Mike Clift

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IPSO exists so the press can say it’s regulated. It isn’t. Jason Arday who was obscure outside academia, publicly flagged as vulnerable he was hounded for a fortnight and is now dead. Good Law Project are demanding a public inquiry: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

I once trolled Mumsnet with "my 5 year old won't drink coffee unless I put 4 or 5 sugars in it, is this normal?" If you were one of the outraged mums rushing to defend my kids from caffeine - I'm not in the least sorry. It was glorious.

Someone’s left Cambridge Labour a wee message. thisisnotadrill.info/anti-segrega...

Love to get romantic texts from my beloved while they’re at work:

Years ago I gave a badly behaved student a C instead of an F in return for him egging my cheating ex's house and car. Weirdly he was then really well behaved in all my classes after that. Probably realised I'm a bit mental.

Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16

Egon Schiele (1907)

Is there something in the company values at JD Sports requiring at least three members of staff to be on the phone looking confused at all times?

I’m really enjoying Strange Antiquities (on Steam and, I believe, the Switch), but whenever I try to describe it to someone it falls flat: you play a shopkeeper where you don’t know what you’re selling, your customers can’t describe what they want, but… um… there’s a cat? And it rains a lot? 9/10

Emo lad I dated cancelled date saying his bat died. He was ultra goth so sounded plausible. On next meet said sorry about the dead bat & he said "no I meant my battery "

Lol, orbital DOOM: www.tomshardware.com/video-games/... Cc: @foone.bsky.social, @aelkus.bsky.social

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I think I would support the creation of a government special funding allocation to send a copy of The Economist this week to every household in Britain.

In an early sysadmin role, I'd been asked to make a large change. No-one had told me to use tabs instead of spaces. One quick regexp managed to break the DNS for several million computers. It was fixed within half an hour but that showed me the power of regular expressions.

In her lunch with the FT the OnlyFans CEO says her company pays more tax than the entire British fishing industry. Quite a stat.

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

Look what we have here then.

The Railway Children (1970) looks like a folk horror. So I added some sound effects to the trailer and terrified @eleanormorton.bsky.social. Check out the latest episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That for more. linktr.ee/readthat

A gentle reminder that @GoodLawProject is worth supporting for causes like this one: goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

presented without comment: ★ the floppy disk alignment chart ★

When I was about 16 or so I went to a comedy hypnotism show and got up to be a volunteer. I don't think I was hypnotised. I danced like a ballerina & did the stuff he said, I'd been hiding my extroverted side my whole life. I decided not to hide anymore

the ending of this explainer might surprise you

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If you haven’t heard of the Rubin Observatory, it’s a 3200-megapixel camera taking a ten-year timelapse of the night sky from a mountain in Chile in unprecedented detail. You can explore its view of the cosmos in a browser, too. skyviewer.app

Still true: *Britain is a success story *Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well *Multiculturalism is popular *Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration *Nostalgia is increasingly weird *Britain is incredibly safe *Levels of social cohesion are high Don't let them gaslight you.

Agreed. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

This looks like the most unsurprising chart I've ever seen, but if you only read British media you'd lose your mind learning that this is the reality of it

Incredible. Follow the whole thread down.

Archaeologist and (out of practice) human remains specialist here. No, they did not.

It's the content you didn't know you needed: the A - Z of National Trust bums. From Apollo's muscular behind to a porcelain figure of Zeus's derriere, we hope you enjoy 🍑

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

Again, if your political compass is chasing what the polls say people want, you should not be in politics.

Just before I wee, I always have to pause to check I'm not asleep.

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

I don’t normally post about charitable campaigns, but trans people have a hard enough time as it is without also being thrown under the bus by the British state. We need to do better.

Voters were wrong about Section 28. A majority backed it. Politicians pandered. LGBTQ+ people suffered for years because parties chased consensus instead of showing courage. “The voters are never wrong” sounds noble, but it’s fake humility. Sometimes leadership means disagreeing with the crowd.

“The voters are never wrong” isn’t humility, it’s surrender. It’s the politics of vibes over values. Democracy doesn’t work if parties just echo the loudest opinion. That’s not listening; it’s giving up. Leadership means standing for something, even when it’s unpopular.

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