86% is low. Support was much higher before they waged a decades-long attack on trans people. But, still, after a decade and 10s of thousands of hit pieces, it is *still* 86%.

The more we divest ourselves of WotC, the healthier the industry and the happier the customers will be

I SWEAR TAE GOD THIS FUKKEN COUNTRY MAN

MMA fighter Sean Strickland posted a video to Instagram of him beating up Dylan Mulvaney. Once again, transphobia is just a socially acceptable way to engage in open misogyny and violence.

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'ooOOooh our AI systems are so good they're scary' is an advertisement designed to keep the hype up. it is entirely untrue. no large language model is any more conscious than a calculator, and they will never get any closer

#TheN0ughtie5 🌟 11 points 🌟 5. Washed Out - Feel It All Around (2009 🇺🇸) NK❎️ JC✅️ 5 of the 6 tracks on the 'Life Of Leisure' EP could have made it. This was the signature track, the peak of so-called chillwave and the theme tune to 'Portlandia'. It's cool as fuck. youtube.com/watch?v=3Pt0...

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

christopher judge plays kratos and he's 61 years old. deborah ann woll plays kratos' wife and she's 41 years old. guess which one the 'gamers' are saying is too old.

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

Ian Dunt IS the arch-liberal, the original blueprint of the eternally gormless clown that you can get to support literally any policy if you wrap it the right way. I made this meme bc of him, i'd write stories about him waking up every morning like a baby, forgetting everything he knew before.

WE NEED TO BE TREMENDOUSLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND INFLAMMATORY while also our smug columnists need to feel that they're correct

If you are looking to get some information about ospreys today maybe check in with the Loch of the Lowes osprey camera

"It’s unfortunate that almost none of the people behind these accounts know very much about the ancient world." Unfortunately, ignorance is not the only thing wrong with them. @bretdevereaux.bsky.social on Elon Musk's X and the fascist statue accounts: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-...

This has been something I've been meaning to write for quite some time and the Homer contretemps gave it the opportunity. The thing I most wanted to draw out is that it isn't one fool on Twitter with a helmet, but a radicalization pipeline designed to lead antiquity-curious young men into fascism.

This woman was invited onto morning TV, and repeatedly boosted by JK Rowling at the time when the vast majority of liberal journalists and commentators (including some here on Bsky today!) where describing JKR as a 'concerned feminist'. Just pointing it out, as I know we wouldn't want to forget

Igaram has withdrawn from the America 250 event

this is also a crisis in publishing as the midlist collapses and publishers chase fanfic or tiktok breakouts and then throw them to the wolves with little support. no one has the time or budget to grow authors while they learn their craft and become better writers, and that was BEFORE AI bullshit.

It’s no coincidence that before they went full on terf, the British commentatariat were writing articles discrediting the concept of intersectionality coined by PROFESSOR Kimberlé Crenshaw who is far more of an authority than they as white columnists Racism and transphobia go hand in hand

"Become"? They're the Ozymandias dot jpeg of unfuckability

none of this is inevitable. reform are actually pretty weak right now they've only got 1/4 of the vote & if the mainstream media went hard against them, or there was a big public backlash, i think that could be halved

fascism *requires* a lot of collaborators, a lot of appeasers, of fellow traveler's, it requires most normal people to shrug & keep going the reason the uk is being targeted right now isn't because we have more fascists; it's because we're offering that non-resistance / cooperation at scale

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

You’d think a UK-based contractor with licensing experience would be an excellent option if you’re going down the PPP route, rather than a non-UK-based contractor without licensing experience, but who am I to say whether this makes sense if you wanted an appropriate tender?

17,000 articles about “trans issues” were published by just four British newspapers in five years - the vast majority platforming anti-trans talking points

To be clear, when this guy says he ‘wants people to have more sex’, what he actually means is ‘our Catholic white women need to breed like cattle or we’ll be overwhelmed by a tide of immigrants’. #SpeirGorm

Just circling back to this odious individual who was at the racist riots yesterday. Someone who for years after she called for all trans men to be sterilised, as well as reams of other violent repulsive transphobia was praised and fawned over by JK Rowling, the NS and other 'centre left feminists'

It bears repeating, the "Gender critical" and "Mens Rights Activist" positions are two sides of the same coin. Their advocates share the same essentialised (and therefore violent) conceptions of biological determinism.

I was going to say he looks like he's a Black Hole Sun video character but no, he looks less human than they do

"You mean to tell us you put your father's head in that ... ball for bowling?" "Nah. Guy at the pro shop did it."

I keep thinking about Backrooms, that it’s a movie made by someone young now, and is about people having to wander around and sift through the banal and garish detritus of the late 20th century, warped and monstrous things being built from flimsy memories of that era

The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does

The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism. It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.

Somehow, I had never heard Doctor in Distress. Until now. It's not just abysmal, it's the idea that releasing it just after Band Aid doesn't somehow seem a tad tasteless.

Rahul Kohli has yet to miss

Social media account for mid pizza chain tweeting like gamer chud = never ordering again

another doja tweet has hit endor

The British press once again proving they're the worst media culture on Earth, bar none:

People point to Fox as an example of how the American press is bad, but here we have a very mainstream British outlet gleefully hawking nazi talking points through a lens of just asking questions. I genuinely believe we have the very worst press culture in the world and it's not even close.

Hugely talented, and also hugely *funny*. He understood that the key to tying together grotesque creatures and epic battles and huge spaceships was that it was all absurd and that was the best thing about it.

Hugely sad. We've lost John Blanche. It's hard to know where to begin. He set fire to a generation's imagination, and those fires show no sign of stopping burning. His work very much illuminated the darkness.

John Blanche has died - it's difficult to think of an artist whose work is more obliquely and also directly suffused into the life of a British nerd of my age. So much in my imagination over the years was fired by the cavalcade of freaks that sprung from his brush.

Just found out Grizz has died :(

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

This was the statement from Seema that really had me stopping to go back three times and check I'd heard it right during the debate. It is a shameful position for the government to take.

Here’s that two tier policing. They tasered him for climbing a gate and he fell and broke his spine www.bbc.com/news/article...

Here's your reminder that the institutionally transphobic The Guardian did not change its genitally-obsessed spots.

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...