Today, 4th August 2026, is a good day to listen to Leonard Nimoy read Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains", set on 4th August 2026. archive.org/details/brad...

The pressure is mounting. Now is the time to act. Join over 83,000 people and message your local NHS Trust to say no to Palantir https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/

This is one of my favourite books of recent years, and it will absolutely devastate you. I cried multiple times. Fuckin read it.

winston rowntree@winstonrowntree.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sell your book in five words: Year 3000 neurodivergent serial killer

"As a fat brown queer disabled immigrant woman and trauma survivor, who was a mental health therapist for decades, who remains a trauma-informed equity practitioner, educator, etc., nothing could convince me to stay on a newsletter platform after learning that my writing work would profit Nazis." 👀

Substack Remains a Nazi Bar, But At Least This Newsletter Post Makes It Easier to Inform You

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Together, we can stop Sex Matters spreading hate about trans people. We just need to force the Charity Commission and the government to confront the facts. Email them now👇 https://action.goodlawproject.org/sex-matters-complaint?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=SexMattersCC&utm_medium=social_media

Stop Sex Matters spreading transphobic hate

The anti-trans pressure group Sex Matters are running a campaign of hate, spewing abuse online and in the media – and putting trans people in danger. Sex Matters say they work to “protect everybody’s ...

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Furthermore, the evidence shows that when center-left parties adopt right wing policies, it does not help them win votes. In fact, it only makes the right more powerful because its seen as a legitimization of right wing grievances. People will vote for the real fascists. UK Labour being the example

Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’

Study of European electoral data suggests social democratic parties alienate supporters by moving towards the political centre

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Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth www.sciencefocus.com... Dr Dean Burnett tackles a stubborn, and increasingly harmful, brain myth. For Science Focus Magazine. #Brains #Teens #Development #Autonomy

This is my experience as well. It's literally my job to talk to people about inclusion and diversity, and the vast, VAST majority of them agree with it and feel that it's important. Usually, it's just that they're not sure how to implement it or what specific legislation means.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is *such* a consistent feature of living in the UK - the actual day to day experience of people in this country is so much nicer than what the press or our leadership cadre would have you think - it is remarkable in a somewhat destabilising fashion just how stark the difference is.

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c ⁘ kreuzchen@krzchn.net · 2mo ago

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This is Tumbleweed. She is an artist, and this is her art. Doesn't expect everyone to understand. 13/10 (IG: winstonandtumble)

I am curious about the effect that almost everyone I know, even people who are doing relatively well, thinks they would be more successful economically if they sacrificed their ethical principles and just became a grifter of some sort.

Plasma Ring@plasmaring.bsky.social · 2mo ago

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

This is pretty much how all my fav queer venues operate already.

Tim Hill of Antifa, #FBPE@tjrh.uk · 3mo ago

How to defeat stupid laws.

A comic about Prairieland and antifa

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4mo ago

People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

1. Blame tech marketers! 2. I am NEVERENDINGLY angry that the videogame industry went the way of (generally) making us play against other people instead of making first class enemy bots for those of us who like games but are old and don't want to be perennially teabagged by twitchy middleschoolers.

@morbiditty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As a software engineer I really resent the general public calling the "spicy autocorrect shittifier" the phrase "artificial intelligence". It's a specific type - Generative AI. Different from voice assistants, computer and machine vision, video game enemy behavior... AI has been around awhile. 😩

I do not know how else I can say "GLP-1s are a very useful drug that can be life-changing and life-saving for many people and should exist" and "they are also mass marketed, prescribed, and sold as a miracle weight loss drug and being used to perpetuate fatphobia" are statements that can coexist

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“A rapidly expanding network of organisations campaigning against trans rights is shaping media coverage and political debate across the UK, while trans people are increasingly excluded from reporting about their own lives.” Powerful conservative groups orchestrate much of our transphobic politics.

The poet and translator says THIS. ALL. DAY.

Ben Wurgaft@benwurgaft.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A lot of contemporary crimes against the human soul come down to our use of the word "content."

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Pride Glyphs, is this anything?

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

Micah@rincewind.run · 3mo ago

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

✨fuck AI✨ all my homies hate AI I dreamt up this sticker yesterday so I made it real ✨ get it here: mcapriglione.art #caturday

Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

That's why I'm a huge fan of randomly selected citizen's assemblies. New experiments show that ordinary people collectively can be wise. jacobin.com/2025/12/sort...

Sortition Can Help Cure What Ails Our Democracy

Americans are frustrated with our increasingly oligarchic political system. Selecting an assortment of lawmaking deliberative bodies through random lotteries could help fix it, by empowering ordinary ...

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