Elites have been doing sex crimes while forcing the rest of us to say "grape" and "unalive" to avoid having our posts taken down Not being able to accurately describe abuse makes people (especially children) vulnerable to it

The good lads at @failuretolaunch.bsky.social are doing fundraisers for both Gaza and Minneapolis at the moment, I'm feeling a little flush after some birthday money so chucked a hundred quid towards the causes, if you have the ability that would be the nicest birthday present btw

It's nice to see the Greens get any coverage at all, but god why is actually vaguely progressive party couched in "well but" when a single reform win is "well, this is reforms world now"* *I know the answer, there is no need to explain

Fuckers leave WHO and then have the temerity to suggest this? This is beyond the Hague, this is [redacted] Oh yeah, more people will get Hep B, saved you some cruelty, money, and time

Sorry that I keep reposting this but as someone who has only recently received permanent settlement on the 10 year pathway, I cannot stress how fucking horrific that is to mandate for everyone despite the most privileged.

"fucking bitch" haven't really heard that since I worked in retail and customers thought I was simultaneously omnipotent (could make their bizarre requests happen) and was a 'useless fucking bitch' when I couldn't. what a pathetic little man.

Truly embarrassing state of journalism jfc

Sticker said something transphobic on my morning walk, so I very helpfully fixed it for whoever put it there 😇 Happy New Year, everyone

I don't want to reinforce the Gays Can't Drive trope, but the exodus back down south on the railways has been septum piercings, silver ring stacks, and queers for the entire journey and we all clocked each other

Fake AI citations are becoming an absolute blight, truly. Just...do not put your paper into the big lying machine, please

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

I can't post too much about it, but fuck the people in charge who think quality is irrelevant as long as their profit gets higher. Fuck that this means people with PhDs in BRIC countries have to work boring jobs in a second or third language rather than getting to research because it pays more [1/]

The regular enshittification versus the doomsday clock of your technical role ticks closer to midnight. Happy bloody fucking christmas. Being ringfenced is not really...uh...reassuring

I remember responding to this and...well. wonder how they'll frame 95% being a "small minority of luddites"

Go buy open pen anthology 2 (contains me, and I dont use the word cunt so you can give it to your granny)

it might have taken my 33 years but god, I have a great group of friends who I would die for, a job that is at least vaguely interesting (okay it's pretty cool), and someone who I love completely

Watched the largest Benoit Blanc and after a hard and shit week god was that needed

Picked this up on a whim for its first line in a bookshop (god they love to see a sucker coming) but I read it through in a couple of delicious hours. Tattoo "the sea is so withdrawn it is nothing but a promise you'd be mad to put your faith in" on my body, because it was already on my heart

Beginning to think that the late stage capitalism hellscape we are in is a lot like fracking

The good news is the doctors who have submitted to the Wakley prize from juniors to consultants echo this sentiment - the had news is it exposes the rot in the centre of a discipline that is meant to above all else help

Scientists must learn to join larger pro-democracy and people's movements, coalitions. Our science training may not have prepared us for such work, but we can no longer sit in the safety of our labs and expect the world to get better My book review @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"This is not an essay about psychogeography or being a flâneur, it is a question of what about settling somewhere is it that resists what is otherwise one of life’s great pleasures." @sylvswarren.bsky.social writes about familiar walks she describes as 'mizmazes. [via @thearsonista.bsky.social]

A lesser explored benefit of cultural expectations of femininity is being able to send your newly out trans friends luxury makeup so they can skip the whole dream matte mousse phase.

One of the oddest things about my favourite youtubers in general is that they will go dark for 13 months or so then drop a PhD level almost 5 h video on the most esoteric shit imaginable and I love it every time

Yesterday I went to the Kerry James Marshall exhibition at the Academy and I cannot remember a single artist exhibition that floored me as much for years

I would strangle RFKjr if I got a chance. Wealth and absolute stupidity in terms of medical matters is eugenics. He is a eugencist.

The compulsory harassment in the workplace training was due tomorrow and as an enby I died laughing at their "transition" graphic

The del toro Frankenstein is a goddamn masterpiece

can redwoock dick sports man who looks like a thumb let me date taylor for five minutes and get a good album again?

Wicker man, glass of wine, roasted pumpkin seeds - happy samhain all

Followed a girl around at my (ahem) all girls school like a lovesick puppy aged 13, but all girls feel like that? Never quite felt like a girl when puberty started. Cut off my first pubic hairs with scissors. Told my mum I think I liked girls as well at 14

Actually baffled, but I also grew up with unrelated Aunties (Indian edition) and unrelated Aunties (friends of my grandparents edition) - do Americans really not have non-familial Aunties?

@cinemashoebox.bsky.social I could see your DMs on preview, but unfortunately the UK government refuses to believe I am old, so I can't get them. You have my email, yes? If not, it's my standard username plus gmail dot com and unhinged is great

Does no-one remember where the term slash fic came from? Christ alive.

One of the things I love most about my colleagues is that we were collectively asked how the in-house AI slop machine could be used and we all simply said "no, that's stupid we will not do that" And management caved

I have no extra money this month and I have had ghost notifications from accounts that were either deleted or shadowbanned before I could promote them, so, if you do have some spare quid

'informed' my god is there ANY level of depravity to which this so-called state will not sink?

Sometimes the scale of animal exploitation just makes me stop and weep. It is such madness and I hate that people I know are good people deep down perpetuate it

*screams* okay, the word a lot of people are looking for is bimodal, not binary. Sex is bimodal AAAARGH

Why??? They both have outstanding bodies of work that are fascinating, what happens if you choose? The other disappears and you have a slightly worse world? Cool, cool cool

The Hague is too good for Netanyahu

LFG!!

When vystopia hits it really hits. Doing some community organising and a lot it on harm reduction and I want to shout you can make a massive level of harm reduction yourself but (stupid arguments that amount to basically I dont want to change)

How do you read The Night Watch and Monstrous Regiment and end up as a tory terf? Pissing on the poor media literacy strikes again

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Thinking about the Sandia laboratories "this is not a place of honour/we considered ourselves to be a powerful culture" and feeling strangely emotional

I actually want this to be the future of everyone who wants smart stuff. It's not smart, I am very cosy because I have a window open and can hear the wind and rain, yet can also be under a blanket on the sofa

Yo pre-order for a best of a decade group of reprobates, ne'er do Wells, and professional writers

About last weekend….Grateful for being invited to speak at a great conference, being so cared for and for everyone’s enthusiasm for what I had to say! And all the rock art ❤️ #CampoLameiro

Omnivores will come into your DMs unprompted and then ask what do you eat and then they're just airfrying some frozen chicken nuggets on their feed