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@lovingboth.bsky.social
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Bi+ / queer activist. Lovingboth on many places, was lvngbth on Twitter & BiFuriosa on both.
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BiCon
14 days ago
BiCon 2026 bookings now open! When: 21st-23rd August 2026 Where: Nottingham, UK Why: because it's a wonderful weekend of talking and socialising. It's the UK's longest continually running annual LGBTQ+ event for a reason... How:
2026.bicon.org.uk
Who: you?
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BiCon 2026 – A highlight of the bi+ year!
https://2026.bicon.org.uk
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This year's is also in Nottingham: 21st-23rd August. It's non-residential, so you will have to outrage other cleaners though.
2026.bicon.org.uk
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James Ball
about 1 month ago
The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.
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And in a result that was highly likely from the second Starmer blocked Andy Burnham from standing, the Greens have won the Gordon and Denton by-election.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 1 month ago
A reminder that white nationalism isn't just abhorrent, it's stupid.
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Zack Polanski
about 1 month ago
Nazi supporting paper says what?
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Well, this will be another easy to remember birthday for Andrew, and without having to go to a Pizza Express too.
about 2 months ago
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"Eins, zwei, drei, vier Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht One, two" More meaning than the whole of Bob Dylan's output, and the song is why I can count to four in Japanese.
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Today's discovery - Firefox's British English dictionary doesn't know the word 'carabiner'.
about 2 months ago
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Tautology
2 months ago
I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy. All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n
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Ari Marmell
3 months ago
Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too.
discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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https://discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5BGtstVUidXadts
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@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Have you seen this -
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Detectorist who 'dug up Roman brooch' actually bought it on eBay
Funeral director Jason Price
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly544d1eg1o
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As well as the failed attempt to make it more interesting by adding a fan game show, whoever picks the games it will show has no clue. Final weekend of the regular season: "Let's have a game with no playoff implications whatsoever, where one side will be resting key players..."
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Parker Molloy
3 months ago
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
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Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-apologize-grok-isnt-sentient
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Not what everyone else has done with this, but given Keith Moon and John Entwhistle of The Who have both died, I did think that the drummer and bass player in The Beatles are still with us, and the results of Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney joining would be *interesting* either way...
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Sherry CD-ROM 🏳️⚧️
4 months ago
"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue
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The Secret Barrister
4 months ago
NEW BLOGPOST Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
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Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
Today, the government has confirmed that it intends to remove the right to trial by jury in the vast majority of cases in the Crown Courts. Serious criminal allegations, carrying up to three years …
https://thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/abolishing-trial-by-jury-why-is-the-government-overlooking-the-obvious/
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National Trust
4 months ago
Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this! We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
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It's the best time of the year to buy CameraBag, a fabulously easy and powerful photo manipulation program.
www.nevercenter.com/camerabag
The Pro version adds the ability to do this to videos too. It's just cost me less than a tenner to extend & get all the updates over the next year.
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CameraBag - Ultra-intuitive tools for editing photos and videos. | Nevercenter
CameraBag - Ultra-intuitive tools for editing photos and videos.
https://www.nevercenter.com/camerabag
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Dreamliner Again
5 months ago
You could argue that, in the interests of accuracy, editorial policy should dictate that when prominent "gender critical" people are quoted, they should be described thusly: - "<GC name>, a middle-aged woman with no relevant qualifications or expertise and an obsession with other people's bits"
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Was the NFT showing of Stalker that had an audience member complaining about the bum ache that resulted during the talk afterwards just in my imagination? Some stunning work, but could do with a fast forward button, eg the driving sequences of Solaris.
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5 months ago
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My name is Harry Smith. Richer than Percy Bysshe Shelley, I outlived him by decades. He called me the "only truly generous" wealthy person he ever knew. But it's his version of Ozymandias you all know, not mine. At least it now has its own Wikipedia page.
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There is a serious business opportunity renting children to people in the passport checking queue for people arriving at London Luton. Rejoin the EU, join Schengen.
6 months ago
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Applause - this shit needs stomping out, quickly.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew
The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/10/immigration-debate-country-remigration-right
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Stephen Cox
7 months ago
In a decent country, Starmer or the King would have visited an asylum hostel by now.
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Favourite film seen in a cinema on opening day (& first showing): Terminator 2. Never seen in a cinema: Tar. I wish there was a DVD with director's & actors' commentaries. Bonus 'seen at film festival before release': tie between Re-Animator, This is Spinal Tap, & Mishima.
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Chatting to a (very good) magician after a show, he talked about "chance" in relation to one bit of a most impressive trick. I am still laughing at that: none of the bits were "chance", they were loads of practice and lots of skill.
