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Take a deep breath and enjoy recent positive news from around the world 🌱 (1/3)

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍🌈

submitted 13 days ago • 171 comments

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

submitted 33 days ago • 269 comments

And I'm one of those who's been using what little influence I have to argue against progressives writing off the Labour government (e.g. my most recent @bylinetimes.bsky.social column, below). But if, as it seems with this, they're really going down the Glasman 'Blue Labour' route then, sorry, no.

submitted 41 days ago • 18 comments

Former negotiator here. I fully endorse this thread.

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

The massive explosion in use of satellite imagery by archaeologists has led to the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient sites and features across the world in the last 25 years, none of which were known about previously due to data resolution+coverage. This is also a post about autism

submitted 52 days ago • 24 comments

The Supreme Court would have upheld Thatcher’s Section 28, as that was the law at the time. It takes politicians and parliament to change and define the law, not just throw three hands up in the air and tell people to suck it up.

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

Realistically, a predatory man could enter a public toilet unchallenged by acquiring overalls, a mop, bucket, and a plastic 'Caution Wet Floor' sign. Making life harder for trans people and many others with restrictions which will be impossible to enforce will do nothing to make any women safer.

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

This is really important: the reason electricity prices are high is the high cost of gas & that market rate is set by gas prices. One of the loudest calls at Everything Electric last week was to decouple from gas prices, so we benefit from cheaper renewables. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 55 days ago • 30 comments

Simplest reason in the world. Yes trans women are women and trans men are men. But most importantly trans people are people.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

‘Sound’ (loud sound), ‘sound’ (safe and sound), and ‘sound’ (water) are not related. ‘Sound’ (loud) comes from Latin ‘sonus.’ ‘Sound’ (safe and) comes from Old English ‘gesund,’ meaning "healthy." ‘Sound’ (water) comes from Old Norse ‘sund,’ meaning “strait."

submitted 65 days ago • 63 comments

Due to brain wonkiness the discount code for my workshops wasn't working (so sorry) but it is now. It would be so helpful if you have a few spare seconds & could RT this to maybe reach a few folk who would like to sign up for my workshops. Thankyou so much 🌿

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

After further consideration (& your suggestions), here's a starter list for running any country properly: PM: Paddington Chancellor: The Count from Sesame Street Transport Secretary: Ivor the Engine Foreign Secretaries: The Clangers Home Sec: Moominpapa Head of MI5: Danger Mouse DCMS: Kermit [1/2]

submitted 71 days ago • 9 comments

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

submitted 72 days ago • 105 comments

On Trans Day of Visibility, like every other day of the year, I continue to accept, respect and support trans people. I don't understand being trans, but - good news! - I don't have to. I know who I am better than anyone else does, and I have always found other people know who they are too. Simple.

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

Dear fellow cis people: Keep the deadname of Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's estranged daughter, out of your mouths and off of our screens.

submitted 83 days ago • 12 comments

A List of Complaints from 1925 🧵

submitted 85 days ago • 7 comments

This moment, when every single government is completely rethinking procurement and spending priorities, would have been the perfect time for Labour to say "everything has changed, and we need to change with the world. We are bringing in UBI" It's evidence based and it would been popular

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

Yesterday was the 57th anniversary of the My Lai massacre. I don't think there has been a time where Hugh Thompson Jnr's behaviour, and his actions that day, have been more relevant to US history than they are right now.

submitted 89 days ago • 24 comments

important thread about Georgia #GeorgiaProtests where people have been fighting for true independence from Russia for years and directly protesting for democracy on the streets of their land for every one of the 135 days since Putin's puppets Georgian Dream rigged the elections last November

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

silvius wins today

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

If your instinct tends a bit towards catastrophising - not unreasonable right now - and asserting confidently an opinion along the lines of: "all is lost, US is done, nobody can do a thing, may as well calm down, go home, and wait for the end," stop and ask who benefits from people pushed to apathy.

submitted 111 days ago • 23 comments

No one is immune from disability. It can happen to anyone at anytime, regardless of how 'young and healthy' you are. Stop believing you will be the exception, and start engaging in disability justice. It's far easier to fight for better support and treatment while you still have your health.

submitted 119 days ago • 22 comments

💗💗💗

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Ukraine has fought too hard for its freedom, only to have its future dictated by Putin and Trump behind closed doors. Any peace must guarantee Ukraine’s sovereignty and security on terms acceptable to Ukrainians, not just to Moscow and Mar-a-Lago.

submitted 122 days ago • 38 comments

Excellent alt text.

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

I'm just getting to the end of this fabulous series by @julietemckenna.bsky.social - start here if you haven't already met the rather delightful Dan Mackmain.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of special animals and pets buried in the PDSA London animal cemetery. But my first visit is always to Able Seacat Simon. Only feline recipient of the animal Victoria Cross. "During the Yangtse Incident, his behavour was of the highest order." Thread below. #navalHistory

submitted 127 days ago • 19 comments

i am grateful to Trump and especially Musk for making so powerful and visceral a case that wealth taxes — at levels quite confiscatory for a while, to remedy past lassitude — are an absolute necessity, prerequisite to a sustainable democratic society.

submitted 132 days ago • 4 comments

I ❤️ this initiative from Amii to highlight good news in these dark times, and even if it doesn't happen every week, it's still a great idea 🙂🫡💐 #SomeGoodNews

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Always be a little kinder than is necessary

submitted 135 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 159 days ago • 27 comments

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 369 mures omnibus amicis "annum novum faustum felicem" optant (The mice wish all their friends a happy and prosperous New Year)!

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

These things here are emergency wreck buoys, and if you're thinking the colour scheme looks somewhat like a circus big top, just wait until you hear about the clown show that inspired their introduction.

submitted 173 days ago • 30 comments

We love exploring the office basement. Does anyone want a full bottle of red cider vinegar or perhaps 4,500 copies of the Code of Ethics

submitted 178 days ago • 14 comments

[email protected], whom we respect, recently published an @anniewaldman.bsky.social article about ABA therapy being denied to autistic children and their families by insurance companies. It was then re-shared via @cnn.com Let's talk about how this article missed the mark, on several points. 1/

submitted 181 days ago • 18 comments

There’s a vast difference between those with #MEcfs who live with or are cared for by loving, understanding people. Those who may live alone dependent on unskilled strangers for care. Those who live in unsafe situations. All are horribly ill but will have a very different Christmas.

submitted 195 days ago • 2 comments

It’s an annual tradition, a free to download and print for yourself Advent calendar. This year it’s an Aardvent calendar.

submitted 196 days ago • 25 comments