/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

>>383766
we're so back

>The UK Supreme Court is to deliver its verdict on how a woman should be defined in law.
>The announcement marks the culmination of a long-running legal battle between the Scottish government and a women's group.
>The outcome could have far-reaching implications on how sex-based rights apply across Scotland, England and Wales.
>The Scottish government argues transgender people with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) are entitled to sex-based protections, while For Women Scotland argues they only apply to people that are born female.
>The ruling, to be announced at about 09:45, is expected to set out how the law should treat transgender people.
>>383768
Hopefully without drama...

>>383766
>Judges to announce ruling on definition of a woman
the absolute state of Britain

>UK Supreme Court judge Lord Hodge announces that the Equality Act’s definition of a woman is based on biological sex.
>He counsels not to see this as a triumph for one side over another and stresses the law still gives trans people protection against discrimination.
>>383782
The lunatics are running the asylum

just gonna post this here
i liek him
don't ban me niggers
>political?
we should have the death sentence here
https://youtu.be/NPnWJ-q7TEE
especially for that nigger who stabbed three children
(people need humour at times)

>>383766
Dropping in.

>>383782
Let's not kid ourselves, most of the west is in the same state.

>>383901
He stabbed 11 people, 3 children died.
>>383903
Guten tag!

>>383905
Its a dire state. Germany is fecked, France is shagged, Sweden's making a recovery and Finland is just drunk.

>>383925
So how best do you think to make threads here then? It's obviously not the same as you would make on /pol/ because it's slower and lasts longer. Would generals covering a broad topic be better than making threads around a single news item?

>>383928
I made two threads before just because. One about the US-China trade war and another about an Airforce officer being relieved of duty. People have more to say about the trade war than about one specific solider so that thread is more active. Would it therefore be best to group topics like for example british politics, American domestic politics, german politics, japanese politics, whatever. As the board is slow you can make all these threads and they will stay up on the board for quite a long time, especially if people keep posting in them occasionally with links to news or whatever.

>>383928
I think >>383934's approach is best. I plan to update the thread with news links every morning when I have time, and anyone else is free to contribute. I made this thread as an anchor for the travelling brony brit/pol/ers. There were a few of them.

>>383901
>just gonna post this here
as a YT summation parody it's OK.
Here is something from my collection, some uni students making full scene-to-scene piss take parody of the first movie, it's absolute knee slapper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEDGdzulfoQ
This kind of stuff make me wish I had time and skills to make funny videos of ponies as the main character in the movies.

Gab now joins Bitchute in completely blocking UK users. That’s what uk govt wanted.

>>384039
I hope Trump threatens Britain into undoing it.

>>384040
didn't >Vance already called UK Gov. out on their censorship?

>>384040
I doubt it, and if there is any statement, as usual will be a lot of noise and no action.

>>384039
Yet parliament have no concept of VPNs.
>>384040
Conditional access to a trade deal? I doubt it. America have their own Online Safety Bill, admittedly you guys do have the First Amendment though.

>>384041
He did. Made the German foreign minister cry, too. But I mean as a condition for removing the 10% tariff. Or maybe just bully the UK into dropping it because we can.

>>384043
This, yes.

I think the various tech companies have enough lobbying power in the U.S. they might be able to make it happen.

>>384047
>Companies with enough money can influence law.
I find that practice absolutely abhorrent. Laws should be enacted on leveled reason, not financial incentive. We need a Celestia.

>>384050
True. But in this circumstance, it could let Brits and Euros maybe get some of their speech rights back. And that's good.

>>384050
>Laws should be enacted on leveled reason, not financial incentive.
[Libertarian]
bills, legislatures and similar acts MUST be written with finances in mind: otherwise you get welfare traps and other disincentivize bullshit written into law
[/Libertarian]

>>384052
I genuinely think we're too far gone for that. Did you know that during The Great War (1914), the government created a law to prevent establishments from selling alcohol during lunchtime and suppertime? They only repealed that law in the late 70s. They government are very quick to implement laws, and very slow to circle back on them.
>>384057
Our hate crime laws have the word 'perceived' in them, which is deliberately ambiguous by intent.

>>384062
>Our hate crime laws have the word 'perceived' in them, which is deliberately ambiguous by intent.
kek
I perceive your post as being hateful
mods, take him away!

>>384067
That's the reality I'm afraid. A husband and wife were arrested for questioning the hiring process of a head mistress of a school recently. They weren't malicious, nor offensive, but the police arrested them at the behest of the school.
>The parents of a nine-year-old girl have said they were held at a police station for 11 hours because they complained about their daughter’s primary school.
>Maxie Allen and his partner, Rosalind Levine, said they were arrested and detained on suspicion of harassment, malicious communications and causing a nuisance on school property.
>The couple said they had previously been banned from entering Cowley Hill primary school in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire after criticising the school’s headteacher and leadership in a parents’ WhatsApp group, according to the Times.
>The school said it had “sought advice from police” after a “high volume of direct correspondence and public social media posts” that they claimed had become upsetting for staff, parents and governors.
>Hertfordshire police said the arrests “were necessary to fully investigate the allegations as is routine in these types of matters”.
>“Following further investigations, officers deemed that no further action should be taken due to insufficient evidence,” they added.
>Allen, a Times Radio producer, said six police officers turned up at his home on 29 January.
A video for you convenience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJTs2QeYf0

>>384078
>fight for independence from the brits
>become a totalitarian shithole just the brits
I feel sorry for (You)
aren't you >scared for posting without a VPN? This altchan allows them

>>384085
Oui.

Morning gentlemen. Here is today's bullshit news.

>King praises humanitarian workers in Easter message
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kvn4502kgo
>Signature of alien life 'found' 120 light years away on planet that could be teeming with organisms
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14618367/evidence-ALIENS-Breakthrough-exoplanet-ocean-life.html
>Nigel Farage issues 3-word response to claims France will start intercepting migrant boats
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2042788/Migrants-Channel-France-UK-intercept-Border-Force
>White House expects UK trade deal ‘within three weeks’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/04/16/white-house-trade-deal-us-uk-weeks/
>Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/critics-of-trans-rights-win-uk-supreme-court-case-over-definition-of-woman
>EU youth mobility scheme could save Britain from harm of Trump tariffs, Sadiq Khan says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-youth-mobility-scheme-donald-trump-tariffs-b2734447.html
>United Airlines plane forced into emergency landing as it catches fire after 'rabbit sucked into engine'
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/united-airlines-plane-rabbit-edmonton-dover-flight-jet-emergency-landing-b1222930.html

>>384244
I saw the king go past the Colosseum last week if that's of any interest to anyone

>>384245
Were his fingers abnormally sosij-like?

>>384247
Idk he was inside a car and it was very difficult to make out and smaller details and the Roma Polizia were also surrounding the car

>>384250
Understandable. What's the illegal immigration situation like in Italy at the moment? We have government sponsored NGOs literally ferrying third worlders in.

>>384252
The reason my flag is showing Italy is because I'm currently sitting on an italo high speed train using their wi-fi so I wouldn't be the best person to ask however so far I've seen a LOT of niggers hanging around the tourist spots or just wandering around and quite a few indian/arab types. Quite a few ristoranti have brown staff but for the most part they're Italians as far as I've seen.

>>383766
Morning all.

>>384253
Same as everywhere else then.
>>384256
Morning lad.

>>384244
So is this finally the end of tranny nonsense here with them officially not real women?

>>384258
Congratulations. Hopefully we'll get there soon

>>384258
Supposedly, however I imagine they will backtrack on it in some capacity in the near future when one an hero's because people dont want to call a hairy man in a dress Susan.

>>384259
Good luck

>>384260
Yeah looks like some MPs aren't going to drop it even after a Supreme Court ruling.
https://order-order.com/2025/04/17/labour-minister-refuses-to-say-if-trans-women-should-not-use-female-only-spaces/#comments

>ziggerspam
Was wondering when those niggers would turn up.
>>384261
Doesn't surprise me, gotta secure their voterbase by any means. Sometimes I wonder how good it'd be if we had logical, reasoned people in parliament.

>>384264
Trans are a tiny crazy minority, I can't see this being an election winning issue.

