Tell us - explicitly, with reference to existing law - why it's okay to visit a website that basically has a big "generate CSAM" button in its sidebar. Because sites have been shut down and people prosecuted for less. There's a reason this stuff is hidden behind euphemisms among offenders.

it is so important that we do not lose our nerve in making higher education more inclusive, diverse and equitable wonkhe.com/blogs/the-fr...

Sending love to the imprisoned Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK, whose well-being and survival I am deeply worried about. In Let This Radicalize You, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote about the escalating repression in the UK. For those who aren't aware, the situation has worsened.

What happened after that

back at work now, but last week we went to Arundel wetland centre (which is such a special place) and my boy took this photo of a kingfisher

Moonshone ice

Just saw this in LinkedIn for anyone interested in looking into Grok's production of CSAM and non-consensual sexualised imagery. www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...

this is very funny and very good, god bless all at @bashback.bsky.social

America has no more right to invade Venezuela than Russia has to invade Ukraine. This is really straightforwardly criminal! Remember all that shit we correctly said about the Russian government being villains and gangsters? That was right! The same stuff applies here.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Die Walküre

On the 10th anniversary of the death of #Boulez, a beautiful page from the orchestral manuscript of 'Tombeau' (Pli selon pli)

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

This poster is one of the best on here and I’m so sad we’re losing her because of the appalling harassment she has been subjected to. Of course she must look after herself. And the rest of us need to do whatever we can to challenge and change this cruel, sick, dangerous, culture.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

All that ‘protect-our-sovereign -borders-against-people-with-no -guns-in-tiny-dinghies’ rings hollow in a world where our so-called allies kill or extract leaders extrajudicially and by invading sovereign territory. Borders are being breached illegally and violently & not by people seeking asylum

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

The Venezuelan government has been saying for decades it’s the victim of American aggression and sabotage because the US wants to steal its natural resources, so it’s clarifying that the US is now bombing the country while the President and senior officials say they are going to steal it’s resources

Forgot to post this one

So much truth. And controversial view: for me one of the key differences between radio programmes and podcasts is that radio programmes rarely make me shout GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER IN THE PUB I WASN’T THERE

One of the key things this Labour Government has done is aggressively pursue terrorism charges against (hundreds!) of people who haven't killed or blown up anything or anyone.

happy new year y'all

my wife just gave me a Look because I was laughing so hard at this

NEW When should social media posts have legal consequences? Comparing and contrasting the cases of Lucy Connolly and Alaa Abd El-Fattah By me, at @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Calls to strip pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship pile torment on top of torture. New piece by me on a dangerous and manufactured storm: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."

Again: they thought they’d win a shattering court victory with the Harry Potter lady’s money, then the public would rise up in gratitude, salute them as heroes and stomp all over transgender people on their behalf. That hasn’t happened, because the public mostly aren’t vicious cranks, like they are.

no jesus christ the solution is to allow everyone to play in their own categories, it is insanely cruel how cis people keep reinventing segregation. trans people should not be punished for being excellent, full stop

If they would rather die, let them do it quickly and decrease the surplus population!

Many episodes available worldwide! Play ‘em to your kids 😁👇

I again urge you to ask which is more likely: that millions of members of the public have gone insane, or that a comparatively tiny number of people at the heart of media and politics - who all know each other and often work together - have driven *themselves and each other* crazy.

I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.

Fewer than 50,000 Christians now live in Palestine under threat from Israel’s illegal occupation and attacks.

your boy has been carol singing and now enjoying the Harveys Christmas ale

Update on My Sousaphone Journey, the beast just had its first public outing doing a little busking for MAP in town with the 12yo

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Abolish the gambling industry

We have an estate advent calendar where people sign up to decorate their window. This year I have contributed 'Hoji frog at the office Christmas party'

Some great suggestions for Xmas dinner table fun in the replies here

This, very very hard. None of my primary sources are digitised, except the ones I have made so. Many of the finding aids to my sources are not even digitised. AI is so supremely limited.

Erik Satie predicts:

correct

Magnificent!

it was very satisfying to discover what this post is about

may i suggest

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use