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Never mind HS2 delays: what about the abandoned British hovertrain?

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Someone on this podcast has suggested a series where Dale Cooper is partnered with Clarice Starling in an FBI supergroup and my man that is The X-Files.

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So. The Pinkertons. That news item that went around yesterday about Emily Blunt playing Kate Warne? It's from four years ago. Last solid news about the Kate Warne biopic was from 2023. It seems clear that the movie is trapped in development hell and won't ever appear. Which is a good thing. 1/

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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? It’ll be over-budget and there’ll be a worrying bit with some expensive plate glass windows.

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There’s still time to send a quick email to your MP. (Mine has also said they are voting in favour of the amendment.)

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💥💥Abortion decriminalisation will be voted on at 7pm tonight ‼️

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I hope it's the same scale as the Lego Architecture stuff, for obvious reasons.

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Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

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In the linked essay, I mention Nancy Mace's standard TERF question, asked most recently to Tim Walz: "What is a woman?" My answer is simple. A woman is not a what. A woman is a who. I want to expand a bit from the essay on what I think this matters. www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-wea...

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Me, catching up on scheduling socials for a project: why was there a week long gap last year? Also me: it's a year this week since we moved house. It's taken me a whole two hours to work out those two things are related.

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‘When I asked for a Jalfrezi in Birmingham. Spice level is vastly different from where I am from. Went lightheaded from breathing too fast. Waiter showed his sympathy by dancing around and saying ‘Wooooo, you are in Brum now, son’.’ This makes me miss Brum intensely.

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British women are being jailed and shamed under archaic abortion laws. After more than a century and a half, this week, MPs could vote to change that. My col. on decriminalising abortion - and giving tens of millions of women a genuine right to choose. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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'At the start of one posting, she was given an armoured car and became the first officer in the service to ask where the Isofix points were so she could insert her baby’s carseat.'

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Peter Cushing and his 'army of over 5,000 soldiers'. Video here youtu.be/BGag8Qllgnw

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This is looking sadly tattered again, after it was restored when Princesshay was rebuilt in the 2000s. Exeter Phoenix memorial plaque Princesshay 1957 Unknown artist

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We are the village green preservation society. God save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety.

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🚨 We have less than 24 hours left 🚨 Join over 8,000 people and ask your MP to decriminalise abortion 👇 goodlaw.social/f2eef3

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I am once again asking @support.bsky.team for a "hide reposts by this person" option.

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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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🧵BAT SIGNAL 🦇🏳️‍🌈 A friend of mine has tried to book accommodation in Blackpool for her and her wife. Wilshaw Suites, Blackpool asked her to ‘confirm your relationship’ and told her they ‘don’t allow same sexes’

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1/8 So, South Wales Police have said drivers who dangerously close-pass cyclists won’t face any action 'for now' because too many people are reporting it via Operation SNAP and they can’t keep up. Er...say what now?!

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It’s that time of year again when the people who design Father’s Day cards are convinced dads only like football, golf, gardening, racing cars, beer, fishing, ties or farting.

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Those of us who understand what feminism actually is have been warning for years that once they were finished stealing the rights of trans people they would then bat for the anti abortion lobby. Parroting the talking points fed to them by the Christofascists.

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The mixtape is out! buttondown.com/intergalacti...

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Friday the 13th for some, eh?

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Me, a serious writer: I hope this thought experiment was first written about early enough for my character to know of it. Also me, discovering there is a Molesworth edition of the philosophers work: hehehe Me, a serious writer: Stop it! Not that one. Also me: the gorilla of 3B.

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“But I have a bullet journal…” is making me feel seen.

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time for my new favorite tumblr post

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This guy is literally the only thing I miss about my old commute!

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I told you we’d be back

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1960s songwriters in their dressing gowns. A mini thread of dudes abiding. Also, because I think dressing gowns are underappreciated. 1. Brian Wilson

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AI can try to summarise Wikipedia articles but the detailed recaps of DC Comics crossovers will defeat it like the Russian winter defeated Napoleon

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Just a reminder that the anti-trans panic was always the first wave of a war on women. We've been saying it for years. It's not an accident that Bell v. Tavistock went for Gillick (or that Bell's lawyer was an anti-abortion lawyer).

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