This is so depressing. GenAI has zero redeeming features. I read an article the other day about how the career of being an Art Teacher in schools is on the verge of being wiped out. So don't come on here with AI avis, or memes, or images in your "progressive" blogs and expect to be taken seriously

While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.

* in trans young people. We'll keep providing them to cis young people, for whom they're magically harmless.

All. Of. This

1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999. * the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers

3/ “For example, it is envisaged that the provision would allow a suitably qualified male to female transsexual to be able to take up employment in a single sex women's hospital. They could themselves be treated as a comparator by a male applicant.” This shows, quite bluntly, the EHRC is wrong.

If you ever wish to read Herald tripe, I can fully recommend archive.is as a way to avoid giving these bigoted fucks a penny in advertising revenue.

Israel openly committing war crimes, and the US gives a positive approval rating of Trump's support of that. Shameful.

the nominees were -a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children -a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault -a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history* (*winner)

I'm not at all surprised by the Covid inquiry findings, including that ScotGov received criticism. I do think we should recall how fucking rancid a lot of unionist journalists were if ScotGov dared to do anything different from WM.

📹NEW VIDEO -- Leaked emails expose Israel lobby links to top politicians and big business The historic relationship between top Tories and the Israeli government has been laid bare in a remarkable cache of leaked emails seen by Declassified. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-DC...

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happy International Men's Day to trans men only, you guys worked your asses off to earn this and are playing the game on a level cis men cannot even imagine

The same AI companies that apparently also present future water shortages … what a wee treat for us all.

UK supplied weapons have been used by the RSF in the Sudan genocide. You can guarantee the fascist UK government won't be accepting refugees they've supported the displacement of.

Greg Jackson (CEO Octopus) believes that with the right regulatory changes, Scotland could harness its renewable energy potential to provide free electricity to its residents. Unionism: fuck that we'll give cheap electricity to a sector exacerbating climate change. Fuck Labour.

A craftsperson loves craft. Writing is craft. The people who practice it are into the process. People using AI don't have the SOUL of a craftsperson. They want an end result to stick their name on, that's it.

I know people are aiming ableist slurs at people who mention Brexit, but the £40 billion tax yield lost because of Brexit is remarkably close to the £40 billion black hole in UK finances we've been hearing about, and the least well-off are probably going to pay for it come the fascist budget.

It's quite generous to imagine he'll last that long.

Israel Launches Airstrike on Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon, Killing 13 People

I think it's entirely reasonable at this point both to shut down every AI image generation company and also to completely ban all men from unsupervised internet access

WH is preparing to unveil Ukraine–Russia peace plan within days. They negotiated it directly with Moscow, w/o Ukraine or Europe. WH will present it to Ukraine as fait accompli, saying Zelenskyy, under pressure, will have no choice. As for Europe: “We don’t really care,” per senior official.

The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

We Can't Keep Waiting takes place this Saturday, 22nd November at the Pyramid at Anderston in Glasgow! The event is for trans and nonbinary people only - sign up for your ticket here: www.outsavvy.com/event/30917/... Our next workshops to be announced are ⬇️

This is an excellent but incredibly disturbing account of unethical actions and what can only be described as malpractice by Sussex ICB and NHS England, targeting young trans people and the only GP Practice that continued to provide evidenced treatment for them. The illustrations are so apt.

I'm intrigued by the fact the UK government is "ready" if it comes south, but not "ready" while it's just around Scotland. "A union of equals" lol.

Russian spy ship enters British waters and shines lasers at military pilots

No. This is how patriarchal power structures function. It's not new. You're in an incredibly privileged position if you haven't been the woman/minority abused in front of a group and the group does nothing to challenge the behaviour.

Just wanted to say: Have been reading versions of this a lot. If you've survived an abuse situation, you understand the *point* is that he insults her AND that nobody speaks up. Of course nobody does. The entire presentation is the propaganda. It's about the witnesses' compliance and complicity.

We call on all people to escalate BDS campaigns to burry the colonial Trump-Netanyahu plan — as many colonial projects have been defeated before.

Perhaps others will understand when I say: abusers will abuse you in public or in front of (ignorant, useless) witnesses or whatever — in part because their lack of response will underscore his point, that you are undefended.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ranin. Ranin was a teacher before this. Ranin had two children Misk, 2 and Sanad, 1 but she lost sweet little Misk. Ranin is also pregnant and her tent was flooded this week. She has a new fundraiser and could really use help.

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Saw an American yesterday on TikTok saying that if you’re more than 3 generations American you’re American not whatever nationality your ancestors are and people were going mad in the comments. And it got me thinking if I did that the way USians do I’d be going “As a Cuban Irish” which is INSANE

80yo daughter of Holocaust survivor first to be arrested at Aberystwyth Palestine Action protest Police in Aberystwyth are arresting more than 20 people for showing public support for Palestine Action. www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/breakin...

For #InternationalMensDay - a thread of amazing Allies. First, Sir Walter Scott who supported several female writers including Susan Ferrier who found the 'burden of authorship' heavy. Scott called her his 'sister shadow' & said she was a better writer than him. (she was!)/1

Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it). "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".

manufacture death to grow the economy. grim. also very funny that the country we now want to defend ourselves from has private citizens who own half of London and has made God knows how much money from joint oil/gas ventures. oh well www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is happening like clockwork and exactly as the activists predicted.

Watch this if you have any doubts about the real dangers of current-generation AI as it’s being used: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcIm... CW: emotional manipulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, murder

Some of us remember 1978 too.

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Went for a walk. Got snowed on. Want a refund.

I’m sorry but any Labour MP not publicly denouncing Shabana Mahmood‘s disgusting proposal to turn asylum seekers’ lives into a living hell is complicit. Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won. Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not. This is on you.

It isn't new that ADF is active in the UK, it has been active here for years. It has been central to anti-trans court cases designed to attack Gillick, and embedded in the harassment of people accessing healthcare that may or may not involve reproductive healthcare.

Remember when these dimbulbs thought they were going to put Sarwar in Bute House. They'll be lucky to put anyone in Holyrood at all.

So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?

Hundreds of people gathered in front of Toronto’s City Hall to watch the Palestinian flag being raised for the first time since the federal government recognised the State of Palestine in September.

The only way you could believe implementing cruel racist policies will "unite the country" is if a) you don't count non-white people as part of the country and b) you think every white person in the country is cruel and racist Is that what counts as patriotism these days?