Dr Richard Gomer
@richardgomer.bsky.social
Lecturer in CS at UoSouthampton. HCI, interaction design, values, Civic AI. Lib Dem. 🏳️🌈
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We, the transgender community, receive a lot of flack for apparently erasing the word, 'woman'.
Yet, I increasingly see in the press, transgender women referred to as 'biological males' (slur) AND cisgender women referred to as 'females' rather than women.
Who is really erasing the word, 'woman'?
Yet, I increasingly see in the press, transgender women referred to as 'biological males' (slur) AND cisgender women referred to as 'females' rather than women.
Who is really erasing the word, 'woman'?
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We, the transgender community, receive a lot of flack for apparently erasing the word, 'woman'.
Yet, I increasingly see in the press, transgender women referred to as 'biological males' (slur) AND cisgender women referred to as 'females' rather than women.
Who is really erasing the word, 'woman'?
Yet, I increasingly see in the press, transgender women referred to as 'biological males' (slur) AND cisgender women referred to as 'females' rather than women.
Who is really erasing the word, 'woman'?
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Glorious. 10/10. No notes.
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Glorious. 10/10. No notes.
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@telegraph.co.uk tax nightmare stories are ... what's the charitable term? ... a complete fabrication. A malicious invention? A lie?
What a surprise.
What a surprise.
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
@telegraph.co.uk tax nightmare stories are ... what's the charitable term? ... a complete fabrication. A malicious invention? A lie?
What a surprise.
What a surprise.
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This batshit weirdo wants us to go back the 4th century? How could anyone think this was worth uttering? Let alone that it might constitute a 'point'? She has absolutely melted her own brain on X.
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This batshit weirdo wants us to go back the 4th century? How could anyone think this was worth uttering? Let alone that it might constitute a 'point'? She has absolutely melted her own brain on X.
I mean, yes? People don't like that his politics are being a massive racist bellend all the time?
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I mean, yes? People don't like that his politics are being a massive racist bellend all the time?
Sad to see LibDems MPs still peddling this cynical disinformation. Farmers still get the first £1m tax free, and the rest at half the rate everyone else pays on an inheritance. Either we tax inheritance or we don't - rural landowners shouldn't get special treatment.
The Government has turned its back on farmers.
The family farm tax will devastate family farms and likely force closures, threatening our countryside, environment and food security.
If ministers care about a sustainable future, they must reverse this and back farmers accross the UK.
The family farm tax will devastate family farms and likely force closures, threatening our countryside, environment and food security.
If ministers care about a sustainable future, they must reverse this and back farmers accross the UK.
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sad to see LibDems MPs still peddling this cynical disinformation. Farmers still get the first £1m tax free, and the rest at half the rate everyone else pays on an inheritance. Either we tax inheritance or we don't - rural landowners shouldn't get special treatment.
The gaming industry is in a very bad place. Today I cannot play a game because the launcher cannot show me a CAPTCHA. Jesus wept.
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The gaming industry is in a very bad place. Today I cannot play a game because the launcher cannot show me a CAPTCHA. Jesus wept.
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Could have been done a year ago, but good news nonetheless!
This is such important news. Hundreds of thousands of children taken out of poverty with the stroke of a pen.
Two-child benefit limit is officially scrapped in Budget 2025
Rachel Reeves confirms policy that restricts what benefits families can receive will be removed
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November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Could have been done a year ago, but good news nonetheless!
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It beggars belief that Labour are taxing universities’ most lucrative revenue streams at a time when three quarters of them are in the red
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It beggars belief that Labour are taxing universities’ most lucrative revenue streams at a time when three quarters of them are in the red
I'm quite uneasy with this Prostate Cancer Screening discourse. Either we let scientists make informed decisions and trust them, or we let politicians take it out of their hands. Genuine Q: Why do politicians believe that they know better in this case?
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I'm quite uneasy with this Prostate Cancer Screening discourse. Either we let scientists make informed decisions and trust them, or we let politicians take it out of their hands. Genuine Q: Why do politicians believe that they know better in this case?
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Great to read this table, the week after my institution announces a voluntary severance programme, to see the government introducing a policy that will cost us an extra *£13 million*
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Great to read this table, the week after my institution announces a voluntary severance programme, to see the government introducing a policy that will cost us an extra *£13 million*
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Donald Trump is gunning for the BBC, and Farage is cheering him on. Want to know why? Follow the money…
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Donald Trump is gunning for the BBC, and Farage is cheering him on. Want to know why? Follow the money…
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“Polls suggest the most probable result is a loss for the party’s candidate, a former government minister understood to have been handpicked by the PM.
“Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”
“Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“Polls suggest the most probable result is a loss for the party’s candidate, a former government minister understood to have been handpicked by the PM.
“Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”
“Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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A BBC investigation finds asylum seekers trapped in dilapidated hotels, spending years in administrative limbo, indebted to criminal gangs and yes, moved arbitrarily so that they have to take taxis across the country for routine GP appointments.
Government response? Stop the taxis.
Government response? Stop the taxis.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A BBC investigation finds asylum seekers trapped in dilapidated hotels, spending years in administrative limbo, indebted to criminal gangs and yes, moved arbitrarily so that they have to take taxis across the country for routine GP appointments.
Government response? Stop the taxis.
Government response? Stop the taxis.
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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November 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Can we go back to the days when politicians said that they really wanted to help people but it’s very hard and takes time, rather than saying that they want to hurt people and can do it quickly?
November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Can we go back to the days when politicians said that they really wanted to help people but it’s very hard and takes time, rather than saying that they want to hurt people and can do it quickly?
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Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
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Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Sir Mo Farah reveals 'the truth' about how he came to the UK
The Olympic star was warned speaking out could put his British citizenship at "real risk" - but it is understood the Home Office is taking no action against him.
news.sky.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
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I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
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truly one of the skeleton keys for our modern age.
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
truly one of the skeleton keys for our modern age.
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Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
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#r4today
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UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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BBC
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
BBC
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
Bias is often in the eye of the beholder
So let’s stick to measurable facts
During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times
Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority
47 were from UKIP/BP
23 times Farage
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This idea that the UK is "excessively generous" is a flat out lie. Countries such as France have far higher support for this seeking asylum for example. It's a myth used to try and defend the indefensible. Britain has never been welcoming, it has only got more hostile
novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/b...
novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/b...
Britain Has Never Been Welcoming to Refugees | Novara Media
From Russia's war with Ukraine to the second world war, the nostalgic myth of Britain being welcoming to refugees is exactly that; a myth. Daniel Sohege explains.
novaramedia.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This idea that the UK is "excessively generous" is a flat out lie. Countries such as France have far higher support for this seeking asylum for example. It's a myth used to try and defend the indefensible. Britain has never been welcoming, it has only got more hostile
novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/b...
novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/b...