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goodlawproject.org
We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".

But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Oct 27
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
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‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe
YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK
goodlaw.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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elric-mtl.bsky.social
Next level rice cooker.
August 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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socalleslie.bsky.social
I took this shot several years ago of stunt pilots who practice over the beach. The crow on the left perfectly photobombed the shot as he flew toward my deck for peanuts. Yes I’m serious. 🤣🪶
Crow and 5 stunt pilots
July 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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drdeanburnett.bsky.social
Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)

theneuroscienceofeve...

The idea that the neurodiversity is a 'recent development' and hasn't been shaping all of human society forever is as wrong as it is unhelpful

My latest post explains

#ND #Autism #ADHD
Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)
Many believe neurodivergence (autism, ADHD etc.) is 'new'. But it's been around and has shaped society for as long as humans have existed. We just didn't recognise it for what it was.
theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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garius.bsky.social
The latest in my history of home computers is live. Covers the era of Commodore, Atari and Jack Tramiel.

He was a brutal manager. But also an Auschwitz survivor, and that shaped him, and his legit drive to build a better world.

This warning from him hit home, right now.

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One day in 1982, Michael Tomczyk, who had led the project to develop the Commodore 64, found himself sitting in Jack Tramiel’s office. Tomcyzk had just returned from a trade show in Hanover, Germany. During the course of their conversation, Tomczyk mentioned how impressed he’d been with the Autobahn highway network on the way there. "I built that road," Tramiel told him matter-of-factly. “Jack went on to explain that during World War II as a teenager he had been selected to work on the road gangs,” Tomczyk remembered. “He said that it was one way to survive, because they had to feed the people that did that kind of hard labor, or they wouldn't work. ‘We built good roads,’ he said.” Tramiel had never hidden the horrors in his past. He was proud that he had helped build a better future through Commodore and Atari. However, the longer he lived, the more concerned he became that people would forget what that future had cost. And that which is forgotten can be repeated. "You know," Tramiel said once, "it's hard to believe it really happened. But it can happen again. In America. Americans like to make rules, and that scares me. If you have too many rules you get locked in a system. It's the system that says this one dies and that one doesn't, not the people. That's why I don't hate the German people. Individuals, yes. Rules, yes. But not all Germans.
March 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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andydiggle.bsky.social
John Wagner, one of my all-time writing heroes, is serialising his autobiography online.

For the full Wagner effect, imagine the text being growled out loud by The Hound from Game of Thrones.

johnwagner.co.uk/a-life-in-co...
January 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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gshowitt.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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happytoast.co.uk
Let's keep the joy going, I've got another 6x8 print sat here, just Follow, Like and Repost to be in with a chance of winning Pat Butcher from Ghosts. The lucky so-and-so will be chosen Monday morning.
Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!
November 8, 2024 at 9:55 AM