Won't someone please actually listen to doctors on this? It's refreshing to see an institution actually get it right for once. And it only because elite politicians weren't allowed to hand pick the voices.

Everyone who's ever successfully played Pictionary or Win Lose Or Draw has expressed an idea, so unless you are drawing a kidney bean with a triangle and a dash bisecting it to represent "Dignity", you don't need to use AI

Why must we be cursed with a parliament of dunces

IS there a team jersey? Where do I need to send a stamped addressed envelope and a cheque to get one?

Golden rule always put ya best guy on the fascists.

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

A "fun" thing I did this year was end up digging through the source code of an IRC server to be able to figure out exactly how ping timeouts are calculated because I was potentially going to have to explain this to a high court judge: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73777.html

I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

me reading your posts

In shock news, it turns out that Brexit punched the UK economy in the face, much in the way that official forecasts in 2016 said it would punch the UK economy in the face, that were dismissed as nonsense by lying rightwing shills at the time.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

I feel like this is an accurate summary of the Crystal Maze

@hypervisible.blacksky.app "Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online." what could possibly go wrong www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/a...

Like (so it seems) every other author on the planet, I too am now getting those fake "We Are A Book Club, Honest, Plz Pay Us To Read Your Novel Thnx" emails. These are scams, folks, don't fall for it. Don't engage. Delete & Block!

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

Every even-numbered thing you read about AI is "they've checked yet again and it turns out everything it says is wrong" and every odd-numbered thing you read about AI is "they've given OpenAI a new contract to decide who goes to prison and it has all your names to pick from"

Good morning from these Halloween goblins

- I'm going to analyse the Welsh by-election result - Caerphilly? - Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes

Truer words were never spoken.

I love living in a country where the law about what bathroom I can use is genuinely UNKNOWABLE, it’s like something from a Joseph Heller novel

what the fuck is starmer even saying

Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8F7...

How people perceive their colleagues who produce workslop.

Permanent residence means permanent residence you absolute fucking ghouls. We don't need someone to contribute more than they cost but that's not even relevant; threatening peoples' ability to plan is heinous.

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Buses reduce traffic leaving cleaner air, safer roads for cycling and quicker journeys for those who have to drive. It's a no-brainer to have buses connecting up with trains. Ask Network Rail to do the sensible thing, sign the petition! #Oxford #cycling #CleanAir #NoToPollution #ActiveTravel

If we make it illegal to steal paintings from the Louvre then the entire industry will be unsustainable

"we are all, how you say, trying to find l'homme who did this"

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

This is spot on. The only I would add is that this spiral of madness is being turbocharged by a national media that is also increasingly unhinged and vastly exaggerates the public demand for these policies. Westminster is trapped in its own reactionary bubble.

I want a government that asks 'how can we make things better for people?' not 'how can we make things harder for those people you don't like?'

They aren't bringing ID cards in to make people's lives easier, they are specifically bringing them in to make certain people's lives harder.

Brilliant thread from @keyne-unable.bsky.social on why the introduction of digital ID (and the encoding of 'birth sex' in a single government record) has long been an objective of anti-trans campaigners in the UK 👇

This language is not vague. It is a call for the party of government to forcibly prevent trade unions from abiding by the position unanimously voted for by their delegates. For Women Scotland and their allies are enemies not just of trans rights, but of the entire trade union movement.

If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties. BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state? PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history? EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

“Evidence‐based medicine has three pillars: (i) appraisal of research evidence, (ii) real‐world clinical expertise, and (iii) individual patient values and preferences. The Review's failures across all three are evident.” Oh dear, Cass. www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Everywhere you look in the UK it's like this - schools, universities, hospitals, police, work place...sexual abuse is rampant. If the UK govt tried to address this with the same vigour they have for targetting trans people, perhaps they could actually make a real difference for all women and girls.

They can say what they like about bullet casings found in Dallas, but the only people killed were detainees. That speaks louder.

Roz is a badass. Roz is also an amazing poet. But more than this, Roz is a walking talking reminder of how confected this stupid bloody trans panic of the last few years has been. She's been a woman for longer than Wes "lickspittle cunt" Streeting has been alive, and she's worth a million of him.

Due to popular demand this is now available in our shop, ie I can draw one for you. They’re not prints, I draw each one individually. www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Batten down the hatches, download some longfic, and be sure to comment on any fics you have finished but still open in a tab because “you’ll get to it” before you try to do it during the downtime and they turn into error pages and you accidentally close them.

We only rate dogs. This is very clearly a red panda. We've had just about enough of your tomfoolery. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (IG: __joyjoa)

They've lost the 9yos