Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

@thatdocphoenix.com

That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics

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Luke Turner
@luketurner.bsky.social

Interested that there is pushback and so on about this advice - what with the levels of Russian sabotage going on across Europe and the speed the weather is become more severe due to climate change, it seems eminently sensible. In-laws in Sweden have been getting this advice for a few years now.

John Harris@johnharris1969.bsky.social

1. This is getting very 'We know something you don't', rarely a good look 2. Why 3 days? Cos it matches the crucifixion/resurrection interregnum?

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himham
@himham.bsky.social

Replying to @himham.bsky.social

When socialists win office, they say "that's just New York". Establishment Dems just use every win & loss as a justification of their priors, because that's what having no convictions allows you to do. They will not concede to popular policy because they think they can weasel out of it.

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Joel S.
@joelhs.bsky.social

Re: Dawkins, it’s long past time for us to admit that “New Atheism” was always a way to launder reactionary bigotry into ostensibly progressive guise. Listening to the New Atheists talk about religion is like if I read one Stephen Hawking book and proclaimed myself a physicist.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social

every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist but it's never enough for them to get off the train

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Ethel Weapon
@lousadzak.bsky.social

This BBC News article bothsides things by *randomly bringing Tonia Antoniazzi into play and extensively quoting her handwringing* just days after she literally posted that she objected to a trans person simply existing and being in her presence.

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gabundy ☭
@gabundy.blog

I'm gonna go through all the BBC footage for the next month and replace all the remembrance poppies with water-squirting daisies like clowns wear. For balance, innit.

Leicester Gazette@leicestergazette.leicester.news

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

leicester.newsBBC edits out pride pins on University Challenge in ‘Orwellian’ move* * * This story was published by **The Leicester Gazette** : a local, independent newspaper about Leicestershire. 1,000 people have already joined our community. Just use those buttons below to download our app and **sign up for free**. * * * Astrophysics student Samuel Carlier and History student Emmeline Hague-Wright were shocked to find that their LGBTQ+ pride pins had been edited out of their University Challenge appearance earlier this year. The episode, initially scheduled for BBC Two on 24 August, was delayed twice before airing on 7 September 2026. The pins showed the progressive LGBTQ+ pride flag, the bisexual pride flag and a rainbow feather. Speaking to the Leicester Gazette, Sam said: “Living in a liberal democracy and having the state broadcaster tell you ‘we’re editing how you look’, seems very Orwellian.” Sam described the choice to remove the pins before broadcast as “weird” and “absurd”. He said: “[Censoring] that seemed weird. If I had worn a rainbow shirt, would they have censored that? If the idea is to keep things impartial, where is that line in the sand?” A side by-side image of Sam wearing the pin and with it having been digitally removed. Photograph: supplied Sam contacted the BBC to try to understand why his pins had been edited out. He told the Gazette: “The BBC people said they’d ring me, and I chased them, they just said go to the complaints website and file a complaint there, that’s what I did.” Since then, Sam hasn’t had a response from the BBC as to why his pins were removed. After the episode had aired, Sam noted that his shirt ‘melted’ into itself occasionally, as a result of the editing. Photograph: supplied ## Students believe the decision was made following online transphobia Emmeline was also shocked when she found out that the feather pin she wore was due to be removed from the episode she was in. It was understood by Emmeline that there was online transphobia in response to previous episode of University Challenge, and she had been contacted by the BBC, anticipating support from the broadcaster. When the BBC contacted her, instead of an offer of support, she was told her pin was going to be removed. “At first it was mostly confusion,” she said. “I heard that they had received a lot of nastiness online from people and I thought they were going to call me to say ‘we have support services if needed,’ and that wasn't what I got at all.” Instead, Emmeline was notified that the episodes were going to be delayed. “It was out of left field, I was confused for a while,” she said. “This entire delay has been because of a feather and two badges on a teammate that were basically impossible [for viewers] to see.” Emmeline had expressed her frustrations with the repeated delays from the BBC, spanning from mid-July to early-September. She said: “We were announced on the website and then delayed again, and then announced on the website a second time, and delayed even further. Speaking about the removal, she said: “It takes a lot of time” she said. “Making it [the edit] look good would be even more expensive and time-consuming. It seems like drastically a lot of effort.” ## Join the conversation Our app is more than just a way to keep up – it's a gateway to award-winning journalism and the local community. __Want to support our work?__ Click here for membership__.__ ## Wider criticism on LGBTQ+ support The pins Sam wore during the episode. Photograph: supplied According to leading LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall UK, two in five LGBTQ+ students will hide their identities at university for fear of discrimination. Stonewall has reported that more than 36 per cent of trans students have received hostile conduct from university staff due to their gender identity. Reflecting on the digital removal of the pins, Sam spoke about how disheartening the choice was. He said: “There was maybe like a span of eight years where someone could be uncontroversially out in the open queer – now that’s gone again.” he said. The BBC has also been widely criticised for ‘an attack on the LGBTQ+ community’ by pulling its involvement with the popular show, RuPaul's Drag Race. The broadcaster pulled its involvement in September following “significant financial pressures” as the reason for axing their involvement. The criticism follows another recent controversial edit by the BBC. On its hit show, Strictly Come Dancing, a decision was made to edit out ‘Protect the Dolls’ from contestant Bethany Antonia’s T-shirt. It’s a slogan which has become widely used to support the rights of trans women. The BBC defended their decision, saying the changes were made to meet editorial guidelines. It comes as the LGBTQ+ community has faced challenges amid an increasingly less tolerant political climate. ## What the BBC had to say When we asked them about editing out the pins worn by Leicester’s University Challenge team, a BBC spokesperson said: “In line with our editorial guidelines, we advise that no badges, flags, and emblems or symbols are worn or visible during filming, along with clothing with obvious branding or slogans. If such items are not removed for any reason then a decision is made between the programme makers and the BBC regarding any edits to the programme.” The BBC said the delays to the episode were unrelated to the decision to edit out the pins. 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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews
@thatdocphoenix.com

cf HLew and her “imperial overreach”: activists go too far, so cutting rights and tolerance must be pursued

