John Berry he/him

@thejohnberry.bsky.social

One of the people of Beorma and a bit sweary. Fellow traveller of the Binface Party. If you want to follow me please have some original posts and don't have an account started yesterday. Just block me if you think Labour are left bloc.

The Interpretation of Dreams (1927) brought words to the canvas, deliberately mislabelling objects to expose the gap between seeing and naming. This foundational idea would later influence his famous work, The Treachery of Images (1929). #artbots #magritte

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Speaking as someone who will be killed by one of the coming heatwaves or pandemics, there are some selfish pricks around.

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

Fuck me people are all over Insta saying it's terrible for Clacton constituency to be turned into a circus. V hot take but perhaps the c 33k people who didn't vote should have turned out and stopped the racists voting for the grifter who won on c 21k votes. Sorry for those who did vote sensibly.

Clacton constituency 2024 results

UCU are not affiliated to the Labour Party (and therefore does not attend women’s conference) but if we were then we would be supporting this stance by our brilliant sister unions. Solidarity to them and the whole trans and non binary community.

EXCLUSIVE: Powerful Labour unions will boycott the party's women's conference this year in protest at the ban on trans women.

Unison, Aslef, Usdaw and the Musicians Union will not attend Labour Women's Conference in September over the exclusion of trans women from formal business at the event.

The unions are among Labour's largest financial backers and say the all-women event in Liverpool breaches their policies on trans inclusion.

1/ Why I won't be voting Green again. A thread. I voted Green in this year's local elections, in GE24, and for West Midlands mayor. (I voted Labour for PCC because it was a straight choice between Labour and Conservative). But in the past year I've gone from being a member of the Green Party

I find it easier to believe Count Binface hails from planet Sigma IX and is a 5,900-year-old ‘intergalactic space warrior’ than Farage’s attempts to explain away all the millions that he and his party have banked. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Police investigate payments to Reform UK first revealed by The Guardian

Scotland Yard is looking at two £250,000 donations to the party by Britain Means Business before the 2024 election

theguardian.com