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Net zero is being undermined by the Department for Transport! 🧵 transportactionnetwork.org.uk/net-zero-und...

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Using updated numbers, the bounds are now 18-22% for two parties and 19-23% for two other parties. So, have fun First Past the Post, you deranged and messy bench.

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My life as a reader will not be complete until I get hold of one of these 18th Century book wheels, designed to allow a person to keep seven books open at once.

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Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

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As cisgender women, there are so many things that make our lives more difficult and less safe than they should be. There's the widespread domestic abuse and sexual assault perpetrated almost entirely by cisgender, heterosexual men, who almost always go unpunished. (1/6)

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

What are your realistic transition goals? (Wrong answers only)

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

A little present to myself. The design and feel of the book, and the writing - everything about it is gorgeous. Thank you @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

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“What's a goth birthday milestone?” I wondered — before realizing this is a sans-serif font with old-style numerals, and that's actually a 9 with a descender, not a g …

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the autistic curse of seeing the iceberg coming, being called hyperbolic and having everyone get mad at you when you point it out, and then watching them be shocked! when we crash into it. who could possibly have seen this coming?! no one predicted it except those people we don’t take seriously

submitted 14 days ago • 78 comments

It's now nearly two days since a certain court decision, and I actually feel worse about it today

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A message for everyone but in particular for trans and non binary followers - let us fight against dehumanisation

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A shocking attitude to autism Robinince.com for Normally Weird dates uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...

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Biggest wins by runs in County Championship 504 Yorkshire v Worcestershire at Leeds 2025 TODAY 483 Surrey v Leicestershire at The Oval 2002 470 Sussex v Gloucestershire at Hove 1913 470 Hampshire v Essex at Southampton 2014 462 Nottinghamshire v Durham at Nottingham 2022 #CountyChampionship

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😢 Grief II – the sequel – the awkward second album – also known as ‘Ah no, is she STILL talking about death?’ Grief doesn’t end neatly – it’s messy, lasting, and full of love – we need to talk about death the way we do life By Tracy Kuhn @tracykuhn.bsky.social

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Today I watched 'What They Found', a documentary film directed by Sam Mendes, which cuts together interviews with British Army cameramen with footage they shot following the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, in April 1945. A thread 🧵 #history

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Describe yourself with a building

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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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Happy 97th birthday Tom Lehrer 🎂 Today, I'll be celebrating the birthday of the greatest musical satirist of the last hundred years. Born in Manhattan in 1928, Lehrer was a mathematician who wrote comedy and satirical songs, and became an international celebrity in the late 50s and early 60s. /1

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234) Jack-in-the-Bot. A jack-in-the-box, except instead of a scary clown popping out, it's a small robot that loves you. #SmallRobotsRemastered

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Every single autism diagnosis should immediately qualify a person for therapy. (Therapy should be free anyway, but that's an entirely different conversation).

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