The reason why this happens btw is because the goal when you are a feminine boy is to punish you for failing masculinity and to coercively make you perform it. But when you're a trans girl and have conclusively failed – it's to degender you into the role of a third sex, lesser being.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

sorry

being trans rules actually and the only downsides are deliberately manufactured by cis people

Things I need to remember

This animal looks like an April Fools.

Not sure if this counts, but that the 2010s corporate level 'your gender is valid and that's why we've given you 30 options in our drop down menu' trans 'inclusion' moment was a savvy way to fold disruptive potentials into an itemised, monetised, atomised social media model for the model's own ends.

So miss me with the AI literacy solutions. In fact, keep missing me until you propose “AI literacy” that teaches folks how these systems incorporate systemic oppression into its operations. That’s the kind of literacy we need.

No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Handy Guide: ✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course ❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

The thing that's so infuriating - and devastating- is the amount of good that could have been done if that much energy, money and political will had been put into improving maternity services, women's sports and women's shelters, instead of trying to keep trans people out of them.

Friends are raising money for a radical bookshop in Newcastle. Give if you can here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfrombelow

This made me laugh reading it again > In academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world there is.

We have raised a formal complaint with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards regarding discriminatory remarks by Suella Braverman MP, about Steph Richards stepping down from Endometriosis South Coast.

and they would never "masculize" an ai bc men arent expected to work for free. techbros are so desperate to humanize their ai

“It infamously denied intervention applications made by two trans legal experts – the UK’s first out trans judge Victoria McCloud and retired Professor of Equalities Law Stephen Whittle.” @mimihansford.bsky.social @wearequeeraf.com #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.wearequeeraf.com/the-supreme-...

I appreciate this candour.

This is equivalent to when people notice a problem in these AI systems and then others check and claim it's fake. You just cannot know because the web is continually being scraped by these systems. It's "please, just one more if-statement, bro" and shifting sands. Any nonsense can be patched in.

Three NHS trusts still use fax machines.

because CD players, walkmans, and VCRs usually fucking worked and did precisely what was asked of them without relogging in and syncing and re-entering passwords and getting confirmation codes and doing 2FA with out TV and phone and clicking a fake "remember me" box that's fucking why

Look, not everybody needs to be a strawberry, okay? There's room for cranberries in this world too. You can be weird and sour and only tolerated by a handful of people around the holidays. I know you can. You can be fun if mixed with enough vodka. I believe in you. You can live in a bog

I can no longer use the word gender in any federally funded research. As Butler cogently argues, the goal “is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate gender as a concept” altogether.

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.

This is really important in the context of the Worcester LGBT story. What the BBC is calling an 'investigation' is basically an anecdote with a single verified example. From a standpoint of journalistic integrity, the piece is pathetic. But it is profoundly dangerous in promoting a hateful narrative

Deadline extended for this very interesting workshop on the designing of political theory curricula: philevents.org/event/show/1... Hosted by @drsvg.bsky.social & others @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Should b of interest 2 @biapt.bsky.social @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social etc

Very useful mapping of Orban-linked right wing networks & individuals in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/e...

Scottish Greens manifesto is out, compare and contrast

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

I know I’m not the first person to observe this, but having one object simultaneously be the thing for accomplishing tasks and also the source of distractions from the tasks is really not helpfu.

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Some of the placards seen at the protest.

"I do believe that many of us are doing our stinking best to maintain scientific integrity and produce rigorous research. But let’s not kid ourselves, we do that mostly despite the incentives created by the academic system, not because of them." www.voxweb.nl/en/academic-...

I love this thread 😍

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

oh my god this is the SECOND time in the last month that somebody took a shitload of money from the UK government to build data centers, which it claims are operational, but are actually empty warehouses www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...