To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7h ago

Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.

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.

Announcing state backed trans segregation and discrimination with a smile

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 8h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

If you were confused about what happened in Ceuta last week read this piece by @lizcarolan.com who's looking at how it blew up online and who's behind it... www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Liz Carolan: Migrants pay a deadly price in Ceuta disinformation disaster

All the layers of neglected dysfunction in our information environment have come together into one deadly, toxic mess for Moroccans in Ceuta, writes Liz Carolan

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I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…

It’s one week until the eclipse! You’ve still got time to sort out your glasses! Many good brands available, just make sure they have the ISO 12312-2 international safety standard! www.theastroholic.co.uk/august-solar...

August Solar Eclipse Prep!

On August 12, 2026, Iceland and Spain will experience a total eclipse of the Sun. I have been asked by a few people for advice and suggestions about glasses and locations for the eclipse, so here are ...

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Artemis III new plans has astronauts docking with Starship in orbit but no astronaut is allowed on board. Which it is so fucking telling about the state of completion by end of 2027

Sean O’Kane@okane.fyi · 19h ago

Musk claims SpaceX will "probably a year from now, we will be doing at least one [Starship] flight a day, possibly more"

HAPPY BOOK DAY TO ME 💞📚✨🥰

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · yesterday

@toomanyspectra.bsky.social's Cloudy with a Chance of Starships is an entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Out now! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... 29 September UK pub | #Astrobiology #Astronomy #Science

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 4d ago

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

For World Space Week 2026, we're teaming up with Pokémon to unite space exploration and a universe of imagination. More to come soon. ⚡https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Branding_and_Partnerships/ESA_and_Pokemon_team_up_to_celebrate_World_Space_Week #WorldSpaceWeek2026 #PokemonxESA

Yes it was designed to attract one specific group of people, my good man - tech bros and crypto grifters and hacks. Jack Dorsey was quite direct about it. How did that go for him and them? 😈

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing

I see the “protect women” crowd are busy eulogising a man who at age 45 assaulted his 23 year old girlfriend when she was 20 weeks pregnant

rip 😔

So that I am not seen to be picking on one specific recent corpse, I would like to wish ALL domestic abusers a very Drop Dead.

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

A Sunday reading for you! Chpt 2 of "How to Design a Universe" opens with the philosophical: do you see colour in the same way I see colour? What even is colour? Queue physics of rainbows & electromagnetism to question if we could ever simulate human sense🤔 #BookSky 🔭 www.youtube.com/shorts/Upkww...

Chapter 2: Senses Preorder Now!!

YouTube video by Astronomer Royal Scotland Prof Catherine Heymans

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Honestly I saw this on tiktok and lost my mind. His delivery. He SELLS this

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d ago

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

You’ll have to speak up, I’m only wearing a speedo

Indeed

David Flood@maoltuile.bsky.social · 3d ago

A wider public appreciation of just how deeply embedded many of these journos are into elite political networks, in every country, would be a healthy development

bsky.app/profile/hlee... I want to talk about this for a minute as an important case study in how conservative positions, completely divorced from reality, scaffold out their rhetorical credibility 🧵

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...

i just found the BEST photo from artemis ii.

"The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation.“ Gee, is a billionaire threatening a human rights organization hurting those who lack power? What do you think?

Rowling signed the Harper’s Letter, which lamented, “it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.” Are ANY of her co-signatories — some follow me — going to speak up about her crusade against trans people?

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 4d ago

Amnesty International correctly called out Rowling's transphobia. She threatened them in response. And @amnesty.org surrendered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul ErinReed Celeste Keaton, co-owner of WNBA Seattle Storm, suspended 5 days and fined undisclosed amount for confronting anti-trans activists who wore provocatively transphobic tees courtside in support of anti-trans player Sophie Cunningham and against trans women.

WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Co-Owner Five Games for Confronting Anti-Trans Activists Courtside

Anti-trans provocateurs bankrolled by the right were sitting courtside with signs praising WNBA player Sophie Cunningham. Celeste Keaton reportedly confronted them.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: we're sorry. we listened. we made an error when we listed the westboro baptist church as a hate group. we'd like to especially apologise to fred phelps for suggesting he was homophobic. we're sorry. and maybe god really does hate fags. we're sorry. we listened. we're sorry

This is what sprayed out of Bishop when the Alien queen ripped him in half Tell me this doesn't scream Weyland-Yutani

davemakes🔶@mixolumia.com · 5d ago

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

Hi there, for the writing of my next book I'd really appreciate talking to (and perhaps interviewing) some LGBTQ+ folk of Japanese heritage. Is this you? If so and you're interested let me know. X