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Lmao - this is so funny in the wrong way. Unless you mean the Gaylor lesbians. And I’m not sure you can make the lesbian bed death joke unless you’re a lot gayer?

Given that it was the Green Party conference last week

Does anyone know why Zack Polanski wasn't invited onto Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show, or onto Trevor Phillips's Sky News program?

Huh? I count, like, eight of the top of my head?
1. Colbie Caillat
2. Maren Morris
3. Hayley Williams
4. Phoebe Bridgers
5. Haim
6. Lana Del Rey and a second release with even more Lana sounding vocals
7. Florence Welch
8. Sabrina Carpenter

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.

I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

Bernie Sanders demands that RFK Jr step down as health secretary Vermont senator says Kennedy is endangering the health of the American people as head of the US health department

Most sensible thing I have heard today.

If Bluesky isn’t structurally, mechanically, far superior to every other social media site how do you explain that Ricky Gervais is here but I don’t see his posts unless I intentionally seek them out

And what if the world were made of pudding

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

my main problem with the attitude of "butlerian jihad" or "killing the computer" is that it assigns blame to inanimate objects instead of the real people who very much can be held accountable who designed the computer to be this way

screenshot of the Focus Friends app: a coffee bean named Keats holding a white mug

Somehow I love coffee even more now. @hankgreen.bsky.social

I’ve really come around to strength training in the last few years and I now massively enjoy it. But sometimes I need an excuse to listen to music for an hour with no one bothering me whilst I zone out and a run or a treadmill session is perfect for it.

Want to hide something from public scrutiny? Release it late on a Friday in August. This is just what the Supreme Court has done.

🚨The GOP appointed justices have decided it’s time to do away with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Thank you, @motherjones.com

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

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’

Right to Buy has been an absolute scam, with taxpayers paying the price. Time for govt to get a grip on the crisis once and for all - end Right to Buy now, and put in place rent controls to stop landlords ripping off renters.

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Former UK Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption, "Palestine is a state, the sooner the UK acknowledges the facts, the better"

Steve Rotheram, Labour mayor of Liverpool city region, has told Robert Peston he is deeply critical of Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint the former editor of the Sun newspaper to a new Whitehall perm sec position in charge of all 7,000 civil servants engaged in communications and PR

Statement here

“My parents very clearly do not love me”: Children of Bayswater Speak Out We speak to several children of Bayswater Support Group members. Their experiences highlight the harm groups like Bayswater do to young trans people, and the gateway they provide to broader far-right ...

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This is so heartbreaking. But also it shows the real life influence of tw*ts like Peterson and how the GC movement has built this infrastructure to spread its hate. Great reporting from trans safety network.

I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'

Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

“The point about PR isn't that it favours one party or another. In the unlikely event that most people choose a populist party we'd get a populist government. What PR will not do - and FPTP very much would - is to hand 100% government control to a party that most people voted against” Andy Beck MVM

The worst chief justice of all time Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time

"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

To be a huge issue. We went from, oh, she underwent a “sex change” to the GC language of “sex is real” (implied, and therefore unchangeable) 3/3

Ahhh I see :) x

Sex at all, and I would treat anyone as trans and valid who says they are, because I don’t think you magically become trans when you start taking hormones or only after you’ve had particular surgeries. I was simply making a point that this language distinction between sex and gender didn’t used 2/

I don’t disagree, was just trying to be brief for character count sake, but yes, the four elements of sex are referring to the authority of academic biology. But I would say that “it depends what authority we’re talking about” does mean it’s complex. I’m not trying to asset a rigid definition of 1/

Ignorance properly (that I’ve seen, I’d be happy to be wrong!) I think it’s accurate to call them anti trans, but they’d protest. They coined Terf and then declared it a slur. Perhaps we just need to really associate that Gender Critical = Anti Trans. 3/3

Now seen as two separate things that never overlap, when twenty years ago post transition was referred to as having undergone a “sex change”. There’s no snappy catchy easy to understand way of explaining this to the general public, or labels we can put on anti trans folk that capture their 2/

Unfortunately, sex as a biological concept is complicated. It’s made up of four things (hormones, chromosomes, primary and secondary sex characteristics) and only one of those is generally how sex is assigned at birth. It’s a result of the rise of the anti trans movement that sex and gender are 1/2

"Careless people … smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby