This is now what passes for “science” from the BBC. Hackneyed cliches, faux mystery, factually incorrect statements. 1. Archaeologists are, once again, “baffled” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have dig over a tonne of soil today by hand. I am now broken and going to bed with some pain killers. But I do have a new raised vegetable bed!

How super fascist is this!

I’d suggest that a Sky News presenter roaring at Polanski, who he quite obviously despises, and then nodding and smiling his way through wacko comments from brazen fascist crank Melanie Phillips, is helpfully illustrative of How It Came To This.

Anders Breivik murdered unarmed 77 people, mostly children, in cold blood at Utøya in Norway in 2011. Melanie Phillips was quoted multiple times in his attempted justification for this atrocity. Nothing she has to say about anything is of any value.

Meanwhile in England, the only Jewish party leader was accused by the supposedly ‘Christian’ leaders of three far right parties* of antisemitism because he questioned police tactics. The use of antisemitism as a weapon against left wing politicians & Jews is a classic far right trope.

"Laws that ban gender-affirming treatment ignore the wealth of research demonstrating its benefits for trans people’s health"

Farage says he wants Reform Ltd to be judged on its record ...

European Parliament backs EU-wide conversion therapy ban www.washingtonblade.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Here's the video of the Golders Green suspect being arrested/detained. #GoldersGreen

We saw this with crystal clarity in relation to Ian Tomlinson, where Starmer refused to prosecute the killers despite their exculpatory evidence being completely discredited AND the Met apologising and paying damages for the excessive force they used that killed him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-1072...

To the surprise of absolutely NOBODY that senior Metropolitan Police officers, including commissioner Mark Rowley himself, have spoken at an Israeli "military think tank" aka cutout of intelligence service, MOSSAD👇 www.declassifieduk.org/met-police-l...

Nothing like a bit of goysplaining. And now it turns out the guy’s home address was sheltered housing for mental health patients, and his first victim was called Hussein. So it doesn’t sound right now like it was an anti-Semitic attack or planned terrorism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@alexsobel.co.uk how is kicking someone in head the head when they are lying on the ground appropriate regardless of what they have done. He was already under restraint. Also I object strongly to the head of the metropolitan police making a political stand about this behaviour when called out.

How cool is this? It's the #BBCMicro Elite Demonstration Disc, converted to run on the #Atari 8-bit machines. youtu.be/WHVVO3sUvFw?... Great work from Atari guru Wrathchild, who inspired me to look at the demo code in the first place! More details on AtariAge: forums.atariage.com/topic/389923...

Any of my friends have feedback?

Vote reform get the same old same old…

@alexsobel.co.uk we need all supportive MPs to stop bigotry against trans people…

I actually have endometriosis I would prefer to be represented by someone who has two decades of campaigning experience in healthcare inequalities than Suella Braverman thanks

Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe

Known as TERF island but much of the TERFery is funded by christo fascists groups in the US.

It always amuses me to see Americans on here muttering about how bad British TERFery is (and it *is* ghastly!) as if it’s some sort of naturally occurring poison sprung from British soil, without acknowledging that it is mostly bankrolled by US Christofascists.

The UK needs to watch out as we are heading the same way.

The funniest thing about people who say that chromosomes are determinative of sex and gender is that 99.9% of them have no idea what their own chromosomes actually are and if they had them tested, a good number of them would suddenly have a problem. 🤷🫠

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

Everyone immediately assuming that an attempt on the President is staged is probably not a sign of a healthy democracy.

Gentlemen, you can't report in here! This is the White House Correspondents Dinner!

Someone turns off comments because they don’t want people saying how hateful and transphobic those journalists have been…

Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.

The big divide in Britain today is between working people and the privately educated, rich, greedy, tax-dodging, selfish, grifting gobshites who try to manipulate working people by pretending to give a shit about them.

Welsh Conservative candidate Natasha Asghar has been sending out leaflets telling Welsh voters they will need ID to vote. To be clear, this is not true. YOU DO NOT NEED ID TO VOTE IN THE SENEDD ELECTION. Voter ID disproportionally prevents poorer people from voting.

This game is absolutely amazing. Take the 8-bit classic Chuckie Egg and wrap it around a tower like Nebulus- and the result is Chuckulus. It's a bit of genius, beautifully coded by @snuggsy187.bsky.social Seriously, take a look. It’s that good. 🫡 #BBCMicro

Got called a “gender traitor” by a TERF for saying trans women belong in women’s restrooms. Reminds me of the white supremacists who would call my mom a “race traitors” for having mixed race kids. Hardly surprising since TERFS are also racist.

Anti-trans hate groups wanting to work with the leader of @stonewalluk.bsky.social means that leader has already failed. I'll reiterate what others have said - Stonewall should be banned from Pride this year.

The cis reaction Caitlyn Jenner stuff is like if every time a Kash Patel was in the news, the reaction online was mostly people calling him racial slurs and mocking his name for being Indian. If you want to know if someone is transphobic, watch how they talk about trans people they don't like.

Over 3,500 people have taken action in less than 48hs. We need to make sure the government listens to us, and we don't have much time. Will you join us? https://action.goodlawproject.org/force-government-rip-ehrc%E2%80%99s-transphobic-guidance/

The Lancet: "The politicisation of women's bodies and choices is part of a wider attempt to roll back human rights and freedoms of women and marginalised groups. ...It is a fundamental right of a woman to decide whether and when she has children, and is central to gender justice."

How is this government looking at every decision and every time choosing the wrong side?

Quick, stick him in a Jester costume and take him to the Wicker Man

I’m biological, I’m not an android. I’m a woman. Unless you resort to dubious chromosomal testing which only confirms what happened when your father’s sperm met your mother’s egg, nothing else is deterministic. How is say a woman who has had a hysterectomy different from a trans woman like me?

At Scottish Labour Conference in Feb 2025, a leadership-backed motion to adopt a transphobic policy on single-sex spaces in schools was defeated. Party members and affiliates voted it down. Today Scottish Labour's leadership put that transphobic policy into its manifesto for May's election anyway.

Where’s my very tiny violin!

I’m reading about several trans people who worked on the project but didn’t get to see it through because they got bullied out of Florida and/or NASA and it’s just… sorry. I want to feel joy about this! It’s great! I think!

Bugger!

Good luck Hungary do the right thing!

"Another grifter standing for reform, The tribunal ordered the business to pay £1,800 to make up for the unpaid maternity pay, as well as £400 in unpaid wages and £1,120 in unpaid holiday pay." via Iain Iffy Fleming

I was thinking about vibe coding today and how often I see the argument that if you just write very long, detailed prompts you'll normally get what you need. And now I'm wondering why I'd write a giant prompt to get indeterminate output when I could just write the code.

Bankruptcy coming to a council near you if voters believe Farage's tax cut version of the 'Magical Money Tree' lies ...