The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

Imagine if the government said “it’s illegal to carry knives in public unless you’re doing it for the explicit purpose of stabbing someone” Conversion therapy is not healthcare, it is abuse.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

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Ed Miliband has been the most effective minister in this Government. And his policies ARE leading to one of the few areas of real job growth Diluting these policies will lead to loss of GDP and a greater loss of jobs so a wise PM will stand up to Unions wrong headedness on this very very robustly

"trans existence is criminalized", in the UK. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has spoken. www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

If you're wondering why Unilever were so keen on turning colonial Africa into a giant single-crop peanut farm: as John says in the thread it's because they'd run out of whales to kill to make margarine with. Yay capitalism! I covered it on the Untitled History Podcast here:

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Car used as weapon of mass destruction. Yet somehow society allows this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

This is pretty much what the Cass Review found, but rather than conclude that trans kids know who they are; they concluded that the puberty blocker pathway wasn't acting as the intended "time to think", so they banned them

There's a lot of discussion in the news at the moment about the safety of children on the internet. Yet the very real physical harm done by cars to children, on a regular basis, rarely gets attention. Echoes of Wimbledon here 😕

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

not sure what mine is, it's not this, but what it is needs more thought. Still: "Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is." For me the key bit: "Including yourself." I still work hard to treat myself with kindness I easily can offer to others.

Do you have children that are constantly bothering you for things like food or affection? Need a distraction for them so you can look at your phone or go to the bathroom? Chuck this at them. It’s in bookshops in the UK and Ireland now. It’s got comics and stuff about shark farts and poo.

This week on Untitled History pod @katieturnerphd.com and I talk about what Greco-Roman people in Judea ACTUALLY dressed like in the 1st Century CE. Find on your pod app of choice or watch below. Subscribers: YOU get the bonus answer to the biggest question of all: Did Jesus wear socks? #history

You’re missing a semicolon.

Fuck The Spectator, all who sail in it, and the veneer of establishment respectability it still mystifyingly maintains among the Sensible Classes. Fascist rag, end of.

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

Hannah Spencer wrote to the MP and Bridgett Philipson about the EHRC Guidance and its a great letter www.instagram.com/p/DZKYZKgihy... I've added alt text to the images and will post a screenshot of the post and its text in the replies! Good work @greenpartyhan.bsky.social we 💕 the feminist greens

Sexual and gender diversity is undeniably a thing that our species does, in any cultural environment. And we are certainly not alone in this. Nature is profoundly queer and restlessly inventive. https://bit.ly/4eixs0Z

Please do not buy my books from Amazon. If you are outside the UK and cannot find an independent bookshop who stocks them, please purchase them from @blackwells.bsky.social who do free international delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

trans rights and women’s rights are not in opposition, they are in fact two fronts of the same war, and cis women should support trans folk not just because it’s the morally correct thing to do but also because an attack on trans folk is an attack on us

We have Bicester, but what about Gaycester, Transcester, and Pancester?

European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

Risonya the cat is the mascot for Resona Bank. He appears calm and intelligent, but he can be clumsy and surprisingly prone to tears. He tends to get absorbed in his own world and often finds himself alone. Thus, he is single and inexperienced in romance.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

reminder as the weather heats up in the UK that you can make nice iced tea (not the super-sweet american stuff) by: 1) filling a big bottle with water 2) putting four or five tea bags (or equivalent leaf) in it 3) sticking it in the fridge for 6hrs works perfectly.

Cllr Williams wants dead people on the roads.

oh golly gee i wonder if that's coz the previous government, Reform, and the current government all push the idea that we're being invaded by swarms of our fellow human beings

The Welsh 20mph default is arguably the most successful road safety initiative this century. Winning international road safety awards, reducing casualties by 26% and insurance premiums. Yes, more should have been spent on engagement, but its a winning policy. www.20splenty.org/wales-pma-20mph

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

personal lifelong side quest to fix these every time I see it. the red cord needs to hang all the way to the ground so people can reach it if they fall.

Who tf is shutting down museum accounts. who is responsible for this. I will fight you

Kinda tired of the "historians will say they're close friends" meme. Babe, we've been screaming about how gay everyone is for *decades*. Funding for history keeps getting cut as a result. There are entire moral panics about it. You just haven't read any history since highschool.

Reminder that if you're in the UK, then CPC Farnell probably have whatever tech stuff you'd normally buy from Amazon and do free delivery on any UK order over £20. They've also never tried to make me listen to an AI podcast about USB-C cables. cpc.farnell.com

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment “Forget you were ever Polly. Think young male, that was the thing. Fart loudly and with self-satisfaction at a job well done, walk like a puppet that’d had a couple of random strings cut, never hug anyone, and, if you meet a friend, punch them.”

Solar panels don’t damage the countryside you just don’t like the way they look. Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

Quick vid about the latest episode!

My piece on @theupfront.media about Lufthansa's uniform partnership with Hugo Boss, and why it's important companies (and PR teams) know their corporate history. If you don't engage with your corporate history, then it WILL engage with you. #history #aviation

The mission to get 100 women to walk on the Moon - without leaving Earth. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Japanese scientist who painstakingly reconstructed 1,200 years of data on peak cherry blossom blooms in Kyoto to show the effects of climate change has passed away; fortunately, another scientist has volunteered to continue his project.

Fuck this. As an industry, we are in an existential crisis of book banning because of homophobia and transphobia weaponized by racist authoritarians. “Dirty books” are not the problem. Censorship is. Make whatever books you like, but don’t you dare call other books dirty in your shitty marketing.

how do we have so many books. where do they come from. where do they GO

B.S. Johnson has clearly found that 'Organ Interlock' wasn't giving the user a sufficient experience