Siân Pearce
@sianp.bsky.social
Public law solicitor, children's rights researcher
Geekery various.
"Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023)
https://linktr.ee/SianP
Geekery various.
"Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023)
https://linktr.ee/SianP
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Once again, I am forced to highlight the OUTRAGEOUS INJUSTICE that so far NOT A SINGLE UNIVERSITY has invited me to give a speech about how amazing cats are.
This is FREE SPEECH CRISIS. I am being SILENCED.
I expect a flood of invitations to be arrving imminently.
This is FREE SPEECH CRISIS. I am being SILENCED.
I expect a flood of invitations to be arrving imminently.
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Once again, I am forced to highlight the OUTRAGEOUS INJUSTICE that so far NOT A SINGLE UNIVERSITY has invited me to give a speech about how amazing cats are.
This is FREE SPEECH CRISIS. I am being SILENCED.
I expect a flood of invitations to be arrving imminently.
This is FREE SPEECH CRISIS. I am being SILENCED.
I expect a flood of invitations to be arrving imminently.
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The Super Bowl outrage on Twitter reminds me of one of the earliest supposed “legitimate concerns” touted about London - that if you travelled on the Tube you would hear people speaking languages other than English /1
February 10, 2026 at 8:12 AM
The Super Bowl outrage on Twitter reminds me of one of the earliest supposed “legitimate concerns” touted about London - that if you travelled on the Tube you would hear people speaking languages other than English /1
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Those must be big shoes to fill
February 10, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Those must be big shoes to fill
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🚨Earned settlement consultation ends Thursday🚨
Proposed changes risk pushing hundreds of thousands of children into poverty and destroying lives.
We have created guidance on how to tell the government we need a genuinely fairer system.
www.migrantvoice.org/img/upload/J...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Proposed changes risk pushing hundreds of thousands of children into poverty and destroying lives.
We have created guidance on how to tell the government we need a genuinely fairer system.
www.migrantvoice.org/img/upload/J...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.migrantvoice.org
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 AM
🚨Earned settlement consultation ends Thursday🚨
Proposed changes risk pushing hundreds of thousands of children into poverty and destroying lives.
We have created guidance on how to tell the government we need a genuinely fairer system.
www.migrantvoice.org/img/upload/J...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Proposed changes risk pushing hundreds of thousands of children into poverty and destroying lives.
We have created guidance on how to tell the government we need a genuinely fairer system.
www.migrantvoice.org/img/upload/J...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Wow yeh how would you prove this?
February 10, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Wow yeh how would you prove this?
I very much enjoyed reading that, and emerged relatively unscathed!
I think you hit the nail on the head in terms of the 'horror' of the film, it's the desperation evident in the characters that really got to me, in the face of zero options.
I am loving the essay series.
I think you hit the nail on the head in terms of the 'horror' of the film, it's the desperation evident in the characters that really got to me, in the face of zero options.
I am loving the essay series.
February 10, 2026 at 10:45 AM
I very much enjoyed reading that, and emerged relatively unscathed!
I think you hit the nail on the head in terms of the 'horror' of the film, it's the desperation evident in the characters that really got to me, in the face of zero options.
I am loving the essay series.
I think you hit the nail on the head in terms of the 'horror' of the film, it's the desperation evident in the characters that really got to me, in the face of zero options.
I am loving the essay series.
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Sam Langsdale’s book “Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics” won the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society. While many books about representation catalog problematic elements, Langsdale searches for progressive alternatives. 1/8
February 7, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Sam Langsdale’s book “Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics” won the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society. While many books about representation catalog problematic elements, Langsdale searches for progressive alternatives. 1/8
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BTW creating all-women kill teams in Warhammer is both fun AND a non-obvious/preachy way to get teen boys to stop automatically gendering based on role.
The first time you hear them self-correct:
"Shooting at him... her... with my heavy bolter" is 👌
(The heavy bolter damage is less fun)
The first time you hear them self-correct:
"Shooting at him... her... with my heavy bolter" is 👌
(The heavy bolter damage is less fun)
The final outcome of my quest for an easy blonde hair combo with citadel paints.
I now have a very Swedish-looking, all-women Navy Breachers Kill Team.
"För kejsaren!"
I now have a very Swedish-looking, all-women Navy Breachers Kill Team.
"För kejsaren!"
February 10, 2026 at 10:27 AM
BTW creating all-women kill teams in Warhammer is both fun AND a non-obvious/preachy way to get teen boys to stop automatically gendering based on role.
The first time you hear them self-correct:
"Shooting at him... her... with my heavy bolter" is 👌
(The heavy bolter damage is less fun)
The first time you hear them self-correct:
"Shooting at him... her... with my heavy bolter" is 👌
(The heavy bolter damage is less fun)
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love to see my people keeping it weird
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM
love to see my people keeping it weird
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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
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Poverty is a political choice
Lower-income families face 137-year wait for living standards to double, says UK thinktank
Lower-income families face 137-year wait for living standards to double, says UK thinktank
Two decades of weak pay growth have left poorer households stuck, Resolution Foundation says, fuelling political unease
It would take 137 years for lower-income families in the UK to see their living standards double at the current rate of growth, according to a thinktank.
A two-decade stagnation in disposable incomes has created a “mood of unease” across the country, the Resolution Foundation says, warning of the risk of “further political disruption” unless pay growth accelerates. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Poverty is a political choice
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“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Over 300,000 children already living in the UK could face 5–10 extra years before they can settle permanently.
