🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE it will result in dead trans people and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing you see the pipeline right? we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

This is eugenics. Genocide. An attack on science, medical ethics, bodily autonomy, and human rights. Where is the outcry from the biomedical community? Trans people aren't just abstract patients and research participants: We're your friends, family, and co-workers. Speak up before it's too late

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral. Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

@gailsimone.bsky.social Can you repost this please? I feel perhaps this will be important to your fans and followers or just all around trans people in need.

folks you really gotta start putting your money where your mouth is re: supporting vulnerable creators cuz things are looking more and more shaky

Yet another reason I am ashamed of the BSA, and they deserve dissolution

Reposting in response to puriteen discourse. We have gay pride because our queer predecessors rioted against the cops.

Purity politics in a nutshell: Purity must be preserved at all costs. Therefore, we must police you to make sure you are conforming to the sexless, thoughtless, tasteless, spotless NPC standard we have imposed upon society as "Normal™️". Any deviation will be severely punished!

It bothers me how nobody seems to understand that this, trans people getting booted out of the military without their contractually obligated benefits, etc. is ultimately about if the promises of the government are worth a goddamn thing as long as the Republican Party exists.

Any company that advertises their product with phrases like "pronounceable ingredients" are actively calling you stupid. Their ad hinges on the idea that you are incapable of understanding big words like a smart person capable of the most basic research. And it works! They make bank calling you dumb

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

This is bigotry, pure and simple. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

fuck yeah

Watergate is an overused benchmark, but it's the one most Americans are familiar with. That scandal involved a president trying to cover up a crime that was basically breaking and entering by his subordinates, a misdemeanor in most places. This one, meanwhile ...

evergreen

Sounds like an ad the Dems should run 25/7

There is a difference between curating your timeline and policing the community. The first is something everyone should do, and update regularly (like your passwords) The second forces the entire community to conform to the limited perspective of the puritanical ideal church boy.

So, here's the thing about age verification online. While the idea SOUNDS reasonable to lock kids out of sites they're not supposed to be on, the reality is holding everyone accountable for what is viewed by minors EXCEPT their parents.

Colorado Democrats just introduced a bill in the state Senate to make it MANDATORY for OPERATING SYSTEMS TO USE AGE VERIFICATION DURING SYSTEM SETUP. Even if you do not live in CO, you need to call up the bill's sponsors and scream. It WILL come to you next! www.biometricupdate.com/202602/color...

Kristi Noem rn

This one hits hard.

The New Deal did not happen via executive fiat

"Nobody — not even Saddam Hussein — has stolen more from his people than Donald Trump." unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/the-...

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Reminder: Trump deserves all the hate. But. He is a symptom. He is permission. He is a door that’s been swung wide open for these people to walk through. They existed long before him. The goal isn’t to fix them. It’s to make their behavior so socially destructive that they go back into hiding.

NEW: Natasha Korecki at NBC reports that in light of the SCOTUS tariff ruling, Gov. Pritzker sent President Donald Trump an invoice of $8.6 billion.

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someone in AI fucked up and actually told the truth

I think Bessent is substantially right about this outcomewise *but that’s one reason why you don’t do this stupid illegal thing in the first place* and also why you should build in a way to refund to consumer if you do

This is murder. This will kill trans people.

with batteries at $100/kWh and wholesale solar at $400/kW, you could buy 5 KW of solar and 15 kWh of batteries for the price of building 1 KW of this gas plant... and that’s before the cost of gas to keep the thing running

I'm going to be kicked out onto the street in 2 days

This is the same logic that 4kids used to justify its insane 'localization' policies for anime in the 90's-00's. The idea that kids can only engage and appreciate media that doesn't stray from their limited worldview/experience led them to the infamous "jelly doughnut" localization of rice balls

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Linda Davis was killed by ICE today. A Black woman, a beloved teacher, killed by ICE in Savannah, Georgia. Her name is Linda Davis and she was killed by our government.

⚠️ Eighteen people in Texas remain in jail after being accused of “providing material support for terrorism” for participating in an anti-ICE protest. The case is intended to set a precedent criminalizing protest. Jury selection begins for a trial involving nine of the defendants on February 17th.

Words of wisdom from weird Al!

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

This year, and unless things change, in order to attend @furality.org you'll have to give your data to a Palantir-adjacent company. Act accordingly.

The 2028 Dem platform needs to include "prosecute everyone who lied to Congress." Whatever fake "norms" there were against that are long gone, and Trump has routinely used and threatened it, including against the Federal Reserve. Real, meritorious prosecutions need to happen at scale.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.