this is mesmerizing

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal." Which is true for trans kids too.

We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.

right wing bigots have admitted - the “trans women in bathrooms” issue - the “trans women in sports” issue and - the “trans kids getting surgery” issue were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY are you paying attention?

Hudson likes their pumpkin.

And they're letting me be in charge of it - I have the Big Hat* this year. I'm very excited, and looking forward to everything we can do with Octocon this coming year. [* It's a real hat.]

Make sure you swing by Liz Bourke. 2 euro per hardback, 1 euro per soft back! #Octocon #Octocon2025 #Fantasy #SciFi #ReadingCommunity

EARTH MUST DIE Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE Please RETWEET and WISHLIST

#Speirgorm, we need to email about this, because it's really genuinely appallingly stupid and bad and at the moment Ireland's in support of it. #Ireland #IrishBluesky

Important thread - please read & share… 👇🏻

"I asked ChatGPT" is never a valid answer, unless the question was how to have a good laugh.

I've written to my MEPs about why I'm against the over-reaching EU Chat Control proposal. I hope you can do the same. fightchatcontrol.eu#delegates

You should stop using LLMs and generative “A.i.” This trash tech is a tool of fascism.

Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one. If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia

how quickly we went from age verification for pornography sites, to social media, to search engines. a reminder that, yet again, it is essential to listen to sex workers when they raise concerns about how technology is being tested on them.

Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.

Hear, hear!

When a company with more money than god resorts to this instead of hiring an artist or putting together a photo shoot, it really drives home how much gen ai is about consolidating wealth

👁️ Je profite de l'affiche de ce film que je n'irai pas voir pour montrer rapidement quelques éléments permettant de repérer une image créée (entièrement, ou partiellement) à l'aide d'une #IA. Et comment ces éléments sont en train de créer une culture de "l'image bizarre". #IAcrap 👇👇👇

NOOOOOOO!!!! fortune.com/2025/01/31/a...

Damn the Introverts wall in #OnlyConnect was a nightmare.

Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights

Cass Review. New article in the New England Journal of Medicine, founded in 1812 and amongst the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. Its 2023 impact factor was 96.2, ranking it 2nd out of 168 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal".

feeding “unacceptable” queers to the machine that eats queers will not sate its hunger

And you thought there was not much to be happy about today... But turns out it's Tom Baker day! 91 and still going strong. #DoctorWho

If you're a British citizen please sign this petition to review and slow the implementation of the Cass Report. #transrights #protecttranskids

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post and why she’s my newest hero anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

The U.K. as a nation and society makes more sense if you think about it as a multi-century battle between a small number of rich people who are hell bent on not paying for anything (they are mad for cakeism) and a huge mass of people who get *just enough* to stop them murdering the rich people.

framing trans rights as in opposition to women’s rights is a neat trick given that trans rights *are* women’s rights. bodily autonomy, personal agency, opposition to sex based harassment, violence, and discrimination. these are trans rights and women’s rights. attacking one is attacking the other.

As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely. GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE. Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing. Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.

A long but excellent article by Ed Zitron on how Tech eats human creativity and shits out 'growth' www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv... Big Tech CEOs are insatiable, power-hungry  ghouls.

10 AM and I've already seen an op-ed from a "detransitioner" who takes until the sixth paragraph to admit they never transitioned in the first place

G*d please. Let these skills become outdated. One day, let me talk to children who can't understand why it was necessary. Let me tell cautionary tales that fall on uncomprehending ears, and be lead back to my chair by unscarred hands. Let me become a relic, one day, of Bad Old Days.

In case you haven't seen this already and EU citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapy in the member states is collecting signatures here: citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/... Please consider signing and standing against conversion therapy in the EU. #lgbtq #humanrights

Image with ALT because this is it exactly. I'm tired of pretending like these people aren't in a damn cult.

We should start naming hurricanes after fossil fuel companies.

Here’s what I firmly believe about climate catastrophes: the answer is never to place blame or to shrug and say certain people need to “just move.” There is no place that isn’t going to need help in some kind of a catastrophe.

Techbros really don't like actual people, do they? Or they see almost everyone as a machine-generated fake because they lack any empathy to connect with real people in the first place.

Windows Explorer taking 7-8 seconds to load up its home directory, what is happening to this OS

Academic publishers are and have long been parasites on the practice of academic research.

This week, I try - and fail - to survey all of Ireland's greatest government over-spends, one bike shelter at a time. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

The idea of using AI to complete NaNoWriMo, a challenge that has no reward or purpose beyond the experience of *doing* it, is quite simply stupid as fuck. You might as well fly a drone to the top of a mountain and call yourself a climber.

AI is a scam

There's not too many new things we can do with money, so maybe we should applaud those who have a try. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

"In a bombshell leak from @PinkNewsStaff on X, Pink News' CEO Benjamin Cohen has been recorded signalling his intent to abandon the trans community to instead focus on being an “entertainment powerhouse”." lucyfromnaarm.com/p/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

I'm looking forward to the newest @kierongillen.bsky.social comic. Word of mouth is very good.