There are real people pissing their pants and shitting their britches every day for those with eyes to see 😔

If you wonder why the "Quiet Posters" feed doesn't work for you anymore, it is because the @why.bsky.team subscribed to an anti-anti-ai block list, rendering it useless for over 300 000 users. Good job bsky team!!

Oh my god, the bsky dev team is running actual site functions from their personal accounts and those functions break for any users they block? This is not how you run a company.

uhhh.... is it not appropriate to mention the pretty serious allegations that got him suspended from Labour, then?

If you haven't read Elizabeth Sandifer's "Cuddled Little Vice" it's absolutely and 100% worth the time. It's hard to imagine anybody will ever write a better reflection on Neil Gaiman's artistic legacy and all it implies, both about the limits of art and the limits of a particular person.

Ah! A rite of passage!

The moon is a sunlit object. Expose accordingly.

this story is largely unrelated to the quote skeet but I do think of it any time I see one a y’all with BDSM in your profile. are you the Restaurant Decider or the One Who Doesn’t Care

"You can only be trans if I say it's OK" says the one true arbiter of womanhood

I believe all of this and will add: I worked on a bunch of MrBeast shit at my old job and our main point of contact for awhile was a guy who went by the nickname Klitz (a shortened version of his last name). room full of dudes saying "Klitz" and giggling.

Having one AI hallucination in a work is kind of like having one human finger in your chili. Even if you take it out, the existence of it is evidence that you're doing the entire process wrong.

you can no longer read this. I've removed all the "public nudity" (sex words) and submitted it for review. So, as per Patreon, keep in mind: describing sex counts as public indecency. Yes, really. I hope I live to see the death of puritanism. This is hell.

I'm blocked, as well. But I'd already blocked that schmuck.

I also see this with writing. "Wow this 1000 word flash is the best 4000 word short story that's ever become the first instalment in an epic series". "It was supposed to be a [oneshot/short story]", the lament of my people.

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

My tattoo artist i would see with my bff died. Hes dead. A man in his thirties just living his life.

hey who wants to get me that for my birthday

a handmade embroidery artwork titled "Manually embroidered cats" created by artist @ladyserebrennikova.

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

growing up in and around Plymouth, she has multiple pulls on my heart! ❤

As mentioned many times before, a sign of me becoming obscenely wealthy would be all the Beryl Cook paintings I suddenly owned.

Happy Shakespeare's birthday! What is your favourite Shakespeare adaptation? It goes without saying that 10 Things is up there, as is She's the Man and the Damian Lewis/Sarah Parish Much Ado.

Sick of people's hard-won rights torn to shreds. Sick of the sheer lack of openness, honesty, leadership. Accountability. I want to believe that people go into politics to actually help others, but it's tough! I'm pretty jaded, but Polanski's actions do give me hope for a better future for us all 🙂

This is my set! It was meant for me!!!

I refuse to use the phrase Don't Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater until I am presented with peer-reviewed studies about what happens if we throw the baby out with the bathwater. I don't think a scientifically meaningful sample of babies have ever been thrown out! This is just bad science.

"Every morning, regular as clockwork, foul-tasting brown sausages fall out of my bottom. Who puts them up there and what are they trying to distract me from? 🤔"

Not to be a broken record, but why on earth is Ed Balls there interviewing his wife's work colleagues about a scandal involving the government department she currently runs?

but i was told surrendering on toilet access would "take the issue off the table"

So anyway *this* is why I’m anti Digital ID, alongside access concerns. Once it rolls out, who decides when it gets used and why? And that’s a rhetorical question because Labour has made it very clear who they are listening to

This isn't actually about Linux, but rather the enormous amount of lobbying that Meta is doing to push mandatory age verification at the operating system level, while quietly excluding its own products from regulation. Worth a read if you are interested in privacy and tech regulation.

what if i fucking kill you

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It's Stephen Lawrence Day. Everyone should familiarise themselves with the way he, Duwayne Brooks and his family were failed by the state. Crooked police, lawyers, press and politician. It's more corrupt than you remember, I promise you that stephenlawrenceday.org

Please donate to the @goodlawproject.org if you can spare a few pennies. Ive been following the issues with Palantir and I knew the moment the Good Law Project got involved, there would finally be some scrutiny. You should be worried. Your medical data isnt all this is about.

NEW EUPHEMISM “You took your time in there” “Yeah, I shat out a space hopper”

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At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

Is this also the case for sideloaded apps, because that's the only way to get "not available in your country" store loyalty scheme apps on my phone for travelling and this will be a right old pain

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

*my* cuisine, as in what i was raised with, was crunchy parent wholemeal healthfood dérangement from the 80s. you can pick literally anything.

Look. This is one of our national dishes, and this was a photo someone took to try to entice you into eating it. I couldn't tell you if this plate is cooked or not. I couldn't even tell you if it's the first time it's been eaten. It looks like food we invented the first day we learned about food

Not sure tube strikes (especially partial ones) “bring London to a halt”. WfH/Liz Line/Overground/Lime bikes. London just felt a bit empty today (so bad for restaurants etc) rather than full of people who’d come in and were struggling home. TfL say only -13% passengers and 51% of tube running.

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

US fascists want to cover women up; French fascists want to uncover them. Can't we just put them all in a room, lock the door and, well, leave?

Goudafellas

Imagine being this clear that you hate your employees and expecting it to go well.

In my experience, the gays who were active in the gay rights movement support trans rights now. The gays who stayed home and scolded the activists for stirring things up are the ones who are now trying to ditch trans people.