Adam Gausden

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

“The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you…”

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

"The moment I realised Israeli society was fully fascist"

Journalist and filmmaker @AbbyMartin shares her experience speaking to everyday Israeli citizens in 2017, and explains how genocidal rhetoric has now gone mainstream in the country.

[Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly]

An AI-hallucinated reference is a falsified reference, and a falsified reference should be treated as a form of academic fraud

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Reform Latest
2 councillors died before election
Several now suspended for various bits of bigotry
At least 1 doesn’t exist
Others want to stand down cos they didn’t know it’s unpaid
1 thought he would be in Parliament

They don’t need a Whip, they need a Missing Persons Officer

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

Royals have 23 palaces & luxury residences, 700 servants & a combined personal wealth £2 billion

The King paid no inheritance tax on £650+ million he inherited from his mother

The royals are exempt from employment, environmental & housing laws

#NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

[a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms]

you can basically disregard any commentator who doesn’t understand the below

[David Green @itsdavegreen]

Lord Devon’s lineage “goes back to the Crusades”. But so does mine. And yours. And literally everybody’s. Less well off people weren’t beamed onto earth during the Industrial Revolution.

[Elai @elaifresh]

“Can you name these flags?”

“I don’t think you’re allowed to call them that”

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

So serious a letter was written. No police called, he wasn’t court martialed, as any other navy officer would be. Just a letter from his dad, apologising for his adult son.

[Miriam Cates @miriam_cates]

No one has ‘paid into’ the state pension. NI payments are spent by the government of the day, not put into a pot with your name on. Using these terms just perpetuates the myth that the state pension is a contributory scheme. It isn’t. It’s a non-means tested universal benefit paid for by current taxpayers.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

‘Judeo-Christian values’ is such a tell. Who, in Britain, has ever casually dropped ‘Judeo-Christian values’ into any conversation *ever*?

This is Farage channeling Bannon. It’s MAGA. Dressing it up as English nationalism is pure pantomime. They’ll have Mother Goose next

[Kirsti Miller @KirstiMiller30]

The hemoglobin level in your blood is important for taking up and using oxygen in your muscles heart& lungs. It’s perhaps the single most important reason that men outperform women in endurance events, because of the higher hemoglobin level.

It has been long noted that hemoglobin levels are closely tied to testosterone levels.

When transgender women lower their testosterone levels to female levels, which happens universally when trans women under undergo medical transition, trans women move from male levels of hemoglobin to female levels of hemoglobin.

Loughborough University’s research, looked at how the protein in our red blood cells that helps oxygen flow to our muscles for aerobic activity is affected by hormone replacement therapy in trans women.

Loughborough University’s findings show the hemoglobin level in transgender women falls to levels in line with c_sgender women in the space of 3 to 4 months on average.

https://t.co/at5aKOuB5g

That is a huge change and it affects all endurance sports, and, in fact, any sport where you were being active for more than a few minutes.

With the reduction of the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin in blood to c1sgender female levels after around 3-4 months of GAHT, and a trans woman's body will be significantly underpowered.

Trans women have less delivery of oxygen to their working muscles produces a higher rate of metabolites and consequently results in muscle fatigue.

For those who suggest trans women have advantages: we allow advantages in sport, but what we don’t allow is overwhelming advantages.

Trans women also have disadvantages in sport. Our larger bodies are being powered by reduced muscle mass and reduced aerobic capacity, and can lead to disadvantages in quickness, recovery and a number of other factors.

The bottom line is, we can have meaningful competition between trans women and c1s women. From my point of the view, the data looks favorable toward trans women being allowed to compete in women’s sports.

https://t.co/lF3ZHkwskm

[Loz @LiveLaughLoz]

What good is a historic majority if you’re too chickenshit and captured by big business to ever use it?

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave.

One in five also believed non-white citizens *whose parents were born in UK* should be forcibly removed/ encouraged to leave.

@Survation polling for @hopenothate comes as Nigel Farage tries to court centre-ground voters while facing pressure from right flank. By @BenQuinn75

https://t.co/fYXyjXUOf3

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

A really odd thing has happened to British conservatism. It has surrendered its national sovereignty and become part of the MAGA cult.

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

The justification for charging tuition fees, with reverse triple lock interest, and resulting 9% extra income tax, is the graduate premium.

This, you are told, is the extra lifetime earnings from which you will benefit as a degree holder. And we believe that to be between £100,00 - £150,000 over the course of your career.

But “believe” is the operative word.

The thing is, we don’t know.

But the government does.

That’s because they have something called LEO data - Longitudinal Education Outcomes. And it tracks the university, course, and earnings of nearly 40 million people.

Here’s the kicker: they won’t release the full data to the public, to you. Only to pre-approved researchers. And even then, they don’t get the whole dataset.

That’s because pressure groups that represent universities have lobbied for it to remain private. They say you can’t measure the value of an education in a salary. That it’s about the soul and the mind and enrichment and growing up.

And I agree with them, if only for the fact that they did have a really specific idea of the value of an education when they were taking my money. And indeed the government does too: +9% on my marginal tax rate.

So the ask is simple. Release the records. Let graduates make an informed choice about the actual value of their degree. They just have to press publish.

What have they got to hide?

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

A mature democracy doesn’t have kings or lords. And allegations have been made against Andrew for 25 years. This isn’t justice in action, it’s a reaction to events running away from those who have protected these men.

[Louis Staples @LouisStaples]

this is all ceremonial nonsense designed to save the monarchy by creating distance between them and the person they created, financed, defended and (most likely) covered for

There’s no world where prince William, Harry their offspring all die so Andrew becomes King. Be serious

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

'Big Green' lmao