Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Grew up watching a Trans woman win Big Brother, hearing music with lyrics that celebrated Trans people, seeing folk flourish as themselves. Now we’re going backwards I will ALWAYS stand against the politicisation and degradation of human rights. Solidarity to our Trans family 🏳️‍⚧️ 💪🏻

People said a "bathroom bill" would never happen here, and look where we are now. Sex Matters has been campaigning for some time for health records, passports and driving licences (amongst others) to record only assigned sex at birth. They have, as Abigail points out, the ear of the government.

"John Prescott would be loving this"

This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center. But that campaign is *never mentioned*.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

Can this myth please die already? Take it from a therapist who works with tons of trans youth (and has many colleagues who also do so), kids aren't ending up in our office because they're mistaking normal gender-nonconformity for being trans.

Wait, I tell a lie: There were all those pledges and progressive policies they promised as continuity from the previous leadership, which the electorate presumably liked, and which they immediately trashed and shat all over upon taking office, which we were repeatedly told was genius brain strategy.

Show me something more perfect. You can’t x

we owe cisgender women like beth. they could just discard us. it would be so easy. but they choose to fight for us instead.

1 And lo, there came upon the land a time of great Noticing, and many things were Noticed which had gone unseen 2 And the Hacks spake, saying, Whom could’ve known the taking bribes and wrecking his party with bullshit terror adviser guy was a Mandelson plant 3 And, it is a show, that is made of shit

The genie “You can go back to meet your 16 year-old self, but you can only say three words” Me, arriving in 1995 “Buy Apple socks-“ Reappears now “-stocks! Damnit.” Sees I’m wearing socks with apples on them “motherfu-“

This is what epistemic vandalism looks like. Not just erasure, but insisting on a standard of communication that is by default dehumanizing, degrading and degendering, laundered as neutral language on pseudoscientific grounds. Encoding bias into how we are even referred to.

Remember that the UK has far, far weaker protections against state power than did the US. And the latter folded up like a pack of cards. The US is a warning from the British future.

11th January 2026 Vs 18th January 2026

Like what the fuck do you mean you want a statistically-likely wordslop spewer to "assist" you in WRITING. The thing that about displaying your mastery of language and rhetoric and wit and knowledge. That is supposed to be the purest fucking expression of your unknowable essence.

I'm somewhat tired of pretending that trans women using women's changing rooms and bathrooms has ever been a problem, as entire legal systems contradict their own precedent specifically to deny trans women dignity and serve up sacrifices to gender-conservatives and bigoted religious groups.

FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"

Like, totally turn your back to the forest, condo condo

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

In essence: the grunt work of decent policy- and law-making is at odds with the superficial world of those in the political-media complex. Like Disraeli’s two nations, they have little or nothing in common.

Slightly diminish a band Archdukes of Leon

"And then he said "well, actually..." so I did."

This stuff could be effortlessly used to bury Farage forever, if the lads wanted to: they could run a new, more shocking revelation about him and his party as screaming front page headlines every day, hammering it over and over until the public were puking blood with white hot fury, if they chose.

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

hey can I join your partner program if this post proves I'm incredibly well liked and Internet famous ask anyone pls @frontierdev.bsky.social

I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why. I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.

This great thread, I think, nicely ties together 2 recurring points made on @trashfuture.bsky.social That fascism is libidinal and that AI is the art style of the new fascism You have your cruel idea, crank it out using AI, have your vicious emotion hit, then forget about it like discarded kleenex

Now we’ve finally recognised the government has absolutely fucked it, we need to confirm they have *very specifically* fucked it in their pandering to the far right, who need to be relentlessly opposed with everything in the arsenal of democracy. I welcome people recognising this, and joining in.

[Steps outside] "heyheyheyyy c'maahn I'm a tiny guy, I'm just a tiny guyy, noo, it's also Christmas, I'm a tiny Christmas boyy with crutches"

Why did you transition, wrong answers only I was bitten by a radioactive woman

We said for years: don't normalise having these "debates" about trans people and immigrants. Everyone thought they knew better. And now it's absolutely normal to say trans people are deviants and immigrants are subhuman, and we're having debates about whether women can vote.

Oh, fuck off. We've been telling you this for years. How about you listen instead of "train" us. EVERY SINGLE female teacher I work with has multiple DAILY tales of this, and they're ignored by management because that's the easiest path to take.

Caspar: I bring precious gold Balthazaar: I bring sweet smelling frankincense Melchior (dressed in black with thick black eyeliner and black lipstick): I bring embalming fluid Caspar [pinching bridge of nose]: Seriously Nigel? Melchior: I told you it's Melchior now!

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

man, the collective grief from older trans people at the violent death of the world we briefly hoped was coming, a world in which trans children would be recognised, loved, and helped... yeah.

Please stop saying that Peggie lost entirely or that it's equivalent to 11-1 in a football match. She won. The NHS will likely have to pay her damages. She just didn't win on any of the points she actually cared about. It was a minor win for Peggie, but a loss for "gender criticals" on the whole.

(*One of my favourite Nirvana songs)

Me: [looking up from my newspaper in the Reform Club, shaking my head] When will the Foreign and Commonwealth Office acknowledge the destabilising influence of the balloon-gap between the Commonwealth of Lithuania and Bellorussia?!

this is like the big bad wolf tweeting that the brick house should be abolished so that sovereignty can be returned to individual piggies

Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law. 🧵👇

Staggering to watch pretty much every news outlet in the country report that Sandy Peggie has won her tribunal case despite her losing on almost every count, and despite the ruling stating that the Supreme Court FWS judgement does *not* require trans women to be excluded from women's spaces.

The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.

▪️ Lift the puberty blockers ban ▪️ Reject EHRC guidance ▪️ Legislate to ensure single-sex spaces are trans-inclusive by default. Posting this from my speech at the Trans Day of Remembrance vigil, because yet again trans women and girls are being excluded from their spaces.

Police report in respect of the social media activity of Gender Critical commentator Richard Dunstan: a statement from me. goodlaw.social/y7q6

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