I've found another incredibly minor thing that bugs me more than it should: The phrase "up to X or more", e.g. when discussing how the rails in Britain can absorb heat energy making them "up to 20° C above the ambient temperature, or more". It's meaningless nonsense!

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Small Robots@smolrobots.bsky.social · 6h ago

There a million things wrong with the EHRC guidance, as you all know, but for me the weirdest thing about it all is that its authors don't even seem to be aware of the possibility that someone asked to leave a "single sex" facility might refuse.

Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor

Everyone keeps trying to appease the nazis by being more like the nazis and all that happens is you get more nazis if only there were some sort of historical precedent for understanding this process

in the epic The People Vs UK Media court case of our dreams, Liddle wouldn't be Exhibit A, but he'd certainly be an exhibit. handsomely remunerated throughout his life for spraying bile across the pages of whichever sociopathic rag would pay him. nice to the right people. had the correct prejudices

Interestingly… Devon and Cornwall have cancelled their joint '60s & '70s retro music festival after a row over whether to put The Jam or Cream on first.

Rod Liddle not only wrote that he couldn't be a teacher because he would want to fuck kids he also wrote a piece for the Guardian: Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography?¹ 1/ ¹ www.theguardian.com/society/2003...

Rod Liddle: Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography?

Rod Liddle: The one laudable and necessary aim - to protect children from abuse - has become warped by our consuming, obsessive hatred for those who find children sexually attractive.

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Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · yesterday

The Mail, call him 'brilliantly funny'. Kemi Badenoch calls his death 'heartbreaking' John Humphries calls him 'wonderful to work with'. Editor of Sunday Times says he had a 'wonderful way with words'. He wrote he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" if he was a teacher

There once was a man named Rod Liddle Upon whose works one wouldn't piddle He just popped his clogs And has gone to the dogs But I can't find my tiniest fiddle.

Matthew Cortland has been suspended from bsky for, you guessed it, bullshit reasons. Bsky continues to protect the rich from getting their feelings hurt while consistently banning those who advocate for the marginalized and vulnerable. Follow Matthew on Patreon or ShouldntNeedToBeALawyer.com

Ralph de la Torre, Steward Health Care CEO, Is A Murderer (And I've Been Banned By BlueSky) | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

nb. I have been suspended from BlueSky. Patreon — now with new, easier URL, ShoudntNeedToBeALawyer.com or ShouldntNeed.com — is the best pla

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The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

Everyone should know who Borlaug is. This is the legacy Musk and Trump destroyed.

KC@kcwinters.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tom Vilsack, former Secy of Agriculture & former gov of Iowa, profiles Dr. Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born scientist whose Green Revolution transformed global agriculture, saving more than a billion lives from famine in this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social& team. youtu.be/JF46O8BgTq0?...

How does it go again? Oh, right: A change, it had to come We knew it all along We were liberated from the fold, that's all And the world looks just the same And history ain't changed … Yeah Meet the new boss Same as the old boss youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Shepperton Studios / 1978)

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Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d ago

Even Home Office's own analysis shows tougher measures force more people into longer, more dangerous routes and exploitation. Tackling smugglers starts with ensuring people don't have to use them. Meanwhile, Labour's own policies mean more people are forced to use them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent

Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.

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We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

The police in the UK are meant to operate under the Peelian Principles¹ which is a system of "policing by consent"² and, when the public does not "support the police", that system becomes untenable. ¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian... ² I've written about this repeatedly over the years, in fact

Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 5d ago

The police have lost the support of the public. The courts are overwhelmed and unable to cope. Prosecutors are signing papers through gritted teeth. The Attorney General can’t sign forms quickly enough. @AndyBurnham - Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. Now. We do not comply.

Funnily enough Niemöller could've included us at the time he wrote his piece but notable didn't

🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️‍🌈@rigg.lgbt · 5d ago

Updating Neimoller's mea culpa: First they came for the transes, and i said nothing because "ew, trannies, amirite?" Then they came for the disabled, but those scroungers are just a drain on society anyway. Then they came for the neurodivergents, but fuck those lazy bastards, they had it coming.

It was never going to stop at trans people.

I was talking about this very topic¹ only a few hours ago! In the UK, and those using Commonwealth English, the term "to table" means "to bring up for debate", because of the Parliamentary procedure of "laying before the house": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laying_... 1/

Laying before the house - Wikipedia

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John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 5d ago

also weird but necessary sidebar to the uefa/fifa drama. in UK/International English, 'tabling' something means proposing it. so being 'on the table' means it is actively being considered. for some weird reason US English reverses the meaning. Uefa are talking in the UK, not US sense, here.

Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

I just sort of wish that the stuff people indulged despite it supporting transphobic institutions was actually good, and not just the worst ya fantasy series of all time and word games for babies

I think the original post got deleted so I cropped out the name, but I've thought about this one for a while lol

Damn right!

hunter (comms open!)@hrpixelart.com · 6d ago

knowing ahead of time that Reacher is about a really large man who appears to have grown his muscles exclusively for the purposes of respecting women did not even slightly prepare me for how large he is or how much he respects women

when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts.

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

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Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 6d ago

Trans inclusion is so well understood among the women's sports scene and especially among women's contact sports like rugby, roller derby, ice hockey etc that this is a widely well organised thing large parts of the women's sports scene is organising over.

Climate change is real, you’re just an idiot is a thing I have to say much more than expected.

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

"All this trans stuff is annoying I wish we could just focus on basketball" yeah imagine how fucking annoying it is for trans people