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Covid Is Airborne
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[grizzled survivalist encountering a stranger twenty years from now in the post-apocalyptic future] is your brain pre or post ai
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Things like this are never about saving money and they often increase costs. They're about making sure that disabled people feel a suitable amount of shame.
Rachel Reeves has removed Audi, BMW, Mercedes from the motability scheme because disabled people aren’t allowed nice things ignoring the better resale values and the fact cars like the Audi A1 and BMW 1-series are hardly limos www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/con...
UK's Motability scheme no longer includes premium brands such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes | Autocar
Announcement comes just weeks after chancellor Rachel Reeves vowed to axe luxury models from the programme
www.autocar.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.

“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"

time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it."
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

It was years ago.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not in a hurtful way.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not with intent.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not genuine abuse.

😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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I’m getting to the point where my only reaction to headlines like this is “no they won’t”
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
They did the same thing for Covid. And it worked.
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.

Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.

Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Tech bros really can't understand why we're hostile to technology that a) is frequently confidently wrong and b) threatens to ruin our already terrible lives
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
On US TV shows and podcasts from 2009-18, Farage discussed supposed plots by bankers to create a global government, citing Goldman Sachs, the Bilderberg group and George Soros as threats to democracy. Included six guest slots with the disgraced far-right US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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That Guardian freebirthing article has sparked civil war in tradwife twitter. One of them is writing paragraphs about how she believes the FBS is a witchcraft cult designed to trick women into sacrificing their children.
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Never forget. Never never forget the scumbag buffoon who killed so many people and scarred the lives of so many more.
Let’s never forget rationing ventilators and Zoom funerals. Boris Johnson and his cronies partied while our loved ones lay dying alone. COVID-19 was the worst public health crisis in a century. We should have locked down earlier. To some of us, PPE was not a get-rich-quick commodity.
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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“He’ll be back to his normal self any day now,” Harrow explained. “He’s just been having a really tough eight months.”
Report: Autistic woman really just going to keep on dating the guy she wishes he was, huh
An autistic woman has made the bold decision to keep dating the impressive man she wishes he was, instead of the horrid little worm boy he actually is, it has been announced. Sarah Harrow, 27, first…
thedailytism.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This is precisely the point, BBC. Anyone challenging does not know whether they are challenging someone trans or cis "based on appearance". They just suspect. Based on what? Height? Shoe size? Grooming? Make-up? Clothes?

All women's rights put back decades, by a group of toxic, rich transphobes. 👏🏽
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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It's so cool that you can pay for a subscription service and then pay an additional fee to not watch ads and then still watch ads
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
One day we will think about the fact that we don't filter indoor air the same way we react to this.
What a weird society we were.
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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My main thing is that you can’t be coy here; once you’ve used the word “felching” you can’t say you’re too demure to publish RFK’s sexy texts, and you can’t passively refer to “journalistic transgressions” that remain unknown. I’m paying in cash and dignity to know about them.
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Please hear me when I say that

1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements

2) they pre-date the age of social media

3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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It really seems like the UK is in a real cultural death spiral where everyone has gone insane hating people different from them
22 Nov 2025 -- Leaked, unpublished guidance from U.K.’s Equality & Human Rights Comsn recommends policies excluding trans people from restrooms & single-sex spaces & encouraging others to question those in them suspected of being trans. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Trans people banned from single-sex spaces based on their appearances in leaked UK guidance - LGBTQ Nation
"This is a license to discriminate based on looks, plain and simple."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I'm one of the few people who ChatGPT has made *less* lazy because one of my most common writing tics has become one of the main AI "tells". So now if I want to think of a quick and easy way to move on I can't write "it's not just X, it's Y" bc I don't want to be called a clanker 😭
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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With alt text.
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM