Me on my way to the rapture

If anyone can go to demand answers about the transphobia of YP's co-founders, please do.

Get in loser we’re going to become the third largest party in England (and Wales)

Looking for your first Front-End Developer role? Tom Baker will be doing a talk @frontendsheff.bsky.social this week, sharing how he went from teaching himself to landing a full-time role as a front-end developer at a digital agency. www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... @helpsheffield.co.uk #SheffEvents

What’s your sign?

What’s your sign?

Giving Whisper of the Heart another go, having not really “got” it the first time. I wasn’t expecting a “slice of life” film, and we had a bad introduction to each other. I’ve warmed to it a bit, but find Shizuku difficult to relate to. Still think From Up on Poppy Hill is the better film.

Holy unsmokes. We're not far off overtaking the Liberal Democrats now (when you add up the membership of Scottish Greens and the Green Party of Northern Ireland).

“We are going to have to learn to live with each other”* * terms and exclusions apply

Absolutely every single person in the business of engineering, who works with engineers, who has “engineer” in their job title, needs to listen to this podcast. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

An excellent long read about the road to an illiberal, undemocratic bathroom ban in the UK. www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

join.greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social

I have a suggestion for a name: how about the Clown Car party.

The news has been really awful, so tomorrow I have booked a day off to ride the White Peak Loop in the Derbyshire Dales. ~40 miles of gravel trails and (hopefully) no signal.

Is there still a list of CFPs for JS and web conferences?

@nordicjs.com Hi there. I submitted a talk to your CFP in March. I know you’ve already announced your full lineup, but I didn’t get any response at all, positive, negative, or an acknowledgment email. Do you know if it was considered?

I wonder if DHH has ever been to Rotherham?

Having had time to think over the past couple of weeks while I've been out of the country, I've come to realise that what's happened already is a complete destruction of trust in government and the courts. /1

This. The Labour Government have trashed any trust we had in it. It has a lot of work to do to simply bring us back to the table. Banning trans healthcare, consulting conversion therapy groups, and standing by while the GRA was gutted are intolerable acts of cruelty.

I think I could use some career coaching. Have you had a good experience and could recommend a coach? Please let me know.

Cue the next Ezra Klein column asking: "Is it a genocide?" If you want to make sure a question doesn't get an answer, just ask that question ad infinitum.

God damn this video made me feel things. Mostly sad about missed opportunities. I think it applies just the same to the UK and the Labour Party too. youtu.be/RP8Oxe6OxJc

Labour are too timid in their approach to rail nationalisation - they're leaving the most lucrative bits so the banks that own them can carry on creaming off profit. We say nationalise it ALL, including the fat-cat Rolling Stock Companies! We support this campaign.

"Where a full GRC is issued to a person, the person’s gender becomes for all purposes the acquired gender (so that, if the acquired gender is the male gender, the person’s sex becomes that of a man and, if it is the female gender, the person’s sex becomes that of a woman)." - Gender Recognition Act

I think it’s quite funny that the first piece of evidence H. Lewis offers up when contemplating the radicalisation of people towards the far right is “look at how many people have blocked Jesse Singal”. It’s never a case that these people are grown-ups and responsible for their own actions.

From Up on Poppy Hill

It’s been about a year since I committed to climbs again. This is the most amount of vertical elevation gain I’ve ever had on a ride, and my legs really do feel like they’ve had 850 metres put through them. That’s almost an Alp d’Huez (though not all in one go!)

Can almost hear the big Channel 4 kaiju

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way Charlie Kirk: Jail every doctor who has treated transgender children. (Source: www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...)

NEW: A timeline of how false “transgender ideology” claims spread in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing. By @hencarnell.bsky.social, @msjpauly.bsky.social, and me: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The grim salivating of our press at the prospect of spreading more hate about trans people. Has there been an uglier moment in Britain's modern history?

@miketually.bsky.social How’s your Brompton going?

Biking across Japan on a Brompton. Life goals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIWV...

The drivers cutting through Highlane Derbyshire are aggressive. 50mph in a 40 limit, leaving only a foot when overtaking. Scary as hell to cycle through.

For once, I can be proud of my country.

The reality? Absolutely nothing about trans people… …it was all lies. All the way down:

The WSJ, The Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Guardian all reported these as “transgender“ transcriptions. Appalling lack of journalistic standards.

Prominent front page: My understanding of IPSO is that there’s a close to zero chance of them being interested in this. Those rules are designed to avoid proper regulation, not be enforced. bsky.app/profile/srtr...

The past few days have been harrowing because it was inevitable that this would somehow be linked back to the trans community. This is why, in a nutshell, journalists are ruining trans people’s lives. This is a textbook moral panic.

Last week, Policy Exchange released yet another report opposing high speed rail projects authored by Andrew Gilligan and - tellingly - foreworded by Reform's Richard Tice. Without context or permission, they quote me in it. So I've a few things to add.

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Renewable energy has gone from supplying 20% of the UK’s power to 50% annually in just ten years. Old things are better than they’ve ever been before: you can pick up pre-owned bikes, computers, cars, hifis, CDs and games for a fraction of their original price and they’re *really* good.

There will eventually be a tiny, grudging correction that nobody will read. But the headlines have already done their job.

Ministers have a duty to represent their constituents. To deny trans people representation because of their brief is anti-democratic. I’m certain this would not be the same if you contacted Wes Streeting, as a constituent, about a hospital.

A reminder of what Mandelson said to the FT's questions about Epstein in February this year

Which round of “additional information” does this refer to, exactly

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