Tom Coates
@tomcoates.bsky.social
English technologist, founder and product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about. http://www.plasticbag.org
Sometimes there an article with a headline like, “Why we Should Murder all Puppies” and so you don’t read it and say that’s terrible about the puppy murdering article. And then the writer comes out and says, “But it’s about the economics of greenhouses in Shropshire, you didn’t even read it!”
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoSen. Cynthia Lummis says on her crypto bill that "the president agreed to an ethics provision that no president has ever agreed to. He's gone further to protect ethics than any president in history, yet the Democrats want more." 🙃
Look I know I am not saying anything new here but I am *raging* that a bunch of self-proclaimed 'feminists' are in fact doing the work of patriarchy by trying to force us all back to a place where women must conform to a narrow set of stereotyped standards. FUCK OFF. I LIVED THROUGH THE '90S.
Hey Mary-Ann if anything you will have written yourself into history isnt that exciting You said to judge you for your actions and now generations of queer people will congratulations
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 12h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
The fact the guidance literally says that following the guidance may open services/businesses up to legal challenges due to discrimination of protected identifies shows that the government is fully aware that it's not fit for purpose *and* specifically discriminatory
@doriantaylor.com oh wow your post earlier. Pretty stupid looking dude. I’d put in gay rights, women’s rights, food, air pollution, technology, availability of information, almost all crime is down, health outcomes, life expectancy, education, animal welfare. Oh wow I could go on.
Announcing state backed trans segregation and discrimination with a smile
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 12h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.
I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Saw Brand New Day last night and it was *really* good. Loved it.
Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w agoA friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?
The *second* he’s out of power if he talks to them like that they’ll eviscerate him.
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · yesterdayImagine thinking so little of yourself that you just let this half sentient rotten potato talk to you like this. I don't care if he's president, have some self respect.
Everyone keeps trying to appease the nazis by being more like the nazis and all that happens is you get more nazis if only there were some sort of historical precedent for understanding this process
They’re just cartoonishly evil and for some reason (racism) 35% of America can’t see it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."
DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
weather in London currently so disgusting I have to believe that it must be breaking the laws of physics and chemistry in some way, somehow I feel so warm and claustrophobic inside my own skin but it doesn't even feel that hot outside, how is this possible, how have things got worse
In honour of #InternationalOwlDay. (It may be a bit niche [or maybe not, seeing the popularity of #TheOdyssey], but it's my favourite of any memes I've made.)
The entirety of the NHS, from inception, was made possible thanks to non-white immigrants. Every accusation is a confession. They don’t want talented people regardless of skin colour. They just want white people regardless of skills.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2d ago"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
*Yeah, it's, uh, mighty toasty *Are trans people responsible? Maybe it was vaccinations
That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.
first order of business: alienate your base🫡
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...
I just want to assert for the record that Bluesky doing age verification in the UK is f***ing annoying and I’ll be f***ed if I’m going to go through the goddam process. We need Apple to launch a product for everyone based on age of account / credit card details or whatever.
Bloody King’s only been riding around in the bloody TARDIS. youtu.be/VsGwZlKuhUM?...
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