Two of the most fundamental ethical principles of transhumanism are morphological freedom (the freedom to modify one's body) and cognitive freedom (the freedom to control one's mental processes). If you think trans people shouldn't be able to transition, you're not a transhumanist.

LinkedIn is ten times more unhinged than Twitter ever hoped to be

Slightly increase a band. 10,001 Maniacs

My Squirrelfriend's Squirrelfriend.

I see more Reform councillors gone , this time a mother and son “twofer” in Worcestershire . Possibly EIGHT now since LAST THURSDAY .

“The revealed preference is their core voters actively enjoy being taken for a ride by the most obvious scam artists you’ve ever seen, as long as they validate their morbid pathologies about race and gender as they do so.” www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

i think it's very silly the government cares this much about bond markets. james bond isn't real

Morning 😂.

I fear the pushback to "Your Fave Is Problematic" was perhaps shoving the pendulum a bit too hard. Nothing is pure and untainted, and if you insist everything you enjoy simply must be, you're either going to be left with very little to enjoy or overlook a lot.

🧵 about how to deal with the Gleepglorps stealing your nan

Me: "No-one has ever suffered like I suffer!" The priest, pointing at the huge cross with a dying Jesus on it: "Jay, it is quite literally Good Friday today." Me: "I said nobody ever suffered 'LIKE' I suffer. Jesus never had to answer an email, did he?? Honestly! I think I'd rather be crucified!"

This whole hantavirus thing is making me think about how completely crazy people went for mokneypox. Remember people saying that schools were going to going to be monkeypox superspreader events? How we were all going to get it by trying on clothes?

BREAKING: 60 Labour MPs have now publicly called for Keir Starmer to resign

Law of Regression Cure Poison Flame, Cleanse Me Lord's Aid

Cursed discourse of the day: does "support queer-owned businesses" include Palantir?

Necromancer with bone flute: “Are you sure? I don’t usually do this on living people”. Me: “Look, just have a go. Go on.” Necromancer: *plays experimental toot; all my ribs click back into place* Necromancer: “Holy shit!”

I have a broad theory that a meaningful amount of NIMBY sentiment can be explained by the fact that developers are a potential villain from both right and left wing perspectives and so can be monstered in fiction meant to appeal to a broad audience.

Organising data properly - yes. There have been some good data sharing initiatives between and within trusts for years, although I still regularly have to collect results on paper and scan and email them to a clinic. Handing it to Palantir - hard no, absolute madness.

Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.

The tale of every single last Reform-led council so far is them discovering that there is no secret Net Zero Department for Pronouns that accounts for 45% of council budgets, panicking, ordering an entire budget surplus worth of flags, and then falling apart in acrimony.

To be clear, the problem here is very much Palantir being involved. An actual genuinely unified health record is something that a lot of people in the NHS have been quietly advocating for literal decades; the current fragmentation of information is inefficient and causes harm.

Antisemitism infects any movement it takes root in. It is uniquely capable of ruining a cause by turning a sizable chunk of otherwise decent people into conspiracy-addled bigots.

sometimes Oxford is normal and sometimes members of @orieloxford.bsky.social chapel gather to serenade a new beehive on college grounds with a 17th century madrigal

The main thing keeping me from splurging on Scarlet/Violet is I hear that’s the one where you go to school and I feel like your child protagonist getting an actual education is a violation of the core fantasy of Pokémon. It’s like a just and equitable diplomatic settlement in Call of Duty.

Just started reading this the other day, having had it on my shelf for god-knows how long. So far I'm definitely in the "not especially impressed" camp.

Evergreen headline.

Reform really showing off their Extremely Normal Party credentials.

Climate change will caused untold human suffering and devastated our ecosystem, but it will also sink Yarmouth into the sea, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not.

I like to imagine him singing this to the tune of "She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain"

And further more, may those who voted Reform in get the representation that they deserve.

Prosecuting former leaders who break the law is a sign of a healthy and functioning democracy

💚 Outstanding result for @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social, holding four and gaining five wards compared to the previous election, bringing us to 13 councillors (the most we've ever had). 🥳 📈 We also came second in several wards without actively campaigning there, showing potential for future growth. 🌱

The Greens win our first ever directly elected Mayor - a huge historic victory! Huge congratulations to Zoë and the entire team. Two party politics isn't dying. It's dead and it's buried. And we're making hope normal again.

god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship

What's happening is we're moving to a European party system but without PR.

May the Great British Electoral Stove-Touching be quick and brutal.

😳 That’s quite a change from the normal format…

We are still going through realignment and Labour can no more stop that than Cnut could the tide. Its really important we are clear sight about what is happening here: we are losing far more votes to the Greens than Reform + our base is now middle class graduates. Our policy needs to reflect this

Every single time. When are people going to wake up to the fact Reform are basically the Tories who fucked up led by the man who fucked up the Tories (in the sense of breaking the party by giving the anti-EU lunatics the whip hand).

as someone who enjoys talking shit, I too am a big believer in accepting the very easy-to-anticipate possible consequences of talking shit

Horse paste is not a goddamn cure-all.

Once again: posting on social media generally is not Praxis. If you want to exercise real political power by typing words on the internet, you should (politely!) email your state and local elected officials about issues under their purview.

Always worth reiterating, the identification strategy of the polygraph test is fundamentally contrary to the tenets of causal inference, for reasons that a first-year PhD student could easily elaborate on, but which all boil down to: There Is No Measurable Physiological Response Unique To Deception

And a very good morning to the train driver who, seemingly unaware that he had activated the intercom, has begun our journey with some concerning huffing and wheezing, followed by a drawn-out ”Ohhhh shit” and a panicked “Jesus Christ”.

This lady is why hospital chaplains are actually really, really important because a good hospital chaplain will be able to convince some portion of these people that giving your child chemotherapy is not actually against God's will, and that modern medicine is itself a miracle.

The problem is these parents just genuinely think the doctors are lying to them. It's like a mass psychosis going on. I came across a TikTok the other day of a woman who was upset that a hospital called CPS on her when she refused chemotherapy for her child with Leukemia.

Finally a love affair that sounds appealing.

People don't want their politicians to be drinking on the job. There are no ifs or buts or excepts to this sentiment. We have polling. They hate it and if you can't grasp why then you are simply too online for your own good.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

Like, the answer to "the press and politicians prioritise antisemitism over other forms of bigotry, sometimes for their own purposes" isn't to ignore antisemitism, it's to push for other forms of bigotry to be addressed swiftly