Reposted by Billythe pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 7hIf you want to know where we are with transphobia, this is a *Labour MP* whose mum was *in hospital for a medical emergency* and she's still more worried about a trans person *in a mixed-sex ward* than about, for example, her mum 2545198
Reposted by BillyGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 5hThe only flying car I'm interested in 1373
Reposted by BillyChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 21hThis was the Telegraph's big front page splash this morning. The headline is wrong and the lead is... rather carefully worded, shall we say Also please enjoy the Telegraph's data editor being called Butcher... 712934
Reposted by BillyFrances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 8h“For decades, the right has set the boundaries for what Britain’s safety net can be. The conventional wisdom is change can only go one way: the benefits system can become more punitive and error-strewn, but never more compassionate or accurate.” Today’s col. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe right’s scrounger rhetoric dominates the benefits debate. Labour must fight back – and win | Frances RyanThe prime minister has a once-in-a-generation chance to reintroduce compassion to welfare, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan 1322571
Reposted by BillyTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 7h"we should segregate trans people because their presence is upsetting to cis people" coming from a member of government is very cool 371757304
Reposted by BillyBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 9hBritish value of ‘tolerance’ apparently too much for a Labour MP 514226
Reposted by BillyAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I contributed to a discussion of the New Atheism on its 20th birthday. I alarmed myself on how hostile I felt to a thing that I was at least peripherally part of. Now I think how facile, glib and macho it all was. Preening men showing off to each other. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukBeyond Belief - New Atheism - BBC SoundsGiles and the panel explore "New Atheism". 2014224
Reposted by BillyTensegrityFan🐝🍯 @tensegrityfan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026#AccidentalPartridge @accidentalp.bsky.social 011
Reposted by BillyLayla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Our mental health services are frankly broken. Within the Health and Social Care Committee's joint inquiry with the Education Committee, our initial evidence has found that the primary driver of mental ill health among children is poverty. 02619
Reposted by BillyPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Pretty extraordinary for the Jewish Chronicle to run an op ed & news story about Nigel Farage warning of antisemitism in the Greens without mentioning that he is the only serving major party leader to have been criticised by Jewish groups for using tropes linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories. 60649186
Reposted by BillyCampaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Disabled people are a community - we support each other. Recently MPs and the media have tried to divide us, based on our diagnoses. Please share your experiences to help push back, so all Disabled people are respected, whatever impairments and conditions we live with. 0106
Reposted by BillyJames C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Many people have visited my profile over the last few days because of a silly little thread I did. If you are stopping by, please consider donating to this 👇 196
Reposted by BillyGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 14/10/2026🧵TW for the image ⚠️ Just one of hundreds of vile comments and threats I’ve had from men for sharing footage from Reclaim the Night. One of the organisations represented on Monday was Rape Crisis Scotland. I’ve since leaned that the Glasgow centre are close to having to cut services due to 74915
Reposted by BillyJack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Worth remembering that if she supported Patriotic Alternative instead she would be able to sell her books unimpeded because our government has its priorities straight. 325770
Reposted by BillyChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15/10/2026sometimes midnight posts should not be lost on the morning crowd 1312611
Reposted by BillyDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 15/10/2026There are no penalties for failure in British public life. 48818
Reposted by BillyTim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A significant bit of AuDHD is hard to valorise or frame as inherently dignified - this morning I collapsed in hysterics because of an unexpected change to my routine & some stuff being moved. I would like to wrap it all in folklore & continental philosophy but this is the heart of it, sometimes. 3668
Reposted by BillyTom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026If we could not write up anti-vaxxers in plushie health influencer terms that would be great, thanks. 2295
Reposted by BillyJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 15/10/2026It drives me absolutely mad that Hunt has never been forced to account for this. Interviewers never say "But isn't this your fault?" (It is.) 13464119
Reposted by BillyScare-argh Boo-arnard 👻 @sarahbpolar.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"This isn't just shopping", I mutter to myself as I sweep the shop's entire stock of peach yogurts into my basket, "this is autistic shopping." 1161
Reposted by BillyJess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026We're running a good piece by @cjayanetti.bsky.social today on wildfire risk, and the guidance (such as it is) for how to protect homes. www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/how-...insidehousing.co.ukHow should social landlords prepare for next year’s summer of wildfires?What should social landlords be doing now to prepare for next summer’s wildfire risk? Chaminda Jayanetti reports. 073
Reposted by BillyDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Disabled people don't own their Motability cars. They give up their other benefits to pay to lease them. The cars have vital adaptations for disabled use. They make active life - and employment - possible, for thousands and thousands of people: our fellow-citizens. But Nigel Says Fuck'Em... 28032
Reposted by BillyNatasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I’ve only been shouting about this for 15 years but glad it’s finally getting some traction. 27419
Reposted by BillyFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Just the BBC #PolliticsLive putting the Reform UK representative, Jaymey McIvor, on a hot seat McIvor is an ex-Tory candidate who was suspended from the Conservatives after being accused of sending and unsolicited image of his ‘genitals' 96225
Reposted by BillyMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Still thinking about this and trying to get to the bottom of it. 2118446
Reposted by BillyMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 12/10/2026No you don't get it, the BBC had to edit out the protect the dolls t-shirt because of impartiality. On the one hand some people think trans women should be safe, but on the other hand some people think trans women should eat glass. It's a deeply politicised issue actually. 2549102
Reposted by Billyflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Incredible, really. Not only does it turn out that their support base is the comfortable middle class after all, but it transpires that ruthless means testing and shouting about well-off people not needing benefit (x) is Kryptonite for social democracy. Give yourselves a big hand, folks 410023
Reposted by BillyNick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Today, the Telegraph can exclusively reveal that people who've got nowt often live near each other in less well off neighbourhoods. More as we get it. 1622743
Reposted by BillyDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Jen develops this theme further in today’s column. What Burnham has done is unintentionally shine a spotlight on the sometimes less than transparent ways in which Leese and Bernstein operated and opened up a flank to crtics on the right www.ft.com/content/c9ee... Andy Burnham’s own goalft.comAndy Burnham’s own goalManchester’s reputation is becoming the collateral damage of ‘Manchesterism’ 4174
Reposted by BillySarah @domesticploddess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Is it just me that thinks peadophile hunters are as weird and creepy as the people they are hunting? 7141
Reposted by BillyDr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 12/10/202630,000 job losses in one of the few sectors we are still genuinely world-leading, and zero national conversation beyond tuition fees and loans. UK Higher Ed is sinking and apparently no-one has noticed. 610462
Reposted by Billy🍁 𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐚.⸆⸉ 🌙✨ (𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐠𝐮𝐧 𝐞𝐫𝐚) @kazansky.swifties.social · 09/10/2026god, i remember seeing the “we shouldn’t diagnose people because it labels them and labels are a stigma” argument in A-level psychology. it was bollocks then and it’s bollocks now. there are physical health conditions that are stigmatised too but nobody suggests just not diagnosing them. 011
Reposted by BillyNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026‘Development Partner’ at Verduin, the fascist bookstore in London heavily connected to Nina Power 722977
Reposted by BillyLeftback @leftback.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This was a very Brownian approach to finances too. The heat pump subsidy is there to install something that replaces both gas boilers and horribly inefficient electric alternatives. It's... not ideal to dump it. 031
Reposted by BillyJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"The version of Zionism the Israeli government put forward is racist" is a completely defensible and true statement. But that's not what the resolution says, is it? 1443979
Reposted by Billybugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Not keen on this developing narrative I've seen on both the left and right that counterposes Jews with everyone else. Ultimately a policy that harms other minorities will harm us...and vice versa 1225
Reposted by BillyDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Yet again, Labour showing itself to be the single most racist and hostile anti-asylum government in living memory. It can take decades, if ever, for refugees to be safe returning to countries they fled, and that's when those countries are stable which Syria is not www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comSurgeon faces deportation as Home Office revokes refugee status for SyriansUK classifies Syria as safe to return to despite UN refugee body’s advice 8211112
Reposted by Billyflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Clown country”, is pretty much all that can be said here. This is what happens when your ruling class turns to the far right to save them from the left, in short. 914934
Reposted by BillyChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If you're on this site then re-enacting the kama sutra with a sentient basket would be an upgrade on your actual sex life 9326
Reposted by BillyThe Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 10/10/2026An autistic woman enjoying the early days of autumn is blissfully unaware that her seasonal depression is waiting to pounce, eyewitnesses have claimed.thedailytism.comAutistic woman merrily embracing spooky season unaware of seasonal depression crouched in the bushesAn autistic woman enjoying the early days of autumn is blissfully unaware that her seasonal depression is waiting to pounce, eyewitnesses have claimed. Sarah Harrow, 40, has spent the past few weeks… 914221
Reposted by BillyTim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Telling that Wes Streeting considers someone diagnosed with ADHD has been 'written off'. Also telling that the government commissioned a review in the face of independent reviews finding there is no overdiagnosis, just increased awareness & historic underdiagnosis of girls & women. 11408124
Reposted by BillyKathryn de Tomb 🪦 @kathryndeplume.com · 10/10/2026This country fucking sucks. If you’re trans or disabled you’re fucked. If you’re both, well, I try not to think about it day to day. 2123
Reposted by BillyJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 151151666531
Reposted by BillyDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In the spirit of consistency, I do hope Badenoch will be constantly asked "Where's the money coming from?" 1422541
Reposted by BillyDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Well, on the bright side, at least he'll have AI to visit him in the nursing home one day 17010
Reposted by BillyUK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A rather sad announcement from @anandmenon.bsky.social on the future of UK in a Changing Europe. ukandeu.ac.uk/announcement... 1514850
Reposted by BillyChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"It isn’t point scoring that has delayed care reform, but disagreements on how to find the money and what to spend it on... What’s been missing is a leader willing to lead." I look at 20 years of failed adult care reform - and what Labour's proposals could miss By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.socialnational.thelead.ukDeath tax, dementia tax, no tax at all: Why England hasn’t fixed social careFifteen years after Dilnot called adult care "not fit for purpose", reform still hasn't come. As Andy Burnham and Louise Casey try again, Chaminda Jayanetti traces three decades of false starts. 89639
