Sure, it’s disgusting and soulless, but on the other hand: very helpful for fraudsters

Mad (predictable) how completely the royals have worked to extricate themselves from Prince #Andrew. And we comply, obediently calling him Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor so he doesn't embarrass the crown. He's still had all the benefits of the monarchy, he's still a prince. Burn the whole thing down.

People really reaching to make the Epstein story about anything other than gender.

BBC celebrating having helped harass a woman out of her job.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

“I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “

Going skiing with a big group at the end of Feb and my friend has messaged the gc asking for dietary preferences so she can "work with copilot" to make an AI meal plan.

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

Amazing being Scottish and watching the Welsh and Westminster arms of Labour making the exact same mistakes as their Scottish arm, which is to meet a challenge from their left with seething fury that anyone would dare steal their rightful voters rather than actually try to appeal to those voters

That's weirdly given me faith in humanity #traitors

A small thing, but I am noticing every news outlet that refers to Renee Good’s wife as her “partner.”

So far the BBC’s coverage of the Minnesota killing seems really, really off Get Verify to verify what happened - NYT, Bellingcat etc already have - and report that

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

If Russia can't participate in international sports, why can the US? Ban them, and move the World Cup to Canada/Mexico.

LLB (Oxon), BCL (Cantab), QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, human rights advisor to the Northern Ireland Police Board.

If Mexico, who border the mad colossus that is the United States, can unequivocally condemn this as an action of aggression then the EU, sheltered by the Atlantic, can do the same and not offer this subservient drivel.

A vulnerable child was groomed and trafficked and then subjected to the most shocking experiences imaginable including the deaths of her babies. Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Come for the chart of shifting party support, stay for the fury at the fact we're going to have one of the most consequential Scottish (and definitely most consequential Welsh) elections since devolution, yet the Westminster media can't stop speculating about PM Farage in 2029 long enough to care.

If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here

Hot dog man singularity

As plenty of women have always known, it’s easy to sucker a man with a big ego into pretty much anything you want if you just let him bang on about his obsessions, flatter him, and don’t let your own personality intrude.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

And it really emphasises how our media just cannot be normal about trans people. Constant descriptions of Dr. Upton not as a trans woman, but as "a man etc," it's a warped definition of impartiality where acknowledgement of transness at all is "taking a side."

I just find this obsession with "content" and image so *boring*. Yeah sure good comms are important but they don't really work if you've not got anything substantive to say. Also inoffensive is not the first word that leaps to mind...

Dreadful news. Where are the media in all of this? UKHE, one of our few great export industries, as well as a vital part of our socio-economic national infrastructure, has been slowly collapsing and now rapidly so. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social asleep at the wheel.

We're near an old silver mine and explicitly aren't allowed to keep any silver we find in the garden. Also allowed one 'well behaved' cat or dog. Not sure what we're supposed to do if our cat's a prick.

Copilot is a slightly more advanced spellchecker and i just fundamentally don’t think that’s a good enough proposition to build the entire economy around

I'm sure you're very proud of yourselves in the journalism space though, eh? Off you went to learn the trade, bright eyed and idealistic about speaking truth to power, and here you all are just doing The Gay Agenda Is Out To Get Everyone again but subbing in trans people as the target. Mortifying.

Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits

I‘ve been listening to Sarah Marshall’s The Devil You Know and it’s so great. She knows this stuff inside out and weaves a tale of so many subjects; the satanic panic (duh), evangelicalism, the patriarchy, media, so much more. Highly recommend.

That's not a compromise. There is no compromise position lurking somewhere between "treat trans people as full and equal members of society" and "treat trans people as second-class citizens". Labour have chosen the latter option.

Bleary-eyed today after a great few days in Cardiff at the #EMCA Doctoral Network meet-up and MCA workshop. Highlights include analysing the I Think You Should Leave hotdog sketch, a burrata and truffle pizza, and a chat in the pub that solved a problem I've been having re. defining key concepts.

interesting to see her leaning on the argument that pro-palestinian voices are unfamiliar with the relevant history, as if any amount of historical context could justify what's happening in palestine

I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are

26 years into devolution and still hardly a single shit could be given about the governments responsible for e.g. the NHS or income tax rates for nearly 9 million people! This is infuriating! Every single day a new fucking Westminster poll and fuck all for Holyrood or the Senedd! Maddening!

Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.

universities got a tiny fee rise that was immediately wiped out by the national insurance raises. they used international student fees to subsidise capped domestic fees and now that’s going to be taken away too. universities are going to collapse and thousands of jobs will go with each collapse.

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)

it was really funny when we all let Anas Sarwar think he was going to be First Minister

They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school. And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this. This is not a serious society.

I’m one “had sex with underage women” headline away from this

But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.

I would prefer it if Wes Streeting did not become Prime Minister

After 1.5 years, several months of more thinking than knitting, and one extreme pull-back, the 30th birthday jumper is done! #knitting #knitsky