Myles Corcoran (he/him)

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal."

Which is true for trans kids too.

We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.

Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up Dec 07 2018 • Written by Sofia Lotto Persio

Swimmer Riley Gaines Admits She's Just Using Sports to Make Trans Rights "Crumble"

Helen Joyce reveals plans to use fears around trans kids as stepping stone to eliminate "trans" in public life by Mallory Moore & transsafety.network

right wing bigots have admitted

- the “trans women in bathrooms” issue

- the “trans women in sports” issue and

- the “trans kids getting surgery” issue

were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY

are you paying attention?

True in Cork too. It's two more cars on red pretty much every time now.

Hudson likes their pumpkin.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

And they're letting me be in charge of it - I have the Big Hat* this year. I'm very excited, and looking forward to everything we can do with Octocon this coming year.

[* It's a real hat.]

Collection of books sold by Liz Bourke

Collection of books sold by Luz Bourke. Liz Bourke sits behind the table who has short hair and a pink medical mask.

Make sure you swing by Liz Bourke. 2 euro per hardback, 1 euro per soft back!

#Octocon #Octocon2025 #Fantasy #SciFi #ReadingCommunity

EARTH MUST DIE

Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE

Please RETWEET and WISHLIST

#Speirgorm, we need to email about this, because it's really genuinely appallingly stupid and bad and at the moment Ireland's in support of it. #Ireland #IrishBluesky

Something lurking in the space, breathing in the gasoline fumes and grabbing late night drivers who pull up to fill the tank, then sending away the human husk to drive away, endlessly.

Important thread - please read & share… 👇🏻

"I asked ChatGPT" is never a valid answer, unless the question was how to have a good laugh.

I've written to my MEPs about why I'm against the over-reaching EU Chat Control proposal. I hope you can do the same.

fightchatcontrol.eu#delegates

You should stop using LLMs and generative “A.i.” This trash tech is a tool of fascism.

At least most modern LLMs are too hyperbolic and needily sycophantic to mistaken for ASD writers.

Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one.

If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia

how quickly we went from age verification for pornography sites, to social media, to search engines. a reminder that, yet again, it is essential to listen to sex workers when they raise concerns about how technology is being tested on them.

"You're not a bad guy, Nish."

Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.

Hear, hear!

When a company with more money than god resorts to this instead of hiring an artist or putting together a photo shoot, it really drives home how much gen ai is about consolidating wealth

👁️ Je profite de l'affiche de ce film que je n'irai pas voir pour montrer rapidement quelques éléments permettant de repérer une image créée (entièrement, ou partiellement) à l'aide d'une #IA.

Et comment ces éléments sont en train de créer une culture de "l'image bizarre". #IAcrap

👇👇👇

Aldi quietly scrubbed its careers website of all DE&I initiatives According to one employee on Reddit, information on Aldi’s DE&I efforts is now only visible on the company’s internal employee website/portal.

NOOOOOOO!!!!

fortune.com/2025/01/31/a...

Damn the Introverts wall in #OnlyConnect was a nightmare.

Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights

After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights

If it quacks like a Nazi, punch it like a Nazi.

Cass Review.

New article in the New England Journal of Medicine, founded in 1812 and amongst the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. Its 2023 impact factor was 96.2, ranking it 2nd out of 168 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal".