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sjorford.bsky.social
he/him geek/nerd lover of nature and spreadsheets
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I'm proud to #BackZack @zackpolanski.bsky.social Labour's right wing escapades are only handing this country to Reform whilst making everything worse. Yet the GPEW have not filled the gap - we must grasp the opportunity, be bold, and paint the picture of the inclusive future nobody else is!

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

Why trying to out-Farage Farage is just never going to work for Labour. The most hardline, anti-migrant set of policies from any UK Government in recent years and the Daily Mail still portrays it as a betrayal

submitted 35 days ago • 97 comments

submitted 38 days ago • 35 comments

Majed is in a particularly horrible position, because he is helping multiple families with their fundraisers while also struggling to get any traction at all for his sisters' fund. If anyone can really commit to consistently sharing their link, it would mean a LOT.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

It’s polling day! 10,000 polling places are open across England for council and mayoral elections. Find out if you have an election, and get your candidate and polling station details: whocanivotefor.co.uk

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

submitted 46 days ago • 47 comments

Actually fuck off. Who is the EHRC to tell voluntary associations what to and what not to do?

submitted 51 days ago • 46 comments

The previous Government made a wrong turn with the introduction of Voter ID. Scrapping it would be a positive step for democracy. www.electoral-reform.org.uk/whats-the-pr...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

My own favourite April 23 fact is that both Shakespeare and Cervantes died on April 23 1616, ten days apart.

submitted 54 days ago • 7 comments

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

submitted 57 days ago • 50 comments

Katy is right about this, as usual, and further, what this ruling does it basically make it unsafe to be a non-feminine woman, or one who doesn't meet the beauty standard generally, in public. It's a movement to push women back into the domestic sphere.

submitted 57 days ago • 17 comments

I just cannot believe that people use breast cancer of all things as an example of why you should treat trans women - people who have breasts and experience breast cancer like cis women - as men Just so overwhelmingly ignorant and ridiculous. The weakest possible argument

submitted 67 days ago • 81 comments

Please help this Spider Pot find a forever home

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

This year's English local elections will be the smallest since 1975, following postponements in nine areas. 1,657 councillors are due to be elected across 23 councils. Six mayors will also be elected. More detail in our latest blog: democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2025/03...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Coming to the view that it would probably have been *a little* useful to force a vote on the net zero target back in 2019. 🧵

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Removing the hereditary peers must only be the start, we need a smaller, democratically accountable second chamber.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

♿ With record numbers of disabled MPs now in the Commons, Tali Fraser speaks to a selection about how they are navigating the parliamentary estate and the tricks they use to make it work for them www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I want to read you an email that I was asked to keep confidential because I think it explains some of my worries about academia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFU...

submitted 120 days ago • 24 comments

I always enjoy this annual Politico list as it is presented as a bit of fun, yet is always inadvertently revealing about how Westminster actually works. www.politico.eu/article/west...

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submitted 129 days ago • 10 comments

if I just refresh the timeline enough maybe someone will do something to stop all of this

submitted 133 days ago • 57 comments

sick of normal things being given grandiose epithets? you might be part of the great oh fuck off now

submitted 385 days ago • 18 comments

Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 157 days ago • 61 comments