Changing the rules mid-journey will likely increase child poverty. Latest from us 🔗 www.ippr.org/articles/far-from-settled-the-governments-earned-settlement-consultation
Changing the rules mid-journey will likely increase child poverty. Latest from us 🔗 www.ippr.org/articles/far-from-settled-the-governments-earned-settlement-consultation
February 9, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Over 300,000 children already living in the UK could face 5–10 extra years before they can settle permanently.
Changing the rules mid-journey will likely increase child poverty. Latest from us 🔗 www.ippr.org/articles/far-from-settled-the-governments-earned-settlement-consultation
Changing the rules mid-journey will likely increase child poverty. Latest from us 🔗 www.ippr.org/articles/far-from-settled-the-governments-earned-settlement-consultation
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![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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🥹 this is what the internet is for 🥲
February 10, 2026 at 8:27 AM
🥹 this is what the internet is for 🥲
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Humane and sensible approaches to asylum policy.
No doubt Starmer and Mahmood will be picking up the phone to @alfdubs.bsky.social to discuss any day now…
Humane and sensible approaches to asylum policy.
No doubt Starmer and Mahmood will be picking up the phone to @alfdubs.bsky.social to discuss any day now…
Children need their families. Refugee children are no different.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees
Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Humane and sensible approaches to asylum policy.
No doubt Starmer and Mahmood will be picking up the phone to @alfdubs.bsky.social to discuss any day now…
Humane and sensible approaches to asylum policy.
No doubt Starmer and Mahmood will be picking up the phone to @alfdubs.bsky.social to discuss any day now…
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When he was a Tory politician (you remember, just after he was binned as a Labour one) female colleagues were free to express their disgust at his blatant misogyny. “Lee is an odious sexist,” was Anna Soubry’s irrefutable conclusion. I wonder what his current colleagues will have to say…
Jeremy Kyle is interviewing Reform MPs at a live press conference
Discussing who might take over from Keir Starmer as PM, Kyle just said: "She's had a makeover, Angela"
Lee Anderson: "She's throwing her money away, isn't she, to be honest with you"
*applause from the audience*
Discussing who might take over from Keir Starmer as PM, Kyle just said: "She's had a makeover, Angela"
Lee Anderson: "She's throwing her money away, isn't she, to be honest with you"
*applause from the audience*
February 9, 2026 at 5:23 PM
When he was a Tory politician (you remember, just after he was binned as a Labour one) female colleagues were free to express their disgust at his blatant misogyny. “Lee is an odious sexist,” was Anna Soubry’s irrefutable conclusion. I wonder what his current colleagues will have to say…
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Home secretary Shabana Mahmood was a potential frontrunner who seems to recognise that her asylum & settlement reforms have now made her candidacy unviable. Would Labour’s voice, political strategy and policies on immigration shift in any future contest?
February 9, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood was a potential frontrunner who seems to recognise that her asylum & settlement reforms have now made her candidacy unviable. Would Labour’s voice, political strategy and policies on immigration shift in any future contest?
This film got to me so much when I watched it, I'm slightly nervous about even reading about it!
February 9, 2026 at 1:16 PM
This film got to me so much when I watched it, I'm slightly nervous about even reading about it!
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February 9, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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🚨 Just THREE days left to tell the Government what you think of making refugees wait 20 years for safety 🚨
We cannot let these appalling plans go unchallenged.
Follow this guide from Praxis to make sure your voice is heard.
www.praxis.org.uk/consultation
We cannot let these appalling plans go unchallenged.
Follow this guide from Praxis to make sure your voice is heard.
www.praxis.org.uk/consultation
February 9, 2026 at 9:55 AM
🚨 Just THREE days left to tell the Government what you think of making refugees wait 20 years for safety 🚨
We cannot let these appalling plans go unchallenged.
Follow this guide from Praxis to make sure your voice is heard.
www.praxis.org.uk/consultation
We cannot let these appalling plans go unchallenged.
Follow this guide from Praxis to make sure your voice is heard.
www.praxis.org.uk/consultation
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This whole discussion reminds me of an argument I once had with my first boyfriend (yes, bad match) where he was arguing that people should be required to speak English in public places because it's 'rude' to speak another language, amongst yourselves, on the train. The reaction to encountering
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM
This whole discussion reminds me of an argument I once had with my first boyfriend (yes, bad match) where he was arguing that people should be required to speak English in public places because it's 'rude' to speak another language, amongst yourselves, on the train. The reaction to encountering
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For anyone wanting to register a response to these proposals by the Thursday deadline, see here for explanations and ideas of the sort of things you might want to include
Response to the Earned Settlement Consultation - Green Party Asylum and Migration Policy Working Group
On the 20th November 2025, the Labour government published an open consultation on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented. Settlement refers.....
migration.greenparty.org.uk
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 AM
For anyone wanting to register a response to these proposals by the Thursday deadline, see here for explanations and ideas of the sort of things you might want to include
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Proposed changes to the immigration system will force hundreds of thousands of children, along with adults, into even more precarious situations.
Existing ten year routes are already shown to increase deprivation and poverty. These policies will destroy lives.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Existing ten year routes are already shown to increase deprivation and poverty. These policies will destroy lives.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR
Thinktank analysis says proposed ‘earned settlement’ changes could trap families in prolonged insecurity
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Proposed changes to the immigration system will force hundreds of thousands of children, along with adults, into even more precarious situations.
Existing ten year routes are already shown to increase deprivation and poverty. These policies will destroy lives.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Existing ten year routes are already shown to increase deprivation and poverty. These policies will destroy lives.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...