Reposted by Karen DCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 7hMembers of fraternities are three times more likely to be rapists than male college students who aren’t members of fraternities 24219
Reposted by Karen DLoukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 16hI'll add another thing to this thread about 'invisible' misogyny: a lot of the time it also presents as chivalry. Putting women on a pedestal, 'yearning' for them; all part of a misogynistic othering of women which can likewise explode in 'surprising' ways. 312335
Reposted by Karen DSian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 12hI have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself. 919064
Reposted by Karen DAdrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 9hEvening, #Ofcom. A British politician is advertising, in advance, that his "full verdict" on the Prime Minister's speech today will be given in his own programme, which carries his name, on GB News tonight. Aren't News channels supposed to show due impartiality? 🤮 x.com/Nigel_Farage...x.comNigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) on XI will give my full verdict on Andy Burnham’s speech LIVE on GB News at 7PM tonight. 1220079
Reposted by Karen DBwillett Comics, Monster Boyfriend Specialist @bwillettcomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also not all of us wear n95s for *just* Covid. 'Just a cold' causes me month long lung infections. I like not spending 1/6th of my year in bed with a fever and barely breathing. I'm kooky like that 418355
Reposted by Karen DJuliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 22hAre Techbro billionaires discovering their established and tolerated business practice with hardware i.e. 'release the cool thing we developed without bothering to consider malfunction/abusive use, and mop up/hush up real world damage causing bad press later' really does not work with software? 25826
Reposted by Karen DOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11hIf people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it. 1032108383
Reposted by Karen DFull Fact @fullfact.org · 16hA video being shared online supposedly shows an “asylum seeker” saying he wants “more money and more freedom”, and isn’t happy with how he’s being treated in the UK. But the clip is AI-generated. Here’s how we know 👇fullfact.orgVideo of ‘asylum seeker’ saying he wants ‘more money and more freedom’ is AI-generated – Full FactA clip which has been shared online contains a SynthID watermark, suggesting it was made with Google’s AI tools. 24428
Reposted by Karen DAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 16hLate alert from the UKMTO. At some point overnight a vessel was struck in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a fire. This was extinguished by the crew and the vessel is still underway. This comes on the eve of the supposed decision by #Trump to end or escalate #TheHormuzCrisis.- 163
Reposted by Karen DJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16hPM Burnham on privatisation: "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget: They are the ones that gave it away in the first place." 525553
Reposted by Karen DAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 16hA 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology 6691180
Reposted by Karen DWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 15hRepealing Margaret Thatcher's ban on public ownership of water companies is wonderful But it means absolutely nothing if he does not then bring water into public ownership Our response to Andy Burnham's #LabourConference speech 39845
Reposted by Karen DKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15hFor me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming 282027380
Reposted by Karen DOutspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees. 281130884357
Reposted by Karen DArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 19hFunny thing I recall the debate back when it was linked to inflation not earnings which was seen as unfair and at the time I thought "link to inflation seems a fair basis for a state benefit" and now that earnings rarely keep track with inflation of course the distinction has switched the other way. 2268
Reposted by Karen DSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20hEvery private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide". 38597117
Reposted by Karen Dhorror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 19hand it is also very important for me to point out that the coat of arms he designed for himself when he was knighted in 2000 is the greatest coat of arms on these isles because it is literally a coat of arms (and "NEVER ASSUME" is a banger motto) www.reddit.com/r/heraldry/c...reddit.comFrom the heraldry community on Reddit: Sir Paul Smith CoAExplore this post and more from the heraldry community 3204
Reposted by Karen DDoug Funnie and the Friendliest Mutton Chops @jonspaceharper.bsky.social · 18hMichael Tracey, everyone:youtube.comMichael Tracey Ignores Epstein Question on Piers Morgan!YouTube video by The Dusty Show 0365
Reposted by Karen DGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22hFor all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system. 851256254
Reposted by Karen DRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19hI'm saying: I live on this planet, and remember enough real events to be able to predict consequences when a more extreme version of them happens. And unless we prevent this, we're in trouble. The best way to prevent it is to make it too commercially expensive. Tax does that. Tax the compute. 1927
Reposted by Karen DRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19hJust tax the compute. Datacentre? Cool. Fund your own power generation and water reservoirs, and then pay tax for every computational act your datacentre does. And we'll use the tax income to offset societal and job damage. Overnight, AI becomes something AI giants are desperate to restrict. 523859
Reposted by Karen DSirprised @sirprised.bsky.social · 19hOh the 3 Ps‽ Piss Poop Poison* *Maybe that should be pestilence‽ My local river (The Dart) has a rating system based on stars ⭐. 1-3, so 1=bad, 2 =ok 3,=good! We have. 0. Last time I swam in it (since the star signs) I got an eye infection and was ill for a week. So yeah poison/pestilence works 012
