters. I'm pretty sure I was wrong. I am sorry. I genuinely thought that as a trans woman, if ceded some points with the gender critical crowd we could have a healthier conversation and arrive at better public policy. The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme. If you admit "trans women don't belong in women's sports" they agree, but call you a man the whole time. If you admit, "I understand l am a biological man, but this is how I want to live my life and talking about me like this is degrading" they scream about free speech. If you admit that hurtful language is part of free speech but you don't have to associate with people that degrade you, they act like the victim and call you a man and then say you should be thrown in an insane asylum. It's like this on everything. They are incapable of looking for a middle ground on bathrooms. They want maximalist policies on everything. They'd throw a fully transitioned, fully passing trans woman in male prison genpop and laugh as she got aids from being raped. I want a middle ground on so many of these polices. BUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THEY DO NOT. They enjoy degrading us, it's fun for them. So, sisters. I genuinely don't know what to do. I think many of our most extreme ideas are bad. But theirs are worse. So if I have to pick, I choose us. I wish there were a political vehicle for compromise and medical safeguarding. But that just simply does not exist. 6:52 • 01 Nov 25 • 27.9K Views 18 Reposts 23 Quotes 373

Yes, this is wingnuts and cranks all over: you can never appease them by walloping migrants or minorities or by kicking the poor. Every concession you give them, every group of people you sacrifice to please them, is just wasted. They don’t respect you or feel grateful, they reset and demand more.

Fingers crossed!!

And baptized her painting in a large amount of blank white negative space a little bat done in soft Shades of Gray

Bat and Moon — Yamada Hōgyoku, c. 1830

I take back anything mean I've said about Chicago.

200+ TfL staff face sudden deportation thanks to govt’s cruel sudden changes to the Skilled Worker visa

@rmtunion.bsky.social and @greenparty.org.uk stand with these workers

We heard from workers unable to sleep at night not knowing if they'll be forced to leave

Govt must shelve the changes

This actually looks a lot like the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library!

Steven Swinford • @Steven_Swinford X.com Exclusive from @Geri_E_L_Scott and @matt_dathan The Home Secretary has told Europe's human rights that questioning the validity of the Supreme Court's trans ruling is 'unacceptable Shabana Mahmood accused Michael O'Flaherty, the Council of Europe's human rights commissioner, of misrepresenting the government's legal position on protest, counterterrorism and the treatment of transgender people. O'Flaherty warned that trans guidance that will be introduced in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling could exclude trans people from many areas of life Mahmood said: 'I would like to take this opportunity to emphasise that I consider it unacceptable to question the validity of the Supreme Court in making this decision 'The court has provided legal clarity on this issue,

Pretty amazing that the main left party won’t speak up for anyone’s rights except fascist football hooligans and maybe poisonously reactionary newspaper columnists and billionaire crackpot authors - and that it is *extremely* belligerent in the defence of both - but here we now are.

Aw, that's nice, we're making the news in America with our open fascism

More than any other political party, the Green Party is funded by membership fees and given the sad state of affairs that winning elections costs £££, for the Green Party, growing membership really does help

TBF he's doubled membership in less than two months which is fairly newsworthy.

Lisa Nandy: "He's right to say that it is unprecedented in recent times that an entire group of away supporters have been entirely banned from a game"

Unprecedented in recent times? In 2023 Legia Warsaw fans were banned from a game at Villa Park.

This is actually mad

Foiled yet again by my MP being Keir Starmer 😭

New Stolen Skies Calendar

New Stolen Skies Calendar

And surely just "abandoning tens of towns across the country" (and possibly a quarter of London???) can't be it

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

“Israel forbade people from celebrating the prisoners’ release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison.”

Some Palestinians have been held prisoner with little food for decades but it was this detail that really got me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Scary to watch the Global Sumud Flotilla being intercepted by Israeli forces - we know how brutally the Israeli military has treated those on previous flotillas.

The world is watching - the Foreign Secretary @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social must urgently step up to ensure safety of UK citizens on board

Genuinely if you can’t tell the difference between a Tesco loyalty card and a mandatory digital ID being brought in explicitly to harden the border regime then maybe you shouldn’t be a journalist?

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.