Tom Coates

These bits too?

“I was startled to discover just how similar the fuckery aimed at 1990s lesbians was to the dehumanizing tactics trans people are facing today”

this piece reminds me of Yvonne Zipter’s “Diamonds are a Dyke’s Best Friend,” which quotes this June 1986 Chicago Sun-Times article (and many like it)

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Hang on, I thought AI’s were going to create unfathomably riches for everyone involved?! Beyond the dreams of avarice?! And they can’t get someone to invest and help them remunerate copyright holders? Weird.
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BREAKING

IRS Commissioner Billy Long was fired hours after he refused to furnish additional confidential taxpayer information on suspected undocumented immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security.

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I honestly don’t know whether that matters particularly for it being embarassing. Also, he’s putting all those little bits of gold filigree on every surface he can find as well. Do you know if they’re “real” inasmuch as that means anything.

This is genuinely embarrassing shit.

I liked it! Did you guys not like it?!

It’s weird that his term was only two years long versus the hundreds of years for Reagan and Bush. But you know, checks out. History right.

100% the best. ChatGPT awesome for history. I would have voted for Bill Chirten.

These are the best

So we can’t use any public bathrooms without fear of harassment.

We can’t play sports.

We can’t serve in the military.

We cant have jobs where we might make someone uncomfortable.

We’re not even allowed to be mentioned by swaths of organizations.

But sure. No discrimination to be seen here.

Harvard has sent some signals it is willing to work with the Trump administration, including last month when The Harvard Crimson reported that websites for Harvard College centers serving minority and LGBTQ students and women disappeared. The White House welcomed that development, viewing it as a goodwill gesture that one official described as "good news." McMahon last month also pointed to the departure of the heads of the university's Middle Eastern Studies center as a positive step.

These people are just fucking evil.

A grey sign with white writing stands in front of an old tree. The sign reads: I am very old and need to rest. Please don't sit on me

Just another relatable National Trust sign

Andrew Cuomo & @andrewcuomo In case you forgot, l'm Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @ZohranKMamdani This is a two man race. You look tired already. It's just the second round. 2:40 PM • 8/8/25 • 14K Views

Is Andrew Cuomo having a nervous breakdown?

Look, these tools are amazing in lots of ways. But if you’re gonna pitch and sell or foist them on the world by saying “This is your PhD level genius expert buddy you can ask things in natural language”, don’t get all pissy when it comically bombs tasks people reasonably think of as trivial.

ChatGPT’s Male British accent is this weird combination of cockney and public school.

Smithsonian restores Trump to impeachment display in American history museum The National Museum of American History removed a placard describing the president's two impeachments last week. The new text makes minor changes -- and offers slightly less detail.

Breaking news: The Smithsonian restored President Trump to an impeachment display in the National Museum of American History but made slight changes.

The restoration comes after The Post reported that Trump had been removed from the exhibit’s temporary sign.

Fuck these people. I will never vote for them again.

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

The Times understands that the guidance is still being finalised and it will not decree that services have to provide single-sex spaces, but that if they do - for example if a lavatory is intended for women - transgender women would be excluded from using it. To allow someone of the opposite sex to use the facilities would be very likely to amount to unlawful discrimination. It will also make clear that it will not be deemed as discrimination to exclude trans people from those facilities and that services will be allowed to request birth certificates to ensure single-sex services are protected.

It read: "A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own biological sex might be to prevent alarm or distress for other service users. "A trans man might be excluded from the women-only service if the service provider decides that, because he presents as a man, other service users could reasonably object to his presence, and it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to exclude him".

EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex:

“A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.”
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They’re the ONLY people you should date.

Fecking brilliant.

@natogreen.bsky.social

The people who leave the country are the ones who will get vaccinated.

I did consider posting Canada as an option afterwards. The general point is the same though. Developed co-operative nations should take on both the responsibility and the opportunities that are the consequence of Trump and RFKs stupidity.

If I were a European leader or pharmaceutical company, I’d be looking at how to get every single MRNA vaccine researched over there ASAP.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man

please invite your archaeologist friends here

By devoting over 7 times more coverage to Sydney Sweeney than the Epstein scandal, Fox continues to lean into cultural rage bait to avoid covering stories detrimental to the Trump administration.

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