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

The Order giving effect to the final recommendations contained in our Report on the Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries has now been approved. News release: boundaries.scot/sites/defaul...

Well said Francesca Simon. ‘The University of Chicago’s motto is: “Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched.” If you’ve learned how to think, critically and creatively, then universities have done their job.’ 1/

I'll not even consider paying attention to anything Farage has to say about what happens in primary schools until *every* member of his party is legally allowed to be within 50ft of one

"In the late 1990s, investors poured money into Internet companies based on the promise of a transformed economy, seemingly ignoring whether individual businesses had viable paths to profitability." Like every major AI company they're investing in today. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/b...

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Plugging @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social’s ‘Project 1933’ series again, as a compliment to this:

Done lots of riding this summer but still feel that in 3 weeks I may regret this morning's impulsive decision. Good opportunity to see how many sweets I can eat in 10 hours though...

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

It’s appalling that these companies are not pulling these dangerous products off the market until they can make them safe. It’s appalling that regulators aren’t intervening. It’s appalling that the makers/boosters of genAI products are trying to ensure there can be no regulation.

Graham Simpson, Conservative MSP for Central Scotland since 2016, has just defected to Reform UK. This is the second time they've had an MSP via defection, following Michelle Ballantyne ahead of 2021. She led the Scottish arm to 0.2% of the vote; times have certainly changed since then.

I think we should be more concerned about this than is currently the case. And it should be easier to switch off AI functionality. Currently I'm using -AI in Google searches but there must be a better way? 3/3

Obviously the answer to this question is no, but more importantly, I will not take a question like this seriously until it is demonstrated to me that the makers of LLM technology, and their boosters in business and the media, have even the slightest concern for the suffering of actual human beings.

No new pictures, where are you at mentally. 🧀 @yrfatfriend.bsky.social

"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"

Our pals The Mary Wallopers have just been pulled off stage and the PA shut down at VictoriousFest in Portsmouth for taking out a 🇵🇸 flag and saying Free Palestine Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡 Free Palestine! Free the 6 counties!

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

An excellent no nonsense statement from the Women's Institute.

Aside from the frothing racism of these people, what is really grim about this is the idea that government are powerless to change culture. If your constituents think these things *they are wrong* and you need to explain why. It's not actually your job as an MP to rubber stamp fascism.