Rummaging through the donations, it’s clear that much is unsaleable: a smelly, soiled bathrobe, tatty trainers, heavily bobbled jumpers, old socks, an empty Swarovski jewellery case. “Absolutely typical,” says Worley. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

‘People sell their best stuff on Vinted’ – how charity shops became a dumping ground for unsellable clothes

Swamped with ‘daily avalanches’ of soiled items and poor-quality fast fashion, secondhand stores are in crisis. What went wrong with people’s good intentions? And is it possible to donate more effecti...

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This is damning. So much could could have been done at the time, with what was known about COVID, and with what what resources we had. It’s hard not to read callous neglect into these findings. And that intentional neglect was layered with lies - like the “protective ring” - which did not exist.

Kit Yates@kityates.bsky.social · 12h ago

The Inquiry’s overarching judgement is that fragmented responsibility, ignored warnings, poor data and inadequate planning created conditions in which Covid could spread “like wildfire”. Social care’s neglect was longstanding. During the pandemic, its consequences became catastrophic.

I always suspected American evangelicals would spawn some new kind of heresy, but this is a particularly depressing one

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 10h ago

"A survey released Tuesday (Oct. 20) found that Republicans and evangelicals increasingly see empathy as a danger that can lead society away from God." religionnews.com/2026/10/20/a...

1/ This was one of my key concerns about the EHRC guidance and erasure of trans men and women. It appears it has already been happening. If you don't record that someone is trans when they die, you not only erase their identity, you erase them from future statistics. Not recording the death, or...

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 2d ago

We’ve been careful to only report that which we can stand by - the real story behind these numbers is how little information is being gathered.

Analysts “predict” Putin will cater Iran to Trump in exchange for Ukraine. You may have this illusion, if you ignore the fact that Russia lies, steals, and terrorizes. Whatever he offers now as a bait, will be long forgotten or claimed to be “lost in translation” soon after.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18h ago

Lavrov confirmed that Russia is returning/sending more civilian nuclear technicians to Iranian NPP Bushehr. I dare to suggest the war will be “settled” by Russia “guaranteeing” to ensure Iran “behaves””, without anyone actually controlling what’s going on. In return, US pressures Ukraine.

Apropos to the estrangement convo yesterday. Yikes.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 10h ago

🚨 VILE: Vivek Ramaswamy’s new attack ad against Amy Acton features her estranged mother, who stayed married to the man who sexually abused her daughter at age 12, even after his arrest. Now even conservatives are calling the ad disgusting. The horrifying story behind Vivek’s attack:

This is effectively the beginning of the end of the best public media production culture in the world. Brexit destroyed the entire country.

Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · 10h ago

NEW: BBC confirms BBC Three, BBC Scotland, Radio 4 Extra channels to go, but there is an even more worrying development. After all the cuts so far, the BBC is not even HALF WAY to its £500m savings target. Some big calls to come... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

So I recognise Jonathan Meades. And that’s Shaw Taylor from Police Five on the right. And, over on the left, that’s my nan.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h ago

Loving that she felt the need to point out that it's short

March 2021, right before Delta and Omicron arrived.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Many people sounded the alarm when Dr. Bhattacharya was nominated. But people like Princeton's Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee wrote a whole book lambasting his critics & holding him up as a hero. And the liberal pundit class ate it up. Shame on all of them. They thought they knew better. They did not.

"I have noticed that far fewer people have to sleep in their cars in parking-lots, so there's that, I guess..."

R@ersquare.bsky.social · 12h ago

“Say the line, Bart” 🎣

Oh not this again…

R@ersquare.bsky.social · 12h ago

“Say the line, Bart” 🎣

counterpoint: when I tax something, I get more tax revenue. Adam, your high school owes you a refund and a public apology.

Cato Institute@cato.org · yesterday

Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.

So the Covid enquiry has just announced that the protective care ring the Tories said they put up around care homes didn't exist [LBC News] When are people going to prison for all this?

New report is out today: Not Safe to Be Me: Young people's experiences of KCSIE and RSE 2026 in England, by Pride in Education and Cool2BTrans. Our report highlights the UK Government-sponsored harm being caused to trans kids in schools. Read it here:https: cool2btrans.co.uk/not-safe-to-...

Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson need to be charged with manslaughter or criminal negligence. web.archive.org/web/20261020...

