I hate so much how cool I think that coinbase advert is, how dare they

If someone asked me whose writing I’m really enjoying atm it would be these three I feel like them joining forces like this is targeting me specially and I’m okay with it

A left wing politician and a right wing politician… on a podcast together? Groundbreaking.

something that’s important to keep in mind when you are trying to recommend harry potter alternatives not written by a vicious transphobe is that one of the reasons they got so popular is that they are stupidly easy to read and your target audience may not be book people at all

Another new journalism / tech meetup? Yes please!

Oh heck yeah! Another journalism tech meetup in London?? Yes please! More of this!

Also with their suggestions that decriminalising drugs would see a great proliferation of drug use all over the place they are just kinda admitting that all thats keeping them from their vices is the law like you wouldnt believe what i’d get up to if it were legal for all men are wild beasts

Has Polymarket removed the ability to download historical market data...

Imagine if the playing field was slanted towards protected groups, instead of there being a literal cabal (well, WhatsApp group) of transphobic literary editors, journalists and publishers

Has anyone said more like Matt Goodlose yet

Who up Qing their GIS?

Incredible work in the fight against maniacs and perverts

It's the new Fully Automated Luxury Communism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's 2026. Minecraft is 15 years old, GTA Is 25 years old, Sonic is 35 years old, Mario is 45 years old. If you are still doing "What is this strange thing you call 'gaming'", you're as out of touch as someone in 90s who's never heard of rock music, or someone in the 60s who's never seen a movie

This is... actually smart! And evidence based!

I think people still underestimate the extent to which the panic over an increase in trans boys transitioning is about the belief that AFAB bodies are rightfully for breeding and should be preserved as property belonging to their future husbands.

Sometimes it's hard to find the dataviz angle in a story, but chart design is my passion

Editors: by "letting" I mean "commissioning" — publish trans writers, pay them for this kind of deeply impactful and emotionally challenging work, and anticipate that you'll need to protect them from the resulting online backlash. If that takes too much courage, why are you even here?

I estimate around half of the trans people I know IRL are unemployed or underemployed. Probably a solid quarter of the trans people I know do subsistence sex work. We are in crisis, and we're being utterly failed by this country's media and political establishment. Why is this not the narrative?

Even nominally left wing papers have no interest in telling human interest stories about trans people. No one cares. And we're months in.

Nearly a year into many trans people in the UK being forced to use disabled toilets or asked to work from home pending legal advice and stuff and I haven't seen a single "Izzy's boss told her she has to use a disabled toilet, here's how she feels about it" piece in the papers.

Shout out to everyone reading this paper, not understanding it, and drawing the wrong conclusions.🤷🏿‍♂️ Switching to Twitter's algorithmic feed from chronological, only shifts political attitudes to the right *for people susceptible to far-right nonsense.* Because they start following far-right dudes🤡

arguing that Youth Gender Surgery includes ear piercing, just to feel alive

The left [gesturing widely in a way that’s hard to pin down what I’m gesturing to] needs to take AI [gesturing more vaguely] seriously or something [moving both arms now] something will happen I think

Just remembered there very much was a non-binary kid present at that scene: me.

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

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