Genuinely utterly obvious to any non-american that this would be a vastly better world

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.

They don't It does PIP is not an out of work benefit. FFS, these people are about to ruin people's lives with absolutely no idea what they are talking about while they do it. Not to mention the complete lack of understanding about how needs change, which makes arguments like "mild ADHD" redundant

You can't just up and decide to reappear on the same day lindsey graham drops dead and not expect me to think some sort of dark magick ritual sacrifice soul eating took place. It's called occam's razor

I was wrong; it appears Gooseworx has been banned from tumblr. Given she's trans I'm going to go ahead and assume it was by the kind of people who call her "GooSSeworx" for making a character trans.

The New York Times doesn't like the monster it has helped create....

Because there's misinformation going round - yes, Amnesty has removed their report on hate groups. No, it has not been moved. Here is the page linking to the report. The link goes nowhere: www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hu...

I'd like to think this… episode… might make ordinary Americans less willing to accept DOGE-style dismantling of food safety standards in future. Americans may ignore a lot of things, but the noticeable American fixation with anything involving people's bottoms may yet override that.

Apparently, Amnesty International pulled their list of anti-trans hate groups, so I should probably re-post this. ashley-nein.notion.site/19101d3e04aa...

Hell yeah. You had me at “drug-infested,” baby

every private equity guy for some reason: step 1 to improving this company is firing everybody who knows what they're doing

Days after the UK's 'conversion therapy' ban (that appears to do the opposite), we have the Church of England holding an event that appears to platform conversion therapists. anglican.ink/2026/07/07/a...

'No Way To Prevent This,' Say Pundits Who Regularly Make This Happen

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

The world would be better off if the word "smoothgroin" had never been invented.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Birthday to Megan Rapinoe! ⚽ Olympic gold medalist, World Cup champion, and an unapologetic advocate for LGBTQ+ equality, equal pay, and social justice. She continues to inspire people on and off the field. Happy Birthday, Megan! 🌈 #QueerHistory #HappyBirthday #ForgottenQueers #Podcast

Congratulations to America on 248 years of democracy

Thank you Trump for keeping us safe with a TSA screening to watch fireworks on the Washington Mall: a thing that was not necessary before Trump fixed the city and Made It Safe Again Thank you for protecting us from sunscreen, Mr Trump

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

Social media polarization is not, imo, a story of the masses becoming radicalized: it is a story of elites becoming radicalized, and that trickling down.

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

Next in series: Rehabilitation of Dogshit Men - A National Imperative, by the New York Times Editorial Board

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

You've echoed your last bunnyman

These candidates are winning with Democrats because the corporate centrist weakling approach has repeatedly failed to deliver the programs we hoped we were voting for. We wanted Mamdanis and got Schumers and Merrick Garlands and it sucks. The voters are not wrong. The party has failed us.

I wish more people were upset that so many governments are now open to send people "back" to some random state they are not even remotely from. As we can see, fascists will also delibrately use this to send people to completely different countries, even continents, to places...

Et voila. We are so going to have to peacefully protest tf out of this. They can't attack and reduce rights at home why pretending to care about them internationally! www.gov.uk/government/n...

Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

GREAT NEWS: I've been told the charges against Kris have been dismissed by the county prosecutor! But while the DA was on her side this time, but the fact remains: Ripper won't be the last trans person who is forced to go through something like this. Whoever is next might not be so lucky...

Jax if she wasn't a huge piece of shit.

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat in Dublin whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. The group, called Dialog, is a private, invitation-only organization cofounded in 2006 by the billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Women: if you think men have a poor understanding of female anatomy, just you wait until AI replaces your gynecologist. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

How can we live in a system where a bunch of hateful freaks can write into law that trans women don't need breast cancer screening or gynecologists when it's literally a fact we do? I'm so angry about how observable reality and scientific fact is not remotely considered in any of this stupid process

The struggle is real

Quietly, quietly, the UK Supreme Court is embarked on a rollback of the human rights and judicial protections of vulnerable minorities which looks every bit as stark as that of the US Supreme Court.

I know it doesn’t matter at all whether they’re transphobic enthusiastically or cynically, but when you lay it out like this it’s the most ‘prepared statement read by hostage’ cadence I can imagine

The Republican attitude to childbirth is clear: if there's any trouble, the mother goes down with the ship.

1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix. Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection. They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵

Fun fact: people aren’t more divided now because of a lack of exposure to other people‘s opinions. Studies strongly suggest we’re more divided because we are CONSTANTLY exposed to the unfiltered opinions of other people, and now we know what they truly are and what they truly want.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Every time I hear or read “dignity and respect” I just can’t take it seriously anymore it’s like “Thoughts and prayers” It means nothing, you don’t actually care but you feel you need to say something even if you don’t mean it. It’s just filler, nothing more than that.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

I can only easily draw light to this via screenshots. But what do you all think? It's looking very worrying to me "If you do not have this data, you should take reasonable and proportionate steps to obtain it." How?

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

Did this guy just come back from Westworld??