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The BBC is nakedly peddling fake news - and refusing to apologise for doing so - in furtherance of its transphobic agenda. 🧵
Further dishonesty from the BBC in, again, dogmatically refusing to accept that Laura Kuenssberg spread harmful misinformation about trans people on her flagship politics programme.
New post on my re-titled, new-domained personal blog - explaining how these two paintings influence my blogging - and what I have recently realised about the relationship between the two paintings.
theemptycity.com/blog/2026/03...
Like Trump, Nigel Farage has a track record of trying to undermine election results
leftfootforward.org/2026/03/hann...
People sat in rows a committee hearing - all smartly dressed
Here is my run-down of today's Science and Technology Committee hearing (House of Lords) where "considerable disquiet in the science community" was raised with Sir Patrick Vallance. Really great to see the public gallery packed with physicists!
Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.
Hey. Hey.
What's the difference between Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter?
One of the authors is entirely consumed by rot, and the other has been dead since 1973.
*rising from the grave* Hello! We return with a new season. It's high fantasy, high fun and high felt. Folks, it's time to hit the music. It's time to dim the lights. It's time to meet the cast when we head to The Land Of Erm as we play @landofeem.bsky.social
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Accessibly explore the dramatic High Force waterfall with a Tramper.
Book your Tramper adventure: bit.ly/North_Pennines_Mobility
#NorthPenninesNationalLandscape #accessibility #accessibleroutes #Tramper #highforcewaterfall #outdoormobility
Bowlees Visitor Centre & café re-open on Saturday 21 February to 1 March, 10am to 4pm.
Explore the site around Bowlees as part of your visit. There’s lots to do around the centre and it is a great place to start your visit to the North Pennines.
#northpennines #Bowlees #walking #familyoutings
Bird feeder covered in nuts and seeds and hanging from green string in a garden.
We have #familyfun resources on our website so you can enjoy #nature whether you are out and about or at home.🐦 Enjoy making a pinecone bird feeder this #halfterm and have a go at identifying birds that come to feed on it in your garden.
Find out how to make it here: buff.ly/2agPBUK
#thingstodo
Hay meadow in the North Pennines National Landscape. Trees and building in the background.
Hay meadow in the North Pennines National Landscape with pink and yellow flowers. Trees and fells in the background.
🏵️Today is #WorldWildlifeDay🏵️This year the theme is: medicinal and aromatic plants. These plants are essential for human health, well-being and ecological balance. Through our #TeesSwale : naturally connected programme we have been improving the biodiversity of our hay meadows.
When we judge young people by how they look, we miss who they really are. Let’s challenge the stereotypes that harm and build empathy instead.
#WeAreSophie #AllDifferentAllBelong
BBC Radio 4’s The Long View - Cottingley Fairies mentioned! 🧚 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… #CottingleyTruther #FrancesWasRight #TheFifthPhotoIsReal https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s4cv
A tiny red female Hazel flower (Corylus avellana) above the hanging panicles of male catkins
Gorgeous view of a calm harbour and blue sky through the window of a café.
At last, and in a fine celebration of meteorological spring - female Hazel flowers emerging on Isle of Mull, Western Scotland. And a gorgeous day for it!
It's here:
Kaitlyn Facista's 'Into the Heart of Middle-earth'. Cue ominous fateful soundtrack...
Actually, I'm delighted it's turned up on a chilly but sunny spring morning, with birds chirping outside my window and daffodils nodding in the garden. Let the journey begin!
We have filed supplemental evidence to GANHRI on the EHRC. Raising concerns about health impacts, lack of EIAs, no trans stakeholder engagement and opaque AI use in the 50k+ consultation. A rights regulator should not be a risk to the people it exists to protect.
tacc.org.uk/2026/03/02/e...
Vintage portrait of a womanin sepia tones, featuring a close-up of a person looking directly at the viewer, with a signature at the bottom.
3 March 1923 | A Czech Jewish woman, Renata Stránská, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 October 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
Today, Angela Rayner put the fight for commonhold as "vested interests vs people being shafted."
She's right.
It's time to mandate commonhold, end leasehold creation for new builds, and give existing leaseholders conversion rights.
Trans kids under age 10 - the NHS's project R22:
New blog examining the NHS's latest pilot project on younger trans children: growinguptransgender.com/2026/03/02/t...
Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns
Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns https://theonion.com/experts-point-to-long-glorious-history-of-successful-u-1819575498/
Thread of all the indie demos I've streamed over on Twitch in the past week 💖 These are going to be short posts for each but please let me know if you want more details on any of them and I WILL include Steam links for you to wishlist or check out the demos for yourselves.
#IndieGames
The accent has been distracting for some because it sounds different to modern Mancunians.
If you ever wondered what cutting your nose off to spite your face means, it is this bit.ly/4rFjPxa cutting the turnover of your small business to avoid registering for VAT, which anyone with a spreadsheet can sort out in half a day every three months
Text on an academic article about "Moving Things: Moving Cartloads of Treasures from Venice to Ethiopia, ca. 1400" pasted into Grammarly in a Browser. It offers to invoke the digital ghosts of David Abulafia, Barry Flood and Chris Wickham to give me "expert feedback".
Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT?
As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc.
It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece???
What?
"The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are."
Karl Kraus
I also walked past Mere Knolls Cemetery which was created in mid 19th century due to Sunderland cemeteries being full due to a major cholera outbreak - a cholera outbreak which I remember writing about when at school many years ago.
