Sagittarius: The celestial energy is indicating the moment has come to make some important decisions. Apparently the celestial energy has forgotten that you suck at that.

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment. An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action. A disinformation machine as our journalism fails. A bias machine as fascism takes root. A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

the world: idk about this AI slop. we should maybe not do that the sweatiest guy you've ever seen: you don't understand. it's inevitable. it's coming to kill us. we have to make more

Historians argue that Trump indicting his enemies one-by-one rather than having them murdered in a single night proves he’s not a fascist.

this is straightforward to reconcile imo - we dont have slurs for oil rigs or factory farms. i think treating LLMs as things to *de*humanize anthropomorphizes them too much already, which is tech marketing's desire - that's the thing the "friend" ads were looking for people to react with

Elton John voice: It seems to me / that you lived your life/ like a fuckin piece of shit

Got my performance review.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.

I have got some exciting developments to report about the percentages of MSM news stories about trans people that are bad!

i firmly believe these mysterious ghosts will make me money

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

[Alien family passing Earth] *door lock noise*

We know they’re capable of radical empathy when they’d like to be.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

It continues to shock me how media companies continue to normalise what is obviously insane, detached from reality behaviour in Billionaires.

Sometimes I make cross stitch based on pub toilet graffiti

UK folks, where are we buying face masks from? I usually get ffp3 masks from amazon but I'd like to move away from buying through them if possible

Reminder: There's going to be a test of the emergency alert system around 3pm on Sunday. If you have a hidden phone or you need your phone not to go off, turn it off or put it into airplane mode and it won't alert. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Apologies for putting Glinner's face on people's feeds with that last repost

This is a way you know the tech oligarchs don’t actually mean anything they say when they try to shove AI down our throats. Cause they’re not investing in actually useful AI (and yes there is extremely useful non-generative science-focused AI). They’re killing anything they can’t profit from.

It goes without any goddamn fucking saying that a right to asylum that does not include the right to bring your family here is not a real right to asylum.

You there, gay boy, did it happen yet

Oh no. Not a good time! That’s the last thing I want to be threatened with!

If you've not seen it before, the Mankoski Pain scale is something I find really useful to conceptualise my pain both to myself and others. I find the normal 1-10, where 10 is the worst pain you can imagine so stressful, and this really helps me think about how my pain is affecting me

The three big, common triggers for most CPTSD survivors are feeling trapped, feeling controlled; & feeling "in trouble." They mirror the conditions that make complex trauma "complex:" it was inescapable, it unfolded over time, & it permeated our most important relationships.

I am once again contemplating this banger.

I just don't see how women's rights are improved by having to carry a birth certificate around in case they want to use a toilet.

The quintessential 2025 tech headline, right here

we need a PaRappa the Rapper of the left

This week's newsletter is continuing on the theme of my past few newsletters, one of being with myself fully. buttondown.com/SelfCareBack...

You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.

"feminist whore with a Jezebel spirit" goes hard as fuck actually

A reminder not to let the National Center On Sexual Exploitation's official-sounding name fool you: they're the rebranded busybody group "Morality In Media", whom you might remember from such hits as "Trying to have Life Of Brian pulled from theatres" and "trying to connect queerness to mass murder"

Trying to wrangle my mornings into something approaching useful - getting out of bed quickly rather than doomscrolling, eating breakfast, reading, etc. First morning was today and I'd give myself 6/10. didn't avoid scrolling entirely but did read and managed to finish At The Existentialist Cafe

In 2016, following the Leave vote, Angela Eagle resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's cabinet in tears, stating in her resignation letter that, "Too many of our supporters were taken in by right-wing arguments and I believe this happened, in part, because [of] your leadership"

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

So much this.

“this version of the internet is about performing certainty” sums up so fucking much about right now that i want to scream.

Interesting phrasing. I wonder if there's a more succinct way of saying "backlash against antiracism"

This week's free newsletter is about the power of curiosity in self care. "It's reminding myself that it's safe to do so, and that I can handle whatever it is I'm feeling.I have to be able to trust myself, and trusting myself with my own feelings is the first step." buttondown.com/SelfCareBack...

Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚

so, I was looking at Ellipsus as an alternative to google docs and they have a direct export to Ao3 option. My people!