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Reform care so much about the process of local government that they can't be bothered to turn up to their first meetings and are causing chaos in councils across the country. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

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Despite U-Turn on winter fuel payment to pensioners, govt won't reverse disability benefit cuts. Now says claimants will be given 13 weeks before they lose either personal independence payments or linked carers’ allowance. Are disabilities to vanish in 13 wks? Cruel and inhumane. archive.ph/8KHE3

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A 17-year-old Honduran foster child—identified only as Henry—was removed from his foster home in Pensacola in shackles and transferred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to reporting from the Miami Herald.

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Lib Dems now have 72 MPs. Reform have 5. Tories have 121 as official opposition. There’s been a Westminster spending review - so which opposition party gets to be on the entire @itvpeston.bsky.social? Yeah u guessed it - Richard Tice. We Demand plurality now petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

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Having stripped trans people of their right to be treated with dignity The Times is now coming for people of colour.

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A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee: Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax

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Yesterday at Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in Seattle barriers were built with scooters and bikes in front of the buildings garage exit. This comes as it was announced today that ICE will be deploying tactical teams to 5 cities in the US to assist in “mass deportations”

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Times quite openly saying that the explicit endorsement of genocide should not be a deal-breaker in the UK's "friendship" with Israel.

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💥 BREAKING: American Airlines shareholders voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal at its annual meeting, tally TBA. Proposal requested AAL end its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, benchmarking LGBTQ+ practices. AAL has had a perfect score for 20 years.

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if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

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This is incredibly courageous and brave. Support NIH staffers. They stuck out their necks for us. Now we have to have their backs.

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Governments and NGOs condemn Israel’s interception of the ship in international waters.

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If you’ve been aware of Curtis Yarvin for years, you probably know how disheartening it is to find out that an absolute bottom feeding jackweasel like this is influencing the president of the US.

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Some more 'background' to this Guardian article. 1. The 5251 sites 'at risk' is simply a count of all protected sites in the UK (of which Labour are doing things to actively protect and made more). 2. They pick 10 they say are particularly at risk - but don't say how or why. 1/5

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The 12-person crew, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, is expected to reach Gaza on June 7.

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We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

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Well, of course. #AI arxiv.org/abs/2411.02306

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Legislators for hire. Tory peer proposed delay on heated tobacco ban after Philip Morris visit. Only if poverty, squalor, injustice was attacked with the same vigour. Can't get good society without eradicating political corruption.

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the pitch for like 99% of app startups is just "what if we could make money by inserting ourselves between customers and a service that already exists" and when are we going to just collectively stop humoring this nonsense

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slashdot.org/story/25/05/... Also, my law 'never attach anything that you don't fully understand to actuators'. Even doughnut machines: youtu.be/jXeYNmqp8X4?...

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Techno-utopianism fails because technology itself does nothing to change the balance of power. For that you need politics. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/technology...

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The BBC pandering to Forstater in this article is sickening:

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Liz Truss is in Hungary. And she tweeted this without a shred of apparent irony. It's her friends and family I feel sorry for.

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Regenerative agriculture "is limited as a climate solution. Other science-based actions for the food system, including a shift to plant-rich diets allowing for ecosystem restoration, can provide far greater decarbonization.” www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

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Support @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social's calls for a public inquiry into British involvement in the Gaza genocide 🇵🇸 ✍Write to your MP and ask them to support accountability for the crimes against humanity inflicted on the Palestinian people: thecorbynproject.com/gazainquiry

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The latest confected transphobia in The Times…😣 It’s written by Sanchez Manning - the OG trans-hostile “churnalist” 🙄 She lost her job at the Daily Mail and now pitches any piece of transphobic tat she can scrape together to the editors of the transphobic-for-profit UK media! 😖

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One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly. iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...

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Thousands are dying around the world from extreme heat and weather on an increasingly frequent basis. It's beyond time for media organisations to stop bringing out the pictures of deckchairs and ice cream and the glib headlines to illustrate stories about global warming www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

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Housebuilders: OK, we're going to knock down a knackered old shopping centre in Peckham and build lots of homes on the site, including some affordable homes. Peckham residents: No. southwarknews.co.uk/area/peckham...

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Well slap my thighs and call me Dandy. Who woulda thunk it?

