Emma MacFarlane (she/her)
@scotsdragon.bsky.social
SFF Addict. White trans gal with a case of the 'tism and an anarchist streak. Minors probably shouldn't follow.
The other day I was looking at Twitter (still gotta, unfortunately) and I got ads for AI apps that were like "you can take pictures of girls and make them kiss in bikinis!" just regular ads on the regular feed
Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 4h agoNEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
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A court ruling in 2025 by the supreme court decided the govt couldn't have possibly meant precisely what the government said in a lot of detail when the act was originally published, an instead must have been interpreting the EA2010 as excluding trans people in most goods and services.
Fruit to produce jet fuel: another greenwashing scam, directly from the fossil fuel industry, that will turn an area of Brazilian countryside the size of LA into a monoculture. 🧵
Jet Fuel Made From Tropical Fruit Gets $3 Billion Backing
A Brazilian company owned by Mubadala Capital plans to make sustainable aviation fuel out of macauba fruit, which grows on palm trees.
bloomberg.com
this is sociologically interesting. people who haven't acquired skills through education or experience now think they're *indispensible* compared to those who have.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 11h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
This is diabolical. Imagine demanding funding to persecute anyone you think might not be a woman in a rape crisis centre rather than decry the abysmal lack of rape crisis funding. They keep talking about services they have no idea how they are run or what those running them want.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 12h agoAbsolute state of Falkner and Reindorf in the Times today
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Can we all just block Will Stancil? He’s an absolute asshat who gets his rocks off on ragebaiting us with the most asinine takes he can find because he is a contrarian who hates anyone who isn’t him.
The unworkable EHRC Code comes into effect today - A reminder to all my lovely trans+ fam… It’s designed for organisations, not you! It does NOT make it a criminal offence for you to carry on using whichever loo best suits you/ your needs. If someone complains, that’s the orgs problem, not yours!
BBC breakfast talking about this and it's all fun and games and not SpaceX being wildly irresponsible with their equipment.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 17h agoSpaceX latest: Abandoned rocket about to slam into moon at high speed
i intellectually comprehend why nolan stans' reactions to both the film and the various discourses around it are so hell-bent on shooting a perfectly western-sahara-shaped hole around this little detail, but i still think it's super scummy and dishonest of them to do
As my fiance once said, Muppets are the ultimate triumph of Kayfabe.
Leaf~@leaftilde.bsky.social · 18h agoOkay we all have criticism for the hegemonic goliath that is American culture but one thing that I love is the continued practice of treating the Muppets, including the denizens of Sesame Street, as if they are real, living entities. I dunno I think it's a charming bit of collective whimsy.
To be fair tho the USS Thorn looks like she enjoys her job immensely but gripes about it the entire time. 😾🔥🖖💫 #StarTrekSNW (Courtesy @djb-art.bsky.social)
Let’s be real. Saville should have gotten the full exposure of his crimes while he was alive to answer for them.
Dr Matt Lodder@mattlodder.com · yesterdayNot speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.
It’s easy to forget this happened. People who knew who he was and what he’d done lobbied for it.
Dr Matt Lodder@mattlodder.com · yesterdayNot speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.
Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
spider-man is a trans woman and black cat is a chaser