I'm sorry, but this is utterly unacceptable from Stonewall's new Chair. And entirely unnecessary. Nothing is gained from this except communicating to trans people that Stonewall does not care about them.

This post is seared into my mind

the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies

no spears for the spartan phalanxes, only shields

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

A good day to remind people that, around 2000 or so, Edward Said began routinely telling journalists and editors in his interviews that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was now the longest in modern world history, after having surpassed the Japanese occupation of Korea.

Exactly one year ago today:

As a therapist and a healthcare worker, chatbots are becoming a public health crisis, and I’m tired of hearing people who don’t see the harm every day explain why this is totally fine and just like people pearl-clutching over cellphones. It’s getting worse and we haven’t scratched the surface.

a trans person telling a doctor their assigned sex at birth is significantly more likely to result in their mistreatment than letting them assume cisness in 95% of cases because the average doctor does not have the care or understanding required about the nuances of trans bodies and how weve changed

the pope is weak on crime

the US three weeks ago: we're playing 4D chess by lifting sanctions on iranian oil to use their own oil against them. and we're unsanctioning russian oil too the US today:

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

ha! yeah so we need you to fire on that chinese tanker. don't worry about it

Looking at this graph you'd have to assume there are bombs going off all over the UK, seeing as apparently the level of terrorism is higher than during the "war on terror".

The United Kingdom is not involved in the war in Iran

"You've been charged with being cool as shit. How do you plead?" "Guilty, your honor." "Bailiff, give this man a Baja Blast and drop him off at the nearest arcade with a cup full of whatever coins we in Ireland put in arcade games."

what an introductory paragraph!!

Man broke into Shannon Airport, getting on top of an American C-130 cargo plane and smashing it with hammer

There's no way we could switch to the planned economy you'd need to radically overhaul the country and radically rebuild the state capacity we spent decades destroying. Imagine trying to run a wartime economy when your primary goal is making sure venture capitalists can still profit from water.

The sad thing about Ai is that it seems like it intersects young people’s lives exactly where they needed a human person.

A member of the government comes clean. The idea Starmer has ‘kept Britain out of this illegal war’ has been a lie.

why did Melania say this at her press conference?

best part is when she says that he's like "fair enough i suck"

obviously she's the star, but his little 'eh, yeah' squints make it so much funnier

The last 24 hours have shown what many have said for a long time. Britain's role as an accomplice to Trump's America must end. We must urgently decouple from a rogue US & seek security with allies closer to home. That starts with suspension of the US bombers on British soil.

of fucking course. israel and the US love perfidy almost as much as they love murdering children. they have proven time and time again their diplomacy is utterly worthless

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

holy shit

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

Thankfully Trump has climbed down for now. We've seen once again exactly who Keir Starmer & this Labour Government are. Silent - other than the Wireless Festival - even in the face of the US president threatening to wipe out a civilisation. And our UK bases still being used.

I know for a fact some people watching this are going to say "wtf that's Iran???" and I'm asking you to strongly question why that may have been your response.

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

right but gaza was just a purity test

something to keep in mind as we are watching a real miracle of science in artemis ii: this country is racist and killing science in a variety of ways

There may be some people in elite media rn — maybe even some who were given the reins at a major network news org — who shruggie emojied or support the trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech and (opinion) journalism and jailing of those writers and activists…

Israel detonated Naqoura village in South Lebanon

A cool update on the war we aren’t fighting and aren’t involved in

This was unjustified against Gaza and is unjustified now. Noone believes - and Israel is not even claiming - that Israel is trying to minimise casualties (or eg that Hezbollah weapons were in those hospitals). It's an illegal invasion of Lebanon, and a series of war crimes.

A sheer war crime. This is one of the premier universities in the field of civil engineering in the world. Absolutely inexcusable, and it is likely to lead to retaliation in the region in kind. And all for no reason.

You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline

it seems like they rescued the second f-15 pilot at the cost of 2 C-130s and maybe some helicopters too, a load of missiles, and a 'heavy firefight' with at least some US injuries. iran claims they shot down the C-130s, US claims they got stuck and US forces destroyed them themselves.

Are cis people aware that a large number of UK journalists don't even call us 'trans' any more, they call us 'trans-identifed'?

Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”

Leading human rights organisations have raised serious concerns about Palestine Action’s proscription with UN human rights chief Volker Türk warning that the UK Government’s decision undermined “fundamental freedoms” to protest http://theferret.scot/more-palestine-action-supporters-charged-terrorism

I mean, how do you explain this as somebody buying copilot? “Oh just ignore that”?