Feddit.uk makes our finances public, about £35 a month. So about £0.11 per active user.

Also, I run sappho.social out of a £5 a month VPS.

They can either pay and get ad-free access to our articles

But it’s not ad-free access though.

Literally the fourth paragraph of the article:

The responses revealed that specific titles removed from school libraries included This Book Is Gay, by Juno Dawson, a memoir about a young person discovering their sexual identity; Julián is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love, a picture book about a gender non-conforming boy who dreams of being a mermaid; and the alphabet book ABC Pride, by Louie Stowell, Elly Barnes and Amy Phelps, which introduces young readers to the alphabet while they learn more about the LGBT+ community.

Time to push the country into the sun.

Why does Labour hate Universities?

EU4 has received continuous updates and DLCs since it came out in 2013, but I wouldn’t call it modern (still love it though).

Not to be that guy, but Stardew and Factorio both came out in 2016 (early access for Factorio). They’re nearly a decade old, so I’m not sure they qualify as modern.

There was/is a wave of far-right riots happening in the UK, which involved a lot lotting and attacks on Muslims. This was triggered by a stabbing in Southport and a lie that spread on social media claiming that the perpetrator was a Muslim migrant that came to the UK on a ‘small boat’ crossing the channel (he was actually born and grew up in Cardiff). Musk may be liable because during the riots he made several posts undermining the government’s attempts to quell the unrest and his general failure to tackle disinformation spreading on Twitter, such as the Muslim migrant lie.

It’s less that they’re big, but old.

For me at least, most of that was just identifying rhetorical devices used by the writer and summarising what they wrote, not looking at the legitimacy of what’s being said (it’d be hard to do that in an exam context anyway).

Apparently, as the Telegraph decided to give this nothingburger of a paragraph its own heading

Ms Tweedale previously prompted controversy in the department after she was singled out by civil servants who accused her of furthering the “chilling effect” of gender ideology.

Why do they go through the effort of banning people from individual communities when site banning should be enough? It honestly just comes across as vindictive.

The original reddit sub wasn’t wlw specific either, but I can change the display name to “They Were Roommates” if people want.

It is! I wanted sappho.club, but some bastard is sitting on the domain.

https://lemmy.world/c/herfriend@sappho.social

/c/herfriend@sappho.social

Either of those should work.

Which would also be a weird claim given the state of Linux YouTube.

I have plenty of criticism of this Labour government, but I’m still glad when they do things I like (rail nationalisation, scrapping the Rwanda Scheme, commitment to ECHR). I’ll admit, it was unfair for me to suggest Miliband was only committing to nuclear to spite the left. This is an attitude I’ve seen in some Labour activists, but not in him.

But the left is perceived to be anti-nuclear and there’s nothing these people love more than ‘trot bashing’.

Edit: Besides, they’re made GB Energy too big a part of their programme for it to do nothing. Money will go somewhere, whether that’s somewhere useful is to be seen.

EDIT: I see that the “fediverse” link for posts has been removed. I posted this to lemmy.ml from a lemmy.world account and there’s no way for me to get the lemmy.ml link now. And when I crosspost it it shows a lemmy.world link instead of the lemmy.ml one. I think this should be changed [back].

That’s how it’s always worked??? The fediverse button goes to the canonical source, which is the post on the poster’s instance. The button doesn’t show up because you’re already looking at the source.

I’ve said this before and I doubt it will be the last, but this ban is not about child safety. It’s about reducing the number of trans kids because they’re a political inconvenience to a slice of the establishment. If it was about how unsafe they are, it wouldn’t only be for kids experiencing gender dysphoria/incongruence. The ban would extend to intersex adolescents:

However, [Streeting] overlooks the fact that this ban does not include teenage patients with a difference of sex development (DSD), more commonly known as intersex. These individuals are prescribed puberty-blocking medication when they unexpectedly commence a puberty that is at odds with their gender identity. DSD patients are taking the medication for much the same reason as transgender patients – ie the puberty they are undergoing is causing distress, and pressing pause will probably manage that distress and minimise harm while a continuing care plan is developed. If we follow Streeting’s logic, the medication would also be banned for this patient cohort.