if this has to be a news story it should be that a qualified and competent doctor has been run out of a struggling NHS simply because she is transgender

Something extremely funny could happen tomorrow

"Half the country thinks—" Stop right there. Some politicians, media figures, and influencers might, but they're nowhere close to half. Good piece by @dennycarter.bsky.social about efforts to make TPUSA halftime, the Melania movie, etc appear popular so that people think America's evenly divided.

I'm off to That There to drag @nickcrossland.bsky.social around some exhibitions and drink some pints ✌🏻 I come equipped with a little bag of cherry tomatoes, we are all in good hands

It’s a lovely morning… to watch a three part mini-documentary on the @thornbridge.bsky.social Burton Union, which I’ve compiled into a handy playlist on YouTube here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I read this early doors today and felt a lot of it deep in my bones. Just finished my day at work and I feel it even more.

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

Crikey the Italian rugby lads are letting the karaoke side down something dreadful

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Just had a fella come into the pub with a bag full of unused sanitary products; his wife's died and he wanted to donate them to us as he knows we keep a stock. How's your day started? 🫠🥲

There are Batman villains less purposefully cruel than this.

mate at the bar just said "what was that show called...? they'd take the week's news and, like, take the piss out of it." ELITE PUB CHAT

smoking is bad for you blah blah blah but I don't remember ever having to tell a smoker not to light up indoors multiple times in one visit. vaping is a plaaaaaaaaague.

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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

This is just unconscionable man

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

hell is here

people who order their beers simply by stating the ABVs are a niche brand of annoying, but annoying nonetheless. do they also order at coffee shops or restaurants by just saying calorie values to the staff? use your WORDS!!

I know I shouldn't be surprised because local facebook groups are batshit insane even outside of WINDSOR, but how did we get to a point that seemingly normal people are posting photos of random public service contractors in their uniforms doing their jobs because they're suspiciously not white

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."

I heard a comedian point out that one of the bizarre things about the Epstein files is how many emails ended with "Sent on my iPad" So now I can't stop imagining the most evil people in the world writing horrific shit looking like

i think the rubber band is going to snap back and it’s going to be valuable to actually know how to write and edit and construct things on your own because of ai and not the other way around

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

I bet when she landed the Wuthering Heights gig, Emerald Fennell was GUTTED she'd already put that grave scene in Saltburn. Porking the grave of your beloved is peak Heathcliff behaviour

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Drake Maybenot

Lady Gaga is the people's princess. There shall never be another.

Contraband hot dog mustard in my pocket, decked out in black and orange for a team that's not even playing, ready to work til 6am, happy super bowl sunday everyone

no great artists have ever struggled, a famous thing about artists that we all know. everyone prior to three years ago lived lives of luxury.

"We're going to Italy, let's bring our own food!" This is exactly how stupid I thought JD Vance was.

If we wanna talk about how interactions with AI bots reflect upon us as people maybe we should talk about what it means about you if you enjoy conversation where the other party gives you sycophantic praise every single reply

I've just seen that horrid video of some ICE thug kicking a dog during a raid, and it IS horrid, obviously, but if THIS is the thing that finally makes "Heckin Doggo" people voice an opinion on ICE brutality I'm going to lose the plot. find me that Community meme, stat.

Entire world: welcome to the “decathlon,” ten classic athletic skills in one event! Finland: no. biathlon. Two things. Ski and gun

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

thing is. football fans know they are insufferable. rugby fans have it in their head that the Jeans And Shoes makes the cocaine and violence okay. you're still a thug, even though you're named Jonty and you have a linkedin.

EXCLUSIVE: allies of Keir Starmer say they have never seen him so peeved, and that he spent all of Friday saying "oooh I'm VERY annoyed at myself!" They added he's really beating himself up right now and that's worse than any formal punishment parliament could give so they shouldn't bother probably

Don't game the player, blame the plame

I realized that a lot of the guys who have been found in the Epstein files are probably really struggling because the guy they would have gone to for advice about being discovered in the Epstein files was JEFFREY EPSTEIN

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Also, all automatic doors are too slow. They'll be gone as well.

Saw someone PERFECTLY describe J.D. Vance's trying-too-hard-to-be-internet-edgelord personality as "the first adult groomed by teens" and I'd add that he's also trying to fully embody 'Divorced Guy Energy' while remaining married.

bro just one more ‘the left is bad’ speech bro, I swear one more speech shitting on the left and it’ll fix politics bro

British Museum using generative AI in social media posts, caught up in unexpected Stealing Someone Else's Work And Claiming It As Their Own scandal

the good news is that denmark saved over 90% of its jewish population from the holocaust