Collage of photos of the bands Gwenno, Sean Shibe, Brian Eno, Anna Meredith, Clark
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Gwenno (15) Sean Shibe (15) Brian Eno (12) Anna Meredith (4) Clark (2). #myweekcounted 67 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed.
But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.
One Year On From Trans Exclusion... 100,000 Women Say 'Not In Our Name' Graphic of multicoloured women with rainbow.
One year on from trans exclusion: Over 100,000 Women Say ‘Not In Our Name’ 🎉
As NION Women’s letter in support of the trans community surpasses 100,000 signatures on this notable day, we look at how far we have come...
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And it doesn't even protect children.
Dear @labourpartyuk.bsky.social you may wish to fix this.
Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor.
The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.
For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.
Once again, I am holding a FREE event to help publishers leave Substack this Thursday.
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Many people are saying that JD is quite ignorant about the history of religion in Europe and the Middle East but that overlooks his expertise on the ottomans.
People ask me all the time for my favorite Onion headline, and there are like 200 of them, but my favorite recent print headline is easily this:
allbirdsgpt: you're abshoelutely correct
Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”
Screenshot of text from a Google email saying "Google systems confirm that on April 12, 2026 we started collecting Google Search impressions for your website in Search Console. This means that pages from your website are now appearing in Google search results for some queries. Here’s how you can monitor your site’s Search performance using Search Console."
Anyone else getting emails from Google Search Console as if their properties have only just been setup?
For me, different Google accounts and for different domains (work and personal) that read as if they've only just been setup, when they've actually been active for years #SEO #GSC
and here it is! english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-...
I use forrin characters to help strengthen my passwords, so this is a worrying move from Apple
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“I have invited Evil-Lynn to join us this evening, Adora”, Prince Adam announced confidently as he watched his bound prey squirm helplessly in her restraints.
“Mmph!” Princess Adora exclaimed behind her duct tape muzzle as Adam selected an instrument of impact.
“You’ve been a bad girl” Adam smiled
Collage of photos of the bands Anton Batagov, Hannah Peel, Bradley Lubman & Ensemble Modern, The Durutti Column, The Sixteen & Harry Christophers
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Anton Batagov (21) Hannah Peel (16) Bradley Lubman & Ensemble Modern (14) The Durutti Column (12) The Sixteen & Harry Christophers (10). #myweekcounted 184 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
yes, I guess the hand-me-down is an option. Given the other fabulism, a minor thing to quibble! :D
oh my god this is the SECOND time in the last month that somebody took a shitload of money from the UK government to build data centers, which it claims are operational, but are actually empty warehouses
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Screenshot from the story saying: "I didn't have a mum or a dad, but I did have a Commodore 64," Chris Kenna told his audience as he wove an inspirational story about growing up in care and teaching himself to code on one of the first mass-market personal computers.
the opening line in the story seems off - would someone born in 1982 be using a C64? That's more my generation, which is 10 years older? Also "in care" - unless with generous fosterers, unlikely a care home would have a computer?
#OpenAI is impacted by #Axios supply chain breach, its MacOS desktop apps #ChatGPT and #Codex are affected and new updated versions issued:
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In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.
the chutzpah of calling a magazine ‘Queer Majority’…
“How a sapper sometimes feels”
