"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Wait. There's a new Julia Ducournau film that's out now and the first I'm hearing of it is looking through cinema listings? I need a better way of finding out about these things www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1G...

Like the Guardian, people view the BBC as left wing and, as a result, their combined anti trans campaigning has done more damage to trans people than the entire right wing media machine, because they legitimised the right wing's lies.

Zine and small press makers of Manchester (UK) and beyond! I'm going to be running a session of speed friending on November 15th just for you. Come meet folks in a low pressure environment and bring some zines along to trade if you have them www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zine-maker... #diyzines

i know i wittgenstein post too much but i would love to see his reaction to the wholesale capitulation of critical thinking facilities to machines whose entire model of the world begins and ends in language, a medium he regarded as intrinsically impoverished

ushering in an era of bold socialist leaders who support trans rights and make really great font choices

It’s great when you put a lot of work into an article and you get good feedback. I spent a while writing this to make sure it was accurate and informative, without being too technical or complex - and it seems to have worked! Do check it out if you've ever wondered wtf the 'AI bubble' is all about

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Good news from Salford City Council and Historic England. An Urgent Works Notice has been issued on the Crescent pub after its shocking deterioration. (1/2)

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Enjoyed listening to @badaude.bsky.social talk about her new book (Amateurs: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters) at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social tonight.

My previous quote post seems like a good time to mention some suff I've been reading recently so: Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda. A collection of connected short stories set in Mexico that didn't always work for me but an interesting and quick read nonetheless

As you'd expect from Hannah, some very interesting sounding books here (& some that were already on my vague future wishlist) Just what I didn't need when I've already broken my "try to stop buying books until you've cleared some of your backlog" a few times in the couple of weeks 😅

The best time to boycott Xbox and Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now. Focused, targeted boycotts work, this one is working, and all you got to do to support it is go play other games. Literally the least you could do in this moment in history

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

HACK. THE. PLANET.

BREAKING NEWS: I am thrilled to be able to report that after a discussion with JPAC, JPAC has agreed to update it's position statement to make it clear that trans people haemoglobin levels should be tested against their hormonal levels, not their Sex at Birth. 1/7

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

Bought and read Claimed! by Gertrude Barrows Bennett after seeing it in a sale for 99p. A good, fun novella from 1920 about a mysterious green box that cannot be opened and might be causing weird events/hallucinations.

thinking about how (as mentioned in passing in the linked paper) a Charli XCX song uses samples processed by an open source tool built on Haskell. truly human culture works in mysterious ways.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

British transphobia is increasingly just a demand for every old sexist norm to be restored but with one or two tagalongs going "Yeah but we're doing it feministly" for PR purposess

Women's health being downplayed you say? Well I never.

I will never forgive the rotten bastards we have in charge. 14 years of things getting worse, a huge mandate to change things in a meaningful way, and what do they do? Go after marginalised groups for no fucking reason other than spite and appeasing the ghoulish press. A generational betrayal.

This is an attempt to remove trans people from public life and no other spin on it should be accepted.

We do not, in fact, have to embrace it.

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

Thrilled that the Lionesses have done it again. However, is the growth of women's football always the same as 'progress'? Words on this below. 👇 evieashton.substack.com/p/why-this-s...

When I first read Embed With Games, I put off reading the last section for weeks because it was so good I didn't want it to be over Even if you don't care about games, it's a fascinating look at how people were working outside the mainstream and the enthusiasm is infectious

If you’re a young person who lost access to their games or things they made and it’s made you angry, I can absolutely understand venting bad takes. If you’re a senior industry commentator whose opinion is “maybe the answer was to comply more in advance” please just log off for everyone’s sake.

I’m looking to speak to UK ppl who have experienced gender policing in bath/changing rooms recently. Maybe you’ve had your gender questioned, been asked to leave or faced other harassment/violence? I’d like to interview both trans + cis folk. DM me if this is you or someone you know. #journorequest

I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.

I've had enough of assholes talking about Englishness. So here's what Englishness means to me, as someone with a Cambridge degree in early medieval history. You know, that period when we invented England. (1/12)

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Not wild about the confluence of: - Photo ID to post on social media - Government contracts with openly prejudicial AI data-harvesting firms - Peaceful expression being classed as terrorism

Thanks everyone who's shared this so far. We've had surprisingly few responses, so if you were worried about not standing a chance, we'd gently suggest you give it a go!

zohran mamdani just crushed a democratic primary against a former governor propped up by the right-wing money machine all while he pledged $65M to support access to healthcare for trans youth, fwiw

You're semi-regular reminder that SSRIs/antidepression, antipsychotic, and other mental health medications* can make heat even worse for yo. Stay safe, stay cool and covered, and stay hydrated. www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-...

I keep reading “Mental Health Issues Cost Business £Xbillion a year” when the headline should be “The Human Cost of Mental Health Issues Caused By Employers”

The problem with playing Doom while waiting for a delivery is that everything sounds like someone knocking on the door

Morning! If you're getting a Switch 2 and not sure what to do with your old one, we're always happy to take them and have a waiting list of hospitals who are wanting one

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

Every now and then I look up the lyrics to songs I've listened to a lot and I'm surprised. Now, I'm not sure what I thought yes! yes! a thousand times yes! by Home Is Where was about but erm, yeah …

We are especially interested at the moment in hearing from men and women, ideally stealth, whose employers are asking them to use the wrong toilets.

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

The AF League isn't on bluesky but I'm glad to be part of a league that immediately refused FA England's decision and will continue to include trans and non-binary players instagram.com/theafleague/