Phil M0OFX
@philpem.bsky.social
Software preservation, electronics, software and ham radio, maker of things. The kid who liked to take things apart and never grew out of it. Mostly active on https://digipres.club/@philpem
4. Fuck them, that’s why. TERFs like to say “we are the daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn.” Bitch, trans women are the modern witches you can’t burn. You’re the ones holding the torches and shouting about how we’re demonic beasts who must be destroyed to protect the town.
Amnesty UK just excluded “A Growing Threat – the Anti-Rights Movement in the UK” from Internet Archive. "Like a Snowball: The Growth & Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK" is still up. I've added alternate archives of all five pages & documents. www.transgendermap.com/issues/group...
2026 Amnesty International UK anti-rights reports – Transgender Map
transgendermap.com
Andrea James@jokestress.bsky.social · 2d agoAmnesty UK just excluded “A Growing Threat – the Anti-Rights Movement in the UK” from Internet Archive. "Like a Snowball: The Growth & Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK" is still up. I've added alternate archives of all five pages & documents. www.transgendermap.com/issues/group...
I'm not holding my breath for the FM switch-off, but given how bad DAB is - if they force it, it might end up being the death blow to radio. Bauer especially (and to a lesser extent Global) have done a great job of enshittifying FM.
ChinnyVision@chinnyvision.bsky.social · 3d agoAs much as they'd love to switch freeview and freesat off I reckon its got a good 10 years. Look at how long it's taken to move people off of AM. FM switch off? Hah, no chance.
Re: Freeview - The UK's still a very long way off (poss. decades) being able to support reliable video streaming nationwide; there still isn't (reliable) mobile 5G connectivity where I live (which isn't in the middle of nowhere) after Vodafone botched an attempted local upgrade and haven't been back
I got a deal on an Audi that basically meant it made no sense to get any other car. Since I got it, it's improved my driving no end. It's nothing to do with the car itself, I'm just really conscious now to try to drive as differently as possible to a standard 'Audi prick'.
Spend a bit of time in nonprofits and you’ll notice that the nonprofit industrial complex is largely uninterested in changing much - it exists to feed the people at the top and the food is prestige. They want to attend galas and play act that they care. They don’t.
Yes, this has infamously always worked and never led to a spiral of more oppression and violence! /s It’s amazing to me that people never learn. This was why we had to push for anti-bullying at schools in the 2000s and too many still haven’t learned and keep losing their orgs & spaces to Nazi bars.
Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026
Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.
amnesty.org.uk
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
digitaldigging.org
check out this RJ45 diagram!!! ooooooh fun! trust the internet kids, nothing could possibly go wrong.
This was an unexpected, happy lunchtime find - a fun little LGBTQ+ discovery short film called "Dragfox", feauring none other than Sir Ian McKellen as the voice of Gingersnap the fox! looptalent.co.uk/dragfox/ (about 10 minutes long)
Dragfox - Loop Talent
Dragfox Prod. NFTS Dir. Lisa Ott
looptalent.co.uk
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This 1966 #filmstrip from a small producer discusses the delicate balance between man and nature. VIEW AT YOUR OWN PACE: https://uncom.cc/69gdg
goal met!! in 70 minutes?! wow haha, gosh
Kate A ⭐ Final Widdershins Kickstarter is LIVE!@katedrawscomics.bsky.social · last wk.It’s time, it’s finally time..! Come and celebrate the final book of the long-running webcomic, Widdershins, with its final Kickstarter! Victorian-era wizardry awaits in a series of fast-paced, goofy stories, brimming with heart and adventure! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat... #comics #webcomics
Origin FX was a 1992 After Dark-style screensaver package for Windows 3. It included modules from contemporary Origin games and the idea was that future games would ship with addon disks that would let you watch their cinematics. Strike Commander was the only one that ever did!
Count Binface made a Ceefax radio show that aired on the BBC in 2025. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Ceefax Strikes Back... with Count Binface
Count Binface resurrects the mighty Ceefax. With one small hitch. It’s on the radio.
bbc.co.uk
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon
Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glasses
The activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording
thetimes.com
Wildlife presenter and comedian Bill Oddie has died. news.sky.com/story/wildli...
Wildlife presenter and comedian Bill Oddie has died
Wildlife presenter and comedian Bill Oddie has died aged 85, his agent said.
news.sky.com
Last week at #EMFcamp I gave a talk about the nothing-like-it-on-earth RSRE Flex operating system for #PERQ workstations. I'm very happy with how it came out! For a challenge, watch at 2X: media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-91...
RSRE Flex: reviving an innovative, remarkably odd British operating system that almost nobody knows about
1980: Royal Signals and Radar Establishment researchers realise Flex, a mould-breaking, comprehensively alternative vision of computing. ...
media.ccc.de
Over 17,000 people have already added their name 🩵🩷🤍 Will you join them? goodlawproject.org/petition/tra...
I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org
UK journalism *created* transphobia as a font of far-right hatred almost entirely unaided. They sowed the sparks and fanned the flames to create the inferno. To now back off because they feel their own safety is at risk from the fire? I'm genuinely furious at the moral bankruptcy involved.
Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 2w agoThis is grim and a direct consequence of decades on mainstreaming of far-right politics and euphemisation of the threat they pose Calling it "rightwing" here is exactly what has gone wrong for example 1/ www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
