David Howell

They're arguably governing closer to Reform than the Greens, so...

And if the question was "is there a retained advantage from unwanted male puberty that survives post-HRT?" then the very fact she was competing post-transition in an Oops! All Times sport made her an ideal n=1 sample for exactly that!

I thought I was (almost, at least) the only one who's had that happen to me!!

I love seeing this! Funnily enough as I was thinking about trans voices in general and recalled you telling me about the affirmation you found in how "Patrick (Stump) is totally my range" 😂

Since everyone is rightly shitting all over FIFA + Infantino for the awful Trump spectacle, it’s time to also highlight their depravity in partnering w/Saudi Aramco (world’s #1 oil firm) and giving 2034 World Cup to 🇸🇦 (absolute monarchy that harshly oppresses women + LGBTQ+, abuses/kills opponents).

Beyond offering simple services to estimate your age, Persona's exposed code compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media from mentions of terrorism to espionage, and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs consisting of public-private partnerships to combat online child exploitative material, cannabis trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, romance fraud, money laundering, and illegal wildlife trade. Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches, such as by matching your face to politically exposed persons (PEPs), and generating risk and similarity scores for each individual. IP addresses, browser fingerprints, device fingerprints, government ID numbers, phone numbers, names, faces, and even selfie backgrounds are analyzed and retained for up to three years.

Like whatever the average normie Discord user THINKS age verification looks like behind the curtain, I promise you this is not it.

A visual from WPRI that says "TRAVEL CONDITIONS: TONIGHT AND MONDAY." Below is a schedule showing three-hour intervals from 6 p.m. to 12 p.m. The first is labeled "FAIR." The second is labeled "POOR." The following five are labeled "TERRIBLE."

This feels like a meme template.

Jesus, really?

Come on, Substack people, get off that fetid pile of trash, now.

If you see this post a monster

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Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove 4 bedroom detached house for sale in Blackcroft Lodge, Daviot, Inverness, Highland, IV2 for £950,000. Marketed by Bell Ingram, Highland

This is lovely!

Here's a British... Not exactly equivalent but it has something of the same energy and just the "has a huge basement ready to renovate" makes me dream of it because I would turn that into the Shiny Bat Cave www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

a man wearing sunglasses and a black shirt is dancing in front of a black background and says you . Alt: Soulja Boy dancing, pointing fingers down denoting "YOUUUUUUUUUU"

Fascists shitting on body autonomy: "why is nobody having sex?"
People recognising the actual consequences of these actions:

That is quite a Stimmy pattern whatever else it is!
(Responding in autistic ace-spectrum 😂)

Arguably there's now a three-way split on the court:
The fascist judges (Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh)
The anti-fascist judges (Jackson, Sotomayor, Kagan)
The stonks judges (Roberts, Gorsuch, Barrett)

a man with his arms crossed stands in front of a stock chart with the word stonks on it Alt: A man in shirt and tie with his arms crossed stands in front of a mess of numbers representing stock prices, over which is superimposed an upward-pointing arrow and "stonks," and sticks his thumb up.

Three-way split on the court: the actual justices, the ones who vote for whatever Orange Fascist wants, and the ones who vote for whatever they think helps line go up

(But learning to belt was definitely a gamechanger in that regard, it was just tricky because between my anxiety over hurting my voice and the Bat Problems with being as loud as I needed to be...)

I don't have an answer but it feels wild to me as an elder Millennial that this answer isn't "basically everyone?" because it certainly felt like absolutely everyone in the 2000s! To the point that I think it distorted my own perception of my voice...

I know it's beating a dead horse, but this is why they like AI so much, and why generative AI is a tool of fascism. It takes the aesthetics of culture developed by actual creatives and bastardizes it to suit their own depraved worldview. They can never create because they hate the act of creation

I feel like whatever winter sport you tried your hand at your biggest sticking point might be the problem of having to deal with the entire competition area being bright white #BatuallyAutistic

Are you a school or university that is having budget shortages? Guess what: You can stop paying for AI.

Really.

Tighten that belt.

Oof.

I'm also reminded of the cellist Janet Horvath, forced to quit orchestral music due to hyperacusis in a story that makes me sob in bat-eared sympathy every time I remember it archive.is/u27pI

It's also absolute Batnip on the orchestration side too of course, a framing made apparent when the instrumental appeared on the BBC Dead Duke Radio 1 playlist

If I'd done a themed group for Tom's second charity poll the theme would probably have been "different framing of sexualised low female voices" and this would very likely have been in it for its "played so blankly straight as to be as satirical as you want it to be" take on this

I agonised over my list so hard I can now only submit it as a list, but if I had it ready this was earmarked for Day 1 on the basis of "a 2010s list can't not start with an immense digital hook"

I think I (sportsball person not comics person despite otherwise emphatic geek-not-jock tendency) knew of the Guice pronunciation solely through vaguely remembering an NFL player with that name a few years ago!

(Tagging @jonarnold.bsky.social for the overlap here)

And it's beyond time they stopped

Definitely intrigued by viola one, given presence of writing opportunities I have for voice and viola 🖤

You could make an entire thread of contenders out of the silliness of H.P. Baxxter alone, but this might be the best (and "Does The Fish Have Chips?" is one of the underrated Scooter tracks beyond that IMO, and adds "Song 2" to the also-immense Scooter Magpie Playlist)

"screen time screen time screen time screeeeEEEEEEEE" before the smartphone, kids were so bored they'd play with explosives, vandalize local infrastructure and harass old people for entertainment.

I feel similarly and sometimes end up being loud as self-regulation in noisy environments anyway - e.g. when game shows were my big special interest I used to go to recordings and I'd always be one of the loudest in the audience, to the point of sometimes being picked out for praise by crew 😂

The drone sounds in the Olympic coverage is really setting off my bat twitching! Not cool (winter pun intended) #AutChat