if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Ever since Katrina the calls to let NOLA drown have increased. The Netherlands reclaimed 1,000 square miles of land by pumping water out of land a dozen feet below sea level. Nobody ever says let Holland vanish. It’s not just climate change sinking New Orleans. It’s also racial capitalism.

Was going through pictures from a few years ago… I can’t believe what a different era this feels like it’s from.

This poem that I wrote aged 15 in 1970 was published in my school magazine. I was thrilled when a TV producer picked it up and made a short film of it (on BBC Look North, I think).

went to the store

ICYMI: Forgejo is not built by cowards! forgejo.org/2026-03-mont...

here's how I feel about "we're all so unfair to Thomas, 'Doubting' is so derogatory" etc—first of all he's a saint so it's fine but also I think it's good to acknowledge that he took kind of an L there and that the grace of Christ is such as to transform all our Ls into insane and gorgeous Ws

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

Five railwaymen whose jobs disappeared with the end of steam on British Railways on 17 August 1968, photo by Roger Bamber (1944-2022). Carnforth locomotive shed, Lancashire.

Lancashire Fair, Good Friday, Daisy Nook, 1946, painting by L.S. Lowry, 1887-1976 (Government Art Collection).

Cycling Home, painting by Simon Palmer, who has lived and worked in Wensleydale for 40 years.

I sure find it interesting to see what other disciplines are doing in these troubled times. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

(Talking to a trans femme couple in San Francisco) So, uh, which of you collects old computers and which is into set theory?

Paternal grandfather built aeroplanes at Metro-Vicks in Trafford Park Maternal grandfather was a theologian and economist

I don't often post about work anymore but I do actually care deeply about the field of software engineering, despite almost everything these days making caring about software a generally miserable experience.

L.S. Lowry died of pneumonia on this day 1976 at the Woods Hospital in Glossop, Derbyshire. He was buried in Manchester’s Southern Cemetery, beside his parents.

Goddamn, American Manufacturing really is dead if we don't even make consent anymore

Please, don’t trust ANY anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit that refuses to support the labor rights of consensual adult sex workers. We know for a fact that criminalization leads to exploitation and trafficking. I would also be wary of those who fund such organizations.

evangelical christians' god is the god of preschoolers and used car salesmen; I'm sorry you can't believe in a God whose creation is vast and mysterious and largely unknowable, I'm sorry your god is smaller than you rather than much much larger

god gave me this gender too tbqh

Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her. This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.

Add another one to the great big board of "Urban Planning Debates: Academic Research vs. Some Guy"

Was soll ich sagen, ich habe ADHS: A ufmerksamkeits D efizit H uch, schau mal da, ein S chmetterling! #illisADHS

watching Paul Graham become a Marxist from first principles is extremely funny

also conspicuous that artists and writers almost universally revile this junk, but there's a subset of programmers going "thank god, i don't have to write code any more" no one was making you do this?? start a food truck idk

can't wait for the stories about the latter folks getting laid off first because they're not as Productive™

seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between "oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god" and "yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"

new jynpost jyn.dev/i-m-just-hav...

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Lets hope it gets the axe before anything gets painted in this daft color smear. With BR perfection just sitting right there to use, this jingoistic rubbish is Brexit impotence at track speed. Two tones of blue unnecessary. Angled repeating downward lines too symbolic of UK trajectory. 0.7/10

Statue of factory co-op pioneer Robert Owen on Balloon Street, Manchester. He spent 13 years working in the city in his youth.

Welsh social reformer Robert Owen died on this day 1858, aged 86. At 21, became manager of Manchester's Piccadilly Mill, where he ran an enlightened regime, joined the Literary and Philosophical Society. Later carried the principles into model community at New Lanark, Scotland.

Oxford Road station steps and the Salisbury, Manchester, photo by Shauna Harrison.

Daily bunny no.3139 found some prime real estate

Clitheroe, Lancashire, painting by Linda Mellin. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

If you run the world’s most famous sex club in a city full of artists who are both poor and horny, you should not be doing this shit:

Wonder why. Could definitely not have anything to do with trans people having a culture of SHAMING cis people for dating trans people. Couldn’t be for the same reason my fiancé, whom I was already with FOUR YEARS before my transition, got called a ‘chaser’ once just because he’s my partner. Mystery

Might be a good moment to re-read this www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...

eternal september appropriately ends in october

THE MEME IS REAL

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Underground Railway, Liverpool, 1894, by Charles Trevor Prescott, 1872-1947 (Walker Gallery). #NorthernArt