Same-sex marriage is an instructive analogy here, but not for the reasons Streeting thinks. “Trans women can still use toilets - just not women’s toilets” is just like “gay people can still get married - just not to other men”.

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🇫🇷🇺🇦 Two Mirage 2000 fighter jets with a Franco-Ukrainian crew will fly over Paris during the Bastille Day parade on July 14, - Le Figaro. ✈️ One of the Mirage 2000s will be painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

He has a point here. Not because the EU's policies are always good for humanity; they aren't. But because the idea of European integration—uniting people of different countries as equal citizens of a joint supranational democracy—is more humanist than the opposing principle of national sovereignty.

"Gatekeeping" sounds like a sinister elite conspiracy to marginalise dissent, but basic respect for facts is actually quite a good gate and it really could use a bit of keeping here and there

Behind every story like this seems to be the same thing: the public sector being cut beyond breaking point

City AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...

At this point it's basically pathlogical. The site is once again being used to whip up race riots and people with responsibility for national security are on it merrily whistling away.

Solidarity with Jess. I hope this case will set a legal precedent on the responsibilities of AI businesses when it comes to deepfake intimate image abuse and harms that the tech industry needs to urgently wake up to.

Five years ago, I made a meme I'm still mighty chuffed with.

wow who could have predicted that the people who cheerily accepted schools fees rising far quicker than incomes for no very good reason over a period of decades would be price insensitive

Rest in peace the legendary John Blanche (1948 - 2026)

This is massive, and I don't think we can overestimate what that means for EU. We might see really big shifts here - away from the in/out model to more staged membership and differentiated integration.

RIP John. You were an incredible artist who inspired so much & so many. Not only the master of grimdark, he was also a kind friend who loved afternoon tea & nature. I'll be raising a glassy of bubbly & going outside to appreciate butterflies in his memory & encourage everyone to do the same 🖤

It started to rain quiet heavily and given I had some background music on it was actually rather nice and atmospheric. Then the hail started against the windows and now I can't hear anything but the TATTATATATATATAT. So, less atmospheric.

TERFs have lied about the risk to cisgender women from allowing trans women in female-only spaces. There is no risk to cisgender women! translucent.org.uk/trans-women-...

🚨NEW REPORT: Plug-in hybrids in Europe emit 5x more CO2 than officially reported. The gap between real-world and official CO2 emissions of cars is widening. And for plug-in hybrids, the gap is remarkably high: - 2021 plug-in hybrid vehicles: 265% - 2023 plug-in hybrid vehicles: 400%.

Henry Nowak's father: "This is not a case about Sikhism. This is not a case about racism. This is a case about murder." Farage: "Nah, it's about racism. Have at it, boys!"

I always ask how they want to police this. I've had many trans friends in my time and yet still it's 9 times in 10 the cis women who get challenged by someone because their hair is too short, voice too deep, jaw too strong, shoulders too wide. This "protection" will make it worse for all.

Also with a significant climate benefit: “When wet, peatlands, which are made up largely of undecomposed organic matter, can store huge amounts of carbon and act as a natural carbon sink. But when drained, microbial activity starts to decompose the organic matter and peat becomes a carbon emitter.”

"Gentlemen, you can't report in here! This is the press office!"

happy *quiet, chill* pride

Happy Pride Month to everyone who brings a little more color to our world 🏳️‍🌈🫶🏳️‍⚧️

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

This is Bodie. His presence indicates the beginning of Pride Month. May his whimsy and steadfastness bring joy and confidence to all. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)

Let’s spend Pride month sharing this everywhere, and getting it to 10k signatures. Section 28 did terrible harm. Lessons need to be learned.

Yes, I use dashes. Yes, I use the Oxford comma. Yes, I sometimes say: “Not… but.” Fuck anyone who thinks those things belong to AI. Who did you think they were stolen from in the first place?

insects should come out in winter when the windows are closed

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

Anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism are twin crises. We must confront them together | Binairfer Nowrojee

#fontsonfriday The magnificent Norwich Cathedral front adapted from the copper pan used to make caramel for Rolos at the now closed Cadbury’s factory.

meanwhile (look closely for a punch in the face of irony)

NEW EXAMPLE FOR FONT LESSON JUST DROPPED

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

Storm warning for 3:30 today so rushed to finish building the new rainwater collector tanks, connected together and all. The sun is currently out. The odds that if we hadn't rushed it'd currently be pouring?

Some Strait of Hormuz self reflection. If you’d told me in, say, early to mid March, that the Strait would still be mostly closed at the end of May I’d have expected oil prices well north of $150 and evidence of physical shortages and disruption in Europe and developed Asia by now. 1/3

In case further evidence is needed that the meaningful word in artificial intelligence is artificial

I'm concerned people think I'm joking about this.

just when you thought kim jong un had the monopoly on outré methods of execution

from the table of contents of "dewey decimal system"

When I reported on the 15 Minute Cities protests in Oxford I was struck by the way lots of people I spoke to described themselves as a car driver in a way that really felt like an underrecognised form of identity politics. Having said that OH MY GOD

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

As a keen hobbyist I normally hate these videos delighting in wrecks, but this is a fantastic training video. If nothing else that take off was far too slow. And the location was begging for such an incident. Open, unobstructed runways. . .

If this is allowed to stand, how long before other groups are excluded from public places on the basis that their presence might cause "discomfort or distress for other service users"? This will set a hell of precedent.

It also has the potential for quite some nasty infighting within the UK government, and (obviously) divergence from the EU benefitting no one but Russia.

The easing of sanctions is turning quite into a public image disaster for the UK government. Others will have to judge the technicalities, but this looks like the FCDO is already trying to row back.

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...