Head of the EHRC really did just say Phrenology will help solve the issue of transgenders in society

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · last mo.

And even if we take this “correctly sexing people on sight“ seriously, which we should not, a 2-4% false positive rate over millions of people is a Huge number innit, we’re talking hundreds of thousands the EHRC head here is setting up to be judged trespassers for going to the “correct“ loo

People, what’s the etiquette here? If you leave a webinar early because you realise the speaker’s presentation is ChatGPT-generated, should you explain yourself, apologise to the organisers for leaving, or just go and make a cup of tea while seething to yourself?

You'd think a man who's lived this long would have learned how to talk to girls by now. www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...

Yes yes yes

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Ordered a few of these intending them to be bandanas, but the sizing turned out wrong. They do work very nicely as book-wraps though :)

The world is run by the most depressing people who have ever lived.

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’d love to know what people outside the industry think “data centre” actually means, because no one I know expects them to contain any jobs at all. As someone who has built several: any employee is a design flaw.

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Absolutely cannot get this Sam Altman face out of my head. Every time I see a photo of him, I instantly think of this brilliant @stephencollins.bsky.social silent 'face'.

there literally are no good-faith concerns about trans girls participating in high school sports. it is children playing games with their friends, its about confidence and relationship-building. let kids play with their friends.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

One of the biggest ever shakeups in the organisation of English government which could well herald a major political economy turning point. Sort of surprised it’s not on more news website front pages.

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The State of the Present: Andy Burnham’s new government

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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...

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i feel like a good metaphor for this would be a hot new chef having a meal laid out when their investors arrive (they actually ordered take out) so they get huge investment and on the restaurants opening night their kitchen staff immediately realizes the chef dosent know how to even turn on the oven

Chuck Tingle@chucktingle.bsky.social · 5d ago

interesting thing that is rarely talked about with authors trying to use AI in debut novels: you will get caught once edits start or at MOST on book two. self publishing is different i suppose, but anyone out there trying to break into traditional publishing with AI clearly does not know the process

Wel the good news is that I have resolved the plot holes, and only one additional character had to die 😬

I am pleased* to report that removing the central plot line from your book and adding in that side quest you cut for reasons of space does in fact improve the story considerably. (* I am not actually at all pleased)

Kurt Vonnegut man

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This is why it's so important to not refer to the Supreme Court ruling or EHRC guidance as a "ban" on trans people existing in public spaces. Doing so is giving these people exactly what they want! They want trans people to remove themselves from society voluntarily. They want to encourage violence.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · last wk.

An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.

The thing about these companies doing HP tie-ins is they know exactly what they're doing. This isn't 2019, Rowling's views are going to be on the radar of any PR person. They've just run the numbers and decided that we won't lose them more money than the bigots and nostalgia zombies will bring in.

The used booksellers were trying to figure out wtf was going on a while ago and I was afraid it was something like this.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

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