Steve here, a man whomst would never dream of e.g. taking a dossier full of inflammatory horseshit to the newspapers in the hope of creating a national media panic that would benefit him and his friends

‘A government that thinks it’s easier to make millions of children change their behaviour overnight than it is to mandate a handful of companies make their products safer is engaging in performative policymaking’ Really good from @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social buttondown.com/justenoughin...

Why can’t the UK make good online safety policy?

The children's social media ban is a case study in poor policymaking. Why do successive UK governments keep making this mistake, and how could they do better?

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“The exhausting debates about and attacks on trans rights have had a detrimental impact on trans safety and wellbeing in this country. All too often, trans children are left out of the conversation entirely.” We need politicians and teachers to make schools safer and welcoming for trans students.

“Trans children are no longer safe in UK schools”: New report highlights the urgent need for change

The Not Safe To Be Me Report highlights the urgent need to protect trans children

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I know that it’s a different situation, but it’s quite funny reading about Nintendo objecting to two games with the same name the week after they released the OoT remake

Mike Rose@mikerose.bsky.social · 4d ago

Both games are now up for pre-order on the Nintendo eShop And of course, you can buy them both together in a bundle! www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... And yes, Nintendo have ABSOLUTELY HATED THIS. We've been asked the question "why do you have two games with the same name" many, many times by cert

🚗 Bigger cars, smaller childhoods. SUVs are making our streets more dangerous, restricting children's freedoms ✍️ Read more in our latest newsletter and sign the @cleancitiescampaign.org petition to demand safer streets Newsletter tinyurl.com/yc84898v Petition www.petitions.cleancitiescampaign.org

Am a broken record on this but it's sad the way games are treated not as these artistic statements to be cherished but as products waiting for their next upgrade. To say this OoT remake is "the game as it always was" is literally and figuratively dishonest

This country’s political class is one step away from re-introducing sodomy laws but for all sexualities

Ciaran@ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2w ago

"MP has online argument with Canadian porn star" is unfortunately the least mental thing about this exchange

We see this over and over again. Gen Z and Gen alpha are asking us to not let this happen to their world, and Boomer and Gen X administrators are shoving it down their throats with some help from Millennial faculty who are in doomer mode

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Daily Princetonian has published some student reactions to the announcement that the university is giving them all ChatGPT access and -- as most teachers will tell you -- none of the students actually want this garbage. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

The public are IMO entitled to ask why so much of our media class are just straightforwardly horrible people who are paid specifically to behave as badly as they can.

Admidst their internal party politics, Labour have done nothing to redress how Cameron stuffed the BBC full of right-wing political bias. They have done nothing to effect proper #MediaReform. They have not instigated #Leveson2. Shocking dereliction of duty.

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Leicester Gazette@leicestergazette.leicester.news · 3w ago

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

An extremist party that aligns with the majority of the UK on Israel.

“Israel is a very racist country, its government routinely commits horrific crimes” was a humdrum opinion, fifteen years ago: never uncontroversial, but well within mainstream though. Now, our whole political/media class believes it is insanely extreme. Who is it that has been radicalised, here?

Saw an old guy with the craziest drip today

As people are talking about the anniversary of Nick Griffin being platformed by the BBC...

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6mo ago

Just started listening to the new book, "If we tolerate this: How the British establishment made the far right respectable" and it opens by reading out the BNP's list of manifesto promises from 2010. All of them are now mainstream.

Diesel vans are now the single largest transport source of NOx pollution in central London - with 18 diesel vans for every 1 electric van on the road. @zakbond.bsky.social from @cleancitiescampaign.org argues it’s time for a Zero Emission Zone for Freight. Link: buff.ly/MUcxG6k

🚄 Britons back rail over runways: three times more people support increasing investment in international rail vs. airports, via new research by @transportenvironment.org & @cleancitiescampaign.org. 👉 Check out the research: www.transportenvironment.org/te-united-ki...

Three times more Brits support reopening international rail stations 🚅 than expanding airports ✈️. These striking figures come from YouGov polling commissioned by @transportenvironment.org and @cleancitiescampaign.org. It's time for #TrainNotPlane. www.transportenvironment.org/te-united-ki...

Three times more Brits support reopening international rail stations…

Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport & energy

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Are you with us, or Faithful to the Big Car? Cars are getting bigger & heavier, & children pay the price: research shows SUVs are 3x more likely than a smaller car to kill a child under 10. Sign @cleancitiescampaign.org's petition: cleancitiescampaign.org/join-the-mov...

The "Duck" in Avenida Place hotel, Barcelona, Spain. Original post

It went 50 miles an hour, had no pedals, and legally required the driver to have a motorcycle license. You may as well call a bazooka a bicycle and label them a menace to society.

Labour knows the consequences of the climate crisis. Their own words prove it. Yet when it comes to Jackdaw, they’ve put the fossil fuel industry first.

such a colossal fuck up

Andy Burnham just made his first BIG mistake

YouTube video by Simon Clark

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Key findings: this is what @lucympowell.bsky.social is doing to trans children. She is a bully who is deliberately and needlessly harming CHILDREN. She should be removed, she is unfit to be Education Secretary or to work with any children.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 4w ago

Not Safe To Be Me. Horrific reading. @prideineducation.bsky.social & C2BT analyses social media responses to the video made by Katie Neeves about the harm & distress @lucympowell.bsky.social’s anti-trans schools “guidance” has caused to a 13-year old trans girl. cool2btrans.co.uk/not-safe-to-...

"I don't know how to drive a car. Never learned" "Why?" "Well, I don't like them. They're dangerous." Norm Macdonald, (hilarious) foot soldier in the War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOdM...

Norm Macdonald Can't Drive | Norm Macdonald

YouTube video by Norm Macdonald Has a Show

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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - 'more research need'.. Well from 2022 to 2025, funded by the NIHR, we (& colleagues) did that research. And we have 10(!!) peer reviewed articles so far, with more on the way. Here's a summary of our papers so far (all open access so get reading):

In our current system: Unsafe infrastructure is killing people. Those larger vehicles are killing others at an out of proportion rate. People on their phones are often causing accidents. Everyone is trying kill the kid on the bike.

I'm blocking everyone who likes this or non-critically reposts it. Subsidies that specifically promote fossil fuel vehicles is just about the *worst* thing I can think of for our cities and our planet.

David Eby@davidebybc.bsky.social · last mo.

Up to $20 back in your pocket every time you fill up. Our plan cuts up to 30 cents a litre off gas by suspending part of the gas tax and reining in big oil’s profits at the pump. It’s one of the ways we'll make life more affordable, and how we build B.C. strong.

And....... this is why cars should be banned from cities. That family on a bike was so close to being killed. A small change in timing or speed would have sent those speeding bloated vehicles in different trajectories.