since oscilloscope graphics are doing the rounds again, here's some photos from that time a few years ago when I built a gizmo to show dril tweets (and assorted other nonsense) on my ancient Tek 466
Robyn Veitch
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Lead Software Engineer @ redacted | She/Her | Glasgow, Scotland | Active / Sustainable Travel propagandist | Regional branch member of the Trans Mafia | Neach-labhairt Beag Gàidhlig
Just because it's a LLM / AI agent doesn't make it any different than any other program. If I fire up Metasploit and use it to hack a company, I can't say "Metasploit did the hacking, not me", so how is a defense of "the LLM did the hacking, not me" any better?
BREAKING: The UK equalities watchdog’s 'transphobic' code of practice is set to face a legal challenge, it has been announced A pre-action letter sent to the EHRC and the UK Government says the guidance is being challenged for 'unlawful misstatements of the law'
If a member of staff approaches you “I am not discussing private information in a bathroom. If there is an issue, please speak to me discreetly outside.” “I need safe toilet access. What private option can you provide?” “I am not answering questions about my body, medical history or legal status”
The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.
Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 13h agoJust a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority
What a good day to remember that the future includes the continued existence of lots of trans people and does not include the continued existence of the Labour party or the British state
🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
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The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
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Here's a piece from me about the decision against Sex Matters on Friday, and its wider implications 👇
Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · yesterdayAnti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance. @jessothomson.co.uk argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights: https://goodlaw.social/0kp3
The idea of temporary times bus lanes that turn into parking feels like such an absurdly British phenomenon it's soo bad
Simon Christie@thebonnieloon.bsky.social · 2d agoNorth Bridge acting as designed this morning as car parking in the city centre bus lane returns. Why’s that not in the press release?! Someone tell the council it’s 2026 and not 1956 @edinburghminute.com @edi.bike @edinreporter.bsky.social @cllrcmiller.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social
the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better
I have never seen a social platform so united as on the death of Rod Liddle. Right across the spectrum on here. Not even the standard self-righteous micro-bollockings in the replies. Imagine what kind of cunt you have to be to stem the high-handed whining on BLUESKY. Remarkable.
My feed being just a series of screenshots and links from across numerous facets of life Liddle spit venom at really does emphasise that he wrote the most heinous things possible, contributed nothing productive, sought only to increase violence, and that the world is better now he's not in it
Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike@gazza-d.bsky.social · 2d agoRod Liddle wrote (amongst other disgusting stuff) in a national newspaper that he wanted to put up piano wire across roads at neck height to target people cycling. That probably added and encouraged others. That was enough to make me despise him. road.cc/content/news...
i'd say "pay attention to who has kind things to say about rod liddle, the racist pedophile, following his death" but to no surprise it is the entirety of the mainstream british press
After lengthy repair, the 172m Porto’s Dom Luís I Bridge reopened to public transport, taxis, cyclists & pedestrians only. After lengthy repair, #Edinburgh’s 160m North Bridge reopened with a lane of hatching, no cycling provisions, without widening busy pavements and no traffic reduction measures.
BIG FIETSTRAAT
Dutch Cycling Embassy@dutchcycling.nl · 3d agoVienna's Argentinierstraße is a great example of how Dutch cycling principles can be thoughtfully adapted to a different local context. Rather than simply copying a design, the project translated the concept of a cycling street into a solution that works within Austrian regulations: buff.ly/wmHsJnf
Argentinierstraße is really impressive to see in person. A street running straight from Vienna city centre to the Hauptbahnhof, it had 6,000+ bikes a day on a slim cycle lane. Such was the importance as a N-S cycle route, the city made it a cycle priority street, largely rerouting cars elsewhere.
Dutch Cycling Embassy@dutchcycling.nl · 3d agoVienna's Argentinierstraße is a great example of how Dutch cycling principles can be thoughtfully adapted to a different local context. Rather than simply copying a design, the project translated the concept of a cycling street into a solution that works within Austrian regulations: buff.ly/wmHsJnf
Difficult to overstate just how much Edinburgh fucking loves cars and refuses to do urban design properly as a result
Simon Christie@thebonnieloon.bsky.social · 4d agoAny other city in the world would have jumped at the opportunity of such a long closure to advance progressive city planning. All that time and money and not a single improvement. Shameful @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social
Simply love the reopened North Bridge, where Edinburgh Council took advantage of eight years of works to put active travel and pedestrians first
This graphic was from the BBC. After a backlash they took it down
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 4d agoThe PM killed an untold number of people during a pandemic and burnt £850 million and he was depicted in state media as our benevolent saviour, I think that drove me mad and I never recovered, the state literally convinced people to willingly be culled en masse by an infectious disease
Emily Maitlis was boasting about her role in removing healthcare for trans kids at the Tavistock
David Flood@maoltuile.bsky.social · 4d agoSame assholes
Yes, this is 100% about censorship in general, and the current anti-sexual weirdness that’s going on. But a paragraph near the end of the article is especially telling… ASMR is primarily created by women. Women doing anything will always be perceived by some as inherently sexual (excerpt in comms)
Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d agoa bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
Human rights organizations are a joke. Just another industry completely captured and beholden to billionaires at this point.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d agoAmnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
Man, must be gutting for all global dictators to discover that they could’ve simply silenced any criticism of their practices from Amnesty International by simply threatening them with a SLAPP suit via Twitter.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5d agoAmnesty International has now issued a public groveling apology to JK Rowling's organization and has pulled her another report documenting the anti rights platform of gender critical organizations. www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
"In particular, we apologise to Beira’s Place and other groups, which we categorised as gender critical organisations, which we should not have collectively labelled as anti-rights" And just like that Amnesty has completely conceded to and legitimised the gender critical movement. Useless idiots.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d agoAmnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...