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Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’

The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.

nytimes.com

It's #buyastrangerabook day! And here's a great offer from @humanaqvi.bsky.social , who'll buy someone the book of their choice, up to £20! So, if there's a particular book you're after, just ask! UK only

Huma Naqvi@humanaqvi.bsky.social · 3h ago

Let’s do this @biggreenbooks.bsky.social £20 please to #buyastrangerabook 🤩

Here's another lovely #buyastrangerabook offer! @redwellyfeats.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice, up to £15! Any book at all, not just what's on my website. So, if there's something specific you're after, get in touch. UK only

Emma Thane of Cawdor@redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 7h ago

Hey Simon, I would like to #buyastrangerabook today. About £15?

Another #buyastrangerabook day offer! @ginger-kid.bsky.social would like to buy two people a book each, up to a tenner! Loads and loads of books are about a tenner! So, if you have something in particular you're after, just ask! UK only

@ginger-kid.bsky.social · 2h ago

If getting hold of that book is difficult today I'm happy to make it just an offer to buy two people a book to the value of £10 each instead. Better to get someone a book even if it's not the suggestion 😁

@themerl.bsky.social Do your staff have a closure day to dress up and look at livestock? Feels very on-brand.

Orkney Library & Archive@orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 2h ago

We have an announcement. Tomorrow is Dounby Show Day which is a local public holiday in #Orkney. Orkney Library & Archive will be CLOSED ALL DAY so the staff can dress in their finest outfits and stroll around the park looking at all sorts of bullocks. 🐂 See you on Friday.

The last thing Kemi Badenoch has is an "ongoing mission to defeat antisemitism and extremism". If this guy was remotely serious about having an impact, advising her is not the way.

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate

Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.

bbc.co.uk

Incredibly Niche Problems, #368: my favourite Too Good To Go bag has moved its pick-up time earlier, to half an hour before I finish work No more cheap pastries for me, wah.

I remember being taught that the Persian wore pants (trousers) and the Greeks mocked them for it.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h ago

“Odysseus and his men and Telemakhos, are portrayed as wearing pants for significant parts of the film. In historical reality, the Greeks never wore pants during any period of antiquity and regarded pants as a quintessentially barbarian garment.” PANTS ARE BAD SIGN ME UP!!

This year's Edinburgh International Book Festival kicks off shortly and for the first time ever Orkney Library & Archive is delighted to be holding several FREE events where you can come along to the library and watch LIVE STREAMS of the events as they happen! 🎉

dudes pouring out the woodwork asking if I can manage without AI as though I haven't been cocking up things for myself my whole life without help

In real life, Rod pled guilty to assaulting his pregnant partner. Wonder if the family he brought to this Christmas party was his two kids with the wife he cheated on 6 months after they married, or his daughter with the 22 year-old he cheated on her with? And in print (as well as the bigotry):

Dexter Crisp@dextercrisp.bsky.social · 7h ago

"And in real life, Rod was kind and generous. He came to dinner at my house, and brought his family along to one of my Christmas parties, no doubt turning down far grander invitations to be there." Hitler was an animal lover, you know... Doted on his German Shepherd dogs...

Lunch on my lap, in the back garden.

There are currently three butterflies perched on the buddleia, which delights me.

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

A good pair of trousers can't be bested but they can be worsted.

Absolutely WILD that over $80 million gets spent on one party's primary, in one state, in a country where millions don't have healthcare.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 12h ago

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

Every time I open up an old BBC rehearsal script Acrobat is like "oh no - words 😥, that looks HARD, let me summarise! 🙏🙏🙏" Fine. Let's try it. ....30 minutes later... Nothing. In more time than it takes to read the script.

Bear min/maxxing #art #bears

I'm sitting outside, yet I'm cool and not melting! The app claims it's 22 degrees, there are lots of clouds and I'd be delighted by a couple more days of this.

It’s disgusting for the Conservatives to ask Jewish groups to meet their ex-neo-Nazi candidate, presumably in the hope he will charm them and they’ll offer their blessing. They should not expect Jewish people to sanitise this appalling choice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tories offer Jewish groups meeting with ex neo-Nazi activist candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.

bbc.co.uk

I had a couple of glasses of wine this evening and have filled my metre-long hot water bottle with chilled water and ice: hoping for pre-heatwave quality s

Delighted to have seen Hero Complex tonight, a funny, heart-warming show from Aussie comic Sammy J, with a surprising story to tell. One night in London, then heading up to Edinburgh 5-16 August. Love a show that leaves you with a warm glow.

"I have gathered you all here today..."

@Above96th@above96th.bsky.social · yesterday

One steamy July morning I encountered Flaco sleeping in Central Park, his wings spread in an effort to keep cool. One of my favorite Flaco shots! #Flaco #Internationalowlawarenessday #birding

I have eaten my lunch too early and should've brought a snack (didn't bring a snack). May be gnawing on own arm later.

Academics and scoleres are not gate-keeperes. Thei will talke to you about their topiques. For dayes. Thei will sende lynkes. Thei will order bookes. Thys ys why thei lyve. Thei are the route bitwene past knowledge and future knowledge.

Fabulous woman on my train platform: Anna Wintour hair and dark glasses, black and polka dot dress, black and white Adidas. That's all.

I really do enjoy days more when they start after 8am. So today isn't destined to be a favourite Tuesday, said the sluggard, slothfully.

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 5: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. “Get in, loser. We’re going rowing on the Thames in a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance. Also on Wednesdays we wear arsenic green.” #c19th

Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 4: The Great Gatsby. “They say he killed a man, and bought that big-ass palace with the money he made from his Magic Mike themed speakeasy”

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.