Laurie

Torrent instead

It's not hyperbole to say that trans people are facing a human rights crisis in the UK, and it's been entirely cultivated by the worst people including a large chunk of the Labour Party

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Striped by Vasily Kandinsky, 1934
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137488

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978 © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Bird on a Tree by Pablo Picasso, 1928
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137305

So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?

The variety of classes Americans can take is kind of amazing

It's always the ones you most suspect

Crown Estate’s ‘monopoly profiteering’ hampering offshore wind and pushing up bills - Greenpeace - Greenpeace UK Greenpeace UK has warned the Crown Estate that it is considering taking legal action unless the public body stops “monopoly profiteering” at the expense of bill payers and offshore wind developers. Th...

King Charles’ official income “will jump from £86.3 million in 2024 to £132.1 million in 2025/6, almost exclusively because of the profits derived from offshore wind.”

www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/crown-e...

Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in

Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files

more to follow

www.ft.com/content/c950...

Insane reasoning here: 'I realised that if [Christianity is] supernaturally true, you would expect it to be sociologically true. And observing quite how sociologically true it is was very persuasive to me.” '

Borgen series 5 is getting out of control

Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.

I get up when I want
except on Wednesdays
when I get rudely awakened
by the phytoplankton

#今年も残りわずかなので今年一番伸びた絵を貼る

There was a drunk lassie in the chippy earlier crying about Maduro and as she left she said "I can't believe they've done this he was only inaugurated the other day" and I can only conclude that she has Maduro confused with Mamdani???? Fuckin hell hen.

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

In 2024, sewage was pumped into Britain's rivers for a record 3.6 million hours, making it one of the most popular outdoor activities in the UK.

Medieval peasant stereotype: Oh no, I haven't bathed in a year and do whatever the priest says.

Actual medieval peasants: The abbot tried to take our land so we sacked the monastery in a carefully-planned attack. Our commune's dividing up the spoils. I bathed this morning in the village bathhouse.

They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it.

Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.

When I was 4 or 5, I developed a serious fear of Santa and banned him from our house. My parents were like "That's ok. We talked to Santa and he doesn't want to upset you. Is it all right if Papa Smurf brings the presents instead?" And so I left cookies out for special Santa helper Papa Smurf.

Principled reasons to cut the number of jury trials | Letters Letters: Retired judge Michael Harris says we should not reject reform, we should refine it. Christian Mole says the system is blighted by inefficiency

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Heartwarming stories for your TL today ✨️

The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).

Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.

I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)

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That's reassuring!

When I started uni 15 years ago I thought the students lack of interest and engagement made seminars fairly painful. So, if things are even worse now that's pretty bleak.

what are the legal implications of throwing these into a ditch