Wicked witch of the test
@witchofthetest.bsky.social
Cormorant enthusiast and software tester. You can call me Veerle (pronounced 'fearless' without the ss). Alt txt: profile pic me giving the horns on a white unicorn statue. Banner a cormorant with its wings spread in the sun.
Weeee (Not trying to flaunt my wealth, just trying to show I did something and possibly convincing someone else to also do that)
Trans News Network@transnews.network · 2w agoThanks to y'all's amazing generosity and support, we are less than $1,600 away from hitting our big goal for our fundraiser. Reaching it means keeping the lights on at TNN. It means more hard-hitting trans journalism from our worker-run newsroom. Every share and (tax deductible) donation helps:
@marcusdusautoy.bsky.social yo! I'm reading The Music of the Primes and holy f, is it good!! I hated maths in school and I was shit at it. But you don't need to understand maths to enjoy the book, that's the impressive part. I came and found you on bsky just to say this book is amazing, I love it ❤️🔥❤️🔥
I'm a capable tech manager with a great deal of experience and a cynical view of LLMs that would rather plan a strategic roll out of useful features vs risking the whole business on a faulty trend. If you're looking for that, please reach out.
It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people. They’re failing to do that. Trans people deserve safety and dignity. www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...
Zack Polanski on how Keir Starmer could have changed the April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling to protect trans rights (EXCLUSIVE)
Zack Polanski revealed how Keir Starmer could have acted to protect trans rights after April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling.
attitude.co.uk
Really proud to be the LGBT+ Trailblazer of the year. And so proud of the real trailblazers - like my boyfriend - who works in palliative care. Our NHS workers, our teachers, our cleaners. The people who keep our country running. And LGBT+ History month matters. Representation matters. 🌈🏳️⚧️
Addresses of new offices within, searchable database about halfway down the page.
WIRED@wired.com · 6mo agoFederal records obtained by WIRED show that over the past several months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the US. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
Psst. Wanna buy a prompt? Here's one I use often, to good effect: "Can you explain it purely in terms of LLM mechanics? Please avoid anthropomorphising with words like 'think', 'try', 'reason' or 'plan' "
I went to the vagina museum for the first time last December. It was great! I tend to think I'm fairly educated on the female anatomy and then I learned I had always called uterine tubes ovaries. This place is great and important and it needs cash to exist. Throw in a penny if you can.
Vagina Museum@vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6mo agoFrom weird posts on salamander sex to teaching generations the proper names for the gynaecological anatomy, the Vagina Museum is free. We're supported by donations from eager beavers like you. There's just 24 hours left on our fundraising appeal - help push us over the edge www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
Andrew suffered and live commented on the experience so that we don't have to. Thank you, Andrew.
Andrew Cherry@kolektiv.xyncro.com · 6mo agoI think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Confusion in gaming disorder measurement
Abstract. Measurement is important for the scientific programmes of addictive behaviours. In the present study, we investigated the measurement of gaming d
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It's not designed to help us, but to make us unable to think for ourselves and question things. You can't have a democracy without informed citizens. It's time we acknowledge that the people pushing this have no interest in democracy. I feel we're beyond the point where this is conspiracy thinking
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 6mo agoBREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
I have just been alerted to this and it has really brightened my day. "This wasn’t crowd control. This was panic control. This was the federal government throwing tear gas at a punchline because they couldn’t arrest a joke." www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-...
THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION
The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.
closertotheedge.net
I need to remind myself that for every fascist pos wanker, there's three absolute champions out there. People are fucking amazing. A lot of people deeply suck but we can't let that bring us down, stay strong Minneapolis you're doing fucking brilliant
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 6mo agobrass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Whoever could have predicted this?! Oh, right, absolutely fucking everyone. People just didn't give a shit because they could suddenly get their own face in rip off Ghibli style for free and who doesn't want that
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · 7mo agoPlease show this to anyone whose immediate reaction to Generative AI and the Big Tech firms torching our carbon budget for R+D tax write offs isn't: boycott their products and jail their Epstein class CEOs www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/n...
I think Africa's top museums should acquire all treasures from the Louvre, its clear European institutes like this just aren't up to safeguarding European art www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Louvre is the pride of France – and it’s on the verge of collapse. Can we rescue it in time? | Agnès Poirier
From a jewel heist to crumbling galleries, it’s been a dire year for the world’s most visited museum. At least France has woken up to its predicament, says political commentator Agnès Poirier
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"You collectively fucking hate this thing. But what if we told you just one more time, without any new arguments, that you should actually like it?"
Vox@vox.com · 8mo agoAmerica, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
Starting rumours that AI technology is "female coded" to slowly let the air out of the AI tech bubble
"Reducing immigration will not necessarily increase the number of jobs available for British people as some employers are responding to tightening immigration rules by increasing outsourcing." Hey chat I'm starting to think the capitalists in charge never even cared about reducing unemployment
Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · 9mo ago"a fall in net migration of 300,000 a year would increase the deficit by about £20 billion. The government are already having to make unpopular tax rises and spending cuts in the upcoming budget, but would have to make more if the deficit increases."
Hot take - even as a joke, I don't really like the idea of ppl blaming interns for taking down production Even on the chance it happened to be true (and there are definitely cases where it wasn't an intern), if an intern was able to do that, that's a problem with the processes and systems in place
