@sophiacollins.bsky.social
Swearing, feminism, lefty, eco, argumentativeness, home education, science, public engagement with science. Occasional pedantry.
And maybe some menopause jokes.
I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.
And maybe some menopause jokes.
I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.
Once again, my feed is full of arguments about someone I’ve never heard of. I googled Noah Smith and got a ‘people also search for’ gallery of smug white guys, beginning with Nate Silver.
I’m fine continuing in blissful ignorance.
I’m fine continuing in blissful ignorance.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Once again, my feed is full of arguments about someone I’ve never heard of. I googled Noah Smith and got a ‘people also search for’ gallery of smug white guys, beginning with Nate Silver.
I’m fine continuing in blissful ignorance.
I’m fine continuing in blissful ignorance.
If you’ve not come across her, Sarah Kendzior is well worth a follow. Everything she said in Trump’s first term about how it was all prep for an authoritarian coup has turned out to be 100% accurate.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If you’ve not come across her, Sarah Kendzior is well worth a follow. Everything she said in Trump’s first term about how it was all prep for an authoritarian coup has turned out to be 100% accurate.
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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Find her here substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explana...
substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Find her here substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
There is never, really, such a thing as balance, or impartiality. Everyone’s viewpoint is situated.
The BBC has always been the voice of the establishment and the status quo. In ways that I think most of the people who work there can’t even conceptualise.
The BBC has always been the voice of the establishment and the status quo. In ways that I think most of the people who work there can’t even conceptualise.
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
There is never, really, such a thing as balance, or impartiality. Everyone’s viewpoint is situated.
The BBC has always been the voice of the establishment and the status quo. In ways that I think most of the people who work there can’t even conceptualise.
The BBC has always been the voice of the establishment and the status quo. In ways that I think most of the people who work there can’t even conceptualise.
Well yes, because despite the BBC board being stuffed with tories, the media and politicians keep repeating the accusation that it’s full of woke lefties.
BBC-style wording from YouGov! Britons don’t agree, but significantly more think the BBC is biased to the left than to the right
Is BBC News politically biased? 50% of Britons say yes - but they don't agree on how
Biased in favour of left: 31%
Biased in favour of right: 19%
Not biased: 19%
Bias belief by party
Reform: 73% biased to left / 4% to right
Con: 52% / 5%
LD: 19% / 22%
Lab: 16% / 31%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Biased in favour of left: 31%
Biased in favour of right: 19%
Not biased: 19%
Bias belief by party
Reform: 73% biased to left / 4% to right
Con: 52% / 5%
LD: 19% / 22%
Lab: 16% / 31%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Well yes, because despite the BBC board being stuffed with tories, the media and politicians keep repeating the accusation that it’s full of woke lefties.
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I don’t really want to be focusing on this - I’d rather spend my time helping home educators support their kids learning what goes *into* the GCSEs. But there’s no point doing that if they then can’t find a centre or can’t afford to sit the exams.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I don’t really want to be focusing on this - I’d rather spend my time helping home educators support their kids learning what goes *into* the GCSEs. But there’s no point doing that if they then can’t find a centre or can’t afford to sit the exams.
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Hearing more and more stories of exam centres overwhelmed with private candidates and considering cutting down or stopping their support. In a context of >3% of KS4 children EHE. This is very bad, and no-one is paying any attention.
@johndickenssw.bsky.social @jonsevers.bsky.social @tom-richmond.com
@johndickenssw.bsky.social @jonsevers.bsky.social @tom-richmond.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Hearing more and more stories of exam centres overwhelmed with private candidates and considering cutting down or stopping their support. In a context of >3% of KS4 children EHE. This is very bad, and no-one is paying any attention.
@johndickenssw.bsky.social @jonsevers.bsky.social @tom-richmond.com
@johndickenssw.bsky.social @jonsevers.bsky.social @tom-richmond.com
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The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
Like the whole world is a dysfunctional family with an aggressive and coercive dad.
This analysis explains Labour’s approach too. Ageing white men must be placated at all costs in all circumstances.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Like the whole world is a dysfunctional family with an aggressive and coercive dad.
TIL that owls’ eyes are shaped like tubes, so they can capture more light. And that’s why owls turn their heads like that. Because their massive tube-eyes can’t move side-to-side like ours can.
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
TIL that owls’ eyes are shaped like tubes, so they can capture more light. And that’s why owls turn their heads like that. Because their massive tube-eyes can’t move side-to-side like ours can.
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
Exactly. Once you start paying the Danegeld it will never end. Unfortunately the quislings of the BBC and Starmer’s cabinet do not understand holding boundaries with fascists.
Knew this would escalate. He wants absolute control of OUR media too. There’s no democracy without free media.
BREAKING: Donald Trump has threatened the BBC with legal action.
The US president sent a letter to the corporation, which has confirmed it will “respond in due course”
The US president sent a letter to the corporation, which has confirmed it will “respond in due course”
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Exactly. Once you start paying the Danegeld it will never end. Unfortunately the quislings of the BBC and Starmer’s cabinet do not understand holding boundaries with fascists.
OK, but how do we KNOW there aren’t creatures living in the molten magma, with these being their dead bodies?
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
OK, but how do we KNOW there aren’t creatures living in the molten magma, with these being their dead bodies?
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
Th Sulawesi tarsier looks like an evil gremlin.
@nationalmuseumsscotland
@nationalmuseumsscotland
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Th Sulawesi tarsier looks like an evil gremlin.
@nationalmuseumsscotland
@nationalmuseumsscotland
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Vulture's circling this morning. The people who made Farage a household name, dress up right-wing grifters as academics, both sided the distinctly one-sided economic debate around Brexit, had Kuenssberg texting interview questions to Boris Johnson... need to stop being such lefties, apparently
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Vulture's circling this morning. The people who made Farage a household name, dress up right-wing grifters as academics, both sided the distinctly one-sided economic debate around Brexit, had Kuenssberg texting interview questions to Boris Johnson... need to stop being such lefties, apparently
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"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."
When I’m queen of the universe, I’ll have a massive campaign teaching everyone safe breaking distances from the car in front.
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
When I’m queen of the universe, I’ll have a massive campaign teaching everyone safe breaking distances from the car in front.
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CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."
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The more the media pursue the Government for yet another mishap within a public organisation, the more I realise the total shitshow inherited by Labour was worse than we could possibly have known - because the media didn't do anything like their job for at least 9 years.
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The more the media pursue the Government for yet another mishap within a public organisation, the more I realise the total shitshow inherited by Labour was worse than we could possibly have known - because the media didn't do anything like their job for at least 9 years.
Have Men Ruined The Workplace?
UK - Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists, inquiry told
Spycops inquiry hears James Thomson lied to superiors and deceived two women into relationships
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Spycops inquiry hears James Thomson lied to superiors and deceived two women into relationships
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists, inquiry told
Spycops inquiry hears James Thomson lied to superiors and deceived two women into relationships
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Have Men Ruined The Workplace?