Sue Timmis

Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.

And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.

Musk is everything he hated.

😂😂 This is spot on - lol

For ‘adverts’, see also: ‘hospitals’, ‘the Cabinet’, ‘kindergartens’, ‘the England football team’ and, of course, ‘the country’. The only way you can miss this is deliberately. And just watch them try.

When you moan that ethnic minorities “won’t integrate” and then complain that TV adverts show integrated, mixed-race families, you’re not defending British culture — you’re just proving Schrödinger’s racism: minorities are wrong whether they fit in or not.

Beautiful job. This is what just we need Zack.
So impressed I've just joined the Green Party!

Zack Polanski genuinely gives me hope that we can have a different kind of politics, different kind of government as opposed to the 49 years of shite I’ve lived under.

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

"The film ends with these lines spoken by the character of Gandhi, ‘When I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it: always.’"

I was just talking to my students on Monday about how settler colonialism creates the conditions of data extraction that we encounter today. I ended class by talking about Blackboard (which we use) & asking them if they know how their data is being used and who it is being shared with.

The migrant crisis is a crisis for the migrants. They are in crisis and need safe routes, asylum and compassion

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

Explained exactly this yesterday.
In the same studio

Oh. So when you trained them on the notes of medical doctors they repeated the same biases.

Odd that.

I fail to see how Reform UK can distance themselves from this - it was Farage and his team that gave Aseem Malholtra a platform for his vaccine conspiracy theories.

As @drrachelclarke.com says, vaccines save lives. If you have concerns then speak to an NHS doctor or nurse.

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Nice to see prompt policy coverage from the new Green leader: simple, principled, assertive, clear and progressive proposition we need to hear much more of!

Look how easy it is

This is what Labour should be saying

New leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on immigration

We need stark truth and some left populism. Let’s hope it brings the same media fascination as it does for Farage’s lies & far right populism

Stop, look and listen, for here comes the AI antichrist AI is trained not to give the unbiased truth, so what will protect us from potential manipulation or darker agendas?

Stop, look and listen, for here comes the AI antichrist

AI is trained not to give the unbiased truth, so what will protect us from potential manipulation or darker agendas?

By Professor Juliet Lodge

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and....

Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...

Today a far right protest is expected to take place outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Bristol

Let me be clear: the far right are not welcome in Bristol. They don’t represent us, or what we stand for

But I also want to be clear about what’s driving this wave of unrest...

OpenAI doesn't realise that PhD-level expertise has very little to do with the stuff you know and more to do with how you can think. I forget facts from mine all the time!

The value in my PhD is knowing how to reliably generate, evaluate, and defend or dismiss information that's new to the world.

OPPOSE CENSORSHIP

📺 A chairde Gael,

The propaganda wing of the regime has just contacted us.

They WILL put our set from Glasto today on iPlayer this evening for your viewing pleasure.

The crowd expected today is far greater than West Holts capacity so "you'll need to be very early to catch us father...VERY EARLY"

Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left?
All the shifts are in just one direction.
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This is amazing 🤯🤯

Decriminalise abortion and make it a protected human right. Women’s rights are under threat from the far right. Nigel Farage just called our current abortion provisions “utterly ludicrous” – and others in power are paying attention. A vote in Parliament could ...

Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.

Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

Bernardine Evaristo and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, stand together at City Hall. The Mayor is holding a copy of Evaristo’s book Girl, Woman, Other.

Congratulations to the brilliant Bernadine Evaristo on receiving the Womens Prize Outstanding Contribution Award.

It was a joy welcoming her to City Hall back in 2020 to discuss her groundbreaking work. An inspiration to so many—and a true London literary icon.

‘Dancing with bonds’: embodied transitions of rural students into higher education This article explores the often-ignored embodied dimension of rurality and its role in shaping students’ transitions into higher education. Drawing on a ‘figured worlds’ framework, this narrative s...

New article alert:
@llrsyu.bsky.social has written a fascinating paper: '‘Dancing with bonds’: embodied transitions of rural students into higher education'. Huge congrats Tongyu! @rachelbrooks.bsky.social @coralinglingxu.bsky.social @chiedmobilities.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BU2SN...