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The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 12 hours ago • 39 comments

Wrote about this photo, how extraordinary it was, and my realisation that women played virtually no part in big decisions taken before 1979. open.substack.com/pub/rostaylo...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Zelensky 👀💯

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Tell me again how regulation doesn't work.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Ah. Here we go. Again. Never ending fights over who and what justifies this (and doesn’t). This could get very messy indeed.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

I had a LOT of fun interrogating @sturdyalex.bsky.social for a behind the scenes look at the making of @alexpodyssey.bsky.social 🎧👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Just adding my voice to the Greek chorus of approval for this belting podcast. And what better moment to hear Persephone's story than at Easter and the spring equinox, the time of renewal, rebirth, and fertility.

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'Sometimes in politics, things are binary. There is a choice to be made and it cannot be avoided. This is one of those times.' A hellish diplomatic task. But we have to hope Starmer knows that choosing a US deal and scuppering greater European alignment would be the most profound strategic error.

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I could listen to this all day - Mariana Sangita, with Tο Μαργουδι κι ο Αλεξανδρης It's the theme to @sturdyalex.bsky.social's fabulous @alexpodyssey.bsky.social podcast on the Greek myths. Hypnotic stuff ❤️ youtu.be/u-LAVj5l9Uc?...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Let's forget about all the apocalyptic angst for a while and have a lovely coffee, I said.

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'If honour and decency still meant a damn thing these people would be held in disgrace for questioning someone's patriotism in order to score a cheap political point. But they don't, so they're not.' In all the international chaos this important UK story could get missed. Ian on fine form.

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Lord Snorty?

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Word of the day is ‘foozle’, from the 19th century: of a golfer, to bungle a shot. More generally, to make a complete mess of something.

submitted 16 days ago • 56 comments

- ”Trump wanted the Nobel peace prize, for resolving the situation in Ukraine within 24hours. Having failed…" - "- he’s now trying for the economics one? Maybe he’ll do the double!” Honestly, we laughed so hard a little wee came out. For what is left to us, but to make light of this catastrophe?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

submitted 17 days ago • 76 comments

Seven years today since we first introduced you to this absolute unit.

submitted 17 days ago • 43 comments

Quiet Riot always provides a measured and compassionate political point of view. But in these troubling times, this particular episode is a refreshing tonic and an important reminder that good people continue do good things. @quietriotpod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 18 days ago • 265 comments

Plenty of wisdom in this thread. Emphasise the everyday humanity, positive attributes, lives simply being lived. Avoid amplifying the messages of hateful people as much as possible. Resonates for me.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

What a punchline.

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While everyone is rightly raving abt the latest golden instalment of Podyssey (go listen!) this short bonus episode was catnip to me. If you're at all curious abt the hypnotic title music - in everyone's favourite time signature of 7/8 - this will answer many questions. Quite a talented family!

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

'realpolitik and statecraft ought to alert us to the fact that the immorality of what is unfolding in the United States, quite as much as the imposition of tariffs, represents a clear and present danger to our national interests and our way of life.' Summarising well the gravity of the situation.

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2018, people. Read it and weep

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Yeah, when I think about beef those are the two categories I always reach for.

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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

submitted 23 days ago • 180 comments

THREAD. This is the last post I'm going to do about this on here because I'm hoping to have a break from signing/packing sending soon, but I thought I should explain the full situation. Due to me taking the rights back to my books from my publishers, and my publishers going into administration...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Superb piece from Ian pointing out the stupidity - and danger - of decent journalists highlighting and uncritically repeating the lies and inflammatory rhetoric of far-right populists. Democracy is under attack on many fronts. Framing news with evidence and accuracy is essential.

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i hate to rewrite someone else's joke but I have to put this out there otherwise I will decease As it turns out, Le Pen is not mightier than Le Fraud

submitted 26 days ago • 25 comments

The one where I call the welfare cuts sociopathic 🎧👇

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

The 88th day of the year, so it must be World Piano Day! 🎹 Here's an instrumental mash-up I really enjoyed making, mixing ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' with Radiohead's 'Creep'. She's having the time of her life, but he knows he just doesn't belong there. 🎧 #pianoday2025 #pianoday #ABBA #Radiohead

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A little post-work cycle down to the largest of the local lakes at Dinton Pastures. Very therapeutic to focus on this peaceful beauty for a while, watch birds come and go, catch some breath and time. The beer we took along was also pretty damn fine. 🙂 #spring

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Everything about this screen grab says 'resignations incoming!' Except authoritarians don't like being held accountable.

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🇪🇺🚫 Brussels has rejected Russia’s demand to lift EU restrictions on a key agricultural bank as part of a partial ceasefire deal, saying its sanctions regime will stay in place until the “unconditional withdrawal” of Moscow’s troops from Ukraine, - FT

submitted 31 days ago • 40 comments

On the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, we remember the millions who were killed and the generations who still feel its legacy today.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Perhaps the top person at The Atlantic was added to the Signal chat because those on the chat believed there was a person in charge of the Atlantic.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

From last month... www.computerweekly.com/news/3666194...

submitted 32 days ago • 77 comments

I found this second episode of the new podcast by @sturdyalex.bsky.social utterly beguiling, and it moved me to the point of tears more than once. Gorgeous - not a word I have ever used about a podcast before.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Who wants to know the London Overground line names that almost existed. I bet you all do, it's Bluesky, if this isn't targeted material for this place then I don't know what is. www.londoncentric.media/p/the-reject...

submitted 32 days ago • 29 comments

man can you imagine being like a regular reporter at the Atlantic and getting to work today thinking ohhh boy, managed to get a nice little scoop this week, fun story that'll make some waves, can't wait to tell my editor, then your boss's boss turns up with.........this

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Something really, really interesting is happening in Canada. It's incredible to watch.

submitted 33 days ago • 33 comments

Just a reminder, the EU has been operating a naval mission in the seas around Yemen to keep freedom of navigation open "at great cost" since 2008. A number of non-EU countries have contributed, including Ukraine... not the US though. I guess you could call that American free-loading. eunavfor.eu

submitted 33 days ago • 26 comments

A fine and timely parody.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The Signal group chat Atlantic report is jaw-dropping, but the implications of what else might have been discussed insecurely and revealed to other intelligence agencies is potentially very consequential.

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