>>384267
No, but it might reduce and loss of support amongst students

>>384268
Does anyone really care that some cracked out students have convinced themselves (via hard drugs) that up is in fact down?

>>384268
Minority, certainly, but the government only have ears for them and the global majority. Its been proven on multiple occasions that the groups who shout the loudest will be heard, with the exception of white men. A classic example would be during the anti-lockdown protests. Ignored by both the government and media when literally thousands of people where demonstrating in london every weekend.

>>384269
With Labour bleeding Muslim support they've got to try and court at least one demographic
>>384270
The regime's greatest power is in its control of the narrative. In normie world something only happened if they saw it on TV

>>384272
>The regime's greatest power is in its control of the narrative. In normie world something only happened if they saw it on TV
Makes you wonder what will happen if 4chan stays down doesn't it?

>>384272
Quite right. A vast majority of people are still under the impression the government (and by extension the civil service) are just incompetent rather then deliberately malicious.
>>384276
I imagine people will flood back to it like flies to shit. I'm quite happy here, despite the ziggerspam. It'd be nice if you could hide threads from the overboard, but it is what it is.

>>384279
There's a thread somewhere around for feature requests. You can go there and ask for things you would like the site to do.

>>384279
>despite the ziggerspam
Surely that falls under Rule 5?

>>384280
I'd rather not take the piss. I already requested the catalogue toggle option, which was implemented the same day.
>>384281
Its permitted because ponies, no exceptions.

>>384281
Outside of a singular thread it IS spam, it just isn't always deleted immediately. In many cases it's bad actors just looking for something to bitch about, but if emboldened will do things far more egregious than testing boundaries with regrettable ziggerspam; this isn't derpibooru, and we don't delete things just because we don't like them (and yes, the fact that it's fictional does matter)

>>384283
People are allowed to enjoy things. I'm not particularly fond of ziggers, or even futas, but that doesn't mean I think that the content should be banned entirely. Horses for courses, an all that jazz.
jazz is terrible and should be erased from existence.[\s]

>>384283
Ah okay, got ya

>In an interview broadcast just moments after the landmark ruling, trans campaigner Heather Herbert provoked a furious response from Croxall after declaring: 'I feel like I'm under attack.'
>Croxall, who clashed with Herbert throughout the interview, questioned how it was an 'attack', saying it was simply a 'clarification of what the word woman means'.
>The BBC veteran also challenged Herbert on whether local authorities who have not protected single sex spaces based on biological sex will now have to reverse policies, saying the ruling made it clear 'sex is binary and immutable'.
>On Wednesday, Supreme Court judges decided unanimously that the Equality Act's definition of a woman is based on biological sex. It means trans women with a Gender Recognition Certificate can be excluded from single-sex spaces if 'proportionate'.
>When asked for her reaction to the ruling which will have far-reaching implications for single-sex spaces, Herbert told Croxall: 'Obviously I'm disappointed, no judge can tell me who I am.
>'If a judge was to tell you that you're not a woman, that you're a man, it wouldn't change who you are, it wouldn't change how you feel.'
>Herbert went onto claim the UK was 'following in the footsteps of Trump's America', but Croxall pointed out there 'are already provisions which do protect trans people from discrimination, victimisation and harassment'.
>The trans campaigner, who made headlines when she performed dilation exercises following her gender reassignment surgery in a disabled toilet at Gatwick Airport in 2023, claimed it was an 'attack on minorities'.
>But this prompted a furious response from Croxall who said: 'I'm sorry, but how is this an attack on anyone? It's just a clarification surely of what the word woman means in the Equality Act.'
A simple solution to the trannys in the bogs problem is to simple relabel them from Male/Female to XX/XY. If they are still confused they can just use the disabled loos.

>>384303
Letting them use the disabled toilet is the compromise most seem to be giving.

>>384304
Its fitting, considering they are mentally unstable.

>>384305
Yeah but they'll probably kick off about that too.

>>384306
They'll kick off over anything and everything, so it doesn't really matter what's suggested. At the end of the day the government will inevitably capitulate in order to enforce The Agenda™.

