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wanna feel old? the dutch tulip bubble collapsed 387 years ago.

submitted 480 days ago • 11 comments

First week of US Pride month 2025 has gone off in a wholly unexpected and yet traditional manner.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

ID Cards. The issue is whether you mostly trust your government and its agencies, particularly the arresty/detainy/deporty ones, to institute adequate safeguards, stick to them, and not misuse the information and opportunities they would provide for discrimination, oppression and victimisation.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

submitted 14 hours ago • 109 comments

Any commentators on Scottish politics getting excited about the prospect of Anas Sarwar as First Minister on the back of last night’s result needs to calm down.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Voters in Hamilton were - well, kinda bored. There is lots to learn here for the Left.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Quite impressive that she picked the bit of the seat that should be the strongest for the Conservative Party.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

why do London-based commentators keep being surprised that Reform would so well in ‘the Central Belt’?

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Lots we could say here about how the British political/media class basically drove each other insane at threats to their status and with their fury at being called wankers on Twitter dot com, but let’s pause to marvel at “Equality commissioner instructs minority to accept reduced rights”.

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

I want to see the Reform vote % for Larkhall. This is a town so full of mental Rangers fans that they have to put the green lights behind protective bars because they keep getting smashed.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

It's also literally impossible, of course. Concrete evidence that you have committed to living in your acquired gender for a period of YEARS is an essential prerequisite for securing a GRC. These assertions by the EHRC will make it impossible, vitiating the entire statute.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Loomer should put that on a t shirt

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

This all gets even better: crypto is getting lit up.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Twitter right now

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

gentleman, gentleman, please, there's no need for this! you are both in the epstein files.

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

Tag yourself. I’m Nausaged.

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Elon successfully identified a pedo guy on his second attempt, never let your failures hold you back

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I asked Grok what it made of this, and it started burbling about White Fratricide

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Musk right now...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

The internet, June 5 2025:

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

joining the fight between Musk and Trump on the side of the fight

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Imagine the custody battle over Kanye

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

today's delight from the archive: a list of 16th century yorkshire cows' names, compiled by JS Purvis. these are some of my favourites.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

I would simply love for the Labour government to do literally anything else with its time than wage a committed & unrelenting assault against a vulnerable minority who make up less than 1% of the population.

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hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha (breath) hahahahahahaha

submitted 1 day ago • 675 comments

Daily life in 2025. #AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

submitted 134 days ago • 17 comments

According to Sex Matters, she spoke at the Woman’s Place UK Woman’s Liberation 2020 Conference held at UCL in Febuary 2020. Woman’s Place was a group dedicated to “feminist concerns about trans activism” sex-matters.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

In case anyone asks Image credit: disabledbysociety.com

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Someone really ought to tell the Labour Party that there are potential Chairs of the EHRC that don't come burdened with transphobic baggage. www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

The tragicomedy of Reform is that it’s obviously a personality cult, but all the cult members think they should be the personality.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.

submitted 1 day ago • 363 comments

Alongside my Holyrood tracker, I've been maintaining a tracker of independence support across all polls. Given a degree of commentary will be given to the topic in the wake of today's by-election, here's an update: We have the first, v. narrow, Yes lead since late 2020: Yes: 46.2% No: 45.6% DK: 8%

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The second sentence is dead untrue.

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Could generative AI improve the Research Excellence Framework? Writers including @oldnorthroad.bsky.social @heroicendeavour.bsky.social offer their views (with some brilliant illustrations, too, which AI has been nowhere near) www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/could-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Filmhouse is back!

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Susanna Rustin literally doing a Principal Skinner in the Guardian today. (Not linking, reading it will not improve your life.)

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Just your annual reminder that, before changing his name and taking up acting, Robert De Niro played for East Fife.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The Equality & Human Rights Commission can’t change the law — only the UK Govt can. We will be responding, but we’ve published a joint statement explaining why we’re approaching the consultation w/ caution & where our collective efforts may be better directed. www.scottishtrans.org/joint-statem...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Going on strike again. AGAIN. That means we’ve had to take industrial action in defence of jobs, pensions and/or working conditions every academic year since 2016-17. Higher Education is permanently on fire, and not in a good way.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Free #LGBWithTheT and #BWithTheT stickers to cover up your local terf graffiti

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SO grateful for actual data on this. It's been exhausting to argue with supposedly 'data-driven decision-making' which is most of the time refuses to share said data so nobody can do the work of interpretation & more of than not is based on a reductive set. Yes lets rethink what we measure & value

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment