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🚨 Last night JK Rowling attacked The National as an "anti-woman newspaper". I think that is absolutely ridiculous chat. Here's my open letter setting out why this kind of attack does not work on our team. www.thenational.scot/news/2525321...

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

Gashapon (or Gachapon) are vending machines found all over Japan that dispense capsules containing miniature toys and other items. There are thousands of different kinds. Here’s a thread of the best ones I saw on my recent trip. 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr) By 2024 vote Labour: -5 (down 34) Lib Dem: -13 (down 12) Conservative: -76 (up 1) Reform: -94 (down 5)

submitted 36 days ago • 73 comments

Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today. Subject: Island of Strangers? Mr Starmer, Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.

submitted 37 days ago • 41 comments

Yes, he's the new pope.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 56 days ago • 616 comments

The obsession with 'overdiagnosis' is a much bigger problem than overdiagnosis itself open.substack.com/pu... The discourse around the 'problem' of 'overdiagnosis' doesn't hold up at all when you consider the actual evidence. Pushing it anyway risks harming so many #Diagnosis #Mentalhealth #Media

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

There's some remarkable "I'm not mad" vocal work being done here, but I think it's high time Secretary Hegseth sits in front of Congress and explains why he has one really long sideburn and one normal-sized one. America demands answers.

submitted 61 days ago • 301 comments

politicians when trans people protest

submitted 61 days ago • 7 comments

URGENT: Following yesterday's public protests & our thread calling for everyone to contact their MP urgently here is some guidance on what you might say in an email. This is not a time for thinking someone else will fix this. Please read, share and ACT! www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

“Fuck your single-sex spaces and fuck your Supreme Court. If I see you calling the police on a trans person in a public restroom I will personally flush your phone down the bog whilst pretending it’s Wes Streeting’s head.”

submitted 65 days ago • 10 comments

As I watch Starmer tear up Labour's prospects by attacking people in poverty, abusing those who care about the living world and appeasing the ultra-rich, I feel the same sense of dislocation as I did before the Iraq War. Anyone can see the disaster coming, except, apparently, the government.

submitted 68 days ago • 169 comments

Are Wes Streeting and NHS England covering up trans suicide data? 🧵

submitted 68 days ago • 21 comments

These nurses were given privacy in the form of another place to change. They said "Changing in this room has made us feel humiliated, embarrassed, isolated, ostracised, degraded and dehumanised". They don't want privacy. They want to make their trans colleague feel that way.

submitted 231 days ago • 12 comments