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The newsletter also has some deep thoughts about the bloodbath at Teen Vogue

sources: "around 0.15% of users active in a given week have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent": openai.com/index/streng... "800M weekly users": techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/s...

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

people will look back on how we allowed this the way we look back on child labor

It’s true that Square Enix loves going all in on the stupidest bubble shit imaginable and then never bringing it up when it crashes but it’s also worth pointing out how uniquely bad and late they are at investing in scams.

Unfortunately I’ve been laid off today from Square Enix, so if anyone has leads for any Community or Social positions please let me know. I’m just tired and heartbroken.

I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*. on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.

Republicans have been cutting education funding for decades.

50% of workers can't afford healthcare. People are using buy now, pay later apps to go into debt to buy groceries. GoFundMe has 250k pages for medical bills and 40k for tuition. … and Elon Musk gets a $1 trillion pay out. And people think moms getting SNAP are the problem.

No words.

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💖I’ve just been sent this snapshot of the first review (in George Orwell Studies) of The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell, which singles out my chapter for praise.💖Now I need to get hold of the rest of the review (and hope the end of that last sentence isn’t scathing!) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We've been down on the beach today picking up firework debris. It's odd, isn't it, that you can be fined £250 for dropping litter but somehow it's OK to launch rockets containing plastic casings into the sky.

That feeling when your two favourite babysitters meet and it occurs to you they could fall in love and get married and adopt you.

This is the vibe to aspire to, always.

FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy

There are actually very few movies you “couldn’t make today because of woke.” But there are a hell of a lot of movies that you couldn’t make today because of anti-woke.

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The funny thing is that Democrats often say they want to tax the rich and expand social services - Mamdani is “aggressive” and not “conciliatory” bc he apparently was not lying and actually wants to accomplish these goals

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There’s so much to say abt how these ads frame coursework as ungratifying labour that you’d be a fool *not* to try to outsource,& how that narrative then intersects w/racialised, classed, &gendered ideas abt education&aspiration. Grammarly’s 2024 ads exemplify this, down2the use of the magical n*gro

It's also why all of those smug european countries are pulling back on their welfare programs. They were happy to have them when they were relatively homogenous but now that they're afraid of immigrants having them - esp POC - they're scaling back

It makes me so mad that the people all upset about exposing their kids to gay penguins in a book or whatever are exposing my kids to this.

Turns out a lot of Americans understand that trans people aren’t the reason shit is expensive and people are being starved

Historic #Mamdani

Speaking of crashouts, my friend spotted this truck on the street in Manhattan. Imagining the nyc ultrarich decamping for New Hampshire is hilarious, like a more unsympathetic schitt’s creek

I sent my LARB article about ChatGPT and the humanities to my aunt in Italy and her phone, or her phone’s browser, automatically translated it for her 🤦🏻‍♀️ (The article is a *critique* of LLM/AI boosterism).

oldie but goodie

Please let this sink in.

guys I implore you to read the post I'm responding to. the electoral success - resounding, deafening - yesterday that repudiated the anti-Trans, centrist, xenophobic old guard is where the party itself (its voters) are at

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

The Guardian writes: "Democrats have racked up election wins across America – but they would do well not to misread the results" Idk, but I don't think legacy media are the way forward.

If you have been reading my posts and wondering how you can help, donating to Anne Health would be a good way. Many of the kids are on blockers via the NHS because they can't afford to go private. I know times are tough, so sharing this instead would be helpful if you can't afford to donate.

Very. Much. This.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Some high quality shade at Andrew Cuomo from Adam Gabbatt at the Guardian

Please share this as much as possible. They are threatening to access the records without consent, force the children to the gender clinics, and stop their hormones, with threats of police and social services if you refuse. youtu.be/Rw3hkic9Lzw?...

I was in the toilet at a Mexican restaurant in Brighton at the weekend when a trans woman came out of the stall to wash her hands. She looked terrified and was doing everything she could to avoid me. I wanted to say something reassuring and tell her how sorry I am, but I was worried I would scare..

Thread: timeline of the rolling back of trans rights in the UK (w/references to the U.S. and Ireland). Please read and share.

This causes a spike in suicides, in 2024 a review is started led by Louis Appleby to look into these suicides, Appleby is another known transphobe (seeing a pattern here?) who obviously finds no issue, many parents of trans kids lost to suicide report they were not contacted nor were 19/26

that it is simply ignored, it showed overwhelming public support for trans people and the reform of the GRA. Coincidentally 2018 is when the media start to really and I mean REALLY ramp up the anti trans rhetoric, we start to see on average 3 anti trans stories per day in the news. 12/26

The bigotry underlying this becomes clear when you consider that the same institutions constructing moral panics about puberty blockers have no problem at all w/the prescription of antidepressants that are *known* to increase the incidence of suicidal ideation&attempts in the under-25s.

Thread.

Please share.

Has any mainstream media outlet covered this? It seem like a pretty big news story. (Click for thread and info for editors; and please share).

The medical professional is sorely behind when it comes to safer tapering practices generally, let alone something as sensitive as puberty blockers. I had to do my own research to come off meds safely: had I listened to any of the advice I was given I’d be dead now. They are playing w/kids’ lives.