Calum Brough
@calumbroughingham.bsky.social
(He/Him) Dilletante and biology enthusiast. I do bits and bobs of writing and editing and some autism advocacy. Fairly Gay.
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Nothing to see here, just @thetimes.com having to apologise for calling an anti-trans group anti-trans.
The British media's complicity in instigating and prolonging moral panics targeting vulnerable minorities will be studied for years to come.
The British media's complicity in instigating and prolonging moral panics targeting vulnerable minorities will be studied for years to come.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Nothing to see here, just @thetimes.com having to apologise for calling an anti-trans group anti-trans.
The British media's complicity in instigating and prolonging moral panics targeting vulnerable minorities will be studied for years to come.
The British media's complicity in instigating and prolonging moral panics targeting vulnerable minorities will be studied for years to come.
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I hadn't quite appreciated that every senior researcher involved in the NHS puberty blocker trial has direct ties to SEGM, a designated hate group. We have an anti-Trans, USA hard right backed group pulling the strings behind the UK NHS puberty blocker trial. It is rotten to its core. Zero Trust.
The puberty blocker trial is about to start according to the BBC, led by Dr Emily Simonoff. The same Dr who spoke at a symposium organised by Segm, a group designated an anti trans hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre /1
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C3-Konferenzzeitplan – 21st international Congress of the ESCAP 2025
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November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I hadn't quite appreciated that every senior researcher involved in the NHS puberty blocker trial has direct ties to SEGM, a designated hate group. We have an anti-Trans, USA hard right backed group pulling the strings behind the UK NHS puberty blocker trial. It is rotten to its core. Zero Trust.
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Kevin Sorbo was in his 30s and in peak physical condition (he was currently playing Hercules), and he had three strokes after he had his neck cracked by his chiropractor.
AARRGH. CHIROPRACTIC IS NOT MEDICINE, IT’S DANGEROUS BULLSHIT CREATED BY A FUCKING GROCER WHO THOUGHT HE COULD HEAL WITH MAGNETS. WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA
Oh good, they left Chiropractors as professionals but not Nurses, NPs, PA’s or physical therapists
That’s infuriating
That’s infuriating
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Kevin Sorbo was in his 30s and in peak physical condition (he was currently playing Hercules), and he had three strokes after he had his neck cracked by his chiropractor.
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What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
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It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
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The Simpsons: Fortnite (2025)
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Simpsons: Fortnite (2025)
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"You have to give up YouTube and Netflix to save the planet" isn't rooted in any evidence or climate science, it's basically rooted in Puritanism and the belief that "eating bitterness" is mandatory...
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"You have to give up YouTube and Netflix to save the planet" isn't rooted in any evidence or climate science, it's basically rooted in Puritanism and the belief that "eating bitterness" is mandatory...
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This is even funnier than it just being Streeting on manoeuvres.
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This is even funnier than it just being Streeting on manoeuvres.
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Have you seen nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyrann... ?
It's much more explanatory of how we got here than the "enshittification" cycle or malice, in my opinion.
It's much more explanatory of how we got here than the "enshittification" cycle or malice, in my opinion.
The Tyranny of the Marginal User
why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
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November 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Have you seen nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyrann... ?
It's much more explanatory of how we got here than the "enshittification" cycle or malice, in my opinion.
It's much more explanatory of how we got here than the "enshittification" cycle or malice, in my opinion.
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TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit
August 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit
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“I eat when I’m hungry,” Aldrich explained while consuming her 10am lunch. “And I sleep when I’m tired. Speaking of which, it’s nearly time for my afternoon nap.”
Your bedtime reading sorted over on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/141561...
Your bedtime reading sorted over on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/141561...
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“I eat when I’m hungry,” Aldrich explained while consuming her 10am lunch. “And I sleep when I’m tired. Speaking of which, it’s nearly time for my afternoon nap.”
Your bedtime reading sorted over on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/141561...
Your bedtime reading sorted over on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/141561...
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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So, I get several scam emails like this a day, but there's something special about a man wanting to write articles about casinos and sports betting whose fake name is Robert Poverty.
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
So, I get several scam emails like this a day, but there's something special about a man wanting to write articles about casinos and sports betting whose fake name is Robert Poverty.
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Devastated to see Mamdani plummet to victory with a result that shows his critics were right all along. Now is the time for the left to move towards the centre. It's time to reach across the aisle, to swing your partner, do-si-do and really lay into trans people for no reason.
