David En-Griffiths
@homodavien.bsky.social
Teach social science. Research interests: homosexuality, class, kinship and contemporary intimacies. He/they. Same @ on twitter, if you're wondering how I found you. My posts are SFW but my likes might have naked men in them, so be warned.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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As with everything: make these programs universally free. If you are deeply concerned that rich people are getting access to universal government programs, then tax their incomes or assets.
A family where both parents earn 99k get 30 “free” childcare hours a week and a family where one parent is on minimum wage and one earns 100k get no “free” childcare hours at all. It’s a dumb system and I imagine most high earners game it in some way.
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
As with everything: make these programs universally free. If you are deeply concerned that rich people are getting access to universal government programs, then tax their incomes or assets.
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Bloody hard work like “being in a whatsapp chat with your former private school mates”
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Bloody hard work like “being in a whatsapp chat with your former private school mates”
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Streeting doesn’t care. BMA is supporting doctors. Doctors & nurses deserve to have pay levels restored at least to the levels they were when Labour left power before.
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Streeting doesn’t care. BMA is supporting doctors. Doctors & nurses deserve to have pay levels restored at least to the levels they were when Labour left power before.
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Gee, it's almost as if porn — er, romantasy — can actually be an aid to explore your sexuality and increase sexual satisfaction.
It's almost as if talking about and celebrating sexuality is the solution, not repression and censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
It's almost as if talking about and celebrating sexuality is the solution, not repression and censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
Sex Had Become a Chore. Then They Started Reading Romantasy.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Gee, it's almost as if porn — er, romantasy — can actually be an aid to explore your sexuality and increase sexual satisfaction.
It's almost as if talking about and celebrating sexuality is the solution, not repression and censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
It's almost as if talking about and celebrating sexuality is the solution, not repression and censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
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The fact that More In Common edited Jo Cox’s very specific quote about migrant communities to a bland milquetoast idea about being nicer to each other remains extremely grim
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The fact that More In Common edited Jo Cox’s very specific quote about migrant communities to a bland milquetoast idea about being nicer to each other remains extremely grim
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I'm sorry but any report that uncritically says assets would be seized "to pay for" costs is just parroting government propaganda. Confiscations are dreamed up as a punitive deterrent, not a sincere attempt at a funding mechanism.
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I'm sorry but any report that uncritically says assets would be seized "to pay for" costs is just parroting government propaganda. Confiscations are dreamed up as a punitive deterrent, not a sincere attempt at a funding mechanism.
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Well it’s only organised in that people of colour and white people who have any sense can see that this is true John
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Well it’s only organised in that people of colour and white people who have any sense can see that this is true John
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my religion is that i'd like to believe when you die you have to actually Hear Yourself and then the damned will crawl into Hell of their own free will
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
my religion is that i'd like to believe when you die you have to actually Hear Yourself and then the damned will crawl into Hell of their own free will
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Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
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Some thoughts on income tax: People who don’t consider themselves particularly high earners - they’re middle class, maybe earning less than their peers - may feel fleeced by taxation because every pay rise is negligible impact.
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Some thoughts on income tax: People who don’t consider themselves particularly high earners - they’re middle class, maybe earning less than their peers - may feel fleeced by taxation because every pay rise is negligible impact.
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This plan must never be implemented. The justification for it is, as Bienkov states, blackmail. To which I would add moral cowardice.
You beat Reform by telling the truth, standing for what is right, and never compromising with evil. Ever.
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You beat Reform by telling the truth, standing for what is right, and never compromising with evil. Ever.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This plan must never be implemented. The justification for it is, as Bienkov states, blackmail. To which I would add moral cowardice.
You beat Reform by telling the truth, standing for what is right, and never compromising with evil. Ever.
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You beat Reform by telling the truth, standing for what is right, and never compromising with evil. Ever.
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Why are there so many students in the Storyhouse work space? It's Saturday! Don't you have day drinking to do or family to visit, or both?
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Why are there so many students in the Storyhouse work space? It's Saturday! Don't you have day drinking to do or family to visit, or both?
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The reason Streeting doesn’t want doctors and nurses to have salaries that reflect their skills and qualifications is that it makes it much harder to privatise the NHS.
'Don't tell me you don't want to be out on strike - because that is exactly where you are. Own it.'
As resident doctors walk out again, Wes Streeting calls out the 'reprehensible and cartel-like behaviour' of their union.
As resident doctors walk out again, Wes Streeting calls out the 'reprehensible and cartel-like behaviour' of their union.
November 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The reason Streeting doesn’t want doctors and nurses to have salaries that reflect their skills and qualifications is that it makes it much harder to privatise the NHS.
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You’ve fled a desperate situation and reach the UK and how are you supposed to build a life find a partner have kids etc if it is uncertain whether in a couple of years you’ll be shipped out.
Honestly might be one of the bleakest sentences I’ve read in a while
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You’ve fled a desperate situation and reach the UK and how are you supposed to build a life find a partner have kids etc if it is uncertain whether in a couple of years you’ll be shipped out.
