‘If slavery were invented today, would (Labour ministers) call it ‘impractical’? If torture were invented today, would they call it ‘ineffective’? If child labour were invented today, would they call it ‘poor value for money’?’ My piece for @bylines.scot bylines.scot/politics/sta...

they're not even bringing a knife to a gun fight. they're bringing one of those joke guns which fires out a hankie reading "Bang" except it doesn't read "Bang" it reads "he's right, vote for us", this metaphor doesn't work at all I know I'm just really fucking mad okay

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

The Economist hides behind anonymity to spew a grotesque distortion of research that, to any reasonably minded person, makes clear Trans+ people deserve affirming support This isn’t journalism - it’s anti-trans propaganda that puts young Trans+ lives at serious risk Cowardly. Callous. Contemptible

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

I had to rewatch Jim Henson's memorial service to see how people remember a life well lived. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeEz...

Keir Starmer: "This death and destruction horrifies all of us" So you'll stop all arms exports to Israel? No So you'll halt all trade? No So you'll impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy? No So you'll end all military ties? No. So its just empty words.

This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The UK has recognised Palestine. It must now end its complicity in its destruction, and in the genocide of its people.

Last year, I represented a person charged with a crime. The exact charge isn't important, but we won the case. Afterwards, the client said he'd never seen a prosecutor defend a person like them before. I was confused until I realized they thought *I* was the prosecutor.

The funny thing about Brian Kilmeade being forced to apologize for wanting to kill homeless people is that many of the people aghast at his comments have functionally the same beliefs; they just may not consciously realize it.

Today is perhaps a good day to remind people that Jimmy Carter personally and publicly pled with Obama to recognize to the State of Palestine before his second term ended and Obama just ignored him lol

"I was diagnosed with #LongCovid  seven months after my initial illness–my life has never been the same. I had to leave my flat, I lost my relationship, and I moved back with my parents. I also dropped out of university when I became too sick to finish" Alex, UK metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...

In just seven months, Musk axing USAID has killed 341,476 children. We will never know most of their names www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Someone do the Scooby Doo face-reveal meme...

No one could’ve seen this coming

I will not whitewash the white supremacist that was Charlie Kirk. For someone so young, what an embarrassment of hatreds he left us to excoriate him with. Essay: Speak Truth of the Dead www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-spea...

"The British Psychological Society has warned that recent changes to equality law guidance risk causing confusion and damaging the wellbeing of trans people." www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social is a dear friend of mine and a civil litigator who has dedicated her life to doing good for the world. She is being sued by a hateful troll for a thread she wrote on Twitter, which she had every legal right to post. PLEASE if you can spare it help her out.

🚨 UPDATE My understanding is that GPEW now has legal advice and leadership are holding high-level discussions about how to handle the GWD stall at Autumn Conference As I mentioned before, members should be prepared for the likely presence of an anti-trans lobby group led by expelled former members

Andy Burnham under pressure over Greater Manchester Police's rampant homophobia Andy Burnham is facing increased criticism over GMP's unlawful raids on gay venues, intimidation, assault, forced outings, and homophobia www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Tomorrow is going to be a shitty day for many autistic people. The report on itself is bad, but so is the language we're going to see officials use to describe autism.

No outrage from me...... She's bang on the money here. #nadiyahussain #charliekirk #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #selectiveoutrage #racism

Lord Bucket Head as a child

Dearly departed little angel

bond girls but they’re also muppets: thread

this exists it is called thinking

PSA: there’s more people facing hunger in the UK than the combined populations of London, Manchester and Glasgow.

Portugal announces it has officially recognized the State of Palestine

She's at it again, folks.

This is just the perfect encapsulation of the total, catastrophic victory of Thatcherism. This entire model exploded on the world stage in 2008, but our entire population is steeped in the ideology, and everyone in power is wedded to it, so we’re stuck smashing the ‘Thatcher’ button over and over.

honey, what's wrong, you've hardly touched your festive fall gendered butt wipes

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

Lads www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is Andrew Tate "really that bad" asks the Spectator, while giving him and his brother the opportunity to blankly deny the countless charges of rape and sexual trafficking against them, before concluding that "I can’t help believing them"

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

Lister: That’s not a word Cat: Sure it is! It’s a Cat word L: OK, what’s it mean? C: It’s the sound you make when you get your sexual organs trapped in something L: Is it in the dictionary? C: Could be. If you were reading in the nude and you closed the book too quickly #RedDwarf

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

Just so folks know: This article quotes the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, which is a formally-designated anti-trans hate group, as an authority here. The Economist should be ashamed of its reporting here. No wonder the authors refused to comment. www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...

As a tech lawyer I am often on team “unfortunately that bad clause is in every ToU you sign and there are usually not-scammy reasons for it”. But uh explicitly claiming your signature? wwwtttffff

CONFESSIONS OF A GREEN PARTY MEMBER With all this chat of lefties being tempted to place their faith in the Greens, here's an honest account of what it's like to take the leap... (from someone who joined 3 years ago) 🧵👇

Someone with more money than me needs to recreate this, but they all have to be dressed as drag queens. Then all the normal people go dark for two days and watch the "left behind" people lose their shit.

Now's a good time to get free things from people who think they're going to heaven this week. Anyone know any rapture believers who collect blu-rays?

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

obv significant that they admit this, but my understanding has been that this was self-evident? like you need a model of "what's true" in the system for it to be able to check against, and no such model exists?

wild fun fact: it was *repeatedly* discovered that the mechanical turk was just a guy in a box and they kept doing the scam just bringing that up for no reason

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

This chaos also speaks to the growing awareness of the profound corruption of the Supreme Court. The excessive H1B fee is clearly illegal according to the text of the applicable statute. But no one can have any confidence anymore that it will ultimately be thrown out.