Banham Zoo residents undergo CT scanner health checks A big cat named Mishka and a particularly lethargic sloth are among the zoo residents to be scanned.

I hope whoever wrote this headline (click to see) took the rest of the week off www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

choir director: sing the song , ladies

the camptown ladies: doo dah, doo dah

choir director: what

Just told someone a 3 hour window for when they could be in touch wouldn’t work for me and they’d need to give me an exact time, AND THEY DID.

Holy shit I had no idea you were allowed to do this before

Dr Upton was indeed cleared. 17 years ago Navratilova fought former partner Toni Layton’s claim for alimony by trying to use the non recognition of their relationship as a marriage to avoid payment. She wound up paying ~$3m out of court.

Only one predator here. www.louisbayard.com/blog/crying-...

This epitaph goes hard.

martina navratilova spending her entire post retirement existence carrying water for ppl who would happily jail her as a degenerate is a classic example of why you never need to know what an athlete thinks about anything except that exact sport

It’s horrible, yes, but it’s also kind of funny that all of these people are too afraid of Trump to say in public that he lost that election. Every Democrat should ask each one the same question just to emphasize what craven buffoons they are.

I feel like this article needs the angry goose meme on it asking exactly *who* cost the taxpayers £400,000 because it sure as hell wasn’t Beth Upton

this is an incredible line to close on

This is a good idea. I already cancelled my direct debit a while ago so they probably don’t care much, but I’m going to let them know that I’ll be pushing other people to cancel theirs too.

Write to Stonewall.

• Tell them you supported them in the past.

• Tell them why you won’t be supporting transphobia.

Cut direct debts.

Don’t by the merch.

Tell your direct contacts.

this was a fun moment wasn't it, complete weakness from the New Labour establishment despite a huge parliamentary majority, setting themselves up to be outclassed by David fucking Cameron 10 years later

Oh I hope she falls down a well and even Lassie ignores her cries for help

Like Kathleen Stock is a truly terrible human who contributes nothing of value to this earth, but the fact that she was late to coming out is not the problem and I think we should be careful about that kind of attitude in general

I’ve seen a fair bit of “Kathleen Stock should shut up because she was married to a man when we were fighting for our rights”, and really that’s not even in the top 50 of things wrong with Kathleen Stock appointing herself spokeswoman for the gays

An article in the Times today by Kathleen Stock in which she claims, incorrectly, that ‘when the gay rights cause first got going, the ideal was toleration’.

To correct the record:
The gay rights movement I was a part of in the 1980s and 90s was not aiming for ‘toleration’.
Mere acceptance was not enough.
How would that help the isolated queer kid?
No. We wanted that child to know they would be loved and celebrated just as they were.

Look up Caroline Farrow, a Catholic activist. Her opposition to gay rights is to extreme that she had a problem with a same-sex penguin couple at a zoo. And, again, you can find Rowling tweeting "Big Love To You XXX" at Caroline Farrow five years ago.

This isn't difficult stuff to grasp. Rowling is best friends with Emma Nicholson, and she started her Lumos charity with her. Look up "Baroness" Emma Nicholson's history on gay rights. She was protested on her own lawn by a lesbian activist group, and is still against marriage equality today.

curious that the transphobes’ righteous anger at “institutional capture” has dissolved now that they’re the ones capturing the institutions

What good would it have done if the civil servants hadn't "hidden" the vetting failure? Would the outcome differ?

Phillipson appointed Mary-Ann Stephenson as EHRC chair *despite* not one but two select committes warning her not to!

This government installs all the wrong people because it wants to.

Not just today.

Hotel rioters "care about women and girls"
Flag raisers "care about the community"
Reform "just care about illegal immigration"
Musk "cares about free speech"
Rowling "cares about equality and women"

Etc etc

They're lying, but somehow it's not ok to call them on it.

Pickleball is an op. Young black people have been getting too good at tennis so the powers that be are punishing them by taking public tennis courts and turning them into a game so lame only old white people would play it publicly

😬

It’s on iPlayer - there’s a link in the thread if you want to check.

Any day now

say cheese!

The BBC using a political party branding, during local election campaigning, is grossly irresponsible and about as damnit biased as you can get.

This is way funnier than it should be 🤣🤣🤣

I just had this problem on Desktop just now