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Equal Treatment Bench Book says “It is rarely relevant to comment on an individual’s looks, or appearance” and “Fundamental principles of equality and acceptance of diversity demand that no prejudice or difference in treatment is accorded to a person due to their appearance”

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 7h

You're definitely making me hungry describing it at any rate, and I've only just had lunch!

One of the big things with broccoli for me is texture. It has to be neither too hard nor cooked into mushiness.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 8h

Oh well, back to blaming the fairies then.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 8h

Wow. Not sure how well a human in that boat would have survived!

Small Japanese Boat Found near Vancouver Island, Canada, Even as Summer Currents Hold Marine Debris at Bay for now | response.restoration.noaa.gov

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 9h

Please wax lyrical about why it was special!

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 9h

More hot vegetable takes please!

Dr Allison Andrews’ monster @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 9h

I can do those!

The best broccoli I ever had was in this one restaurant in San Diego, about 20 years ago. No other broccoli will ever live up to it!

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 9h

That’s quite a way to hope to go. (From administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/t...)

All these offences were committed on Diego Garcia, after he had arrived on 3 October 2021, his boat which hoped to reach Canada having ran into trouble and having been escorted by a Royal Navy Vessel to Diego Garcia.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 9h

I read that as “grocery shitposting” and am now expecting hot takes about broccoli

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 9h

As a DB sufferer/fan, I love these. Particularly episode 5 (because I can understand most of it!) where rather than admit the coffee machine is broken, the BordBistro guy comes up with reasons why each passenger shouldn’t have coffee (‘From a postcolonial perspective, coffee is problematic, nein?’).

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 11h

Fascinating: Germans love to complain about their trains never being on time. Deutsche Bahn plays for humor and sympathy by commissioning a YouTube sitcom (an Office on wheels).
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Boah, Bahn! - YouTube

BOAH, BAHN! Wir sitzen alle im selben Zug – eine Serie der Deutschen Bahn mit Anke Engelke.

www.youtube.com

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 9h

Left it resting on something at an angle so the bristles got pushed in? Or just did some very angry abrasive painting?!

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 9h

Yep, “bonking while trans” is always potentially criminal.

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Charlotte Cane MP 🔶 @charlotte-cane-mp.bsky.social · 29d

⚧️ As a Liberal Democrat, I stand with LGBTQ+ people and reject all discrimination. Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary people are valid.

I’m proud to sign Lisa Smart MP’s letter urging the Minister to ensure the EHRC's Code of Conduct is subject to full parliamentary scrutiny.

Letter by Lisa Smart MP for Hazel Grove to Bridget Philipson MP and Minister for Women and Equalities - about the EHRC Guidance and the Need for Parliamentary Scrutiny. It asks the Minister to commit to ensuring that the updated Guidance is subject to full parliamentary scrutiny once it is laid before the Government, including a full debate and a free vote.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 10h

This is terrifying. I hope she can be protected but fear deeply for her safety.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 12h

Behaviour of a totally upstanding civilised democratic state.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 13h

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 12h

When I read, it seems, I implicitly take on an emotional connection with the author. When I find there isn't one I feel deeply unsettled and cheated of that connection.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 12h

I read a beautiful uplifting bit of small fiction on Facebook. And then someone pointed out that it was generated by an LLM, and I felt cheated. It stopped being the kind thought of a human heart, the whimsy of observation and care, and became mere probabalistic word soup.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 15h

We need the Oxford English Dictionary on here to explain where the errant “primmer” pronunciation comes from.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 15h

Only in the sense of “more prim”

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 1d

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

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