Also, tell your friends! Friends don't let friends go without free literature.

Onisillos@onisillos.bsky.social · 4w ago

This your reminder to follow @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social for interesting clinical microbiology and infectious diseases work. It's all open access so it's all you can eat. Below is a list of papers just published today.

I agree with this. Everyone experienced it and we have not processed it. As well as personal trauma (my dad’s wake limited to 15) The lack of care, the blatant profiteering, the mismanagement was an enormous reminder that our lives are cheap in the face of keeping the capitalist machine rolling.

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last mo.

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

It’s 30 degrees in my bedroom right now 🥵

One of the things I love about politics is the way it's always fucking terrible

Stop scrolling and post 2 characters who bring you happiness. *IYKYK

Onisillos@onisillos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Stop scrolling and post 2 characters who bring you happiness.

Goodbye and good riddance.

Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Britain's Juries

Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.

you.38degrees.org.uk

Oh boy. This book has aged *so* well since I first read it as a baby law student in 2005. Please write an updated version for these mad times @HelenaKennedyKC 🙏🏻

I actually think Count Binface finally getting into parliament makes sense for our timeline

Alex Selby-Boothroyd@alexselbyb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not even the worst political chart I've seen

I’ve had enough.

Current status: I’ve reached the point where my underboob sweat can restore all the water AI has wasted. I will never take cool breeze for granted ever again.

📢 Whoever the next PM is (paging @andyburnham.bsky.social), please urgently invest more money in adapting our public infrastructure for extreme heat. Britain is a hot country now, and it's time our transport, homes, schools and public spaces reflected that reality. Please and thank you 🙏🏻

"To report this as “Britain’s immigration tensions arriving in Northern Ireland” is to miss that Northern Ireland built its own apparatus for this work a century ago, only now it is pointed at someone new." very good by @rebekahmccabe.bsky.social rebekahmccabe.substack.com/p/legitimate...

Legitimate concerns

How not to talk about a pogrom

rebekahmccabe.substack.com

If you don’t invite me to your group chats or communities, I will feel extreme rejection. If you do invite me, I’ll feel very loved, but probably won’t show up

No tragedy should be exploited to justify racist violence. Everyone deserves to feel safe in their home and neighbourhood. Our thoughts are with everyone affected by Monday's horrific stabbing, and with the migrant, refugee and minoritised communities targeted by the subsequent violence in Belfast.

The scenes in Belfast last night were disgraceful. Families were targeted because of their skin colour or country of origin, leaving people frightened, homeless and fearing for their safety. The actions of one individual must never be used to stigmatise an entire community, nationality or faith.

Sometimes I feel like I’m losing the plot. Peaceful protests against genocide are branded ‘hate marches’, yet masked men engaging in violent disorder & setting buildings on fire are apparently ‘not extremists’. They're just ‘expressing their fears’. 🤯 Quote from Farage

🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Eco-Socialist Economic: strongly collectivist Social: progressive Sovereignty: strongly cosmopolitan Military: anti-interventionist Authority: libertarian Constitutional: reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

Leave Andy Burnham alone. After Boris Johnson’s white-shirt jogging era, I appreciate a politician who respects breathable fabrics and proper running form 🏃🏻🙌🏻

I know some people wonder why Starmer is so widely disliked. In part it is because of this. Under Starmer Labour has continued attacks on basic rights, especially for trans and non-binary individuals, and making it harder for LGBTQIA+ people to seek asylum. rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/countries/un...

Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A cause for national shame. This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe. Until 2015, the UK was top. We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe. We're now near Albania.

Here is Garden Court Chambers' statement on the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC for contempt of court. gardencourtchambers.co.uk/garden-court...

Garden Court Statement - Rajiv Menon KC | Garden Court Chambers

Rajiv Menon KC, a highly respected silk at Garden Court Chambers and a former head of chambers, is facing proceedings for contempt of court. The alleged contempt concerns a closing speech that Rajiv d...

gardencourtchambers.co.uk

Incredible speech by Rajiv Menon KC in the Palestine Action trial. Such clarity and ferocity! Thank you to @jonathan-cook.bsky.social for this: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...

Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge

Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action's proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is a vital last defence against government tyranny

jonathancook.substack.com

As is now painfully obvious, political centrism (government by neoliberal technocrats) is in its final death throes. The only beneficiary of their demise is the racist, nativist, xenophobic, idiot-right. The only viable alternative to the catastrophe of their rise is an avowedly antifascist left.

Today. Tomorrow. Always.

I’m not sure there is a bleaker - or older - phenomenon in politics than desperate voters turning to charlatans and bigots for change. Reform councillors will do nothing to help someone’s elderly Mum get social care or keep the local library open for kids. And Farage is laughing his arse off.

waking up and reading about the results of the locals and feeling very

Embracing racism is not a way to restore pride, it’s a way to restore racism. It’s not a path to glory, it’s a path to repressed shame and having to lie to yourself, ever more desperately, about who you’ve become.