Duncan Bourne @duncanbourne@c.im

Democrats and centrist media keep laundering this panic into ‘reasonable concerns’ but the anti-trans movement is overwhelmingly comprised of bigoted loser freaks. We’re missing a huge opportunity to make this a winning issue by pointing that out.

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules The Wikimedia Foundation says the new rules could threaten user privacy and safety.

This should be an absolute scandal. Wikipedia may now be forced to age gate some articles and require logins to read them.

Wikipedia is a vital education resource. It is not a haven of “harmful” content.

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1975 Kawasaki Z1 900
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#ClassicMotorcycles
#MOtorcycle

Stop saying Starmer is implementing Trump policies, he's not. He started months before the US election and told us he would when campaigning. Streeting met with transphobic groups 4 months before the US election and extended the PB ban 3 months before. This isn't Trump, this is Labour.

Once again pointing out that this government won’t be able to pass a true ban on conversion therapy without acknowledging it is *current* NHS policy to do conversion therapy on trans kids. That’s what this is.

I don’t need graphs about what jolly good citizens migrants are to justify why they shouldn’t be attacked. They shouldn’t be attacked because racism is bad and racists are cunts

What's with the plain white shoes ken? Very disappointing. You can do better!

Headline: How Jeremy Clarkson is keeping farm running after poor harvest?

Is the answer: "He's worth £85 million, and literally wrote in his Times column that he only bought his farm to avoid tax, while making even more money by exploiting continuously rising food prices"?

This is objectively a smart policy whose only possible counterargument is "but personal freedom." Which is hopelessly weak if you think about it for even a moment. Cars are the only realm of society where routinely, lethally, breaking the law is accepted.

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

YouTube video by Jayneel Ramjee AA advert 'Kev & Bev' (2004) with Olivia Colman and Mark Burdis

Bev, Kev from 2004. youtu.be/z8RulxpzLsw?...

Used to be called wakes week, and the whole town would close. It was also when the fair would set up on the common in Sandbach.

Why is M&S apologising? There’s nothing to apologise about. A customer service employee has asked a customer if they need any help. So they are doing their job…

Went last month, and would recommend. Lots of bikes, but not crowded and an enjoyable drive. Big bike parking area by the glacier, which is now a mile shorter than when I last went in the 1980s.

Taken from behind a low mesh fence surrounded by wildflowers, a red & yellow VER car travels towards camera with the driver and passengers looking to camera on a bright sunny day.

#OnThisDay 142 years ago Britain's first electric railway, and the world's oldest operating electric railway, opened in Brighton. Volk's Electric Railway was opened by British-German inventor and Brighton native Magnus Volk. Image from website: buff.ly/mPhMlOS

Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’

Amazed it took 40 years to reach this conclusion. It was obvious in the 80s, if you bothered to look.

Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.

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The replies to this post, even on here, even moreso on X, are so depressing to me. We live in a world where cities have never been safer and a minority of people are denying themselves a lot of delightful experiences because they’ve gone mad online.

The fact this keeps having to be explained is very depressing. Not seen anything from Midlands leadership either, pathetic. I type this while on the Elizabeth Line, a proper divisive, delayed, over budget British project that everyone absolutely loves now it's finished.

#hs2 #infrastructure

Just seems mad to me that alcohol and tobacco ads got banned years ago but the TV is just crammed with gambling ads and it seems like the government is perfectly happy with that

WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

Cancel the 2028 L.A. Olympics OPINION: “Hosting an Olympic Games requires working with a lawless U.S. regime — and its rights-violating security apparatus — as they openly wage war against California,” says Joe...

I agree. Cancel it.

“But it’s no longer peacetime in Los Angeles.
This event is now too dangerous for California. Hosting an Olympic Games requires us to work together with a lawless U.S. regime — and its rights-violating security apparatus — as it openly wages war against our city and state.”

Boss. I'm tired boss. We been doing these experiments and studies since the 60s and 70s and the outcome has been the same in them all.

The pushback against these measures aren't because they don't work. It's because they DO work and they'll include peoples they wish to exclude from society.

It's not though. We've just been capitalism pilled to think that the only way to get people to do stuff is with money. The whole point of the universal basic income pilots is that humans will actually do cool shit if theyre not terrified of being unable to eat, clothe and house themselves

No, inheritance tax isn't a double tax on your already taxed, hard earned money. You're dead. You don't pay it. It's paid, to all intents and purposes, by the people receiving the inheritance, who absolutely did not earn it, and don't deserve a massive tax free windfall.

at Paddington. incredible to me that the Heathrow Express, a service that exists entirely for people who want to get from Heathrow to here specifically about eight minutes faster than they otherwise might, still exists, somehow

Hang on! Why keep subsidising road use but rail fares keep going up above inflation? End the fuel duty freeze now!

Let’s face it, that was 40 years more than anyone ever thought he was getting and he was still giving it 100% Ozzy until the literal last possible minute. Rock In Peace, you mad old bastard 🤘

Resurrect HS2 northern leg to boost rail freight capacity, say UK manufacturers Reviving line to Manchester and Leeds would help get lorries off roads and cut emissions, according to lobby group

By getting express trains off the existing network, HS2 clears space for others - particularly FREIGHT. Fewer lorries on roads = major CO2 win.
The northern legs, presently "cancelled", are the crucial part. We need to safeguard the routes and BUILD THEM.
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Screenshot: No room for wokeness! @Wokenessisevil Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment. [photos show Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) with ripped muscles]

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice