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Introducing Calendar
I have made the effort to introduce a calendar into this website. You can find it on the above top bar, or if your mouse really can’t move that far, you can click here. This new feature should make it easier for me to communicate upcoming events.
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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over rival app Threads
On Wednesday, an attorney for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg alleging his company stole trade secrets to help create a “copycat” rival app, Threads.
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England: Parts of Birmingham area flood; music festival evacuates
Parts of the Birmingham, England area flooded on Saturday amid “biblical” downpours, following a Met Office yellow weather warning for its region.
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Germany: Esslingen am Neckar hosts first Christopher Street Day
On June 17, the town of Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany held its first Christopher Street Day in celebration of LGBT pride. I interviewed a local who helped organise the event.
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France: Quimper, Finistère hosts second pride festival
Quimper, France hosted the second iteration of its annual pride festival, “Pride of Quimper”, on June 17. The event began at Place Saint-Corentin in the city centre. I interviewed attendee Maïwenn.
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Estonian parliament passes legalization of same-sex marriage
Estonia’s parliament voted 55–34 to amend its Family Law Act to allow same-sex marriages from January 1. Estonia would be the first former Soviet country to do so if its president approves the legislation.
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Interview with Tom Pashby, founder of campaign group Include Mx
I interviewed Tom Pashby on June 10, head of advocacy group Include Mx, which has encouraged companies to allow customers to select the gender-neutral Mx as their honorific on forms; like Pashby, who is non-binary, some non-binary individuals and those not declaring their gender use Mx.
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West Midlands region floods amid heavy rain, high winds
This article is mirrored from Wikinews. Wikinews is available under the CC BY-SA 2.5 license, and this article is therefore also available under that license. You can find the original source here. This is an article to which I was the primary contributor. On Monday, storms caused flooding in the West Midlands region of England. The Met Office placed the region under an…
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Piracy site Soap2day shuts down without notice
TV and film pirating website Soap2day shut down yesterday without notice. In a short statement published to their website, the owners said: Hello guys. We have decided to close soap2day forever. We are very sorry :) Bye Soap2day Team Loyal users of the site have taken to social media to voice their devastation with the…
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Opinion: Reddit must not betray its community for profit
Reddit’s recently announced API changes have caused uproar, including a 48-hour “black out” of thousands of subreddits. With the company making over US$500 million last year, CEO Steve Huffman’s claim that the website is not “self-sustaining” does not hold water, especially as Reddit is currently valued at $10 billion.
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