Rich Hawkins

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

Text: "North American be like, oops we're out of milk, I'll just run to the store to get some." Image: A huge metal tank-like Sandcrawler from Start Wars.

"The fact that a Labour government after Grenfell has decided that the regulation of construction is the problem and the thing they need to dismantle, I think is a fucking obscenity."

What other player-specific rules would you like to see agreed and introduced?

Never felt so ashamed to be an Arsenal fan. Thanks @gunnerblog.bsky.social for treating the issue with the seriousness it deserves, and putting the anger with arsenalfc.bsky.social to good use: they cannot be allowed to hide behind such flimsy & self-serving legal defences...

Edmund Gordon · No Pork Salad: On the Court Professional tennis requires extraordinary psychological capacities – obsessive focus, epic self-belief – so it...

Immediate hall of fame piece, laugh-out-loud funny, especially the second half: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

Séamas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth

One of the best things I've read on this... www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

I am willing to (and probably will) die on this hill...

New research provides conclusive proof that 20mph in London is saving lives 🚶🚲🚌🚗

14 yrs of analysis at 150+ sites - reviewed by experts - shows:
❤️40% fewer deaths (vs 7% drop on roads where no changes were made)
❤️75% fewer children killed & 50% fewer kids hurt.

...until the land sink collapsed.

From 1990 to 2023, GHG emissions decreased 43%, more or less on track.

However, the sink has turned into a source, meaning net GHG emissions have increased 8% from 1990 to 2023!

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There have always been e.g:

Hijra in India
Fa’fafinis in Samoa
Bakla in the Philippines
Māhū in Hawaii
Two spirits for Native Americans
Sworn virgins in Albania
Kathoey in Thailand
Mudoko dako in Uganda

Yet the UK imagines trans as a modern ‘woke’ invention and is trying to stamp it out (again)

Thanks to Labour’s cowardice, Britain is stumbling into one of the most cruelly anti-trans regimes in the western world. A bathroom ban is neither workable, ethical, popular nor debated by legislators but they’re just waving it through

Section 28 didn’t come out of nowhere.
It came from a society where 75% thought homosexuality was wrong.
From a society that feared the sight of a man in drag would corrupt.
From a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of gay lives.
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The Trump administration is literally kidnapping and torturing people.

linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

If I had £1 for every middle class white civil society person sharing a chrysalis metaphor... @nonprofitaf.bsky.social

They only went and fucking did it!

Minister Matthew Pennycook signals Labour are preparing to scrap the Digital Services Tax (a 2% tax on UK turnover of US online tech companies) so tax avoiding companies like Amazon, Apple and Google can make & extract more profit from the UK

The tax was introduced by the Tories

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media.

But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

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woman caught trying to plant explosive devices at Tesla dealership

God forbid a woman have hobbies

YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers Death Promise (1977) Original Trailer [FHD]

They don't make 'em like this anymore! Overdue a remake? #landlords www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDVm...

Loved this, it really resonated. I'm currently messing about with React using Cline. I don't know React, but I know enough other front-end (esp. design, a11y & maintainability) to prompt well and catch many mistakes. I'm up-in-that code like 20 years ago using Wordpress to learn PHP & it's F.U.N.!