Colin Sinclair

It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.

Thid sounds hopeful. Better than that spiteful rule they recently brought in for Motability, removing some vehicles from the range, stopping disabled people spending their own money on a bigger/nicer car. Shades of the old fibreglass mobility cars returning - punishing people for being disabled.

Excellent and empoweringe educacioun will nevir be "efficient" yn the waye that a businesse doth stryve to be "efficient." It ys the heighte of knavery to use one standarde to measure everye human activitye. Businesses are ther to make profits. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

✨Hello everyone ✨
I’m a Deh Cho First Nation illustrator/designer from Treaty 11 in the Deh Cho Region. I like to draw fan art from video games, design merch for markets, and occasionally posting original work. Thanks for being here 😊

First screenshot of hundreds of games

Second screenshot of hundreds more games

Third screenshot of hundreds more games again!

Final screenshot of the games included in the No Ice In Minnesota itch.io bundle!

It's wild to see so many creators supporting Minnesota, standing against 🧊, and standing together for our neighbors. ❤️

Here are all 1,439 games in all their glory.

Find the charity bundle raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota here:

itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Wes Streeting's Mariah Carey method Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very.

NEW | On Wes Streeting’s late-in-the-day denunciation of Mandelson…

WES STREETING’S MARIAH CAREY METHOD

Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/wes-street...

With Teeth curated by Cassandra Celia

Happy release day to the dark fiction anthology WITH TEETH! 🎉🎉

Benefitting the Lakota Wolf Preserve.

Contains my lovely friend @unstablebooks.bsky.social's debut story, new stories from @catdelani.bsky.social and @claymcleod.bsky.social, and many, many more. 🖤

#booksky

This could be why Bitcoin is crashing. People are switching back to high yield tulips.

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

A new town for the 21st century? Seven-village build to begin after 20-year journey Gilston in Hertfordshire aims to be rebuke to cookie-cutter estates with network of 10,000 new homes within country parks and woodland

“Crucially, the design rejects the car-centric model of the late 20th century. "We put the schools in the villages so that people can walk their kids or ride their bikes,"
@ategov.bsky.social @activetravelcaf.bsky.social @mumsforlungs.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

a linoprint of two crows stood on the ground below a yellow sun. under them are roots and a heart.

I was going through a bag tucked behind my box of prints last night and found three limited-edition lino prints I thought had sold out! There's one left of each.

First one: WE ARE GOOD

shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/we-a... #artsky #printmaking #crow

We choose to go to the moon, not because it's easy. But because it's easier than Mars.

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Thieves steal chickens
and have mock funeral
to cover theft.

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Why, annoyingly, I had to reassess Star Wars’ villains I'm well attested as to having hated The Phantom Menace, well the entire prequel trilogy, and to having been incandescent with rage at Rise of Skywalker's racist, misogynistic bullshit. I'm pretty clear too that The Force Awakens took a turn far too far into fan service and nostalgia rather than seeking to reinvent the story for a new generation with new ideas and challenges.

Why, annoyingly, I had to reassess Star Wars’ villains

I'm well attested as to having hated The Phantom Menace, well the entire prequel trilogy, and to having been incandescent with rage at Rise of Skywalker's racist, misogynistic bullshit. I'm pretty clear too that The Force Awakens took a turn…

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular...

February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

Some of us have been screaming this for years

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action's proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is a vital last defence against government tyranny

If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know.

Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...

Ignore the smears: I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson. And I fully understand the lessons we must learn Wes Streeting I knew him but not well, and worry now that he thrived in our political culture. It was not just failed vetting: there was a failure of moral seriousness

It’s practically a work of art that he thinks we’re all that stupid.

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal

The Long Read – Loot The Room "First look" read-throughs and commentary of RPG books.

The full list of all the long reads I did is here, for anyone curious

loottheroom.uk/category/blo...

22.00 THE NIGHT GARDEN MANAGER Episode 12: Pine suspects that Makka Pikka sold the AK47s to the Tombliboos.

VIEWER'S COMPETITION SHORTLIST: we're posting two of fave #ceefauxviewscomp entries each weekday and will count up the most likes/comments/reshares in 24 hours. 2/20 by @geospacedman.bsky.social

This is my sad time of day. It is the time when I wait for the mail to come. It always makes me very unhappy.

300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR Thinktank analysis says proposed ‘earned settlement’ changes could trap families in prolonged insecurity

⚠️New @ippr.org research: 300,000 children will be hit by the Govt’s earned settlement plans.

Retrospective changes will deepen child poverty, block access to higher education & trap families in years of uncertainty.

This is precarity by design.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

why we stop making computers look fresh

450,000 disadvantaged pupils could benefit from AI tutoring tools Safe AI tutoring tools co-created with teachers to be available to schools by the end of 2027, helping to close the attainment gap.

i understand that "better education" or "better attainment" or whatever, isn't actually the goal but also, in what universe is "private AI tutors" a policy to put forward if you are literally the government?? just invest in the schools so there's less need for tutoring?? www.gov.uk/government/n...

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

A cover for Terran omega. Terran omega Floating above an old ship. Behind her a black hole powers her ship.

I’m going to be doing a kickstarter for Terran omega issue 1. (32 pages, full colour sci-fi comic!) If you’d like to know when it launches (soon!) sign up for my mailing list pjholden.kit.com (check your spam folder after you sign up -you should get a verification email). Would appreciate a RT!

Mackenzie Crook’s rural dreamscape #Detectorists published by #PenguinBooks (and its offshoots) down the years. 🧵
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