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🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

I'd prefer not to be hit in the first place. Why is absolutely everything about enabling and mitigating for incompetent driving?

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

God forbid a man has hobbies

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

I'm watching Paul Simon on BBC2, it's remnding me to love my American friends.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It wasn’t net zero — it was fossil gas that drove up UK electricity prices. Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time. As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

The Last Word. A firm favourite #Cocktails #Saturday

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A decent drop of #Compost though I say so myself. Kitchen vegetable scraps and garden waste. Stop adding to it in August and swapped to the other bin, which is now full #UKGardening 🌱🇬🇧

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Why are children not playing in the street? An FT piece analysing the - very concerning - decline in outdoor play manages to look at every possible cause: screens, spaces, school timetable changes. Apart from one. Cars. It is simply not safe for kids to play outside on streets.

submitted 1 day ago • 242 comments

First, and possibly only, bloom on my Camellia #UKGardening 🌱🇬🇧

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah!! Long weekend! #Cocktails ahoy! #Holidays #Easter Warday's cocktail

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Britain should not be a book censor, especially when it's driven by a bunch of religious fanatics who do not represent the majority Freedom of speech includes the written word imo, so these US hypocrites can sling their hook and then sling it some more www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

always a good time to give a bookish kid who thinks magic is cool the Earthsea books

submitted 4 days ago • 190 comments

Transphobia is no more "acceptable" than any other form of bigotry, and I continue to be absolutely astounded, shocked, and revolted that otherwise "liberal" people think otherwise. What do they want transgender people to do? Hide away? Pretend they don't exist?

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

submitted 5 days ago • 570 comments

Can’t believe I blagged an exclusive interview with Katy Perry!

submitted 4 days ago • 567 comments

Happy Wednesday!

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Column, on the spectacularly bad-faith/ideologically contorted White House demands the "free speech protection" be a factor in UK-US trade talks www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

Just watched the Home Counties private schoolboy Nigel Farage telling northern voters how he understands steelworkers because he used to work in the “metals business” himself. He was, ahem, a commodities trader at the London Metal Exchange in the City.

submitted 5 days ago • 130 comments

The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

ICYM Solar panel push still won’t cover as much land as golf courses, even if the UK government's 2030 solar power goals are met www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Another crucial bit of infrastructure has collapsed bit.ly/43TmVVj young people are denied driving tests and exploiters grab them by bot and resell them. If the govt wants young people to work and study it must sort this out.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

People love to list useless things done by Roman emperors, namely Caligula’s declaring war on the sea. But a technocrat “conquering space” w/an 11 min 🚀 flight carrying a brigade of rich female celebrities—when ticket $ combined are worth the entire NEH budget for a yr—is beyond Caligula levels imo.

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

Never Forget…..

submitted 7 days ago • 283 comments

We need to kick up hitherto unimaginable stink about this NOW. This country's a thousand miles from perfect but at least we had the good sense to kick out the puritans. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

There's been plenty of hyperventilating in some UK media outlets about solar farm taking over 'productive farm land' and endangering food security But in fact the ambitious 2030 targets will cover only 0.4% of land, compared with golf courses covering 0.5% www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

Jean Marsh has died at the age of 90. Brian Shuel's 1961 photograph of the actor hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery and is one of the most striking images in the collection

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

submitted 7 days ago • 69 comments

"345,000 Britons are homeless. I've got two houses, one of which was given to me for free. Somehow, I've managed to persuade The Times that this makes me a victim." www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

submitted 7 days ago • 55 comments

Apple blossom #UKGardening 🌱🇬🇧

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Nigel Farage thinks it's OK for him to earn £571,585 in six months from 'second jobs', but tells Laura Kuenssberg that public sector staff should not be allowed to work from home. #BBCLauraK

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

The hypocrisy of Richard Tice and Deform #FuckTice #FuckReform #FuckFascists

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Have just turned on the TV and ex IEA chief Mark Littlewood - who now works for Liz Truss - is on the BBC talking about why Labour should revive Rwanda policy. Why is Littlewood still given airtime?

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

#RIP Max Romeo, you and your iron shirt open.spotify.com/track/6KGggJ...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

submitted 8 days ago • 119 comments

The Good Friday Agreement was signed 27 years ago today. It was an act of delicate diplomacy, which delivered peace and security to a part of our country where those qualities had long been absent. Those achievements should never be taken for granted.

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

Michael Gove used to ban teachers from their profession for life for drug use. He got caught taking cocaine and a few years later he's getting a peerage? It's as clear as day that drug laws are just there to punish the working class.

submitted 9 days ago • 103 comments

Wow. This is 🔥🔥 Trump & his Cabinet should be strapped to their chairs and made to watch this on a loop. Victor Gao: “China has been here for 5000 years. Most of the time, there was no United States and we survived.” 🇨🇳 He beautifully trashes JD Vance too. (🎥 Channel 4 News)

submitted 9 days ago • 75 comments

Slightly hollow sentiments here from Heidi Alexander here. She talks about options, but labour have increased the cost of rail and bus travel whilst keeping driving artificially cheap and have done bugger all for active travel so far. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

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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submitted 11 days ago • 345 comments

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of “The Great Gatsby” I’m all for celebrating with a jazz-age soirée, but given the current moment, let’s also honor F Scott Fitzgerald’s work by thinking about how unregulated wealth, casual racism & convenient fatalism color the American dream.