one of my sons did take his trousers off inside midland library once lol. but to be fair his brother had just pulled the fire alarm so what else was he supposed to do
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a keen sense of the absurd, a passion for books and less than stellar motor skills. Everyone deserves respect. (she/her) Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ 🍞🌹🌱
Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority
Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 12h agoEHRC 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.
Pubic Service Announcement The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. Always has been, always will be. Today the new EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect. Let us be clear, the guidance changes nothing about how we operate.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Man Squinting, Struggling with Glare
ALT: Man Squinting, Struggling with Glare
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In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post
Woman on a bus (reading from an article): Have you ever discussed your fantasies with your partner? Her friend: Like the one where I’m in a cottage by the sea completely on my own with a book and a cup of tea?
What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.
I am making a cornflake tart and this version is _vegan_ AND gluten free *feels smug*
After being rejected 4 times, Thames Water's creditors are now submitting a 5th proposal to keep the failing utility in private hands. This time, they're promising to increase public control. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 1/2
lol, no, thank unions. Capital would work you 24/7 in a coalmine starting at the ripe old age of 7 if they were allowed to. Every ounce of leisure time working people have is because workers organized.
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
god I'm so tired of being gaslit by institutions. people ARE poor, polly, and feeling the effects of it AI IS dangerous, not least because it's all untested and unprecedented heatwaves ARE scary unhealthy things, not just cause for a nice ice-cream down the beach
a real fact that sounds fake is that pilates were invented by Joe Pilates
Much of what is said about economics is little better than gaslighting.... I used AI tools when writing this post, including a spell checker. I also used 50 years of experience writing about these issues. The drawing was the smallest part of all that, and I had no budget to do it any other way.
That people feel emboldened to direct such racist language at anyone, let alone people like you offering them their care, is a damning indictment of how far-right rhetoric has poisoned public life. To anyone who abuses NHS staff: you will be caught, and you will face the full force of the law.
right, ok, enough self-pity, I need to turn my shit pub around. it's in Stratford, it's got a (small) stage, there has to be someone who has something cool they want a space for queer-run, extremely diverse venue (we even let mumbling old white geezers in) what I'd call 'mostly accessible'
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.
Following Rod Liddle's death I've been thinking again about the often unacknowledged privilege in being able to see the words of a demagogue as just things you disagree with rather than things that threaten people.
Rewilding Britain is just one of the things we need to tax the billionaire class for.
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2d ago“More than three-quarters of a million acres of Britain’s national parks are covered by intensively-managed grouse moors which leave nature impoverished and contribute to climate breakdown… an area more than twice the size of Greater London” www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/press-hub/20...
"I don’t have a behavior problem. I have a gap in my adaptive ability. I don’t need habilitation training; I need someone to help me out." @mx-joyner.bsky.social at TPGA, on why ability and capacity are often about adaptive skills, and not about "behaviors." thinkingautismguide.com/2026/07/why-...
Why Autistic People Need Understanding Beyond "Behaviors" — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
I don’t have a behavior problem. I have a gap in my adaptive ability. I don’t need habilitation training; I need someone to help me out.
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People keep using the "can't put a genie back in the bottle" metaphor for "AI", even though in the stories they always get back in and current "AI" is more of a "we're spending trillions of dollars and the energy output of a continent trying to keep this bastard out of the bottle" situation
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