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Bringing Sexy Back Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

V interesting piece on eroticism and surveillance lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

Allowing ‘no Blacks’ and ‘no trans’ while banning ‘no zionists’ is insane

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When does a flop era go on for so long that it starts becoming a flop life?

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

The entire trans moral panic in the UK is based on absurd hypotheticals, which provably don’t play out in reality

Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell The welfare bill passed, but it was chaos. A party this dysfunctional and divided cannot escape the wrath of voters at the next election, says John McDonnell, former Labour shadow chancellor

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Smaug dies though

This is the gayest love story ever told In his new book, Deep House, Jeremy Atherton Lin chronicles the beauty and difficulty of his own long-term relationship against a backdrop of extensive,…

Interviewed Jeremy Atherton Lin about his new, brilliant book DEEP HOUSE (out in the US and UK tomorrow) for The Face. theface.com/culture/this...

“I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher said. “That sure feels like bullshit.”

I am incredibly jealous!

This album is so so so special!

to quote ‪@cmatbaby.bsky.social‬: "I've been having a horrible time."

In the week that The Podcast Academy gave Steven Bartlett the International Governor’s Award for Diary of a CEO (citing how he “elevated podcasting as a medium for insight, vulnerability, and meaningful dialogue”) he released this episode about “reversing” stage 4 cancer through dietary change.

Determination: Longlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize a book by Tawseef Khan. 'A compassionate, beautifully told portrait' Guy Gunaratne 'Absorbing, witty, eloquent fiction, as well as a trenchant political critique' Tom Benn'A hymn to empathy, alive with care and love' Rebecca...

Friends! There’s just ONE MONTH to go until my novel Determination comes out in paperback. I’d be ever so grateful if you supported it by pre-ordering and also spreading the word. It’s a Jhalak Prize-nominated novel, don’t you know!

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dete...

Opinion | How I Got Duped by Designer Dupes

Earlier this year I became obsessed with fake designer bags and very soon it took over my life and my social media feeds. I’ve written about that for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...

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YouTube video by Little White Lies The wigs of Nicole Kidman

For @lwlies.com I did something a little different and wrote a video essay about the wigs (and hairstyles) of Nicole Kidman across her very long career www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_D...

If you're in the UK and you're annoyed that you don't know which AI companies are training on your copyrighted work without permission, the reason is now simple: the Labour party.

This isn't a political statement - it's a fact.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

On "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and "The Stop Remix" “I’m a singer who dances, definitely” — Britney Spears, MTV Making the Video, 1999

Had an absolutely silly time writing about "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and "The Stop Remix" for the latest In the Zine: open.substack.com/pub/inthezin...

Marianne I would like to be the next stage girl because I believe pop music can save lives. Ariana Rihanna Katy and more saved mine! Also here are the lyrics: I know I’ll never be your wife I know I’m not you

so thoroughly obsessed with this song soundcloud.com/journalofado...

LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling Charities say the judgment creates ‘a legal framework that simply cannot uphold the dignity’ of trans people Fourteen national LGBTQ+ charities have written to Keir Starmer seeking an urgent meeting to discuss what they describe as “a genuine crisis for the rights, dignity and inclusion of trans people in the UK” after the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex. The UK supreme court ruled last month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 referred only to “a biological woman” and to “biological sex”, with subsequent advice from the equality watchdog amounting to a blanket ban on trans people using toilets and other services of the gender they identify as. Continue reading...

LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling

Momentum statement on the Runcorn and Helsby byelection: “For Reform to win Runcorn and Helsby so early into the Labour Government’s Parliamentary term should raise alarm bells in the Labour Party. By continuing austerity, pandering to the far right and failing to offer real change, the Labour Leadership risks handing the country to the likes of Nigel Farage. It’s time for MPs, Councillors, Party members and the wider labour movement to speak out and demand the Government change course - and it starts with the upcoming vote on welfare cuts. MPs must vote against these cruel and unnecessary measures and stand up for the most vulnerable in society.” 2nd May 2025

By failing to offer real change, the Labour Government risks handing the country to the far right.

Our statement on the Runcorn & Helsby byelection. 🔽

Thank you 💖💖💖💖💖

First proper In The Zine is live: On "...Baby One More Time". inthezine.substack.com/p/on-baby-on...

Barclays says bank will bar trans women from using female bathrooms Boss confirms policy change as businesses move to comply with recent supreme court ruling

Only two weeks ago the Supreme Court said the judgment would not harm trans people.

What were they smoking? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Seán Hewitt’s New Book Explores the Pain and Power of Queer Yearning In his debut novel Open, Heaven, poet and memoirist Seán Hewitt traces the fevered contours of queer teenage desire, memory, and first love

Had a gorgeous conversation with Seán Hewitt about his sublime novel Open, Heaven, which if you're into queer yearning and beautiful writing about the British countryside, is well worth your time www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

Labour's new policy - of humiliating trans people by requiring them constantly to self-identify - we believe puts the UK (again) in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and will seek a declaration of incompatability. goodlaw.social/0r6l

Carla was brilliant on Kuenssberg this morning

She explained the guidance actually calls for banning trans people from both men’s & women’s spaces, rather than the “trans man gotcha” we’ve seen from some

Nice to hear from someone who’s actually read the damn thing, rather than spouting propaganda

Solidarity with all trans, non-binary & intersex people facing the harsh and ill-considered guidance issued by the EHRC.

It’s full of holes & has clearly been written without input from trans people. I will push for this to be withdrawn until thought-out guidance can be produced.