Interesting to see these kids on the news talking about the social media ban, how they broadly support it and even seem quite relieved. Like they’re already tired of the role it plays in their lives and the way it dominates everything. Hmm.

Scene, Downing Street: ‘How can we make ourselves even more unpopular?’ ‘Well, prime minister, we could allow Natural England to proceed with their plan to shoot 90% of the ponies on Dartmoor’ ‘Yes, that might do it.’

I want to cry every time I see Preston Davey’s little face. I really can’t handle the detail of what they did to him. They killed him after having him less than 4 months ffs. I will never ever understand this level of human depravity.

This is blistering and magnificent from Jenny. "The truth is, the only ‘unworkable’ thing about the EHRC’s guidance is the most entitled men in the world refuse to take women’s ‘NO’ for an answer."

Hydration Break. Hydration comes from the old American word 'Hydra' which means 'time for adverts'.

From what I’ve seen in the media so far, teens are being a whole lot more reasonable and sensible about the social media ban than many grown adults are.

Wellington has a ball now 😊⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Glasgow #worldcup

🚨 Liz Kendall tells me BlueSky WILL be banned for under 16s as it falls under definition of social media website

Assume that some of the people kicking off about YouTube aren’t aware that a) there’s a thing called Shorts that work exactly like TikToks and Reels b) YT is full of dodgy stuff & crawling with weirdos and c) teens could still feasibly use it for legit reasons on TVs anyway.

135 British MPs are fighting guidance that would deny ‘Paula’ the right to enter women’s and girls’ changing rooms.

Okay, maybe just one wee half of #IRNNZL ‘mon the Kiwis 🇳🇿

"Protect the Dolls"; "Most marginalised community"; "Vulnerable". Open your eyes.

The people I don't get the most are the "kids will find a way" crowd 😅 Think about the things western society almost UNIVERSALLY agrees children shouldn't have: alcohol, cigarettes, & restricted physical substances. We put age restrictions on them b/c we understand the devastating physical & developmental consequences. Do teenagers still find workarounds? Absolutely. But the fact that a 15-yr-old can sneak a drink doesn't mean we should abolish the legal drinking age. Even the most rebellious adults who accessed drugs early in life will fiercely protect their own kids from having open access to those same substances. So why is the proposed social media ban facing such fierce backlash? B/c the damage is silent. You can't see an algorithm eroding a child's mind in a lab the way you can see a cigarette damaging their lungs. Let's make the invisible harm visible(which is what I believe the campaigns leading up to this should've done a lot more). Nearly 40% of children ages 8 to 12 are already using social media. Adolescents spending more than 3 hrs daily on these platforms face double the risk of mental health issues like anxiety & depression. When asked about the impact on their body image, 46% of adolescents aged 13-17 said social media actively makes them feel worse. For teenage girls using platforms like Instagram, about 1 in 3 reported feeling worse about their bodies due to the app. As many as 72% of teens say they have been cyberbullied. Cyberbullying is more strongly correlated with suicide attempts than traditional face-to-face bullying. These apps are altering brain structure during a highly vulnerable developmental window, affecting areas like the amygdala that manage emotional learning. If a legal, physical product was doing this much quantifiable damage to an ENTIRE generation, we'd pull it from the shelves immediately. We need to stop pretending screens are safe just b/c there's no smoke.

“Kids will find a way around it” is also true of smoking, vaping and underage drinking. We still regulate those things. The point of age restrictions isn’t to create some kind of impenetrable force field. It’s to set norms, and expectations. #SocialMediaBan

If they want children to have less access to social media, just stick them on an Avanti train for two hours 🚂

People keep saying “kids will just get around a social media ban”. Teenagers got around smoking age restrictions too. That didn’t mean we scrapped them. Laws don’t have to be 100% effective to set healthy norms and make parents’ lives easier. #SocialMediaBan

There's no-one taking our Scots (at least unless we get connected to that line) 🤝 #effzeh

For anyone wondering, it’s only been a positive thing in Aus. No one even talks about it anymore which can only mean the kids don’t care. The ones desperate for it will find workarounds, but the majority have found better things to do with their spare time.