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i can never not share this ❤️‍🔥

LGBT Q&A: you asked - is there a way for me to wipe data about me online that could point to my queer identity?www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

as someone involved w/ tech since 30yrs ago... i've become exponentially more luddite the more techdudebros have *ruined* the industry (+society, +economy, +safeguarding, +climate, and and and). i've had SO many people assume i don't understand it. yes, i do - likely far better than them. HARD NO!

i'm so enjoying EU's relentless pursuit of these dickheads 😆

Ireland's first peer-led trans healthcare clinic launches. Kindred Clinic Cork was created to provide care for trans people that is free, safe, local & gender-affirming. I love this, esp given everything I've heard about the national gender service... #Spéirgorm gcn.ie/first-pilot-...

Australia is working on booting Palantir too 🎉

these dicks really don't understand "no", do they? it's long overdue time they fuckin learnt.

💯 we ARE nature. that truth having been successfully eradicated from so many billions of brains is what's weird to me.

i fear i will end up repeating "i told you so" throughout Burnham's tenure. i tried really really hard not to say so out loud when it was Starmer's (tho i DID TELL YOU THEN TOO, DAMMIT). i'll do my best to keep my inside voice on (preaching to the converted here anyway), but he's everywhere atm 🫪

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

just had my first ever angiogram. ageing sucks. anxiety higher than the standard 'life while autistic +hospitals' levels (owch). the dye they plunge into you is by far the WEIRDEST sensory experience i've ever had. major heartrate spike there! here's hoping i don't have to go through that again.

and THIS is why i follow accounts like @rspb.bsky.social - look at his bootiful face 🤩 i live in a towerblock 🥺 you don't see a lot of woodpeckers up here (or in local parks). i SO miss living in close enough proximity that i can watch them do their thing, without stupid humans scaring them away.

why do we only "think of the children" to prevent them having agency in who they are, or using the internet? what about protecting kids by educating them well (instead of underfunding schools so they rely on parasite 'sponsors'), or regulating toxic techdudebros, or, yknow, NOT KILLING THE PLANET?🫪

i'm a big believer in citizen/participatory democracy... but it requires time, excellent facilitation to ensure debate and decisions can be as deep and unbiased as possible, and a population who aren't drowning in bigot propaganda. starting with the most thorny of bigot-prop issues is NOT the way.

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

ohhhhhhhh this is gold 🤣 *adds to my "dealing with wankers" toolbox* i knew an exhibition tech years ago who'd install perfectly, then set 3 items slightly 'off'. that way the artist could come in, adjust those 3things, and feel agency. otherwise the artist inevitably broke sommat that worked fine.

this is simultaneously unsurprising and astonishing. it speaks volumes. people are not inherently bad. they've simply been force-fed such complete bullshit for so fucking long (only more recently, out in the open, no longer an ugly secret) that they *believe it's true*. programmed by propaganda.

awwwwwwwww, dontcha just LOVE NERDS?!!! bless their cotton socks. one (idioticgovt) door slams shut... and these babes just keep on doing their ethical, smart, generous, vital work without them. THANK YOU! ❤️‍🔥 #TeamClimate

starting my morning w/ a cold dip is not my ideal, but the headache i woke up with says it's necessary, along w/ slowly sipping a cordial+salt mix to rehydrate. because, contra to these 28 fools, i DO believe the climate crisis is real, and i'd prefer to take any affirmative action, than die.

excellent piece, 100% on all fronts. too many good bits to quote (and too little room, stoopid bsky limit)! "The future then, should be built upon three foundations: healthy ecosystems, flourishing human communities and beneficial technologies – not competition, but cooperation between the three."

oh the irony 🤣🤣🤣🤣

excellent, queer ecologies are gonna get an even bigger awareness boost with Elliot on the case 😉 nature is queer as fuck! and WE are nature, soooooooo.... 🤔😆

exactly the same gameplan as dotcom boom v1.0, except back then very few understood anything about tech. their hypiespin wrapped it all in hope bubbles & dollar signs. now, we get it. AI is pure billionaire Babel and should be treated accordingly: straight in the eco+culture genocide bin for them.

excellent thread. immediate follow. thank you @monkemma.bsky.social for talking sense to the senseless (if only they'd listen 🙄)

yup. you wanna kick back at those who are *really* attacking trans folk? it's not our siblings, it's these fkkrs. start working on those b0rk3d nervous systems, and get organised. no one's gonna save us, we've gotta sort out our inner shit if we wanna get anything done out there.

agonisingly true. same with all forms of activism to some degree, but it gets particularly vile in trans work. often their trauma has them receiving everything as an attack, when there's none there (that's what dysregulated nervous systems do). but that's no excuse, least of all against kin.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this absolutely made me guffaw out loud, while in an NHS clinic waiting room. it's so true, omg how did i not spot that before. and how can i unsee it now??!! AI = by buttholes, for buttholes.

this is a deeply shitty way to treat people who've been burning themselves out for YEARS to protect our communities. if you're so privileged as to personally able to ignore the severe danger you'd be putting the organisers and other protestors under, maybe you don't belong with us after all. or...

"Its ambition is not necessarily to replace the US as the world’s chief provider of public goods, but to redefine the principles by which those goods are governed and allocated." while Flump eats himself and his cronies alive, the rest of the world explores a new balance of power & responsibility 🤞

they're addicted to their own greed, and apparently to being in the running for King of the New Genocide World Order. Palestinians, Immigrants, Trans, Queers, Disabled, Unemployed... and then the rest of you who don't look like them and won't comply with their murderous souls. Burnham's samesame.

in media-speak (aka billionaire Babel) "unprecedented" seems to mean "we've been paid extra to pretend the climate crisis doesn't exist, for decades. we're only allowed to acknowledge it for this one post, so let's make it a real hyperbole humdinger" 🙄 have they blamed immigrants/Gaza for it yet?

been on meds to slow my heartrate before an angiogram today. just realised i got the date wrong and it's not until next week 🙄 thing is, my anxiety is so massively reduced on these meds it's nuts. i'm all chilled out instead of adrenaline-fuelled 🤩 might ask if they can keep me on them fulltime 🤣🤣

take heed, UK pollies. we're done with the rampant corruption in our own government, too.

a wet eyes read. much relatable. owch and hugs. "He dug carefully through years of silence, shame, and forgetting, until he found the girl who had no friends exactly where he had left her. She was older now. Hurt, certainly. Tired, undoubtedly. But she was still there.” they're always still there.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

#TeamAlgae all the way

“In order to grow up, one must first grow down, building a deep relationship to soil and to other living beings.” oh my. yes, yes, and more yes. *immediately library reserved* (until i can afford my own copy to add to my tree-altar collection). thank you @robertmoor.com 🌳🥰🦉

using nature to protect nature, excellent guerilla activism. especially given bamboo is so hyper it grows *anywhere* ... so DEFINITELY don't plant it near UK data centres, either 😉 (usually i'd argue for native species planting only, but in this case we're gonna need a faster-growing boat).

this is extraordinary! hurrah for nerds, and nature, and all the colours which exist outside of our screens' capacity to represent them 🎉 best getTF outside then, innit?

where are we going? #birds #nature #comics #art now on my website www.beccagoesoutside.com/comic-proces...

open.substack.com/pub/rushkoff... "When we commit to that permanence we shield ourselves and reduce our capacity to feel or act. The real opportunity is to recognize that our time here is limited, which encourages us to fully expand our capacity to find the others and dance with them in this thing”

to make access to kin-connection illegal, while not providing alternative inclusive + accessible resources (or reinstating ALL those they closed), while not punishing or regulating the CAUSES of the problems... it's clear what their intent is - and it's NOT and has NEVER BEEN "protecting the kids".

"If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV." ...and you can become a trillionaire. says it ALL.

RIP the one true King 💔 “a strangled and starved root system in total disconnect to its surrounding environment... in nutrient-poor soil that was starved of microbial life." “They have no designated legal protection and we are losing them because they are not being valued appropriately.”

they were on point then, and even more so now. happy bday team Ghibli 🎉