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Erstwhile engineer, poor runner, purchaser of musical instruments I never play. Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
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The latest ILGA Report is out. The five pages on the UK show how the country has regressed in twelve months. It also makes you wonder what else is to come. www.ilga-europe.org/files/upload...

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Another quote seems apt: “Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason”

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Am sure this piece is well intentioned. But if you seek to analyse the pushback against (eg) trans people without acknowledging the *vast* sums the political right spends demonising them you will draw many false conclusions. 🧵 on.ft.com/4ha0Cyt

submitted 21 days ago • 41 comments

Some years ago such an exchange would have been dismissed as satire. But after several years of madness we seem to have arrived at a point of Schroedinger’s Trump.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Another jurisdiction just happens to ban gender affirming care. It is an amazing coincidence that this is taking place simultaneously across the western world where previously GAC was not seen as an issue. It’s almost as if it’s coordinated or something.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

An interesting read and something to consider when politicians and media figures start talking about the class war www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Not my image, and I can’t remember where I nabbed it, but happy new year

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Britain in 2024: puppuccinos and nighttime milk for dogs on the one hand, and huge numbers of homeless people and folk using food banks on the other

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Get in Notts Forest, that’s Newcastle storming back up to 12th place

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

We are now up to 84 universities making staff redundant. A key part of our society is retreating at a staggering pace that would never be allowed if the decisions were all seen and weighed up together. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

Has anyone ever bitten into a poppadom only to find that it leaves behind an imprint of K2 from Broad Peak basecamp?

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

It’s increasingly difficult to argue that we are, in fact, *not* living in a simulation

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I try not to go over to the old place given its descent into the mantle, but it can still provide a giggle or two

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

It seems the Scottish Parliament does not allow the wearing of rainbow lanyards (as they are deemed to be political) but does allow the wearing of poppies (not deemed as political). So what category would Royal British Legion pride poppies fall into? www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/rbl...

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment