I once held the door open for Jesus Jones as they unloaded their van at Treforest Poly and they were as polite then as they are here
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I once held the door open for Jesus Jones as they unloaded their van at Treforest Poly and they were as polite then as they are here
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I just accidentally discovered this terrific tech policy and security podcast from working journalist @superglaze.eurosky.social Intelligent analysis and clear explication.
We literally killed Iran’s leader
No - this is just based on freedom of movement. But as the Court notes, the Charter of Fundamental Rights "obliges Member States to provide for clear, accessible and effective procedures for the legal recognition" of gender identity. I don't know enough to talk about legal challenges based on that.
nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
For those of you interested in numbers stations www.eurasiareview.com/11032026-ran...
Ah yes - this one? curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
Thank you!
Quite extraordinary to think that this is essentially a freedom-of-movement ruling. For some reason it reminds me of cannabis being effectively legalised in South Africa thanks to privacy laws.
A good point that I touched on in my video on the subject www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMG8...
Under English law, this lends itself to one of law teachers' favourite cases, the House of Lords case of Tolley v Fry of 1931: www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKH...
Summarised here: www.lawteacher.net/cases/tolley...
CJEU press release: Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to freedom of movement is contrary to EU law A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman. She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected. According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons. Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice. In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State. The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...
Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity
"AI" is not a stochastic parrot.🦜
I wrote this piece a couple weeks ago, but it was hard for me to finish up given AI's role in society and war over the past few weeks. I should share it at some point though. Not perfect, but here it is.
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An excellent thread on the in-balances of power in how UK libel law operates.
What's the Temu Streisand Effect?
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2026 Frank Sinatra: Stop spreading the news
Radio image with swirls
Looking at some radio data hot off the MeerKAT telescope today! MeerKAT is a South African radio telescope with a huge field of view for astro. I'm calling this one "Radio Starry Night" bc a calibration error off that bright source has made a lovely swirly van Gogh sky if I may say so myself.
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i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid
“If things stay like this, we’re in a worse place now than before the war... A country destroyed; Khamenei replaced by another Khamenei, 30 years younger.”
#epicfury
no longer even asking for forgiveness rather than permission
I guess all those people on X who claimed it was an Iranian missile and Bellingcat had lied about it being a Tomahawk are rushing to correct themselves - U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk?
To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics
The warnings are there for us all to see
Never bring a sword-elephant to a gun-elephant fight.
Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show - @raphae.li www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
There seem to be quite a lot of people who strongly believe that AI is smarter than they are. They are probably right.
Breaking from vacation because this is huge/👀. FAA 702 already allows warrantless surveillance of Americans' comms. It'll be key to know when this classified interpretation was written (under which administration) but, can't think how this would extend. Collection of wholly domestic communications?
UKRAINE HAS DRIVEN 12km INTO RUSSIAN LINES AMD REGAINED 400KM IN THE SOUTH EAST
The ISW has finally confirmed its assessment that Ukraine - which has seemingly stopped its advance for now, presumably to consolidate its gains, retook 400kmsq and penetrated 12km
into Russian held territory on the
17. At the Hearing, Ms Kreisberger KC, evidently on instructions and in the presence of Mr Bavasso, told me that the reason why the deadline was missed in this case was because the legal team working on the matter had been proceeding on an interpretation of rule 112 of the Tribunal Rules which Aramark now accepts was erroneous. She was at pains to assert that this was not a case where there had been a careless failure to meet the deadline. She told me that "minds were applied" to rule 112. She explained that Simpson Thacher & Bartlett understood the effect of rule 112(2) to be that the day on which the Report was published and notified to the parties (i.e. Thursday, 15 January 2026) should not be counted at all. Against the background of that reading of rule 112(2), they read the phrase "day during which the event or action from which the period is to be calculated occurred or took place" in rule 112(3) as referring to Friday, 16 January 2026.
Appellate lawyers: I have for you a nightmare morsel this evening. Lawyers counted the appellate deadline wrong and now a merger has to be undone.
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