This isn’t the dumbest take on Ozempic that I’ve heard. But it’s close www.ft.com/content/f1ec...

Genuine question because I feel very confused: what is the crisis part of the “student loan crisis”? The papers are going absolutely nuts on it, and I have a plan 2 loan, but just… am not that mad about it? And it seems like the people that are… make more money than me anyway?

I haven’t read the guidance yet but the idea of a trans kid being banned from school trips is just heartbreaking

So excited to watch Wuthering Heights after all the reviewers having palpitations over how horny it is and inevitably witness the mildest most vanilla version of lust and kink, go on girl give us nothing

Look, I’m a giant, MASSIVE nerd who wants to live in Iain Banks’ Culture as much as the next post-scarcity guy, but our current fill in the blank machines bear about as much relationship to intelligence as a duck does to a stealth bomber. All of this is so incredibly stupid.

I did a podcast ep about the itch de-indexing last year, exactly this (it has not gotten better since) open.spotify.com/episode/6Nam...

We’re watching in real time how quickly “pornography” can become “that thing that I don’t like”

no, babe, it’s okay that you’re not stacy’s mom. i still think you’ve got it going on.

Not sure how I feel about my proximity to the Archers community...

I had a neighbour install a ring doorbell on our shared front door without consulting us, basically tracking us coming and going from our own house. OH and we still got burgled lol

Immaculate journalism no notes

STOP GIVING IT KNIVES

They are doing this because witchcraft IS REAL and you CAN use it to kill your political opponents

Previously unknown levels of rakes stepped on

Babe, you look great. I can barely tell.

As a UK resident who has paid for two degrees, five visas, and more than 10 years of the NHS surcharge since I moved here at 19, this is infuriating. As a journalist, it's alarming that the Home Sec clearly does not understand the system she says needs to be reformed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jeffrey Epstein took more photos of people he only hung out with once than I have of my best friends of 15 years

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

Be a Tina Brown

New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...

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I'd like to report a y-axis crime…

If you just can't get enough of me talking about PornHub you can get another fix on the latest episode of The News Meeting with @catneilan.bsky.social and @serenacesareo.bsky.social @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/listen/the-n...

It’s a pretty weird situation when Pornhub is making better arguments about how to keep children safe online than the UK gov, but here we are I suppose

I will be laughing about this until the sun dies

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Is this how men think all women do business

It’s a pretty weird situation when Pornhub is making better arguments about how to keep children safe online than the UK gov, but here we are I suppose

Also not for nothing wtf is that graphic? Are they testing to see if gender affirming care makes you into X Men?

In today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social why Pornhub is pulling out of the UK (pun intended) and why they’re fighting age verification observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Whilst reading this it’s important to remember that the best data we have suggests that trans people make less than 1% of the population

is the cure for male loneliness showing up early and setting up chairs?

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

This is a total mess, affecting the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of people, and we have to fix it. Act now: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

"Five days later, the same doctor came back online long enough to describe a nightmare scenario: the first thing he told Qorashi was he could still see “blood in the streets”, during his journey to work at the hospital." How Iran's brutal crackdown unfolded, my piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Listen to me absolutely wipe the floor with the other guests on this podcast in the most polite and civilised way podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

If you're wondering whether this ever confuses our colleagues yes it does

Wrote about insider trading-like behaviour in US prediction markets and whether it's even illegal! with @chefboibex.bsky.social 🗞️

Me and @beckypinnington.bsky.social tried (and failed) to identify the user who made the infamous Maduro trade, and instead found armchair sleuths, forensic experts, and a congressman who wants to put a stop to obvious conflicts of interest for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

There is always an XKCD

Like yeah i want twitter banned as well but this place is gonna be insufferable when the kinds of people who kept enjoying the nazi website come over

Seven senior Labour MPs have written to the Prime Minister, urging him to ban crypto political donations Liam Byrne, chair of the business committee, has told Starmer that if the Elections Bill does not include a prohibition it will be amended until it does observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

New Study finds a significant reduction in suicidality after trans people receive gender-affirming hormone therapy. “Hormone therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time…” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@moiradonegan.bsky.social has called it correct (as always) - this isn’t a tech issue, this is a wealth and power issue. Tech is not inherently good/bad, it is the people behind it, and their choices, and what others are allowing them to do

What this has done in fact has simply moved content off the timeline and into private interactions with grok. So deepfake porn is still happening, in a less transparent way

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

And how exactly do you propose to “kill trans ideology“ without killing trans people