Similarities to the Filton case in the UK: judge disallows key legal defences, jury convicts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Katrina Percy oversaw a period of neglect at Southern Health that led to Connor Sparrowhawk drowning in a bath during an epileptic fit and 722 unexpected deaths in 5 years of which under 300 were investigated. She resigned in disgrace. She’s CEO at the National Association of Primary Care now.

The thing is, the defence of this is always "you're asking it a stupid question you already know the answer to", but if the question is that trivial and stupid then the magic god computer should be able to answer it correctly. Why should I trust it with more complex things when it's shit at this?

Cleaned the washing machine out. Put laundry on. Half an hour later the kitchen is flooded. Had forgotten to the put the cap back on the drain.

me in the first phase of analysing interview transcripts

It’s thirty five degrees outside, so naturally the cat wants to be as On Me as possible

british press has one trick and it's to find two marginalised groups (which intersect) and draft them into war against eachother

The Independent are already asking cisgender wheelchair users to explain why trans people should have no access to toilet facilities rather than asking anyone who is trans and disabled about how it affects them

DOUBLE MEDS REMINDER - check you’ve got enough for the bank holiday - check if your meds increase heat or sun sensitivity (lots of antipsychotics and antidepressants do) ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

I’ve said this a billion times before so idk how useful it is to repeat it but as a disabled cis women who is in single sex hospital wards and inpatient psych spaces a fair bit I have a long list of threats to them that are a bigger issue than trans women using them

Bigotry as a legitimate reason for discrimination as presented by the equality and human rights commission

New EHRC guidance is due today. Remember: ➡️ Early reports based on unattributed briefings are spin, not facts. ➡️ This is civil law around who can and cannot bring discrimination claims - not criminal law. ➡️ Whatever it says, it is a choice by this government. They can fix it. ➡️ We will keep going.

Burnham isn’t any less racist or transphobic than the rest of them, he’s just marginally better looking and it’s got everyone confused.

This is it. This is the academic “acronym” that finally turns me into the joker.

My favourite typo is "viscous" for "vicious"

White Vanguard out in London today at fascist protest, handing out great replacement theory flyers

Goodness, what uncharacteristically polite coppers.

You can't avoid in the "controlled by Zionists" phrasing the implication that there are Zionist puppeteers hiding in the background and the government are just a front for their interests. In fact, Israel and Zionism are the continuation and culmination of British and western imperialist projects.

Saying the British government is controlled by Zionists is an inherently weird kind of grammatical construction compared with eg saying that protecting the Zionist project is British government police.

personal lifelong side quest to fix these every time I see it. the red cord needs to hang all the way to the ground so people can reach it if they fall.

Still thinking about the young reader who messaged to say that I gave her hope because I have “a beautiful butch wife and a career in woke.”

Different field but transcribing interviews has always felt really important to me. Transcribing spoken words is an act of interpretation in itself - whether you represent pauses, accident, intonation, are all interpretive decisions

PSA if you’re thinking of watching #ThePitt and have experience of suicidal ideation: the end of S1 features a suicide attempt where there’s (imo) an unhelpful level of detail about the method involved. I wish I’d given it a miss bc it’s going to feature in my intrusive thoughts for ages now.

also senior Oyster cards are accepted as photo id but student and care leaver equivalents aren't

well it’s good disabled people newly on UC are getting £200 a month less

I just think they would have been trained to restrain people without having to kick them in the head, repeatedly (before we bring anything else into it. And WHY are we bringing anything else into it?)

my very favorite Richard Dawkins headline of all time remains “British scientists don't like Richard Dawkins, finds study that didn't even ask questions about Richard Dawkins”

People who let cops do this have no problem with criminality or violence, they have a problem with the wrong people being allowed to do it.

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

Have learned that my fellows do not know the tiger poem so here it is for you

They're doing the detransition thing but with autism now.

There are actual cis men on the board of many women's charities, but weirdly this does not lead to, uhh, "sustained criticism" (quite the euphemism there for "organised campaign of abuse and harassment").

Whether I'm there or not next year, here are the things that have been replaced by a generic skills module including 3 weeks on Using AI: 1. My linguistics colleagues on accent and dialect change, and atittudes towards the local accent. Led by the accents in the room.

I just backed Thyme Travellers 2: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

How do autistic adults make sense of being assigned the "challenging behaviour" label? *RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS* I am autistic & I have been assigned the "challenging behaviour" label Supervisor: @drstevenkapp.bsky.social Email [email protected] to express interest/for more information

Just learned about this doctor who took out the WHOLE WRONG ORGAN in surgery and killed his patient www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...

YES

Some people spent five years reaching a conclusion that anti-racists have been saying for decades: "an external framework is incapable of overcoming a culture that does not want to change.” Policing is institutionally racist and impossible to reform www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

They make April autism month because we all have a history of getting catastrophically April Fooled

The hound group is the funniest group because you go almost straight from borzoi to dachshund

They should show flyball in pubs instead of football

Oh no, I forgot to put out treats for dog lesbian Santa Claus last night. No walkies for me this year.

IT'S DOG LESBIAN CHRISTMAS #CRUFTS2026

The launch of every piece of AI-driven surveillance/security/criminal justice software basically goes like this: AI COMPANY: this is an error free, bias free, state of the art, highly intelligent software system Two Weeks Later: …aaaand it’s racist

This is kidnapping btw. She refused to go to the care home so they turned off her electric wheelchair and pushed her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every day my body is inventing new joints or areas to hurt in

I’m so upset that I know all the references and people in this thread

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.