A Tesla spokesperson insisted the company was not responsible as the Self Driving mode had returned control of the rocket to the astronauts 0.5 seconds before the incident occurred.

NewsThump@newsthump.com · 8h ago

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Any cis women who are disgusted by the Burnham government's transphobic policy of segregation can sign the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition, which is now closing in on 110,000 signatures. notinourname.org.uk

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The *only* acceptable questions from strangers in a public ladies are "are you waiting/queuing", "is there any loo roll in that one", and "do you have a spare tampon."

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · yesterday

If someone asks you “What is your sex?” In a toilet, they are the weirdo. If they ask you “What sex were you assigned at birth?” They want to know what your genitals looked like when you were a baby. I would look at anyone doing this in the same I would look at Rod Liddle talking about porn.

Be a Samwise Gamgee. Support your friends, trust your instincts, be humble, lead with your heart, love potatoes, don't let one little spider ruin your day

The fabulous thing about this is that the people she's quoting in frothing disgust absolutely prove, in the very quotes she's using, that they're far better writers than Liddle or she could ever dream of being.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 15h ago

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

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

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.

This both pushes girls out of sports and makes them more likely to simply accept that "authority" will just HAVE to look at/intrude on their naked bodies in the normal course of their lives.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.

The GCs are uniting in their grief over Rod Liddle's death, a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend and said he couldn't be a teacher because he'd rape the kids. He was also a vicious racist, long before it was so profitable. He hated trans people, so, to these 'feminists' he's a hero.

EXCLUSIVE: More than 70 businesses, organisations and community groups across Mull and Iona have issued a rare joint statement condemning hate and affirming their support for the LGBT+ community after this year’s Pride celebrations were targeted online 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

The John Humphrys one is so exactly what you would expect him to say. A perfect example of why the Today programme was so unlistenable when he was there, that I haven't risked listening again.

Nicholas Pegg@nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 5d ago

The hill I will die on: the Grauniad’s ‘The hill I will die on’ feature is fast becoming a useful directory of people you would cross the road to avoid.

I know it’s an old and hackneyed point but I always go back to it. Suffragettes fought *against* the notion of sex based rights; sex based rights were the ones men had and women didn’t. It was seen as appalling to deny people rights based on their biology.

Silentbob@si1entb0b.bsky.social · 5d ago

Reality check: "Women's hard won rights": - did NOT include defining women by biology, the slogan was "biology is not destiny!" - did NOT seek sex segregation, they fought for inclusion of women - did NOT advocate "sex-based rights", they fought AGAINST that and FOR equality regardless of sex

I think what's happened here is the press immediately recognised the obvious truth of what Hannah Spencer said but their idea of fairness/compromise is to still go in two footed on her, a vile 'leftie', and then circle back and pick up her points a few months on without acknowledging they were hers

Podcasting is Praxis@praxiscast.bsky.social · 5d ago

That's weird, because a whole discourse happened where we were all told drinking was super normal and anyone asking questions was a gross communist who didn't understand? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I wrote a whole essay in some poor person’s replies again. This 🧵’s for teachers who deal with group projects and creative fields in the age of the capitalist plagiarism hagfish slime machines.

Captain Awkward@captainawkward.bsky.social · 5d ago

As a prof this is how I dealt with the person in the group project who everyone else complained privately about because they did no work come presentation time: “Nice work, everyone! For the Q& A, why don’t you start us off [Obvious Fuckup Name]! Can you tell us a little about [creative choice]?”

Finally someone is talking about this.

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Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 5d ago

In a week of incendiary statements, this from Kevin Lamour, who at least for tonight remains FIFA COO, is incredibly damning in that it is from an insider that goes beyond this one scheme and is an assassination in a few hundred words of the FIFA president as a leader of global football.

Linked threads are an entertaining summary of Infantino's bullshit falling apart in front of him.

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 6d ago

the funny thing is that it has already been proven football fans have no attachment to the 'FIFA' brand. When FIFA tried to charge EA even more money to use it for their iconic game series, EA dropped the license entirely and renamed the games. And 'FIFA' fans still happily bought it.

Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off

Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.

ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7d ago

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

I would be 2 years old, the youngest child of a genuine Victorian patriarch (much married) and living in poverty in the Birmingham back-to-backs. WWII will change my life for the better, giving me opportunities for work and travel that currently seem impossible.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

the four stages: 1. Allister Heath's columns are not real 2. Allister Heath's columns are not serious 3. OK, they are real and serious but it's too late to do anything about them 4. Our only hope is to find a way of adapting to Allister Heath's columns

Saying it again: Any "Human Authored" self-certification honesty scheme is bound to fail, because people who use the slop generator to "write books" are by definition dishonest.

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · last wk.

shot, chaser

It is a very minor problem but as a 90s teen girl, I am genuinely disappointed that Jordan Catalano turned out to a controlling abuser. He was supposed to be the sexy dirtbag high school guy that you fancied like mad but the tiniest bit of self preservation kept you from ruining your life over.

The US would have won this war if physical reality was totally different lol

There is literally no medical condition that contentedly uninformed journalists wont blame on chicken dippers.

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

“While traits of ADHD undeniably exist – the question is why they exist. Is ADHD actually a neurodevelopmental disorder? Do people with ADHD have differently wired brains? Or does our world – with…processed food, and regimented education – serve as the catalyst for certain…patterns of behaviour?”

It's genuinely insane that it's a mainstream belief that the problem with COVID was that we did *too much* to address it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

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