Repeated studies show this course of action is not only effective in fulfilling its aim, but has long term knock-on good effects for the wider public. 1/

Rabbi here. The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42. It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.

okay but what about the part where he FUCKS KIDS

It's important to note, as I have multiple times, that it's possible to be Jewish - as I am - and still condemn Israel for genocidal acts. In fact, the history of Judaism makes it clear Jews are obligated to speak out. Never again *means* never again. #zachor

Amazing how policies that please no one result in no one being pleased by you.

when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.

Reproductive rights was one of the Biden Administration’s signature policies. And Roe v Wade had been law for almost 50 years. The Supreme Court “interfered” with it.

We really do need to vote out the Tories and their racist Secretary of State for the Home Department. Oh, right, sorry. We really do need to vote out the *Red* Tories and their racist Secretary of State for the Home Department.

Siri show me the whitest post in history

Words the BBC could've used instead of "admits": pretends claims says, echoing the fascists,

Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender

We really need to stop allowing the fascists to dictate how we talk. They've openly said that even criticizing them is criminal. Anyone who isn't them is a "criminal" in their eyes. They don't believe in due process. Literally no one deserves to be kidnapped off the street and disappeared

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

I’m a dyed-in-the-wool conservative who just wants to go back to the good old days: 90+% marginal income tax rates. A time of great patriotism and very strong strength!

This isn't true but I dearly wish it was.

Someone who wants to deliberately misinterpret what I have written, and then go on to make snide remarks about how certain things are actually misgendering, but whilst calling me "bro", is someone who is better off being blocked because I want to avoid being irony poisoned.

this story was sort of lost in the last few days of the epstein news but it’s wild how many republicans appear to be pedophiles or okay with pedophilia

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Getting kicked off of Bluesky for threatening to wait until someone is standing on a cliff's edge and then cutting theie rocky outcropping off with a big saw Getting kicked off Bluesky for threatening to paint a fake tunnel into a mountainside so someone will run into it

It's true. If Labour raise income taxes, the party might slump to around a quarter of the vote, and its PM and Chancellor might be even more unpopular than Rishi Sunak in 2024 or Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 - wait, sorry, just got an email from Ipsos with some new polling, I'm sure it's nothing important.

You know that bit about how you can convince people to go along with a certain view by asking the right questions¹ I believe there's a certain peculiarity with at least my brain that's more general than that. ¹ youtu.be/ahgjEjJkZks 1/

It's worth noting that BlueSky banned Patton Oswald for a post (click through for details) but haven't banned the "Department of War" for posting and actual threat of imminent violence along with a video of them killing people.

Something that drives this home is the fact that if you gave Brown, Attlee, Wilson or even Callaghan a majority the size of Starmer's and have them control the intake as much as his leadership did, they would have genuinely overhauled Britain in ways we can't imagine

The best thing about the UK in the (early) 1970s is that it was before neoliberalism, as pushed by Reagan and Thatcher, took hold. But it was a fœtid place where public smoking and leaded fuel was normal, where women couldn't have a bank account of her own, etc. etc.

I think John Scalzi *should* meet a wood chipper. It would be an opportunity for the wood chipper community to dispel the myths that they are nothing but bloodhungry beasts when really they are just helpful little machines that help turn large problems into multiple small opportunities!

Glad BlueSky did this. When I saw Patton Oswalt saying Megyn Kelly should be fed into a woodchipper feet first for defending raping children based on what age she thinks is okay, I thought, "yes, comedian Patton Oswalt is going to, in real life, feed Megyn Kelly into a woodchipper feet first."

People who don't like transphobes and use exaggerated violent terms to express that get banned. People who don't like racists and use exaggerated violent terms to express that get banned. People who don't like rapists and use exaggerated violent terms to express that get banned. 1/

Hear me out: the people with loads of money should have much less of it and the people with hardly any money should have some more. Sorry to get all Karl Marx Lenin Stalin on your timelines so early but I had to say it.

Make public transport free at the point of use.

Brianna Ghey was murdered for being trans and the Labour government have decided the best way to solve things isn't to *stop being transphobic* but to blame technology. We are a pawn for political machinations for these fuckers, nothing more. We're an abstraction and not treated as people.

If we're talking about owning a position then Streeting needs to own: Being transphobic Not caring about mental health Not caring about doctors and the NHS Being a plastic-faced kapo¹, willing to sacrifice members of the LGBTQIA+ community to maintain personal power ¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapo

My most woke opinion is: children are people Yes, they don't know a lot, and they don't have a great deal of control over their emotions and desires, but we don't, for example, beat adults with learning difficulties so we shouldn't use corporal punishment for children. 1/

Hahaha! 1) Natasha Lyonne has gone deep for AI 2) people said it was like Columbo but it really wasn't that similar

Men: It's women's fault we're lonely. Also men: Why aren't women using AI in the workplace? Women: We don't trust it. We want harassment-free workplaces with equal pay and benefits. Men again: No. That's not possible. Here's a robot we made.

"There's a whole week for transgender awareness, but I only became aware of it on thursday" is a very funny metaphor. There was a younger generation who became aware of transgender awareness week as early as Monday but then we reconfigured the entire Federal government to try to make that illegal

hey look you may have helped finance attacks on trans and immigrant rights and the downfall of democracy as well as the protection of a bunch of extremely high profile pedophiles but at least the wordle was good right

A reminder, if one were needed, that LLMs treat all prompts the same, whether they're "baked in" behind the scenes, or given as an individual prompt, so they can never be secure.

one of the biggest pleasant media surprises of recent years, it's really incredible how well season one nailed everything that works about the Fallout setting also, as a general rule, you should always be watching anything Walton Goggins is in

“With great power comes great responsibility” is the core moral of what is fundamentally a famous picture book for children. It is quite naturally far too complex a text for our media betters to comprehend.

is it really shocking that the paper obsessed with the abuse of trans children ran cover for the child rape president?

Yes, as long as we also recognise that most¹ billionaires only exist because they exploited their workers which we can, therefore, consider equivalent to theft… ¹ there are, arguably, a few who have acquired their wealth from their personal work

They did conquer Albion, so for those that hate The English there's that. But, otherwise, yeah…

Everyone getting mad at the New York Times for sitting on or suppressing mountains of evidence about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump need to realize that they had a lot on their plate with trying to keep the country afraid of trans kids and Palestinians

Sabine Hossenfelder has been on a right-wing, anti-science grift for some time, as was obvious then she went down the transphobia pipeline a couple of years ago. That she's teamed up with Lawrence Krause, funded by money from a pædophile, is also not very surprising, alas.

He's on a mission from God

Inevitable to see that TERFs/Gender Critical ideologues [transphobes] have dropped their pretence & are now openly joining in with their fellow far right extremists. Allow me, on behalf of the LGBTQ community, to say ‘we told you so’.

I don't know if it's because I have fallen for the fallacious reasoning that "if it exists it isn't really AI", or if it's because I've spent time thinking about what LLMs are and have a better understanding, but I am confident that LLMs aren't any form of intelligence but they fake it very well.

So, there's this guy who is really really good at public relations, but recently he made a bit of an unforced error (and, also, didn't jump on a chance, later, to make a really good point on an unrelated topic) and I don't know whether I should say anything or if doing so will make his fans hate me.

It's kind of wild how almost all politics in the UK is a demand for perfect systems that work 100% of the time and angry denunciations of systems that have redundancy or error checking as wasteful bureaucracy.