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Devastated to see Mamdani plummet to victory with a result that shows his critics were right all along. Now is the time for the left to move towards the centre. It's time to reach across the aisle, to swing your partner, do-si-do and really lay into trans people for no reason.
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“The cats kept multiplying and escaping their carriers. One peed on the controls of the spaceship, causing us to crash land on a planet entirely inhabited by giant pirate mice, which made me miss my algebra test.”
Read the full very silly article on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/141561...
Read the full very silly article on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/141561...
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“The cats kept multiplying and escaping their carriers. One peed on the controls of the spaceship, causing us to crash land on a planet entirely inhabited by giant pirate mice, which made me miss my algebra test.”
Read the full very silly article on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/141561...
Read the full very silly article on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/141561...
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our best bet at eradicating malaria is through genetically engineering mosquitos so they cannot get malaria.
our best bet at feeding the world is through GMO crops that yield massively more and more nutritious food.
if you're against GMOs you're pro people in poor countries starving to death.
our best bet at feeding the world is through GMO crops that yield massively more and more nutritious food.
if you're against GMOs you're pro people in poor countries starving to death.
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
our best bet at eradicating malaria is through genetically engineering mosquitos so they cannot get malaria.
our best bet at feeding the world is through GMO crops that yield massively more and more nutritious food.
if you're against GMOs you're pro people in poor countries starving to death.
our best bet at feeding the world is through GMO crops that yield massively more and more nutritious food.
if you're against GMOs you're pro people in poor countries starving to death.
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Throughout November, Disney Prime is partnering with the USDA to bring awareness to nutrition piracy. We are offering a 10% discount on your monthly subscription when you visit tinyurl.com/yc2vbzsb /form?vsid=DontSNAP and pledge that when you *see* something, you'll *say* something. #DisneyCares
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Throughout November, Disney Prime is partnering with the USDA to bring awareness to nutrition piracy. We are offering a 10% discount on your monthly subscription when you visit tinyurl.com/yc2vbzsb /form?vsid=DontSNAP and pledge that when you *see* something, you'll *say* something. #DisneyCares
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Finding Masculine Halloween Costumes For Your Effeminate Son
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Finding Masculine Halloween Costumes For Your Effeminate Son
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Christine Smout, 24, reportedly felt her blood run cold and saw the colour drain from her face in her reflection as she contemplated the prospect of continuing the course of driving lessons she began of her own free will, and actually pays money for.
AuDHD woman’s driving lesson looming on horizon like macabre spectre of death
An AuDHD woman was forced to reckon with the transience of existence this morning when she remembered halfway through brushing her teeth that she has a driving lesson in three days, it has been…
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November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Christine Smout, 24, reportedly felt her blood run cold and saw the colour drain from her face in her reflection as she contemplated the prospect of continuing the course of driving lessons she began of her own free will, and actually pays money for.
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Creepy Elf Dolls That Look Like Wallace Shawn and/or Alan Cumming (Series, 1995 - )
November 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Creepy Elf Dolls That Look Like Wallace Shawn and/or Alan Cumming (Series, 1995 - )
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Introducing the incomparable @smolrobots.bsky.social
This is, in every possible sense, me.
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AuDHD woman’s driving lesson looming on horizon like macabre spectre of death
An AuDHD woman was forced to reckon with the transience of existence this morning when she remembered halfway through brushing her teeth that she has a driving lesson in three days, it has been rumour...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Introducing the incomparable @smolrobots.bsky.social
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A charity is gaining momentum pushing for state-subsidised diners to be reintroduced across the UK to improve access to affordable, healthy, and climate-friendly food.
Not everyone is convinced, however, that there's a chance in the current political climate.
My latest for Sower ⬇️
Not everyone is convinced, however, that there's a chance in the current political climate.
My latest for Sower ⬇️
What if dinner was public infrastructure?
A Scottish charity wants to reintroduce state-subsidised diners for all—potentially a big ask in the current political climate.
www.sower.world
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A charity is gaining momentum pushing for state-subsidised diners to be reintroduced across the UK to improve access to affordable, healthy, and climate-friendly food.
Not everyone is convinced, however, that there's a chance in the current political climate.
My latest for Sower ⬇️
Not everyone is convinced, however, that there's a chance in the current political climate.
My latest for Sower ⬇️
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