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bear in mind that this comes in a context where Met Éireann has been under attack for years for allegedly giving overly severe weather warnings, including Retail Ireland complaining about MÉ's "alarmism" shortly after a storm in which people were killed

Apparently I should finally get an initial assessment for top surgery in the first half of this year 🙏🤞😮‍💨 (I was referred almost two years ago lmao)

I want Heated Rivalry by for curling

C/w transphobia Don't know if this has been widely shared yet but its the dept of education guidance for trans kids and its going to result of any kids living stealth to be outed to their peers. I just have no words... schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-publishe...

Somewhat bemused by this. Giorgia Meloni couldn't find enough fascist police in Italy? That hardly seems likely. Also the EU has an ICE at home which murders people, are Frontex guys going to be jealous of the ICE guys?

Re: Instagram/meta ads and subs 🥲

Once again tapping my sign: ICE exist in the UK 🚨 They have had arrest powers since 2000. This government - not a hypothetical future one - is working harder than ever before to raid homes and businesses.

We watched it at 1am ahaha I’m so tired now

My bf's friend is having birthday drinks tomorrow at a pub at 8pm and honestly I'm slightly annoyed about it because it's the traitors final tomorrow???? what do you mean I'm going to have to wait to watch the final??

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

This little remix cheers me up every time.

He’s right though. Also reminds me, when The Lighthouse came out I got a text from my 80 year old grandma:

Glasgow has world-class artists and some pretty astonishing murals already, so this is just - excuse the language - fucking stupid. What's that building? And why the American Bald Eagle? Back to the drawing board, lads. www.thenational.scot/news/2578067...

Heading to Lochwinnoch for some birdwatching today ❤️

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Listen I know a lot of my friends are film guys like me and I spend a lot of time reading their Letterboxd reviews but I think we might need another word for ‘needle drop’ because I’m getting sick of it lol

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

It was never about the kids. Total ban on providing gender affirming medical care for all ages proposed in a new bill for Oklahoma.

There’s many more layers to the title than just this, but this layer sits very close to my heart: “From the 1960s to 1980s, when Korea was under the rule of authoritarian leaders, "Arirang" was often used as a song for pro-democracy rallies.” www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/20...

Today's announcement is the opposite of what it says it is. It's the formal cancellation of the high speed line across the Pennines. What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.

A number of people on this platform have been claiming that it's not up to government to shorten people's time on remand, however far beyond the statutory limit that time extends. Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

We went to my favourite restaurant for my birthday tonight and Reo Hatate was there 😭🥰

Why do people from the US say ‘Speaks to’ instead of ‘speaks about’ so often? ‘Speaks to’ can work in some contexts of course but in others it sounds so clunky and weird to me

Cork city centre. One dolphin of five.

#LastFourWatched Been a quiet few weeks with Christmas etc but here we go

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Did you know that sex workers are regularly "de-banked"? That if banks/credit card companies even *suspect* that someone might be a sex worker, they take away their accounts. But Elon can openly charge for making CSAM and that's no problem apparently cos he's rich and it's different for the rich

Remember the X/Twitter incident when Grok renamed itself MechaHitler? The AI endorsed Adolf Hitler, posted anti-Semitic comments. But Number 10 was untroubled by this. Because politicians and journalists can't see how damaging remaining on X/Twitter is. bsky.app/profile/snig...

Renee Nicole Good was not the first person to be murdered by ICE under Trump. Keith Porter was a Black man killed by ICE on New Years Eve. Silverio Gonzalez was an undocumented immigrant killed in Franklin Park. Marimar Martinez was shot 5 times in Chicago & survived. No one is safe.

Minnesota investigators said the Trump administration has barred it them from taking part in the investigation into yesterday’s ICE killing

This cannot happen.

With the disclaimer that obviously some people share names, and people could give fake names... There sure does seem to be a lot of people in oil/banking/big tech/with hereditary peerages on here!

not to be all ‘so much for the FIFA peace prize’ but the US is co-hosting the world’s biggest sporting event with Mexico in a few months

So it's an established fact that conversion "therapy" is a form of torture. If your Christianity or any other religion requires torture to exist, then I suggest you very rapidly re-evaluate it.

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

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Maybe start with countries allied yo the US just saying what the fuck man you cant do that but i know thats a high bar to clear certainly the UK wont

My sincere year-end thought isn’t an original one, but its importance has been underscored to me repeatedly over the last 12 months: be free with telling the people you love that you love them, casually, and at every chance. Great love, small love, every type of love.

Celtic are playing terribly tonight jfc

Just watched Sentimental Value and I did not like it. And I have migraine.

British citizens and UK-based folks: please consider signing and sharing this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... #RefugeesWelcome

In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258

Our friend died on Saturday, and just now as I was looking for wrapping paper behind the sofa, I found an unopened Christmas card from last year from him. In it he thanks my bf for visiting him in hospital last year when he was struggling. Life can be so so strange at times

Yes hello, former senior dev here: Every time someone says “AI does [useful thing]” you can place a safe bet that what they actually mean is “a machine learning algorithm trained on very specific high quality data does [useful thing]”

Tried to go shopping for a birthday present for my mum, felt trapped in a tiny gift/tat shop, tried to leave and knocked some of the window display over, turned round and said sorry to the bunch of other shoppers who were staring at me 🙃🙃🙃🙃

Alan Sugar. Giles Coren. Andrew Neil. Jeremy Clarkson. Rylan Clark. Sharron Davies. No pressure. Robin Ince and Gary Lineker on the other hand...

It is a sign of how fundamentally abused and traumatised trans communities are in the UK that many folks are responding to Levy with relief and cautious welcome. It could have been a lot worse. But it fundamentally fails to deliver meaningful improvements to trans healthcare. 1/4