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Counterproteating fascists isn't about winning over bystanders; it's about harassing and containg the fash so they can do no harm.
People who scream "homo", "paedo", "terrorist", "nonce", at you across a police barrier: it's not about changing their minds
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There’s been several podcasts which said they were aiming to do this (minus figures from the arts world tbf), and every one of them almost immediately devolved into the panelists honking received wisdom at one another in a Very Measured Tone
We need one of those bare set, hour long politics tv shows shown at 11pm where no one shouts, the questions are forensic, the other guests are figures of the arts world, and only 6 people watch it.
Though one important part of making politics intellectual is that when you host a podcast called "Political Thinking" and somebody comes out with guff like Badenoch did, you really do have to challenge it. Right now there's no reward structure for deeper thinking or self-reflection.
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
There’s been several podcasts which said they were aiming to do this (minus figures from the arts world tbf), and every one of them almost immediately devolved into the panelists honking received wisdom at one another in a Very Measured Tone
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Lovely people in flat upstairs moved out, landlord has put up the rent from £650 per month to £950 per month, but it's the people with £2 million assets that we really need to worry about
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Lovely people in flat upstairs moved out, landlord has put up the rent from £650 per month to £950 per month, but it's the people with £2 million assets that we really need to worry about
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Leaked EHRC guidance has been branded “a licence to discriminate based on looks, plain and simple,” a spokesperson for @transactualuk.bsky.social says 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Leaked EHRC guidance has been branded “a licence to discriminate based on looks, plain and simple,” a spokesperson for @transactualuk.bsky.social says 🧵
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Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
I withdrew £50 from the cashpoint except I completely forgot to take the money, oh dear
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I withdrew £50 from the cashpoint except I completely forgot to take the money, oh dear
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Banning street hockey in Canada?
This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s about protecting drivers from having to think about kids.
This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s about protecting drivers from having to think about kids.
Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Banning street hockey in Canada?
This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s about protecting drivers from having to think about kids.
This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s about protecting drivers from having to think about kids.
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
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Hm, "people who have to live in high-value properties because of their job" sounds suspiciously like they started with "how can we exempt MPs?" and worked backwards from there
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Hm, "people who have to live in high-value properties because of their job" sounds suspiciously like they started with "how can we exempt MPs?" and worked backwards from there
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Listen all I’m saying is that I remember six little years ago when we were told that Corbyn living in a £1m house was evidence of vast wealth. I know inflation’s been wild since then but I simply do not believe that we’re now in a world where owning a property worth £2m is somehow standard
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Listen all I’m saying is that I remember six little years ago when we were told that Corbyn living in a £1m house was evidence of vast wealth. I know inflation’s been wild since then but I simply do not believe that we’re now in a world where owning a property worth £2m is somehow standard
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Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site
Civil Administration says development legal, taking place amid 'neglect' of site by Palestinians; Peace Now: 'Government's lust for dispossession and annexation is insatiable'
www.timesofisrael.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Children in Need chair resigns after crash conviction.
Duddy's BMW knocked a woman off her bike as he turned right on High Street, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, on 21 June.
Children in Need chair resigns after crash conviction.
Duddy's BMW knocked a woman off her bike as he turned right on High Street, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, on 21 June.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Children in Need chair resigns after crash conviction.
Duddy's BMW knocked a woman off her bike as he turned right on High Street, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, on 21 June.
Children in Need chair resigns after crash conviction.
Duddy's BMW knocked a woman off her bike as he turned right on High Street, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, on 21 June.
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Political Scientist Vahid Abedini detained boarding flight as he traveled to the annual MESA conference
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Political Scientist Vahid Abedini detained boarding flight as he traveled to the annual MESA conference
it's not dusty, it's colonial
'Peter Wollny, the musicologist behind last week’s “world sensational” revelation of two previously unknown works by Johann Sebastian Bach, had a funny feeling when he chanced upon two intriguing sheets of music in a dusty library in 1992.'
'Dusty library/archive' tired trope alert.
'Dusty library/archive' tired trope alert.
‘An inner duty’: the 35-year quest to bring Bach’s lost organ works to light
Musicologist Peter Wollny chanced upon the manuscripts in 1992 and authenticating them took half of his lifetime
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
it's not dusty, it's colonial
6Music bleeping out the word "piss" on a Specials song, amazing
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
6Music bleeping out the word "piss" on a Specials song, amazing
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The use of motorway services in this image really underlines this is about excluding people from public life. When you stop at a motorway services, you're on your way somewhere else. It's the most banal space possible. Now we'll all have to check we conform to gender stereotypes in order to pee.
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The use of motorway services in this image really underlines this is about excluding people from public life. When you stop at a motorway services, you're on your way somewhere else. It's the most banal space possible. Now we'll all have to check we conform to gender stereotypes in order to pee.
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This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
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I think it's really, really important to flag here that this coding module is part of an *apprenticeship* scheme. Just a bit of ammo against the Borings who use every critique of unis to bang on about how we don't need to do degrees and vocational training is better blah blah blah.
"Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment” after a course they hoped would launch their digital careers turned out to be taught in large part by AI"
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I think it's really, really important to flag here that this coding module is part of an *apprenticeship* scheme. Just a bit of ammo against the Borings who use every critique of unis to bang on about how we don't need to do degrees and vocational training is better blah blah blah.
Solidarity and love to all my trans friends and colleagues today
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Solidarity and love to all my trans friends and colleagues today
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
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The EHRC’s definition of “woman” in its “interim guidance” is *gender* not “biological sex”.
It wants single-sex spaces policed by gender (ie appearance) not biology (chromosomes etc).
So it uses *gender* not the “commonsense” definition of “biological sex” the Supreme Court misjudgment mandated.
It wants single-sex spaces policed by gender (ie appearance) not biology (chromosomes etc).
So it uses *gender* not the “commonsense” definition of “biological sex” the Supreme Court misjudgment mandated.
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The EHRC’s definition of “woman” in its “interim guidance” is *gender* not “biological sex”.
It wants single-sex spaces policed by gender (ie appearance) not biology (chromosomes etc).
So it uses *gender* not the “commonsense” definition of “biological sex” the Supreme Court misjudgment mandated.
It wants single-sex spaces policed by gender (ie appearance) not biology (chromosomes etc).
So it uses *gender* not the “commonsense” definition of “biological sex” the Supreme Court misjudgment mandated.
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
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The only way Shabana Mahmood will implement her vile, racist "reforms" is by importing anti-migrant ICE raids from the US into our communities, supported (more readily than in Britain than in some US states) by the police. It's time to get organised against the horrors that lie ahead
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The only way Shabana Mahmood will implement her vile, racist "reforms" is by importing anti-migrant ICE raids from the US into our communities, supported (more readily than in Britain than in some US states) by the police. It's time to get organised against the horrors that lie ahead