Because of that thing where a lot of 'Merican accents truncate certain sounds, it's often funny hearing them talk about 40k because it sounds like they're saying "The Horse Heresy"

'You don't get a seat at the table when you're on the menu" and all that

This is what happened 5-10 years ago in the UK. Journalistic seriousness was stripped from trans journalists and columnists despite trans topics dominating headlines.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 4h ago

I pitched both of my usual outlets about the Cunningham stuff, one said yes, one said not right now. In 2019 I would have had a dozen editors competing for my words on this.

I pitched both of my usual outlets about the Cunningham stuff, one said yes, one said not right now. In 2019 I would have had a dozen editors competing for my words on this.

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 8h ago

It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.

right wing men will really stand up and announce, completely unprompted, "i cum when i shit (which i may attempt to do right in front of you at a dinner party). also i don't wipe my ass"

Meta is extremely bad.

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 5h ago

NEW: 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

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 10 to 1 in the Michigan primary and was subjected to some of the most disgusting gutter Islamophobia since the aftermath of 9/11. deny it all you want but this was a David vs Goliath matchup and David won.

Politico@politico.com · 14h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

This is the second time he has promised to help victims of grooming and kept the states boot on our neck. Never ask me to see him as different ever again.

Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 11h ago

Nonce

Didn't we have a few years of panic over antisemitism in the Labour Party under Corbyn? Anyway, the Tories have a literal neo-Nazi running for local council, backed by Badenoch, but he's no longer an *antisemitic* neo-Nazi because he says he supports Israel

We will not comply with the EHRC 'guidance', and neither should you. Take action for trans liberation.

Burnham is absolutely a nonce

Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 11h ago

Nonce

Me: “Neat, a new detective rpg? Hell yeah, let’s-“ [sees the gAI disclaimer: “AI tools were used as an assistive layer during localization proofreading and store page asset ideation; all final content was reviewed and approved by our team.”] … what, you couldn’t crack open a dictionary?

a lot to hate here, but 'a random idea thrown out by a fantasy writer' is a horrifically stupid thing to say about a writer who was extremely unsubtle about writing satire

okay now he's gone too far

How bizarre. The forgotten knowledge, first of all, that just a few years ago precicely three people used AI in their daily work and we all got on fine, but also that a lot of people (most!?) still do!

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 13h ago

My 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.

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I think winning a race where you get outspent by like a factor of 10 is a pretty solid outcome all things considered, if you wanted a landslide, I dunno which race you were watching

Politico@politico.com · 14h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

in ur spaces, being hot as always

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 16h ago

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.

I think the rage directed at Wilson shows how hollow the "But he's getting people interested in the classics" line is. Like he probably is and Wilson, correctly, understands that as an academic studying classics this is a moment to talk about her specialism a bunch to a new audience.

🏴ᛏ Sigrún, hræfnes cwen ᚩ🏴@empress-trixana.bsky.social · 17h ago

mad fucking props to Dr Wilson for looking at the internet going absolutely stupid at her and going alright, fuck it, round two let's go bitches

If Evil Dead needs to be franchised like all other horror properties, then using it as an avenue in which Sam Raimi can give money to promising indie horror filmmakers to make their own take on the Evil Dead formula is probably the best way to do it

I love child-inclusive archaeology so much. It *seems* obvious that kids would have directly or indirectly affected a lot of the material past we look at but it really has taken a sea change of feminist practice for anyone to even ask the questions!

Dr. Abigail Desmond@abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 3d ago

15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.

Do I have to unfollow everyone so that it goes away What if I just add everyone to a List instead

Sable, Final Girl 🏳️‍⚧️@ghostlysable.bsky.social · yesterday

holy hell, the info that tells you who liked a post makes the UI feel so crowded; it feels so unpleasant

this place started as a twitter clone but it's devolving into facebook

holy hell, the info that tells you who liked a post makes the UI feel so crowded; it feels so unpleasant

I think people are seeing the mass arrests of people for wearing t-shirts and holding signs in support of Palestine Action and are assuming there's One Weird Trick to force the cops to treat Nazis the same

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · yesterday

www.thenational.scot/news/2641894... This is great and all, but the police already ignore it when Nazis turn up with Combat 18 flags and combat 18 has been banned since they went on a bombing spree in Muslim Jewish and Gay areas in London.

as something of a socialist trap myself, I think it sounds like a great idea

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

@phobia.bsky.social is somehow able to captured my figure better than ive ever been able to 😳

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Gwen Pepperoni got banned? So Ken Jennings got to post a non-apology thread, got a write-up in Them, and Gwen Pepperoni got banned? Love this site.