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Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

For noen kan et lite regnbueflagg bety at vi føler oss tryggere. Man ser flagget og tenker; « her kan jeg passe inn» En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på. Veldig fin video Oslo Pride🌈

There was not one shit book in this collection, every single one a fucking banger. Primary school slapped whenever you opened one of these and you know I'm right.

On nonbinary gender, Plato, Symposium, 370 bc

To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement: I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings. Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️

Not a single word in today's Mail about Arsenal women and the 10k fans who turned out in London to see them lift their trophy. So concerned with women's sport.

Merseyside Police say a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area has been arrested after a vehicle went into crowds on Water Street A statement adds: "Extensive enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances leading up to the collision."

Happy Threads Day everyone!

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

Lets be very clear here, its not trans people could be forced to present papers, its people SUSPECTED of being trans

Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights

The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy Beckett

I know he's younger than the previous pontiff, but even so, this is pretty impressive stuff given the limited time he'll have had in nets recently.

Pop stars doing their bit.

Unless I’m very mistaken, which past form would suggest reasonably likely, it’s twenty years ago today that The Thick of It was first broadcast. This means that Ollie Reader is now 43 and, I would imagine, writing speeches about immigration for Keir Starmer.

We should stop and ask how *Gary Lineker* saying “massive violence deliberately directed against civilians is bad” came to be the very outermost edge of barely permissible political speech. Does something like that happen accidentally, in a country where almost everyone agrees?

How I imagine Sweden is feeling after not winning Eurovision. I play a melancholic version of its entry Bara Bada Bastu.

Cannot stand the Austrian song, but genuinely not sure the contest would’ve survived had it not won. So…a very 2025 victory, I guess?

Unfortunate resemblance to Tim Westwood here San Marino 😬 #eurovision

Finally, some good news.

Multi-frequency dog-whistle achievement UNLOCKED. ~AA

This is Nick Clegg-post-tuition-fees level bad approval ratings. This is a cold, airless, lonely place in the nation's affections from which leaders do not often come back.

Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

The actual DWP report showing why people claim PIP (they are disabled), what they use it for (basic living costs) & where they heard about it (mostly from the DWP). #KeirStarmer will kill a ton of people when he withdraws this.

I mean, I have legitimate concerns about the country I live in drifting ever further and faster to the hard right, but you don’t see the government pandering to me.

Never mind the policies, the language Starmer uses - about human beings who want to do nothing worse than work, study, live with their families or seek refuge here - is simply appalling

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

As we commemorate VE Day, we should remember the hopes and expectations of servicemen and women for a better, fairer country to emerge from the destruction of war. This is a poster created by and for British prisoners of war in the German prison camp, Stalag Luft III.

My favourite Met Gala look is absolutely Barry Keoghan as a lesbian-coded shipping heiress who has just returned from 'the East' in a 1940s murder mystery.

I don't think Trump can put tariffs on films? Under the 1988 Berman Amendment, films are explicitly exempted from any Presidential tariff order, whether emergency or not. Here's the relevant clause from The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA): 1/3

A long time ago in a manuscript far, far away.... Happy #StarWarsDay! – #MayTheFourthBeWithYou, always.

Happy Star Wars Day! Here is UK Supreme Court in 2011 saying incorrectly "The Star Wars films are set in an imaginary, science-fiction world of the future". For as everyone knows they are set not in the future, but "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...". www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKS...

King Charles has accepted this invitation. Fascinating bit of timing from the Palace, this.

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The beautiful, beautiful BFI, showing how it’s done, after three recent Supreme Court ruling.

make people’s lives worse, lose seats

The Green Party don’t get as much media coverage as Reform because the continuation of civilised human life on the planet isn’t as interesting as cunts.

The FA banned ALL women from playing for 50 years. Why? Because, even after the men returned from war, women's football continued to be ridiculously popular. Thats it. That was the reason.

My view: The “interim update” from the EHRC, and doubtless the actual “guidance” when it is produced, will try and obscure the fact that any exclusion of trans people is not compulsory, it is a choice. If anyone is excluding trans people from anywhere they are choosing to be transphobic, they… 1/8

This is so much deeper than football #ynwa #Liverpool www.theplayerstribune.com/alisson-beck...

The British Medical Association taking no prisoners here #TransRights

It is this, not arguing, but also this Labour party has been strikingly reluctant to occupy the commanding heights of the discourse. The last government made a bunch of attempts to embed right wing bias in institutions and processes; this government is content to leave them all in place.

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