Course done for another year! Ended up making the decision to resit my second year of level 4. This means I'll graduate as a counsellor this time next year. Looking forward to another year of growth and reflection 💜

Like sorry but Let JKR take Amnesty International to court. Make it a thing, thats the fight, was words all they ever intended to give? If your whole thing is exposing human rights abuses, no greater platform than actually being taken to court. Let these fascist freaks actually be scrutinised

Nice work, everyone! Keep it up!

Sagittarius: Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Be the enemy of the good yourself.

This article is everything that’s wrong with the way we talk about health in the UK. Healthy life expectancy is framed almost entirely as a problem of healthcare rather than the conditions we live in. Despite valiant interventions from @sebrees1.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social

I unironically love these guys. The fact that such weirdos are out there under the waves just doing their thing is great

Never interrupt your enemy when they’re launching themselves into a 6 week long argument with a bin.

IF YOU FUCKING WHAT?

Having two characters in a book being called Carl and Karl who interact with each other does not work in audiobook form, lads (thankfully only in the first chapter) (the book is Before and After)

The whole internet loves Larry the Truffle Cat, a lovely cat that digs for truffles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Larry is AI generated

I Can't Believe It's Not Jesus: The Hot New Wafer from SSPX

Reminder that June 30th is the last day when you can observe queers in the wild. In the evening of that day they'll start their journey to the spirit realm where they'll remain until June next year. Go to the beach before 10 pm if you'd like to see their migration.

I keep this one saved

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

One of the really difficult lessons of the last 100 years is that convenience - drawing on mass market capabilities to do things faster - is isolating and individualising. We become one in relation to the market rather than one in relation to other people. GenAI is the peak expression of that.

Literally there are conversion therapy manuals that start with isolating your child from all potential sources of safeguarding and supportive information and cutting them off from unmonitored internet access so they can find the number for ChildLine while you're not watching is right up there.

i firmly believe that generational warfare is fake and a way to stop both the young and the old from understanding their shared class interests but that said living in the uk is determined to test this core belief of mine daily

Some of the kids I work with don’t have friends or good relationships at home, don’t get much in the way of affirmation or reasons to feel good about themselves. What little positivity they do get comes mostly from a few thousand YouTube followers. I’m gutted for them this morning.

if you are living in Britain, and you're 17 year old, and you've gotten into game dev, and you're trying to figure out how to do volumetric fog because you think it'll make your cave level look sick, and it's 10:30pm: you can ask a chatbot but you can't watch a video tutorial or look on Reddit.

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Keir Starmer “not going anywhere” until you have finished your vegetables. OK, three bites then. Two bites - final offer. Right. Well Keir Starmer is very sad now so you only get one story.

Reminder: Clients/prospective clients have the right to (and should) search/look into their therapist on the Internet and It is UNETHICAL for therapists to search/look up clients on the Internet 💙💚 #MentalHealthMatters #Therapy #TherapistSky

Honestly, the cloying desperation to find a perfect definition that will exclude trans women from legible, legitimate womanhood has in and of itself demonstrated (almost as well as any materialist feminist can) that sex is social, mutable, and a regime of violent policing.

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

I am SO sick of headlines like this. The public sees "AI" as being LLMs/ChatGPT, not an ML algorithm - and articles like this mislead the public into thinking that LLMs are discovering novel things. It's a cool thing! I'm excited! But it is lazy reporting to suddenly use "AI" as such a broad term

TERFs knocking on the toilet cubicle door.

“Why are women less bullish overall on AI than men” is not actually that mysterious of a question

This is an all-time quote from Kojima

The important point to remember is NO SHE DOESN'T. What was published yesterday were guidelines for service providers. They impose NO obligations on individuals and are NOT the law. People want you to believe otherwise, to intimidate trans people. But they haven't yet criminalised their existence.

Also want to be clear: the specific context here is, e.g. banning trans men from the women's changing room after you've also banned them from the men's changing room. Complete exclusion, based on no principle other than awkwardly backfilling from "biological sex" then realising that doesn't work.

Does your local tech company understand consent? > Yes! > Maybe later

no one wants this

BREAKING: WES STREETING confirms he WILL put a knife in if SOMEONE ELSE starts stabbing Caesar

“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet

The Streeting Resignation

Genuinely don't understand how the answer to a PM who has major shortcomings when it comes to being across policy, is a man who disbanded NHS England while seemingly not realising he did not have the budget for the massive redundancy costs

don’t

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

My i am not a god botherer who has issues with trans people tshirt is raising a lot of questions that should be answered by the tshirt

remember when there was all out apoplexy because an MP had a drink on a train

If you were to Google whether the journalist who wrote this article has written about trans issues and the angle she's taken in them, the results would not in any way shock you.

hey not to be dramatic but this is gonna get someone killed

and not unintentional - many cis folk need to cleanse any hint of queerness or transgression from their choices in order to feel comfortable. the current mainstream promotion of hormones for cis folk goes hand in hand with the removal of trans access to them

Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

A quick heads up; The UK government is currently holding a consultation on the Online Safety Act. The consultation lasts until the end of next month. Please fill it out if you live in the UK and/or share it around to get more eyes on it. www.gov.uk/government/c...

One day AI may take our jobs. But today ain't that day.

Cis people: just nip over to your GP to feel a little perkier by taking some T. Trans people: just spend 5 years on a waiting list, go through a few psychiatric assessments, and if you survive that then you might get a prescription for exactly the same HRT.

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.