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the whole "a computer wrote a nice short story" bullshit in the Guardian. yeah and pictures of the Virgin Mary have turned up in toast. doesn't mean we should get a fucking toaster to repaint the Sistine Chapel does it

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In 2000, Scottish Labour MSPs faced down homophobia in the press, led by @dailyrecord.co.uk, to push through the repeal of Section 28 against public opinion. In 2025, Labour MSP @joanireid.com writes explicit transphobia in @dailyrecord.co.uk to appease public opinion. Shame on Scottish Labour.

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@privateeyenews.bsky.social You are trans friendly. Go for it. This is the actual beautiful delivery

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Just ran up against @helenlewis.bsky.social there. Can someone help me not have to ever do that again

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Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper... But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

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Moe Tucker feature in the Boston Herald, 1967

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Am I the only one seeing “four months” and thinking there’s your problem…?

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@profanity.accountant Ok

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i don't know if i've ever felt more hopeless than watching an elderly black man get dragged out of the room for calling out fascism while dozens of white people sat silently with their lollipop signs and watched and did nothing

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Yeah. Have you used Google in the last decade?

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social media needs to be regulated and treated very much like we currently treat drugs. that's long term. in the immediate term? focus on the 75% of men who aren't voting for fascists. you will have more luck reaching and organizing them than deradicalizing Andrew Tate fans.

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I understand and appreciate the sentiment I do but thats not what it means either. The idea of being aware of systemic racism being made a byword by the right only to be sanitized as general good heartedness demonstrates how concepts are drained of vigor. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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#OtD 24 Feb 1909 anarchist Ethel Macdonald was born in Motherwell, Scotland. Her exploits during the Spanish Revolution caused the British press to dub her the Scots Scarlet Pimpernel stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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From Mastadon: Just spotted on Carole Cadwalladr’s substack: “Meanwhile, I’m one of 100+ Guardian journalists whose employment will be terminated next month. On Friday, the organisation signed a deal with OpenAI.” — broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-...

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Probably says a lot about Brave New World that there’s a psychotic pill-fuelled president smashing up Washington DC and at no point do you think “ooh, prescient”

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Claims about LTNs delaying emergency services are often made without evidence. It's important to hear directly from those responsible for emergency response, such as the London Fire Commissioner, that this isn't true.

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Lots of overrated bands claim to have made a Rock Opera, but it's just pompous nonsense. Most of these bands have never listened to an opera. But, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell album is a serious contender. It is dramatic, sometimes histrionic, and beautiful. What more do you want.

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If you drew this event as a satirical political cartoon, people would say "oh come on, that's too on the nose."

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Unison is the largest women’s organization in the UK. It has a million women members. The Unison women’s conference just voted for a motion that said; “trans women are women and trans men are men” with no-one speaking against it. Transphobia is a top-down, elite practice.

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"It should be somewhere we want to go not have to" Bang! Nail/head interface achieved

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Please do sign to help save the Prince Charles. One of the few remaining icons of Soho: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Huge congratulations to the Marxists on the total victory tonight

submitted 32 days ago • 175 comments

Superbowl is my 'what norms feel watching David Lynch'. Who are these people, am I meant to know what's going on, is this ironic Americana, why did everything stop and a little guy start dancing, wait did they switch over, are there actually rules, what do you mean four hours?

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Got The Greek visiting. She forgot to bring her meds. We went to a practise nearby that was wrongly listed as a walk-in clinic online. They could not have been more helpful and damned delightful. I’m wondering if I can change directors to them. My GPs office are all torn-faced bastards

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nice poll the Express has got here... xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

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#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

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Fuck, and I mean this from the very bottom of my heart, this miserable piece of shit.

submitted 48 days ago • 127 comments

Angela Rayner was on one last night

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Thirty years ago, as a favour to a housemate, I dressed up as Sonic the Hedgehog to publicise a new games shop in Bedford. It was my first ever day of gainful employment. Three decades on, and I’ve realised I’ve not enjoyed a single day of my working life. Not one fucking day. Is this normal?

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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

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Alt text is intended to improve accessibility by describing an image for those unable to see it. It's not somewhere for your pithy joke that only works with the added context of the image. In fact, this excludes those unable to see the image even more.

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

Marilyn Monroe as Lillian Russell, Theda Bara, and Clara Bow, by Richard Avedon for LIFE Magazine in 1958.

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Why is track listing always at the bottom of an album’s page on Wikipedia? Year, producer, track listing, personnel. Maybe chart position. That’s what I’m usually wanting to know. Not the history or story of its recording. That’s all further reading

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Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

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It feels like the moment everyone agreed to call LLMs "AI"--even critics of it--something important was conceded

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I’m off to the Prince Charles Cinema tonight. Expecting a minutes silence before the film

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I understand a lot of people dislike Amanda Palmer. But, c’mon tae fuck, she is not the Rosemary West here

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I’m on a train which is 24 Minutes to Tulse Hill. I feel that needs noted

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If we’d shared with them from the go, they wouldn’t feel the need for violent overthrow. As is; we’re the ones in our twilight. They’ll be picking off cockroaches for a century or two after us

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I made the mistake of going to Brighton for the weekend. Forgot that there’s an embargo on trains out of Sussex on weekends. Think I’m hiking home

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