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Your regular reminder the British Library remains unable to give access to the vast majority of its priceless & irreplaceable digital collection nearly 18 months after the cyberattack. And it suits our politicians & media to look the other way even as they spout nonsense about UK prowess in tech.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

"Vaccine fatigue" is one of the most absurdly privileged things I've ever heard of. This is the fault of antivaxxers, infectious disease minimizers, and inept public health leaders.

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

As a lawyer who does Equal Pay law it is interesting to note that the prospect of young men falling behind young women is causing a sense of societal crisis that the reverse position consistently failed to invoke.

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

submitted 2 days ago • 845 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 1 day ago • 3273 comments

Guide Dogs puppy Lucy arrived today. 8 weeks old and very chilled - so far 🤞🏽🦮 #Guidedogs #GuidedogsUK #Guidedogsfortheblind

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Did something I have been meaning to for years today - walked along the disused railway track from Mickleover to Etwall. A fantastic walk (though sad you no longer can take a train!) People in the UK still fly 🇺🇦 flags in solidarity!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

St Mary's in the gentle sunset last night 😍

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Peekaboo, St Paul's! A gorgeous day at last.

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Spydere man Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondrye webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo, anon cometh Spydere Man

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

submitted 5 days ago • 2704 comments

👀 Be a shame if these popped up around the world. Make a donation via the link in our bio & we'll send you a PDF so you can print your own #dontbuyaswasticar

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

We are stunned at Keir Starmer's 40% cut to ODA. Our CEO Martin Drewry said: “Just when millions are reeling from the loss of USAID - lifesaving supplies and medication stopped overnight - the UK government chooses to do similar. They should be stepping up not down. Shame on the UK government.”

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Can we all please stop calling Trump mentally unhinged, deranged etc? It’s an insult to those who truly are. I mean that seriously: I know many people with MH problems, mostly decent people trying to live coherent lives. Trump’s problem isn’t an MH issue: it’s egocentric evil with no moral compass.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"Oppositional culture" my foot.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone is dunking on this quite rightly but I want to point out that one of the reasons that this "not racist but the voted for the racist party" thing doesn't work is that racism isn't actually about what's in your heart alone- it's about the things that you do. If you vote for nazis you are one.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Baby moose are all legs.

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments

I know you like it when I make a banana bread I do like that 😊

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Tidying up for spring - lovely shaped seedheads and pods

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness... it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." Charles Dickens must have experienced half term.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

woman in the café next to me is eating a croissant with a knife and fork, does anyone have a direct personal number for Emmanuel Macron

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

202 council by-elections since the General Election, just 11 seats won for Reform UK. There were 6 council by-elections this week Reform UK won 0, including their target seat Tiptree. They have just 72 out of 20k councillors across the UK. 80% of their councillors are defectors.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

A lesson I have learned from surgery, shingles, chemo, etc: Never underestimate what the human body -- and the human race -- can recover from once you remove what's harming it and treat it with patience, love, and care. Don't ever let the current state of damage be the future you envision.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

… I already track what I’m looking at, and think about it in my own voice. Did tech bros just reinvent having thoughts?

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Freya will not take her eyes off the screen when we are watching Severance

submitted 13 days ago • 319 comments

The problems with this stance are manifold. Firstly, a ‘neutral’ stance is itself political. Secondly, encouraging the idea that ‘neutrality’ achieves trust is flawed: being right achieves trust. Thirdly, weakness in the face of evil is exactly what helps evil succeed.

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

That's quite a burn.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

submitted 15 days ago • 209 comments

It's just so important to look at oneself first. If you're asking why OTHER people aren't doing something that YOU aren't, you'll find part of the answer in why you aren't doing said thing.

submitted 14 days ago • 40 comments

Richest guy in the world is doing this

submitted 15 days ago • 353 comments

Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid--it feels solid when you push against it, but will pour out of containers like a liquid. You can find a recipe here busytoddler.com/how-to-make-... 🧪

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

he looks like the two banshees of inisherin guys combined

submitted 20 days ago • 141 comments

Hanging at my Guild’s quilt show. (Blue is the curtain- it’s not part of the quilt.)

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

NEW REVIEW of Womanist Midrash Vol. II by Dr. Wilda Gafney "Dr. Gafney demonstrates an authentic, highly ethical response to the call of knowing the poor and marginalized." https://buff.ly/4hWf0KL

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

hard to read this any other way than that death of lgbtq people is the explicit goal

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Duo, welcome to The War on Cars.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

‘Satisfied fatalism’ - a useful term for an unhelpful outlook. See also ‘I said COVID would be a terrible pandemic in Jan 2020’…

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Yes! Glad we have @stellacreasy.bsky.social as our MP 💪🏼

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention. No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 19 days ago • 94 comments

This has come as a massive surprise to Irish people too: the fact that most of our island's natural cover is actually rainforest. How could we have known, when now it's almost all just grass for sheep or cows, or sitka spruce?

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Nature valentines. Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

submitted 20 days ago • 38 comments

Can you vague that up a bit.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 20 days ago • 170 comments

(That she and I may grow old together)

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments