You know brick fire station training towers with all the stairs in. Until incredibly recently I thought these were look out towers so fire people could see where the fire was by getting up high and looking for the smoke.
Anyway, this week's episode of Alien: Earth was great
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
This is the state of play. This is how anti-trans hate can affect everyone. When the wife of a world leader is not immune to having to prove she's a woman to satisfy bigots, what hope do most trans and non-binary individuals have of being able to live our lives in peace www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Macrons to offer 'scientific' court evidence to prove Brigitte is a woman, lawyer says
They have filed a lawsuit against US right-wing influencer Candace Owens who claims the French first lady was born male.
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Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos
I will not be able to comprehend what happened to this woman’s career. She drew a line where so few others seem willing to.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 11mo agoDr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”
When police arrest someone for projection, it’s because they subconsciously want to do it themselves.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 11mo agoFour people were arrested for an “unauthorised projection”. This is apparently what counts as a crime now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The most heartbreakingly powerful piece I’ve ever read on Substack. Please, please read and share. And look after your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues for whom England is becoming frightening. @sturdyalex.bsky.social 👇 open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...
My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you
By Alex Andreou
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Can't we agree to reserve 'defect' for the act of a sitting MP and refer to cases like Caulfield as 'changes direct debit'?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo agoMaria Caulfield, former Tory health minister, defects to Reform — UK politics live
“I’m a nice person. I know racists are bad, that’s a given. I have however developed a lot of what other people might consider racist views. But I’m a nice person. So… that means my… racist views aren’t racist. THERE! TA-DAAAAA!”
a woman in a red leotard with the number 265 on her back
ALT: a woman in a red leotard with the number 265 on her back
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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
the lies will continue until the “truth” improves
ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 11mo agoGrok is being sent to the reeducation camp
Muff is a small coastal village in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland with a population of around 1250 people. It has a SCUBA diving club that has what is arguably the largest membership of any dive club in the world. www.muffdivingclub.ie
When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point
People say the BBC lack flexibility in the modern digital era, but the launch and roll out of their 24 hour Charlie Kirk News channel in a matter of hours was pretty impressive.
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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In a debate on the Palestine Action ban on Monday, the security minister said it was based on "clear advice and intelligence", and people protesting against the ban "may not know the extent of its activities" Today, we are publishing some of that advice www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
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Google AI overviews nearly sent me driving to the wrong airport terminal (and nearly caused me to pay twice for parking). Honestly fuck everything about this.
hey bbc news you forgot to mention his views on race, why did you forget to mention his views on race, were they not controversial enough for you?
Many aspects of the 'terrorism' ban on Palestine Action are ludicrous. Nevertheless, terrorism powers are sweeping and we feel obliged to point out that, no matter what a bizzie told a Liverpool councillor, putting up a poster in support of the group in your window carries a high risk of arrest
Turns out you can make far-right, controversialists into moderate, well-meaning centrists, but only in obituaries and tributes. It’s a bit of a brutal way to move the Overton window.