Apart from being vile and wholly unacceptable, how much is this going to cost the taxpayer?

This is the language we need: unacceptable. Not "impossible" or "unworkable" and definitely not "unlikely". Unacceptable.

I will never forget how the fully fictional “concerns” of TERFs and billionaires about trans people have contributed to the rapid rise of fascism. There they are, egging it on, not listening to science, history, medicine, and individual experience, fiddling their own prejudices while society burns.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

I was born and raised in London. My grandma found our family has been continuously here for at least the last 300 years. I still live here now. Our diversity is, and ALWAYS has been, our strength Fascists represent NOTHING about this city. Their marches are the only time I have felt unsafe here.

The key fact that the racist right really hates: multiculturalism works

A few people have been dusting off Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance. Simply, tolerating the intolerant is a mistake. And we're in the middle of that right now as a free country. Time to stop tolerating the nazi types, the bigots, the fascists, the hateful that seem to be everywhere.

The right getting mad about Trump’s AG saying she’ll arrest people for hate speech but not getting mad about Trump’s Deputy AG saying he’ll arrest people for heckling Trump at a restaurant tells you everything you need to know about the right.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

Say. Her. Name. Qisma Ali Omar. Say. Her. Name. I have felt so much shame in my life. But the shame I feel because of the pure evil of Man is a raging storm…The violence inflicted by a man on a young woman, unafraid to show his actions to record Her torture and to show his face… Say. Her. Name.

Isaac Herzog is named directly in the UN report which states clearly that Israel is committing genocide - he is named as one of the figures inciting genocide. Last week Keir Starmer felt it was fit to roll our the red carpet for Herzog on in a visit to Britain.

5 countries will now boycott Eurovision if Israel takes part - Spain, Iceland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Ireland.

“we’re not racist” (a few seconds later) *says virulently racist things including ethnic cleansing*

A report by the United Nations concludes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Israel has responded by accusing the authors of being antisemitic and Hamas proxies. Chris Sidoti, one of the authors of the report, gives his view on Israels response

On #GMB this morning Caroline Flint declared that Israel is a democracy. Here's the IDF, an occupying army, rounding up civilians forced to live under Israeli occupation & marching them away.

The firm backed by US & ISRAEL guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found. This is beginning to look like Muslim persecution. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Eddie Dempsey yesterday. Bang on the money.

Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

Honestly this (the Meta additions below the image) exemplifies the utter idiocy of FB’s obligatory AI additions. Questions nobody would ask, posed by an app that understands nothing. Like a restaurant where one in three meals comes randomly garnished with a used sock.

This is a hugely important read, especially if your labour contributes in any way to the books industry #booksky

I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...

Says a government who arrested hundreds of pensioners for holding sign opposing genocide. We are being run by fucking morons. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨 BREAKING - FIVE Lift The Ban key spokespeople arrested in dawn raids. Arrested for addressing Open Calls during which legal information on the risks of opposing Labour’s absurd ban on Palestine Action have been shared. Video: Paddy Friend, a law student, arrested at home.

Though previous interventions by historical figures against the far right during dangerous moments in history had been staunch, all were surpassed by the “I like flags” tweet

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.

One overlooked benefit of declaring preferred pronouns as a social norm is that it's not just for LGBTQ but also for people w non-Anglo names. I'm a cishet woman with a very feminine name but nobody's gonna know that if they don't know Chinese. But the anti-LGBTQ crowd are also anti-immigrant so..

Full text of the International Association of Genocide Scholars Resolution on the Situation in Gaza: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected). Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside

Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this

Denmark's Ministry of Justice has announced that post-editing machine translation (PEMT) does not qualify as "translation" under its legal framework. #Translation #ProfessionalStandards #AITranslation

The dangers this poses cannot be understated

Cannot express just how disgusting this is

The jobs that are most vulnerable to LLMs aren't the jobs that LLMs can do well; they're the jobs that managers neither respect nor understand and will readily accept permission to replace. *waves* www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

"It is a famine we could have prevented.. food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food.. a preventable famine sustained by complicity" Tom Fletcher from the UN on famine being declared in Gaza City

Just because we have an ostensibly "free" press, doesn't mean we get all the facts we ought to get... We do not live in a democracy when the elected (well actually, in this case, unelected) representatives do not represent the interests of the majority of people

Sprachliche Feinheiten? Zwischentöne? Subtext? Tonfall? Register? Lesbarkeit? Egal. Es geht wirklich einfach einzig und allein nur darum: "Der Rendite-Druck steigt." 2/2

Just got asked to proofread a translation of a crime novel...no mention of WHO translated...very suspicious...Imprint page already has clear signs of AI followed by...a mistranslated Goethe quote before the main text even begins... 🙄 #xl8 #amNOTtranslating #ai

"trans row" when, as usual, no trans person is involved.

Yesterday Israel bombed people standing outside a cafe, killing at least 5 people and injuring several more. They also bombed a tent, killing 3 more. In total they murdered at least 80 Palestinian across the Gaza strip yesterday.

Using GenAI turns your brain to mush.

"People are seeing these horrific images of genocide everyday..." Antony Loewenstein explains that people can see the hypocrisy of govts in how they treated Russia after the invasion of Ukraine versus how they've treated Israel for the last 22 months.

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Matt Kennard: "Its unprecedented to use terrorism laws to target a direct action group. Its absurd & deeply scary for anyone who cares about civil liberties.. because once that threshold is crossed.. they use those tools to go after more and more people"