Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 17h agoSpoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.
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Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 17h ago
There a million things wrong with the EHRC guidance, as you all know, but for me the weirdest thing about it all is that its authors don't even seem to be aware of the possibility that someone asked to leave a "single sex" facility might refuse.
I had a rough time with my trilogy: I debuted at the peak of the pandemic. A steep drop in sales for Book 2. Had a bone removed from my hand weeks before Wolfskin was published. But word of mouth is critical for authors. So if you're a fan of space opera like Mass Effect, please give it a chance.
To accompany this, can I suggest that the new etiquette when challenged that you are in the wrong bathroom should be to respond “oh, I’m sorry, is this one cunts only?”
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 12h agoThe EHRC's Code of Practice has been condemned as a "system of segregation", "impractical and inhumane", and even "genocidal in nature" It comes into force today
A message to trans + people in the UK. Carry on using the facilities you feel most comfortable in from tomorrow. Your comfort matters. Your right to exist in public life matters. The guidance is completely unworkable and it will fail!!
Omg this is adorable. We gotta be kinder to each other and more encouraging of fun and silliness.
John O'Connell@jdpoc.bsky.social · 2d agoYour Much Needed Afternoon #TimelineCleanser ... Have fun at work, and if you can, make someone's day.
If it makes those paying over £50 for lunch at a railway station feel any better, I’m happy to report that I paid £3.25 for a breakfast from Greggs yesterday and it was delish.
Sometimes it's easy to forget there can also be nice, wholesome stories that involve the internet.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3d agothis owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
NEW at the Empty City On the early release of prisoners The political-media addiction to lengthy sentences, and its consequences emptycity.substack.com/p/on-the-ear...
On the early release of prisoners
The political-media addiction to lengthy sentences, and its consequences
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the anthromorphization is weird. someone set up the test environment incorrectly, this is not a "clever girl" scenario
CNN@cnn.com · last wk.An OpenAI test that escaped its cage and alarmed the AI and cybersecurity industry attacked more than just Hugging Face, the AI platform that initially appeared to be the sole victim of the virtual lab leak. https://cnn.it/4vXjYNR
NHS hospitals using Palantir’s patient discharge tool have registered “no noticeable improvement” in performance, according to new @healthfoundation.bsky.social analysis that contrasts sharply with @england.nhs.uk's claims More @financialtimes.com as.ft.com/r/6300abcb-e...
Anyway don’t worry you’ll be protected from AI generated slop as Amazon limits the number of titles authors can create to 10 BOOKS PER FORMAT PER WEEK
I knew Iain and he *definitely* despised Musk! (Joliet Veppers in "Surface Detail" is a brutal caricature of Musk. Musk either skipped that Culture novel or didn't recognize himself ...)
My Dad was an official photographer for Blakes Seven and I have a big boxful of behind-the-scenes photos that I don’t know what to do with. Does anyone know a museum or fan publication that would want them? Seems a shame to throw them away.
I work for a public sector body. Someone important has had an idea and wants us to do it. Everyone agrees the idea is not viable. But because we can't say no, we're paying a consultancy £100k to come up with the evidence to say its not viable. This happens a lot.
Zanny Minton Beddoes, "You say things like: civil war in Britain is inevitable" Elon Musk, "On the current trends, yes" ZMD, "I live there, that is not true.. London is a much safer city than any city in the US"
57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. (Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.)
This is very good. It brings to mind that there are really only three departments in a government: foreign affairs, home affairs and the treasury. The 18th century had it right…
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2w agoToday's newsletter - some thoughts on Rishi Sunak (and some other prime ministers') views on how they managed their time and what the lessons for Burnham as he forms his government are:
What is the point of VAR if it doesn’t exist overrule the ref here?
The first rule of any businesses (all be it one many businesses haven't learned) is "make it quick and easy for people to give you money" HMRC needs to follow the same rule
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2w agoI know that 'I have a salaried job and then do the occasional bit of paid TV or radio work' is a small group, but the thing I would like from HMRC is if I could just have an account I was paid into, and they just took an exorbitant flat rate of everything as it paid in, no forms, no thinking.
Like this from @timharford.ft.com on how inclusive design principles can often help all users, not those just seen as traditionally excluded www.ft.com/content/4d8e...
I think my wife loves her horse more than me. The horse has an itchy arse so she rubs special oils into it every night. I told her I've got an itchy arse but she told me to go fuck myself
“What he doesn’t realise is that no one takes him seriously any more.”
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w ago“Caught between two unacceptable choices, Trump — and by association the US — is in limbo. Trapped, neither in nor out while the military continues to run through operations that have been proven not to work, watching as the weapons stockpile dwindles to nothing, the financial costs spiral…”