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social

so they invent this mythical figure of the trans activist—very radical, very powerful, utterly illiberal—sepeperate from 'ordinary' trans people they're the ones who went too far, who provoked all of this, left sensible centrists like them no choice but to speak out

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews
@thatdocphoenix.com

Reactionary centrists like to compare the “activist”/“TRA” boogeyman with Islamists vs ordinary Muslims. Except every trans person is de facto treated as an activist, even the ones who never fight for more than their own individual rights to survive

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Toby Buckle
@polphilpod.bsky.social

every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist but it's never enough for them to get off the train

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here!
@scriblit.bsky.social

Woof, not two "how DAAAARE this adult woman cut off contact with her parent, this is the latest thing to get in a moral panic about" stories in a row where it turned out the cut-off parent was extremely fucking noncey

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flyingrodent
@flyingrodent.bsky.social

We might laugh at this or stare at it in pure disbelief but yes, this is the reactionary mind on display here. The smartypants people calling me a witless ignoranus on social media are in fact a globe-bestriding tyrannical elite that must be destroyed. Like Godzilla, but worse.

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Nancy Kelley
@nancymk.bsky.social

Here is the BMA saying "we were worried about the FWS case, warned you about the potential health risks associated with the proposed Code of Practice, and now you have gone ahead and implemented policies that will cause serious harm to trans patients and staff' www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

bma.org.ukSTATEMENT: NHS guidance on the provision of single-sex services and facilitiesThe BMA has responded to the NHS Guidance on single-sex services and facilities

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John C
@badsocialism.bsky.social

Replying to @badsocialism.bsky.social

Our enemies will always act like thugs and gangsters, because that's their entire goal. It is far more dangerous that supposed progressives talk like Neo Nazis and revel in the right to use their own hard R words and say Zio as if it wasn't coined by David Duke

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews
@thatdocphoenix.com

1) it’s not an LLM 2) I too can look at a photo of someone who looks older than their age because of smoking, drinking, substance abuse, poor nutrition, ill health and/or trauma and more than randomly be able to state they are more likely to die earlier than younger-looking peers

The Guardian@theguardian.com

New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests

theguardian.comNew AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggestsSystem can estimate a person’s biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photograph Doctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict a cancer patient’s chances of survival from a single photograph of their face. The AI system was custom-built by experts at Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit, integrated academic healthcare system in Massachusetts, to estimate biological age and directly predict survival outcomes in patients diagnosed with cancer. Continue reading...

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Tom Roberts
@tpgroberts.bsky.social

Said this to a friend earlier, but the most upsetting detail might be that the implication is that his cocktail ranking goes: 1) Pina Colada 2) Negroni 3) Margarita A ranking with no coherence in taste, flavour profile, or spirit...

Daniel McElroy@danielmcelroy0.bsky.social

Amol Rajan’s membership tiers…that is scandalous.

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Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Reasonably clear now that Crown Prince Bone Saw was the man behind an industrial espionage caper at Open AI that aimed to grab their essential secrets. www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-open...

cbsnews.comEx-OpenAI engineer accused of planting bug in office was in contact with Saudi royal family, preparing to leave U.S.The wife and infant son of the ex-OpenAI engineer left the U.S. for Saudi Arabia in October with business-class tickets purchased by a Saudi military official, prosecutors allege.

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Keyne
@keyne-unable.bsky.social

Replying to @keyne-unable.bsky.social

It's so strange and exhausting living through years of codes and policies whose implementation is on the horizon, and the slow and deliberately quiet rollout into actual practice. So much effort has been put into minimising them, denying us even a focal point for anger, sorrow, catharsis.

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews
@thatdocphoenix.com

It’s my mum’s birthday the day after mine and both birthdays are this week, so the no/low contact with parents discourse is a lot (my dad is long dead and we were no contact before that)

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James Ball
@jamesrball.com

Also: if Putin gets all of the Donbas, there is very little between there and Kyiv. Putin is well aware of that. Ukraine is well aware of that. Trump either doesn't know or doesn't care. It doesn't much matter which.

Anders Puck Nielsen@anderspucknielsen.dk

Putin has never said that he will agree to a peace agreement if he gets the rest of Donbas. What Putin has said is that if Ukraine gives him he get the rest of Donbas, then he will be willing to begin negotiations about the rest of Russia's conditions for peace.

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Nicole Bedera
@nbedera.bsky.social

I have seen a bunch of moms sharing this with comments about how moms are doing their best. I say this as gently as I can: you’re falling for it.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews
@thatdocphoenix.com

Writing IS thinking. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. Making them cogent, legible and persuasive is hard

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social

When you write up your findings, part of what you are doing is giving yourself a moment to reflect on it, to spot things you might have missed and develop further ideas! None of this should be a surprise to you!

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Jamie
@jdodger4.bsky.social

Had political journos done their jobs, this rampant racism from a conspiratorial transphobe wouldn’t be news to them and could’ve maybe prevented this washed up bigot from being part of the legislature.

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social

Fairly open racism and far right talking points from someone who is, last time I checked, a Conservative peer.