Tom [PositiveLad] 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺

22 July

Gays and theys! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I host LBGTQ+ socials & mixers in Bowes Park & Bounds Green (North London) every other month They're held in a lovely community-owned, super queer-friendly, pub 🍺🍷 Love to see some of you there on Sat 5th Sept! Feel free to DM me 📨 More here: www.facebook.com/events/20142...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

Party.

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Micah

@rincewind.run

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I think I just got hit on on the Victoria line. First time for everything!

Just had an EXCELLENT (and very well spiced) Jerk chicken with rice and peas on Avanti WCML. Paired with a lively Sauvignon Blanc. So glad I took the train over driving.

Sat in a bar waiting for a friend. Quietly sipping my wine. Next to me is a couple on, what I assume is, a first date. Seemed to be going well, until he started talking about his drop-shipping business. “Yeah, yeah, I like to shift a good 8000 units a week. Gotta build. Gotta build.” 🙃

I'm going to the 'High School Musical The Musical' Press Night tonight. I will be feeling very very old, but at least there'll be an open bar in which to drown those feelings. Plus I get to meet Harry Judd, so there's that.

bhiva.orgNHS England issues new guidance affecting trans and non-binary people on hospital accommodation and staff facilities

This short-sighted guidance from NHS England will add more fuel to the stigma that has been manufactured around trans and non-binary people. It won't improve care for anyone, in fact quite the opposite, it'll discourage people from seeking the healthcare that they need - inevitably causing deaths.

British HIV Association@bhiva.bsky.social

The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (@bashhuk.bsky.social) and British HIV Association (BHIVA) are deeply concerned about the impact of this guidance on transgender and non-binary people, incl the risk of increased stigma, distress and barriers to accessing healthcare. Our statement:

Hats off to Apple for today’s App Store front page feature… 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social

When you interrupt me, a high-end homosexual, during my 7-step night time skin care routine.

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Carole Cadwalladr

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

Peach Sprite is elite tier.

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Mjkwho

@mjkwho.bsky.social

I am a gay of a certain age. Our tenant is *just* heading out at 2315 for a night out. I’m in bed with a nice cognac watching a documentary about sinkholes.

@kylekulinskishow.bsky.social

(Courvoisier XO Royale btw)

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Secular Talk

Five hours (and three coffees) of Wordpress later...

I miss filth. I feel like my day-to-day has become very pedestrian lately, and the sexual part of me has taken a distant back seat. #overshare

news.sky.comUS removes all Air Force bombers from RAF FairfordThe US Air Force has removed all of its bombers from RAF Fairford, it has revealed.

Thinking of getting a new rear window sticker for my car…

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David Firn

@davidfirn.bsky.social

So the Iranians have closed the Strait of Hormuz and the Cotswolds?

Sky News@news.sky.com

US removes all Air Force bombers from RAF Fairford

bbc.co.ukWhy electric cars might be making some passengers feel sickResearch shows there are several reasons people might experience motion sickness in electric vehicles.

Get out and walk then www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On my way into the #HIV clinic. Today, after 15 years of pills, I’m moving onto long-acting injectable treatment. Given once every 60 days the jabs will keep my HIV in check and help simplify interactions with meds for my other issues. It’s amazing how fast HIV medicine has moved. #HIVsky #IDSky

This post has shown me how US-centric social media is. Don’t get me wrong, Dr Fauci is an incredible figure who has been a pioneer for the ages. But, long acting agents are largely the product of the UK-based HIV pharma firm, ViiV. We all build on each other. But flowers where they’re due.

I'm just a guy, standing in front of the internet, asking you to PUT THE DAMNED DIMENSIONS ON YOUR FURNITURE LISTINGS.

Other than a bit of a sore arse I feel absolutely fine today! Huzzah!

I hope the people who say “but we can separate the art from the artist” see this and feel awful. He’s a terrible human, and if you’re “giving him another chance” so are you.

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Didn’t have laying with my arse out whilst being shown pictures of Princess Diana meeting my nurse on my bingo card for today. But here we are.

I might have gone out for a pint or two after… home for Chinese delivery food!

Meet my two new bum-buddies, Vocabria (cabotegravir) and Rekambis (rilpivirine). Thirty minute consultation for my first session, two jabs that didn’t hurt. All done.

youtu.beEmma Bunton - What Took You So LongYouTube video by EmmaBuntonVEVO

How did I forget this certified banger from Emma Bunton? youtu.be/yX1Df_sjdzY?...

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

People who clap when planes land, perhaps, shouldn’t be allowed to fly - or reproduce.

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@mayor.nyc.gov

22 July

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Ok, well, I guess I’ll just piss on the floor?

19 Sept

Before and after. Less than a week, but several blisters and much swearing, later…

16 Sept

My instincts about Ed Sheeran had been correct all this time. Who knew.

bbc.co.ukSanders calls on US to work with China on AI regulation as top tech bosses speak in California - live updatesTop AI bosses - including Sam Altman - will speak publicly for the first time since the AI slowdown debate emerged this week.

15 Sept

“'We don't need new laws,' Nvidia boss says of AI as he calls for self-regulation” Man who sells guns to convicted mass-murderers calls for self-regualtion.

13 Sept

Gave the husband a massage. He’s, understandably, fast asleep now. Anyone got any nails that need hammering in? 👀

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The people who go to supermarkets at weekend are a very different species to weekday shoppers. It feels like they’ve just materialised for their first day on earth in the Tesco fresh produce section. No, you can’t just stand there. Yes, that’s a carrot. Well done.

theguardian.comMapped: the £150bn megaproject that aims to protect Britain from energy shocksThousands of miles of new power lines are needed to deliver climate targets and energy security, but bills will rise in the short term and opponents are mobilising

13 Sept

📯🦵

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Will

@squawkbox.uk

13 Sept

Some nice visualisations in this article on the UK electricity grid.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Mapped: the £150bn megaproject that aims to protect Britain from energy shocks

“Do I want this potato or that potato?” “Do I need celery sticks or celery hearts” “What is Apple Pay?”

No. Nope. Not now. I can’t deal with The Troubles Revisited on top of the war in the Middle East, the genocide in Gaza, the cost of living crisis, and… well… *gestures wildly at fucking everything*

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti

@drcarpineti.bsky.social

11 Sept

There is truly something profoundly wrong with someone saying they would prefer that a child go hungry! I know we say it over and over again, but transphobia truly rots your brain!

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich

11 Sept

Dear MAGA...

bbc.co.ukTrump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midtermsSpeaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from.

10 Sept

I’m pretty sure this is called “bribery” 🤔