Conor Cooper

Entomologist at Large

Vice Chair for Policy, Scientists for Labour @Scientists4Lab

[Alessandro Riolo @aledeniz]

Upon learning of Starmer's crusade against children under 16 watching YouTube, my 10-year-old son commented: "He's proposing it now because his own children have just turned 16."

This surprised me, as I wasn't even aware or remembering he had children. I looked it up and apparently he has two, born in 2008 and, crucially, 2010!

So far, I found it the most revealing comment I heard about the whole shebang.

[Air Katakana @airkatakana]

i’ve spent the past few months generating fake “extinct animals” with nano banana and making wikipedia articles for them. all backed up by book references that don’t exist. not a single article has been deleted yet out of hundreds. the future is here

[マッチャデス @o0mtc]

デデンネのはかいこうせん

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

Labour's proposed new welfare system 👇 that will affect those too ill or disabled to reliably work

*Currently* these people would qualify for LCW, LCWRA or ESA & would not be required to engage in Intensive Work Search regime

Refs & stats 🧵

OPPOSE WHITE PAPER

#CareNotCuts

[trash jones @jzux]

sometimes a picture of a new little guy will keep you going for days, if not weeks

[Kos @Kaoskiam]

[Re-upload] Cyndaquil line #pokemonfanart

[꒰ daily aquatic lovelies ༚.° @aqualuvsuotd]

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[Emily Pomroy-Smith ♿️💙🌹 @EmilyP_Smith]

In an update to @DisabilityLab open letter to Labour MPs we are asking all MPs to oppose this bill.

We will not be divided 🌹

https://t.co/wWQjY9FZLJ

[Emily Pomroy-Smith ♿️💙🌹 @EmilyP_Smith]

What frustrates me most about those defending the bill, is that they keep talking about all the measures to help disabled people into work. NONE OF WHICH ARE IN THIS BILL! This bill is all about eligibility for UC and PIP, none of the proposed support is in this bill.

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[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan, "The Labour government think that can raise £5 billion though these welfare cuts"

"Most of those savings will be wiped out because people who lose their benefits will end up putting more pressure on the NHS"

"It's a bit of a dead end, rather than a fundraiser"

"It's a dead end because it's making poorer people even poorer"

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

The Government has just published its disability cuts Bill.

No-one can pretend anymore that they don't know what this Bill is really all about.

The cover of the Bill makes it very clear. This Bill is "to restrict eligibility for the Personal Independence Payment."

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

1. Let’s take a look at some of these “scaremongering and ideological opponents”.

First up, the Association for Palliative Medicine.

The APM opposes the bill due to “concerns about protection of vulnerable, frail, elderly, disabled and terminally ill people”.

[Aaron Schmit @theaaronschmit]

So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim!

Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep

The Government banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe a certain medication

This should also be banned @wesstreeting unless you have a way to justify this?

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Detail from the "Unswept Floor" mosaic by Heraclitus, depicting a mouse eating a walnut. 2nd century AD, currently on display at the Vatican Museums.

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

This civilization has given up on itself and I suspect some awareness of the fact is suffusing capitalist life even if mostly unconsciously

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

BREAKING: So - it turns out deeply-religious Lord Hodge, the Judge in yesterday’s UK Supreme Court Case that destroyed trans rights, headed a ‘Commission On Same-Sex Relationships’ for the Church of Scotland published in 2011. The result of which was the Church recommending Gay and Lesbians to avoid same-sex relationships - and rid themselves of their desires. Was this REALLY the right person to put in charge of a case involving trans rights at the UK Supreme Court? What result did you expect? The whole thing STINKS. @JolyonMaugham