I can neither name nor hum a song from Taylor Swift to save my life, and this is someone who’s dominated the charts for a decade. But you don’t hear me yearning for the days when everyone’s music tastes were influenced by Top Of The Pops!

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7h ago

Demise of the monoculture: why so many have never heard UK’s record-breaking No 1 single

It’s great how this country is pushing to build more data centres when much of England looks like this right now

Think this is the first time I've ever seen someone accidentally create a sincere facsimile of a Kelly cartoon.

REMEMBER The guidance coming into effect today doesn't dictate what you're allowed to do as an individual. It for service providers and business owners. Do not cower in fear, do not reduce yourself, do not isolate, that is one of the intended effects.

Pubic Service Announcement The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. Always has been, always will be. Today the new EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect. Let us be clear, the guidance changes nothing about how we operate.

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Taking the same approach as I’ve always been for years working in a public space: I’ll only be checking the toilets for cleanliness so you can all continue to piss in peace and comfort

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 19h ago

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 16h ago

Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

HIV medication, to the point where U=U is now a thing. And it’s highly likely we’ll find a cure within the next decade or so

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 24h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

First thing I’d notice is Google would be usable again

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

People died

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god I think I found the video.

I think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm

Already built up a mood board of what to do for this, and I can hear the saxophones getting louder and louder every time I add another leopard print accessory to it

🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸@dean-tane.bsky.social · 6d ago

I’ve really locked into the idea of going as Ruby Rhod for Halloween this year

björkrooms

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2d ago

Björk in 1996, by Takashi Homma

"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

Black and Asian people have ended up in court for describing Black and Asian politicians who sell us out as coconuts, but Rod Liddle throwing around racist slurs in printis an amazing wit

Barry Combo@barry-combo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Try to say something "provocative" and "transgressive" about actual elites on your social media. You'll end up in prison.

One of the many reasons why I left my last job was some point last year, I was told I didn’t “embody our values” as I had the audacity to criticise how badly they handled two incidents that summer. The latter half of the company mantra “Work Hard and Be Nice To People” certainly didn’t apply to us

Max P III@blackballer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.

We’ve just rented a projector so the kids can watch some films over August and we’re trying to source and buy treats and snacks. Ionad Hind Rajab is about more than education. It’s about getting back a little bit of childhood. 👇

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2d ago

An Irish artist has helped establish a children's centre in Gaza that provides food, education and psychosocial support to children displaced by the war. Adam Doyle, better known as Spicebag, tells us why he helped create Ionad Hind Rajab. jrnl.ie/7117887

Say what you like about Rod Liddle, he’s dead and can’t sue you

This has been a great summer of all the worst people you know dying

Right, now that Rod Liddle is dead, I'm going to admit that for at least a few years I thought the guy that operated the emu puppet left his wife for a young wan.

He's dead He's dead Rod Liddle's dead Slimy, fascist, journo, nonce No tears will be shed

Thoughts and prayers to the short illness

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness

Boy George was cancelled a couple of decades ago, get with the times grandpa

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d ago

The business of the British press is the recruitment and promotion of cranks and wingnuts to further their own malicious agendas

When I was in that London at the beginning of July I wandered down South Bank and passed the Covid Memorial Wall. It's not a short wall.

🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸@dean-tane.bsky.social · 4d ago

All I’ll say about this COVID revisionism from The Sensibles is they conveniently forget 227’000+ died in the UK. Every iota of that statistic was someone with family, friends, dreams, and a life (no matter how long or short) abruptly ended due to shocking incompetence and corruption from the state

There are former politicians who ran our country who should be going to bed, haunted every night, that if they'd acted sooner, they could've saved more lives.

🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸@dean-tane.bsky.social · 4d ago

All I’ll say about this COVID revisionism from The Sensibles is they conveniently forget 227’000+ died in the UK. Every iota of that statistic was someone with family, friends, dreams, and a life (no matter how long or short) abruptly ended due to shocking incompetence and corruption from the state

Not debating the effectiveness of lockdown anymore. Congratulations/ sorry it happened to you

Emily Maitlis was boasting about her role in removing healthcare for trans kids at the Tavistock

David Flood@maoltuile.bsky.social · 4d ago

Same assholes

Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth