I keep bitching about AI, and I'm seeing instances more recently of relatively credible engineers using it very successfully, but I'm also seeing numerous instances of seeing people who don't understand where the limitations are mandate using it in ways which are technically stupid also.

Toasters getting better at coding because they've been agentified and under the hood when you ask for a new app, the toaster calls "cargo new --bin [yourproject]" to avoid hallucinating what a main[.]rs should look like is bad actually. I can call cargo new myself. I can generate boilerplate fine.

Heads up that the trailer for the new hbo Harry potter series cinematically evokes conversion therapy targeting trans girls from the very first moments (a woman viciously cutting Harry potters hair while reminding him that he's just a normal boy and nothing special while he winces in pain)

There’s an open letter you can sign here that will be sent to the Trade Unions Council to demand action. Please sign and share with your comrades if you’re a trade union member! www.tuff.network/sign-the-ope...

Are you tired of attending counter-demos miles away from the fash? Founding TUFF members were at Honor Oak, defended Trafalgar Square from the fash, and mobilised to defend migrant hotels, staying long after external orgs took their photos and left www.tuff.network/getinvolved

Are you: 1. In the UK? 2. A trade unionist or member of a tenants union? 3. Want to fight the far-right? 4. Want to finally be involved in decision-making, from the ground-up? Then good news! You can join Trade Unionists Fighting the Far-Right (TUFF) www.tuff.network

Humanitarian systems are designed to protect the most vulnerable. But what happens when some people remain invisible within those systems? If you work in humanitarian, human rights, policy, or have lived experience, your voice can help shape what comes next: 👇 🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

LGB Alliance had open support from far right groups at their most recent Manchester demonstration, theyve had solid connections to the far right American heritage Foundation.

I have seen plenty of evidence that “gender-criticals” are also misogynistic, antisemitic, racist, homophobic, ableist, classist and fascistic. Transphobia is a gateway bigotry.

Save Bethnal Green gardens from being gentrified into Padel courts you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

This👇is how you stamp down on GC intolerance in the workplace, with proper company policies. Transphobes need to feel the consequences of their “I’m protected by law to express my beliefs” nonsense. www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/16/a...

The Gender-Conservative movement cloaked itself in the language and thinnest veneer of feminism to legitimise transphobic politics. Now the institutions vilifying and marginalising trans people in the name of "protecting women" are shamelessly targeting reproductive autonomy as well (as expected.)

New @aabria.bsky.social actual play sci fi game just dropped worlds-beyond-number.simplecast.com/episodes/sol...

Anti-trans extremists, Baroness Falkner (former EHRC chair) and Baroness Davies, are now using the influence granted to them by the warmongering zealot Tony Blair and the bumbling Kemi Badenoch - to push policies that will strip cisgender women and girls of their bodily autonomy Utterly ghoulish

The pope being currently on a jag of saying "I don't know guys you can't serve wealth and Jesus. The death penalty is in conflict with pro life values. Nationalism is idolatry maybe stop putting migrants in concentration camps" Is making the "submit to Rome" bots look kinda funny tbh.

We've created hyperlexic machines that can make stupid assholes look like they're well read the way that stupid assholes used to bluff their way through dinner parties but even more extensively. This allows them to weave mazes of symbolism for people to pore over while they grab your wallet.

Whatever this is requires new methods (which is also why I think his ”techno-optimist manifesto” was LLM-generated) bsky.app/profile/more...

A smart student busted me at the event in Rotterdam for betraying my own previous method but I think part of what makes this moment/movement unique is its post-literate nature, how it breaks with the book➡️ think tank➡️policy model which was more helpful to explain neoliberalism.

The French and Germans seem to have been particularly susceptible to this. Literary cultures with well-read intellectuals assume the current threat was shaped by a means they can access with their inherited tools. But this isn’t theology nor a new kind of “enlightenment,” it’s a revenue model.

Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.

Online activism tip: Assuming that you're talking to an audience of politically disconnected slug-people who need to be smacked into awareness is a bad idea because the people most likely to see political posts are already being bombarded with messaging. Focus on encouraging people to act.

One of the few silver linings of trump's folly in Iran is the breakdown of the transnational fascist coalition as everyone realises being in on this shit with America isn't worth it.

The ONLY reason to have approached this trial in this way is to cause the maximum amount of damage you can to the maximum number of trans youth.

there was absolutely ZERO need to for Wes Streeting to extend the tory use of emergency powers indefinitely AND include private care in that. None. If you can't admit that much - don't bother pretending you give a shit about us. We can see right through your bullshit @lizzicollinge.bsky.social

no medication in the entire history of the UK has been made illegal in this manner - either on the NHS/private care/both - so that a trial can be run. not once. it has not ever happened. this is a unique torture invented specifically for trans youth at the behest of a buncha lousy bigots.

A stunning (yet unsurprising) graph of who gets identified for special versus gifted education in Oregon. Graph reported by @mattbarnum.bsky.social.

Cass, who the Starmer government insist on prioritising over the entire medical field of trans medicine, keeps insisting that a trans inclusive ban on conversion therapy would ban the therapy she favours. It's not going to happen under Starmer.

sometimes Starmer fans will post about a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban as if they genuinely believe that’s still a thing the government is going to do

Labour just deleted their post on twitter talking about tackling LGBT hate crime after pressure from transphobes (the people they're supposed to tackle the hate) and didn't bother posting on Bluesky for some reason.

So, research funding for “research” about trans people BY CIS PEOPLE is likely between £13-£15 million. Trans researchers were excluded from ALL of these. Research funding for trans academics is WAY below this, if available at all. This is an equal opportunities issue as well as an ethical one.

The problem with science is that fundamentally every monoculture fails, and if ur primary political goal is to create a monoculture, you must get rid of science.

I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.

The book this is based on is really cool and I'm excited to spend more time in the world it introduced!

You know what’s not fair, Bridget? Telling parents managing the additional burdens of raising a special-needs child that they have rights to support, guaranteed by law, and then overseeing a system so deprived of both resources and common humanity that those parents have to sue for those rights.

Netpols work is really good for those trying to keep track of the suppression of protest in the UK. I expect the report will be as grim as the title, nevertheless will be an important read. Netpol holding both online & in person launches of the report. 👇

Incoherent, populist ('let's kill all the lawyers') garbage, from Bridget Phillipson. If you "don't blame parents" for "pushing really hard for what their children need," and "hiring lawyers" means you "get a better deal" aren't parents right to hire lawyers, and what is it lawyers are doing wrong?

‘Is this institution either interested in or capable of hearing your class of people?’ is I think a foundational question regarding judicial legitimacy. I don’t actually need judges to be bigots to know that they spectacularly fail this test regarding a whole range of differently minoritised groups.

One TRILLION dollars! Me in @theguardian.com on the addiction of UK politicians/commentariat to large, and largely meaningless, numbers and why it's bad for policymaking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Netanyahu also voiced the “blood libel” language and referred to the rapists as “heroic fighters”:

And just today, the Israeli defense minister claimed the prosecution of the soldiers was “blood libel.” THE RAPE WAS ON VIDEO.

CW: rape . . . . . . IDF soldiers anally raped the Palestinian man with a knife and were caught on camera. They also severely beat him. The victim required surgery for a perforated rectum. The IDF is now dropping charges because of the outcry from the Israeli public IN SUPPORT OF THE RAPISTS.

Alright fam, here it is Moby-Dick Rocks!!!; or, put down the AI and read a fucking book. by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein earrings by Ear Art by Ebony London

Book burning motherfucker

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org