Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

"Shabana Mahmood staying as Home Secretary to presumably continue her appalling record of performative cruelty towards migrants and refugees is a warning sign that Burnham has not learnt the lessons from Starmer's failure," says Zack Polanski

Good. Now uphold the right to choose a jury trial, restore protest rights, and curb mass live facial recognition. The toolkit for tyrants Labour is building is a huge risk to democracy and must be reversed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’

Incoming PM will reallocate unspecified resources from unpopular plan to helping with cost of living

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Art by Svetoslav Petrov

The polar opposite reactions here to the deaths of Sam Neill and Lindsey Graham are such a reminder that we all have a choice whether to live our lives in a way that brings joy or misery to those around us. I think if you’re remembered fondly as Sam Neill is today, you’ve pretty much won at life.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

God but I jump for joy when a new episode drops. 😍

Avery Trufelman@trufelman.bsky.social · 4w ago

I was shocked by the fashion trends I saw in China. Especially because I love them and I think we will all be wearing them. But people are dressing in style that is hundreds of years old. new episode: articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/the-prince...

The nation calls on its hero in its hour of need, we need you Count Binface, you’re our only hope

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

Hachette Book Group employees win election for largest union in trade publisher history | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

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Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · last mo.

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

I do love waking up in the morning and seeing a bunch of people posting "trans rights are human rights" and "I love trans people" and knowing some fuckass bullshit has gone down. Happy last day of pride

Okay, UKsters, the media is useless re: extreme heat, so let’s do this. I’m from Southern California, spent the last ten years living outside Seattle, which has a similar climate to Scotland, where I am now. Here’s what I know. 1. Heat exhaustion and sickness are no fucking joke. Do not tempt them.

Just as I was thinking, “You know what this murderous heatwave needs? Humidity.”

Extreme temperatures are expected in the UK this week ☀️🌡️ But what are the rules about working in the heat? unsn.uk/hotweather

I think it's time for the yearly "how to deal with extreme heat" thread. Please reskeet and comment with advice.

Innocent🕷Abroad@jjgass.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To translate this into American, London is projected to go over 100 degrees next week. That had never happened anywhere in this country in recorded history until 2003. Three years ago, we hit 40 C (104 F) for the first time ever; now, we might do it again. And we're so not ready for it.

So proud of my branch representation here!! 💚💜

UNISON@unison.org.uk · 2mo ago

‘Conference, we are in the fight of our lives’ UNISON sets course for the next stage of its campaign against Reform UK #uNDC26 unison.org.uk/news/2026/06...

I cannot WAIT for this 👀🍿

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I keep hearing that "The Body Keeps The Score" has helped to destigmatize trauma but it consistently describes rape victims in stigmatizing terms: - "Obese and aggressive" - "Lacking in self-protection" - "Frozen and uptight"

RIP to my all time favorite TV dad, and blessed be Anthony Stewart Head.

The Non-Toxic Masculinity of Rupert Giles

My favorite stories are genre stories, which are full of orphans and kids who grow up to find out that dad is Darth Vader, or tragic waifs who know that Dad was a villain all along. The first time …

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RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969–2026), and thank you for Persepolis. ❤️‍🩹

I'm so fucking tired of seeing my trans friends have to think about bathrooms and access to care and just being able to be alive. I want them to be able to just post happy sundress selfies and shitposts about estrogen or whatever. The world is worse for there being less trans joy.

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

Reading Black River Orchard and I don’t think I’ve ever read a description of an apple that’s simultaneously so enticing and so damn menacing. (Also, the historical/botanical research on this one is THOROUGH). Dang, @chucktingle.bsky.social - love it!! 🍎🍏🪰

Friends, I turn to you in desperation. My son is getting married next Saturday June 6th in Newbury and their photographer has just cancelled. They're not keen on the replacement's style, ideally they're looking for 'rawness and magazine cover' style pics. PLZ IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WHO CAN HELP?

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

blair@blairaf.com · 2mo ago

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

everything in the discourse about AI now is just such a stark reminder of how many people in positions of power sucker women into shit like crypto and sports betting by implying that they're behind the men in some way and it makes them seem less competent - as opposed to more discerning

The team naming Apres nail colors have earned (a) a significant raise and (b) concerned check ins from friends and family

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome