When a disabled person expresses concerns over assisted dying legislation, please listen to them. Don’t speak over them. Don’t assume they want to deny you the right to die. We’re fighting for our right to live. We’re fighting fascism & eugenics. Assisted Dying policies will always target us.

Harrowing thread I suspect MAGA types would like to return to this in a heartbeat

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

"the master race" again Does nobody WANT a chin these days?

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

I’d buy this as a painting. Please not as some fucking AI sliop version of a painting ok?

Like anyone white ever fucking apologised

They don't want to be creators, they want to have what they perceive as the cultural status that creators have, without doing the work for it. A lot of them also think we make a lot more money than we do, which they want as well.

this is a great watch

This is an important moment, and we need to explain to the public why it's important. An agency with the power to decide who gets to broadcast is supposed to be independent from the president so it won't abuse that power. If it's not, then we are letting the president seize the power to censor.

oh GOD they're all in thrall of AI because it tells them how clever they are. Chat GTP is basically a tech sex worker for these guys

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ONE FOR OLD PEOPLE WHO ARE KNACKERED, THEIR INDUSTRY IS FUCKED AND WHO WOULD LIKE TO EASILY GO AND LIVE IN FRANCE LIKE THEIR PARENTS DID... asking for a friend obvs

If there’s a perfect film it’s The Princess Bride. Rob Reiner was a genius. Horrendously sad news today.

Love Harrison Ford. Was lucky enough to meet him in Cannes a few years ago. He was charming, witty and - unexpectedly - great fun. Love him even more now.

OH WOW This is the content I am here for

the dog ate his homework but he doesn't even know what a dog looks like

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

Our media's reporting of trans issues is poisonous, unhinged, a betrayal by those who pretend to report impartially, and shamefully reminiscent of other hate propagandising throughout the last century. I'm surprised to see it in the UK but I need to learn that it is, since Brexit, just who we are.

RIP Martin Parr, documentary photographer and fellow Belka and Strelka obsessive. I love his work. He captured the extraordinary from the ordinary, often in super-saturated colour. I can look at so many of his collections and never be bored. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

Yet again I have bought a tree more suited to a Maison de Maitre than a late seventies semi. Ah well. More is more at Christmas as far as I’m concerned.

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

A statement from Woodcraft Folk re: the ban on trans girls from Girl Guiding. Trans girls deserve to belong everywhere. But when bigots win the day (not for long I hope), at least there remain places where trans girls and everyone else can belong. woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

New research reports that cats meow more frequently when greeting male owners. It’s hypothesized that men “require more explicit vocalizations to notice and respond to the needs of their cats.” In other words, the researchers are suggesting that many cats have concluded that men don’t always listen

The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.

So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

this is incredible. Art is incredible. Science is incredible. Great artists and great scientists are life changing.

Despicable He

I find Your Party's frequent use of AI very illuminating. Because when they talk about workers, they clearly do not include in that a large number of Arts sector and 'knowledge' workers. I suspect they regard them with contempt. Which is one of the many reasons they are not going to get far.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

babe, The Day Today did this in the nineties

I am allowed to fail students for AI use, and I do, and I say I will, repeatedly and emphatically. As a result, I wind up having to fail very few students for AI use.

time to get rid of the execs ESPECIALLY IN MEDIA - those fuckers are why we have endless pre-tits on every series and documentary.

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

What the FUCK kind of macaroni cheese is that? Forget the dried looking beans and carrots, the weird tiny croissants, the turkey that looks like it would taste like cardboard. That macaroni cheese deserves jail time.

rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"

This is really lovely. Really. Going to do this with my uni two when they are back for Christmas. Olaf and his art clubs helped us all through lockdowns. He's a very, very good man

the absolute wonder of science and vaccinations

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen. Japan - Hammersmith Odeon Live Aid - Wembley Stadium Madonna - Wembley Stadium Mansun - Astoria Air - Shepherd's Bush Empire

Next, ChatGPT fails to get past The Misty Mountains playing The Hobbit on ZX Spectrum

This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".

Absa-fucking-lutely.

Joss Stone said I was "one of those awesomely inspiring women that has control of her space and gets shit done. Really cool lady!" Very few people actually write to your boss and compliment you after you work with them and that made me feel on top of the world.

Also Labour MPs know it’s not a vote winner, they just want to do it because they think it’s right. How’s that become such an alien concept in our politics?

Nat King Cole is the best Christmas music. Reminds me of being small and walking around the town with my granddad looking at all the lights and decorations.

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