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I’m trying to pick the best party tunes since 1966. Why are all the real bangers from 1989? | Zoe Williams

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martin@trustworthym.bsky.social3h ago(source)

when i was in secondary school then there were two guys who would headbutt each other as hard as possible & go to the nurse's office whenever they wanted to get out of a class and one day i suggested that they just pretend to feel sick instead and the way they looked at me, i felt like prometheus

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social5h ago(source)

Did you read termination shock

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Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social5h ago(source)

They are the dog that caught the car. This nonsense is what happens when you get everything you’ve asked for, but what you’ve asked for makes no sense.

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

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They will NEVER be happy archive.is/2026.05.25-2...

Warning that the guidance required a
"spurious human rights balancing test", Ms Forstater said sex was often relevant to everyday life, especially to relationships and safeguarding.
Ms Forstater said: "Creating an environment where people are expected to treat sex as 'special category' data... and to assume that any individual might not be the sex they appear to be makes it impossible to enforce sex-based rules and creates an environment where ordinary safety and safeguarding are compromised.
"Neither the Equality Act nor UK GDPR
requires this."
The letter urged Ms Phillipson to withdraw the "unnecessary and unlawful" guidance, concluding: "It is likely to result in mass indirect sex discrimination and to undermine safeguarding. It is outside the mandate of the EHRC. It neither explains a specific section of the Equality Act nor refers to any case law to support its assertions.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social21h ago(source)

Serious question: are there people who do a combined solar, battery and AC installation? Generally different skill sets but the place where the battery and ventilation would be is constrained so would be nice to have some synergy

Was quite fun to be able to briefly perform large chunks of Plato’s Republic as a dramatic monologue, mind

Oh right they were go. Reckon that becoming standard would have been the difference between a first and a 2:1 for me

Wait what

Hon hon honing your way through Silksong

This tweet is better every day

Synchronicity

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social2d ago(source)

No it doesn’t, you have a charger in each bay and a fob that you use for billing

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social4d ago(source)

i am now caught up on this and will begin to Have Thoughts

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social4d ago(source)

I know it’s exhausting to do this endlessly but do write to your Labour MP opposing Labour’s bathroom ban. The party does this because it thinks it’s making the problem go away.

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Hugh Brechin@hughrbrechin.bsky.social4d ago(source)

this is unworkably insane as well as morally repellent, and still isn't going to win the government any points at all from the people who are now going to tour the country waging lawfare against any organisations that look like they might be treating trans people with dignity

Jordan

@jordanpfot.bsky.social

Here’s what the guidance has to say about policing people’s sex.

snappy lec?

Adam Bienkov

@adambienkov.bsky.social

There will be lots of understandable scepticism about this, but Burnham really has been a long time advocate of electoral reform. Would be a big step forward if he follows through www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What’s the trade off? Are there alternatives but they’re more expensive? Less efficient? Is the argument simply that flea infestations don’t hurt songbirds so they’re preferable?

Toxic chemicals in pet flea treatments harming wildlife, UK study warns

I don’t understand how you can cover this story without addressing the fact that it seems on the face of it to be calling for a massive flea outbreak www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Flea treatment chemicals fipronil and imidacloprid also implicated in lower cognitive scores in children with autism