The Spanish Flu “came out of a vaccine lab” 10 years before anyone knew flu was a virus and 80 years before the first vaccine.

Bad Medical Takes@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · last mo.

Nothing will satisfy anti-immigration campaigners. So we should give them nothing.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

In the Telegraph, Alison Pearson says the Home Secretary has "as good as declared war on the British people" & calls for fury. The accusation of declaring war is about working with UNHCR on opening a refugee sponsorship scheme www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06...

if congo pull this off i want the british museum empty by midnight

They say the winning teams always grow into a tournament, which is why England are now playing like confused pensioners with back pain.

The good news is that England will avoid France until the final. The bad news is that England will avoid France… until the final.

Who the hell is making these decisions? IO just launched arguably the most successful game of the year so far… and XBox respond by bailing out of the studio’s next project. On Microsoft’s current form though, this is probably *good* news for IO.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Xbox confirms to Bloomberg News that it has pulled out of IO Interactive's 'Project Fantasy' video game. “We expect to invest about the same in content as we did last year. What's changing is where we're investing and the kinds of projects we're backing.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just off the top of my head… What if a young person needs mental health support *because* they lost their job or are otherwise unable to work? What if the best route back to work for a young person would involve receiving mental health support *first*? What then Andy? You fucking ghoul.

Labour’s approach to their leader is no different to their approach to policy. Superficial change designed solely to preserve the broken status quo.

There is no 10-year-plan to improve the country. “10 years” is how long they think Burnham can maintain the broken status quo; how long he can get away with pointless tinkering, falsely presented as change; how long they can do the bare minimum and lie about it. They are, of course, wrong.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last mo.

Andy Burnham confirming he won't take our key infrastructure back into public ownership.

Avoided the AC debate so far, but it seems to boil down to this: EUROPE: It’s too hot! USA: Just get AC, lol EUROPE: We have it, but not everyone has that option (logistics, buildings, landlords, cost, etc…) & the real problem is climate change. USA: Why do you weirdos hate AC?! Your so dumb.

Don’t normally put people on blast OR have any confidence in bluesky moderation - but making an exception for this ableist pillock.

jk rowling is still palling around with fellow transphobe kaeley triller on twitter, who admitted to the statutory rape of a minor under her care when she was working as a youth counsellor. rowling knows this because she blocks people who tell her

The best analogy to the conversion therapy Bill would be a Bill that banned smacking children "unless the adult believed that the little blighter deserved it."

You’ve essenced your last Evan…

Scornflake Grrrl@scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · last mo.

You panicked! at your last disco

Under today’s massively PR’d draft bill banning LGBT conversion therapy, Alan Turing never underwent conversion therapy. Because it was done by the State for his own wellbeing. 🥸🫪 Same now for trans people. Pink-washing garbage.

The Conversion Practices Bill is transparently designed to serve 3 purposes: 1) A set of guidelines for how to legally abuse LGBTQ+ people 2) A mechanism for criminalising gender affirming care 3) A shameless dogwhistle to Labour’s fellow bigots that still lets them claim otherwise to the public

I've spent years working towards a ban on conversion practices, hoping to see a bill published. Today, I just feel so profoundly sad. As many others have noted, the draft has a carve out for "healthcare" so broad it makes a mockery of the idea this is a 'ban'. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Conversion practices draft bill

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Burnham will do things* better than Starmer. *pandering to fascists; destroying the Labour Party; etc…

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last mo.

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?

By April 2029 every video game will contain at least one Nicholas Cage.

Vampire Survivors 🧄@vampire.poncle.games · last mo.

super awkward... nikolas kage is being added to Vampire Survivors on June 26th...

A major scandal has broken out in Norway at NBTK, the national gender clinic that has notoriously limited access to care. Researchers, including SEGM affiliate Anne Wæhre, engaged in substantial misconduct and ethical violations in their research on trans people. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/43RE...

He did the meme

Stanley Pignal@spignal.bsky.social · last mo.

A lot of people left X for Bluesky because of the tone of the discourse there (I wasn't one of them, as it happens). But do be aware that angry lefties aren't above personal insults. If your answer is "oh but you said something I disagree with online", it might be worth rethinking a few things.

Folks - stop engaging with this prick. He’s an obvious troll wilfully contradicting himself in countless different threads. Nothing he says is in good faith. He just wants attention and engagement so the algorithm spreads his bullshit further - block him and move on.

The Old Cabinet is dying, and the New Cabinet struggles to be born: now is the time of ministers

No he didn’t, you deluded fool. The Tories were loathed and people voted Labour as only option to get them out. Then you idiots decided to govern as Red Tories (and, in many ways, somehow became even worse). And you act mystified now everyone loathes you too.

Darren Jones MP@darrenpjones.bsky.social · last mo.

Keir brought our party back from the brink after 14 years in opposition. He did so because the public trusted us on the economy and on national security, and because they voted for our manifesto. We mustn’t forget the lessons of our successive defeats and why and how we won only two years ago.

keir starmer is a good lesson in intersectionality because everyone has at least one reason to dislike him but most people have multiple overlapping reasons so they really hate him, and then old white guys are just out there like wow not sure where all this hostility is coming from

If you think Keir Starmer is a 'decent' person, you need to speak to the many, many minorities his government has targeted mercilessly. You can't speak to all of them, however, because many of them are dead because of choices Keir Starmer's government made

The UK has had 7 different Prime Ministers in 10years: 1) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 2) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 3) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 4) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 5) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 6) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 7) Useless, lying right-wing bigot