@Milajoy Chinese researchers flagged unusual pneumonia cases in November 2019. Trump was not up for re-election until November 2020. That is a 12 month runway for a plan that apparently also killed 7 million people and still did not work first time around.
@LoftusSteve@DavidDPaxton Shorts runs on the same engine as TikTok, so Google's curation isn't better, it optimises for watch time, not safety. I posted on Facebook my rabbit died from a seizure and got served a video of a rabbit having one. Never searched for it. That's the curation you're calling better
@notkatbaker And this isn't really about safety. If social media harms mental health, it harms adults too, not just under 16s. Online safety matters, but singling out kids doesn't fix a problem that affects everyone. It looks less like protection and more like control.
@notkatbaker Teens aren't dumb or mindless, and government forgets that. Block them from something and they retaliate, we've all done that as teens. They'll find a way online regardless. The real damage is breaking their trust, why would they trust a government stripping their freedom?
@linmeitalks Treating kids like criminals for using an app is abhorrent, and it won't even work. Proving you're over 16 means surrendering ID, which doesn't stop crime, it hands criminals a database to go after. That's already failed once. This isn't the government's to police.
@MarcLobliner Pride was never about who you have sex with. Plenty in the community are aromantic, so sex doesn't come into it. It exists because people are still targeted for who they are. Nobody was ever harmed for being straight, which is exactly why straight pride doesn't exist.
Day 9: In 1834 Anne Lister took the sacrament with her partner Ann Walker at Holy Trinity Church in York, now celebrated as the birthplace of lesbian marriage in Britain. UNESCO named her diaries a pivotal British document in 2011. #PrideFactADay#PrideUK#LGBTHistory
Day 8: Anne Lister, a Yorkshire landowner born in 1791, is often called "the first modern lesbian". She wrote roughly five million words of diaries, partly in code, documenting her relationships with women. #PrideFactADay#LGBTHistory#PrideUK
Day 10: The 1957 Wolfenden Report recommended decriminalising homosexuality between consenting adults in private. Even a recommendation to stop punishing people took a decade to become law. #PrideFactADay#LGBTHistory#PrideUK
@sarahdactyl123 I've never liked his content because he posts lies constantly. So it wouldn't surprise me if it was faked. That said, this is the only time I will agree an abortion shouldn't happen
@browt1971 Nobody has to be comfortable with a medical decision. But 'I didn't get it and I'm fine' is survivorship bias, not vindication. The people most affected by low vaccination rates aren't here to post about it.
@Mark_Wilson_@browt1971 15-20 million excess deaths globally. Not a scam. Also, humans were exercising for about 300,000 years before gyms existed. A closed leisure centre was never the barrier.
Day 7: Third gender roles were not fringe. The Bakla in the Philippines, the Muxe in Mexico, the Two-Spirit in Native America and the Hijra in India were often community leaders, sought for blessings. Not tolerated. Honoured. #PrideFactADay#QueerHistory#Pride2026
Day 6: Indigenous nations of North America have long recognised people who hold both a masculine and feminine spirit. The umbrella term "two-spirit" was chosen in 1990 at a gathering in Winnipeg, replacing an offensive older label. #PrideFactADay#QueerHistory#PrideMonth
Day 5: The Roman emperor known as Elagabalus, who ruled from 218 to 222 CE, adopted feminine dress, asked to be referred to as "she", and expressed a desire for surgery. Assassinated at just 18. #PrideFactADay#TransHistory#PrideMonth