Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️⚧️⚧️🦗
@sarahviktoria.bsky.social
Trans humanist https://screedvault.neocities.org/ Until the latter fire shall heat the deep; Then once by man and angels to be seen
Promoting a technology by saying it will unleash the apocalypse is indeed highly unusual; but for a religion, that's very common (think: doomsday cult): so maybe this is the comparison we should reach for. Also see: www.programmablemutter.com/p/look-at-sc...
Gro-Tsen@gro-tsen.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you haven't read it already, re how AI fandom is similar to a religion, I recommend this (slightly old but still relevant) essay by Henry Farrell, “What OpenAI shares with Scientology”, on what makes Sam Altman so similar to L. Ron Hubbard: www.programmablemutter.com/p/look-at-sc...
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h agoAfter years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
George Orwell predicted AI too. "...newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator."
Making the #Police or the #CPS immune from civil litigation is Trump level stuff. Also a #SupremeCourt ruling upcoming. Watch this space. #Legal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MPs attempt to overturn ruling which protects police from being sued
MPs are seeking to stop immunity applying when police fabricate evidence or are dishonest or negligent.
bbc.co.uk
this is why I've argued that the right does not actually forswear empathy. rather, they direct empathy only to in groups...and to constructs who have no agency, and can therefore be appropriated/wielded for their political agenda. therevealer.org/what-we-can-...
What We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy” — The Revealer
Why are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad?
therevealer.org
QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide. www.wearequeeraf.com/the-deadly-t...
The deadly toll of the trans healthcare crisis: 21 suicides and over 600 other deaths
QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide.
wearequeeraf.com
Two interesting things about this article. Whose criticism is deemed significant by the #BBC (US based and Murdoch related right wing media) and the fact that the article was removed completely rather than edited with an explanation. #DueImpartiality #Impartiality www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
BBC removes article linking bare nails trend to ‘white supremacist standards of beauty’
Corporation says story did not meet editorial standards after it attracts criticism from US and UK media
theguardian.com
One of the interesting things I have learned from this is that Downing Street saw fit to comment at the time, calling the allegations "very concerning." Why? #PinkNews www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
Claims against PinkNews bosses of sexual misconduct ‘very concerning’, says No 10
BBC reports 30 current and former staff at LGBTQ+ website allege founder and his husband behaved inappropriately towards junior colleagues
theguardian.com
Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · 3d agoNEW: A big admission by the BBC in court today that stories accusing the couple behind PinkNews of sexual misconduct were false and defamatory. The stories meant they faced extra checks from a social worker ahead of a standard hearing about their son. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
The #BBC desperately trying to Corbynate Zac Polanski on Radio 5 Live this morning.
Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · 3d agoNEW: A big admission by the BBC in court today that stories accusing the couple behind PinkNews of sexual misconduct were false and defamatory. The stories meant they faced extra checks from a social worker ahead of a standard hearing about their son. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
Just switched on Five Live briefly, in time to hear Badenoch saying that the Conservative Party supports anyone who knows what a woman is, like the Darlington Nurses. The radio went off again.
Via Euronews: US meeting in Poland excluding France, UK, Baltics risks dividing NATO www.euronews.com/2026/10/05/u...
US meeting in Poland excluding France, UK, Baltics risks dividing NATO
US Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby is hosting representatives from five key NATO members in Poland to discuss defence capabilities and the future of the alliance. Critics warn the exclusion o...
euronews.com
One worrying thing I have noticed is a lot of the independent media that have been critical of the government (but not critical of the persecution of trans people) have suddenly got critical of support for Ukraine. This at the same time Russia is in a more desperate situation.
Tom Carter@thcarter123.bsky.social · last wk.Stanford is where Peter Thiel first embraced Opus Dei, under the mentorship of Ops Dei priest Arne Panula. Panula is famous for turning KSt DC Opus Dei into a recruiting pipeline for DC power jobs - Bill Barr, Laura Ingraham etc. Leonard Leo is on the board. nypost.com/2026/10/04/l...
It's time to Hope Again, boys and girls! Looks like Ian Dunt is back to his usual form as cheerleader for the latest children's crusade of happy clappy believers in the latest new hope for Labour.
Trans people, if you wouldn't buy anything Harry Potter related, why do you talk about what's happening on Traitors?
From allowing Palantir to infect our society to scrapping the triple lock, I believe Burnham is an empire stooge and we need to be very cynical about his misty-eyed conference speech. I'll say this again: It's difficult to imagine anyone more duplicitous than Starmer, but here we are.
