Laura Bradley

This is rape culture

Surprising no one Cassandra-ing about AI in K-12 education: "[tools like MagicSchool, Khanmingo, Curipod, and Google Gemini for Education] could also promote bias in lesson planning and classroom management recommendations."

One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!

Comic. PERSON 1 [to person with white hat]: It’s so weird reading these 18th Century scholars argue about minor Biblical details. It’s like they’re an online fandom or something—They’ve developed this whole elaborate canon. [caption] It’s fun when a word’s usage goes full circle and, by analogy, lands back on its original meaning.

Canon

xkcd.com/3123/

Every NI drag queen doing storytime events should just set up a new character name specifically for those events where they advertise it as "in the style of May McFettridge" and just do their usual storytime act so Gordon Lyons is forced to outlaw panto

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

Reluctantly putting aside environmental/IP concerns and ethics of using constituency comms to train plagiarism machine-
Even within last week there's been reports of genAI reinforcing distorted thinking and encouraging people towards suicide. It is not and cannot be a safe tool for people in crisis.

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

It makes no sense to frame this as some sort of correction — adequate nutrition is more important for kids with health conditions, not less.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

Everything is exhausting but this evening our Call of Cthulhu Keeper brought in individually printed library cards for each of us for the new scenario, to be signed with fountain pen, and it's important to enjoy the small things.

Really struggle with the idea that recognising Palestine is being treated like a way to try and moderate Israel's conduct - the diplomatic equivalent of a threat to send a naughty child to bed early if they don't behave properly - rather than the inalienable right of an entire nation of people.

wonder if decades of mocking media studies as a Mickey Mouse subject has anything to do with this at all

Fun fact - if you use slurs in front of people from a marginalised group and they don't complain that's not actually them agreeing with you using them.

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

In "Legitimate Concerns" news.

41% of the 899 arrested for taking part in Farage Riots last year had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence.

For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Government quietly releases multiple disability research reports on the same day… eight days too late for MPs The government has quietly published 12 detailed research reports, nearly all related to disability employment, disability poverty and the benefits system, all on the same day, just eight days afte…

UK government sat on detailed research, including reports into disability employment, poverty and benefits, then quietly published them *after* MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year cuts to disability benefits

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-q...

Essential reporting from @johnpring.bsky.social

Kitty!

Time for ATLA/LOK rewatch to get ready for Pavi.

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

“Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!”

What I'm reading here is that if you want your concerns addressed you shouldn't throw paint on planes or march peacefully, you should set fire to things and riot.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

Twitter screenshot of @SNeurotypicals: Neurodivergent screening tests will be like "do you struggle with wearing socks" and ND people will be like "nope does not describe me, for you see I have a System" and folks that is what the question is getting at

Aha, found it

UK border officials to use AI to verify ages of child asylum seekers Trial of technology comes as official report warns existing system has been failing for at least a decade

Given what we know about AI reproducing existing racial bias, and the inaccurate and racist results of facial recognition technology, this has to be there with the worst proposals the Home Office has ever made, and believe me, the bar is high

If someone is explicitly discriminatory, there is a 0% chance that they are not also implicitly discriminatory in their work.

(I am soft) I have long said that I
I would simply never let a teenager take a tournament/cup penalty because it's always brutal to miss but wee ones don't need that as a core memory. 🙁 (Harder when your first five takers only score two mind) #SweEng

Blade Runner: Are you a replicant?

Suspect: Um — no

Blade Runner: Hey! That pause was an em dash

Interacting meant talking, and eye contact. I could already feel my performance capacity dropping.

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

Of The Empire by Mary Oliver We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Of the Empire
by Mary Oliver

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Absolutely no one’s forcing anyone to buy queer books they don’t want to buy, but quite a lot of people with a lot of power are literally banning queer books from libraries, bookstores, curricula, so maybe fuck all the way off with this slimy hand-wringing bullshit & fix your fucking hearts

“Let’s give mechahitler a body” is the plot of a terrible movie not a business plan