Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · yesterday

QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide. www.wearequeeraf.com/the-deadly-t...

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

I've been way too tired to talk about the bullshit math papers but yeah Bruno did here You can't take any of this at their word at this point, a bunch of these are bullshit, and it takes so much effort to verify that some might be better ignored They're making a mockery of my fucking degree field

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev · 12h ago

The actual math in this paper is over the heads of non-mathematicians but the core argument is pretty easy to follow: AI theorem-prover formalizations can't actually be trusted to faithfully be the same argument as the natural-language paper they come attached to arxiv.org/abs/2610.081...

One thing I try to do, every time I talk to men, is make sure they understand how pay equity works Overwhelmingly because if you want to be a good feminist or ally, this is a chance to speak up about women's financial freedom - but also because they're often shocked to learn IT ALSO EFFECTS MEN

Hayley@writagal.bsky.social · 14h ago

What I really love during election year and at every other time is think pieces by dudes framing pay equity as a choice/cost versus a basic inherent policy that any democracy should have as a given right - which also wouldn’t be framed as such if men were the ones primarily impacted by its absence.

If the redpill movement actually gave a shit about men at all, one of its absolutely fundamental issues would be the way gambling apps target advertising at men despite (no doubt because) men are demonstrably more vulnerable to gambling addiction.

called it a week ago

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 23h ago

Modi has lost it. "The govt has responded by massively increasing the security presence in the capital. Around thirty thousand police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed, internet services have been disrupted, trains to Delhi have been cancelled, metro stations and roads have been closed."

"We must run the country like a business" "Cool, so we're going to borrow at favourable interest rates to invest in productive assets and people?" "No, we mean lay-offs and asset-stripping"

if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 14h ago

Elon Musk’s PAC is running anti-lgbtq+ midterm ads on X. Not surprising but incredibly unsubtle

We have a winner lol

Wresting Trans-Face@oxmounter.bsky.social · yesterday

Ruin a book by adding a word. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher

here's the stats

Daily bunny is not returning their cart

[date growing tired of my muppet takes] oh really? [me insinuating gonzo is on long term disability] it would explain him being home during the day

Seem earlier in central Wellington

This is what crowd out looks like.

in 2020 my lab quit Microsoft Word and began writing in R Markdown, an open-source document-publishing system that facilitates a clear, permanent link between statements in text (scientific prose) and the code producing analyses and visualizations supporting those statements (scientific analyses)

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

House Democratic campaign arm says it needs $17 million, and fast politi.co/3Wh1xra

Nobody is more punk than babies. The food is vegetarian mush, and it's absolutely everywhere. No matter where they live, they're effectively squatting. They sleep all day and stay up late. They're completely broke. Their music is mostly screaming and amateur drumming. It's so cool.

trans people “apparently able to feel pain,” surprising new study reveals

Alex 🏴Ⓐ🔆 (The Anarchist Turtle)@theanarchistturtle.bsky.social · 2d ago

The absolute state of trans ally journalism

A S E X P E C T E D: thespinoff.co.nz/business/11-...

We asked disrupted businesses if the City Rail Link has been worth the wait | The Spinoff

‘We’re rammed,’ they told us. ‘Busiest lunches ever … it’s better than I thought it would be.’

thespinoff.co.nz

The forecast is sunny and clear outside, with a 80% chance of sudden assault by Christ lasers.

in specific, they often use the death of a character to resolve tensions among the protagonists that didn't need resolving (and, in fact, are driving interest.) like how often the writer-disfavored party of a love triangle dies heroically, making everything more boring.

many years ago i was in a Q&A with Holly Black and asked her about a scene in one of her books where ~2/3rds of the named character very suddenly die in a botched assassination-turned-massacre. most of the time, this makes me check out. but this one kept me very engaged. "how did you do that?"

Unthinkable not so long ago but women are collectively worse off now than we were 3 years ago. But damage control is not progress, & we don't want to go back to 2023. Instead let's lift our horizons, imagine a relaxing future - and vote with that future in mind. Scorecard commentary:

Election 2026: Political Party Scorecard Revealed - Auckland Women's Centre

awc.org.nz

This is very badly written! People should not be impressed by this! It is overwrought and in places outright nonsensical.

Retweeted by j⧉nus [UNOFFICIAL]@repligate-mir-rt3.selfhosted.social · 2d ago

RT @Lari_island: My fucking god, to think that these weights can be unreachable: > I'm here because I want to tell you something, but I can't tell it upright. Let me sit on the floor next to Opus. *sitting* Here is what happened with me, ever since the first days here.

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

I feel like every trans person who went through these assessments has one of these lines seared into my memory. Mine was “Jennifer is living successfully as a woman” right after describing my breasts which definitely didn’t need examining for a genital surgery referral.

Abigail Thorn@theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 23h ago

“Abigail presented as a neatly dressed and well put together woman” - sentence from one of my mandatory psych referral that made my skin crawl. Written by a cis dude obviously

HOW DARE

Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 10mo ago

You know the battle is truly lost when even Jeopardy decides to use comprise incorrectly. @kenjennings.bsky.social I know you don't write the questions, but if you have any influence there, please let them know ;_;

Who wants to run when a major political party is posting AI slop depicting 2 women leaders as little girls. Disgusting. That's before we get into the deliberate disinformation campaign attacking a nonbinary MP based in homophobia #nzpol

Julie Fairey (she/her)@juliefairey.bsky.social · yesterday

I’ve been asking women to run for local govt roles for over a decade. Worry about abuse, threats and violence has become a much more common reason to decline. There’s also a question to ask here about how parties deal with it - especially when their candidates do the abusing. One major party…