@stevieinselby
Hiker, bridge player, Terry Pratchett fan, transport enthusiast, like getting angry about politics on the internet. Proud to be a woke do-gooder. He/him, cis. Exile from the bird place. Spammers WILL be reported and blocked. 🇺🇦 🌻 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🔶 👊🏿 😷 💉
The "Iran War", much like "Iraq War" is a deliberate framing of this conflict in a way that absolves the actual aggressors who started it and are carrying out the slaughter of over a thousand civilians. This is the "US-Israeli War on Iran & Lebanon".
Netanyahoo has built Israel in his image.
When propaganda is consistent, strong and effective enough, people will believe it. The Israeli people have been lied to by their government for years.
But also, when you're poor it's harder to manage your money efficiently. It's more expensive to be poor. You can't afford 2-for-1 deals, you can't plan ahead and buy what's cheap for later, you can't buy stuff that will last.
Also known as the "Sam Vimes 'boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness".
Re-colon-ise it? It's already got a giant colon in charge right now 💩
...child/partner/etc, to try to make their death meaningful. And sure, it's a noble idea, but they get tunnel vision, they get obsessed with it, and that's a perfectly natural response to tragedy, but it doesn't put them in a good position to objectively assess the potential consequences. (3/3)
I have every sympathy with Esther Ghey over what happened to her daughter. But we have got to stop parading the surviving relatives from awful events as experts who know what they are talking about. So often, people in that situation want to go on a crusade, to avenge what happened to their (2/3)
The privacy and security consequences for everyone – adults and kids – of age-gating large swathes of the internet without putting any guardrails in place to actually improve people's experiences of using those sites would be far more damaging than the situation as it is now. (1/3)
She's gone Full Trump™ in her relationship with reality.
...until someone wants to build a hyperspace by-pass.
A certain type of leader likes to provoke attacks against their own people, in order to justify committing far greater atrocities themselves.
Netanyahoo is one such leader.
Looks like he's found a friend.
Plug it into web.archive.org and most of the time it will have it. PDFs and images are indexed less reliably than ordinary web pages.
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
They have no ideology beyond their own personal wealth and power, they have no policy beyond reflexively opposing whatever the government does.
Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.
Not only "internet bad" but also "young people bad" and especially "happy young people bad".
Good to see some common sense triumph over knee-jerkery.
I think they've been redacted...
On the nose ... or on the toes 👟
A code of conduct is meaningless unless it is enforceable and is enforced, with suitably strict penalties for breaches.
We know with absolute 100% certainty that the Tories and Reform will happily break any and every rule they can if they can get away with no more than a slapped wrist.
Slightly disingenuous to say "LAs are failing children with SEND" – it's very much a systemic failure, starting with underfunding under the previous govt, which led to a backlog, and then allowing private equity to come in and price gouge councils that they had over a barrel.
The press barons don't care about quality, if they're making more money that's all that matters to them. I work in local government, I genuinely believe that my job matters and has a positive impact on people's lives, and I don't want to see that lost because cost savings mean AI makes a mess of it.
There's definitely a worry about job security, but there's also a sense of pride in your work – especially for people who see their job as more than "make line go up".
We've seen what has happened to journalism as more and more of it has been outsourced to hallucination machines, it's got worse.
You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name
It's 2026.
Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician.
Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist.
Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow
Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.
Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.
The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.
The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.
To be honest, that's forgiveable in my view. Irish and Northern Irish politics and history and nomenclature is complicated and sensitive, and I wouldn't necessarily expect a one-time visitor to be aware of all the distinctions and subtleties. Compared to the sin of voting Trump 47, it's nothing!
Until a year ago, I wouldn't have dreamed of opening by asking an American tourist who they voted for either. Even under #45, it wasn't such a big deal. But now, hell yes I want to know if you voted for the person trying bring about the end of mankind.
No, Americans generally wouldn't ask a foreign tourist who they voted for, but that's because (a) other countries don't have anywhere near the power that the US does so it doesn't really matter to them, and (2) most of them wouldn't understand the answer anyway. What's the Liberal party? Who's Merz?
Excellent.
I think western influencers need to be clear about why they seem to be posting messages that so closely align to a coordinated campaign by the autocratic UAE leadership.
youtu.be/-giBHZ31RMU?...
This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.