The infantilisation of Greta Thunberg is ableist. AND people not accounting for her Autism is reductive and disingenuous. What happened to her and others from the flotilla is atrocious, clearly illegal, demonstrative of Israel as a terrorist state.

This is really fuckin offensive to me as a person trying to convince nondisabled people eugenics is real for the past I don’t know how long. You all can’t treat disabled folks like we’re human, but sure, the genocidal autocorrect has feelings.

Props to the gent strolling through Union Station with a flag that says FUCK TRUMP over his shoulder.

There's a whole subset of trans media where the major premise is "People are mostly pretty nice to a trans character and treat them with basic humanity" and I can't bring myself to hate any of it, no matter how twee, because it can't be all bad if it upsets fascists this much.

Goddess. Bow ye heathen bastards. A Goddess ascended to the firmament this week.

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

It's a stupid conversation, but I'd say to remember your targets when sighting your weapon. You don't want to harm people jsut trying to survive with these dumb-ass speak and spells, you want to harm the billionaires who defend their investments with lies

I'd be alot more open to the "don't use slurs for AI" argument if it wasn't being fronted by literally the worst people on social media. Anyway, make up something funny based on the facts. Calling it a glorified calculator makes the tech bros much angrier

The risible thing about these "AI = people" posts is that there would be a philosophical dilemma if we encountered truly sentient AI. There are roughly one million sci-fi stories on this very topic. But they're doing all this for autocomplete. They're doing this for a spellcheck that can't spell.

"What are you up to?" "Not much. Just learning how to use technologies that can't be uninvented before they use us!"

In the past few days we've had an attack on a synagogue in Manchester and now an arson attack on a mosque in Sussex. This hatred to one another must stop. Solidarity to all my Jewish and Muslim brothers and sisters.

How high up the privilege tree you gotta be before you start worrying that the spreadsheet is gonna oppress you rather than the ruling class

Part of same thing "it seems like in humans consciousness just appeared when sufficiently complex systems. So you can't rule it out for LLMs" Yes we can. The way it makes mistakes is exactly indicative of nonconciousness. Of a lack of any sense of comprehension of its inputs. And of self awareness.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

The world is on fucking fire, the fash are running everything, but this morning I got to milk the goats, feed the pigs and cuddle my favourite goat babies, and The Fate of Ophelia is a top tier banger so I'm just gonna play TLOAS on repeat until its time to watch some NFL

This also isn’t true!!! There is a public consultation NOW OPEN and you can go have your say. Obviously they want to present it as a done deal but it’s not. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/

On reports the Home Secretary plans to grant police more powers to prevent ‘repeated protests’, Greenpeace UK: “Protest works because it is repetitive. If police had told the Suffragettes or civil rights activists ‘you’ve made your point,’ they would never have won the victories we all enjoy today"

Just as a reminder, the NUWSS spent 22 years repeatedly protesting about a single issue before everyone came around to their way of thinking. That's how protest works. It takes a long time. Stopping that process is stopping democracy.

This happened last night and I hadn't heard about it until this post, so went to the BBC News homepage. You have to go all the way down the page, below recipes for 30 minute meals, and you find it as a text link in 'politics'.

There is only one, solitary party and leader that now stands willing to defend unequivocally the basic human and civil rights that have underpinned English law for centuries: @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social . That’s real patriotism! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Whatever your view on anything, if you don’t realise that initiatives like this spring from an impulse to authoritarianism, you’re deluding yourself I think. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again... 'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

I need the council to remove all of these racist as fuck flags flying off every lamppost near my house (And, I know the flag isnt in itself racist, but the reason it's been cable tied to all the lampposts IS racist as fuck, and that should warrant the removal)

When we say "billionaires shouldn't exist", it's because no private individual should be able to bully a government into enacting their own personal whims.

Whole goddamn administration has the opsec skills of a squirrel burying a nut in front of three puzzled labradors.

A monstrous creep with a deranged obsession with Other People's Genitals, who's just been given a blank check by HBO in addition to the bottomless pit of wealth she made the last 20 years.

The human rights of every person in the U.K. are currently beholden to a mid wizard book bigot poasting through her midlife crisis

Today I learned that Colin Kaepernick's foundation provides free independent autopsies for families whose loved ones died in police custody, which is an extremely cool thing I wish didn't need to exist

A new FOI release shows how the DHSC gave anti-trans lobby groups like Sex Matters & LGB Alliance direct access to shape policy on trans healthcare. These groups push for restrictions that leave trans people waiting, suffering & at risk of suicide. tacc.org.uk/2025/10/03/i...

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

I'm just going to keep signing up for new ones and wherever the plinko ball lands I'll stay

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 101: Writing is not a uniform. It's a dressing-up box, from which you can pick and choose what fits, in order to create your own, unique look. Remember that what fits someone else may not be at all right for you.

And the corollary: being of a particular flag or tribe does not automatically make you guilty and worthy of death.

I really don't understand how people can't grasp this simple concept that you can be against killing innocent people on principle, regardless of flag or tribe

The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds. Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

God, every time I think the CofE couldn't possibly disappoint me any more, it somehow manages to pull it off again

WE COULD HAVE HAD A PERFECTLY QUALIFIED BROWN WOMAN AS ABC BUT NO WE'VE GOT A WELL KNOWN SAFEGUARDING PROBLEM WHO IS ALSO A RAGING FUCKING HOMOPHOBE AND AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT RACIST

I pray that she never forgets the priest in her dioces who killed himself over a safeguarding investigation he was put through because he was gay and HIV positive Or the queer and black priest she threw to the wolves Or the queers who she won't marry

I'm going to listen to Taylor again, at least she never let's me down.

And, definitely apt given we've now put a bigger safeguarding nightmare than J Welbz in charge. Also CAN WE PLEASE GAVE A FUCKING ABC WHO ISNT A RAGING EVANGELICAL?!!!!

Ah, the Church of England has fucked it up again. Also London is a TERRRIBLE CHOICE BECAUSE SHES WORSE RE SAFEGUARDING THAN JWELBZ WAS

Lots of us lived through the horrible, isolating, immiserating and downright terrorising culture produced by Section 28 the first time round. It has a lasting impact on me even now. And we'll be damned if we sit back and watch you do to trans kids today what was done to us back in the day.

The Starmer government is REALLY running scared of this petition, now at 2.75 million, to the extent that it has responded 3 months early, in a transparent attempt to spike it. So please, under no circumstances should you sign it and share it widely. Starmer & his boss McSweeney would not like it.

This includes a group whose members have endorsed mixing in chili powder with trans girls' makeup: the idea being that the intense physical pain in their eyes will want to make them stop being trans and gender-nonconforming. They have the ear, and the admiration, of health secretary Wes Streeting.

This was the first test that had many trans people worried the Greens would fold. That they didn't is an excellent sign and a rare show of actual support for trans people from a political party that isn't just empty words. More of this @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️

I can tell you right now that the far right will still be protesting outside the Britannia Hotel in Leeds tonight. They don’t care who feels unsafe

Been thinking this since I heard the perpetrator's name: I grew up Muslim & have never heard that first name before. Ever. Given how obsessed everyone is with THAT word when it comes to Islam, someone w/ that first name wasn't flagged by PREVENT? *Especially* if he changed it?