The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign. Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately. Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s. The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants. Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept." They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans. If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

Being a civil-law-trained lawyer (no capitals required) does not necessarily make you a competent lawyer. Allowing ideology to cloud one’s critical faculties, as you clearly do, is anti-intellectual in the most basic way. Your post makes a generic claim that lacks any precision, something that one might reasonably expect not to be seen from an ‘academic’. Understandably, this has already led many to ask you for clarification and I am about to add my voice to theirs. For the sake of clarity, I am a ‘common-law-trained lawyer‘. The difference is that my training was in the UK, where I also practised for approximately 35 years as both solicitor and barrister. That’s arguing real-life cases in proper court rooms before actual judges In a common law jurisdiction. Rather than simply add to the requests for you to clarify what you say are ‘anti-trans talking points’ and why they are allegedly ‘unreasonable’, I intend to take a different approach. Feel free, of course, to respond to those other queries too. It is, I believe, a fair assumption that by ‘anti-trans’ you mean ‘gender critical’, or, as I prefer to term it, ‘pro-women and girls’. Your terminology is, thus, not academically dispassionate, which renders your post nothing more than incoherent polemic, deserving of nothing more than instant dismissal. However, I am going to indulge you, despite that. The following are some core, fundamental elements of the ‘gender critical’ position. I would be grateful if you could clarify which you consider to be ‘anti-trans’ and why. 1. There are only two human sexes, male and female, defined by reference to the reproductive pathway a specific individual is organised to follow. These categories are mutually exclusive, immutable and objectively definable and observable. 2. It is thus impossible for any male human to become ‘female’ (and vice versa) as an individual’s sex is coded into the DNA at a cellular level in every nucleated cell in the body. 3. The terms ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are not ‘gendered identities’ but sex-based descriptors for, respectively, an adult human male and female. They are akin to the terms stag and hind, stallion and mare, bull and cow, ram and ewe etc. used for other species. 4. Irrespective of whether one accepts whether the concept of ‘gender identity’ has any validity, for all Equality Act purposes, no male person can ever qualify as a woman nor a female as a man. 5. As a discrete sex-class, defined in biological terms, women are entitled to the privacy, dignity, comfort and security afforded to them by single-sex facilities that exclude ALL males, irrespective of how any individual man might ‘identify’. 6. Any man who accesses, or seeks to access, a properly constituted female single-sex facility is at least one of a coloniser, a bully, a pervert, a misogynist, an invader, a narcissist, an abuser and an oppressor. It is likely more than one of those things. These are not fringe or “unreasonable” positions. They are grounded in biology, statute, and decades of established case law. If you consider any of them “anti-trans” or “unreasonable”, then the defect lies not in the propositions but in your own ideological capture. The floor is yours, my friend. I look forward to your precise, point-by-point response rather than more vague hand-waving about “reasonableness”. In my 35 years in court, I learned that bluster and appeals to authority rarely survive rigorous cross-examination. I doubt yours will either.

She’s not being oppressed, she just had a large gay fan base that is not interested in supporting her on her campaign of hate

@Glinner has shared a number of times @FondOfBeetles has shared this week @HeadWarriorTWM has shared it several times @sharrond62 has shared it, @elonmusk maybe needs to share it for us we had to ask for research as GOV declined to restore our words! petition.parliament.uk/petit…

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

Hello Space People... Will Artemis have Tunnocks tea cake wrapper parachutes? I hope so!!

Rotherham, England replaced 8 miles of mowed grass with wildflowers. They saved £25,000 in mowing costs a year and bees, butterflies, and birds showed up almost immediately. You don’t need to wait for your city to act. Start small in your own patch: 🏡 Let your front verge or sidewalk strip go wild this spring 🌻 Toss a few native wildflower seed balls into neglected spots 🌱 Stop mowing one strip and see what shows up 📧 Contact your city government. One email from one person has started initiatives like this before One person. One small patch. Real habitat. Your street could be next.

This is 7 minutes straight of a demented malignant narcissist desperately seeking to repair his self-image in the eyes of his sycophants & followers by demonstrating his dominance in the areas of building management and lawsuits. Try reading it. He is an Earth-wide emergency.

Mate, you're an American. You don't have a "left". Neither of your main parties supports comprehensive social welfare. You have zero concept of class analysis & Keynesian economics. Your "left" is a middle class who kid themselves they are progressive if they let little boys wear dresses while other children live in poverty in trailer parks. You feed kids expensive drugs, making big companies rich, & pretend you are radical while failing to challenge fundamental human rights issues like a lack of maternity rights, access to abortion, gun control, medical care, & the death penalty. Don't ever lecture Terf Island about rights.

Breaks my heart that my 5‑year‑old is learning in school about all the ways he can protect our planet... While decrepit old fuckwits are dropping tons of bombs poisoning soil, air & water for decades to come for millions of us ...but sure, you recycle that bog roll little one.