Sighmohn

Free love on the freelove freeway, The love is free and the freeway's long!

[James Price @jamespriceglos]

Ordinary people: I like animals, trees, & clean rivers. I might vote for the Greens.

Greens leadership: Release the Jew killer terrorists! Have the state write lists of all Jews! The police were too mean to the Golders Green Jew-stabber! Houthi terrorists are great!

Evil.

[James Davis @jamesdavis6939]

72 years ago today, Diane Leather became the first woman to run a sub 5 minute mile. Sadly, she gets almost no recognition compared to Roger Bannister’s sub 4 minute mile.

Women deserve much better then this. Women’s sporting achievements must be celebrated as much as the men’s.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

100% there is no genocide in Gaza. No eradication project. People confused about what the word means is culturally appalling and dangerous for the future of western society. The confusion has indeed been engineered by people know what they are doing. No genocide does not mean simply too much death and destruction in war. It is about intent and action to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part. Sam Harris @MakingSenseHQ is spot on.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing:

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

For myself, I don't find 'gender affirmative views' *upsetting* and *alienating*, exactly. I find them silly, wrong, metaphysically confused, and a terrible guide for policy. The attempt to 'both-sides' *upset* and *alienation* misses something important.

[alistair green @mralistairgreen]

Nepo baby musician

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

This is a friendly suggested amendment to Holly's piece, and, again, you really should read the whole thing.
https://t.co/QHzZeR1i7c

[eve @bubblegumbword]

Separating the art from the artist and telling my 5yo daughter her watercolor painting sucks

[Damo @concretemilk]

Reminder of the time Richard Dawkins discovered Mehdi Hasan's laughable understanding of the burden of proof - and of reality itself.

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

We therefore find Mr Linehan Not Guilty of criminal damage and the appeal against the conviction of Nov 2025 is therefore allowed.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

It’s based on the pie fallacy, the naive view that there's a fixed amount of wealth, and thus more for someone else means less for you. In reality, wealth is created. When you fix up a car, you increase its value without making anyone else poorer. Wealth creation throughout history is why the average person today has more luxuries than a medieval king. And those who are best at creating wealth tend to become billionaires.

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

We’re going to need a few days to recover from this one… 😮‍💨

2 men under 2 hours. 3 men breaking the world record.

We have officially entered the new era of marathon running 🫳🎤

[Arlo White @arlowhite]

Further proof that the English Football pyramid is unmatched anywhere in the world. This was the 103rd minute of the 46th and final game of the season, to determine who would be automatically promoted from DIVISION 5!! Absolutely bonkers

[Jason Brown @jbphotography0]

Segs Hat-trick today 💙
#Pompey

[DatNoFact ↗ (@datnofact.bsky.social) @datnofact]

(MA.HA.MAX.XING) / noun

When you violently shit yourself after consuming contaminated raw milk

[Manxpie @manxpie86]

"Tough one, I think I'd have to say... the best of the Bible"

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Linguistic prescription is authoritarian. It’s one of the things trans activists have used, with enormous success. Seeking to control what people are allowed to say is a hallmark of cults and totalitarian regimes.

I do not subscribe to the post modern ideas that changing language changes reality, that redefining something alters its nature, that our conception of a thing is of more importance than observable facts about the thing itself. To me, this kind of thinking is a dead end full of people pontificating and obfuscating, enjoying the sounds of their own voices while the world burns outside.

Some gender critical people seem to think that demanding we all use correct sex pronouns will return the world to sanity. This is an attempt to make the tail wag the dog. You cannot fight linguistic prescription with more linguistic prescription, and no rights campaign can succeed if its adherents are more interested in creating a purity spiral than allowing the smallest space for nuance or for the complexities of human nature and feelings.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, the people who call themselves 'trans' exist and they deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else, which, fortunately, they already have in the UK. It would rightly be considered discrimination if a person was refused employment, housing or the vote because they identified as trans.

'Trans women are women' is a thought-terminating cliché. Men are not women. That doesn't mean they're not allowed to present themselves however they like, call themselves whatever they like and believe whatever they like about themselves. It means they haven't changed sex.

If we replace the objective, observable characteristic of sex with the unfalsifiable concept of gender identify, women and girls lose, among other things, their right to fair and safe sport and women-only spaces, including changing rooms, prison cells and rape crisis services.

Women and girls are provably more vulnerable to forms of abuse including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism in mixed-sex spaces. There is no evidence that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same rates of criminal offending as all other men.

Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.