Tom Pattison

Jimmy Carr sorry for killing joke Will Smith sorry for smash mouth Louis CK sorry for the strokes Defective peroxide sorry for 4 non blondes Daylight savings sorry for taking back sunday Misogynists sorry for everything but the girl UK beef industry sorry for madness US government sorry for megadeth

The left all over the world needs to stop whatever they’re doing and pay very close attention to what just happened in Brazil. In a matter of 3 weeks, an organic, grassroots movement was born, took back social media, reclaimed the mantle of fun in politics, and won the election in the process.

"This famous Fantasy author told Inspector Morse to fire riot-control gas canisters at his sidekick!" "C. S. Lewis?" "That what Tolkien told Morse to do, yes."

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

Flávio, these are all really good ideas

What is happening to the BBC?! Pride pins edited out of University Challenge in ‘Orwellian’ move www.leicester.news/bbc-edits-ou...

I cannot stress enough that we’re going to need to shut down Meta www.commondreams.org/news/meta-al...

Lula's comeback fight in Brasil has been driven by a Carnaval-like atmosphere with people partying in the street. My look at how the happiness of these rallies is driving Lula's comeback fight paydayreport.com/watch-lulas-...

@beetlemoses.bsky.social Can we the people get a" monkey stronger together" sticker?

The organising by Lula's voters in Brazil right now is astonishing. They still might not win but they've put millions on the street and they have shifted the polls back to a tie -despite, in a friend's words, fighting "everyone -Trump, Meta, legacy media, the rich, betting companies, evangelicals".

Vivek Ramaswamy's Wikipedia Page is a collection of some of the most horrifying sentences ever composed

California voters: Don’t fall for billionaires’ tricks. Vote YES on Prop 40. Vote NO on Props 41 and 42. Let me explain.

Desperate stuff Home Secretary originally argued (very misleadingly) care workers shouldn't be allowed to settle because their wages were so low that they'd be a fiscal cost. Now she's arguing they shouldn't be allowed to settle because they'd get better paid jobs www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

Damn. "Contract Killers and the Far Right is an Al Jazeera Investigation that exposes the links between the right-wing student movement Turning Point UK which has organised and participated in anti-immigrant protests in the UK and an armed paramilitary who can arrange murders for money."

Any Cold War teachers out there who want a good journey to work audiobook, this one is great - the abridgement is done well and it’s really interesting #historyteacher www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Join us on Friday at the IHR women’s history seminar @ihrwomen.bsky.social to hear Dr Jonah Miller re-examine women’s legal case for citizenship in the 18th century: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

So she started out being anti trans so say to protect women in sport and that moved on to full on anti trans in life and racism. It shows that so many that start with any extreme views soon take on all extremism

As the U.S. government considers approving the first-ever commercial deep-sea mining operation, we must defend the deep. If this project is permitted, it will be easier for future projects to go through. Help stop the damage before it can begin: https://oceana.ly/4hOx4JE

Cruel, pointless, impractical, and ultimately dangerous. The rooms in hospitals which will now be used to offload trans people are often required for clinical reasons ie to treat the immuno-compromised. This is the product of a country that has gone insane. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I keep getting a rash every time I compare one thing with another. Think I might have analogy

It's a good thing leading a campaign to dehumanise a minority and strip them of their rights doesn't put people at risk, or this guy would be a massive hypocrite. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

COVID sucks. Last Sunday ran 13 miles. Just jogged about a bit with the dog and feel like I have nowt in the tank. FFS.

Thank goodness that under President Trump the socialists and Communists have been kept at bay.

It's a repeat but so what? #FridayFive is grateful to all its friends. 1. Grand Canyon. Drive by Truckers. 2. With a Little Help.. The Beatles. 3. Just Two Girls. Wolf Alice. 4. The Boys are Back in Town. Thin Lizzy. 5. Never Forget You. The Noisettes.

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I recall v.clearly watching in a local pub when Wright scored for England vs Italy in June 97. The response around me was real fury that a black man had scored for England. The mood was so poisonous that I had to leave. These delusions of English innocence and "who we are" as a country serve no one.

the tech industry is about to invent books

I’m proud to have had another cartoon published in Alta Journal

Well worth reading through these reflections from Stuart. I fully agree with them.

#OTD 6 Oct 1917 civil rights and women's rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Mississippi. She defied arrests, white supremacists, and police to vote, then organised to register thousands of other Black people to vote across the South stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

If I worked in a maternity ward, I'd call those tags you put round babies wrists 'The Born Identity'.

love this piece in @literaryhub.bsky.social #medievalsky lithub.com/what-to-read...

I think part of the problem is that, in seeking to firewall against Nazism since WWII, we created a vacuum in knowledge about Hitler that leaves space for this sort of idiocy. The best antidote to these people would be greater popular familiarity with what a freak and loser Hitler really was.

I don't think it's any secret that women and children are going to suffer way more negative effects from AI than men are, not least from the abusive imagery, which is already completely rife. What are we even doing when this fact gets so routinely ignored by politicians and the media?

More than 9,600 have already taken action and called on Ofcom to investigate Nigel Farage's GB News show. A party leader and sitting MP should not be allowed to host their own news show. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. ⬇️

13.8 billion years of cosmos. 4 billion years of life Earth. All of it led here, to you.

*** NEW POST *** Why do some pupils seem so unwilling to answer certain questions in an exam? I take a look at the evidence around barriers to writing and start thinking about how those barriers can be overcome enserm.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

Shocked to the core. They didn't seem the type. These brave women speaking up are more reflective of the type of country we should aspire to be.

Still not a hoax.

My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion

“The Right truly speaks to voters!” *the Right, aided by a mostly supportive media and tech platforms, propels the son of a man who planned an actual coup towards power while Brazil’s Left focuses on cost of living and banning online betting* “The Left is out of touch with what voters want!”

“The Left has nothing to offer voters!” *the Left, watched by a mostly hostile media, focuses on cost living, knocks on hundreds of thousands of doors, then tops the Berlin elections* “…The Left is the true fascist threat!”