Marveling at the Balenciaga curling shoe. That’s niche #WinterOlympics

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Q: The Equality Act is the legal guarantee that you can't be sacked for being pregnant, you can't be refused housing because of your race, you can't be harassed at work because you are disabled or gay" Yusuf: "We will make sure there are measures to make sure those things do not happen" Q: How?

Video campaigns for the by-election have been weirdly fascinating. In summary/what 3 words: Greens “I’m just dead normal, me” hardware.snood.greyhounds Labour “I really bloody love Manchester” pasties.terraces.burnham Reform “I know what these poor people need…” gillet.slop.smug

I also wonder how many of those nontechnical people understand UX and the like, or does their much-vaunted program work like it was thrown together by somebody's kid cousin in VB? I also wonder if they've ever needed to add or modify a feature and what the token cost of that change was. 3/3

We interrupt tributes to Jesse Jackson to bring you your daily dose of racism. Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.

Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this. If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?

This could only be more #AccidentalPartridge if someone dropped a cow from that bridge

Matt Goodwin driving up and down the extremely non-residential end of Ashton Old Road with a loudspeaker is such a tell that he's never been there before. That's a product of googling "main road Gorton".

Last Friday I hosted After Section 28, a conference looking back at Section 28, the law that banned the promotion of homosexuality

A small German state’s quiet revolt against Microsoft – and what it means for Europe

Ordering a garden bin collection permit for my father-in-law on his phone, and we discovered all of his Google search phrases end in please. Adorable but he’s not that polite in real life

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

That tribune to working people, Matt Goodwin, refusing to do hustings unless he gets his own Green Room? Surely not!

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Practised our walk into the Blackpool Tower ballroom, where we plan to drum to Magalenha in time with world champion dancers. We’re practising walking off next week. Carnage, with feathers

Think I’ll lay off commenting on the Olympics for fear of jinxing the athletes 👀

Worth reading the whole article. Some have cut back on screen time, some have not. Those who have got round the ban (unsurprisingly easy) are now seeing entirely unfiltered content.

Spent the day at the After Section 28 conference, learning from people who were at the very forefront of fighting LGBTQ+ hate in the 80s and since. Apart from a couple of wrong uns who turned up, everyone in the room understood the links between transphobia, racism and the far right

Watching a BBC report on digital inclusion, with someone running mobile phone drop-in sessions in his local shop. Feel like we’ve lost 10 years, and remembered everyone scoffed at Jeremy Corbyn putting free internet access as core social infrastructure in manifesto 🤷‍♀️

Trans teacher: “I’d like staff and students to refer to me as Mx” School: “Sure, that’s a reasonable request” Tommy Robinson (criminal): “Guess I’ll start harassing this teacher - at school, at home, everywhere” Gavin Williamson MP: “Keep it up, Tommy, and let me know if you need anything”

Having done disco curling for 50 minutes in Stockport two weeks ago, I am both heavily invested and surprisingly knowledgeable about the GBR vs CAN game #WinterOlympics

Something quite uncanny about Hazel Irvine commenting on this lunatic opening ceremony. Like an HR manager trying to explain QAnon.

Tom Daley’s been busy with his needles #Olympics

Some of the NION founders are at the After Section 28 conference today, hearing how far we’ve come, how easily it could all fall away and what we might do differently. So much power in the room

Thank you @rufflemuffin.bsky.social for such an affirming day at the After Section 28 conference. I feel genuinely humbled to have been in that room with so many change-makers. Talk about speaking truth to power 💜

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Looking forward to seeing some good people at this tomorrow.

I'm still doing some stuff about PDFs and accessibility. Looking at how to fix legacy PDFs so they work for Assistive Tech users. Genuinely tempted to just have a single paragraph: First of all, question if you actually need it to be PDF? Then just don't publish it as PDF. Seriously. Don't.

Polanski going after Palantir is a breath of fresh air. Procurement questions to answered and processes to kick in, if we’re serious about misconduct and reputation in government/health service provision. Fear we’d be kicked off a framework for filing a couple of CCS invoice submissions incorrectly

Lots of ramifications from a frantic day in politics – not all of them will be apparent now. Yet I can't help but feel that the most striking takeaway is the political savvy displayed by Angela Rayner No 10 surely hers if she wants it

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Absolutely brilliant article by Lily Isaacs in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today about how the horrors and crimes of the Epstein scandal are being laundered through the deployment of TikTok memes and what is carefully designed to look like coping humour. Hard not to conclude it's deliberate.

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Discussing the <16 ban on social media and saying you don’t agree with it is not the same as stating you’d burn X to the ground and remove it from everyone, because it’s doing illegal stuff. Can think both things 😬

The death of Twitter, beautifully articulated by the legendary Stewart Lee. Catch this full episode of The Trawl anywhere you get your pods ✌🏾

Facebook, where you can watch multiple videos of Matt Goodwin being petulant and doing an actual racism but a man/bot called Barrie will obsess over whether the other, better candidates are “even English” or are married to multi-millionaires #RealManchester

Told my wife I’d booked a surprise for her 50th that I can’t tell her about until the night and she genuinely asked if it was Michael McIntyre’s Unexpected Star. FFS

🤣 Melania the film "Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out."

Kids absolutely appalled I know ever line to Word Up. Event more embarrassed when I said it was probably on my “video tape”. We didn’t discuss the red plastic codpiece

It seems pretty clear that island was an open secret in the super rich and powerful set and that men of all political stripes went there and did disgusting things. So weird that still the only person in prison for it all is a woman.

There's no point in posting the indisputible take that Best in Show was Catherine O'Hara's finest performance because, by definition, Best in Show is the career high point of every single person who was involved in Best in Show.

Some reasons to feel positive today. Well done to all those women who push back on legal challenges, and push through resolutions notinourname.org.uk

You honestly don't have to show me what Twitter's saying. That's why I'm here and not there.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

In Stockholm and had a lovely afternoon work drink and chat with a small and very funny group of colleagues. Feeling amused to have left them with a story that has everyone googling Tommy Docherty

Matt Goodwin's lies about his background have hopelessly confused Google AI 😉

Matt Goodwin walking into his first Manchester electoral event.

Matt Goodwin. In Gorton and Denton. The most ridiculous thing I’ve read all week. What to do 🤷‍♀️