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Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.

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EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Times headline Kathleen Stock criticises civil servants joing Pride marches as 'obviously political' events.

Supporting LGBT+ rights is political in a way that breaches the civil service code and opposing them is not political in a way that precludes charitable status is a... complex position to hold, although one managed by former LGBA hate group with charitable status trustee Kathleen Stock.

University threatened with legal action after protest at event Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a

Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.

'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them October 14 2025, The Times The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. I've long contended that austerity doesn't save money. It merely transfers costs from one group (the very rich, who would otherwise pay more tax) to others. Last night was a powerful reminder of that. Before I go further, I should say I’m fine. Just a black eye, cuts & bruises, no serious harm. 🧵

final hike of the holiday

exhausted... but hiking is so rewarding

Thornaby transgender woman guilty of sexually assaulting man Ciara Watkin lied about being a biological female when the pair had a sexual liaison, a court hears.

A man got a blowjob from a trans woman and after his friends mocked him, he called the police and filed a criminal complaint. Now she has been convicted of sexual assault for not disclosing she was trans and will now have to register as a sex offender.

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Anti-wokism is now the dominant strain of thought across all mainstream political and cultural ideologies; a complete rejection of nuance, perspective, interrogation, or exploration in favor of the fervent recitation of rote slogans and the rabid defense of shallow worldviews. Seems bad!

I did so well, this my best year yet 83.3% 🥹🥹🥹

I have a first class masters degree 🥹🥹🥹

IT IS WHAT IT IS...

final uni results in less than an hour I am terrified 😭😭😭

more bruschetta 😍😍😍

chevrotains are so adorable 💖💖💖

my hay-fever is so bad 😭😭😭

artiodactyla >>> perissodactyla

my bf and i made lovely bruschetta with fresh pesto pasta last night :))

I've finished my degree 😍😍🥹😍🥹😍😭🥲😍😍

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

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lamb

3 more exams to go 🥰🥲🥹