Marianne: time for a walk! *unbuttons bodice* Mrs Bennet: everybody outside. Who knows how many eligible young men might be lurking under trees waiting to rescue you?

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 13h ago

Storm Austen has been named by the Met Office bringing disruptive wind and rain from late Thursday and into Friday. Read our full news release here➡️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

Usual BBC shite language but it's very clear the guy's a fucking dick.

Gender-critical Swindon teacher loses employment tribunal case

An employment tribunal finds against Kevin Lister, who refused to use a pupil's preferred pronouns.

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The UK has fewer front-line combat aircraft than the Saudis do. The RAF has just over 100 Typhoons. The Saudis have 72. But the Saudis also operate 80 Tornadoes, and over 200 F-15s.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 12h ago

UK to deploy fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks

OpenAthens library access down?

French Socialist Party mayor goes on radio to announce that riots are the work of an "extreme-left bazaar" allied with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Mafia. Not even a "Centrist", a Socialist. It's like they all WANT Le Pen to win.

Fabrice Riceputi@campvolant.bsky.social · 13h ago

Fred Sochard

Every Labour representative, official, member, and supporter should be made to explain why they think it's acceptable to endorse a party that does this.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 2d ago

The NHS knows that its new policy is going to harm patients, and it's doing it anyway. It is an active choice being made by this Labour government – don't let them pretend their hands are bound.

also this nails it. people have been quietly cutting off their horrid family members since the dawn of time, it just used to be easier to get away with it unnoticed before we had instantaneous global communication. bsky.app/profile/lasr...

Hipster Vampire Amy@lasrina.bsky.social · yesterday

Kind of hilarious how they’re acting like this is a brand new thing because Woke and not possibly part of the reason people have been fucking off across the sea in extremely fragile oceangoing vessels since the dawn of humanity, though

Today, in bars that never get higher, only lower...

The Bunker podcast – Your daily news Deep Dive@bunkerpod.bsky.social · 15h ago

No, we haven’t hit our heads… Yes, he led the Tories to their worst defeat. And pandered to the right with his Rwanda plan. But he also inherited the wreckage of Liz Truss’s 49 days in power. Sir Anthony Seldon joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to try and make the case for Sunak 📳 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

The height of the bar needed to show that you’re unacceptable on the right is so astronomically high. I’m old enough to remember people people arguing some kind of equivalence between press treatment of the right and left, but I don’t think anyone can that with a straight face now.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 16h ago

Strikes me that the Mail, along with other Tory title, seems to have made up its mind. Turns out it was only flirting with Reform, and now it's coming home to the Conservatives. #PartyInTheMedia

Decrim Now

Andrew Fisher@fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 18h ago

This has been obvious for a long time, and called for by sex workers for a long time for exactly this reason. It's a shame it's taken the horrific Simon Levy case to change policing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“We do protest in different ways…” yeah, heavily regulated by the government so they’re toothless and ineffectual, with the threat of being labelled a terrorist and everything that comes with that - reduced opportunities for employment and travel if you avoid incarceration.

Courtney Lovecraft 🐙@hexadecibelle.fyi · last yr.

Steven Poole’s Unspeak detailed that the worst thing to have attached to your name is “terrorist suspect”, as it’s something that never really leaves you. unlike other state security apparatus, you can’t be purged from lists they deny the existence of. we still all live in the shadow of 9/11 etc.

This anecdote is telling. It's all very well telling students to use AI like a personal tutor. But these tools (out of the box, anyway) are designed & trained to constantly try to do more for you than you ask. Not exactly a quality you need in a tutor. openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/ai-is-kill...

In the US at least, young boomer/old xer substance abuse has greatly increased (yes i mean abuse not use), which is not especially helpful for fostering quality relationships

Nelle from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her)@neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 15h ago

My childhood was actually pretty good as they go, but now my Dad is a perpetually stoned and mean-spirited old codger who never did a thing for his grandkids and called me a "Nancy Boy". What was I supposed to do?

This is one of the most overt examples of endless recycling in the fashosphere - The repeated telling of debunked lies about a targeted group (in this case trans people). Navratilova knows she is lying. It just doesn't matter in a facts-free grift of culture war bigotry.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 15h ago

"Tennis champion Martina Navratilova has scolded Parkrun, labelling it “disgusting and disgraceful” after an Australian transgender participant broke another record in the women’s category on the weekend." [Townsville Bulletin] Parkrun isn't a race. You don't even have to run. Dogs take part.