Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈The Onion @theonion.com · 3hMan Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat 81336202
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 4hWe (BES colleagues) have just finished a book showing how Brexit crystallised the realignment of the electorate, and how its persistence beyond 2024 depends on whether the parties appeal to the same groups … Seems that’s a ‘yes’ then! 053
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Immediate thoughts on Andy Burnham's announcement today of a national commission on electoral reform. Doing this process well will be really important. theconversation.com/if-he-wants-...theconversation.comIf he wants to secure legitimacy for electoral reform, Andy Burnham must stick to these rulesInvolving both the public and all parties in shaping reforms on how they vote will be crucial. 43618
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Electoral reform: “I hear you, I agree with you, and today I am announcing a new national commission on electoral reform.” Biggest opportunity to reform FPP in perhaps a century has now arrived. But long way to go… 612721
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble 331460372
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Voters find chatbots both convenient and less stressful than other sources of information" even as they express concern with increased use of AI in daily life. The ease of use and apparent personalization of chatbot responses seems important as an info tool. caucusai.substack.com/p/using-ai-w...caucusai.substack.comUsing AI, with reservationsNew survey data on voters’ trust, perceptions of political bias, and desire to use AI less. 187
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Politics saw the largest year-on-year increase of all A-level subjects in the UK, with entries up 12% this year compared with 2025.It’s still only 3% of all A-levels studied across the UK in 2026 but is one of the fastest-growing A-levels – up 81% in the UK since 2010. 042
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not suprising that the Linke got the most votes among younger voters in Berlin. Yet, the size of their vote share among under-35 year-olds is stunning. 26122
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else? 28823
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/09/2026FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Themgizmodo.comFBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date ThemICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them. 1662711643
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Breaking News: Citizens who are members of Group X won't vote for political parties who make it clear they don't like members of Group X. 22410
Will 🏴🏳️🌈 @willdv2002.bsky.social · 15/09/2026static.klipy.comOhh Ohh What A DayALT: Ohh Ohh What A Day 010
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Reform in Wales having quite a bad day. Announced in the last 5 mins: • Leader Dan Thomas steps down due to "personal reasons" (he was arrested). • Reform MS Sarah Cooper-Lesadd defects to Plaid, saying Reform are "far more interested in division, opposition and headlines than finding solutions" 19282117
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈NationCymru @nation.cymru · 15/09/2026Voters in Wales turned out in record numbers for the 2026 Senedd election, but more needs to be done to tackle candidate abuse and misinformation, according to new research from the Electoral Commission ✍️Emily Pricenation.cymruRecord turnout at Senedd election but concerns grow over abuse and misinformationEmily Price Voters in Wales turned out in record numbers for the 2026 Senedd election, but more needs to be done to tackle candidate abuse and misinformation, according to new research from the Elect... 082
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026 63177533717
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom. 13850951543
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I've talked to the Reform councillor in Portsmouth who had to explain to a masked vigilante mob outside the city's Marriott hotel that a group of young men who had arrived on a coach were not asylum seekers but an U21 cricket team from Pakistan. He called it a “massively unfortunate incident”. 1521180
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/202690 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵) 4123751265
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary' 9359961596
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Germany: Saxony-Anhalt regional parliament election 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 In 1998, 25% of voters under 26 backed the far-right DVU (Infratest dimap exit poll). The AfD (ESN) won this same age group in 2016 — also with 25%. Explore the data: europeelects.eu/2026/08/30/ge 0125
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026One of the interesting aspects of all this footage is it reveals that parties/strategists firmly believe that opinion polls can be used for significant political advantage. 30575131
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The S4C public-service Welsh-language news managed to get through a whole interview feature and article on the same trans person denied healthcare without mentioning "biological sex" or a 29-year-old's lost breastfeeding opportunities, btw The BBC specifically is making a choice here 222983
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Iceland: EU membership negotiations referendum 🇮🇸 Polls suggest that the race between 'Yes' and 'No' is too close to call. Explore: europeelects.eu/2026/08/28/election… 2157
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈András Tóth-Czifra @minczifra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026'cause you've seen blue skies through the tears of your eyes and you realise you're going home Smooth sailing, Tim! What an awful week. 0224
