For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...

Anyone posting on X now that it is documented as being a site for serious image based abuse, including CSAM risks being seen as complicit in that abuse. Everyone should be off the platform as a matter of urgency

And that's even aside from the CSAM side of things, which in a sane world would have shut the entire website down immediately and sent a whole lot of people to jail

Non-consensual image creation / "deep-fake porn" has been a problem for a while that the legal system has only just begun to grapple with but part of what makes the Grok thing much worse is that it's delivered instantly & directly into replies to punish women for publicly speaking or even existing.

I would very much like someone to ask someone in the government what the consequences would be for someone (unwittingly or otherwise) viewing CSAM on Twitter/X, because I'm not aware of any legislation passed recently that makes doing so legal.

This is great. Sound on for best effect.

The word abortion is really hard to write on my iphone because apparently the default is to treat it as if it’s a swear word. Any suggestions of how to fix? It’s very annoying #reprosky #abortionishealthcare

Russian billionaire Alex Gerko is amongst the funders of the Cambridge Union TERF society, reports The Times.

We are witnessing the horror of years of the slaughter of innocents in Palestine. And now the U.K. Government require us to witness - equally helpless - their decision to allow the deaths of protesters on remand who are innocent until proven guilty in our judicial system.

Ambulance has finally taken her to hospital

🧵1/ The Christmas @bmj.com is always an opportunity to use satire as a vehicle for serious health messaging. Borrowing from Jonathan Swift, I ask, if public health is to “work with industry,” why stop at alcohol and gambling? Why not go all the way… and collaborate with organised crime?

So did the BBC force out a science presenter because he holds views compatible with science and a belief in human rights?

I'm a big fan of @oxfordmutualaid.bsky.social and this is a wonderful, and moving read about why they're so special.

Also on linked in: people who want to drum trans people out of the girl guides happy to work with a very well known anti abortion lawyer #feminism

Men stop insulting women online challenge

This article about threats to charities and charity workers came out the same day that I’ve been insulted on linked in for daring to express my sadness at the girl guides excluding trans girls. The article doesn’t mention legal threats but it should have done www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.

Did you know the Aids Memorial Quilt has been fully digitised. You can click on a panel and find out more about the person behind it www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-... #WorldAidsDay

NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity

Yikes. Quite a lot of questions raised here about processes in economics research, to say the least

This is appalling, and why reproductive justice is so important to fight for #reprosky ‘Our babies were taken after “biased” parenting test – now we're fighting to get them back’ - BBC News

A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!

HE WILL KEEP TEACHING COLLEGE A JOB THAT INVOLVES PROXIMITY TO YOUNG WOMEN

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Can we go back to the days when politicians said that they really wanted to help people but it’s very hard and takes time, rather than saying that they want to hurt people and can do it quickly?

gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Christmas for care leavers - please support www.justgiving.com/campaign/oxf...

Some people get prison time and others get a delightful home on the family estate

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Which reminds me, it's that time of year again for National Trust members to vote. The easiest way is to use the 'quick vote' to keep out the traditionalist 'Restore Trust' candidates. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/... 1/2

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Looking forward to teaching on this course

Content warning: piers Morgan being awful. It is so refreshing seeing someone actually standing up to this gotcha drivel and insisting on nuance (even if Morgan talks over it).

Will California ban non-stick pans? Chefs are divided on whether protecting human health or frying an egg without butter is more important. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3

Dear Ezra Klein, bodily autonomy is not a bargaining chip. What rights are you willing to give up? Let’s see you walk the talk. The burger is on me. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Over 25 years ago I started lobbying, with colleagues, to get unis to take sexual violence seriously. Repeatedly institutions and research councils ignored, downplayed, or argued it 'wasn't a priority'. It always has been. The latest data shows action is STILL needed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I saw this in the cinema recently and it’s brilliant. About Kenyan ghostwriters and the epidemic of cheating among students in rich countries. Nuanced, thoughtful and enraging. You can catch it on uk tv tonight 10pm, channel 4 #academicsky www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/e...

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety. Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name. Will you join them? notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

I know when we talk of university safety and mental health most people sigh while imagining compulsory wellbeing webinars. In reality there are very real risks posed to some staff we currently are failing to address. This is one of them.

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is genuinely what a Labour government thinks terrorism looks like in the UK right now and I'm losing my god damn mind

Extreme content warning here re IDF violence against children in Gaza.

The draft is cruel; there is no evidence it will better protect women, cis or trans; it breaches Labour's manifesto commitment to trans people; it is unenforceable; encourages vigilanteism; and it is clearly inconsistent with the UK's obligations under the ECHR. We will challenge it in court. 2/2

We are aware of the EHRC's briefing to The Times about its draft statutory guidance. The draft is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's explicit assurance (from para 248) that its "interpretation would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people with or without a GRC." 1/2

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

I just found out one of my papers from 2014 has been downloaded 80k times this year! Why???! Hope everyone’s enjoying it!

The gov really are just saying calls for violence against certain demographics are okay actually, more than okay, reasonable and maybe even policy ideas