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If you want to know how much this is about protecting women and children and how much of it is about surveillance and removing bodily autonomy from people then remember this is the party who are totally down with friend of Jeffery Epstein Peter Mandelson.
Hidden in the controversial about UK "choking ban" proposal are a host of even more egregious proposals that could:
* make camming illegal
* redefine escort ads as pimping
* render model contracts unenforceable
* criminalize discussions of teen sexuality
And a whole lot more ...
* make camming illegal
* redefine escort ads as pimping
* render model contracts unenforceable
* criminalize discussions of teen sexuality
And a whole lot more ...
Moral panic about rough sex gives way to censorship in the UK
British regulators and lawmakers are hot on a measure that would make possessing or publishing strangulation porn a crime.
reason.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
If you want to know how much this is about protecting women and children and how much of it is about surveillance and removing bodily autonomy from people then remember this is the party who are totally down with friend of Jeffery Epstein Peter Mandelson.
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The story of Goodwin's "radicalisation" has an exculpatory function, sparing the blushes of those who couldn't see the obvious problems with his output ten years ago. All that really happened with him is he became emboldened by the endless indulgence of people who really should have known better.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The story of Goodwin's "radicalisation" has an exculpatory function, sparing the blushes of those who couldn't see the obvious problems with his output ten years ago. All that really happened with him is he became emboldened by the endless indulgence of people who really should have known better.
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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Ten years in prison for tipping a cam model to masturbate.
The Crime and Policing Bill is working overtime to re-criminalize sex work ... which I guess will give them crime and more funds for policing.
The Crime and Policing Bill is working overtime to re-criminalize sex work ... which I guess will give them crime and more funds for policing.
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Ten years in prison for tipping a cam model to masturbate.
The Crime and Policing Bill is working overtime to re-criminalize sex work ... which I guess will give them crime and more funds for policing.
The Crime and Policing Bill is working overtime to re-criminalize sex work ... which I guess will give them crime and more funds for policing.
The panic that young people using social media is inherently dangerous is very reminiscent of the panic over Dungeons and Dragons in the 80s and 90s. It's essentially about ongoing parental panic founded in the inability of parents to see inside the minds of their children.
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The panic that young people using social media is inherently dangerous is very reminiscent of the panic over Dungeons and Dragons in the 80s and 90s. It's essentially about ongoing parental panic founded in the inability of parents to see inside the minds of their children.
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They going to haul in the McCanns too for their neglect? Of course they aren’t.
I'm sorry but what the fuck were these poor people supposed to do? Go to the police and say "my son has bought a knife I think he's going to do something bad"?
And what would the police do?
Nothing. No crime had been committed at that point.
This is a filthy witch hunt.
And what would the police do?
Nothing. No crime had been committed at that point.
This is a filthy witch hunt.
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
They going to haul in the McCanns too for their neglect? Of course they aren’t.
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What Streeting did to trans people, he'd do to every other marginalised, disenfranchised & down on their luck group in Britain.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What Streeting did to trans people, he'd do to every other marginalised, disenfranchised & down on their luck group in Britain.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
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A sitting MP in the midst of a multi-day social media crashout over the alleged dangers of phones in schools telling *other people* to touch grass is just perfect.
Look, we all know who has the disordered relationship to social media and it's not the trans girl who was brutally murdered in a park.
Look, we all know who has the disordered relationship to social media and it's not the trans girl who was brutally murdered in a park.
You're genuinely deranged if you think I believe either of Brianna's killers deserve less than the life sentences they were both handed, or that I think Brianna was in any way at fault for her own murder.
I'm supporting her mum, who is a constituent, which is... my job.
Go and touch grass.
I'm supporting her mum, who is a constituent, which is... my job.
Go and touch grass.
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A sitting MP in the midst of a multi-day social media crashout over the alleged dangers of phones in schools telling *other people* to touch grass is just perfect.
Look, we all know who has the disordered relationship to social media and it's not the trans girl who was brutally murdered in a park.
Look, we all know who has the disordered relationship to social media and it's not the trans girl who was brutally murdered in a park.
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wes streeting: im obviously a complete sack of shit.
british media: wes streeting put in a strong performance on the news rounds this morning. cor, boy, it sure would be great if he was prime minister! don't you agree joe public! don't you want wes! phew, wes is great isn't he?!
british media: wes streeting put in a strong performance on the news rounds this morning. cor, boy, it sure would be great if he was prime minister! don't you agree joe public! don't you want wes! phew, wes is great isn't he?!
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
wes streeting: im obviously a complete sack of shit.
british media: wes streeting put in a strong performance on the news rounds this morning. cor, boy, it sure would be great if he was prime minister! don't you agree joe public! don't you want wes! phew, wes is great isn't he?!
british media: wes streeting put in a strong performance on the news rounds this morning. cor, boy, it sure would be great if he was prime minister! don't you agree joe public! don't you want wes! phew, wes is great isn't he?!