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“the BBC have heard complaints that their Glasgow edition of Question Time featured no-one from Glasgow’s third largest party, the Scottish Greens. To rectify this we have invited Glasgow’s sole Reform UK councillor to appear on the next episode”

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None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest? Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

I want cis people to know that there aren't "difficult questions" from transphobes. They might ask something you don't know how to articulate your position on, or something where you could fall into a rhetorical trap they set, but once you've done it a few times they are easy. GCs are stupid

submitted 7 hours ago • 16 comments

📢 BREAKING: In a defeat for anti-trans clinicians the @bma.org.uk has voted in favour of affirming "the right of all LGBTQ+ patients and staff to identity-based care and working conditions – defined as care and policies that actively account for the individual’s lived, intersecting identities"

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

There was a great paper studying how South Korean society responded to COVID through a mechanism called quadruple learning loops. It seems like this loop has broken down across societies globally - and so we see the lessons learned disappearing from our decision-making. (thread)

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

So glad we capitulated to the right for this

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ah yes the NYT

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I guess this is a good time to inform everyone that Dicky Lovelady did media day photos with a donut.

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submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

I find it a bit frustrating that Google does such a shite job of tracking my sleep. It's the only health data I actually want to track, but once a week it decides I slept only 2 hours and not between 2 and 7am

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq. Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes. Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same. The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.

submitted 4 days ago • 228 comments

Looking forward to Alistair Campbell's take on this.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

I think we've been here before correct me if I'm wrong

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Been workshopping an insightful and entertaining post today, but I'll save it for tomorrow

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I come on this app I learn a new horrifying geopolitical fact

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Stayed up too late watching strange aeons and didn't even notice whoops, goodnight

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Modern contact lenses are basically magic theyre so good

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Writing to my MP proclaiming I have credible evidence that the US may be close to developing nuclear weapons

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

submitted 9 days ago • 89 comments

A handheld Nintendo Console that is a marginal but noticeable improvement upon its predecessor with the backdrop of an unnecessary war in the middle east predicated upon the shaky premise of the existence of weapons of mass destruction? Welcome back, Gameboy Advance SP.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

this has been a bad 7 days for the ‘nothing ever happens’ crew

submitted 9 days ago • 59 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? With almost no exceptions, every single cybersecurity breach occurs via mechanisms the technology industry knows how to fully and robust defend against, but didn't

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

My weather app basically telling me I'm gonna die this week it's so hot

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Last night I did a SOLD OUT gig for Stand Up For Gaza called Jews For Gaza and it was an absolute honour to be on the line-up. I don't know the final figures but it'll be well over £2000 raised. Michael Rosen headlined and he was amazing. A genuine childhood hero right there, being based AF.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 11 days ago • 218 comments

i dunno guys i feel like this isnt a good direction to be heading

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Feud Poisoning

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

Turns out the "illegal" pregnant woman was a US citizen, and she's since been hospitalized.

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

submitted 16 days ago • 81 comments

I hope he has fun!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 16 days ago • 580 comments