Terry

This is a clearly unfair move by a big operation to hoover up hard won evidence that a viable business is possible in the Leith area, nasty and underhanded

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I think if they, the Booker management, think it works, they’ll widen it, though, I can’t help thinking, there shouldn’t be a winner but give the shortlist of five £10k each

DAILY EXPRESS BACKING BRITAIN FOR 125 YEARS express.co.uk TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2025 EXCLUSIVE 'Magnificent Seven' Darlington nurses continue their female-only spaces fight FOR THE SAFETY AND DIGNITY OF EVERY WOMAN AND GIRLY

Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign.

notinourname.org.uk

An AI-generated band got 1m plays on Spotify. Now music insiders say listeners should be warned The Velvet Sundown released two albums before admitting their music, images and backstory were created by AI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meh. Had a listen, derivative, sluggish, '70's cliche, overall dull

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Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’ The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersex

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Disappointing, if so and probably is, @theguardian.com

Post your favourite Doctor Who, wrong answers only
(actually, @joelycett.bsky.social might be quite good)

And, they flew past the Pyramid stage, which has a CND sign on the top, eh?

I can't hear Neil Young singing, guitar, yes, him, nope

So, Sur Knob Stewart, England's most overrated pub singer, has come out in support of Farage (rhymes with garage) and Reform (reactionary regressiveness) well, Sur Knob, bollocks to your nonsense, definitely avoiding at Glastonbury

Did you ask, can we make banana bread?

On a train

Seen this going around but I’m
Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George

Blimey, who'll tell the idiot everyone already knows the tango tyrant is in those files

Where has Ncuti gone? Very confused

NHS nurses could go on strike over 25% erosion in pay, union boss warns Exclusive: RCN’s Nicola Ranger says nurses could ‘bare our teeth’ as they seek restoration of lost earnings since 2010

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
... the UK government appears to be using rapid fire to their own twinkle toes

Ministers demand BBC World Service plan for cuts as aid budget slashed Exclusive: David Lammy asks BBC bosses to draw up tightened budget amid criticism move could harm UK’s global influence

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
As the UK government once again shoots itself in the foot...

‘Incredible platform for future’: Starmer hails UK-US trade deal – UK politics live Trump says he is ‘thrilled’ with deal and claims it will be ‘so good’ for both countries

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
What has that greasy oil slick Mandleson sold?

Go Lois!

I wonder, worry, if, in the future or at some point, legal arguments win at the European Court of Human Rights for trans rights, the right wing react as reactionaries, take us out of membership to continue right leaning and far right policies of discrimination, just my personal anxiety

Wow, that's mental

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How are you supposed to get a gender recognition certificate, which requires you to have lived in your acquired gender, now the Supreme Court has said you are not allowed to live in your acquired gender?

Have done, please keep going

The Phantom Thread

How will he walk back, if a decision from European Court of Human Rights counters the Supreme Court? And there's the argument that GDPR directly contradicts the SC, as the individual has the right to be referred in data the way they want (if I'm right)

Petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender. We believe the government should change legislation to make it easier for trans people of all ages to change their legal gender without an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Where is this discourse? (Threads or X?) Who is conducting it? (Old blokes that want Grandstand back and their '70's childhood) What is the shown or unwitting bias? (They're scared of change) Have you had your coffee yet? (I'm sure you have)