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Chat GPT is a lot like your Uncle Bill. If you ask him something everyone knows about, he’ll probably give you the correct answer. If you ask him something obscure, he’ll just make stuff up. Also, he’s subtly racist.

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

I will remind people why things got better in the early 20th century, the workers organised, they went on strike, they refused to work unless they got what they wanted. The richest had to cave in, because you actually have all the power. It's time for it to happen again.

submitted 13 hours ago • 21 comments

So most drivers admit to not knowing highway code basics. 75% seem to have emotional and anger issues that means they probably shouldn't be driving in the first place. Amazing how many drivers out themselves as incompetent.

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

Lmao do you understand how far you have to cross the line for the cops to charge you for harassing a trans person on TERF island? The details must be AWFUL here.

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

The EHRC guidance isn't just aggressively anti-trans, it's also actively authoritarian and openly anti-LGBTQ+, attempting to break LGBTQ+ freedom of association. Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

If you see this post a #vampire and pass it on

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

What they're demanding are basic human rights, you patronizing knob.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

I will genuinely never understand people who get freaked out by people speaking a language that isn’t English near them. Like, GROW UP.

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

now this is hard hitting journalism

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

Isn't there a papal candidate that you've overlooked?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom releasing a "men drive like this, but ladies drive like this" opinion in a high-profile 2025 case is Peak Britain

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Happy World Penguin Day to all penguins, but especially Nils, who didn’t let living in Edinburgh (or being a penguin) stop him from becoming The Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard. He’s also been knighted. His official title is Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III and here he is looking regal af

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

literally "i don't think that's true, where did you hear that?" and "this sounds like a culture war that doesn't effect you, why are you so invested in it?" goes a long way

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

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submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

This excellent piece is a kind of microstudy of what's gone wrong with the housing "market": Millions of people buying tickets for a private lottery, for a one-in-200-million chance of winning a former council house, which none of them could ever dream of being able to buy.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

morning all, this made me hiss like a cat

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the best RPG I've played in over a decade. It is A Video Game About Things, made for adults. Incredibly moving, stunningly beautiful, and remarkably well-designed. A triumph for Sandfall Interactive, and a game you must play. My review for @shacknews.com:

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

What about the so-called "impartial broadcaster" the BBC stopping all the dark money climate denial think tanks like @iealondon.bsky.social being interviewed across their networks on a regular basis, unless they disclose their funding?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

As Morgan Page summarized it acidly, “apparently the Court will know women when they see them,” this being the litmus test for porn in the US Supreme Court in the '60s. The comparison to obscenity law is apt. “Deep in the judgment is an idea of trans people as moral contaminants,” notes Dave Renton.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

they made up a bunch of shit about jeremy corbyn being hitler 2 so they could have this guy instead

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

sure labour are saying and doing terrible on trans rights, asylum seekers, Palestine, disabled people, the NHS, the list goes on, but it's a price worth paying for [squints] propelling more kids into poverty

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This - by an EHRC Commissioner - is a defence of the impact of the Supreme Court judgement. The impact is obviously, and quite deliberately, to exclude trans people from public spaces, and to claim that it's fine, legally, politically and morally. Absolutely shameful.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

What she said for damn sake!!

submitted 5 days ago • 168 comments

Labour has no problem actively increasing racial discrimination. This isn't in the public interest - because the public also includes black and brown people and many people of foreign nationality. They're inviting the public to turn against each other. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's being reported that Labour ministers are ruling out scrapping the two-child benefit. Scrapping this cruel policy would lift 350,000 children out of poverty overnight. Instead, Keir Starmer's Government are CHOOSING to keep children in poverty rather than taxing the super-rich fairly.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Why call it a 'conclave' when you can call it VatiCon

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Disabled people have the right to exist even if we can’t work. To believe we don’t have that right is eugenics and ableism.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Tell me again that it was just about women feeling safe in locker rooms. I fucking dare you.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

this piece really cuts to the core of it: “they shunned you because you're an asshole” every TERF makes hatred of trans people their one and only cause in life, subsuming even casual hobbies, and it’s just a mean and miserable way to live that nobody wants to spend time around

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Trans people blaming those who put a bit of chalk on some statues need to realise that there is absolutely no way we could protest which would be considered acceptable. Don't help them demonise your community.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

"Why isn't everyone happy that we've made the lives of their friends and neighbors more miserable than ever through a decade-long hate campaign? They should be thanking us!"

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Well, let's give it three days and double check

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I hope Vance gets to meet the pope soon.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure about you but if I were JD Vance and managed to bore the pope to death with one conversation I'd probably start re-evaluating some things.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The language of "trans rights activists" is so sly. It implies none of us are average people who just want to support rights for trans people; people like me who can't organise their way out of a paper bag but can turn up to a protest. Trans people who just want to live and have better things to do!

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Old message from my friend Simon: “Promised you a list of names of poisonous British mushrooms. I realise now that it reads like a list of rejected Cocteau Twins song titles.”

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments