alyson “end the BBC” greaves

the last gasp of forums: fixing discord

jesus christ discord needs a way to unbind its stupid keybinds

why in the name of fuck would you want to start a call with a keyboard shortcut? is it something you need to do that often?

The subhead says it all.

I once did a Cambridge Union debate “This House Believes Western Military Intervention Has Done More Harm Than Good” in which an amazing Vietnamese student and Malcolm Rifkind (bizarrely) were on my side, Tom Harwood, the CEO of the IEA, and some braying posho student were on the opposite side. We both won the debate, and had the biggest swing to our side. Me and Rifkind just spoke without notes, relaxed and without prep, Harwood was sweating like shit, and stuttering through some printed notes, and had about 8 students point out factial innaccuracies. Me, Rifkind and Harwood were all in the same hotel so they booked one cab for us. Rifkind came up to me before and said “Let’s go for a drink but go to our rooms first so we lose the cokehead”. We then had two whiskies where he asked me about my background, and both said I was more talented than his son and said he was shocked Hugo got into Oxbridge because he’s “not remotely intellectually gifted.”

boy have I got good news for you

Almost as though austerity is a kick in the teeth to everyone but especially the poor

One consequence of UK commentators refusing to acknowledge the 2017 election is it’s led to a sort of assumption that Labour got 12.8m votes purely from rich champagne socialists, deadbeat hippies & Russian influence campaigns

British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally. Because curbing trans people's rights to participate in anything subjects everyone to intrusive scrutiny and here, hefty expense. This is not a 'them' issue.

I’m so happy with how this chapter’s coming together. Sorry it’s taking a bit of time!

yeah I really like the way they do earbuds

I don’t even really use the ecosystem stuff except inasmuch as it’s nice to have my earbuds autoswitch.

I’ve ended up in the Samsung ‘ecosystem’ basically by accident. I got an S10 on contract, got used to the UI, and now I just get the next one whenever they offer the upgrade. And you get free buds, so... Samsung buds. And then I wanted a sturdy unibody aluminium laptop and, oh look, Samsung.

I wonder how much money the bluecheck accounts on x make when they make their dumb Apple v Samsung posts

like they’re so easy to craft! two screenshots and a couple of lines of text presenting a polarising opinion! am I leaving Phone Fight Weirdo money on the table?

a man in a green jacket and jeans is dancing in a dark room . Alt: The Peggle 2 guy doing the Peggle 2 jump

woo slay the spire

I don’t want a Neo but I do want Samsung to copy the bright colours so the next time I buy a laptop it’s all pretty

This was racist. Keir Starmer is racist.

Residents Say Elon Musk's AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor Residents of a once quiet Mississippi town complain that Elon Musk's AI facility is constantly emitting a horrible noise.

“This was not a thoughtful, phased development. It was an industrial surge imposed on our residential community.”

trans woman: i'm a woman now

cis ppl: gender doesn't matter anyway

trans woman: so you see me as a woman?

cis ppl: people are just people! what if we just got rid of gender. all gender is drag anyway haha!

trans woman: i need to go to the ladies'

cis ppl: THE ALL-GENDER ONE IS DOWN THE HALL

Read my accessible analysis of Goodwin v UK – why it still matters, and what the courts are getting wrong – here:

Never posting normal after posting anti-trans stuff continues to be law

yeah that tracks

everyone at Claude is now guilty of warcrimes, may they all hang for them

Screenshot of QueerAf newsletter. Text reads: Pride in Education report A new report, using insights from 50 teachers, warns of the detrimental harm of new draft education guidance. Equalities Minister Olivia Bailey has been warned in a new report that draft schools guidance is already causing confusion, concern and harm in schools. It is the latest in a series of unpublished drafts of guidance on the treatment of Trans+ kids in schools.

Equalities Minister @oliviabailey.bsky.social has been warned that draft schools guidance is already causing confusion, concern and harm, according to a report by @prideineducation.bsky.social

What we know 🧵👇

Source: www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...

My SS officer fit raising questions already answered by my SS officer fit

One Year On: 13 people on the ruling that changed their lives On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned at birth. Forget the rage-bait headlines and attempts to divide us through...

my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

>Keir Starmer feels like a big man with a war boner
>shoots his mouth off about how we're going to use UK bases for US strikes against Iran
>British military base on Cyprus immediately gets drone bombed
>Cypriot government summon the UK defence minister to ask him excuse me what the fuck

Foremsic

The vital importance of follow-up questions: “What kind of political strategy?”

This is so funny because a really good way to help small businesses like these raise their wages *and* revitalise our dying high streets is to address commercial rents, but the Labour brain is so infested with landlord toxoplasmosis that the thought will never even occur.

the Always Sunny “I've had enough of this dude” meme with the bluesky post loading error screen pasted in

meanwhile every other trans woman i know who is one of the greatest minds of their generation is begging for meds and fundraising to eat three times a week and starve the rest

I do not know a single Middle Easterner who believes Trump went to war on Iran solely to distract Americans from the Epstein Files.

Because Middle Easterners HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH WHY AND HOW THE UNITED STATES GOES TO WAR ON THEM THE MIDDLE EASTERNERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

Liars and crooks and crooks and liars.