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For gods sake this rain is bloody miserable

UK weather: Parts of UK could hit 30C but more rain to come

UK weather: Parts of UK could hit 30C but more rain to comewww.bbc.com Summer will make a brief return to England on Friday before more showers roll in across the UK.

Sort the cost of living crisis out then. Most people who steal these items are desperate or have starving kids etc.

Shoplifting crackdown expected in King's Speech

Shoplifting crackdown expected in King's Speechwww.bbc.com Measures to target "low-value" shoplifting and the abuse of shop workers are due to be announced in the King's Speech.

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I just got promoted to Professor! Professor of International Political Theory!!! *pinches self* Yup, I’m awake Considering my starting point, this is nuts. And without the timely intervention of four people (1998-), to whom I will be eternally grateful, this would have been impossible. x 🥳😅🖖🏻🙏🏻 ♥️

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📢EXCELLENT RESOURCE KLAXON📢 warwick.ac.uk/cwad V. Hitchman & teams' #EarlyModern parish data inc. 🗃️ 1) Spreadsheet listing ALL parishes in England and Wales, with maps showing them 2) individual spreadsheets for all counties, showing survival/finding info for churchwarden accounts

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very glad to see lots of UK academics and UCU members calling out the Cass Report for what it is. Also immensely grateful to UCU NEC for backing the motion criticising it so overwhelmingly.

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I've emailed my Labour MP to ask him to oppose Wes Streeting's attempt to continue the Tories' ban on puberty blocking medication for trans young people. If you have a Labour MP, you should too. www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/12/w...

Omg this

One tidbit I particularly liked was someone saying something to the effect of "yes absolutely" to a trans person asking if people think that trans people and allies should disengage from academia next and look, it is your prerogative, but that's dumb. That's just real dumb

Lovely news for @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social project board member Elaine Hobby!

Aphra Behn first edition novel found on home bookshelf

Aphra Behn first edition novel found on home bookshelfwww.bbc.com Just 13 first editions of Oroonoko were known to exist before the discovery.

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Nick Hillman coming out against a market in HE ushered into existence and repeatedly defended by Nick Hillman.

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The scariest thing about the puberty blockers ban court case is how it lays bare the premise of the Cass review and the government’s interpretation of it as seeing a child going on to be trans in adulthood as an undesirable outcome classified as a Risk

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There are much more important reasons to hate Wes Streeting, but I do resent that he's brought the younger David Cameron's "I've slightly over-inflated this shiny balloon man" look back to our screens

The other place is just as bad. Like when I was told I should stop taking meds that keep me well because other people have had a hard time on them.

I truly believe that one day we as a website will make it out of the darkness of weird arbitrary "complicity" moralism and into the sunny daylight in between "the thing you do is connected to something/someone bad" and "the thing you do itself is a bad thing"

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Looked through who Karin Smyth MP follows on Twitter and its (1) other MPs and (2) single-issue anti-trans accounts. Fuck Labour

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Yale Law School and Yale School of Medicine's recent report challenges the UK’s Cass Review on gender-affirming care, accusing it of misrepresenting data and drawing unsupported conclusions. www.transvitae.com/y... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Yale Exposes Errors in UK Transgender Youth Cass Reportwww.transvitae.com Yale's new report criticizes the UK’s Cass Review on gender-affirming care, highlighting misrepresentations affecting transgender youth healthcare policies.

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Oh, I see there's another post of an American declaring "EUROPEANS DON'T HAVE THESE THINGS" and it's a list of extremely commonplace things that, and I can't emphasise this enough, Europeans also have.

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Not here for ‘it’s too late to save UK unis’ posting from profs. I don’t have the choice of indulging doom - need to crack on.

OMG SAME

Runs past our flat of 14 years too 😁 Every time I hear a football commentator indicate Jude getting the ball by saying "Bellingham", my brain immediately appends "Catford Bus Garage" 🤪

Not here for ‘it’s too late to save UK unis’ posting from profs. I don’t have the choice of indulging doom - need to crack on.

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England fans surround 'Bellingham bus'

England fans surround 'Bellingham bus'www.bbc.com Fans piled on the vehicle, dancing and singing in celebration as it moved through Shoreditch High Street, London.

counting down the days until my uni renames their "project 2026" initiative on the grounds of bad vibes

Ten things I’m into - staffordshire bull terriers - free hotel biscuits - north pembrokeshire - tom hardy - spreadsheets - caffeine - employment stability - lists of information eg domesday - album lore and recording techniques - feasting on the ground up bones of my enemies

Get to know your mutuals! Ten things I am into: The new wave of space opera Competitive craft shows Dark high ABV beers TTRPGs Libraries Niche and local museums Friendly Cats Out and About Heraldry Clavichord Radio comedy

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Anyway, the Yale report, along with the numerous other critiques of the Cass report, illustrate how it *had to be* deeply flawed in order to align with the state’s anti-trans dogma. This wasn’t a mistake: it made a mockery of science in order to harm trans kids law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...

Report Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Carelaw.yale.edu A new report from The Integrity Project provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review that has become central to U.S. litigation regarding health care for transgender youth.

Everybody knows Cass got a peerage because her report fit exactly what the government wanted; had her report aligned with the medical consensus and indicated any respect for trans children it’s 100% certain she wouldn’t have received it. Quid pro quo.

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Don't replace him. Abolish the office, which has been primarily a policing and political influence operation since it was founded. Position government as a genuine partner of universities. Stop the vandalism. Democratise universities. feweek.co.uk/ofs-chair-lo...

OfS chair Lord Wharton suddenly resignsfeweek.co.uk The political independence of the HE regulator has been criticised under Wharton's tenure

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What a time to be alive

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Now Farage has spoken as an MP for the first time, can we please have something approximating scrutiny of him from at least the lobby? Time to stop acting like he’s a lovable eccentric and start treating him as someone on the public payroll, who has to adhere to standards he does not share. Thanks.

Plus an unexpectedly gutsy decision to have the rich awful land exploiters kinda coded as a Plaid MP + family. Crachach (look it up) not Anglo-colonisers

If Henry was from Pembrokeshire and had spent any time there as a resident he’d know this before becoming an MP 🤷‍♀️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trains to Pembrokeshire are rubbish, new MP says - BBC Newswww.bbc.co.uk Henry Tufnell complains about the lack of trains between Pembrokeshire and London.

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Possibly my biggest takeaway from Leeds IMC this year is how much Bernhard Bischoff resembled Kenneth Williams.

‘Nobody knows what to do about it’ I’ve got some ideas

“The environmental impacts (of AI) have so far received less attention. A single query to an AI-powered chatbot can use up to ten times as much energy as an old-fashioned Google search.” theconversation.com/power-hungry...

Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about ittheconversation.com Google, Microsoft and Meta have all reported significant emissions increases due to AI.