Reposted by Karen DPolitics.co.uk @politics.co.uk · 19hNEW: Labour will ‘stand by’ ECHR unlike Farage and Badenoch, says @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social “They say they’ll bin the European Convention on Human Rights. They’ve clearly never read the Good Friday Agreement. Or maybe they don’t care about it”, Bryant stated www.politics.co.uk/2026/09/chri...politics.co.ukChris Bryant: Labour will ‘stand by’ ECHR, unlike Farage and Badenoch - Politics.co.ukSir Chris Bryant has vowed that Labour will “stand by” the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Good Friday Agreement, accusing Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch of having “clearly never re... 16716
Reposted by Karen DWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 18hPrivatised railway rolling stock's a cash cow & a total rip off. It’s fantastic news that the government is now making it possible to take back our trains. Other countries own their own trains and we should do the same. This is a smart decision for the long term future of the railway. #Labour26mirror.co.ukAll new trains could be publicly owned under Labour rail nationalisation plansTransport Secretary Heidi Alexander says the government will consider whether to make all new trains taxpayer owned after private leasing firms rake in billions of pounds 35214
Reposted by Karen DWayne @shakesfirst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bumped into someone I haven't seen for quite a while and she noticed my weight gain, I talked about my long COVID and apparently ginger garlic tumeric and onion will cure me. Fuck I hate these idiots. If eating a good Indian dinner every night would cure me of course I'd be doing it. It's delicious! 4253
Reposted by Karen DCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19halso thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it. 12750148
Reposted by Karen DJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21hA cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones. 641213352
Reposted by Karen DThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 18hThe Fairford incident is dominating the news cycle - and the right-wing. Over the past 48 hours we’ve seen speculation, insinuation and implication attempt turn a serious story about security into one about immigration. This is a long one. Make some tea.bearlypolitics.co.ukA Dissection: The Fairford FannywobbleHow the right-wing commentariat turned an ongoing investigation into a migrant story before the facts were known. 1412359
Reposted by Karen DYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13/10/2025BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"theconversation.comFor the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas projectThe results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified. 3250120
Reposted by Karen DNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...independent.co.ukSpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital tripMission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth 1941787972
Reposted by Karen DClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22hit’s also not NOT giving Moopsy which RED FLAG 020523
Reposted by Karen DJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026Remember, Jenrick is not stupid. He's a trained lawyer, he knows the difference between police and court bail. He's just a turd. 29459105
Reposted by Karen DAshmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 22hThis wonderful 16th-century jar is in the shape of a pinecone. Jars like this in the shape of pinecones, both lustred and unlustred, were a popular Deruta product in the first half of the sixteenth century. 29421
Reposted by Karen DDr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 22hYestheguardian.comDo the British Museum’s links with Palantir and BP bring it into disrepute? | LetterLetter: Dr Chris Garrard responds to an article about George Osborne assuming that Palantir founder Peter Thiel’s visit to view the Bayeux tapestry would remain secret 38530
Reposted by Karen DElizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 28/09/20262003: whatever you do, don't source your research from Wikipedia. 2026: Wikipedia is the safest online source to start general research from. 21733133
Reposted by Karen DCasmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 21hA few artisan contrarians will continue to hand-craft their articles in the old way, pretending to have heard something at a dinner party that proves autism is a made-up thing, etc. But editors will realise it doesn't matter whether LLMs can think or feel, they can still write for the Telegraph. 051
Reposted by Karen DEriko Christy @erikochristy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026what a strange coincidence that every woman has friends who have been sexually assaulted (and quite possibly has been herself) and no man seems to be friends with any rapists! 201114215
Reposted by Karen DFull Fact @fullfact.org · 21hViral posts claim Japan has passed ‘anti-Islam laws’ banning halal food, mosques, burqas and prayer calls. This is false. Japan's constitution guarantees religious freedom. Here's what we found 👇fullfact.orgNo, Japan has not introduced 'anti-Islam' laws – Full FactViral posts claim Japan has banned halal food, mosques, burqas and the call to prayer. This is false. No such laws exist, and Japan's constitution guarantees religious freedom. 15829
Reposted by Karen DIndy @indy.bsky.social · 21hThe hard truth is we have implemented every centre-right nostrum, from slashing local government through conditionality of benefits to junking resilience measures for society and the economy - and as many predicted, it all turns out to be very costly in the long run. 04220
Reposted by Karen DNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 21hThinking of the people of Ukraine, who've suffered so much. It's important attention remains on the impacts of Russian aggression www.ft.com/content/e423...ft.comRussian drones hit Kyiv science academy and hospitalOne person killed and six injured in attack on capital, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges countries to do more to protect Ukraine 26626
Reposted by Karen DCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Suella Braverman was the first MP to be sworn in on a copy of the Dhammapada! That's hardly paying lip service to the supremacy of Anglicanism in the UK, is it. 313732
Reposted by Karen DHolly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 28/09/2026No one does aeroplane ears *quite* like Smol Paul 1245423
Reposted by Karen DAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope." 492489702
Reposted by Karen DRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In the UK, Prince William has launched an anti-suicide campaign with the Premier League, whose every other ad is for gambling. Hey prince: how about you dust off some old dungeons & fill them with every gambling CEO & the celebs who endorse them & watch suicides plummet? EASY PEASY MATE 1276671