A “warm-hearted” London-based scientist was lured on Grindr before being killed and dismembered, police in Colombia have said. https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/27/london-based-scientist-lured-on-grindr-before-being-killed-and-dismembered-police-say/

Strip searches – which disproportionately increased against young girls and women – speak to a underlying issue within #policing. Police scholars have long observed an internal culture of #misogyny and #sexism, both domestically and internationally. https://theconversation.com/from-strip-searches-to-sexual-harassment-australian-policing-has-long-been-plagued-by-sexism-256781

The US state of Maryland has repealed its unjust and stigmatising #HIVcriminalisation law. Thirty-nine US states still have laws like this on the statute books. https://www.hivlawandpolicy.org/news/maryland-repeals-hiv-criminalization-law #HIVlaw

#Iran authorities are carrying out a horrific execution spree, with at least 113 reported executions in the first 25 days of May 2025 alone. https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/27/iran-execution-spree-continues-unabated

@corduroy That’s a lot of hole.

Two Sydney men have been sentenced to more than six years for robbing five men they arranged to meet through the dating app Grindr.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/21/sydney-men-jailed-gay-dating-app-grindr-robberies-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I watched the video of Uncle Mark Brown being heckled by neo-nazis at the #anzacday dawn service and it was such a contrast between the appalling behaviour of the hecklers and Uncle Mark’s calm, dignified, powerful expression of the continuing sovereignty of Aboriginal people.

I once missed an exit on a highway and ended up crossing a bridge into the next state. I was just annoyed at the time that I had to pay the toll and turn around.

Ricardo Prada Vasquez should have been stopped at immigration and asked why he was at the Canadian border. He could have explained his mistake and been allowed to turn around without crossing.

Instead, ICE sent him to El Salvador where he has now been lost, because that's what they do to Venezuelans.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/04/23/venezuelan-immigrant-detroit-michigan-deported-el-salvador/83228829007/

@Wolfie_Rankin

People saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to AI chatbots is costing OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in electricity. According to this story, 12 percent of people are polite to chatbots so they will be treated well in the case of an AI uprising. https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt

@tlwvision Sorry for some reason the link didn't attach… https://transjustice.org.au/pledge/

Over 120 Federal Election Candidates Commit to Advancing Trans Rights in Australia

The NSW Police Force has admitted that a strip search performed upon a 16-year-old girl attending the Byron Bay Splendour in the Grass music festival almost seven years ago, was illegal.

I see Canada has declared war on Australia.

“Even on policies which the Coalition have allegedly released, the details remain such a haze of contradictions and backflips that most voters would struggle to know what they actually were.”

Apart from everything else that’s wrong about this statement, rising sea levels will create less waterfront land, not more.

Speaking of morons…

New global review reveals how laws—from criminal to family to employment—shape health outcomes for people living with HIV. Legal reform is key to ending stigma and improving care. 📚⚖️

Read more: https://www.healthpluslaw.org/blog/global-review-of-the-health-impacts-of-law-on-plhiv #HIV #HealthJustice #LegalReform

Crucial work furthering #LGBTQ+ rights and preventing #HIV in the #Pacific has been disrupted by the Trump administration's freeze of foreign aid – and may not recover. https://www.context.news/socioeconomic-inclusion/us-aid-freeze-derails-lgbtq-rights-work-in-pacific-islands

The repeal of an unfair and unscientific #HIVcriminalisation law in Zimbabwe three years ago was a major milestone in the global fight against #HIV criminalisation. A new report and video documentary from the HIV Justice Network explores the strategies used and impact of the campaign to repeal the law. https://www.hivjustice.net/news/new-case-study-and-documentary-examines-how-zimbabwe-repealed-its-hiv-criminalisation-law/