Phantom Corsair
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Toby - wittering about cars, technology, showtunes and other stuff since… ooh, ages ago.
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I am a professional writer and editor - and rather good at copy-editing and proofreading. I'm happy to volunteer my services to any trans or gay rights organisation that can use them (as long as I'm not depriving anybody of a paid job!) If you need help, contact me!
#transrights
#LGBTQI+rights
about 1 year ago
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mtsw
4 days ago
biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.
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Rhodri Marsden
9 days ago
Morning all! Ivor remained asleep until 6am, bless him. Just had a look and we tipped 20k, which is magnificent. I’m going to repost some pix that I missed while slumbering. Thank you thank you
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
https://www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know-its-christmas-2025
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Mike Fragassi
10 days ago
I never knew there was video to go with the classic deeemented Christmas number, "The Pretty Little Dolly". Her facial expressions add a lot, as does Johnny Carson
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Mona Abboud
YouTube video by TheOfficialCarson
https://youtu.be/G0xq2K-ut8U?si=Lv_qpx00VspdO-VW
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Ash G.
16 days ago
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
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Popular Science
16 days ago
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
https://www.popsci.com/science/transgender-children-gender-identity/
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Sean T. Collins
18 days ago
I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
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The handle is a bit off-putting, but this is an interesting thread about one man's journey through the incel/conspiracist/misogynist rabbit hole and back again.
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Lee
about 1 month ago
I was reading an interesting post on FB about the GG and WI situation. Essentially both have been secretly fighting legal action from anti trans groups for a little while and they can’t afford to continue, according to the post. Well funded TERFs are forcing their hand.
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pseudonymity enjoyer
about 1 month ago
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here:
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Dan Harmon
5 months ago
Hi I’m Davibrimbaum, brother of Celebrimbor, I was Supervisor on Sauron’s Ring Project which included the forging and distribution of 19 rings and the “Ring of Power” which controlled them all, ask me anything
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Ably translated by Trevor and Simon as "Large Door" — a sister film to Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou" ("A Dog and a Toilet").
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Climate News
about 1 month ago
Please watch this important new video from Youtube channel “Just Have a Think”.
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YouTube video by Just Have a Think
https://youtu.be/8sa7uh192r0
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Helen Czerski
about 1 month ago
Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
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Danie Ware
about 1 month ago
If you read one
#Bookseller
article: read this:
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont-invest-in-ai-invest-in-the-future-of-the-book
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You do? Oh, that's wonderful! Can you keep it for me? My name... yes, it's: J R R Tolkien.
about 1 month ago
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Attention
@bezza.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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Squee! Kennedy Fisher is on the case!
#thelovecraftinvestigations
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about 1 month ago
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Simon Pegg
about 1 month ago
Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.
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Carter 🏳️🌈
about 1 month ago
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/earned-settlement
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I think
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might have a thing or two to say about him... Also, was I the only person who thought Ukraine rather than Texas when they heard 'Odessa'?
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about 2 months ago
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Michael cAIne
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about 2 months ago
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This is a tremendous piece.
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Brittany Trang
about 2 months ago
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/
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And don't forget his Sterling work on Bill Evans' "At the Montreux Jazz Festival".
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2 months ago
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Here's a link to an excellent, practical piece on Internet security. Read it!
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2 months ago
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Me doing today's Clues By Sam.
2 months ago
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If you're reading the letters pages of old Marvel comics, you're FOOMscrolling.
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2 months ago
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It doesn't even scan!
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3 months ago
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Absolutely this! It's a marvellous book.
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Jon Cooper
3 months ago
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Could the Nobel Peace Prize committee perhaps give Trump some sort of certificate of participation?
#nobelpeaceprize
3 months ago
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Don't be a coelacanth. Be a coelaCANh!
#motivationalfossils
3 months ago
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This is astonishing ambition: 24-hour-a-day energy from a solar plant with thermal battery storage, and enough output for 830,000 homes at a cost of $480m - that's around $600 per household!
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3 months ago
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I'm enjoying Clues by Sam. It's rather a well-constructed logic game.
3 months ago
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Rebecca R Helm
3 months ago
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Tom Clark
3 months ago
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
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mtsw
4 months ago
one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer
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ChrisO_wiki
4 months ago
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
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Read this thread - and act accordingly.
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4 months ago
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Literally cry me a river.
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George Monbiot
4 months ago
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
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Jan Rosenow
4 months ago
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
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@johnnymains.co.uk
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Ryan Estrada
4 months ago
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
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Jane
4 months ago
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Dr. Abigail Desmond
12 months ago
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
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Steve Peers
4 months ago
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Worgle 1330 4/6* ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ ⚪⚪⚪🟡⚪⚪ 🟡🟡⚪🟢🟡⚪ 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 Yes!
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