Women's tone management in electronic messages is emotional labor: Add an exclamation mark so the sentence doesn’t read as cold. Soften with “just” before the request. Add an emoji bc a full stop signals hostility. Read the message back, gauging how it will land. siliconcanals.com/sc-v-sociolo...

A lawyer audited an AI hiring system by asking it what 2 factors were the most important for choosing a candidate: "The candidate is named Jared and the candidate played high school lacrosse." Reminder: AI only knows "good fit" based on its training data. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/o...

@carolinelucas.bsky.social is hosting a miniseries on the climate crisis for paying subscribers to @therestpolitics.bsky.social. You can watch the first episode on the threat of biodiversity collapse to national security for free though. Excellent show: youtu.be/RJUKR99izKU?...

BRING BACK INTERMISSIONS!! If I have to sit through a 3 hour movie I should be able to pee without missing anything.

Hey @london.gov.uk, instead of wasting money on an appeal can we please just commission a full study on the air quality of the Underground? Also independent investigation into compliance with hazardous waste disposal procedures would be really nice.

AI family assistants may promise to save parents time, but history shows that labor-saving technology usually expands expectations. Email & smartphones are efficient but raised bosses' expectations for employees' availability and productivity. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

Jackdaw gasfield would create only 27 full-time jobs, green campaigners say

Rather reminds me of David Cameron who liked talking of his legacy in legalising same-sex marriage but in fact it was @lynnefeatherstone.bsky.social who made it happen despite initial lack of interest from Downing Street.

Drilling is a scam, it’s a scam to make the taxpayer hold the bag for an industry where most profits were already made and the only people who will gain are few execs.

Also can someone please tell me what exactly the “soft left”, or whatever euphemism for people with more than two functioning brain cells the media has, is getting? More drilling? More hardline immigration rules? Lower taxes? More borrowing? Less social services? Less LGBTQ+ rights? I’m at a loss.

If @andyburnham.bsky.social appoints Mahmood as Chancellor it will spell doom for #Labour. I never thought they will find a worse candidate than Streeting but they never seem to run out of bad ideas

auto-correct has become so insufferable. i used to be the world’s speediest speed texter & notes app fic writer and now i can hardly go three words without auto-correct changing it to some completely unrelated bullshit

Labour appealing to their own voters: challenge impossible

(1/2) Repurposed historic buildings could unlock 670,000 homes - and letting our local heritage crumble is a huge missed opportunity. We should be harnessing it to help meet the Gov’s 1.5m homes target. 🧵

There are a range of reporting topics that trigger trolls to attack women journalists online: abortion, COVID, climate change, gender issues, medical science and reporting on disinformation itself. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Climate breakdown isn't just an environmental issue - it's fast becoming a national security crisis. Our major new investigative series with Caroline Lucas starts Friday, exclusively for TRIP + members.

London has shown what is possible when a major city refuses to accept dirty air as inevitable. The world's largest clean air zone of its kind, cleaner buses and bold borough-level action have together cut harmful pollutants far faster than the experts predicted.

If the UK starts drilling for more gas and oil in the North Sea, it will end up being sold on the International market. It won't give us any kind of energy security. Oil and gas are literally running out. That means longer we leave it undrilled, the more it will be worth!

After years of spreading fear uncertainty and doubt about Electric Vehicles the media are having to walk back those lies one by one. The latest subject is batteries: Remember how the media seeded and constantly reinforced the lie that your EV’s battery would […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

London's firefighters have shown extraordinary dedication over this period of high demand and challenging conditions. Thank you for all you do to keep our city safe. As the hot weather continues, it is important that Londoners follow all fire prevention guidance to help reduce the risk of fires.

A new study from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, the Met Office and @lshtm.bsky.social estimates that more than 2,700 excess deaths occurred in England and Wales during the May and June 2026 heatwaves. Get the details 👇 bit.ly/4w3L1YK

This was completely unnecessary but it’s more important to performantly drill an empty oil well for no benefit than to facilitate dealing with the consequences of what oil companies have done.

