Philippa Cowderoy

I genuinely don't think "Arabs were doing some really important work a thousand years ago" is a good rebuttal to RFK's racism. Tawakkol Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Omar M. Yaghi won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2005. Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal in 1977.

Day four on the Immigration and Asylum Bill Committee. Today I am opposing the utterly cruel proposal for a ‘Refugee Tax’ for the poorest refugees to pay back support they received, while they were banned from working, to the Home Office.

Trying to remember the last time I gave a tiny spec of shit about an EA-branded game that wasn't them borging a developer they eventually killed.

Allow me to introduce the Arsepull Charter for Ethical Use of GenAI in Creative Industries: 1) Don't 2) If in any doubt whatsoever about whether point 1 applies, apply point 1 3) If certain that point 1 does not apply, apply point 1 then seek help immediately

The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

Tickled with my contribution to a discussion about life lessons learned from XCOM 2.

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

because they're so tricky to clean; next

Feeling cleansed after writing this ashley.rolfmore.com/twenty-thing... Seen so many moans about PMs not getting stuff. I do my best not to be one of “those” types of PMs. Well, turning the tables back for a little cathartic release. How to not be one of “those” software developers…

uwu i’m just a little fascist Tamagotchi uwu

The QAQALY: Quality Adjusted Quality Adjusted Life Year, in which the patient's current quality of life is always 1 and if the same objective improvement makes an even bigger difference to some then so be it. Why bury patient subjectivity?

The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inaction

When disabled people oppose Assisted Dying, it’s almost never from a religious point of view. It’s not because we’re anti-choice or that we want to force people to suffer. We oppose it because society devalues disabled lives and uses these programs in an unethical manner. They become eugenics. 🧵

As a brown migrant living in the UK legally, this is precisely why there can be *no* compromise on the fundamental right of seeking asylum. Pretty quickly it’s anyone who ‘looks’ like an asylum seeker - ie brown or black - who is targeted. No one is safe from this.

when conservatives say “facts don’t care about your feelings” you need to understand that it is not meant to say they are committed to facts but that they are committed to creating a form of epistemological dictatorship where no one is able to disagree with their obvious lies.

‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.