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Cormorant enthusiast and software tester. You can call me Veerle (pronounced 'fearless' without the ss). Alt txt: profile pic me giving the horns on a white unicorn statue. Banner a cormorant with its wings spread in the sun.

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Zack Polanski on how Keir Starmer could have changed the April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling to protect trans rights (EXCLUSIVE) Zack Polanski revealed how Keir Starmer could have acted to protect trans rights after April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling.

It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people.

They’re failing to do that.

Trans people deserve safety and dignity.

www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

16.02.2026 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1711    πŸ” 474    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 34
Zack and his boyfriend on the red carpet

Zack and his boyfriend on the red carpet

Really proud to be the LGBT+ Trailblazer of the year.

And so proud of the real trailblazers - like my boyfriend - who works in palliative care.

Our NHS workers, our teachers, our cleaners.

The people who keep our country running.

And LGBT+ History month matters. Representation matters.

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13.02.2026 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1395    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 8

Addresses of new offices within, searchable database about halfway down the page.

10.02.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Psst. Wanna buy a prompt?

Here's one I use often, to good effect:

"Can you explain it purely in terms of LLM mechanics? Please avoid anthropomorphising with words like 'think', 'try', 'reason' or 'plan' "

02.02.2026 09:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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98 Bird species so far this year including 70 at #BrandonMarsh - not big numbers tbh but we've not really been looking too hard, and probably won't....

#Nikon #photography #nature #UKbirds #birds #ukwildlife #ukbirding #wildlife

01.02.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
31.01.2026 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The wrong one unfortunately.

31.01.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Lol, that was my reason for donating to previous fundraisers, because I needed it to stay open until I'd visited. Now that I have, I'll donate to every fundraiser because I saw what a good place it is and I want others to be able to go, too, and I want to go back.

30.01.2026 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I went to the vagina museum for the first time last December. It was great! I tend to think I'm fairly educated on the female anatomy and then I learned I had always called uterine tubes ovaries.

This place is great and important and it needs cash to exist. Throw in a penny if you can.

30.01.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ik vind jou echt gigagoed.

29.01.2026 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Andrew suffered and live commented on the experience so that we don't have to.

Thank you, Andrew.

29.01.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, some good news

29.01.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tamerlane was looking for someone to teach his donkey to talk. Nobody wanted the job. Finally the wise men of the dunes - Hodja Nasreddin took the position and promised to teach the donkey to talk in 10 years time.
- Are you crazy? his friends asked him.
- Not really, Hodja answered, the money is good the job is not hard and in 10 years a lot might happen: I might die, or Tamerlane might die or surely enough this old donkey might die.

Tamerlane was looking for someone to teach his donkey to talk. Nobody wanted the job. Finally the wise men of the dunes - Hodja Nasreddin took the position and promised to teach the donkey to talk in 10 years time. - Are you crazy? his friends asked him. - Not really, Hodja answered, the money is good the job is not hard and in 10 years a lot might happen: I might die, or Tamerlane might die or surely enough this old donkey might die.

A 14th century parable about agentic AI transformation

28.01.2026 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Confusion in gaming disorder measurement Abstract. Measurement is important for the scientific programmes of addictive behaviours. In the present study, we investigated the measurement of gaming d

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧡 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

28.01.2026 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 192    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 20

It's not designed to help us, but to make us unable to think for ourselves and question things. You can't have a democracy without informed citizens. It's time we acknowledge that the people pushing this have no interest in democracy.

I feel we're beyond the point where this is conspiracy thinking

28.01.2026 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.

I have just been alerted to this and it has really brightened my day.

"This wasn’t crowd control. This was panic control. This was the federal government throwing tear gas at a punchline because they couldn’t arrest a joke."

www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-...

27.01.2026 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I need to remind myself that for every fascist pos wanker, there's three absolute champions out there. People are fucking amazing. A lot of people deeply suck but we can't let that bring us down, stay strong Minneapolis you're doing fucking brilliant

27.01.2026 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whoever could have predicted this?!

Oh, right, absolutely fucking everyone. People just didn't give a shit because they could suddenly get their own face in rip off Ghibli style for free and who doesn't want that

19.01.2026 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The hypocrisy is mind-numbing!!!!!!!!

11.01.2026 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Volkskrant, ga echt iets aan je koppen doen.

08.01.2026 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Louvre is the pride of France – and it’s on the verge of collapse. Can we rescue it in time? | AgnΓ¨s Poirier From a jewel heist to crumbling galleries, it’s been a dire year for the world’s most visited museum. At least France has woken up to its predicament, says political commentator AgnΓ¨s Poirier

I think Africa's top museums should acquire all treasures from the Louvre, its clear European institutes like this just aren't up to safeguarding European art

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

30.12.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 725    πŸ” 147    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

"You collectively fucking hate this thing. But what if we told you just one more time, without any new arguments, that you should actually like it?"

16.12.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Starting rumours that AI technology is "female coded" to slowly let the air out of the AI tech bubble

26.11.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hear me out.

This, but for housing

19.11.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Reducing immigration will not necessarily increase the number of jobs available for British people as some employers are responding to tightening immigration rules by increasing outsourcing."

Hey chat I'm starting to think the capitalists in charge never even cared about reducing unemployment

18.11.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hot take - even as a joke, I don't really like the idea of ppl blaming interns for taking down production

Even on the chance it happened to be true (and there are definitely cases where it wasn't an intern), if an intern was able to do that, that's a problem with the processes and systems in place

18.11.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 205    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 6

What a fucking surprise

09.11.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have been ruined by living in the 21st century because I read this as Dream Theater releasing two sex bots

21.10.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

yes but you'd also get 20% of the vote for speaking like a nazi without publicly identifying as one

21.10.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

@volkskrant.nl I rest my godvermaledijde case

19.10.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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