nutted in raw by the bananas in pajamas called that banana bred

the reasoning for this is the same as ever. "pushing too hard" means "resisting the violence we impose." it's an unreasonable hysterical overreaction etc to resist at all when they invent new ways to humiliate and abuse you. stop resisting. why are you fighting back? you're pushing too hard.

Lots of women's sports teams especially given how much of women's sports is dominated by grass roots amateur clubs where there's no incentive to fight over who has what hormones to win medals, do not want this kind of ban.

Sexism sucks

dudes fucking suck actually

Britain is the biggest incarcerator in Western Europe and we're only increasing the number of offences available to lock people up in. Disturbing. We need to find new ways to address harm that aren't putting people in cages.

"Burnham acknowledges basic legal fact" doesn't have the same ring to it I guess

Replacing google search with an ai prompt is so ass like this is only a few steps short of saying "we've replaced the entire DNS with AI. Now, when you type a url into the web browser, you get whichever website the LLM estimates that you wanted to go to"

Yesterday, we received an email from someone furious that we described transphobic terminology as discriminatory. Apparently, “people have a right to their opinions” only applies until somebody else has one back. Incredible commitment to proving the glossary’s point. Here is our response.

YOU DONT SAY

I came back from a direct action against a BNP meeting - in a sling and limping coz the police had kicked the shit out of me - went to a family barbeque and had a family member pull this shit. Anyway, turned out later he was abusing his step daughter. Just cause the scene.

This is such nonsense. If anything Microsoft jumped the AI shark force feeding CoPilot into all aspects of the Microsoft office 365 ecosystem a year or more before people would develop functional understandings of how to use LLMs in anything like a work enabling way (incompatibly with CoPilot)

This is devastating tbh. Wigan rink is the best in the north to my knowledge. Bizarrely had a pub and a chip shop indoors next to the rink but that made it feel nice and cozy and there weren't too many people drunk skating. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

hillbilly spiroagneulogy

all mommy enjoyers must band together against slopmmy

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Emma's still in a precarious zone where her GFM's only mostly funded at 85%, and the deadline is fast approaching. Please help her reach her goal so she can afford surgery!

I say it all of the time because it's true: Islamophobia in the U.S. is absolutely one of the most tolerated forms of bigotry. It's everywhere, routine and rarely challenged. It's not surprising that teenagers who swim in this water from birth would also be Islamophobic.

HORIZON: ZERO DAWN (2017)

Desperate to know context for why this was put up.

Things that are a predictable outcome of MAFS

I have seen people calmly peacefully trying to reason with racist family members for years over shit like Tommy Robinson and the usual things I tell myself about bot armies etc don't really help much in the case of people you know. You see family members outright saying "how is this racist?"

I feel like this must be a neuro type thing. When I use sycophantic AI systems it makes me want to burn things down. Like it feels like it's pushing me off my ability to evaluate reality and it's really distressing.

➡️ The Minister for Women and Equalities has again said she plans to lay new EHRC guidance this week, in a media appearance. A reminder of how organisations like us, @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social will be judging any new Code of Practice:

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Tough puppy

36 years ago, the World Health Organization stopped treating homosexuality as a disease. That helped many of us live freer lives. But even now 65 countries criminalise being gay. Many refuse care for trans folk and force surgery on intersex infants. We will keep pushing to end institutional bigotry.

How the entire fuck does any white person step to a Black person about how powerless everybody is against it all? Is that how they think we walk around under the most brute force of oppression in this country all the time? Poor us, we're so powerless? No we hold our heads high doing what we can!

the bold progressive stance of "take away young girls access to communication, resources, and information so they can get knocked up by adult men easier"

I see a perennial waste of discourse around technology v humanities that acts as if these things are mutually exclusive disciplines and even mutually exclusive kinds of people involved in these disciplines.

Anyway let us join forces against the common enemy: business majors.

every time some guy squeals about "declining birthrates" as a "crisis for humanity," remember that one of the biggest contributing factors is the decline in teenage pregnancies caused by adult men. that's what they're whining about and that's what they want to bring back.

Cool I look forward to this tech company firing every engineer and seeing how that works out for them.

That same funding disparity is also the basis of the lawfare. As many junk cases as possible, with all the losses dropped and the wins oversold through these networks… …it’s about PR almost as much as the institutional failure of the justice system.

Seriously, this shit is why I actively avoid anything he is associated with. I don't want a single penny of my money funding this shithouse bullying women through the courts.

I've never been a hearts and minds person anyway - even when I still believed solidarity was a thing it was possible for the more powerful to give to the less powerful - but that is definitely not them move now. We are aiming for the culture victory and that is a different thing.

This is largely my belief too. And on a simple level things like eg responding to campaigns to ban trans people in sport by setting up trans inclusive sports events.

Fwiw, I think this is why a pivot into cultural and mutual aid work is probably the right move for trans folk. We do not have the capacity to counter this at the institutional level. We tried, we lost. We defeat trans genocide by keeping trans culture and possibility and people alive.

Obviously people can do activism and advocacy on a non professional basis still but the opportunities to do that and be heard are just never there. See Tommy Robinson's march being covered widely while the Nakba day march ten times its size got virtually ignored.

One of the things we need to maybe do over the next few years is move from the era of "these crazy yank ultra conservatives are showing their true face here!!" (cis and straight people don't care it turns out), to "crypto fascist corporate funded lobbyists are half of UK civil society groups now".

They've been clear for a while. One of the key figures in setting up the LGB Alliance, Gary Powell, is a lobbyist with previous work for the Witherspoon Institute (anti abortion, anti same sex marriage) and CBC (pro conversion therapy, anti sperm donation) transsafety.network/posts/profil...

Allowing a man who ran a factional org that broke the law when it channelled secret cash to fund Starmers rise, & which then ran a smear campaign against journalists investigating its role, to opine on whats gone wrong for Labour & the need to come together, is frankly absurd.

Hello! Just creating this to find out if any trans people on here are local to the south staffs area and can advise on GPs. The one most local to me is reviewed on the trans dbs and is very hostile to us, but there's nothing else about any others in the area. Yes, I have tried the local group

To state the obvious: There are still so many trans people alive and, even in these dark times, thriving. What do we do for them? How do we do our part to make their lives worth continuing to live? How do we actually become the community we often pretend to be?

If humanity ends because of a reduction in rape and an increase in women's autonomy then let it fucking choke in the dirt for all I care.

It is crazy that I was bang on about the Subprime AI Crisis years ago. They’re all subsidized and they’re going to have to start doing token-based. Once Microsoft makes it the norm I think you see others make the jump and then see the true value of AI