26-29% of students at Edinburgh are Scottish

and on the pedestal these words appear:

Just looked up who was being interviewed and, Jesus Christ

hey, remember how bluesky staff said that the transphobic pedophile with a blog was "irrelevant" so stop talking about him? welp, he's at it again!

I wrote about the British media’s soft soap approach to ‘Fergie’ four years ago when she launched a book with Mills & Boon brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/no-sweat-t...

Tired of hearing 'we need immigrants to staff the NHS & care homes' - as if we're a servant class. Newsflash: immigrants do a variety of work, pay taxes, buy homes, raise families. Britain doesn't 'need us to serve'. We're here to live. Like you.

I’m just going to say as someone who lived in London for eleven years and is currently seriously considering going back precisely because of the far right theocratic fascism of Trump, that he’s talking out of his fucking asshole.

OH NO SHIT HUH HOW ABOUT THAT

I haven't been around here much since I was warned by @moderation.bsky.app that my account was "violating (Bluesky's) violent and threatening speech guidelines" because I asked the CEO of Bluesky if she would give the same importance to the murder of Palestinian kids as to the murdered podcast guy.

It is hardly the point but a) trans people existed in Medieval Europe, b) lots of currencies were used in Medieval Europe, not just gold, which was in fact uncommon, c) alchemy was a lot more common in early modern Europe, d) women are not a commodity you absolute weapons????

burn the home office to the ground

The destructive nature of the current feudalized version of capitalism needs to be talked about more on social media.

Every other prescription label change in history required much more proof of effectiveness to get approved. This is a dangerous precedent to have political appointees dictating label changes in this way.

this is who democrats voted to honor. they are collaborators and i no longer have any use for them. idc

Nobody needs to be protected from trans people. But the street homeless of London need protection when Wes 'n' Joe are on the prowl... HAPPY LIKE MINISTERS is coming soon

A Third Toilet

what is the purpose of this paragraph? emma watson is not involved in a feud with jk rowling. she made one statement politely saying that she disagrees with rowling and supports trans ppl. the fact that rowling has spent years raging about it is not a feud. watson has never clapped back.

this is all they said. none of them are feuding with jk rowling. rowling’s bullshit is entirely one -sided.

Autism is of course not a "problem to solve" like how the media and politicians are billing it, but it is also very important to call out that paracetamol/Tylenol does not cause autism, because otherwise lots of pregnant people are going to die

Hey, funny story, ten years ago there was a calm sensible, dispassionate debate about trans people here in Ireland. Long and ever before the foam speckled transphobes fixated on us as their obsession. The outcome was our GRA and self-Id

I am increasingly convinced that a lot of the Brits & Yanks who come out with this absolute guff are stopping short of saying the full sentence, which is “I am moving to Israel where it is safer for me to continue being horrifically racist against Muslims in general, and Palestinians in particular”

I'm the return of the dark occultic practices of ancient Babylon, obviously

"Sources said Starmer’s speech would build on an argument he made in an opinion piece for the Sun newspaper" (just in case you were wondering how "progressive" it was going to be.) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

9 out of 10 experts agree the strongest indicator of paedophilia is you and your pal taking up the only park bench for miles around, forcing my crippled ass to sit on a wall, you nonce cunt

Speaking of reviews, this doesn't seem like a review to me. This smells like misogynist petty jealousy and meanness wrapped up in a review and it is so fucking tawdry. What the fuck is wrong with Graeme Richardson? www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

The purpose of Reports like these is to get press inches rather than meaningfully contribute to the policy discussion, but the one being talked about here is pretty impressively bad even by think tank standards; it's an 8 page long precis.

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

"the Employment Rights Act will makes thing worse" has me, an employee, thinking "not for ME, Dave"

Really cool how Trump is wheeling out falsehoods about the MMR, again

If I were to sort everyone I’ve ever known into categories of ‘sound’ and ‘not sound’, the autistic people I’ve known would have a far higher ‘sound’ ratio than the total population of people I’ve known more generally. Why don’t fascists want me to meet more sound people?

Funny, isn't it? Only last year this was evidence that Starmer and McSweeney were politically adept at 'the dark arts' but now it's evidence of open corruption despite none of the facts having changed.

I would never state anything as direct as "the 2019 election was rigged", I believe the votes were counted correctly etc., but it was definitely the closest thing *to* a rigged election without such direct measures I've experienced, for various reasons.

The new Tory government was a mess and May was teetering, with the opposition well placed to profit. This shit was intolerable and public rage at their self-inflicted disaster urgently needed to be refocused on the most essential target: these horrible people’s own party.

The basic story, if you missed it: after the 2017 election, Labour’s billionaire donations officer realised progressive liberal politics funded by small donations meant the end of his phoney-baloney job extracting huge bribes from rich wingnuts. It had to be stopped, at any cost to the public.

Seems like a good day for this Paper Will video www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHwW...

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

There are also currently no trans women (or any trans people) in prison in Northern Ireland and haven't been for a while.

I refuse to be told by a guy who has suggested all neurodivergent Individuals should be institutionalised, and another whose brain was eaten by a worm, that my being autistic is the problem, or a crisis. Autistic individuals aren't the problem, the way we are treated and minimised damn sure is.

All this is just confirmation that Trump’s name is in the Epstein Files.

This is mainly about AI, but on the way the author makes a great point about how open-plan offices and the backlash against working from home prove that surveillance is more important to managers than success:

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):

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

Happy rapture to the fundamentalist Christian boy who kissed me on the mouth when we were like 11 and then burst into tears because now we were both going to hell.

I learned this week that of the 5 stages of grief, the fifth is selling merchandise.

I am not saying this to be edgy leftist epic meme lord or whatever but: Elon Musk is a pedophile and must be stopped

Trump -11 on immigration now despite every single enlightened centrist intellectual saying Dems should not talk about it because surely public opinion can’t ever change!!

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

True story - many years ago I was a regular on the Guardian Film talkboards. A new poster showed up and her first post started "hello nerds", and we honestly never liked her from that moment on. Was this vindicated when she turned out to be Janice Turner, Times columnist and future turbo-terf?

Seeing people saying "Kirk died for our sins" but I'm pretty sure it was Spock who went into the radioactive broom cupboard at the end of Wrath Of Khan