I thought I had caught Restore in some brilliant trap because Restore calls for banning halal butchering so he’d also be inadvertently banning kosher butchering—‘haha!’ I said, ‘Lowe’s caught himself in a right pickle!’ I said—but lo and behold, he admit it!

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

I hadn't realised until seeing all these board appointees how polluter-driven the scheme is.

Ned? Ned Ryerson?!

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 24h ago

US President Donald Trump has said a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could come as soon as today, but warned Iran it would get "hit very hard" if negotiations fell through

Feeling the same emotional response to this as I did to that post that was "But what if all the men disappeared tomorrow?! Checkmate, women!" except with the men one I'd at least miss my husband. There's absolutely nothing to miss with AI

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim

That harm to women and girls in general is not taken seriously, combined with multiple high-profile men continuing to get passes based on power, talent, or activism with other causes, creates a very worrying landscape for women. Tolerance is still way too high. It needs to start actually mattering.

there's a class solidarity among british journalists you don't see even in trenches. each and every british journalist truly understands the highest and final lifeform to be the british journalist

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

A reminder: If you absolutely cannot boycott Amazon, don’t. But can you make them NOT your default? If every Amazon customer cut their spending by just 10%, Bezos would burst his facelift sutures. This doesn’t have to be an all or nothing.

My point here is that you should not change a SM site merely with the intention of attracting a certain political demographic when the reason they are staying away is because said SM site hews too closely to reality and the truth.

Doug Sloane@dougsloane.eurosky.social · 2d ago

If you set up a SM site that was dedicated to how the universe actually works and what the evidence says,it would not attract a lot of the right.To attract the right you need to lie a lot. From politics to global warming to vaccines to medicine to the very existence of Babe Ruth. This is just a fact

yeah, nah. I'm more likely to listen to Greg.

Looksmaxxers: I need to hammer my jaw until it’s shaped like finely-sculpted clay and have a hairline straighter than the borders of Utah. It’s the only way to attract a woman Women: I would destroy ten galaxies for a night with James Gandolfini

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

I came across this a while back and ended up saving it because it was so accurate and depressing

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

For the good of humanity, every “hard” science fiction story has to have elves in it, now, as a reminder that none of it is ever gonna happen, so we should not try to base our society on trying to make it happen.

Benjamin Harnett@benjaminharnett.com · 3d ago

I’ve been reading more contemporary science fiction for *reasons* and the number one thing it lays bare is that all science fiction is actually fantasy and that a lot of people are suffering from this category error now in a way that is ruining the world.

Selling my hand made bags. Crochet (100%cotton)and recycled leather fusion. Lined with zip , adjustable strap. €50 . (Around 25x25cm) more colours to come. Might do some phone size and totes too

An incredible nation

slate@pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d ago

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

No cool down capital: Dublin is by the sea, so how come there are so few places to swim? jrnl.ie/7114577

No cool down capital: Dublin is a city by the sea, so why is it so hard to go for a swim?

As heatwaves become more frequent, access to safe, swimmable blue spaces in our cities is not a luxury, it should be a public health priority.

jrnl.ie

As sure as night follows day... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Burnham pledges to be 'relentless' in curbing small boat crossings

The prime minister says enforcement is increased but there also need to be more safe routes into the UK.

bbc.co.uk

incidentally, one of the speakers on another panel has their name given simply as "James" on the schedule, no surname. there is a moderator in the same boat, but that's nowhere near as strange. no speaker with the name "James" is advertised for the event, but there they are in the schedule

One of the striking things about studying sexual violence is realizing how many people became abolitionists *because* they were victims of crime.

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

You cannot appease fascists and this should not be news to a human rights organisation.

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 5d ago

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

Amnesty also making their own job harder as they demonstrate that every tinpot dictator and murderous oligarch simply has to issue a legal writ of "It was actually very HURTFUL when you described me as genocidal despot" and they fold like an origami coward

ergopraxis@ergopraxis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Amnesty's capitulation is unacceptable, because a human rights NGO is not simply a discount think tank (viz. a double discounted research university). It's part of its job description to specifically leverage its resources to stand its ground against actual and threatened SLAPPs from bad actors!

Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off

Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year