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Fixed 'generations' language is absolutely just artifice that stands in for what's actually important. Which is the life stages occupied by different gens - and how the pol econ/demographics of those hit events. Way more significant than the particular neuroses of 1959, 1978, or 1991 birth cohorts

‘Trans people and immigrants are simply the current targets. There are always minorities and there are always unscrupulous politicians who wish to vilify them. When they do so, this system will allow for their persecution too. Because that is what it is designed to do.’

Over 30 local residents gathered on Friday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the post box on Beech Croft Road, North Oxford, installed in 1925. Famous hands are believed to have dropped letters through its slot, from Enid Blyton’s daughter to Phil Selway of Radiohead and John le Carré.

I cannot support an ID card in this country unless and until we have self-ID and have returned transphobia firmly to the box marked “Morally wrong”.

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When Jenasie Earl, a professional thrifter and interior designer based in Salt Lake City, posted this couch she bought for $200 on Instagram, I thought: "how charming." This couch represents many of the things I believe in. IG msviciousdesign

They turned Spitalfields into a major silk hub and created jobs in nearby towns. In Kent and Dorset, people raised silkworms and mulberry plants. Along the River Test in Hampshire, the Whitchurch Silk Mill transformed cocoons into bundles of silk thread and eventually cloth.

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Welp my debunking false narratives Margaret Sanger piece is gonna get a big bump because of this. rewirenewsgroup.com/2015/08/20/f...

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

UNISON and GMB endorsed an anti-LGBTQ+ bigot who shouldn’t be deputy or equality minister

Dazzle Ships, South Docks, Liverpool Shipping, 1918, by Edward Alexander Wadsworth.

Reposting this as a mood boost for the morning. Also worth checking out the guy’s instagram / Tiktok as he is something of a Chuck Tingle of rural Brazil (gives HIV advice to his ‘peoes’ which I am gonna translate as ‘buckaroos’, stop me if you can…) www.instagram.com/89jorgesanto...

Surely also part of the problem with reporting potholes is: do the council have enough money & resource to fix the potholes if reported? And: do people get fed up with the roads being out of action due to mending activity? I reckon people notice potholes less that roadworks much of the time.

So what I'm annoyed by here is ENORMOUS PROJECTS like this getting little throwaway lines as something that would add value to a digital ID. I am for state capacity, I am for making it easy for people to navigate the state - but this just doesn't have respect for the problem.

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

I'm going to say this again: when my partner was dying, the hospital couldn't find a single side room anywhere in the building, so he died on a ward behind a curtain! And yet Streeting is proposing creating "third spaces" for trans people in hospitals because transphobes don't like being near them 😡

That’s a Christmas present to myself sorted.

Thing with all the soft language of dignity and respect and compromise being used to describe loss of human rights, persecution, and segregation, is that it immediately frames any opposition to it as unreasonable and aggressive

On the blog today - a new book from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Publishing which is perfect for any booklover - Looking After Your Books! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/i...

Cannot stress enough how it is already possible to report potholes www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

Oxford’s congestion charge will come into effect on 29 October. Oxfordshire County Council announced the start date this morning as well as opening up the online portal to apply for permits. www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-an...

Guy leaves out a succession of fruit in Brazil for 3 hours, leaves camera filming. Lovely, colourful, peaceful.

They moved a historic house in downtown Erie today from one street to another, and the timelapse from Erie News is so cool. Despite rain, it took about seven hours.

The problem isn't autism. It's fear and hatred of autism. The problem isn't trans people. It's fear and hatred of trans people. The problem isn't immigration. It's fear and hatred of immigrants.

See the entire UK for details

"Genius! And obviously highly recommended as such." I reviewed @neillcameron.bsky.social's DONUT SQUAD TAKE OVER THE WORLD! here today at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. Probably my all-time favourite thing to come out of THE PHOENIX. www.brokenfrontier.com/donut-squad-...

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

Legitimately there are people on TikTok advising that believers should stand outside today so they don't get trapped against their ceilings when they start to rise up, which, frankly, if your divine master of all creation is flummoxed by the concept of a roof, I think that's the bigger problem.

I literally spent 10 min translating Lula’s speech about Palestine to English. I just need every single one of my gringo friends to listen to this man in order to maybe restore their faith in politics. This right here is a politician. This is why we voted for him. And personally, I’ll do it again.

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A friend recognized the entertainment potential of the big AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT graphic but replaced Kennedy’s face with a much better alternative:

I'm tired of hearing that there's a difference between punishments and consequences, because I'm tired of hearing sadists gleefully describe punishments as 'consequences' to make themselves sound more reasonable and less evil. The difference doesn't matter as much as you think it does.

Excellent and hugely detailed rebuttal of Dodds' (and local Labour pols) opinion on the Oxford congestion charge.

A new youth hub has opened in Blackbird Leys, designed to “provide a safe space to socialise, take part in activities, and enjoy a meal at no cost… led by a team of friendly youth workers”. The hub will be open for young people after school and during the summer holidays.

Rough translation: “I don’t quite get this idea of bisexuals being invisible - does that mean each letter has a superpower?”

Good lord. Why Headington?

People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow

Teenagers can die and be maimed by violence, but cannot be allowed to read about it. Teenagers can get SID and underage pregnancies and suffer sexual violence, but must be protected from reading about sex. Does that about sum it up?

Ah the Irish misgendering paradox: "Lad" is a masculine term - "Lads" is a universal greeting for all groups and genders

Except for obv if you read US comic books you knew what Twinkies were (along with Hostess cupcakes - did you ever eat one of those? proper sickly sweet, but then so were the Twinkies. Fun and silly comics adverts for them tho.)

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Makes you wonder how the pandemic would have panned out if it were just health journalists penning the headlines rather than political journalists.

I'm an immigrant with dual citizenship. It doesn't mean I don't care about the UK enough to commit, it means I have connections that matter to me in two countries. I've worked, paid tax, & volunteered in both. I have loved ones in both. What the hell would removing dual citizenship achieve?

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

This. Vaccines and paracetamol do not cause autism, but also autism is not something that should be eliminated, any more than queerness or lefthandedness or any other harmless minority characteristic.