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Thousands of cis women sign petition rejecting transphobia: ‘We will speak for ourselves’

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This time it’s a faceless corporation but the pattern is the same. They’ll keep taking precious places from you until we get a right to roam. Please follow @righttoroam.bsky.social & help us fight another gross act of exclusion. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform care so much about the process of local government that they can't be bothered to turn up to their first meetings and are causing chaos in councils across the country. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Despite U-Turn on winter fuel payment to pensioners, govt won't reverse disability benefit cuts. Now says claimants will be given 13 weeks before they lose either personal independence payments or linked carers’ allowance. Are disabilities to vanish in 13 wks? Cruel and inhumane. archive.ph/8KHE3

A 17-year-old Honduran foster child—identified only as Henry—was removed from his foster home in Pensacola in shackles and transferred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to reporting from the Miami Herald.

Lib Dems now have 72 MPs. Reform have 5. Tories have 121 as official opposition. There’s been a Westminster spending review - so which opposition party gets to be on the entire @itvpeston.bsky.social? Yeah u guessed it - Richard Tice. We Demand plurality now petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Having stripped trans people of their right to be treated with dignity The Times is now coming for people of colour.

A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee: Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax

Yesterday at Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in Seattle barriers were built with scooters and bikes in front of the buildings garage exit. This comes as it was announced today that ICE will be deploying tactical teams to 5 cities in the US to assist in “mass deportations”

Times quite openly saying that the explicit endorsement of genocide should not be a deal-breaker in the UK's "friendship" with Israel.

💥 BREAKING: American Airlines shareholders voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal at its annual meeting, tally TBA. Proposal requested AAL end its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, benchmarking LGBTQ+ practices. AAL has had a perfect score for 20 years.

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

This is incredibly courageous and brave. Support NIH staffers. They stuck out their necks for us. Now we have to have their backs.

Governments and NGOs condemn Israel’s interception of the ship in international waters.

If you’ve been aware of Curtis Yarvin for years, you probably know how disheartening it is to find out that an absolute bottom feeding jackweasel like this is influencing the president of the US.

Some more 'background' to this Guardian article. 1. The 5251 sites 'at risk' is simply a count of all protected sites in the UK (of which Labour are doing things to actively protect and made more). 2. They pick 10 they say are particularly at risk - but don't say how or why. 1/5

The 12-person crew, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, is expected to reach Gaza on June 7.

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

Well, of course. #AI arxiv.org/abs/2411.02306

Legislators for hire. Tory peer proposed delay on heated tobacco ban after Philip Morris visit. Only if poverty, squalor, injustice was attacked with the same vigour. Can't get good society without eradicating political corruption.

the pitch for like 99% of app startups is just "what if we could make money by inserting ourselves between customers and a service that already exists" and when are we going to just collectively stop humoring this nonsense

slashdot.org/story/25/05/... Also, my law 'never attach anything that you don't fully understand to actuators'. Even doughnut machines: youtu.be/jXeYNmqp8X4?...

Techno-utopianism fails because technology itself does nothing to change the balance of power. For that you need politics. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/technology...

The BBC pandering to Forstater in this article is sickening:

Liz Truss is in Hungary. And she tweeted this without a shred of apparent irony. It's her friends and family I feel sorry for.

Regenerative agriculture "is limited as a climate solution. Other science-based actions for the food system, including a shift to plant-rich diets allowing for ecosystem restoration, can provide far greater decarbonization.” www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

Support @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social's calls for a public inquiry into British involvement in the Gaza genocide 🇵🇸 ✍Write to your MP and ask them to support accountability for the crimes against humanity inflicted on the Palestinian people: thecorbynproject.com/gazainquiry

The latest confected transphobia in The Times…😣 It’s written by Sanchez Manning - the OG trans-hostile “churnalist” 🙄 She lost her job at the Daily Mail and now pitches any piece of transphobic tat she can scrape together to the editors of the transphobic-for-profit UK media! 😖

One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly. iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...

Thousands are dying around the world from extreme heat and weather on an increasingly frequent basis. It's beyond time for media organisations to stop bringing out the pictures of deckchairs and ice cream and the glib headlines to illustrate stories about global warming www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Housebuilders: OK, we're going to knock down a knackered old shopping centre in Peckham and build lots of homes on the site, including some affordable homes. Peckham residents: No. southwarknews.co.uk/area/peckham...

Well slap my thighs and call me Dandy. Who woulda thunk it?

Thousands of cis women sign petition rejecting transphobia: ‘We will speak for ourselves’

This time it’s a faceless corporation but the pattern is the same. They’ll keep taking precious places from you until we get a right to roam. Please follow @righttoroam.bsky.social & help us fight another gross act of exclusion. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Letter in Times today

Profits to @whatthetrans.com!