Tootfinder

According to @…'s newsletter this morning, the Citizen's Advice Bureau is now requiring #Trans employees (? and clients?) to use toilets according to their gender assigned at birth, which, if true, is not a good look at all. Journalist is Steph Paton, who I sli…

Scots charity in trans rights row after announcing change to bathroom access
A Scottish charity may be discriminating against transgender staff after announcing a change to bathroom access following the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act, say legal experts.

🚻 Bog standard? Tokyo’s spectacular public toilets – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/apr/19/bog-standard-tokyos-spectacular-public-toilets-in-pictures

"Simultaneously to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone in January 2007, Google started publishing a series of blog posts called “Testing on the Toilet”. On May 15th, 2008, this series featured a famous issue: “TotT: Using Dependancy Injection to Avoid Singletons.” The writing was literally on the wall of toilets worldwide: Singletons are bad™®©. Sadly, the much more exciting idea of dependency injection contained in the article got lost in the minds of most readers."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-hype-cycle-of-oop/

CityPulse: Real-Time Traffic Data Analytics and Congestion Prediction
Idriss Djiofack Teledjieu, Irzum Shafique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01971 https://…

CityPulse: Real-Time Traffic Data Analytics and Congestion Prediction
CityPulse is a proof-of-concept big data pipeline designed to enable real-time urban mobility analytics using scalable, containerized components -- without reliance on physical sensor infrastructure. The system simulates the ingestion of 11 million traffic-related records representing urban phenomena such as vehicle congestion, GPS coordinates, and weather conditions. Data is ingested through a Dockerized Apache Kafka cluster, coordinated by ZooKeeper, and processed in real time using Apache Sp…

toilets law etc
That Supreme Court ruling is sort of reminding me of Brexit! Small proportion of people pushing it, don't fully understand the implications of what they're getting, lots of people who _do_ understand the implications dismayed. Blithe refs to infrastructure that doesn't exist yet. & that clip where it dawns on the politician blokie that trans men exist, it's like that clip where that other politician blokie's just found out how many trucks arrive at Dover!
#UKPol #trans #law