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This is BRILLIANT. Less 'Cathy!', more rent control please

Since the #Olympics are on, let's repost a classic thread here: a brief history of the practice of "sex verification" in sport. Content warning: This thread will mention anti-intersex discrimination, FGM practices and body shaming.

Ladies, gentlemen and all esteemed beings of glorious and multitudinous Gender™️, allow me to introduce the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr Wes Streeting…

So we're all going to be as suspicious of the Amazon Prime series about the king's environmental stuff as we are the Melania documentary, right? Right?

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

“The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'Blobby.’”

shout about all our victories, because our oppressors want us hopeless. we are going to win over and over again

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LLM writing grates on me, I hate it. but for a lot of people, it's better at outputting a particular academic/workplace-appropriate style than they are. we don't just need to push back on AI, we need to push back on the ideas about what's desirable in text

This sums up a bunch of my feelings towards the announcement of LiS: Reunion. The LiS games have never been about completely happy endings. They're messy people dealing with even messier situations and nobody fully gets "what they deserve" in them.

Yesterday we talked about how cervical screening is a really important tool in helping us to eliminate cervical cancer. Today we'd like to share a few tips about how to make your cervical screening experience as comfortable for you as possible...

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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Pet morality.

For trans people who see this and feel their heart rate rise: it's good. Click through. It's positive, short and direct.

thinking about sega's 2009 holiday card around this time, as one does your chosen family can just be two queens, a monkey child and a very fast, spiky blue mammal, long as you've got the love for each other, thats all that matters

The concept of the BBC is a wonderful, beautiful, precious thing. Evil people know this as well as I do. Since Hutton, they've done their absolute utmost to destroy it, and, like with the NHS, they're winning. Heartbreaking. All the support to Robin but I hate SO much that it's come to this.

WORLD PREMIERE 🤭😏 #TheGameAwards Here is the first teaser trailer for Encryptid - An FMV horror game about using real-world footage recorded with the Gameboy Camera to identify, locate and battle iconic cryptids Releasing in 2026 and available to wishlist on Steam very soon!

At the league social, we had to make a team mascot out of clay. I had to leave my team for 5 minutes to sort a tech issue. When I got back I found that they'd decided the mascot was me "lying provocatively". Sadly I didn't get a photo before there was an incident so here's an artist's impression...

If I read the book that I buy then it doesn’t count as spending money.

The people of Blaenau Ffestiniog have a clear message for Zip World: jobs aren’t enough. If the company wants to operate in the area, it has to contribute to the community. If it chooses to leave, there are plenty of locals willing to pick up the slack. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/locals-bui...

"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.” What does this do for women's rights?

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

Not gonna lie lads, it’s fucking bleak over here. Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women. I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.

holy fuck this is ridiculous, how can we claim games are art if art is this scary to our two primary distribution channels?

"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.

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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.