What is with this (seemingly new) obession with testosterone levels? Is there evidence that testosterone levels are at an all time low or are we just thinking higher testosterone = more man, and forgetting that too much of a hormone has negative consequences for our health?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Pete Hegseth says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiency

What a surprise. You're telling me the man who would benefit by extraction expansion thinks expansion is a MUST?! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jackdaw boss warns of winter fuel shortage risk if gas field not approved

Adura says the UK government must approve North Sea production urgently to avoid domestic supply shortages.

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Have spent a few months trying to think of how I could tell the story of my exchange in America, this is what I was able to come up with. open.substack.com/pub/tedbooth...

Letter from America

I arrived in Vermont lost.

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Started recording and sharing a personal journal style podcast called Trot Talks. Just an opportunity for me to put my free time and focus on a little creative project. Latest episode is a nice walk through a nature park. If you're interested in listening you can find it here: linktr.ee/tedbooth

The police didn't see the need to tase this guy and repeatedly kick him in the head, and the media haven't seen the need to make this racially motivated axe and knife attack the top story on all channels with immediate calls for the government to do something about Islamophobia. How odd.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Four people in hospital after knife attacks in Edinburgh. An arrest made. BBC report say man shouted about "protecting the country". Sone signs the attacks near a mosque at petrol station & pizzeria may have had anti-Muslim or anti-migrant/minority motives (tbc) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Britains annual race riots happen earlier and earlier each year

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.." This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.

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Why cant any fkin journo just in response ask the obvious question: and how would You go about proving your sex?

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very clearly the only way this could be made to work is a kind of "don't ask, don't tell" in which people are instructed to treat whatever answer they are given as the truth. Since hourly staff are told not to stop shoplifters, it's a bit much to expect them to adjudicate chromosome debates

Turns out it was mostly jetlag...

Ted Booth-Main@tedboothmain.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not to be dramatic but I've sobbed everyday I've been back in the UK. Don't even miss America as a place really, just extremely depressed to be back to reality and unemployed without the good friends I've made over the last 5 months.

Not to be dramatic but I've sobbed everyday I've been back in the UK. Don't even miss America as a place really, just extremely depressed to be back to reality and unemployed without the good friends I've made over the last 5 months.

Yesterday in Hastings, in the wake of antisemitic attacks in Golders Green, I faced Nazi salutes. Today the Prime Minister uses his office to attack the only Jewish party leader to score political points.

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BREAKING: Keir Starmer says Zack Polanski's repost criticising the officers who arrested the terror suspect is "disgraceful" "I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party"

Isn't it funny how British journalists can do this kind of analysis of what time of day Zack Polanski likes tweets, but totally missed Peter Mandelson defrauding the public for years until the Americans accidentally dropped him in it.

nice argument. however i have already portrayed myself as the calm zack polanski and you as the seething ed balls.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

It's time to end the failed and deeply damaging ‘war on drugs’. Scotland needs an evidence-based approach to drugs that prioritises public health and public safety, not more criminalisation.

Scottish Green co-leader Gillian Mackay is standout contributor on Channel4 News' Scots leaders’ debate. Like Ross Greer in BBC debate her stance is crystal clear - opposing North Sea drilling, calling for wealth Tax & slamming Malcolm Offord who claims Glasgow is a ‘dumping ground’ for refugees.

This is genuinely the majority of people in the UK btw. A small group of people with a vested interest will spend their energy on spreading hatred, when the majority of people don't really have much of an opinion and prefer to adopt a "you do you" approach.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

TRUMP: Do you think men should play in women's sports? DOORDASH DRIVER: I really don't have an opinion on that. I'm here about no tax on tips.

What is clear from the established unionist parties is that they're anti-democracy. They only support democracy when it suits them. It is a travesty that whether or not Scotland can hold a referendum on its own future is at the behest of people like Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer.

LBC@lbc.co.uk · 4mo ago

"The country's had enough of chaos!" Wes Streeting rules out Scottish independence, telling @lewisgoodall.com that there will be no fresh referendum even if the SNP get a majority.

Tax the rich. There's plenty of money to fund our public services. It's not a secret. #bbcdn

May be a little behind, but why am I seeing PA protestors getting arrested? I thought the proscription was overturned?

The Goatfather

This gave me the serotonin I needed to get through the day

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

An absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, here. Get ready to hear it over and over again, both at full xenomorph-blood strength and as a watered down but still highly corrosive version.

Tried a road trip. Nothing went right.