“I want to be blunt. This is a dark pattern. It is also, in my professional opinion, a direct breach of Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC (the ePrivacy Directive) [3] as well as a multitude of computer access and misuse laws (usually criminal law)…” YIKES
15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas.
We are about to feel a very painful food shock.
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Can we just, like, spend some of the surplus on any of the many many many social things that need investment? I'd rather that than a few extra quid each month tbh.
100% this!
If this was being introduced as a time-limited measure (for, say, 5 years) while an actual solution was being put in place it would be one thing
I bet we're going to end up with people renting houses and their landlord putting a bedshed in the garden that they have no say in
When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.
Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.
Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
⚽ Les footballeuses françaises font pression pour une convention collective et un «meilleur traitement»
❌ Elles dénoncent un décalage avec leurs homologues qui n’est «plus acceptable».
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This, this....and this
If you're a cis person who thinks that Starmer and his government being appalling on trans human rights is a non-issue because 'nobody's perfect', rather than a telling insight into a fundamental lack of respect for basic human rights law, and a necessary warning for all people to heed...well.
political coalitions are funny ($$$) so the overlap of self-identified "china hawks" and "fossil fuel devotees" is pretty much perfect
“Even if the actual emissions from these power plants end up being half of the emissions numbers on the permits, they still could create more greenhouse gas emissions than the country of Norway emitted in 2024.”
Bernadette Devlin campaigning for election. She's a white woman sat on a fence and holding a poster reading "vote people's democracy - jobs for all - houses for all - votes for all".
#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory 🗃️
They would have gotten away with it if it had been an actual human.
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Why is the Northern Ireland Justice Minister still positing away on Twitter?
'One man asked Grok where she was walking so they could show up next year and rape her. The chatbot replied with a location and a possible date and time.'
I mean is there actually any evidence that appeasing Trump was part of the rationale for appointing Mandelson?
It’s everywhere in the press but it seems to me this was Peter’s demand for his services in destroying the Labour left.
Mr Kenny said the construction of 48 homes in Ballymun by the Ó Cualann Cohousing Alliance is the only social housing scheme within the Dublin City Council area that will be completed this year. 2018
Reminder: The Ó Cualann homes in Ballymun were built for €165k. So almost the same price as the Govt is giving to private developers in subsidies per home.
To paraphrase Emmet Kirwan, it isn’t lads in tracksuits robbing the country. It’s men in suits.
This makes no sense at all:
"While the dominance of the fiscal rules left them tied to pledges not to raise income tax or national insurance."
Nothing in the fiscal rules stops the government from putting up taxes!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We need to appeal to all the proud white Britons who want to protect women and children from brutal, primitive men, to keep their Union Jack-draped demos lawful as they protest this rape: yet another of the 74,000 at least committed by a white British man each year:
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Bookends for a low, dishonest decade here: from cranky auntie Margaret on ITV saying that getting a letter for publicly roaring abuse at her boss reminded her of her relatives under the Third Reich, to Margaret explaining that Jobs For The Lads are fine actually, for the correct type of Lads.
More on the funding crisis in H.E and some areas for instant cost cutting …. 🤯
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman
This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.
It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.
Fascinating on the ethics of historians using material collected by surveillance and ‘inauthentic actors.’
Little known fact: if nobody will pay £850,000 for your house, it's not worth £850,000.
The judge who refused Dr Beth Upton anonymity should never know another moments peace in their personal or professional life because that's exactly what they have unleashed on that poor woman whose only crime was being trans and existing
I'm guessing mandelson was the sort of guy who was at least politically savvy enough to tell you not to fire the one guy who has a detailed knowledge of all the ways you gamed the system for your mates and now has nothing left to lose by laying all that out
Area warlord fails to understand what the number one killer of soldiers has been in history
This isn't 4D chess, these people are venal and think you are stupid. To be honest, if you cannot see that this was an obvious quid pro quo situation wherein Mandy was given a plum job for services rendered, you are, in fact, a bit of a rube.
MIGA
A Palestinian flag
Tbf, the person running the stall is selling both Palestinian and MAGA merch so there’s no real ideology at play here aside from capitalism…
Three Irish flags on a stall.
An tricolour with “make Ireland great again” on it. Yours for only €5
Reverse angle of the stall. Tbf the merchant also has Palestinian flags for sale, so this isn’t ideological, unless you count capitalism as an ideology.
People claim that the abundance of flags at far right protests in Dublin is proof these protests are orchestrated and organised.
Or, and hear me out, what if someone has a stall on O’Connell Street and is selling Irish flags?
(Yuge Cut My Own Throat Dibbler energy from this canny entrepreneur)
Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov will have his book on Zionism and genocide translated into 9-10 languages, but not Hebrew. He even offered to translate it himself, but not a single Israeli publisher would go near it. Not even the ‘leftwing’ ones.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
The focus on the vetting process for Mandelson is astonishing. The vetting is a red herring. Everyone knew he was a wrong 'un. Nobody needed a vetting process to tell them the obvious, that appointing him to that role was totally inappropriate. Vetting isn’t a get out of jail free card for Starmer.