we are going to live in a world without billionaires

I love media exposing that they really only ever think of white people as people To the point they try and dog whistle it because someone Brown wins a thing

Several of the largest protest marches in the UK were trans rights marches in the the past few years. You probably wouldn't know this because the BBC coverage of them has been next to non-existent. Meanwhile they will gladly headline a single transphobe staging a one-person protest.

We can’t keep doing government this way, guys. Tax the rich and regulate their power to influence government because this isn’t working. And if the rich don’t like that plan, there’s always:

Notable that the hearty folk calling for the restoration of traditional English countryside practices have the support of a massive nine percent of the population. And can’t even muster a quarter of the Tory rump…

Those live sets are superb (I've had them for ages - still exploring them ) Autechre have gotten better and better over the years

Quick PSA, but Bleep's 50% off Warp sale is now on. Just dropped £15 on 19 Autechre live sets, which equates to just over 22 hours of pure ae: bleep.com/warp-boxing-...

Conwy Castle, 1875

A cultural catastrophe for whom? The entitled White Middle class who the BBC cater for? Because for everyone else it’s just Establishment propaganda, and the promotion of post-colonial delusions.

You “cultural catastrophe” has already happened. Any version of the BBC worth defending is long dead. What remains is a vehicle for corruption, propaganda and the normalization of prejudice. It deserves to be destroyed and I will cheer its passing.

There's something grimly ironic about some defenders of generative AI not being able to think their way out of a wet paper bag.

It's almost annoying how smart the idea is of taking over the Church of England. It's weak as fuck, but has institutional power and loads of assets. And what is the pushback really? Do loads of anti-racists atheists have to join to fight them off? Can they truly be arsed?

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

This article also perfectly describes the radicalisation of ‘gender critical’ transphobes - predominantly privileged, educated, middle-aged, women!

No.

I've been asked by a mate to engrave this on a large piece of slate. In exchange he has offered to turn next years apple crop from the tree in my garden into cider. I don't drink but there may be an 'artisinal cider from the orchards of Sardonicus' available next year.

‘Bourgeois described one piece as sporting “dear little labial accents”. “Have you ever seen latex used better?” she asked.’ Jo Applin on the connection between Louise Bourgeois’s New York house and her latex work. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

But it's not about actual emotional attachment; it's about making other people *think* you have emotional attachment. These images are not keepsakes, they are set pieces.

this is absolutely superb and a great introduction to Braxton ( I love Braxtons work and have a fair bit of it but I keep coming back to this quartets work) (AND if you are really interested Graham Lock has a great book where you can read about this tour and Braxtons music)

Mental health treatments still suffer from ideological conflicts when it comes to non-white people getting care, so we don't have imagine on that one.🤷‍♀️😔

Transitioning now in my late 50s & the absolute difference in my mental & physical health. My life would have been so much better if I’d been through the correct puberty and had the medical support I so clearly need Imagine if we didn’t treat other treatable stuff for ideological reasons

i actually don't think we should ever join a debate over puberty blockers. the heritage foundation picked that as the point of conflict because it is a huge compromise and it also lets them imply that trans activists want your kid prepubescent. what we really want is equal access to endocrine care

Brightly Shone the Moon by Laura Cannell music.apple.com/us/album/bri... #experimentalmusic #christmasmusic

The moral panic about estrangement is all about shoring up patriarchal power over youth. Which is why gender criticals are so eager to join in.

Heads up for this if you want to come along Jan 25th. Me and Caroline Catz in conversation @humberstgallery.bsky.social humberstreetgallery.co.uk/events/in-co... Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-convers...

Another set of bookmarks from a few years ago, featuring the Ghostbear of Hookland following the Hum, the Empress Eel with Marsh Ape in the background, a sea serpent, a scarecrow/ dudman and some Hookland otters (Lutra Lutra Hooklandi)🌒 #BookmarkoftheDay @hookland.bsky.social

i can't believe the number of people in my life who are enthusiastically using Chat GPT for therapy, to analyze text conversations with partners, get advice on disputes with neighbors etc. it's just autocomplete! it doesn't "know" anything and can't give you advice! please please don't do this

I am highlighting a bunch of examples of people genuinely trying to use LLMs and genuinely not finding them very useful to illustrate that this really isn’t just a “rabid AI haters who’ve never actually tried it” conversation

They are ass at programming as well. Everyone I work with who uses them regularly I've see backslide both in competence and productivity. People whose opinions I used to value and trust spending day troubleshooting small issues with the wrong framing of the problem in the first place.

To be blunt: This government is treating a child changing their name and pronouns as being as dangerous as most narcotics, and treatment as if it were shooting up bleach. The "caution" exerted is extremely disproportionate.

It is far cheaper (comparable to paracetamol) than the double whammy of costs of expensive psychiatrists in GICs to tell trans people what we already know: That we are trans; and psychiatrists to help us cope with the distress of being pointlessly denied treatment.

this is almost certainly my own head canon BUT Ultravox et al seemed to me to sketch out a romantic noirish Europe fast forward a few years & it seems to me that @hutchinsondave.bsky.social Fractured Europe sequence is a - a grubier more run down version but echoes of the same :-)

Anyone who believes in & uses the term 'gender ideology' should be disregarded as a lunatic. It's not & never has been anything more than a bigots conspiracy theory. They cannot be regarded as sane humans.

We said for years: don't normalise having these "debates" about trans people and immigrants. Everyone thought they knew better. And now it's absolutely normal to say trans people are deviants and immigrants are subhuman, and we're having debates about whether women can vote.

Thank you again, Robin, for taking such a stand. Trans people will never forget it ❤

Trans rights are WOMEN’S rights! When they come for trans rights, women’s rights are diminished also! We need to remember how powerful unity is. “Inclusive, intersectional feminism is a threat to the powerful; that’s why it’s worth spending so much to try to destroy it” @jennykermode.bsky.social

I do not understand this obsession with cats going outdoors - apart from the havoc they wreak on wildlife - the other night on the motorway there was a cat trying to cross!! fortunately I spotted it in plenty of time & it about turned very quickly but goodness me...

Telling me that Trump will suffer in jail and lose all of his ill-gotten gains, but only if Clinton endures the same is like telling me that I can have two million dollars instead of one million.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

It would've helped if people viewed trans people's ongoing elimination as the canary in the coal mine it's always been instead of just saying "neat, there's a dead bird in there"

living in the UK for as long as I did gave me a useful concept to describe people like this. We get weird about it in American English, and the Brits win on this one because it is a genuinely helpful term: these people are cunts. They're not motivated by anything other than being cunts. That's it!

It's hard to find the words for how disgusting this is. It completely silences girls' experiences of male violence. It fails to recognise the importance of education for prevention. It ignores the drivers of men's violence. And it's racist. Oh and for good measure, which party cut police numbers?