I’m sure there was no conflict of interest when that decision was made 😬

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 7h ago

A draft version of the government’s recent data centre report included several key aspects which questioned continued investment in the sector but were later cut from the final version released to the public. jrnl.ie/7122123

All this shit about toilets when everyone would have shred a toilet with a trans person and never cared. The whole outrage is so manufactured and we have seen it ramp up in real time over the years

You are not prepared for this

ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk · 3d ago

If you've ever wanted to live in a MagicEye house... www.anthonywebb.co.uk/properties/2...

Hint hint, companies that aren't dicks to trans people have a bigger global staff pool in an industry that has a lot of trans people, stop shooting yourselves in the feet you fucking idiots.

Feeling extremely stressed at the moment, so @dreadships.bsky.social bought me some nice chocolates. Probably don’t tell him enough how much I appreciate him. 11/10 would marry again

"What happens when transmasculine people have to use the ladies' har har har" We get fucking assaulted. It's just not talked about as much because people don't give a shit and keep making the same joke over and over again.

Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 22h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

well if there's one thing we've learned from what happened on X, it's that lots of nonces and the people who enabled them will be in very hot water shortly *puts hand to earpiece* ah. well. nevertheless,

WIRED@wired.com · 14h ago

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

You do not need AI to make content. I just found a TikTok account that is just a glass of milk in different locations listening to rock music. It has tens of thousands of followers.

A big one for anywhere actively enforcing it is how they are planning to a) 'know' and b) log someone's "birth sex", given that you can't tell by looking/hearing, asking someone in a public space could constitute a breach of someone's right to privacy, and sex is special category data under GDPR.

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

One of the bigger problems the 2025 ruling has introduced is establishing that, instead of resolving equality cases based on trying to as best as possible integrate everyone's right to be treated humanely, we use philosophical debates about what someone's true legal essence is to decide rights.

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 19h ago

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

Oh dear gods, public procurement is hard enough for the purpose of public procurement, let alone as a device for economic policy.

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterday

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

mad that a bit of rain is respite in a country where it rains 600 days a year

Apart from this. Handy "This is impossible. You will be sued either way." Letter. Still not the basic fucking point (go back to how it was) but at least it directs annoyance

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

"stripping back procurement rules to boost growth" is the most David Cameron coded thing I've heard from andyburnham this week

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterday

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

So I understand and agree that procurement legislation isn’t perfect. And also that especially in the space of innovation puts a lot of complications in the way of small start ups getting huge contracts. But putting friction in the way of throwing public money at immature suppliers with untested

That’s in direct contradiction to the principle of non discrimination. Hope they do thorough conflict of interest assessments on that

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterday

In letter seen by FT, Haigh and Healey will instruct every Cabinet minister to identify 10 UK suppliers with high growth potential to target for more government contracts in ‘buy British’ drive

So today that horrible guidance comes into force and I will mark the occasion by really not caring who is pissing in the cubicle next to me even harder.

This question I often ask, crying in tech procurement

Darío@dariosamo.bsky.social · yesterday

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.

The way the social landscape went off a cliff in 2010 should've radicalised way more people.

There is no chocolate in the house and the nearest place still open that sells it is over a mile away and that’s really not fair

18: I'm just your regular left leaning social democrat 40: as Lenin once said ...

Terrorists.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d ago

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Pour some misery down on me!

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Ngl, country themed weeks give me the ick a bit #gbsb #sewingbee