8 months ago
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Thomas Penny
8 months ago
16% of the UK population was born overseas (21/22 census) 12% of UK prisoners were born overseas Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK. That should be the headline.
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Guess which is getting more money from the govt: * Reducing child poverty spread over a decade * Enabling drivers on the A46 to possibly go around Newark about five minutes faster at a few times a week It's the second one, of course, getting over £650m rather than £500m.
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9 months ago
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Crystal Palace chairman says, according to the BBC, that their relegation from the Europa League to the Conference League over ownership rules is the "biggest injustice in the history of football". I know some Germans (and Scots) who would disagree...
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BiCon
9 months ago
It's two weeks to BiCon 2025. If you're coming - for the whole thing, for a day, or as part of the online bits - but haven't registered yet, it will make both of our lives easier if you do so in the next couple of days.
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Libby from Biscuit
9 months ago
Buy our merch! We really need the cash!
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BiCon
9 months ago
Three weeks to BiCon 2025! I will be giving out flyers at Pride in London tomorrow...
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Tom Ewing
9 months ago
The Daily Telegraph: here’s Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine 9 months later: We regret to inform you that Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine are political
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BiCon
10 months ago
It's a month to go to the start of BiCon 2025! Bookings are now open for day tickets and Online BiCon.
2025.bicon.org.uk/bookings-ope...
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Bookings open for day tickets and Online BiCon 2025 – BiCon 2025
https://2025.bicon.org.uk/bookings-open-for-day-tickets-and-online-bicon-2025/
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Bob Geldorf joined the early evening queue for food at the student union's bar seconds after I did when the Boomtown Rats were playing there later that night.
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Paul Fairie
11 months ago
A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵
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Techpriest
11 months ago
*uses time machine to burst into a room ten years ago* "I don't have much time, but for the love of god choose Chaos with Ed Miliband™ "
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Mark Grimshaw
11 months ago
There’s something really disturbing to me about the way the media, and indeed her own mother, continue to talk about Brianna Ghey - a constant focus on publicising her mental health, as if she’d committed suicide, and never focusing on the transphobia that actually led to her horrific murder.
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.. and of course, Labour will see that as a reason to become more right wing.
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉
11 months ago
York Pride have just confirmed they will be allowing the Labour Party to march at York Pride (but it's okay because they are also allowing the Tories to do so too! 🙄) Looks like it's time to organise a blockade against them.
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Natalya D
11 months ago
I see Ben Summerskil "I can't say the B word in LGB" is sticking the boot into Stonewall and claiming it should have encouraged debate on trans rights
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Honestly Ben, get in the bin. You sucked and you still suck.
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Stonewall’s policy of ‘no debate’ on trans rights was a mistake | Letters
Letters: The LGBTQ+ rights charity’s former head Ben Summerskill and the parent of a trans-identifying young person respond to coverage of the recent supreme court ruling
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/30/stonewall-policy-of-no-debate-on-trans-rights-was-a-mistake
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Trans Legal Project
12 months ago
From
@crash-w.bsky.social
A powerful legal critique of the UKSC Decision. 'The judgment has jeopardised the UK’s compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights and introduced considerable uncertainty to the interpretation of the Equality Act 2010.’
www.translegalproject.org/post/for-wom...
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For Women Scotland: a legal critique
Download this article here:Introduction This article critically discusses the judgment in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16. I have tried where possible for it be accessible to n...
https://www.translegalproject.org/post/for-women-scotland-a-legal-critique
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🦇🤘 Jennie Rigg 🔶️🏳️🌈
12 months ago
TERFs: we're NOT bigots! We just have Reasonable Concerns™ about trans women in """real women"""'s spaces! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?! Also TERFs: those black and brown people are going to groom your kids! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!
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Tony Bird
12 months ago
Remembering the ten pledges from LGBT+Labour that Starmer signed up to in the leadership election. Guess what? Starmer lied about these pledges as well
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Minimum Snooker break to leave your opponent needing a snooker: 15 (pot all reds at once) + 2 (yellow) + 2 (yellow) + 3 (green) + 4 (brown) = 26. Two snookers needed, but without the brown, they could tie, 22-22.
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Seriously disappointed that the bi number is so low at 80%.
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Christine Jardine
12 months ago
I am increasingly disappointed that the concerns of the
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Evo 🇧🇪 | ❤️ 🇺🇦🇦🇲🇹🇼
12 months ago
I highly recommand this infography which highlights most of the nuances with biological sex.
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Avery Edison
12 months ago
as always, I am excited for the unveiling of the definition of “biological woman” which includes all women and excludes all non-women, I’m sure they must have that locked down by now. how hard could it be
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