The EHRC guidance slipped its way into law by default overnight. Do not self-police and do not let toilet weirdos and changing room weirdos dictate how you go about your life.
Red Dog
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Professional curmudgeon, lover of film, music, comics, politics, books, RPGs and just about everything else. He/him A website, of sorts: https://www.red-dog.xyz/
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Weird how the dogshit austerity fiscal rules are a red line but things like environmental protection and stopping domestic violence aren't
Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterdayEXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...
The whole prison thing: Look, you have to let (almost) all of them out eventually, or else you might as well just shoot them. You have to try to make them better people while they're in, or else you might as well just shoot us. There's no Magic Vengeance that gets round both these problems.
NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
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So it seems every time you think about it, you go to pieces
Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · 5d agoThe other day I read a fanfic in which during an argument a character angrily says "don't disassemble" when the author clearly meant "dissemble" and I keep remembering it and laughing
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/
This is unhinged, right? There's no nuance I'm missing here? BBC News - Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.
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Is it just me, or do the vast majority of right wing media outlets appear to be burying the fact that Ceuta is in North Africa, not Spain?
Very helpful
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d agoI work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Yes, I know Allister Heath is probably suffering from some form of mental illness, but I don't think he's alone in the galaxy-brained thinking he displays here that correctly outlines the causes of the problem (capitalism), whilst also saying that cause will ultimately solve the problem
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d agoThe Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."
NEWS! 'Two-tier policing' and other phrases that can easily identify the nation's gullible simpletons newsthump.com/2026/07/30/t...
‘Two-tier policing’ and other phrases that can easily identify the nation’s gullible simpletons
People who publicly complain about ‘two-tier’ policing because people they agree with are being punished for breaking laws while people they disagree with are not being punished because…
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"It allows its readers to come to judgements far more quickly than any court ever would, to luxuriate in their prejudices, and get perverse enjoyment from other people’s pain." Written regarding a quite horrifying journalistic take, but to a large extent summing up the Torygraph's entire oeuvre
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · last wk.NEW | I had to write this one. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH’S TRUE CRIME EXPLOITATION OF A WOMAN’S HORRIFIC MURDER When will we stop accepting evil being served up as entertainment? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-daily-...
NEW | A look at the coverage of day one of the Burnham years… TRANSFER DEADLINE DAY FOR DICKHEADS Day one of the Andy Burnham premiership felt like day 5,000 of the UK's overheated political media scrum. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/transfer-d...
Transfer deadline day for dickheads
Day one of the Andy Burnham premiership felt like day 5,000 of the UK's overheated political media scrum.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Microsoft is planning to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name:
Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!
Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.
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The gatherings of the year increase. We move towards St. Lazarus Eve and its Pale Harvest. A coming of folk faith appeasements to keep the dead in their graves, the land in a generous mood. Guards in the boneyard, apple brandy for the fields. Rituals to keep us safe and fed. – #CLNolan
Drop something MONOCHROMATIC clip.cafe/down-by-law-...
'O-we, now, now, it's a sad and beautiful world, It's a sad and beautiful world, It's a sad...' | Down by Law Clip
Watch the clip 'O-we, now, now, it's a sad and beautiful world, It's a sad and beautiful world, It's a sad...' from the movie Down by Law on Clip.Cafe. Roberto: It is a sad and beautiful world! Zack: ...
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🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃@agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 3w agoDrop something MONOCHROMATIC 🖤🤍
"...the [UK] climate of the 20th Century has now gone" - Mike Kendon, Met Office climate information scientist. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Time we acted like it: fully embracing solar, taking climate targets seriously, & planting trees absolutely bloody *everywhere*. That'd be a good start.
UK's extreme weather is the new normal - Met Office
The latest report on the UK's climate warns cold mountainous areas are also being lost.
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Enjoy comparing the coverage this gets with a certain other recent & tragic event.
Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 3w ago12 people have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected extreme right-wing terror plot against an Islamic gathering in Suffolk The UK Ijtima, which hosted 15,000 Muslims for a programme of talks and discussions, was closed and evacuated by police on Sunday
"Verify your age" Renting a TV from Rediffusion
Phil The Sheep@asheepie.bsky.social · 3w ago"Verify your age" *Produces OG 40K burst templates*
Meadow hare linoprint by my mum, Jo, from my non-fiction book Ring The Hil.
Who in their right mind would complain to an *author* about that author mentioning their *books*?
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 4w agoIf you ever get pissed off about me mentioning my books on here & decide to complain about it, do remember as I instantly block you that I'm coming from the perspective of someone who had £20,000+ of earnings stolen from him by his ex-publishers & could not give less of a flying fuck what you think.
Timeline 100% Sam Neill sadness plus loads of lovely Sam Neill stories, which is a good indication of how to live a life well. RIP.
Hookland Fragments by @hookland.bsky.social has just arrived, and already it feels like it's been here forever. Once it's on my shelves, it'll sit next to @lazaruscorporation.co.uk Rituals and Declarations, since to my mind at least, there can't be one without the other
Post an image or GIF from a movie that always cheers you up, but don't name the movie. Just the image or GIF.
Wallace Wells Reacts in Scott Pilgrim
Alt: Wallace Wells Reacts in Scott Pilgrim
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🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃@agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 3w agoPost an image or GIF from a movie that always cheers you up, but don't name the movie. Just the image or GIF.
Farewell Bazball I guess, or at least cheerio as you wend your way back to where you properly belong
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w agoBrendon McCullum ‘gutted’ after being sacked as England Test coach
Congratulations to Britain on becoming the kind of country where the police have to walk on eggshells when talking about a murder case, because one false move could set off a week of fascist rioting by the vicious far right swine our whole system is increasingly designed to please and impress.
The thing to take away from this weeks events is to live your life in such a way that people don't celebrate when you die.