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Thread: I’m not really sure where to put this so I’m going to put it here and text links to my friends . We have all been having discourse about the NPSM-7 lists. Concurrently, Google has launched an AI-mode assisted search tool. Please share widely

Adding to this: you should always have something planned for two months away. Gig/trip/social thing, whatever. is good for brain

I would like to direct all speeders to this chart

Remember kids, in the year of our Lord 2026, if you see someone stealing food, NO YOU FUCKING DIDN’T

"What's your goal here?" is such a powerful way of putting the brakes on an escalating cycle of assholery without backing down. It works SO well. Just "What do you want to have happen?"

Hi, I’m a decade and change of treatment resistant depression

This language causes harm, and the law recognises that misgendering can be discriminatory. If we don’t challenge it, it becomes normalised. Please use them and share this post. Also share these on social media, and with anyone who will stand up and be heard ✊ 3/3

We need everyone who can: • Email your MP using our template • Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur • Submit complaints using our guide on BBC articles that use degrading or misleading language about trans people tacc.org.uk/2026/01/02/e... 2/3

We sent a formal complaint to the BBC over its repeated misgendering of trans people and use of terms like “biological male”. We’ve also written to the Women and Equalities Committee, DCMS, and the Minister for Women and Equalities. Now we need community action. 📢We now need your help! 1/3

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

I have been writing professionally since I was 20. I am 50. I have a long list of publications I've written and worked for. I run a media website that employs other writers. 'why do you want to join when you've done fine without us?' was an actual question they asked me.

If you want to know why the NUJ in England does nothing about transphobia in media, I applied to join and, with 30 years of professionale experience, they wouldn't let me join. There was no reason at all as I joined the Irish one with ease. It was pure, unadulterated transphobia.

"I asked chatgpt" well I asked this lady. not sure I'm ahead on this one actually

Chat, is this the male loneliness epidemic?

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

When you make speeches about an island of strangers & take every opportunity to say Farage & the racists have a point this is the intolerance you create

"oh but I've never seen anything like that" "I use it for my business" "My friends are there" Enough with the silly excuses. You won't be the same person once you will start getting haunted by csam images being freely generated or shared on Elon's nazi platform. Get out of there.

Left that wreck of a platform after archiving my posts on Bluesky back in late 2024. There are hundreds of studies showing a distinct bias that pushes extreme right-wing views even to neutral accounts. If you're still "on the fence" to leave, this should be a matter of safety and principle for you.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

Ahmed is a real person and has been on here every day for months now trying to provide for his large family- which is an insane amount of pressure for one young man. Please, these people need us. chuffed.org/project/1634...

You cannot have “AI” without having “machine that almost solely exists to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images of mainly women and children.” The former exists in tandem with the latter. That’s how this industry has worked so far, and it has only gotten worse with zero accountability

Still one of my favorite poems, and a good read for the first day of the year.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025? I was not able to finish watching this because of all the flashing graphics, sadly.

"It can't be me & everything I've angrily demanded & been amply given by a government of people in my spitting image. No, no it cant possibly be that. It must be the insignificant scum people I despise positing on their socials telling me the government is wrong about stuff"

i think you should have to do, or help to do, or at least plan to help to do some terrorism before they can charge you with terrorism

My chosen song for going into 2026 youtu.be/cX8szNPgrEs

why aren't Primal Scream a metal band, you know?

ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes

There are a great many reasons to be against AI in general, but this kinda thing alone should be enough to shut the whole rotten venture down immediately. There's been so many similar stories already, AI executives should've been put in a centrifuge with a brick already

Bluesky is once again silencing posts- please boost, donate, repost!! Time is always crucial.

My 2025 can be best summarised with “the horrors persist but so do I”. Hoping for greater creative and professional satisfaction in the year to come, and more time spent in community.

Had a lyft driver this morning who: Was Masked, Thanked me for being Masked, and then Launched into telling me about how bad the flu is in London and NYC and how he's dreading going back to do airport shuttle drives with "unmasked coughers" So if you're going somewhere tonight, wear a goddamn mask

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

today and tomorrow all donations to @solitarywatch.bsky.social are tripled. their work is crucial, vital, needed. give something if you can. solitarywatch.org/donations/do...

Remember to stock up on lemons today for your New Year Lemon Pig-making needs! 🍋

Damnatio memoriae in the digital age will be challenging, but I believe in us.

Firm reminder: We live in community with children, not above them.

You should expect this year in Britain will involve ever-greater convergence upon these forms of increasingly Mein Kampfy authoritarian cruelty into a single, incoherent shared ideology within our political/media class, because that is where we have been going at increasing speed since roughly 2001.

Sharp-eyed readers may note the overlaps between “gender ideology is a leftist plot to deprave the youth and molest our womenfolk”; “human rights are a Soviet/Islamist plot to sap our martial will to dominate and destroy our enemies”, and “the volk are threatened by the taint of the lesser races”.

and even more "deeply" than that. no technique nor technology is "neutral". this idea, of this neutrality that is only broken by use-intent, is so hard to get past for a lot of people, even at the higher levels of "intellectuality" (meaning: academia).

I think Africa's top museums should acquire all treasures from the Louvre, its clear European institutes like this just aren't up to safeguarding European art www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is no general principle in conservatism beyond, I get to do what I want, and you get to shut the fuck up.

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Somehow we’ve ended up in a position where the richest most powerful people in the world are innocent benevolent bystanders while a college professor with no tenure is part of a decadent and corrupt establishment that controls everything