“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

This is like a major media organisation contacting the bloke down your street who lives with fifty ferrets in the house his mother was born in to ask him about the state of the NHS. Wow, can’t believe he rambled some absolute nonsense that was also a bit scary.

Disney REALLY hopes releasing a new STAR WARS trailer will make everyone stop talking about how they’re the villains in STAR WARS.

this seems like such a deeply fucked up thing to say to a small child

The birth rate in the UK is not enough to sustain the country for much longer, especially with an ageing population. Without mass immigration, both of qualified experts and the 'unskilled' workers, we're absolutely screwed.

I am certain there are many solutions that fall squarely between "ignore" and "carry every brain-fart that occurs to Reform, live and uninterrupted, from their own studio, however long it takes". ~AA

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

And yet there will still be commentary decrying the Beeb as being in thrall to the leftists. There's no point trying to placate fascism in the hopes you'll be safe, you either fight or you're letting it happen.

Don't see any chatter on Bluesky about it, but Italy is doing a 24-hour strike for Palestine today, called by unions: x.com/abierkhatib/...

"We are here today to mourn Charlie, who thought speaking was important and enjoyed mass debating with young people in public."

Reform UK have a win-win formula every time they make a policy statement: 1) Say the most extreme thing possible 2) The moribund Tories & Labour will either match you or adopt a slightly less Draconian position In that way, they constantly shift the framing rightwards & take the battleground.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

Younger people won't believe this, but during the Second World War, Disney put out cartoons about how it was your patriotic duty to stand up to fascists, even noting that we'd each have to take a financial hit if we wanted to win that struggle. No, really!

It's harder and harder to understand what Farage's motivations could be, as he flails around like a bull in a political china shop attacking anything that seems vaguely positive. Who could actually gain from the fairly inevitable consequences of his proposed policies?

So Reform UK are getting closer and closer to just full-out "remigration" and still the Great and the Good of our politics and media will tut and shake their heads and tell us we can't call Reform and their supporters evil or racist, even though they're obviously evil and racist.

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

Business cards are boring. But they don't have to be!

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

There are so many people who deserve a war-crimes-esque investigation about their behaviour during peak pandemic.

I like this -- they fed AITA posts where the humans voted "asshole" to LLMs and found that the bots would almost always tell you that you're not an asshole. ^^; No wonder they're so popular! www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-...

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

You can't win the right wing voters but you can improve your policies to win the middle.

It would be nice if any other party noticed that saying simple things that are pri Palestine, trans rights, or about supporting basic human needs, are getting major positive reactions from the public, while pandering to the far right is causing plummeting polls (except for Reform).

This nasty piece of writing (archive.is/To1OA to avoid giving money to that rag) has been popular with the Scottish terven, which should come as no surprise because their bigotry extends into misogyny and they can't stand to see anyone outside their hateful bubble success.

trevor phillips gleefully interviewing violent anti trans activist and harasser of children graham linehan in sky news. like i keep saying: british media is far right propaganda.

Anyone who uses the term "identity politics" as a pejorative is an utter cunt.

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

If I'd written a book on the Holocaust that the Auschwitz museum disavowed, you'd never see me in public again.

It has long been my opinion that Hollywood is frittering away the generational dance talents of Channing Tatum & Tom Holland by not putting them in a musical together. Not a remake, but akin to Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor in Singin’ In The Rain. I strongly believe this would make a billion dollars

I think fundamentally, the ability to care about the rights of a small and vulnerable minority (of whom you might know no members) is an important sign of whether you are committed to human rights out of principle, or out of mere convenience.

www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2547819... our musical, with book and lyrics by @jenbitespeople.bsky.social and music and lyrics by me, opens next week at Oran Mor, then tours.

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If you attend an event being organised/hosted by someone you know to be far right, then I've got some bad news about where you live on the political spectrum...

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

Ah yes, if 60 women who participated in sports *over 23 years* turn out to have an unusual genetic advantage it must be a conspiracy and not just that the genetic advantage gives them... A natural advantage? The bigot brain worms at work.

At the very least, Zarah learned a lesson Jeremy did not - you have to be ruthless with your political enemies.

I wonder how many of the yeses were voting that way because they're terrified of violent responses if they didn't.

Republicans: "transgenderism must be eradicated." Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us." Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."

Fuck your online-only multiplayer, give me split screen you cowards.

I'm seeing people deciding to let their season passes to Disney's theme parks lapse, which might be the thing that ultimately gets the company to regain its spine

I occasionally wonder if maybe I'm a bit too caught up in the negatives of car-dependency and the car-dependent environments we live in. But it really is an endless story of negative impact after negative impact that we all sort of just collectively shrug and tolerate.

Refugees are quite often a product of our arms industry - perhaps there should be a special tax on the arms industry to go towards expenses related to refugees ?

The trump tarrifs have led to many countries cutting off postal services to the USA. I can easily see an imminent explosion in otherwise managed diseases leading to international travel to America being restricted. He's building the wall, but not with bricks.

The interesting thing about this graph is that it doesn't tell the story that the richest 0.01% own nearly 60% of the wealth of the richest 1%. It's actually the 1 in 10,000 that are the enemy of us all. They have a MINIMUM of $300m+ each. Disgusting outrageous greed.