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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
Republicans, how is it not embarrassing to you to have this fragile, whiney baby leading your party?

He hurts America every time he gets his feelings hurt

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump ends trade talks with Canada over ‘fake’ Reagan ad
President accuses Canada of using anti-tariff campaign to meddle with U.S. courts
www.politico.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
Oh

news.sky.com/story/brexit...
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future,' Bank of England chief says
The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that ques...
news.sky.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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chris-noone.bsky.social
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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shaenon.bsky.social
He said mice because he saw something about transgenic mice and thought they were transgender mice. He doesn't know about any real studies on transgender biology. Are the CNN "fact checkers" too stupid and lazy to figure this out, or is it an act? Is there a difference anymore?
Fact Check: Trump on DOGE and transgender mice From CNN’s Deidre McPhillips President Donald Trump made a false claim Tuesday that the Department of Government Efficiency identified government spending of “$8 million for making mice transgender.” Between the 2021 and 2022 fiscal years, the National Institutes of Health awarded a total of $477,121 to three projects that involved administering feminizing hormone therapy to monkeys to understand how it may affect their immune system and make them more susceptible to HIV. Feminizing hormone therapy is a gender-affirming treatment used to block the effects of the male hormone testosterone and promote feminine characteristics among transgender women. Transgender women are nearly 50 times more likely to be infected with HIV than other adults, according to one study from 2013 across 15 countries, including the US. It’s not clear where the $8 million figure came from or why Trump referenced studies in mice instead of monkeys.
March 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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jdportes.bsky.social
This is the most appropriate response to Murray and his ilk...
Aye. You’re right. But a brown horse, born in a stable full of white horses, is still a f.. horse you racist c... Quote Lord Blatherwycke🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @hariboking727 · Apr 16, 2020 If a dog is born in a barn it doesn't make it a horse. Just because you were born in Britain doesn't mean you belong here. x.com/tezilyas/statu…
February 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
YES.

“Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges Starmer”
Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges Starmer - Politics.co.uk
Ed Davey will call on the government to negotiate a new customs union with the European Union (EU) to “turbocharge our economy in the medium and long term.” Delivering his first major speech of 2025, ...
www.politics.co.uk
January 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
The Telepathy Tapes Prove We All Want to Believe
The Telepathy Tapes is a seven-hour podcast series that takes listeners on an incredible journey. Here is a summary of the show. A journalist taps into a community of parents of nonverbal autistic chi...
www.mcgill.ca
January 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
"James Dyson owns 36,000 acres of agricultural land, estimated to be worth in excess of £550mn... Prior to Reeves’ new tax regulations there would have been no tax to pay if he had died and passed the land on to his successors."
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 28, 2024 at 9:53 PM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
Two countries that don't fuck around in defending their democracy: 🇷🇴 and 🇰🇷
December 11, 2024 at 4:43 AM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
www.amnesty.org
December 8, 2024 at 9:14 AM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
Comment of the day

www.reddit.com/r/unitedking...
No consumer has ever bought oat milk thinking it’s bovine mammary fluid but there you go.
December 6, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Oh.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Vauxhall owner was ‘confident’ about meeting EV rules before factory shutdown
Exclusive: Stellantis executive’s recent comments to investors undermine claim Luton closure was down to emission mandate
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:54 AM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
Anybody run across this scam on Bluesky?

www.reddit.com/r/Scams/s/iV...
Reddit - Dive into anything
Since that’s what I figured I don’t feel bad giving a fake name and an address I lived 20 yrs ago. Be kinda crazy if the people who live there now got my $30k…🤣
www.reddit.com
November 23, 2024 at 11:57 PM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
Breaking news: Hamburglar claims the charges against him have been trumped up!

www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 22, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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qasimrashid.com
The 18 senators who voted to uphold the law & stop arming Netanyahu:

Durbin
Heinrich
Hirono
Kaine
King
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Ossoff
Sanders
Schatz
Smith
Van Hollen
Shaheen
Lujan
Warnock
Warren
Welch

Baldwin voted present

Remaining 82 support Netanyahu’s war crimes & genocide.
November 21, 2024 at 6:03 AM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
Space Karen (Elon Musk) promoting the lie that it was the treatment for aids that caused death, not HIV.

Is he ignorant? Or just pretending to be ignorant because he hates Fauci?

I'm so glad I left that cesspit

archive.ph/2024.11.19-2...
archive.ph
November 20, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Jeremy Clarkson, who owes his fame & fortune in large part to the BBC, sneers at the brilliant @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for being ‘classic BBC’ when she uses *his own words* to describe his position.
bbcnewsnight.bsky.social BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · Nov 19
“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans.

#Newsnight
November 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
This mad man is actually going to attempt it. Can he be stopped?

www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChe...

www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChe...

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November 20, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
The Onion. 👏😂
Article screenshot. Title: “Trump locks bathroom door so Musk can’t follow him in.”
November 20, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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philippmarkolin.bsky.social
Nice quick write-up and good contextualization of the evidence vs. the anti-science narrative.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Where did COVID-19 originate? Saskatoon lab helps with genetic analysis that points to animal market | CBC News
A team of scientists, including one from Saskatoon, say they have strong evidence the COVID-19 virus jumped from infected animals to humans in a market in Wuhan, China, and didn't originate with a lab leak.
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2024 at 12:47 PM
aceofspades256.bsky.social
Jeremy Clarkson right now

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November 19, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.

#JeremyClarkson
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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atrupar.com
New in PN: RFK Jr. is a massive public health threat

"Kennedy has articulated a vision that will, if enacted, lead to the deaths of untold numbers of people, many of whom have not even been born. It's difficult to overstate the long-term danger he poses."
RFK Jr. is a massive public health threat
Dems like Jared Polis shouldn't pretend pretend otherwise.
www.publicnotice.co
November 19, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
“The Observer view on trade relations: closer ties with EU is the lever for economic growth”
The Observer view on trade relations: closer ties with the EU is the lever for economic growth | Observer editorial
Amid sluggish UK productivity and global insecurity, pulling closer to Europe is diplomatically and economically vital
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 12:30 PM