We are sharing a guide put together for anyone wanting to complain to the BBC about the misinformation in their reporting of asylum seekers claiming to be LGBT+ in their applications.
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Exactly the same where I am, it's so bizarre
If you feed birds in your garden the RSPB has some new guidelines, as there’s an illness that’s killing off loads of finches that’s spread at bird feeders and birdbaths:
strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news
a stylized 3d illustration of an alien with a suitcase walking out of my head, which has a desk and computer inside.
clocking out
Infrastructure isn't supposed to turn a profit.
The sewers aren't supposed to be profitable.
The parks aren't supposed to be profitable.
The postal service isn't supposed to be profitable.
The "profit" is in how it enables everyone in society to do more.
The fun part is, she’s saying this to the crooked politician rapid defence force, who all know very well it’s true and cannot freely discuss it without incriminating themselves
not saying her dismal name, but I know plenty of trans single mums and every single one of them is rhetorically erased whenever you start your, "but she used to be a single mum" surrender speech.
These orgs are inherently useless sinecures, whose principal purpose is to launder establishment bigotries, and to provide a fig leaf to employers. I do not feel included by a failed Labour politician using her position at a nominally queer org to say the trannies are wrong about her oligarch pal.
Joanne closed her helpline for single parents right around when she announced she'd be donating heavily to anti-trans causes. They closed because of lack of funding.
She's a billionaire.
She doesn't care about "single mums".
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Opinion: Kezia Dugdale, the new chair of Stonewall, defends JK Rowling and transphobic activists. She has to go.
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
An org named after a riot proudly stating they want a kinder quieter debate is a real sign of it being successfully quelled
"The stakes are incredibly high; an AMOC collapse, which last happened roughly 12,000 years ago, would cause chaos. It would push Europe into a winter deep freeze, accelerate sea level rise along the East Coast of the US and drive prolonged droughts across a swath of Africa..."
It’s illustrative to recognise when the Guardian uses the word investment (straightforward handing over cash to the private sector) and when it uses spending (welfare, public sector wages)
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
Picture of Thornton-Cleveleys resident, Samantha Linacre-Hanmond, in her garden, where testing by the Environment Agency + UK Health Security Agency has revealed high levels of internationally banned PFOA, a type of PFAS forever chemical classed by the World Health Organisation as a group 1 carcinogen. Headline, 'Don't eat home-grown veg, council warns residents near chemical plant' subheading, 'Householders alerted to health risk from toxic soil found in gardens', The Telegraph
“It makes me angry and guilty for poisoning my children for all of these years"
One of the more insidious aspects of PFAS pollution is the way it can turn what ought to be health-giving activities like growing your own veg into health-harming ones:
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Apparently their own members voted against these policies, and are now urging people not to vote for their own party.
Local suffolk pals, there's screenings in Woodbridge, Framlingham and Beccles ⬇️
never been so happy for another country‘s election results!
voter turnout estimated at 79%!
the people of Hungary showed up!
For years, but especially in the last few months, I have been trying hard to imagine what it will feel like seeing Orban decisively defeated. I just couldn't. And yet here we are: it is truly and well over. I have more reservations about Peter Magyar than I could say in 300 characters or a thread...
“Ministers justified reducing support for people too disabled or ill to work by arguing it would remove the “perverse incentives” that discourage employment… as if a twentysomething bedbound with ME just needs “incentivising” to get back to the building site”
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Really wonderful news!
The pine marten was photographed completely by chance on a camera set up to monitor reintroduced water voles.
It's been 100 years since pine martens were last seen in Cornwall.
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I did this, you should too
Sewage dumped into England’s rivers and seas 291,492 times for 1.8m hours last year after.
Boosts company profits. Execs rewarded for destroying marine life, biodiversity and inflicting health hazards, dividends paid, customers fleeced.
Fines not paid or waived. Govts cling to privatisation.
The Operations Officer at Endometriosis UK is a man. Five of the seven trustees of the Endometriosis Foundation are men. No headlines about that
As a proposed oil & gas project looks set to drill directly through a chalk aquifer beneath the Yorkshire Wolds supplying drinking water to 900,000 people, @sonofedd.bsky.social asks:
Who is protecting our water sources?
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Deploring Israel's actions as a state isn't antisemitic. Attacking Jews and symbols of Jewish culture in supposed retaliation for Israel's actions is however *textbook* antisemitism and these are not complicated thoughts to simultaneously hold in one's head.
“The UK continues to serve as the launchpad for anti-trans pseudoscience worldwide,” @erininthemorning.com
The review behind NHS England’s decision to pause hormone prescriptions for teens is found to have excluded 97% of relevant studies 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/fears-nhs-ha...
Two chalk versions of my late cat The Bear, by my mum, Jo.
THREAD.
Packing up yesterday for my house move, I found this: it was my mum's first attempt at capturing my cat The Bear (RIP) via a quick chalk sketch. 2013, perhaps? So simple, but so great, and it proved to be the catalyst for what has been a huge amount of creativity in her retirement...