Protecting The Kids by telling websites not to let a 17yo see a boob, announcing it on a social media site with an AI that does CSAM of any kid that takes a nonce's fancy, but that's OK bc they paid a drugged up nazi trillionaire to do it

i dunno I think sometimes people just enjoy talking to like minded people. do you do this kind of shit with your friends offline

18th October 2017: Less than 10 years ago there was broad, cross party support for trans people just living their lives. This bigotry at the highest level has been astroturfed into existence in less than a decade. It's a lie. A con.

The Labour Party is institutionally transphobic, it is an outright enemy of the UK's LGBT community, and none of us should even consider giving it our vote for a second so long as that remains the case.

The bluesky account cwebbonline. com is routinely stealing other people’s work without credit & has developed a big following. Content farming is lousy & opens the door to all kinds of misinfo. Please keep an eye on who you follow and repost to make sure they’re legit and worth your time

Okay, because @caylen.bsky.social asked and because I’m a nosy bint who likes to find out, I looked at Tokyopop’s financials filed as part of its share offering: www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... and, in a word: yikes

The question to ask when looking at a crowdfunding proposition is this: Why aren't established VC investors jumping on the opportunity? Why has the company gone to the crowd? The answers are invariably: It's a terrible fucking opportunity. The company is desperate (to reel in suckers). 1/2

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Two classics from the Tesco Customer Services Interactions subgenre.

The mental gymnastics I'm seeing people go through to explain why they're covering the Harry Potter show... Your argument is it brings people joy? Other things bring people joy. Hundreds worked on it? Hundreds also work on other things. Just say you value your own happiness over trans lives.

This is recreation, not restoration. An appalling prospect. Easy enough to make errors with existing restoration tools. Excessive grain and dirt removal loses actual detail. Grading corrections without context turn day-for-night scenes back to day. GenAI 'fixes' will be so much worse.

Imagine having to explain to a trans person you don’t give a shit if they live or die because you’re a hufflepuff. Disgusting.

No one is trying to tell you that you are not allowed to feel nostalgic for what Harry Potter may have once meant to you as a kid; they are literally just asking you to not fund their destruction.

any way there are other books to enjoy and other shows to watch

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

Games don't need VO, full stop. It can be a nice extra, but in a lot of games I can read the text faster than the VO is speaking it, and am skipping ahead to the next lines at my own pace.

Add one word to a film to ruin it. Harold Bishop and Maude.

Two things can be true about Mike Richardson: -He was responsible for some major genre hits AND -He did not protect staff if they were not a white man and is responsible for a generation of queer and female editors leaving comics rather than continue in a toxic environment

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing punks they were buying equity, not just subscribing to a glorified fan club.

Fantastic interview. Everyone should read it:

I am one of the most published academics on the childhood social transition, with 5 peer reviewed articles that relate to the topic. There is so much evidence of benefit of social transition. There is no evidence of harm. Not one jot. This will literally kill trans kids. No exaggeration.

Support every trans, non-binary or questioning person you know. Speak out for those you don’t. Vote for politicians who want to expand humanity, not shrink it. And for god’s sake, stop buying Harry Potter or the works of those who want to ruin the lives of our loved ones out of their own ignorance.

After the @royalsociety.org refused to kick Musk out for his political views, surely this arrant nonsense should get him kicked out for "fraud or other defects in their research."

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

I'm somewhat tired of pretending that trans women using women's changing rooms and bathrooms has ever been a problem, as entire legal systems contradict their own precedent specifically to deny trans women dignity and serve up sacrifices to gender-conservatives and bigoted religious groups.

Found something on University Challenge this week that irritated me more than people saying they're "doing" something. A team member wearing a knitted Whaam! jumper. Roy Lichtenstein was a plagiarist and a thief, and the sooner he and his 'art' disappears from view, the better.

My reckon is that it's a societal good to celebrate the deaths and downfalls of terrible people. Shame is a powerful motivator. If people cannot find goodness within themselves, there is a solid chance that they will come to it by seeing people, en masse, refusing to shed a tear for the cruel.

Such a shame that Scott Adams spent the last fifteen years or so of his life being such a horrible, shitty, person so very publicly that the very same people who twenty years ago would have been genuinely heartbroken at his death are now making gloating jokes.

I’m actually okay with not winning, they should all be in prison

Insane take from James Titcomb and James Warrington, as they compare banning a site that creates and distributes CSAM with *checks notes* repressive state censorship. Genuinely hard to believe the Telegraph published this 'deepfake CSAM is a freedom of speech issue' gibberish.

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

Watched Johnnie To's RUNNING ON KARMA today, the first time I've been able to watch it on something other than a shitty VCD. Honestly never thought it would get a UK Blu-ray release because it's such a strange film. If you don't know much about how karma works, you're going to be so confused. 1/3

The video in the thread redacts the images, mercifully. But you can see from the prompts what is happening. This is obscene, vicious and intolerable. X and Grok should be shut down until this grotesque harassment can be stopped. Those responsible should face the full force of the law.

Let's not forget that it wasn't so long ago that this happened. Had a file on her phone, didn't view it, but still prosecuted. If you're still using X, just don't. Wipe your account. Delete the app. Put clear water between yourself and the CSAM-producing machine.

Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.

MISSING: One spine. If found, please return to 10 Downing Street.

2026 is the year of the what? (🐎)

It's Jan 1, 2026. This only means one thing to me right now. Carefully deciding what the first film I shall with this year will be, as it will be staring me in the face from my Letterboxd stats page for the next 360-odd days.

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

Happy new year, one and all. As is traditional in this house, we are switching between BBC Scotland and BBC Alba, depending on which channel is playing the music that my Scottish mother approves of.

it’s all i’ve got

Far too many to mention. But when I think of something I discovered on MTV, it's this one: God Lives Underwater, "From Your Mouth"

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Thanks to autocorrect, my Christmas greeting this year has turned into: Merry Christmas, you guilty animals.