>>384307
Surely with a supreme court decision that's the end of it even with the whinging. What could they do about it?

>>384308
If these people are happy to reject the very fabric of reality, why, in the name of puffy pony ponuts, do you think they'll honour any manmade governing law? The insane cannot be reasoned with.

>>384311
Of course there's always the "fuck the law" option but if you do that it becomes a lot harder to phone the police about it.

>>384312
The police are in a different reality altogether, especially as of late. Much more interested investigating Twatter posts or arresting parents critiquing their daughters school than actually enforcing the law. I'm not sure what the future holds for these isles, but its not positive thats for certain.
cute policemare to offset the bleakness

>>384316
The trans bathroom shite + illegal immigrants getting deported is about to be used to instate digital id. Things are about to get even more bleak

>>384318
Already implemented for boatwogs, with government supplied iPhones. (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/online-immigration-status-evisa). The Establishment™ just need a just cause for rolling out digital ID for the rest of the population, though its already well underway, with that NHS app bollocks that was paraded around during the Scamdemic and the new HMRC requirements which somehow dont affect turkish barbers.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-govuk-id-check-app

>Transgender women are set to be barred from female bathrooms and sport, an equality chief said today - as lawyers suggested they could be asked to use disabled bathrooms at work.
>The Supreme Court's ruling that the definition of a woman in equality law is based on biological sex means trans women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if 'proportionate'.
>Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) chairwoman Baroness Kishwer Falkner has described yesterday's ruling as 'enormously consequential' and she vowed to pursue organisations which do not update their policies.
>On issues such as toilets, changing rooms and sports, Baroness Falkner echoed the Government in saying the ruling had brought 'clarity' to providers on their duties under equality law around single-sex spaces.
>Asked if it was now simple that trans women cannot take part in women's sport, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'Yes, it is.'
>On changing rooms and toilets, Baroness Falkner said: 'Single-sex services like changing rooms must be based on biological sex.'
>She said there is no law against organisations providing a third space such as unisex toilets and suggested trans rights organisations 'should be using their powers of advocacy to ask for those third spaces'.
>The commission is expecting to lay an updated statutory code of practice before Parliament by the summer, and has said it is working 'at pace to incorporate the implications of this judgment' into the code for public bodies setting out their duties under the Equality Act.
Won't be long before genderspecials start proclaiming genocide at having to their XX/XY/Disabled loos,

>>384372
Holy shit, did the UK just go full JK Rowling?

>>384373
So it would seem. Gearing up for the next world war I imagine.

Oh dear. All governments working in conjunction once again.
>EU makes an online safety bill
>UK makes an online safety bill
>US makes an online safety bill
>The Electronic Frontier Foundation is attempting to rally opposition to anti-piracy site-blocking measures. The draft Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act, introduced in February by representative Zoe Lofgren, includes court-ordered blocking measures against foreign pirate sites by both internet providers and public DNS resolvers. Meanwhile, another piece of potential legislation touted by representative Darrell Issa, the American Copyright Protection Act, is believed to contain similar provisions. "We’ve arrived at a proposal that has a remedy for copyright infringers located overseas that does not disrupt the free internet except for the infringers," she said at the time. "The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act is a smart, targeted approach that focuses on safety and intellectual property, while simultaneously upholding due process, respecting free speech, and ensuring enforcement is narrowly focused on the actual problem at hand."
>However, the EFF is calling on internet users to contact their representatives and express their opposition.
>The Electronic Frontier Foundation is attempting to rally opposition to anti-piracy site-blocking measures. The draft Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act, introduced in February by representative Zoe Lofgren, includes court-ordered blocking measures against foreign pirate sites by both internet providers and public DNS resolvers. Meanwhile, another piece of potential legislation touted by representative Darrell Issa, the American Copyright Protection Act, is believed to contain similar provisions. "We’ve arrived at a proposal that has a remedy for copyright infringers located overseas that does not disrupt the free internet except for the infringers," she said at the time. "The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act is a smart, targeted approach that focuses on safety and intellectual property, while simultaneously upholding due process, respecting free speech, and ensuring enforcement is narrowly focused on the actual problem at hand." However, the EFF is calling on internet users to contact their representatives and express their opposition.
https://lofgren.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-lofgren-introduces-targeted-legislation-combat-foreign-online-piracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r82Hlu4PbSY

>>384509
>All governments working in conjunction once again
Yup. Even if they pretend to fight and hate each other, they all play in the same team.

