It's worth remembering that the government could stop the exclusion of trans people from public life any time they want.

also, annual reminder: fuck the foo fighters & especially dave grohl's bitch ass

In no particular order: -Shoot The Dog -Outside -Faith -Careless Whisper -Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Twitter is basically a Q-era Chan board at this point; it doesn't help that so may companies, politicians, artists and podcasters refuse to either leave it and SM entirely or move to another SM platform.

I know this point has been made before, but it's *wild* that the sort of thing that 15 years ago would have been restricted to nazi internet forums and dodgy leaflets chucked around town centres is now just being printed in national newspapers. No idea how to fix this, but it definitely needs fixing

How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead

"Scientists". No credible scientist is saying that. No, no matter how much cyberpsychosis has rotted AI users' brains, they are not talking to a real person.

A complete adaption of Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy. Directed by the Play The Goes Wrong people. They can have a budget of infinity.

The white-hot contempt this government has towards universities is truly spectacular. I think it actually rivals the previous one. Like there is no amount of economic harm they won't inflict on the country just to spite the university sector.

I have a friend who is my age (just over 40), who, unlike me, has never seen Goatse, but is nonetheless very aware of the image through cultural osmosis. I think this will be the divide among zoomers, those who've read the blog, and those lucky enough to have simply heard of it.

cat tax

When I accused Charlie Brooker of lacking subtlety, I was perhaps being unfair.

Everything I know about Olivia Nuzzi, I have learned completely involuntarily. And yet somehow, I have acquired a library of Alexandria's worth of lore about her.

Point 1: Bwahahhahahahahahahahahaha Point 2: "He spends all days playing fortnite and is rubbish at FIFA" is an s-tier insult

About 3 years ago I was visiting New York City and a large number of places there still hadn't adopted contactless payments, something pretty much every store/pub/restaurant in even the most rural villages in UK have managed to figure out.

This is corking news: discovery of antibiotic that can be used that doesn’t trigger resistance - early days but this is really meaningful stuff: bsky.app/profile/adap...

Whenever AI bros talk about how scientific development has stagnated or whatever, It's hard to look at amazing stuff like this and not realise how absolutely full of it they are.

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

One day, the people who hyped "AI" in education will pretend it never happened, and will suffer no consequences for this, just as the people who hyped MOOCs, and franchising, and unregulated recruitment, and every other rolling disaster, have suffered no consequences.

i don't think it was wise of danzig to just stand up and confess that he killed that baby and felt no remorse about it

danzig: i got something to say danzig’s lawyer: 😳

Every time Matt Goodwin speaks he should be reminded of the time he was forced to eat his own book on tv.

also some science is fucking settled. it's idiotic to pretend otherwise.

Have come back on here for party reasons. Looking for your #1 vote for federal council. I’ll post my manifesto in the thread. But MAINLY, please push our president candidates to act better regarding the absolute scandal re gender / quota. #Libdem #poltics #terfsdni

I was going to make a mean joke about David Cage using chatgpt, but that seems unfair even to him.

The voices of trans people must be heard in Parliament.️‍‍ I’ve urged full scrutiny of EHRC’s guidance, which risks undermining their rights. Lib Dems call on the Government to protect everyone fairly and ensure people aren’t excluded from safe facilities or public life.

One hand this is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard in my life. On the other, I am cautiously optimistic this government is too lazy and inept to actually implement it.

You absolutely know 100% that they will link graduate earnings with ‘quality’ - I’ll bet my house on it.

Another post for #LibDems federal elections: please give April Preston a top preference for Federal Council. We need folks who live their liberalism and better working-class representation at the top of our party: April's a great choice for that. She's currently off BSky but here's her manifesto:

They're still releasing PS4 games FFS!

The French Government 🤝 Sheffield United

A great reminder that no matter how clear you think you have made the meaning of your work, there will always be avid fans of it who nonetheless miss the point entirely.

Is it just me or has Bluesky been having more glitches than usual these past couple of days?

Sorry, we can't afford to give you your real-terms pay cut.

Look, I get it, being made fun of sucks. But it's not, y'know, actual stochastic terrorism.

just parent your fucking kids oh my god!!!! no one made you have them!! be a responsible adult!

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Horrified and appalled by the attack outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. My thoughts are with the victims, our brave emergency services and the entire Jewish community.

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

She would like to wish you all an excellent day.

On top of everything else, Maurice Glasman is just so, incredibly, tedious. Just an absolute bore.

Finally out of storage after all these years!

Iconic scene! But it's sad that the incredible talent of Tim Curry (and countless other amazing actors) was wasted on RA3, which was easily the weakest game in the C&C franchise (and yes I am including Renegade in that list).

Classic!

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep. 1. Natural Language Processing (comes with my job really) 2. David Lloyd George 3. The Personas 3-5

Modern slavery laws have already been weakened to the point where victims are at serious risk. Further undermining them will be absolutely catastrophic for vulnerable victims. It isn't modern slavery laws which need changing. It's Labour anti-asylum policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...