The fact that this was moderated tho

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s

The right hates trans women enough to permanently damage bud light but the left can't boycott Rowling or even NYT word games.

I dunno, I admit my life these days is so consumed by sadness I'm barely functional. But the fact that this evil bigot gets the likes of Amnesty International to apologize to *her* should scare cis folks everywhere. It's a sign just how corrupted the UK has been by this bullshit moral panic ...

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...

mirror.co.uk

💀 Pygmalion displacement 💀 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just two of many questions: 1. Why anthropomorphize ("female robot, named Sally, will have a “lifelike appearance” with silicone skin and long brown hair")? Notably, students will interact with the bot by providing a identification codes, so obvs. not like a human interaction and yet... /1

Reminder...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 6mo ago

Some tools for thinking about AI in a time when the companies making them are trying to destroy teaching and learning itself... 1/n 🧵

This used to be Amnesty's standard operating mode: extra-national operations only. Reports on the UK's anti-trans movement evidently need to be published by a branch of Amnesty based in a country where Rowling cannot censor by threats of lawfare. #Amnesty #Antitrans #Rowling

Gavin Deichen@gdeichen.bsky.social · 5d ago

Amnesty should consider relocating their operation somewhere outside of the jurisdiction of the UK, then maybe they could use plain language without risking ruin under our oppressive libel laws.

@ddosecrets.org bsky.app/profile/mimm...

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕@mimmymum.bsky.social · 5d ago

In addition to removing their latest report into the links between ‘gender critical’ transphobes and the far-right anti-rights movement @amnestyuk.bsky.social ALSO deleted this previous report to appease billionaire bigots! 😣 But you can read it here… 👉🏻 drive.google.com/file/d/1PSsa...

soo..tried to ID this one purely by picture as it was during work, at night and so thats the things I can do. its giving sack spiders (Clubionidae) but whether its C robuster or the one elaver that also has a similar abdominal pattern

See also

Andrea James@jokestress.bsky.social · 5d ago

I've spent weeks profiling orgs listed in Amnesty UK's reports. Methodology, definitions, & inclusion criteria should have been explicitly stated. They could've republished a revised version with that included. Instead, they capitulated to anti-rights bigots. www.transgendermap.com/issues/group...

Someone sent me this. www.antirights.com

This is pretty god damn bleak. Amnesty has withstood pressure from murderous dictators and genocidal regimes and yet they caved to lawfare from JK Rowling. This effectively means no domestic UK organization can criticize Rowling or GC orgs without risk of being destroyed by endless lawfare.

Every major organization and NGO dedicated to trans rights in the UK from Stonewall to Mermaids to Amnesty have been systematically attacked and neutralized. All that's left are severely underfunded trans led orgs that are systematically ignored by the British press and government.

100% THIS 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5d ago

Every major organization and NGO dedicated to trans rights in the UK from Stonewall to Mermaids to Amnesty have been systematically attacked and neutralized. All that's left are severely underfunded trans led orgs that are systematically ignored by the British press and government.

this is so fucking shameful facing removal from public space, multiple warnings of genocide risk, and the people that get AI's support are the ones driving it

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗@sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 5d ago

Amnesty International: an apology for a human rights campaign group. @amnestyuk.bsky.social @amnesty.org www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

JK Rowling funding her trans exterminationist campaigns by selling children's books to liberals 🤝 the NYT funding their trans exterminationist campaigns by selling puzzle games and recipes to liberals (and also for both, cis people will get really upset at trans people asking them not to)

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️@mady.cat · 6d ago

In other words, NYT is increasingly becoming a gaming and recipe company, with revenue from that business helping subsidize the higher costs of their journalism (which has been weaponized in favor of trans genocide). They depend on liberals not caring enough to boycott them.

we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.

Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.

Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.

fate mocked me today. its so hot I decided for shorts so I didnt take my camera with me.. so its shite iphone pics again ;_; and ofc I meet two photogenic spiders one Marpissa muscosa boi and One E. agrestis (no banded legs, but the hobo spider group isnt easy to tell apart anyway)

AI company Anthropic secretly bought millions of rare and out-of-print books to train its Claude AI model. They used a hydraulic-powered cutting machine to remove the pages for scanning before destruction.

“The Left is so delusional they're against data centers now” Data centers in question:

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

NYT: "Bordeaux never experienced a day w/ temps at or above 39 Celsius (102.2 degrees) between 1921 and 2000, according to Météo-France, the national climate and weather service. This summer, it has happened eight times, including on Wednesday, and the season is not even half over."

Während Europa verbrennt, setzt die Merz-Regierung in vielen, vielen kleinen Entscheidungen weiter auf fossile Energie und ist aktivistisch gegen erneuerbare Energie unterwegs. Ich weiß nicht, ob "kognitive Dissonanz" angemessen beschreibt, was im Klimaschutzrecht und bei Erneuerbaren grad passiert.

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

I used to be in a lovely bubble where I almost never saw links for substacks and foolishly believed that none of yinz were still using them, but lately I’ve been seeing more and more links for substacks on so many interesting topics that I would definitely read and share if they weren’t substacks.

Agita Publishing (formerly From Beyond Press)@agitapublishing.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There is no excuse for anyone in 2026 to use substack. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

debuting as part of @aftermath.site's hater week, here's my list of (so far) over 50 video game studios that are rejecting generative AI, each with their rationale for doing so

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

my Rowling essay is a good one to share if you know anyone who's still unaware of the monster she's become ... lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person

During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …

lithub.com

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

The fact Joanne is Mein Kampf posting about Amnesty International is something we all need to make an effort to get people to understand. She is the UK’s Elon Musk.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last wk.

Projection so powerful, you could screen the Odyssey in 70MM IMAX from it.