"...toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience. Similarly, facilities labelled with a 'male' sign remain available to cisgender men, trans men, and others..."

Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice

Quakers in Britain has refreshed and reaffirmed its commitment to providing trans-inclusive facilities across its buildings.

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SPEAK.

Matthew R Francis@bowlerhatscience.org · 2h ago

not everything where people agree is an echo chamber. Sometimes it's *consensus* based on *observation* and *listening*. Gravitation is not an echo chamber. Evolution is not an echo chamber. Rejecting "AI" and its fascist promoters is WISDOM.

idk man i just don't think the question is "is ai (claude, chatgpt, etc) useful?" more than it's "can we use ai ethically / safely" and the answer to the latter is no

It’s the same for sexual assault survivors IRL

Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato@kristadb1.bsky.social · 5d ago

There is a branch of thought online that wants specifically a checklist of after-assault behaviours. If the characters does not follow the checklist, the author MUST answer for this.

Hello! Filling my books for September, I would love to draw things for you - profile pictures, posters, book covers, stickers, bookmarks, interior art, etc etc More info here: www.bettyrocksteady.com/commission-r...

Today on Algorithm Zero -- How To Fix The HWA, and Nancy Holder's classic ghost ship novel. www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...

8/20/26 — BRIAN KEENE

If your social media and Discord channels are full of horror writers talking about the most recent HWA (Horror Writers Association) scandal, you might be forgiven for any confusion as to which particu...

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We all have to be one of two people now: The person who rips these fucking things off the face of anyone doing this, OR, the bystanders who 100% have the back of the person who rips the fucking things off the face. The aggressives and the passives must unite to make it unsafe to wear these.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

It is never ever ever ever going to work out better for you if you talk to police before speaking with a lawyer.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · last wk.

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

Kevin passed about an hour ago. The time to find his cats a home IS now, and I'm not one step closer to finding it. Please, friends.

Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · last wk.

FRIENDS IN THE NYC AREA: Okay, this is a tough one, but please bear with me. My wife's lifelong friend has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is desperately seeking a home for his two cats when that time comes. The elder, Wally, is something like 13 years old and DELIGHTFULLY dim. The younger, Doris,

This is the most Republican story you will read all day. A Republican who represents Trump’s home district was arrested for molesting his OWN GRANDSON and could face the death penalty under a state law he sponsored. There has to be a German word for this.

Florida Republican could face death penalty under child abuse law he championed

A Florida Republican from Donald Trump's home district could potentially face the death penalty under a law he had championed as a state legislator.Mike Caruso, the Palm Beach County clerk of courts a...

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All ICE funding should be transferred to MRNA research and development . www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Novel Cancer Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning in First for mRNA

Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.

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My favorite Pokémon! 💖

Stefscribbles@stefscribbles.bsky.social · yesterday

here's what's gonna happen

Vive la France

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · 2d ago

French troops require wine or else they won't fight. The problem with wine is that glass bottles break and steel cans leak when hit by shrapnel and fouled the flavor. So they invented Vinogel, a 3x solid wine concentrate made with pectin that could be reconstituted or eaten.

Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...

Donate to Support Tom Savini After House Fire, organized by Jason Baker

Tom Savini, special makeup effects legend, is facing a heartbreaking loss after Tom’s … Jason Baker needs your support for Support Tom Savini After House Fire

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"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:

A (very wonderful) friend of mine switched from teaching English to special education. Today was his first day as a SPED teacher, and he’s already super overwhelmed. I have empathy for him, gratitude that I finally quit…and vindication. It really IS that much harder to teach SPED. It’s not just me!

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

My orcs have no excessive apostrophes in their names. But…should they??

Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Every time someone says "but how will we afford it?" I want to ask them how we are affording it now, and in many cases, the answer is that we aren't.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 4d ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books

evy kwong@evystadium.bsky.social · 3d ago

amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:

Playing Wordfeud and losing this game badly, but at least I got to play the words DILDO and TURD 🤷🏻‍♀️

Report Suggests Nearly No One Is Buying AI Generated Goods https://kotaku.com/3d-model-markets-are-being-flooded-with-ai-sellers-but-no-ones-buying-2000724790

Report Suggests Nearly No One Is Buying AI Generated Goods

A classic conundrum of 'why would I buy something you didn’t make,' platforms like CGTrader has shelves of AI made models collecting dust

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One of the benefits of AI going forward will be to easily identify people who are incurious, lazy, & shallow. It will be increasingly easy to simply weed them out of work that requires critical thinking & problem solving skills. The problem is that AI is revealing just how *many* of them there are.

Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · 3d ago

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality

Never let yourself become inured to the fact that this is how the people running this country talk

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

The White House is pissed after Senator Jon Ossoff questioned Trump’s relationship with his much younger aide. trib.al/TZOU7HK

Don't forget about our food systems horror and Weird fiction call coming up next month. Please read ALL of the submission guidelines if you plan on sending a story in. Oh, and don't forget to have fun! cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN NOW UNTIL FILLED) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideally, …

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The Kickstarter for 3LBE 2027 is coming September 1st. Get notified on launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Coming soon: Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2027

A literary magazine of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!

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🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low." 1/

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Hal started "Prince Valiant" when he was 44, BTW. Just letting you know, in case you're one of those folks that thinks you're cooked if you haven't achieved your life-defining successes at 22 or whatever.

Comics in the Golden Age@comicsinthega.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today is the birthday of Hal Foster (Aug. 16, 1892-July 25, 1982), writer, artist, & creator of the Prince Valiant newspaper comic strip.