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We are building a deeply joyless society. Lollipop man told to stop giving kids high-fives because it delays traffic www.bbc.com/news/article...

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What a horrible experience for Robin Moira White, with those 2 hateful women, "informing other women in the cubicles that there was a biological male in the lavatories and asking for security to attend," as if there were reason to panic! They wanted to humiliate her & sow fear in other women. Vile!

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Beyond the Binary: Understanding the mental health toll of gender non-conformity buff.ly/aKuX92P #MentalHealth #LGBTQ #NonBinary #Gender #GenderNonConformity 🧵 THREAD

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Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

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Former elite swimmer Michael Gunning on LGBTQ+ representation and encouraging children to take part in the sport they love.

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🏳️‍🌈 "The long-discussed and often trite ‘is Pride still a protest?’ conversation, has a clear and present answer this year — fuck yes." https://www.wearequeeraf.com/this-pride-month-is-going-to-be-unparalleled-to-any-in-recent-years/

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"I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative & liberating nature, as an act of love. For me, the revolution, which is not possible without a theory of revolution—and therefore science—is not irreconcilable with love." - Che Guevera

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I agree!

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There's not enough national guard to stop this many people. The citizens have the power; our Constitution ensures it

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The UK needs a single left wing party that is about nationalising the Public Services, taxing the rich, and making everybodies lives better at the expense (literally) of the richest.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Somewhere, in a parallel universe, genocide is punished.

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Justice delayed is justice denied!

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In America, you are either one of four groups or the descendants thereof: 1) Indigenous 2) Refugees 3) Slaves 4) Immigrants I am fine with and not threatened by people who still proudly carry the flags of wherever they descend from. I am over fake-patriots using "Old Glory" to justify fascism.

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Grenfell fire was caused by corporate greed; calls for unlimited fines, ban on public contracts. 72 people died, no one prosecuted. Corporations responsible for corruption, bribery, tax dodges, sewage dumping, energy price rip-offs. We can have strong democracy or corporations, not both.

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The timing of Israel's plan to attack Iran was top secret. But Washington pizza delivery trackers guessed something was up before the first bombs fell.

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Here is a gift link to @kashhill.bsky.social's must read piece on the dangers of OpenAI's sycophantic LLMs and the parasocial relationships people are creating with them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

And we're still fighting it out council by council in England.

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Systematic Fraud. "Connivance and collusion" between ticketing companies & touts, who buy up tickets for live events in bulk, sell them at inflated prices. Ticket touts had inside help from ticketing platforms. What kind of society have we created where fraud and rip-off practices are normalized.

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Fell down a rabbit hole learning about gay birds. And let me tell you, the birds, they are so gay. Gayer than I ever imagined. Far beyond a few lesbian seagulls and gay penguin dads. So I made a bird-filled pride print! www.heatherbuchanan.ca/collections/...

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Good morning friends. This kid is spot on 👏🏼💙

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#BIGSPD25 is drawing to a close now and there's just one session left before we all go our separate ways. 😢 It's an important session though with final remarks from the @bigspd.bsky.social Co-Presidents Gary Lamph @garylamph.bsky.social and Fi Kuhn-Thompson @fik-t.bsky.social 🧵 THREAD

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Sorry Apple News only… paywalls. American alcohol exports have dropped like a stone. Wine exports to Canada are down substantially (a staggering 94% decline). Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, France & Italy imports to Canada are up by double digits. apple.news/AkgllKnuMSxG...

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

Imagine being one of the wealthiest countries in the world but a third of your children are in poverty...

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"dozens of people were killed [yesterday]. They were trying to reach food boxes. Empty handed, unarmed & desperate, what they got was live fire.. the aid points run by the US & Israeli backed GHF are becoming execution sites" Tareq Abu Azzoum reports.

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Along with abolishing ICE we should abolish all for-profit prison companies in the country.

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Good article from @adamtranter.bsky.social about today's spending review news on active travel spending: it's lower than we need to deliver against targets, and lower than it was pre-Sunak, BUT at least it's multi-year. www.fusion-media.co.uk/blog/spendin...

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Meta has been using an exploit to track your browsing history on Android without your permission even if you use a VPN if you also run Instagram or Facebook on the same device. It's devious and completely illegal ( e.g. violates GDPR ). www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...

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I’m 61. I’m not retired. I just stopped working. I refuse to serve these corrupt sycophants another day. I won’t build their world, feed their greed, or play along. I’d rather die in my own filth than work for them again. This is my strike.

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It doesn't end with the illegal immigrants folks, it's actually just the beginning.

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If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

Water Follies In the 35 years before privatisation, 100 reservoirs built; no major English reservoir built since. Asset-stripping: Thames Water sold-off 25 reservoirs. Southern Water to decommission 43 of 93 by 2030. Companies paid £85bn in dividends, borrowed £70bn. People fleeced and abused.

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Important thread from Adam here. Public space - especially in towns and cities - isn't just there for the fast, efficient movement of motor vehicles and we mustn't let that motonormative thinking enable another generational landgrab as automated driving slides in

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So far this year, the UK government has spent £500 million 'balancing the national grid' by paying clean energy firms such as Seagreen, Scotland's largest wind farm, to restrict their production of clean energy. Now why would they do that..?

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