>>384509
Download your books and papers while you can.
Annas-archive.org

>>384618
>Download your books and papers while you can.
If you're interested in selfhosting, Kavita is pretty straightfoward (https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita / https://wiki.kavitareader.com/installation/docker/)

Morning all.

>>384660
mornin'

>>383766
Looks like Trump may be coming over in September.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8k5n33y41o

>>384660
>>384680
Morning gentlemen. Here is todays curated news.
>How much do bin workers get paid?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89gd90ny9xo
>Trans celebrities and activists vow to defy Supreme Court gender ruling and continue to use single sex toilets as they claim to be victims of 'blatant discrimination'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14623617/trans-celebrities-activists-supreme-court-ruling-discrimination.html
>GB News host suddenly announces 'you have been lied to' in crushing Keir Starmer blow
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/2043414/gb-news-host-suddenly-announces-lied-to
>Britain’s biggest bank pledges ‘solidarity’ with trans staff
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04/17/britains-biggest-bank-pledges-solidarity-with-trans-staff/
>UK national parks warn of ‘catastrophic’ risk from wildfires this Easter
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/18/uk-national-parks-risk-wildfires-easter
>King Charles and Queen Camilla greeted by well-wishers and protesters at Royal Maundy Service
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/king-charles-camilla-protest-royal-easter-service-b2735041.html
>London council refuses to house homeless young mother left sofa surfing while pregnant
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/west-london-hounslow-council-house-young-mother-sofa-surfing-pregnant-b1223071.html

>>384692
When not even the IMF can still support mass immigration you know the game is about up.

>>384703
>Matt told viewers: “Now, you have been lied to. For decades you’ve been told that you must be subjected to millions of people entering this country, and for what? Well beyond the baseless claims of cultural enrichment multiculturalists have made, we were told that it was going to be good for the economy, that it would lift all boats. That was the argument that ran through much of the commentary about mass immigration from the 1990s onwards.”
>He went on to say: “For years, the liberal establishment insisted that more people meant a higher GDP. And that could only be a good thing for everyone – a more productive, more dynamic economy. But now a new bombshell report from one of the largest global establishment institutions, the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, has shattered that consensus, revealing that low skill mass immigration is, shock horror, suppressing the wages for the poorest workers in the west.”
>Matt concluded: “But is this really news, I ask? Is this really a bombshell report at all, or is it actually just the latest report to find that the liberal establishment has been getting this wrong for many years, if not decades?”
If a bunch of racist spastics, who originated from the hate machine of the internet can conclude that importing millions of people from third world countries isn't good for the economy, I dread to think how low the bar is for those in positions of political influence.

>>384727
>I dread to think how low the bar is for those in positions of political influence.
People are spastics. They're everywhere. Even government.

Alright lads

>>384509
This is depressing
Gab, Bitchute gone, 4chan down
We're fucked

>>384731
Very true.
>>384741
>Gab/Bitchute
Just use any VPN.
>4chan down
I'm actually enjoying not having to deal with the monumental bullshit that came with trying to have a sensible conversation. Even if 4chan comes back online, I shan't be going back.

>>384740
Much the same as ever. Thinking of mares to distract myself from reality

>>384747
Make your dreams a reality?

>>384753
If I could, I would

Mumsnet are doing it again.
>The founder of Mumsnet said she feared the site might not survive after they were branded ‘bigots’ and blacklisted by big business for standing up for women’s rights.
>Justine Roberts singled out Barclays and Ocado, who she claimed had refused to advertise or partner with the popular online forum when they called for the Government to clarify the definition of ‘a woman’ under equality legislation.
>In a statement posted on Mumsnet in the wake of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling, Ms Roberts said she felt under intense ‘pressure’ from activists because of their stance, but stressed that ‘even in the darkest moments’ she refused to ban discussion on the issue, saying that would have been ‘contrary to what Mumsnet is about.’
>Ms Roberts wrote: ‘It’s been severely testing at times – there were moments I genuinely thought we might never see the tide turn, or at least not in our generation…Mumsnet risked being permanently labelled as bigoted, vicious, and ‘on the wrong side of history’.
>‘A fair number of organisations pulled their advertising under pressure from activists – both internal and external. I’m sure there were many more we never heard from who simply steered clear.
>Commercial partnerships became noticeably harder to secure. The low point was discovering we’d been blacklisted on instruction from the top brass at Barclays – just weeks before their CEO resigned over concealing ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
>‘When we included a call to clarify the definition of sex in the Equality Act in our 2024 Mumsnet Manifesto, Ocado – who had been excited about a partnership – abruptly pulled out, citing Mumsnet’s ‘hateful political views’.
>Despite repeated attempts to explain our position – as a platform committed to amplifying women’s voices – they’ve refused to speak to us ever since.

How many of you lads are going to Griffish Isles in Manchester?

>>385138
I am!

>>385139
>flying transatlantic for a minor pony con in the shivving capital of the UK
Based!

>>385142
Not even my first time this year

Morning gentlemen, our gilded cage is about to get much, much smaller. Common trend in the news this morning is 'toxic influencers spreading misogyny in schools"
>Pubs to stay open late for VE Day 80th anniversary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg24x5l404o
>The monkey dust capital of Britain: How Stoke is being ravaged by terrifying synthetic drug with dealers 'on every street'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14625667/monkey-dust-capital-Stoke.html
>Pro-Gaza MP brands grooming gang scandal 'false right-wing narrative' in sickening speech
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2043803/mp-grooming-gangs-scandal-speech
>Cutting ties with China would be very foolish, says Reeves
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/18/rachel-reeves-cutting-ties-with-china-would-be-very-foolish/
>‘Immediate red flags’: questions raised over ‘expert’ much quoted in UK press
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/apr/19/questions-raised-over-barbara-santini-expert-much-quoted-in-uk-press
>No obligation to exclude trans women under ‘misunderstood’ Supreme Court ruling, former top judge says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lord-sumption-trans-biolgical-woman-supreme-court-b2735828.html
>Badenoch says a family member died after struggles with ‘excessive internet use’
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/kemi-badenoch-conservative-daily-mail-nasuwt-canada-b1223255.html
>>385142
>shivving capital of the UK
That's London.

Two protests today
Trannys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Txl36kEwM
Pakis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9FCBsUDELs

>>385193
you just know that horse got treats for that

>>383766
Happy Easter. Did you get an egg?

Happy Easter everypony. Here is todays news.
>DHL suspends high value US deliveries over tariffs
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jx9ep5l63o
>Labour's WhatsApp plot to defy trans ruling: Ministers' leaked messages reveal their fury at calls to ban transgender women from female-only changing rooms
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14628401/Labour-Whatsapp-leaked-messages-transgender-court-ruling.html
>British Gas, EON, Octopus, EDF and OVO customers issued £237 freezer message
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2044146/british-gas-eon-octopus-edf-ovo-customers
>King and Queen arrive at church for Easter Sunday
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/04/20/king-queen-church-service-easter-sunday/
>British firms urged to hold video or in-person interviews amid North Korea job scam
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/20/british-firms-urged-to-hold-video-or-in-person-interviews-amid-north-korea-job-scam
>UK weather: Heavy rain threatens Easter bank holiday washout after Met Office warning for downpours
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/weather-warning-met-office-easter-weekend-cornwall-devon-b2735993.html
>Union tells Overground staff to refuse railcard discounts over disciplinary ‘errors’
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/union-tells-overground-staff-to-refuse-railcard-discounts-b1223341.html
>The BBC have changed their layout. AGAIN
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>385711
Nah, Easter Eggs have been shite since Cadburys got bought out and the sugar tax came in.
For those who don't know, we have a sugar tax. I shit you not.https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sugar-tax-revenue-helps-tackle-childhood-obesity

>>385728
You should boil and egg, paint it, and then roll it down a hill.

>>385730
Eating eggs and sausages for breakfast. That'll do.

