At this point, the Labour government really need to explain: 1) what they understand to be the purpose of the Gender Recognition Act to be. 2) what the purpose of a Gender Recognition Certificate is under current law. 3) how the decision was made to repeal these protections by stealth.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ@sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · yesterday

the way @lucympowell.bsky.social and her mates have utterly destroyed lgbt+ rights in the uk is absolutely shameful i hope that once we're finally rid of this government i never have to see another labour government in my life this government has done nothing worthwhile since they came to power

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2d ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

I very much doubt that this will be a lens through which we examine a lot of comfortable cishet people going absolutely coocoo in the coconut through lockdown-era online radicalisation about lots of things but largely settling on becoming extremely anti LGBT+

Bat Krown 🦇🎃@katbrownwrites.com · 3d ago

The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Enjoy your M64 and other ModRetro stuff! This is the founder you're funding.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4d ago

To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

I don't believe they are conscious but I also don't believe you should get to do interviews where you say "idk man our business model might be built on enslaving sentient creatures" and still get to be a business.

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”

QUEEN

12tone@12tone.nebula.tv · last wk.

Paramore’s Hayley Williams unleashes profanity-filled response after DHS tells her to ‘thank’ ICE

Hayley Williams unleashes profanity-filled response to DHS telling her to ‘thank’ ICE

‘We suggest Ms. Williams to thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice,’ the DHS said

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Please enjoy this very normal cottage :) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

Check out this 1 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

1 bedroom detached house for sale in The Wellhouse, 3 Machpelah Yard, Hebden Bridge, HX7 for £250,000. Marketed by EweMove, Covering Yorkshire

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Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter

The religious right is steadily expanding its definition of what is sexual — and restricting what it deems acceptable in public spaces. Tech companies, in want of less oversight, are taking the hint. The deplatforming that started with sex workers / kink / trans has come for gay bars.

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2w ago

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

We were also gifted this. Truly, the Last Webbed Site.

A Spiced Pumpkin Sergal 🎃🍂@adorablesergal.neocities.org · 2w ago

Cohost was special in so many ways. I feel that The Great Yinglet Disturbance of '24 could've only happened there.

Michael Vassar/Arc is one of my three LessWrong exes. He's the one who called me a 5y/o in a hot 20y/o's body. He's the one who stuck his dick in my mouth while I was waking up in his borrowed apartment.

Valerie Sizemore@tarwatirno.bsky.social · 2w ago

Michael Vassar, who was President of MIRI before the name change and probably made the Thiel introduction, is in the Epstein files. Vassar visited Little St. James in 2015, and they discussed their shared preference for "blue eyed people." The root cult is very nakedly a eugenics cult.

"Over 50% of the participants in the natalism subreddit are childless" is just so

Weird how Christian-majority states always seem to work out to "forgiveness is divine" when it's someone with more power/privilege, and "suffer not a witch to live" when it's someone lower on the totem pole.

your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ash Sarkar: "The one thing the govt could do to improve the lives of young people is introduce some rent controls" Govt minister Jonathan Reynolds: "No economist supports rent controls" There you have it. Are you a young person trapped paying exorbitant rent? The Labour govt says f**k you.

It's my birthdaaaaay!🎊 As an artist, it's often difficult to acknowledge how much I work and how much I improve, so today I want to be nicer to myself and share some of my favourite pieces I made since my last bday.💙 If you'd like to share, it would be a lovely gift!🙏✨

Normalise saying "What the fuck is wrong with you?" when other men are out of line.

Jay Edidin@edidin.bsky.social · 3w ago

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

Just as a reminder, that's Linda McMahon standing next to him. If you're watching and engaging with WWE, you're contributing to the fascist attacks on the people on this country and the world by this administration.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Trump administration has formally rescinded Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students nationwide.

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

Just remember the rhyme! Masked by the sea, you’re alright by me, Masked by the planes, we’ll clap you in chains.

Books readers love but don't recommend (or warn people away from even while recommending): A thread. Hi, I'm AK, and I write a series people love (privately, in my inboxes) which has won multiple awards and accolades. Here's why people generally don't recommend it. 🧵

Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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Paging all my bisexual friends

Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures@michellefranklin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Look at my girl 🥲🥰

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

How many holes does a straw have?

game changer in a nutshell

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.