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it. 2162641960
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Newyddion S4C @newyddion.s4c.cymru · 26/08/2026💔 Mae’r actor Tim Curry, oedd yn adnabyddus am ymddangos mewn ffilmiau fel The Rocky Horror Picture Show a Home Alone 2, wedi marw yn 80 oed 022
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 25/08/2026In New Zealand, a political storm over the voting system threatened the Prime Minister’s leadership. electoral-reform.org.uk/questioning-...electoral-reform.org.ukQuestioning New Zealand’s proportional system led to questions about the prime minister’s positionNew Zealand heads to the polls on November 7 and as a country with similar political traditions to the UK, it is always worth looking at what is happening. The parties that loosely mak 043
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 24/08/2026If you think this is not a problem, bc mail voting may not favor Democrats, or bc it's too late to affect voting, or any other argument related to the actual voting, you're missing the point. The point isn't to affect the results of the election, it's to create the conditions for contesting them. 13597186
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism 7280491680
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Seeing the Venn diagram of transphobes and defenders of race science is the least surprising thing this weekend. Maybe this helps illuminate the stupidity and danger of “it’s just biology” arguments around gender and sex. 113340
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This feels like a particularly insidious indicator of an unwinding social fabric. The hollowing out of American democracy and ascendancy of far right grifters is leading important social actors to think they don’t even have to pretend to follow basic norms anymore. 041
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Here's the paper - the abstract suggests that students who outsource their homework to AI later do worse on exams (which makes sense!) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comThe Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary EducationUsing 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine 7292114
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Britain's violently racist legacy media, abetted by social media, have successfully brainwashed the public into racist beliefs.theguardian.comPublic in England and Wales wrongly think most killers are minority ethnicResearch from King’s College London finds that Reform voters’ perceptions were furthest from the truth 10476210
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again. 3742461099
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn. 672601570
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Harry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Astonishing. The Press Association understands Essex Police did not tell Nigel Farage, or any other Clacton candidate, not to attend the count. This is after after his and Reform UK's claim Essex Police advised him against it due to a "credible threat". 691033304
Will 🏴🏳️🌈 @willdv2002.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Photo from friend with a better camera than I but it's happening!! 051
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Little piece from me for @arguablymag.bsky.social on why we Westminster electoral reform is more plausible now than it has been for generations www.arguably.uk/p/electoral-...arguably.ukElectoral reform has never been closerThe three key ingredients are now in place 1313863
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 06/08/202665:3 🐟️ Sore losers? 😓 @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @katerinamichalaki.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social use survey experiments after major U.S. elections to test whether reminding people of a party's loss, and their reactions to it 🤬, impacts their supportability 📣buff.lyAngry losers? The (null) effects of feeling electoral loss on anti-democratic attitudes | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreAngry losers? The (null) effects of feeling electoral loss on anti-democratic attitudes - Volume 65 Issue 3 0109
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/08/2026if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly. 713188739
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Euan @euan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026as we saw with Charlie Kirk it’s extremely notable that no fans of Rod Liddle include any of their favourite quotes from him in their tributes 6856177
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Our polling of Greater Manchester ahead of Thursday’s by-election shows Bev Craig holding a clear lead. First preference results: 🌹 LAB 39% ⏩ REF 19% 🟢 GREEN 14% 🌳 CON 12% 🔶 LIB DEM 8% 🔵 RESTORE 8% ⚪️ IND 1% N = 1,003 | Fieldwork 11-23/7 724363
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I bet there’s been lots of reporting of this. 411129
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 21/07/2026There are *5.7* effective parties in this damned two-party system! 12512
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 21/07/2026coalition builder final boss 1915326
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026One of Truss's worst legacies is to give the lobby an obsession with small moves in gilt prices. 1161099
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂 194136093863
Reposted by Will 🏴🏳️🌈Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 17/07/2026🗳️ Electoral Reform Alert 🗳️ Yesterday, the Italian Lower House approved a new electoral reform, now headed to the Senate. This would be the fifth major reform of the electoral system in Italy since 1993, and it could bring an even more radical right-wing party into the next government coalition. (1) 15229