Rebecca

Just wild given the FSU’s entire gimmick was legitimising bigotry.

Who could have ever guessed that an organisation led by Toby Young would be absolutely riddled with misogyny and bigotry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reminder that when Labour MPs claim to oppose bigotry this is just a joke for them.

Something positively medieval about Trump using donations to fund his ballroom - no different to when English kings used to lean on City merchants to “voluntarily” fund their pet causes.

some of us worked this out a decade ago but it’s refreshing to see a prime minister say it out loud

Russia has been at war with Britain for years and the EU referendum was an open goal which they exploited. That doesn't mean that "Putin made Brexit happen" but his troll farms and media operations certainly played a part Brexiters may hate to hear it but to deny it is to deny a dangerous reality.

“Claude Haiku 4.5 had been tasked with generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages.” And what did it do? Did it perform example tasks on randomly selected webpages, by any chance?

Ah. The US is bringing back public executions. Savages.

UN's Turk calls Nobel award 'collective win' for human rights and justice reut.rs/3TSgiQy

Among her other achievements, Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay was an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights - including making legal gender recognition an explicit international human-rights issue.

Our statement on the recent Green Party of England and Wales motion 'Zionism is Racism'. europeangreens.eu/news/egp-pos...

*checks news* TRUMP DOXXES SENATOR OVER CLOCKS AS CANAL SHARK REMAINS AT LARGE *unchecks news*

Grok as court astrologer?

the fucking President is doing "grok is this true?" it has literally never been more over

Using AI to do a really boring task and it just said “that failed for technical reasons, but don’t worry I’ll try a different method to circumvent this” and goodness isn’t this basically every news article about “rogue ai went rogue!” This is literally what they’ve told it to do!

When we talk about dark money infesting our politics we generally think about Reform's Russian links, or the ADF pouring overseas cash into Christian anti-abortion and anti-LGBT lawfare. But here we see dark money in the heart of the Labour movement, quietly funding transphobia and exclusion.

Telexing them?

"Concerns". In narrative and policy terms, the "legitimate concerns" paradigm must be one of the greatest political disasters of the modern era. A racism laundry run by centrist pundits and politicians, which has achieved one thing and one thing only: the mainstreaming of the far right.

If you’re not asking your LLM to respond in the style of James Joyce, why even bother?

Months of work on FWS & the problem of making it fit with NI law alongside @sylviademars.me and @aoifemod.bsky.social is finally ready to see daylight. Short answer, it doesn't fit. Yes, the situation is so serious that it warranted the Mean Girls quote in the title. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Yeah, so the 2010s were a long referendum on whether we should 1) be reasonable and decent people, and invest in infrastructure and services, or whether we were going to 2) be abysmal horrible bastards and let the island slide into the sea. I’m afraid politicians and press unified on 2).

Yes, the UK is unsafe for trans and gender non-conforming people, something which is being taken seriously by some European authorities. But lots of the rest of Europe is now seeing the same process start. And i don't think we have any answers other than point to the UK to see how this ends.

I'm at a European conference at the moment, and its so clear that the UK's current position essentially mirrors Russia's, despite the UK government's weasel words about dignity and respect. Most of Europe's trans people are terrified of what the UK Government has allowed.

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.

Trump to declare Palestine Action a global terror group

I think I’ve knowingly watched about two of these?

Quakers have a long, long history of the acceptance & inclusion of gender diversity. Jemima Wilkinson [1752-1819] was a Rhode Island quaker who at 24 adopted genderlessness. They ditched their birth name & all pronouns & become known in the Quaker community as the Public Universal Friend

Aug 21st - Mei gets lost while looking for corn for her hospitalized mother. Mei's older sister, Satsuki, asks Totoro for help. He summons the Catbus. 📽️📅 My Neighbor Totoro (1988)