Country asked if it wants to shoot itself in the foot, asks when can we start.

I've had my phone for four years and I could sorta do with a new one but it's not a pressing issue. Got other things to spend on or save for.

Shedeur Sanders debuts, but #Browns defense takes over in Vegas: www.cleveland.com/browns/2025/...

Oh yeah I'm sure FE can handle this.

Picked up Expedition 33 and I'm enjoying it. Fairly interesting plot (if relatively bare ones thus far) with enjoyable central mechanics. Nice looking too. Has kinda "what if Yoko Taro was French" vibes.

What a good boy. Quiet watcher.

Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad

The problem with Labour droning on about 'contribution' is that their party is filled top to bottom with thick cranks like this, who contribute actually literally eff all to any level of society but still feel entitled to make demands of everyone else

God fuck OFF Lord Glasman. Just the worst. Pompous and more elite than me and cannot shut up about his weird obsessions.

Gretel is such a funny little button.

Just seen an absolutely disgusting screenshot of D Cummings mouthing off about someone who posts on here, describing BlueSky as "full of troons and paedos", basically saying that everyone here/all libs are in mental collapse or near-as and Ukraine will send us over the edge. Just a disgusting man.

The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.

So there we have it. This may sound beyond the realms of reality but: the NHS puberty blockers trial is being run by a cabal of transphobic cranks. SEGM has been publicly spurned by multiple medical authorities as outside the mainstream, and as not a credible scientific organisation.

I appreciate the piece from @owenjones.bsky.social but it once again repeats that trans men will be forced into the women's when that isn't what the guidance says. The guidance says trans men aren't allowed to use the women's, either.

The techno-cultists have taken over the Labour party. Really think more needs to be written about how these people got their influence into the party. I think @morganj0nes.bsky.social has written some good stuff before along these lines, I think especially there about the effective altruist lot.

Good morning world! Time to log onto BlueSky and see what normal content people are posting about today: but not before I take a big sip of delicious coffee!

I mean I think it turns out more of them are than one would like and, again, even if someone was involved with Epstein's circle but did not personally have sex with a child or an adult coerced and manipulated into it, it's very hard to believe they had no idea that that was happening.

When did MTG turn against Trump? I've lost track.

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

God Mamdani can really exude nice young man who's good with the elderly, can't he. Absolute charmer.

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

I've been working on a maths problem this last week and last night I had a dream where I think the solution came to me. Sent my solution to the PhD student I'm working with this morning and we'll see if it works or if it's moonshine.

It's not to say we don't have corruption but I think it is true to say we aren't very good at it. You can't make the bureaucracy faster by bribing people certainly.

The neighbouring house is having some work done on the roof (the neighbours sold it to some slightly shady building firm because they were having difficulties selling it) and the drilling and banging is Quite Extensive.

Yeah this was a very depressing article because I do not see how a government changes this without getting eaten alive.

It's possible Elon Musk is one of the most pathetic humans to ever exist?

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28 MPH on a scooter is some Serious Shit. Godspeed, Buzz Grambo.

If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.

This feels like a slightly misleading quote on what is ultimately a sad story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This report is well-written and I think fairly accessible - it is worth digging into the weeds a bit to understand what is going on here.

For decades, Greebles have been used as stimuli in psychology studies on facial recognition. Greebles come in five families (Samar, Galli, Osmit, Radok and Tasio) and two genders (plok and glip). Though nobody is sure where they come from, science owes these odd creatures an enormous debt.

It's very laughable that the equality law quango in the UK has concluded that "look 'em in the eye and have a reckon as to whether you think they're a tranny" is an acceptable or viable way to implement equality law. The Supreme Court decision in Scottish Ministers vs. For Women Scotland is so bad.

We'll see what the decision of the High Court is in due course. But in any circumstances, the EHRC has behaved atrociously. If this code is laid in its current form, the UK will be in clear violation of trans people's human rights. It would be an international embarrassment, and Labour's legacy.

Fuck Keir.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Good day today. Pondering good maths. Looking fairly stylish.

The bitcoin lifelong price is very bemusing. I could not tell you what is sustaining this or why it drops when it does though I suspect it's a proxy for various things.

On my way home. Thinking about Touch Soft Cat.

Of course, the longer goes without an employment report, the greater the economic shock when this information becomes known, if the information is bad and worsening.

An autistic man has been paid £125,000 in damages after he was trapped in his own home for over eight years. The Southwark resident lived in the home with the constant presence of at least two carers, with the front door locked for eight years. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

"In light of the Cass Review..." 🤬

Black trans women are paid dust by cis people and trans people. 21 is too young for a trans girl to die. It's not fucking fair. But per the course, Girlalala will be lost in a sea of stories of trans women of color who aren't as loved or as protected as we should be. May she rest in peace.

Hansel is lying on me getting big belly rubs and it's very cute but also I need to go to work buddy I'm so sorry.

God if this is the thing that finally kills his reputation, it took long enough.

My 17 year old complained to the head of 6th Form about teachers using AI to write lesson plans and questions. Kids can spot it MILES OFF.

The South-East is the centre of the country's wealth because since time immemorial much has been extracted from what some witheringly call the provinces. Not to say that things are all gravy down there by any means, I don't want to be parochial about this, but I get tired of southerners sometimes.

WE'RE BBACK BBABY www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

But as the AI tech sector replicate royal relationships but as business partnerships, we're looking at someone building a very big bomb that probably Probably! won't go off. But it could and that's worse than not having the bomb at all.