>>385732
Close enough I guess lol.

>Hi all - you may have noticed this piece (https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/mumsnet-openai-sues-copyright-infringement-cz5hzvf8s) in the Times today and I wanted to explain why we're doing this.

>Earlier this year, we became aware that OpenAI was scraping Mumsnet - presumably to train their large language model (LLM). Such scraping without permission is an explicit breach of our terms of use, which clearly state that no part of the site may be distributed, scraped or copied for any purpose without our express approval. So we approached Open AI and suggested they might like to licence our content. In truth there are some very good reasons why the LLMs should ingest our conversational data to train their models. The six billion plus words on Mumsnet is a unique record of twenty-four years of female conversation about everything from global politics to fashion to relationships with in-laws. By contrast the majority of the content on the web was written by and for men. AI models have misogyny baked in and we’d love to help counter the gender bias likely to be present in many of them and raise women’s voices. Their response was that they were more interested in datasets that are not easily accessible online.

>Much of the content on the open web is likewise being lifted. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI pronounced only two weeks ago that machine-learning companies are perfectly within their rights to scrape content published online because the moment it’s published it becomes ‘freeware’.

>You might ask why the theft of online content for model-training poses a problem - hasn’t Google been crawling all over websites and ingesting their data for search purposes since the dawn of the internet? True, but there is a clear value exchange in allowing Google to access that data, namely the resulting search traffic that comes from being indexed by Google. The LLMs are building models like ChatGPT to provide the answers to any and all prospective questions that will mean we’ll no longer need to go elsewhere for solutions. And they’re building those models with scraped content from the websites they are poised to replace.

>At Mumsnet we’re in a stronger position than most because much of our traffic comes to us direct and though it’s a piece of cake for an LLM to spit out a Mumsnet-style answer to a parenting question I doubt they’ll ever be as funny about parking wars or as honest about relationships and they’ll certainly never provide the emotional support that sees around a thousand women a year helped to leave abusive partners by other Mumsnet users. But if these trillion-dollar giants are simply allowed to pillage content from online publishers - and get away with it - they will destroy many of them.

>Not surprisingly, a number of large, global publishers are currently suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement and here at Mumsnet though we’re neither large (in revenue terms) nor global, we’ve decided we have no choice but to initiate a legal complaint too.

>That’s not to say that A.I. is all bad of course. It plainly has the potential to advance human progress and improve our lives in multiple ways. But if the LLMs are allowed to simply steal content from publishers and communities like Mumsnet they risk destroying them. Everything that’s unique and brilliant about sites like ours will be lost, and a handful of Silicon Valley giants will be left with even more control over the world’s content and commerce.

>We know that taking on a multinational giant like OpenAI, with its $3bn of revenues, is not an easy task in the face of the huge resources they’ll throw at us but this is too important an issue to simply roll over. Not just for Mumsnet but for every website you’ve ever landed on for news, advice or simply to ask if you’re being unreasonable.
Hearty chuckle.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/5122770-why-were-taking-legal-action-against-open-ai-and-other-scrapers

Afternoon chaps
>Reviving the lost tradition of egg clapping
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20jjrnv14o
>What customers really think of major supermarket's decision to scrap all self-checkout tills
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14631775/What-customers-really-think-major-supermarkets-decision-scrap-self-checkout-tills.html
>New weather maps turn orange as scorching 24C heat bomb to roast Britain
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/2044334/new-weather-maps-orange-42c-heat-bomb-britain
>Trans NHS patients can access every women-only space in London
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/20/trans-nhs-patients-access-women-only-space-in-london/
>Concern over ‘asbis’ after report finds people jailed for sleeping rough and feeding birds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/21/concern-over-asbis-after-report-finds-people-jailed-for-sleeping-rough-and-feeding-birds
>Last year, an entire town’s primary schools banned smartphones. This is what happened
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/social-media-st-albans-school-ban-phone-children-b2730745.html
>Spy chiefs say China is bugging St James’s Park benches to snoop on UK MPs
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/spy-chiefs-china-bugging-st-james-park-whitehall-b1223344.html

>>385138
Can’t go cause it clashes with uni shit, but I’m hoping to go to UK Ponycon later this year. Anyone else here going?

>>386215
I would like to go. I went last year. But I don’t know if my work schedule will allow it.

>>386216
Well hope to see you there

>>386215
I've never gone to a ponycon, let alone an anime con. I feel like I might be overwhelmed by the tis, my own or others.

Plushie looks cute though.

>>386219
Come on anon, you should go to one. They are fun. Everyone else there is as degenerate and mentally ill as the rest so you won’t feel out of place. You’ll be just fine if you go alone and don’t talk to anyone, and it’s very easy to make friends and meet new people.

The next one is Griffish Isles in Manchester in two weeks
https://www.griffishisles.uk/

>>386222
Yeah, that's ones a bit too short notice for my budget. Also, Manchester. Birmingham in October isn't looking too good either, cause of the bin situation.

>>386225
Surely the bin strikes must be done by then

>>386231
Depends really. £6k is quite the pay reduction.

>>386232
Fair point. Maybe they’ll move have to move the con, if that’s even possible at this point

>>386233
Should be okay, it's only the binmen employed by the local council that are on strike, rather than private service binmen. Not sure I can justify the £500 hotel room though.

>>386236
WHAT?! No way it’s that much

>>386261
That's about standard for 4 days at a reasonably modest hotel. I have found somewhere else £200 cheaper though. I just have expensive tastes I guess?

>>386270
Fair enough, I was looking at around 200ish (Premier Inn - which for non Anglos is a misleading name)

>>386215
>UK Ponycon
I went last year. As the first con I've been to it was pretty decent, don't think I'll bother this year because the venue has changed, Nottingham was practically at my doorstep. Griffish isles looks kinda shit, I really wanted to go to camp equestria last year; it was small but looked really cozy. This year I'm saving all my autism for mare fair but if there's another camp equestria I'll definitely be taking my motorhome.
>>386219
Everyone there is somewhat autistic, it's easy to make friends.

>>386391
>Birmingham is too far
Birmingham is such a tiny distance from Nottingham. The nearest pony convention to me is four hours away. Every single other convention requires getting on a plane. I really wish I had conventions so close.

I was at Camp Equestria last year. It was great. There was a tent where the musicians played, and a fire not far away, where you could sit by the fire and listen to music, or roast marshmellows. There was a hot water dispenser where you could get tea, instant coffee, or cook ramen that I bummed off of people. People also set up a little arcade with games. It was great. I know the organizers. I've asked them repeatedly to make a second one, but they don't seem to want to. At least not until after BronyScot in July 2026, which they will help with.

morning gentlemen
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>Rachel Reeves drops huge tax bomb on 8.3m Brits - check if you're hit
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>Royal Navy ready to defy China in Taiwan Strait
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/22/royal-navy-ready-to-face-down-china-over-taiwan/
>Patient satisfaction with GP services in England has collapsed, research finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/22/patient-satisfaction-gp-services-england-research
>Parking machines ‘set up to trap people’ as thousands sent tickets
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/parking-tickets-pcn-fines-carpark-b2736822.html
>Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman stabbed to death in Enfield over Easter weekend
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/man-arrested-woman-stabbed-death-enfield-easter-b1223472.html
>>386287
seems like a fair deal for a few days
>>386391
thanks for the heads up

Ahh yes, the daily reminder that we all live in a meme country.

>>386462
>under 18s aren't allowed to smoke or drink because it harms their health
>6 year olds get stuck on puberty blockers because they once said pink was a pretty colour
can still join the army at 16 though

>>386435
Prince of Wales sails today.

>>386474
Dying for Israel is a far nobler calling than being an NHS defecit.

>>386419
>>Birmingham is too far
True, but it is a shithole. It's early days, I'll consider going especially if anons are up for meeting up.
>Camp Equestria
Oh man sounds like I really missed out, hope they do another one sometime, I know there's a few mlp camps happen in Europe sometimes, I'd be tempted to go if it looked good enough. My concern is being left out while everyone speaks their native tongue.

>>386794
I’d be happy to do an anon meet up, just gotta raise the cash to go first, but I’m gonna be working all summer (student) so I should have plenty