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This is a very good explainer of why the EHRC code is surprising even within the current case law This is a legislative issue, the law will need to change to unravel this mess, but a greater degree of accurate clarity for duty bearers on these points would make a big everyday difference until then
Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 11h agoWe have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.
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Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2d agoKmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’
#LongCovid is not a ‘subject’ to dispute. It’s a health condition that changes people’s lives. Definitions can evolve & that’s not an excuse to dismiss the illness itself. Diagnostic criteria for diabetes have repeatedly changed over time but no one takes u seriously if you say diabetes in disputed!
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d agoLong covid is a disputed subject, at best.
“Long live Hyrule jazz!” The Z Suites is “a modern jazz reinterpretation of the music from The Legend of Zelda”. (via @aaroncoleman.bsky.social) [casimirliberski.bandcamp.com]
The Z Suites, by Casimir Liberski ReTrio
13 track album
casimirliberski.bandcamp.com
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.
Sorry about your pregnant-wife-beating, self-confessed-nonce best pal, UK TERFs xxx
Richard Gadsden@po8crg.gadsden.online · 2d agoI see Rosie Duffield wrote an encomium about what a lovely kind witty man he was. And Kathleen Stock and Julie Bindel have both called him a "great man". Such protectors of women and girls.
You realise quite how many Guardian journalists went to private school when you get "Asked about private schools, Powell took a less adversarial approach than her predecessor," from Pippa Crerar. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Tiger mum’ Lucy Powell on Labour’s vocational skills drive: ‘It’s about ambition for everybody’
New education secretary says it is ‘false trade-off’ by critics to suggest schools cannot pursue academic excellence alongside technical skills
theguardian.com
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
Every five days, a mosque is attacked in the UK. How many of them have you heard about? How many of them made the nightly news? At least 70 attacks in the past year alone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust
More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism
theguardian.com
Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich: source reveals the convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked for the now-sanctioned oligarch Report by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...
Vatican Launches Five-Year Restoration of Raphael’s Loggia. www.medievalists.net/2026/07/vati...
Vatican Launches Five-Year Restoration of Raphael’s Loggia - Medievalists.net
The Vatican Museums have launched a five-year project to restore Raphael’s Loggia, using laser technology to conserve 1,300 square metres of Renaissance paintings and stucco.
medievalists.net
They are experienced fascist organisers turning up on the ground for Restore. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/07/28/m...
Meet the fascists supporting Restore Britain in the Manchester mayoral race – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate exposes yet more fascists within Restore Britain, this time campaigning in Greater Manchester ahead of the mayoral election on Thursday. This includes...
hopenothate.org.uk
I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10
the non-pervert use cases for pervert glasses are just so *lame*. These things will literally never happen with pervert glasses, which are aimed pretty squarely, as we know, at perverts. www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/m...
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. @andyburnham.bsky.social the arts and culture MUST be part of it. We've launched an urgent petition to make sure the arts can play their part in revitalising the nation 🌱 Add your name ✏️ www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10...
Happy birthday to one of the greatest of the greats, Bobbie Gentry. youtu.be/qjS6Kcn5eOc?...
Bobbie Gentry, ‘Morning Glory’ Live Performance
YouTube video by joanne
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The "Serenity Prayer" (*Serenity to accept things I can't change/Courage to change the things I can/Wisdom to know the difference*) is usually cited as pop psychology or addiction recovery advice, but I think there's a place for it in policymaking. 1/
I have put together a free, self-guided, magic walking tour of Edinburgh. Feel free to click the links or do the walk! richardwiseman.substack.com/p/a-free-mag...
A free magic walking tour!
Lots of people will be heading up to the Edinburgh Festivals, and so I thought that it would be fun to put together a free, self-guided, magical tour of the city.
richardwiseman.substack.com
I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
1980: Smash Hits Volume 31, page 38 Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-1980-02-07#page/n37
EXT: Victorian London Street, DAY Deppenezer stomps down the street MUPPETS: There goes Mister... JKR: What were you about to say about my friend? Sing up so my very litigious well paid legal team can hear. MUPPETS: ...lovely, there goes a nice guy, rich folk think he's super & we guess women lie
Here's my other photo of The Pastels playing the ICA on this day in 1986 (THREAD) @thepastels.bsky.social
⚠️ Musk is a danger to our democracy. ❌ He, and others like him, must be held accountable for the misinformation that they peddle.
Elon Musk destroyed over anti-London misinformation in Economist interview
Elon Musk was schooled by the Economist's editor-in-chief over the amount of misinformation he spouts on X about London.
thelondoneconomic.com
I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.
Susan SB Count Binface Appreciation Society My Dad: my hero!! He's 94 and partially deaf but he ran rings around this Reform Councillor today who was canvassing fof Nigel Farage Also my Dad never ever swore in front of us growing up when he said that's absolute b*ll*cks it made my day! #BinfortheWin
