no one is abnormal in the right way any more!!! what is the world coming to!!! cannot trust those neurodivergences to diverge in ways that make sense to me, the focal point of all normality!!!

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Rising number of people seeking ADHD diagnosis without treatment, say experts

Jason Arday has been found dead after being subjected to an endless media campaign fueled by racism and far right bigotry that drove him from his job. Might as well state what happened out loud.

I don’t care what he did or didn’t do; he was a human and deserved dignity and humane treatment and not to be sacrificed on the altar of culture wars and I’m so angry and sad for him.

this is important to add

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.

I am now wondering what the difference between an extreme and severe alert is??

Resharing the instructions in case it proves helpful. Hopefully this has been included in guidance for victims 😞 www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...

Opting out of emergency alerts

Opting out of emergency alerts

gov.uk

Gareth@thegareth.com · 2w ago

Legit would love to know the balance of harms that just caused to partners hiding phones from their partners who hadn’t turned the setting off, versus the advice

But also yes it was needed... Someone down the road was having a bonfire the other day. Nearly two dozen homes down the road from my mum's burned down yesterday. I don't think people understand how their actions can have these consequences.

going outside and banging disposable BBQs together to show support for our national fire service ✊😔

Me: we need to do more about the extreme heat Also me: No, not like that

Raizem93's Epic Jump Scare Reaction

Alt: Raizem93's Epic Jump Scare Reaction

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I hadn't used them recently but I've made sure to unlink Cursor and Graphite from my GitHub account and I've sent deletion requests for any remaining data 🙃 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Cursor is officially part of SpaceX.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX completed its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding tool Cursor on Friday. Cursor says it’s going to work on the company’s Grok AI chatbot, which added a new AI agent feature thi...

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Took me a while but finally fixed mine the other day. www.jimwaterson.com

Want to run a fake London estate agency and repeatedly scam people out of thousands of pounds through rental scams? The good news is that for £250 you can join all the official renters' protection schemes and do it with a UK government badge of approval! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-ren...

Fake estate agents are buying the government's seal of approval

London's scammers find a new tactic • "I felt sick... They’re doing everything except for actually having a flat." • What happens when the scammers get inside the systems?

londoncentric.media

We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Abandoned malls, vacant airports, office floors after hours: These are some of the images that evoke “liminality,” the internet aesthetic of uncanny, in-between spaces. To our screen-weary eyes, there’s something irresistible about these snapshots of late-stage capitalism.

How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

This crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit reactions to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism.

hyperallergic.com

Yay 😊, Hampstead Heath’s Bathing Ponds to remain trans inclusive. “We have continued to listen and take detailed legal advice throughout this process. The approach agreed today protects the character and unique spirit of the Ponds while ensuring they remain welcoming to all.” – Chris Hayward

Hampstead Heath’s Bathing Ponds to remain trans inclusive spaces as City Corporation agrees future access policy

Kenwood Ladies’ Pond and Highgate Men’s Pond to remain trans inclusiveCity of London Corporation committees take decision on future access policy for Hampstead Heath’s Bathing PondsUpgrades to toilets...

news.cityoflondon.gov.uk

Ashleeee 🌊🪭@reactiveashley.cat · 3mo ago

1/🧵 We’re awaiting the decision on Ladies’ Pond 🌳🏊🏻‍♀️. The City of London Corporation Policy and Resource Committee briefly discussed the future access arrangements for the ponds on Hampstead Heath this afternoon before moving into a closed session. www.youtube.com/live/RnjqI_9...

Israel bills itself as a haven for LGBTQ+ rights. Its bureaucratic system can further endanger queer Palestinian asylum-seekers.

A Gay Palestinian Fled to Israel’s “Safe Haven.” Israel Tried to Exploit Him for Intelligence.

Israel bills itself as a haven for gay rights, but its bureaucratic system can further endanger queer Palestinians who flee persecution.

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1. A Kansas Judge has struck down the anti-trans "experts" the ADF parades. "Cherry-picked information, conjecture, and research taken out of context," ruled Judge Folsom III. He then established 349 facts that support trans care and reversed the Kansas ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Kansas Judge Eviscerates Anti-Trans

The judge found 349 individual facts supported the continued provision of gender-affirming care.

erininthemorning.com

Two visual puns I hadn’t been aware of until yesterday. The vertical elements of the City of London School for Girls resemble pencils, and those for the Guildhall School of Music & Drama represent tuning forks.

odd but not unexpected how little trans rights have come up in the local elections analysis

Another good analysis by @murkydepths.bsky.social on the awful connectivity between North Greenwich and the rest of the borough. This article includes feedback from TfL on various Active Travel Assessments. www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/05/05/h...

How Greenwich ignored TfL advice and neglected street and town improvements - Murky Depths

A look at a number of large developments in Greenwich and how the council have regularly ignored TfL advice to improve towns and streets

fromthemurkydepths.co.uk

If someone had said that lobbyists for a publicly traded tech company were hosting a cocktail party on the eve of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, no one would pencil it on the calendar. But when Grindr began sending out invites, Washington immediately convulsed with thirst.

Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuit

The “gay dating and hookup app” is now courting Washington insiders.

theverge.com

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

HR @ Weyland-Yutani@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents

discover feed is down for all users. we have a hypothesis for what the problem is and getting a fix out.

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵

I’m very comfortable and cozy on the D-list, being known mostly by children and bisexual librarians, but every now and then I think it would be fun to be famous just for one or two reasons, and this is never more true than when I remember The Muppet Show

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."