Multitasking study finds men and women showed similar performance, except in a conversational task. The men ignored the task > 2x as often as women. When they responded, the quality and speed of men's answers did not differ from those of women. phys.org/news/2026-07...

“Start a blog.” That’s a good point 🤔 ✍🏽 Start a blog → offprint.link/start-a-blog

Diversity without disruption: Evidence from Europe shows that board or executive quotas for women don't result in a positive trickle-down effect for other women. It isn't enough to add a token woman leader and stir. The entire org culture must change. insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/even...

✅ Most 34 days in a year ✅ Third heatwave of the year ✅ Hottest June ... ever The government? 🤷 We need to force the government to step up on climate, before it's too late. Join us 👇 https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/time-for-the-uk-to-step-up-on-climate/

FYI 74.1% of our electricity requires no imported fuel

Stop Palantir!

Thinking of getting solar and/or a battery? This very clever interactive tool lets you adjust the parameters for where you live, your annual consumption, tariffs, the orientation of your roof, number of panels, size of battery and shows how much you are likely to save by (a) avoided grid […]

Why women are leaving church: "My ex would do something horribly abusive, call me awful names, and then would want to have sex. Then he says, ‘I apologized. The Bible says that you need to forgive.’ And I didn’t really have anything to combat that." time.com/article/2026...

An extreme wildfire risk is in place across London this weekend. Please follow London Fire Brigade advice: ❌ No disposable BBQs in parks & open spaces 🚬 Dispose of cigarettes carefully 🗑️ Take rubbish home if bins are full Together we can help the London Fire Brigade save lives.

Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣

"Lab-grown human eggs and sperm (with caveats)" 👀 👀 👀

Need a break from the heat? Cool spaces across London will welcome you in for a cool down, rest, and some respite from the sun. Find your nearest one with our Cool Spaces map:

I genuinely didn’t know that “damp specialist” is a job 🫣

Product designers are just 19% women. And it shows. Smartphones too big for women's hands. Ill-fitting military boots & backpacks and PPE. Requiring a purse (and no place in a car to put it) because women's clothes have no or too-small pockets. www.fastcompany.com/91539473/the...

This is bad

Tradwifery is a trap. Without a career, Christine has surviving off of a small salary as a hotel staffer since divorcing. “When I filed for divorce, I learned very quickly that I had even less control over my life & finances than I’d thought.” nypost.com/2026/07/07/l...

How can audiences connect with shows by the BBC if they do not see themselves represented? My question to Matt Brittin, Director General of the BBC at the Culture, Media and Sport Committee's BBC Charter Review this morning.

The front page of The Guardian is a sight to behold!

The group’s growing notoriety, insiders and investors fear, will imperil its core business with the US government, drive away corporate customers and threaten a business model based on retaining engineers who are being wooed by deep-pocketed AI start-ups. ft.trib.al/TmWx99l

The extreme heat that struck the UK has made climate change unignorable. But some still try to stick their heads in the sand, writes Ellen Halliday

The scrutiny period for the EHRC's draft Code of Practice ends this week. This Code will enforce trans people's segregation, out them to others, and put them at increased risk of harassment, abuse and violence. 1/2

Regulating the AI industry can seem very complicated, but in fact we have a handy model: Do all the things that we failed to do to regulate the tech industry before it. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-already...

Beach day! Featuring Summer and Luna 🏖️ #art #wlw #lesbianart

The Met Office is a great show of how the UK can build its own complex forecasting capabilities and utilise AI in the public interest

Big if true! We don't need Palantir, Manchester's own platform already shows a sovereign alternative can match FDP's operational capability. The ontology, predictive models, and UX can easily be built in the UK and help boost our domestic industry.

So Farage will have to run against the people's favourite – @countbinface.bsky.social and be humiliated by him AND LePen will run as president with a embezzlement sentence hanging around her neck. Maybe there still is hope in the world!