Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H2 people admitting their error.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 53m ago

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Two things here: 1. It's not centrism, it's literal censorship when a state broadcaster (w/ Royal Charter) digitally alters and disseminates an image/message it doesn't like

Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@mxmike.co.uk · 7h ago

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Content warning: Rupturing of rotting (possibly Nazi) Pope corpse.

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 5h ago

It was, if the spirit of Iain Banks will forgive me, the day the pope exploded. Well, to be strictly accurate, today is the 68th anniversary of the day a botched embalming saw Pius XII’s rotting torso break open while he was lying in state. (Yes, sorry. This thread is absolutely disgusting)

for some reason I just recalled this spectacularly inept piece of work

Yet 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...

Surgeon faces deportation as Home Office revokes refugee status for Syrians

UK classifies Syria as safe to return to despite UN refugee body’s advice

theguardian.com

The BBC charter section 6.4: "...the BBC should accurately and authentically represent and portray the lives of the people of the United Kingdom today, and raise awareness of the different cultures and alternative viewpoints that make up its society"

Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@mxmike.co.uk · 7h ago

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

The reason we were "less glued to our smart phone" in the 90s, Mr BBC newsreader, is that smart phones didn't exist at the time, as you should be able to remember

This is appalling. You can't let ppl build their lives here for 10 years then just throw them out! Its immoral!

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6h ago

Surgeon faces deportation as Home Office revokes refugee status for Syrians

150-mile round trip to see family yesterday. Every major road we drove on had sections that had been corrugated by subsidence since the summer, presumably now in need of a complete rebuild. Every one. I presume everywhere is like this now. Has anyone even begun to calculate the cost?

Nothing to add really … 👇🏽

Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 17h ago

This article offers half a dozen reasons why people have stopped having friends and family over, but it ignores the fact that the women who planned parties and kept homes tidy enough for unplanned guests are now working for pay full-time (usually more than 9-5). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Reform spending a big chunk of their dubious £££ on 15m copies of an 8 page newspaper edited by former "Revolutionary Communist " Mick Hume is a gratifying piss-that-money-up-the-wall move

Andy Burnham says UK authorities are “clear” there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum as @catneilan.bsky.social reports in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...

The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum

observer.co.uk

MICHAEL GOVE'S EX-GIRLFRIEND ARRESTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGES

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 7h ago

Okay

are we going to talk about how the mail has pulled this article (2nd) or just move past it as everybody tends to do

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 7h ago

Okay

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

Micah@rincewind.run · 2d ago

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money “Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.”

By far not the worst thing about this report, but, Beeb, that's not what "inferred" means.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 6h ago

Woman racially abused while working for West Berkshire Council awarded £15k

The really worrying finding in this research is that 37% of UK adults believe in the Great Replacement theory

Maria Sale@mariasale8.bsky.social · 7h ago

I think we all knew this, but good to have research backing it up. Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Another reminder that a foundational element of Western myth is super gay.

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 16h ago

"But Achilles wanted glory!" No, he didn't. He very explicitly says, "fuck this, I hate Agamemnon, and I'm going home," until Patroclus dies. The entire point of the poem is his rage and grief. Can anyone read a fucking book, holy shit.

Because nothing says “sensible thinking” better than appeasing irredentist nationalism against the frequently expressed wishes of all the actual inhabitants of a place…

The New World@thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 8h ago

If you ask Brits what they think about the islands no one seems to care and if you ask Argentinians, they care a hell of a lot. So doesn’t it make sense? ✏️ Gary Nunn

he has done this before and i am not terribly worried over another two-day spurt of it even with the nasty diesel deal (we'll see where it goes from here) but this is, again, an impeachable offense

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

Give Elon Musk and a stupid AI all your credit card details. What could possibly go wrong? (Also it really should be a felony to even suggest this)

Ah, AI debt binge, we barely knew ye - www.ft.com/content/9c13...

AI borrowing slows as investors grow wary of debt binge

Appetite for financing infrastructure boom is tested after months of record-breaking bond issuance

ft.com

Mad reactionaries would rather imagine shrinking the economy by a fifth and watching the country physically disintegrate than admit that the public sector is good and useful.

Alan Lester@alanlester.bsky.social · 7h ago

Interesting that @thetimes.com frames public sector pay as a sink for taxpayers’ money rather than having any positive or multiplier effects. We’re talking about living wages for over 6m Britons, 18% of the workforce.

Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social on a deathly erotics at the heart of NAZA mondoweiss.net/2026/10/shoo...

Just a reminder: 163 articles were published on Jason Arday in the week after he resigned. Same outlets: 13 articles on Cambridge academic James Orr after allegations of misconduct & a broadcast showing him seemingly engaging in illegal activity. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

bylinetimes.com

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · yesterday

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

LOL cos that’s not what they mean when they say “Christian”…

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10h ago

Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 17h ago

Republican US Rep Brian Fitzgerald tweets that he will introduce a bill to block purchases of Russian oil. Don Bacon (R-Neb) tweets that he will co-sponsor. Obviously this won’t happen during campaigning recess (and Trump could veto anyway) but interesting push-back on Trump.