Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille)

STEM stan. Nature nerd. Writer, runner, rambler. Liberal, lawyer, linguist. Misfit, model, music maker. Actor, artist(e), alliteration aficionado. Employable.

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@jeremymarchant @PippaCrerar @BenKentish Do you mean capitulated to the absurd and unscientific dogma of purely binary 'biological sex' (spoiler: nature never read your biology textbook) and soi-disant 'gender critical' gender ideology that forces people into neat, unchallenging boxes based on arbitrary criteria?

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

Tonight, in a House of Commons vote, Labour and Conservative MPs failed to back our plans to protect customers from footing the bill for water company bailouts.


Liberal Democrats forced a parliamentary vote to ensure it is creditors, rather than customers, who pay when water companies go bankrupt.


We will continue to push the government to ensure customers are not left to pick up the tab for the failings of water companies.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

“Nazi” isn’t a slur. It’s a word that describes real people who earnestly believe in their ideas. Their ideas are disgusting and hateful, but of course they often do not realize it.

I keep running into racists who think that it’s not white supremacist to think that white people are inherently superior to other races. No…that’s the whole definition!! The fact that they believe it earnestly and don’t think it’s an idiotic, hateful belief doesn’t mean it’s not an idiotic, hateful belief.

Nazi isn’t a word that means “bad evil boogeyman” it means “someone who believes in their own racial superiority, extreme protectionist nativism, the purifying of society by eliminating undesirables, expansionism, active suppression of dissent, and total state power held in the hands of a very small group.”

Make sure the people you’re cheering for don’t believe these things because otherwise…

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@libdemlife We all contain: (a) multitudes; (b) several hungry wolves; (c) neurological architecture that reinforces pathways in the context of social and biochemical cues. I'm slow to condemn people for losing (what I had thought was) their way, as we are all wandering. But: aargh!

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@CaroleFord1 I have to strongly disagree with you there.

[Adam Kay @amateuradam]

Genuinely unbelievable - “We’ve totally stopped taking referrals and if you’re already on the waiting list it’ll be 18 years soz”

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

Some of us have always thought of Nigel Farage as a first-order backchannel.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Tony Blair’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says Labour should consider using Nigel Farage as a backchannel to Donald Trump’s administration

[@theipaper]

[Tom Freeman @SnoozeInBrief]

"Hello, we're putting your contents insurance premiums up by 25%"
"What what what what what the-"
"It's the global inflation shock, just the way things are, very sad"
"Are you also increasing the amount I can claim by 25%?"
"lol no"

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@barnardos These posters were still up yesterday!

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@barnardos Various positions are advertised in the window of your Inverness shop, which says it won't reopen until staffing issues solved. But the jobs don't appear on your website. Please advise!

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@drpaulitious @SnoozeInBrief And a direct comparison with "all talk and no action", of course.

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@drpaulitious @SnoozeInBrief These trousers are indeed touched upon. But I *think* there is an unremarked confusion with the format of "fur coat and no knickers".

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@SnoozeInBrief Which phrase will win out? Enjoy eating a lot of pudding to find out.

[ℳatt (matttomic.bsky.social) @matttomic]

I love that we've taken computers - a machine designed exclusively to do math - and taken away the ability to solve gradeschool math problems and all it cost us was the amazon rainforest

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@ProfChalmers See if those accounts can offer you any tips? #LawIsHard

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Had it confirmed Lord Davies of Gower is a member of the shadow cabinet, and this is a genuine account.

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@SnoozeInBrief Does this imply there should also be a Doctor Twit?

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@barnardos Thanks for getting back to me. I look forward to it reopening but am disappointed to have missed the (unmentioned) application window. I did try looking a few weeks ago, with no success, so waited to try again.

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

The treatment of junior doctors in the UK seems to be some sort of grand social experiment, in which the objective is to understand exactly how desperately people want to be doctors even if you treat them like absolute dross.

[Chris Young 🏳️‍🌈 (he/il/él/er/lui/ille) @cmykey]

@SnoozeInBrief Howard's Restart