If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f

Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia

Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights

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Hello from Oxford!

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵@threadinburgh.scot · 4w ago

I am once again asking/begging cultural, heritage and environmental groups in Edinburgh to stop using Gen AI images of a city that has been photographed from nearly every conceivable angle and for which a vast portfolio rights-free images already exist to use if you don't have a budget to pay

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 4w ago

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Applicant, who is a character from a Hideo Kojima game: This is Job Gapsman, he's an expert in Computational Vertices, or CVs. To EXAMINE a CV, press the Triangle button.

E.Saxey@esaxey.bsky.social · 4w ago

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Tolkien: The attraction of my CV is, I think, due to glimpses of a large history in the background: like viewing far off an unvisited island. To go there is to destroy the magic unless new unattainable vistas are again revealed.

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4w ago

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

someone from the riaa help me out. what's it come to at this rate? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_g...

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

i've had to dm two people i follow here in a week to tell them that youtube's new share link thing has exposed their yt channel name (= probably their google acct name, probably government name). awful. go into your privacy settings in the youtube app and turn that off asap if you haven't already

the second paragraph of this article describes it as "the Labour government rule". actually good writing for once. authoritarian policies don't appear out of thin air. every journalist should ascribe them to their authors www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

British girl, 15, stranded in Rome for six weeks due to new passport rules

The dual national, who missed six weeks of school, is latest of several children affected by recent Home Office policy

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3. Share information on your risk register to everyone with power and responsibility. Refuse to sit quiet while children's lives are being completely destroyed. Speak up. Rebel loudly. Centre child safety. Refuse to be complicit in actions that will lead to children's deaths.

2. Start a risk register with the risk of trans child death at the very top. Document the enormous harm. Document explicitly the serious risk to life. Document the risk to children dropping out of education. Document the increased violence. Document clearly how acute harm is caused by policy.

Three things they can do: 1. Call it what it is. Call it segregation & discrimination. Tell the trans kids who are facing it that what they are facing is overt discrimination. Don't sugar coat the overt violence.

People forget this. Austerity was a purposeful, economically unnecessary, political decision which hurt those who can’t work the hardest. These deaths were entirely predictable & avoidable, but for my whole life, people have argued in favour of austerity. share.google/oTRdJYHfO3mn...

Over 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, finds study

Research comes as government signals fresh round of public spending cuts

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the cognitive dissonance required to threaten to sue *Amnesty International* out of existence and still think of yourself as a good person is incredible

On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...

‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law Project

The equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back

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This is Winnie. He got so excited that he briefly forgot how to be a dog. You can laugh, but he'd like to point out you look this ridiculous all the time. 13/10 (TT: brisbreaks)

Folks, is this a headline that makes a person look like the goodie? "Amnesty 'won't survive' Rowling action." [Times Scotland front page]

If you call Beira's Place, the rape shelter JK Rowling set up specifically so she could deny help to rape victims she suspects of being trans, your call is not confidential and may be listened to by JK Rowling, who may tweet to her audience of millions to ridicule you and express contempt for you.

The Newromancer@tehsamantha.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is the context of JK Rowling putting a survivor of rape or sexual assault on blast for having the gall to seek help

Trans people are banned from everything and can barely name their oppressors lest they are monstered by the media and in parliament. Never mind the threat of jail for not disclosing being trans before a sexual encounter or even for saying some shit. It's surreal being trans in the UK right now.

Email from Thames Water: "Make your water go further this summer" Me: Ah yes, by putting my finger over the hosepipe, do continue.

a) this is absolutely right, and b) this skeet literally uses AI's beloved 'it's not X, it's Y' construction BECAUSE THAT IS HOW PEOPLE USE LANGUAGE AND WE WERE HERE FIRST.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It's not the presence of a list of threes or an em dash or a juxtaposition that's the tell. It's when writing has those things over and over, back to back, in ways that a real writer would never use them.

🎉 It’s happening! Direct Oxford–Bristol trains start on Monday, running every two hours from Monday to Saturday. Weekday Oxford departures are at 0700, 0903, 1103, 1303, 1504, 1904 and 2103: the journey takes ~1hr10.

One of the greatest garden path ledes I've ever read.

Rallen@rallen78.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Why must a conversion therapy ban be a) "balanced" and b) "Targeted"? a) Is there a "balance" between torturing people and not torturing them...? b) Conversion therapy is torture and it doesn't matter who its victims are, it should be banned for everyone.

Emmatyville □ feet@scary-lil-emma.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hmm wonder what & who these caveats are for? 🧐 Can anyone guess which experts will be contacted?

Begging that at least one Labour mp comprehends this (unlikely)

Adam Ramsay@adamramsay.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New research shows that more people abandoned Labour because they were too tough on immigration - and because of their support for Israel - than because they were too soft on immigration.

me reading the news today

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

see you in 50 years for Hidden Figures 2 (this time they're trans) i guess

Takaichi’s Castle@discographette.online · 7mo ago

congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers