i honestly can't stand seeing people say Gen AI is a disability aid because if it was a disability aid, they wouldn't be putting this much money into it

“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.” Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.

'the fellowship, full of good intentions, truly believe that destroying the dark lord sauron will make people happier.' - saruman, the economist ✍️

Apparently at least 25 WIs have now closed as a result of threats by “gender critical feminists”. GCs do not represent (cis)women.

Just a friendly reminder that your desire to spend the weekend reading Agatha Christie and eating emotional support scones by a crackling fire in a Scottish Highlands cottage is valid. Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

The CEO of the company Starmer, Streeting & @labouruk.bsky.social have decided to hand over more contracts & data too. #votegreen

I’ve got usernames older than this little shit

A refresher from our video earlier this week. The deposition is part of a lawsuit filed by @historians.org, @acls1919.bsky.social and @modernlanguage.bsky.social. Read our story on the highlights from the hours long deposition here: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Over 1200 people.

Absolutely brilliant speech by Sir Geoffrey Cox KC in the HoC yesterday, speaking against the Courts and Tribunals Bill: youtu.be/AoIS2Ol669Q?... The Labour frontbench elected to meet this speech with...giggling. I have reached levels of disgust I didn't think possible.

"Donald Trump realises what everyone else has known the entire time."

We knew Trump and his goons had no bloody clue what they were doing attacking Iran but then you realise they actively removed everyone in the command structure who did know what war with Iran would mean, and then you remember it's only been 10 days. The existential dread is reaching new levels yall.

This whole thread on a show cause hearing is just excruciatingly painful. Yes, AI used to generate filings, yes fake citations and made up quotes from actual cases. Yes, lawyer attempts to bluster out of trouble. Car crash.

Today I asked ministers to deny* that the number of jury acquittals in protest cases was a factor in the Government’s dangerous attack on jury trials. *They did not do this

The thing is that I distinctly remember opponents of gay marriage crying and kicking their heels and claiming to be oppressed by the mean censorious gays all the time.

You also kept getting this absurdity of "ahhh but WHAT COULD HAPPEN" as if we were the only country doing this, even though other countries and states in countries had already done it (for years by then!). Arguments against self-ID never seemed to remember _Ireland exists next door_ and have done it

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

If a troubled 7 year old had written that👇🏼I’d find it worrisome that one so young could harbour so much hate.. but I wouldn’t be bothered too much by the childish tone language and use of upper case But it’s the President of the USA writing it FFS.. who clearly never grew up❗️🤦🏼‍♂️

As a reminder, this is the woman who sent repeated on the record voice notes to a journalist about an ongoing federal case. Go watch the Legal Eagle video on it, it's...something. Surprised it took this long tbh

Okay #disabilitylawyers of Bluesky, help me out here 🧵. I've got a bunch of employment disability discrim cases and in every one, the R has insisted that the they didn't know C had disabilities and that they don't think the C's health conditions count as disabilities anyway. /1

Mhmm, so either the author has completely forgotten the existence of Nigel Farage or genuinely considers the concept of taxing the rich more deplorable than a man who has spent several decades creating a political home for Nazi-sympathising ghouls.

And he thought this would help him how??

I'm on a murder mockumentary kick at the moment, so I'm watching Des. I was enjoying it. Until we got to ep3 and they have a barrister jump up and say "objection" and get a "sustained" from the judge. This is now apparently enough to get me to tell the TV off.

Yes waiter, I'll have a cup of tea, a scone, and if it's not too much trouble, perhaps some precedented times?

If the MoJ could invest in the machines that get the criminals of the now to court on time then perhaps we wouldn’t be in this mess.

So they killed him to prevent him from harming himself? Inside a concentration camp? Christ these people think we are all fools.

Reform: There's too much state interference. Also Reform: We will force you to marry, stop you getting divorced, make you have babies, dictate your religious beliefs, control your sexuality, penalise you if you are disabled and deport you if you don't look right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Things have truly come to a pretty pass when the government of the cannot facilitate the destruction of a city of two million civilians to curry favour with the world’s most powerful and abysmal fascist authoritarians, without facing a lot of impertinent political campaigning

Reform UK's Gorton and Denton candidate Matt Goodwin holds a visiting professorship at a university centre allied with at least five ‘race science’-linked organisations including the front publication of a rebranded Nazi eugenics foundation - a network whose central figures he has defended and promo

movementforgood.com/draws/1000?u... This is an easy way to gain £1000 for a fantastic cause. 30 seconds of your time is all it requires. Thanks!

I'm sitting in a CVP lobby waiting for a crown court trial to start this morning. It was meant to start at 10 AM. However, once again, Serco has failed to bring the defendant to court on time. How they haven't lost their contract is completely beyond me. Almost like the problem isn't juries.

You would think that finding out the whole heroin chic waif look and ubiquitous fatshaming of women in the 90's was influenced by a handful of elite pedophiles as both their preference and a way to sex traffick more easily, would have made a bigger splash in the news.

It's really striking, how zero fucks about balance are given by the British media when comes to possibly letting a single trans person discuss how shit our lives are now

I am spending my 30th birthday in a Crown Court it takes me 2 hours to get to from home and personally I think they should just give me my practicing certificate now bc that's the most barrister thing I can do today 😂

Marginalia in illuminated manuscripts are one my absolute favourite things, they're usually either adorable or hilarious. And occasionally you'll find a scribe complaining about a hangover in latin.

This point is, I think, nonsense on its face. We are all old enough to remember Greenpeace breaking into sites & destroying, e.g., GM crops. Did this make them terrorists?

The real point is this: so you heard people speaking a language you don’t understand, so what? So what? It’s not only not a big deal it isn’t a deal detectable with a microscope. Not everyone speaks English and no-one is obliged to make sure you can eavesdrop on their conversations. /5

I mean we've had chaos with everyone else at this point

Threatening to cut funding to someone because they disagree is a *real* threat to academic freedom of the kind frequently seen under fascist and authoritarian regimes. This is also confected bullshit. There is no obligation whatsoever for a society or institution to invite a speaker.

Something compelled me to make this

This smacks of the same bullshit as those Democrats who voted to continue funding ICE and are now backpedalling b/c they don't want to lose vote share. ICE still got more funding. The UK is still selling weapons to Israel. He's still part of a govt that tries to criminalise those protesting genocide

Instagram banning accounts for queer people visibly existing was one of many warnings. bsky.app/profile/devi...

“An age in which millions of people voluntarily sit through the podcasts of venture capitalists is one which has grown altogether too credulous of the idea that wealth is evidence of special insight into the human condition.”

The Discord news is why I oppose age-gating content on social media. By doing so, you leave it to platforms to decide what kids can see - American platforms who take their lead from the US government. Meaning that right now, age gates are being used to prevent access to any queer-related content.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

Sure. The pictures of Streeting hugging Mandelson & footage of Streeting defending Mandelson were all an illusion.

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal