"It's not natural" says the priest about homosexuality. The priest who has SUPPOSEDLY sworn off sex, which is the most natural thing we do.

MUST READ: The U.S. Is Pulling 900 Sensors Out of the Ocean. The Consequences Will Last Decades. www.onestnetwork.com/the-u-s-is-p...

France probes HSBC for helping former Lebanese central bank governor embezzle $300m. Could follow the UK, bury bank scandals. 2002-2007 HBOS SME frauds, not investigated. 2012, US fined HSBC $1.9bn for money laundering. UK govt protected HSBC, no UK investigation. archive.ph/Zsuov

Your gentle, periodic reminder that even what you consider to be a neutral tone of voice can feel like yelling to an autistic child or adult who has an exquisitely sensitive emotional barometer and bat-like hearing. Thank you for listening. #autism #neurodiversity #autistic

NYC is the safest it’s been in its entire 400-year history. Except for the Spurs.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

We need to think deeper: why is this unacceptable for a 17 year old but acceptable for an 18 year old - or a 57 year old? Age controls are not the real problem.

Happy Story Time: My mom rarely acknowledges my job as "real." She'd rather I be an English teacher. So when she thanked me for being an editor because the book she was reading on Kindle had a bunch of basic grammar errors... It was a big moment for me 🥺 editors are needed and appreciated #editing

Freedom of expression includes the right to criticise, challenge, and even ridicule religion and belief. Too often, public authorities treat alleged blasphemy as the problem, while failing to protect those facing threats and intimidation for exercising their rights. humanists.uk/2026/06/03/b...

If that were the rule then I guess that would also mean that neither Trump nor his children could stand as President nor vote. They are so very very dim.

We want to believe that justice is blind to wealth, deaf to power, open to all. | https://bit.ly/4x5U3oT But barrister Jolyon Maugham reveals something far more unsettling; the law has become power's greatest shield rather than its check.

AI boosters promised it would cut jobs. I don’t think they predicted it would be the jobs of highly valued people who couldn’t bear to work with AI around.

Went on a naked bike ride with my wife. It was late in the evening on a quiet bike path to comply with legislation requiring the location to be suitable, but in a free country it should be self-evident that #naturists always have the freedom to be naked in public. #legalizenudity #normalizenaturism

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Exactly! Use sunscreen! If you don’t, you have to look at my numerous skin cancer surgery scars! Hey, I don’t make the rules!

“I love the poorly educated.” — Donald J Trump

Blimey. This petition is now is now at almost 98,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 today and have that debate petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Imagine a stranger sitting across from you on a train. Through their glasses, they could see your name, your social media, your mutual friends and where you work, go to school or hang out. This is the world Meta want ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/bkti

Sandro Gozi MEP, the chair of the European delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Assembly, has argued that a return "could be done more quickly than for other candidate countries because there is the institutional memory there from when the UK was a member".

The only one who fights for your rights is you. Don't look to anyone powerful to do that, they only respond to your pressure.

It's very obvious that you need legislation. Well, what you really need are ministers with the bravery to talk about and show leadership on this issue rather than using the supreme court judgment like a kind of shield. But we do not have that and are unlikely to get it anytime soon.

One of my brothers was in the music business, writing and producing, and when new technology turned every laptop into a recording studio he worried that everyone could now do what he was doing. A few new people did, but not many. Turned out you needed talent, not technology.

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

“The results are in”

The rest of the world sees President Trump as a combination of a dictator and a bully willing to use U.S. power to coerce anyone he sees fit.

Holocaust denial, but the newspapers pretending to give a damn about antisemitism, The Times, Telegraph and Mail, haven't covered it because it's not about the Greens.

Inspirado [in-spuh-RAH-doh] (n.) - One who believes oneself to be an inspired but under-appreciated genius. From Spanish “inspirado” (inspired). Used in a sentence: “Every coffeehouse harbors at least one inspirado who mistakes grandiloquence for intellect and eccentricity for brilliance.”

Wes Streeting wants new laws to force your GP to share your medical records. The bill was not in Labour's Manifesto and Palantir has explicitly said, under a new Government, it would be happy to use medical data for other purposes. Be afraid.

A study shows that when medical chatbots are required to interact with real people they arrive at the right diagnosis in only 35% of cases - and the study authors ask 'why humans fail when interacting with LLM based tools?' Is it really the humans that are failing? www.bmj.com/content/393/...

We do what's right because it's right. Because it is our duty. The rest doesn't matter. - Stoicism Good morning. #QOTD

A company planting 30% tree canopy in every city, starting from the most financially deprived suburb and working out from there

👀 Business leaders call for a bolder move than the current ‘reset’ of European relations. Read The Observer's article here: https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/rejoin-eu-to-boost-economy-and-revive-premiership-starmer-urged

It's the principled nature of Labour's stances, like the pressing need to give young people a stake in democracy, that I most admire about them.

Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world, including in India #WomensArt

I just signed a petition to stop the rollout of facial recognition surveillance in the UK. The Government and shops are scanning us without clear laws in place, using our faces like barcodes. It feels really invasive. Can you take 30 seconds to sign it too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

The country that shares a 1,340 km border with Russia is now saying Europe can't rely on Washington. Sanna Marin: Europe needs unified military forces — and Ukraine must be inside them.

[And before anyone starts, usual reminder that both the French and the German lifeboat services are also private charities served by volunteers] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...

I can never forgive the #AI companies that allowed their products to be used for dishonest purposes. They have made every photograph and every video suspect. That is a huge disservice to the world.

Without energy efficiency, the EU would need — and pay — 31% more for energy today. Since 2000, efficiency has removed 265 Mtoe of demand from the market entirely. The best protection against a price shock is not finding cheaper oil and gas. It's needing less of it.

JFC, you "want us to get married soon", and you're whining about this garbage in a newspaper?

They'll hurt adults too: adults will have to compromise their privacy in order to 'pass' the age verification systems, passing on critical data to untrustworthy companies. Some will be chilled away from using services or visiting websites at all. This does not just harm kids. It harms everyone.

I watched the Louis Theroux Inside the Manoshphere documentary. Pretty disgusting the views that these people hold, and the way they prey on insecure young men. If you follow their ideas and think you need money, women, and dominance to have self worth, you’ll die a lonely, miserable old man. (1/3)

Top travel tip: Put a chair or similar against your room door at night. If someone's trying to break in they'll succeed, but the noise will wake you up & give you 10 seconds to do something. Cf: woman assaulted in a hotel room after reception gave a man the room-key: 😡 www.bbc.com/news/article...

More than 60 civil society groups have written to Congress to oppose Meta’s plans to integrate facial rec into its glasses. “The groups say that adding the technology to Meta Ray-Bans would harm both users and the public, calling it a ‘creepy and unacceptable escalation of surveillance.’”

I did not know about this kind of insidious pricing. Thank you for highlighting it!

New York’s public hospitals dropped Palantir this week. Is it time the NHS did the same? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai