(((Richard Drake)))
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(((Richard Drake)))
@rdrake98
object, agile and wiki pioneer. founder, open climate initiative. ruby guy. pronouns: if you're talking to me, use 'you'; if you're talking about me, don't care


King Charles' youth charity cancelled boxing course for disadvantaged girls instead of banning biological males after parents raised safety concerns trib.al/8IkR3Qt

🚨 The Olympics Committee is reportedly planning to ban transgender and intersex athletes from women's events completely. They'd also make all female athletes undergo genetic sex testing to compete. This is a huge reversal since they dropped universal sex testing after the 1996 Olympics and have avoided blanket transgender rules for years. The recommendations are expected sometime in the first half of 2026. Over 80 human rights groups are calling it a "catastrophic erosion of women's rights" and pushing back hard. Source: Reuters

Paul R. Ehrlich will be remembered as a scientist whose books about population and threats to the environment shaped the idea of limited growth in the modern era. theconversation.com/paul-ehrlich-o…

A brilliant piece by the principled Sally Dunsmore: I was branded a Nazi & told I would burn alive for defending free speech. I've run Oxford Literary Festival for 30 years. Our commitment to intellectual freedom will not be dampened by cowardly bullying telegraph.co.uk/gift/db6f43703…


BREAKING: London is named as the most powerful European AI hub! Strong overall contenders also include: Paris 🇫🇷 and Stockholm 🇸🇪 Sector-specific contenders: Cambridge, Zurich and Munich for robotics, defence, and life sciences 🇬🇧🇨🇭🇩🇪 Europe is a great place to build - they just need much more entrepreneurial talent and investors in government.


His predictions weren't "premature." They were just wrong. They didn't happen, and they never will.

Nadia was kidnapped, raped and sold by lSlS! Her 6 brothers were killed for refusing to convert to lslam, and her mother was killed too for being too old to be used as sex slave! Canada cancelled her event, where she was supposed to talk about the rape of Yezidi women by lSlS!

1,000 students of all backgrounds were surveyed for @UJS_UK new report, out today. Anti-Jewish views, the ostracisation of Jewish students and the open support for terrorist groups have become normalised. Seemingly worse at elite unis. Grim reading. assets.nationbuilder.com/ujs/pages/1126…




Also, whoa, non-public corporate technical notes are now casually flying in the media? ft.com/content/7cab4e…








