Richard Gadsden
@po8crg.gadsden.online
Three-time Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate, Man Utd and Red Sox fan, cis man, he/him/his, 83 protons, not a werelabradoodle, in spite of my appearance
One of the bigger problems the 2025 ruling has introduced is establishing that, instead of resolving equality cases based on trying to as best as possible integrate everyone's right to be treated humanely, we use philosophical debates about what someone's true legal essence is to decide rights.
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 5h agoweb.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"
just had a horrific vision of the future in which Zack Polanski and Kemi Badenoch have a podcast and now I need a lie down
Genuinely, a lot of you are hating pointlessly on the two greatest equalisers of the 20th century: cheap air travel and the EU Freedom of Movement
OK, let's say I have an unlimited budget and I want to run Edinburgh-Paris trains that are useful. What do I actually need to do? First, could I get rolling stock that could use existing infrastructure? Sure, but it would be entirely custom and very expensive.
Jon Worth@jonworth.eu · 6h agoForget it. The Caledonian Sleeper is not going to run through the Channel Tunnel An independent Scotland joining the EU and Schengen is more likely than this! A #CrossChannelRail quick rant jonworth.eu/forget-it-th...
Forget it. The Caledonian Sleeper is not going to run through the Channel Tunnel An independent Scotland joining the EU and Schengen is more likely than this! A #CrossChannelRail quick rant jonworth.eu/forget-it-th...
Forget it. The Caledonian Sleeper is not going to run through the Channel Tunnel
There's a higher chance that Scotland becomes independent, and joins the EU and Schengen, than the Caledonian Sleeper is extended through the Channel Tunnel under the current political framework. Rea...
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Most of what we used to rather quaintly call "fake news" was of the negative, destructive nature But there is sort of the opposite The cheery optimistic thing, that nevertheless is still utter guff Sure, a Edinburgh - Paris train would be nice. But the idea is STILL GUFF
Just some of the EDI/Woke/Nonsense you've funded over the last year. My Queer Pagan Wedding with *LOADS* of disabled people Going to a Chinese New Year celebration Full cast read through of the BBC radio play of Lord of the Rings. Loads of donations to queer/migrant/VAWG charities Thanks!
A side note to this insanity. There's a clear pattern from Badenoch of demeaning local public service, diminishing their contributions to society - hence why she thinks 'nice Lib Dems fix church roofs' is such a derogatory statement. It's going to become a lot more jarring with talk of devolution.
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 8h agoThis is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning
At the same (inflation-adjusted price), flying is so much better. The thing that makes it "worse" is that there are a whole bunch of lower prices that didn't exist in 1986. The only exception to this is that you can't fly Concorde any more, so there's no three-hour transatlantic flight at any price
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Star Wars: Gobaith Newydd i Gymru! A full dub of A New Hope in Welsh, announced at the Eisteddfod - to be broadcast on S4C on Christmas Day www.instagram.com/reel/DbndSfW...
Given we are approaching that time of the year, my big piece from years back on the 1983 Cold War Crisis (and the role of Stanislav Petrov in it) over onto authory as a free-to-read. Over the years, the myth of what happened has been simplified. The reality was scarier. Because: Ronald Reagan.
The Day the World Didn’t End
At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved the world. The morning of the 26th September 1983 had started ...
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For fuck's sake. The "protected belief" phenomenon has really got out of hand, judges are increasingly just throwing it out there for any weirdo who wants to harass people at work. Reminder that this provision was intended to protect *religious* beliefs.
The fash concept of war - that the winning and losing comes down to courage and "resolve" rather than the engineers that design the weapons, the factories that build them, the quartermasters that get them to the front line, and the officers who organise getting soldiers to use them.
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · yesterdayThe war. It always comes back to the war. That happened long before they were born.
For those wondering what the fuck Matt Yglesias believes... This is his agenda: 1. Determine the optimal policy platform 2. Find a qualified person who sincerely believes in that platform 3. Make them the candidate Changing public opinion is a separate job from being a candidate.
Matt@tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 2d agoyeah, the issue with viewing elections as a linear algebra problem where you solve for the optimal policy platform is that you tend to generate candidates that cant credibly signal that they believe any of this
yeah, the issue with viewing elections as a linear algebra problem where you solve for the optimal policy platform is that you tend to generate candidates that cant credibly signal that they believe any of this
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d agoI don't think there's some silent progressive majority out there in waiting, but I do think running candidates who are a lot less apollonian can move a significant number of feet, and the center is very bad at producing those
i'd say "pay attention to who has kind things to say about rod liddle, the racist pedophile, following his death" but to no surprise it is the entirety of the mainstream british press
When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.
A request to all radio and podcast interviewers: please repeat the name of your interviewee at the end. I don't know whether their name is worth remembering at the introduction before they've said anything; at the end, when I've decided they are interesting is when I need the information.
I have realised that I've become so headline-blind by the amount of clickbait/misleading headlines out there that I had to go back and read the headline because the subhead didn't make sense out of context.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d agoWe’re back where we started. www.lawdork.com/p/todd-blanc...
I want to point out that it's both legally and ethically irrelevant who was sovereign over a territory (like Ceuta) "first". Whatever its political history, this is an internationally recognised part of the de jure territory of Spain in the post-WWII international legal system,
I love board games but I essentially agree with this - no social situation is ever improved by *adding* a game. D&D can be improved by a delicious meal afterwards, some good wine will enliven a night of Monopoly Deal or Poker or Codenames. But it only properly works as the base, not an add-on.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d agohappy to continue my journey down Unpopular On Bluesky Avenue and say that, though I do love playing video games by myself, which I believe is a different proposition altogether, I basically agree with all of this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you ever wondered if the Onion has still got it or whether it's possible to do satire in this world.
The Onion@theonion.com · 5d agoIran War Enters 6th Justification
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.
Beat up his pregnant girlfriend. Defended child pornography "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" (a direct quote from a printed, edited column) And that's just the misogyny, I'd need a thread a mile long for the racism
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness
We'll remember him for "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" "Harriet Harman, then. Would you? I mean after a few beers obviously, not while you were sober" and "Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography"
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness
Normally, I'd just RT this, but the terrible alt-text has me irrationally angry. It's a picture of the station sign for "Overton" taken through a train window. The alt-text is "A town sign seen through a train window." which makes the joke completely inscrutable to anyone reliant on it.
Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d agoI don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A practice I adopted long enough ago I was still on Twitter and Jack was still CEO: Before replying to something, click into it and then read all the existing replies. Check if someone's already said it; if they have, like their reply and move on.
Small Robots@smolrobots.bsky.social · 2d agoBut we can read replies to stuff. We can stop ourselves from immediately responding to something that looks wrong. I know we're basically all neurodivergent here and sometimes parsing context is hard, but we at least have to be aware of the possibility that it may be *us* that is wrong.
"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
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It does strike me that the drivers who mindlessly follow the SatNav and don't pay attention to the road signs or the locals were the exact precursors to the people who mindlessly follow the AI in their browser to similar results. (3/3)