I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

People with “gender critical beliefs” getting it included in government guidance that you can’t call them horrible transphobic bastards is so wild like I don’t have to spend billions lobbying for legal documents to get people to like me, have you tried being a nice person instead

The important point to remember is NO SHE DOESN'T. What was published yesterday were guidelines for service providers. They impose NO obligations on individuals and are NOT the law. People want you to believe otherwise, to intimidate trans people. But they haven't yet criminalised their existence.

Its such a confused mess. Beyond that it is just foul and mean spirited. Built solely on an agenda of fear and privilege with no regard for the harms and negative impact it is not just permitting but encouraging.

Transsexuals, those excellent examples of average persons of their sex, must be excluded from participating in gender-affected activities as a person of their gender because we cannot consider that their gender has any effect

A new Reform UK administration in Yorkshire has sacked the long-standing independent Chair of the council’s Board for Standards in Public Life, amid a flurry of cuts to scrutiny functions pushed through on Wednesday bylinetimes.com/2026/05/21/r...

Sick notes help people avoid being fired for being ill; this will increase unemployment, not lower it. I refuse to believe anyone with 2 brains cells to rub together didn't point this out to the DWP, so people really need to start questioning what the real motives are.

The next journalist should have said "Same question" and shown some collective loyalty to the profession.

It will also embolden more bigots to challenge cis women because they think they're trans. "You can't be a woman because I don't think you look feminine enough". Well done. Great feminism. You don't fit the patriarchy's defined norms of "feminine" so you must be trans. Vile.

Hassling someone in a public toilet based on your assumption of what's in their underwear IS breaking the law. It is harassment. Don't do it. Taking a photo of someone in a public toilet is also likely to be a criminal offence that will (rightly) land you on the Sex Offender Register.

"Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson said the aim was to allow people to live free from discrimination and harassment." ...so we're going to police what's in people's underwear (somehow) and actively encourage an atmosphere of discrimination? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... why does everyone keep wanging on about the next election? Labour almost never gets a second term. Why don't they do good stuff now instead of saving it up till 2099?

Suddenly, magically, this is a problem.

TRUMP: "We have total control of the Strait of Hormuz" TRUMP MOMENTS LATER: "We want the Strait of Hormuz open"

The completely hilarious family dynamics aside, it's so funny to hear him talk about "getting killed" by the media for attending when he's been regularly golfing during the Iran War and it has mostly elicited shrugs from mainstream news outlets.

I'm sure many people will now be rushing to the roller coasters instead of navigating the roller coaster of how to pay for food for their kids. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A stubborn survivor that dodged obliteration has been discovered in the outer reaches of our Solar System 🔵 The fascinating tale of how the James Webb space telescope has revealed that Nereid is the only original moon of Neptune to have clung on through chaos: edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

But the boats! Reducing net migration sounds like pulling the rug out from under Reform and their like. Hence why they will probably turn this into another persecution complex that is deliberately targeting their voters! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

"‪It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica."

Thank you to Keep the Faith magazine, the Church Times, TWR, and more for highlighting our Scientists in Congregations and Science for Seminaries awardees - we're excited to see these projects develop! www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

A call for papers some of you video gamers may enjoy!

Yes, provide help to people to get them back to work but do that *and* provide them the support/break/recuperating opportunity a fit note provides. It isn't one or the other. It's both. By default. Again Labour is trying to ape the worst of past Governments. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm sorry, we did what?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every blue dot here is a star with known planets. Every orange dot, one with suspected planets. Nearly 6,000 total. Dot by dot, NASA’s TESS mission is filling in our picture of the Milky Way's strange new worlds. 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/missions/tes...

Q: Trump's financial disclosures show a lot of stock trades in companies he has promoted-- JD VANCE: This is a hell of a question Q: How can you argue you are cleaning up corruption when the president is doing this? VANCE: C'mon man. Have a little bit of objectivity in how you ask these questions

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.

BREAKING: Todd Blanche just used the $1.7B slush fund theft to END the IRS audit into trump’s tax returns. Outside lawyers WARNED that would be illegal.

On behalf of my own TEN YEARS of research into religion and AI, and specifically a whole bunch of research into emergent religious forms from AI and people's interpretations of them, and a whole GD field of digital religion that dates back further than that, I wanna say...

'In 2025, Farage told the FT [the] fee had been paid to his company Thorn In The Side Limited. However, the company accounts appear to suggest the income he received remained in his account after the house purchase' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The % of scientists who think public engagement makes science better has gone up from 21% in 2006 to 64% now. That's huge.

Cognitive fly-tipping:

🔭 Unraveling NGC 3169 Image Credit & Copyright: Simone Curzi and the ShaRA Team ap260518

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have in your phone. @gavtrdq.bsky.social

🔭 NGC 1300: Barred Spiral Galaxy Image Credit: NASA ESA, Hubble Heritage ap260517

Isn't it interesting that the first instinct of these "freedom of speech warriors", who lose their mind if someone takes down one of their cheap polyester flags, is totry and destroy property in order to shut down anything that might challenge their view?

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

If it is based on inside information used in violation of his fiduciary responsibilities, it is brazenly criminal conduct, and he would not be immune from prosecution for that criminal conduct even under the Supreme Court's 2024 decision in his favor in the Jan 6 case www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Yaxley-Lennon beyond parody here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Everything was wrong with the Government I was a part of for years says Labour's version of classic Tory grifters like Gove, Jenrick and Shapps. All talk. No self-reflection. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump's Chinese takeaway: crackers

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

Gosh. Now it's a reward. I wonder what his story will shift to tomorrow? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farage also repeated his claim that the £5m from Christopher Harborne was "unconditional" and "no strings attached" You can say that until you're blue in the face. But receiving £5m from someone creates a sense of obligation. It's not something you can really control. It is ingrained.

Nigel Farage tells The Sun's Harry Cole that Elon Musk offered to give Reform loads of money "if we said certain things" and he refused. "I can't be bought." Two things: 1. This is an allegation of attempted bribery. Very serious. 2. It shows the obvious: donors expect something for their money.

What an extremely unrepresentative sampling of the local community. Not the politics necessarily (but remarkable they couldn't find a Labout voter in a Labour heartland..) but nearly everyone here is old and white. And negative. Totally not our actual local makeup. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In any interview/press conference Wes Streeting gives about his leadership challenge, this should be Question 1: “Did the Mandelson scandal play a role in loss in confidence in Keir Starmer?” Question 2: “Do you think a hand-appointed Mandelson disciple is the best choice to replace him then?”

note the use of the word "commenced": Reform does not seem to be denying that the deal concluded *after* receiving the massive gift from the Thailand-based crypto tycoon

How long do we have to continue with the utter farce of this deeply corrupt spiv being considered seriously for our highest political office? Farage should be nowhere near power… but it seems it’s being bought for him by a crypto billionaire who thinks everything’s for sale. Including our democracy.