Ben Evans

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas but everyone agrees it's fine to continue the atrocity as long as the child is trans

Inside the Home Office: 'Hostile culture and Kafkaesque chaos' Immigration is the most divisive issue in British politics. Our Writer at Large talks to the Home Office insider blowing the whistle on government…

‘They hire McDonalds staff to decide deportation cases’

I talk to Home Office insider turned whistleblower Nicola Kelly. She tells me how politicians deliberately broke the UK asylum system & why small boat arrivals are a reckoning with Britain for its colonial past

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Shona Murray: Powerful countries no longer bother with international norms Europe appears to have accepted the law of the jungle supplanted by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, writes Shona Murray

If 176 children were slaughtered in their classrooms in Dublin, Brussels, Berlin, Tel Aviv or Texas by a foreign adversary, the world would rightfully be at a standstill.

- Shona Murray

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... @shonamurray.bsky.social

Gaza Eyewitnesses Film Screening London Palestine Film Festival, in collaboration with Centre for Palestine Studies, presents 'Gaza Eyewitnesses'.

Tomorrow at SOAS
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaza-eyewi...

It's fairly well-established that Charles Windsor is a bisexual submissive with a thing for older, dominant women.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without singing them, was often a woman.
#VirginiaWoolf #ARoomOfOnesOwn
#InternationalWomensDay

We have destroyed something by our presence, a world perhaps.

~Virginia Woolf (The Waves)

[Stèle avec lune by Anna-Eva Bergman]

When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.

The hypocrisy of outrage for only some children not all children being violently killed is unbearable.

On International Women’s Day a reminder that my Alice had a mother and a sister and grannies, aunts, girl friends and girl cousins.

They all loved her as a woman.

When the transphobes say they speak for all women and are protecting women and girls, they are wrong.

Important milestone in ankle healing - I now have sufficient strength and flexibility back that I can resume my lavatorial-assistance duties for His Lordship.

It turns out "the SNP but way more transphobic" is not a viable electoral offering

Strong statement from President Connolly says Ireland cannot afford inaction on violations of international law #IWD

me a year ago:oh this cat wants to drink from the faucet so cute lemme run it fir him he deserves a little treat

me now: so if I run to the sink and fill up a glass really really fast in one motion maybe I can get some water before he gets here?

Judge Reine Sophie Alapini-Gansou, sanctioned along with colleagues for doing their job at the International Criminal Court.
*The US and Russia both attack her*

The Green party is full of strong inspirational women, and has mostly been built by them. We have strong clear policy for ensuring women are represented, and we have an inclusive definition of women that supports trans rights. Happy International Women's Day

Grateful to Facebook memories for reminding me of the promotional email I received from Adidas a few years back.

While I understand that they wanted a St Patrick's Day promotion I'd suggest that choosing the colours of black and tan was the best idea...

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.

AI research:

Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers.

Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats.

Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Humanity runs on spite lmao

Labour making the right sounds then...

And they wonder why people with a moral compass are flocking to the Greens.

Here's something which could claim to be in bucket 2: www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper... - Donald Knuth reporting on a conjecture of his that someone used Claude to solve - by generating code that seems to work for a given graph rank & then a human proves that type of cycle works in general

Nirvana w/St. Vincent - "Lithium" | 2014 Induction YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

This is awesome - Annie Clark (St Vincent) & Nirvana performing Lithium - www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM9s...

How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

UK democracy in action

The state unable/unwilling to provide people with clean water, timely healthcare, social care, decent housing, pension, affordable education, energy, decent roads.

Corporate profits guaranteed through PFI, privatisations, outsourcing, subsidies, regulatory inaction.

I wish this quote wasn’t still so relevant

Thanks for the assist - I thought I'd already blocked that fucking guy. Fixed now.

I think it's fair for you to point out that the Tories would never have enacted those (although I don't think for 1 sec we'll get votes at 16). But this is very thin soup - given the size of the Lab majority a great deal more could've been done to improve things & there seems to be a crisis of will

Sarah Elisabeth Goode (1855 – April 8, 1905) was an American entrepreneur and inventor. She was one of the first known African American women to receive a United States patent, which she received in 1885 for her folding cabinet bed. #CelebratingWomen

Destroying trans people's rights and safety; feeding UK creative industries (one of British industry's actual crown jewels) into the woodchipper for pennies from Silicon Valley; regressive attacks on the right to protest; an approach to migration that tries to out-Reform Reform.