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I guess everyone must be sunbathing? If anyone sees this, Fiddler’s in #Bristol goes to auction on June 17. It needs saving. It’s a vital community & music space.

THIS. Do I worry about the effects of social media on my 11-year-old? Obviously yes. Do I think she should be banned from it any more than young men falling into the manosphere on Reddit, middle-aged ladies being dragged into transphobia on Mumsnet, or pensioners radicalised by Facebook? 100% no.

Constantly mistaking mundane tasks for heroic quests on horseback? Sounds like a Tilting at Windmill Issue

some dope earlier this week tried to gaslight people by saying the pushback on AI mirrors the pushback when the internet went mainstream and no it fucking does not! people were excited about the internet! ffs it wasn’t 100 years ago, a lot of us were THERE

I’ve done something terrible

Every trans-supporting cis person in the UK needs to make peace with becoming more annoying, persistent, and pedantic than they ever thought possible. EHRC guidance is full of contradictions - they're relying on transphobic compliance out of fear. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM

Meet the new toilet monitor, same as the old toilet monitor

First Brexit, then immigration and now this. What, if anything, does Andy Burnham actually disagree with Keir Starmer about?

This means that if someone comes up to you and says hey, there's a tranny using your loos, kick them out, you may have to ask the customer discreetly "hey, sorry, I got a complaint. Can you confirm you're using the right loo?" and if they say "Yeah I am" you are DONE. That is all you need do.

For business owners, the important part of the new ECHR advice is this: 13.179: There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex. [...] Therefore, it is unlikely to be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

I don’t tend to talk about this much on here, but with the news this week my heart is breaking for my trans peers in the UK and NZ. I’m not quite sure that most of our cis colleagues understand how much it feels like the walls are closing in for us these days. 1/

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Someone misread my trans rights shirt and thought it said "train rides" but now I quite want a "TRAIN RIDES ARE HUMAN RIGHTS" shirt as well

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

I think tech tutorials should be text with screenshots

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

A website I use A LOT - really unpleasant to see it's been targeted. Show them some love via the donate button if you can!

@europeansleeper.eu hi European Sleeper... my sister requested a refund for a ticket and you attempted to send money to her (now) expired credit card. Despite her providing the new card details, no refund has appeared. Can you please action this?

the threat of violence is an act of violence, and declaring your support for violence is, likewise, a threat of violence. A nazi march is _of_itself_ violent. Telling people you think they should be killed is, inherently, violent: to walk down the street in nazi regalia is to commit a violent act.

OK - stay with me. This ship shows the difficulty with UK Gov's policy of hoping batteries will sort rail freight. This ship has 10 containers of batteries (19MWh), but only a range of 90ish miles (1/2).

Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.

Vote today in the UK local elections. Don't forget your voter ID if you live in England. Here is the list of acceptable forms of photo ID for England. [No ID required in Wales or Scotland.] www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-e...

Vote. Vote against transphobia. Vote against hate. Vote.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

The key thing about batteries -- and I have a whole-ass pod on this subject coming out soon -- is that electricity systems to date have been built for peak demand, which means a ton of generation capacity is sitting idle a ton of the time. With batteries, you can soak up that capacity!

Adam Scott hits that sweet spot of being about as a cool of person as you can while still being described as a dweeb

Slightly diminish a poem: The Rime of the Superannuated Mariner

I have a friend who is very fond of this mindmelting example of wayfinding at West Ham station. To the extent that she takes family and friends there to take selfies. So come on the internet, what other examples of mad signage are there out there? #auditortrap

And evergreen advice for any kind of alarming email/phone call. Something I have struggled to remember when I've been phished, for real.

I yearn for a government which lifts up, instead of cracking down

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE

This has always been something that infuriates me. I have never checked the chromosomes of anyone. The percentage of people I know whose genitalia I have inspected doesn't even rise to 0.1%. We all, *all the time*, accept people's gender based on self-ID. That's the only way the concept can function

i'm just over it. give me policies. give me a manifesto. give me pledges, and then if you try to break them you don't get to say 'well you voted for this'. let me vote for something concrete, not a person and a think tank and polling.

I'm a broken record on this but the radicalisation and brain rot of Gen X/boomers is a massively under-appreciated problem

Johnny Depp is in a lot of cologne ads for someone who looks like they just hit a Febreze bath after a smoke break

Well done to the Telegraph for making this look like a bad news story.

Legit one of my favourite films. Made me seriously consider a career as an assassin.

i will never forget how elon musk said absolutely nothing at all about the NASA artemis ii mission except one post making fun of that women who took the photo of the launch in the reflection of her glasses. he hates space

Hans Zimmer is possibly my favourite composer of all time. I think it's important that we sep- Nah. No. Fuck 'im. Trans rights are human rights.

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

Would be a great time for Starmer to follow Spain’s lead and deny use of our bases and airspace. He’s announced he’s planning a genocide, we should not be party to it.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

People are so weird about non-nuclear families. A family can be two rats, a married lesbian couple and their danish friend who lives in the spare room. what are you not getting.

Happy Easter to those celebrating! Here is my very favorite Easter painting: “Happy Easter” by Michel Sowa.

die hard is actually an easter movie as it’s a story of sacrifice, rebirth, hope, redemption, and hot evil guys

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman