As the EHRC Code of Practice comes into force, we’ve compiled a new Oxford toilet guide highlighting unisex/gender-neutral provision. 38 facilities across the city for when you need to go. Read it here: oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-publi...

Oxford public toilets: Where to go when you need to go

We are all the Clarion – and, sometimes, we all need the loo. And especially if you're pregnant, have an unreliable postnatal pelvic floor, are looking after children, or just need to spend a penny wi...

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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

White-tailed eagles have now been released in the westcountry! roydennis.org/the-first-wh...

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

Just got a 2026 PB on my local parkrun 🥳 slowly regaining condition after the winter chest infection, feels good to be chipping away a few seconds here and there

before withdrawing support or arguing for it, know that UK libel laws mean if you have enough money, you can sue someone into bankruptcy amnesty likely had to calculate how many people would die if they fought this versus how many would die if they didn’t either way sux for refugees & trans people

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

Having just narrowly managed to dodge a deer attempting suicide-by-car while I was driving at 50mph with a baby in the back, PLEASE can we reintroduce wolves to control deer numbers. Please.

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

People still think of Sweden as this sexually liberated place, but the reality is you're not even allowed to fuck inside the giant taxidermied Blue Whale anymore. Place has really changed.

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

Starting to think that this ‘climate change’ thing could be bad www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought

Environment Agency names seven regions affected by unusually hot and dry weather and shortage of water

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🚨 New today in Nature 🦟 After decades of debate, we show that climate change has probably made malaria worse in sub-Saharan Africa, causing about 1 extra case per 1,000 children. But: malaria eradication efforts have pulled the other direction 200 times harder. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Regularly scheduled caveat that being kind is NOT about being "nice". Where nice will lie and "just wants to get along," kindness is about accountability, responsibility, and honesty. It will necessitate hard conversations and good boundaries. It is often about doing what's hard, not what's easy.

Betteridge’s law of headlines says Channel 4 can fuck off into the sun with this one

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

#2026MMM www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

River otters are hunting and drowning pelicans in a Bay Area lagoon

"It's a lot of bang for their buck."

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Rowling is the ultimate proof that we cannot have billionaires. She technically made her fortune without fucking over the working class. A borderline miracle. And yet, she remains a monster that wants to make the world worse. We can either have billionaires or freedom, not both.

Aidan Comerford@aidancomerford.bsky.social · last wk.

This is Rowling's pinned tweet, and yet, just this week, she is funding legal cases against Féile Belfast and Amnesty International for exercising their free speech and fair opinion. She is using her massive wealth to terrorise these orgs into compilance, because she doesn't believe in free speech.

This sucks. It’s likely due to the fact that our division began this policy, not the overall university. The division wanted to keep the policy but it placed pressure on the overall uni to roll out a good policy uni-wide. Instead they decided to make MPLS reverse a good thing, shafting ECR parents

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last wk.

Oxford University's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division will no longer underwrite parental leave for all fixed-term researchers. This reverses its previous policy where all fixed-term researchers had their contracts extended to cover parental leave, regardless of funding.

"First the traitors then the invaders" is Elon Musk endorsing an open call to prioritise political murders + assassinations before violence against migrants and minorities. Still little recognition in the UK government at the persistence of the promotion of political violence - inc murder - by Musk

This thread, man. We're going to look back - if we're still here to look back - and see that not shutting this cunt down was one of the most horrifying mistakes of our time.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

Smol (very smol) life-update:

An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop, sources have reported.

Autistic man with special interest in Harry Potter gets over it, leaving you with no excuse

An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop,…

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"They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” This man did incalculable damage, while 'carried away.'

After a bit of too-and-fro, here's the dirt. The only way we'll see real changes is clearly the "sunlight approach" so with that.... Read about the misguided policy at Marine Environmental Research - and how the editor doubled down. adriftlab.org/news/equalit...

Equality is not equity: why we have withdrawn our manuscript from Marine Environmental Research

We are withdrawing a manuscript from the journal Marine Environmental Research, and we want to explain why, publicly, because the issue is bigger than one paper.

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Dr Alex Bond@thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2w ago

Journal gives us 3 weeks to revise a paper. We ask for a 1-month extension because a coauthor is away. They said no, the most they can give is 2 weeks. Otherwise it's considered withdrawn. What utter nonsense.

“Thinking I had lost the plot, if not the passion for the novel”

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Orcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game

Scientists believe sunfish-smashing behaviour could be form of entertainment or to help younger whales feed

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My instinct when someone says this shit is not 'you're so hardcore', it's 'you are not going to perform well'.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said she gets just “zero to three hours” of sleep a night, prompting a debate in the country over work-life balance.

Little known to many, on the 10th June, the government released the interim report on ADHD and neurodiversity services in the UK. It came out to very little fanfare. Why? Because it doesn't match the government & the press narrative on "an epidemic of neurodiversity diagnoses".

Confirmation of further White-tailed Eagle poisonings in Dorset 🦅☠️ Press release from Wildlife Poisoning Research UK ⬇️ #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/07/22/c...

Confirmation of further White-tailed Eagle poisonings in Dorset

Press release from Wildlife Poisoning Research UK (WPRUK), 22 July 2026: CONFIRMATION OF FURTHER EAGLE POISONINGS IN DORSET The white tailed sea eagle is one of England’s rarest and most impressive…

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PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.