Dad informs me his Heath Robinson solar hot water heater has been too successful, overboiled, and filled the attic with steam. The perfect venn diagram of Paul Ritter as the dad in Friday night dinner and Paul Ritter as Anatoly Diatlov in Chernobyl.

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

Objections to the Campsfield immigration removal centre expansion are still open until midnight! Example objection emails and further details at the link below - using these tools, there's time to send your objection tinyurl.com/campsfieldob...

Coalition to Close Campsfield

An Oxfordshire-based coalition aiming to close Campsfield House IRC

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Adidas: what if we made clothes based on the evil air con guys from Terry Gilliam's Brazil? www.dezeen.com/2026/06/30/r...

I just saw this and it made me take my sunglasses off exactly like the guy in Jurassic Park. There's a story here, and I don't even know what genre.

Climate change isn’t a distant warning anymore. It’s here. The UK is in another heatwave, and this is what our “normal summers” are starting to look like.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

I will continue to be excited by graphs like this one. It shows UK electricity demand over the past 24 hours (white line) and the amount that is supplied by renewables (green). It reached 90% in the middle of the night & was 80% for much of the day. 🎉🎉🎉. Still lots more to do, but we’re on the way.

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Counter protest against the far-right in Liverpool. Please share it. Even if you're not in Liverpool, you might have followers who are and help is gonna be needed

being transgender is amazing and beautiful, transitioning is one of the greatest choices you can ever make and i hope more people realize that its not dangerous or evil, but liberating

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

The horn of Africa is grieving because their -Their farms are no longer yielding -Advancement of desert is alarming -Our major rivers are drying -Proliferation of pest and pathogens -Development of tropical diseases. -Our crop are dieing out. Climate change is a reality.

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

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More than a bit worrying that reality seems not to matter anymore. Like, whole political movements rise up out of disinformation campaigns pushed by algorithms and media narratives. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Meet the new toilet monitor, same as the old toilet monitor

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

oh golly gee i wonder if that's coz the previous government, Reform, and the current government all push the idea that we're being invaded by swarms of our fellow human beings

This government has participated in genocide. Here is a simple test for any would-be successor to Keir Starmer: Would you establish a full, independent, public inquiry into the government’s complicity in the greatest crime of our time?

I've been out as trans for nearly 11 years, on T for exactly 9 (!), and still consider it an exciting novelty to get called a 'lad' 🏳️‍⚧️

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On how to handle transphobic trolls online (and some words about what motivates them). www.crossdreamers.co... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

On how to handle transphobic trolls online

On people who dream about being another gender – on transgender, non-binary, crossdresser, crossdreamer and queer issues

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Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

I've been resistant to using AI until recently, but this article really clearly delineates the impact of human engagement during the writing process compared to tasks like code de-bugging: friction from generating new understanding, vs friction before implementation www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.

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“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.” — Ray Bradbury

🌍 The Horn of Africa is in mourning. Farms are barren, deserts are advancing, rivers are drying, pests are spreading, and crops are dying. Climate change is not a distant threat,it’s here. #ClimateAction #HornOfAfrica #ClimateCrisis

thinking about the gould quote again

If Keir Starmer resigns and we end up with Wes Streeting I’m going to crawl into a printing press