[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
[Ends]
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Cela étant dit, malheureusement je pense que d'ici relativement peu de temps ça deviendra basiquement impossible de les distinguer sans contexte. Le progrès a été fulgurant en à peine quelques années. :/
04.03.2026 13:19 —
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Le premier réflexe c'est de vérifier avec SynthID : Google ajoute un watermark à tout ce que ses propres IAs génèrent, donc ça élimine cette possibilité.
Ensuite, je conseille de traîner sur les subreddits dédiés (comme r/isthisAI), il y a pas mal de gens expérimentés et on y apprend des astuces
04.03.2026 13:19 —
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A moins que ça n'ait changé récemment, il me semble que ce type de détecteur est beaucoup trop peu fiable pour être utile (plus proche du hasard qu'autre chose).
04.03.2026 13:19 —
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There's no "event" as such that prompted a backlash. It was all a coordinated political strategy by people with money and a reactionary agenda.
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It's a few things. In the US, conservative groups lost the battle for gay marriage, and decided to switch their target to trans people, in order to "weaken the LGBT coalition". Meanwhile, affirmative care became dominant at WPATH, which pushed conversion therapists to ally with transphobic parents.
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Figures from the transphobic parents community and well known conversion therapists built structures such as SEGM and Genspect. They quickly met with the aforementioned conservative groups (such as ADF) and that's how they got most of their funding. They also created an international network.
26.02.2026 16:38 —
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It's a few things. In the US, conservative groups lost the battle for gay marriage, and decided to switch their target to trans people, in order to "weaken the LGBT coalition". Meanwhile, affirmative care became dominant at WPATH, which pushed conversion therapists to ally with transphobic parents.
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25.02.2026 13:18 —
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Némésis s'organise avec des néonazis pour agresser des militants de gauche à Lyon
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/OvH
23.02.2026 15:15 —
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I Never Thought The Leopards Would Eat My Face, sobs woman who wrote innumerable opinion columns about how there were reasonable concerns about how regulations banning leopards eating people’s faces endangered women
19.02.2026 13:36 —
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Well akshually, c'est le Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste L'Anticapitaliste, avec un "L'" ! 🤓 Du nom de leur organe de presse
18.02.2026 20:43 —
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Cass met with people from SEGM. She's not "repeating GC disinformation", she's helping spreading it. It's not that she doesn't understand, she knows exactly what she's doing.
16.02.2026 16:15 —
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J'pense c'est pas un soucis. Et essaye de te prévoir une prise de sang.
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sisyphe est un socdem
12.02.2026 19:33 —
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i actually think housing and health care are more important than AI girlfriends and butlers for society's biggest unfuckable losers
08.02.2026 13:09 —
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If I had a nickel every time in the past week a random Youtuber I follow released a one hour thirty minute long video, the last 30 minutes of which dedicated to talking about fascism after one hour spent on their usual preferred topic, I'd have two nickels. Which is great in this economy!
03.02.2026 19:51 —
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Ok ok Adam Neely I wasn't familiar with your game
03.02.2026 19:46 —
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Jeez, what a synopsis: nikolakoletic.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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Extrait de l'article : "« Acculées par l’exclusion, la précarité… »
« Faire du suicide un droit est un danger. Rien ne pourra freiner l’extension du dispositif à toujours plus de malades », affirme l’avocate Elisa Rojas, du FGA. Des personnes malades et handicapées « se dirigeront vers cette mort médicalisée parce qu’elles sont acculées par l’exclusion, la précarité, l’absence d’accès aux soins », craint-elle.
L’aide à mourir sera « la demande la plus simple et la plus rapide à laquelle elles auront accès », estime-t-elle, rappelant que le texte prévoit un délai de réflexion de deux jours pour confirmer une demande d’aide à mourir. « Or il faut six mois pour obtenir une consultation dans un centre antidouleur et jusqu’à dix mois pour que soit traitée une demande » de financement d’une aide à domicile, souligne-t-elle."
Je parlais des dossiers MDPH pour les demandes d'aides humaines, techniques, financières, et dont les délais de traitement peuvent aller jusqu'à 10 mois dans certains département.
22.01.2026 17:22 —
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Il y a 8 ans, en janvier 2018, je trouvais aux Archives nationales d'Outre-Mer un fichier comportant 1500 noms d'Algériens et d'Algériennes enlevés par l'armée française en 1957 et 1958 à Alger et dont les familles ou les avocats étaient allés demander des nouvelles à la préfecture d'Alger.
22.01.2026 12:58 —
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A child in a blue hat stands near a vehicle during an ICE raid.
The text of the Facebook post that accompanied the photo.
Sharing this report of ICE depravity from Facebook at the request of community member. This is from a suburb north of ICE-occupied Minneapolis.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
21.01.2026 17:45 —
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Inventing the trans version of blood libel and groomer panic, laundered by way of a pseudoscientific paper that literally surveyed parents of trans kids posting on anti-trans websites was a big part of it! From Littman to Cass, the appearance of scientific debate on transition has been weaponized.
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Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her.
This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.
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[COMMUNIQUE] VENEZUELA : le PETROLE dans le VISEUR de l'IMPERIALISME !
[COMMUNIQUE] VENEZUELA : le PETROLE dans le VISEUR de l'IMPERIALISME !
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chart header reads: Fields Under Fire. Some research fields have been heavily affected by grant terminations implemented by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) under President Donald Trump. More than half of the active, NIH-funded projects about gender and sexual minorities (LGBT+) have been cancelled.
chart #1 shows that 50.6% of grants containing the terms "LGBT/LGBTQ/LGBTQ+" in the title or abstract were terminated.
chart #2 shows that 45.8% of grants containing the term "transgender" in the title or abstract were terminated.
chart #3 shows that 45.5% of grants containing the term "vaccine hesitancy" in the title or abstract were terminated.
chart #4 shows that 3.4% of grants containing the terms "HIV" or "AIDS" in the title or abstract were terminated.
since it's behind a paywall now, I wanted to share this graph from "How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts" (Nature, April 2025). Say it with me: the anti-trans/LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-science movement:
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
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Je dirais a minima de demander un témoignage écrit à la voisine. La main courante c'est toujours possible, j'en attendrais pas grand grand chose mais ça coûte rien, je pense que le plus important c'est le témoignage.
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