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“Stop this slide into authoritarianism before it’s too late.” 💯
Saul StaniforthJust sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com
One of the things that's frustrating about this is that the association vendors are building between shipping unconsented privacy invading AI features and patching is going to hurt resilience to vulnerability exposure generally.
Dr Neil & Mr PriceIt’s really starting to grind me down
The French platform Trans Youth Trajectories has published a thorough summary of the research case at Oslo University Hospital. English: trajectoiresjeunestrans.fr/en/news/with... French: trajectoiresjeunestrans.fr/actualites/s... Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DbascKzjYQH/
Without consent: the scientific misconduct scandal at Norway’s national centre for trans youth - Trans Youth TrajectoriesIllegitimate research on trans minorstrajectoiresjeunestrans.fr
wild times. moreover, FIFA must be destroyed
Nathan Kalman-LambUEFA has just unanimously decided to boycott both men's and women's World Cups over FIFA's attempt to sell the global game to private equity. Damn.
The Supreme Court is to decide on the lawfulness of the Palestine Action ban The court has granted the group's co-founder permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling, which was in the government's favour It says the hearing will take place sometime between 1 October and 21 December
The fact this continues while the police do nice little photo ops with suspected Loyalist murderers is really the thing that underlines how hypocritical it is
flyingrodentHealthy democracies under good governance do not see things like e.g. a 1,000% increase in terrorism-related arrests in the course of one year, most of them non-violent pensioners.
There probably was someone called Emily Wilson who wrote a critical review of Nolan’s Odyssey, but most of what we now think of as “Wilson’s review’ is probably the result of codifying a long tradition of anonymous Bluesky posting.
Surely we can all sleep safely in our beds now...
Defend Our JuriesBritain today: An elderly woman in a wheelchair is escorted away by the police and risks up to 14 years in prison for supporting terrorism since the Home Secretary proscribed a protest group in 2025. Her crime? She said: "I support Palestine Action and I encourage you to join".
I understand using the very specific phrase 'I support Palestine Action' will get you arrested, but there's lack of clarity over what can be said, e.g., will uttering 'I believe Palestine Action did not deserve to be classified as a proscribed group' get you arrested?
Byline Times📌 ICYMI — Andy Burnham Faces ‘First Test’ Over Palestine Action Ban This Week — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Defend Our Juries is urging supporters to escalate from simple placard offences to charges carrying up to 14 years in prison, in a direct challenge to Andy Burnham's new Government
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This is my Take too. It is good to ensure people have access to necessities. It is extremely not obvious that loss leading state owned grocery stores are the best way to do that but not so entirely obviously a bad idea that it's not worth trying. Trying is what Mamdani is doing, so fair play to him.
post malone ergo propter maloneI am pretty skeptical that the city-run groceries are going to be a W but like, that’s the point of pilot programs, if they work well we figure out how to scale and if they don’t then oh well. pretending like they’re an *obvious* or common-sense W is just idiocy though
Racists describing refugees to Britain as "Boat people" like our nation's most famous hobby wasn't using the boats of the British Navy to take over other countries. Like... British people are, very famously, boat people. We were boat people all over the world. It was our whole thing.
Great to see my union is one of the four boycotting. It would be an even better act of allyship if trade unions started disaffiliating from Labour too.
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I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10
thread on the Palmares quilombo, historically interesting for lots of reasons
Isaac SamuelIn the 1600s, some 21,000 runaway slaves in Brazil founded an independent kingdom in the interior that lasted nearly a century (1612-1694) It had a capital of 5,000, its own king, provincial chiefs, judges, priests, and an army that raided Dutch and Portuguese plantations
Every politician saying too many kids go to university needs to be specific about how they’ll get more employers to offer in-work qualifications or structured routes to high-quality jobs. The barrier is never young peoples’ choices.
Emma JacobsEvery commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tribunal rules woman not unlawfully discriminated against over beliefsSara Morrison claimed she was forced out of her job at Belfast Film Festival for her views on sex and gender.www.bbc.co.uk