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Perfect title for the Epstein emails TBH

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🧵 THREAD: We’ve just filed for judicial review of the NPCC’s transgender search guidance. Here’s why.

Today we filed a judicial review claim challenging the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) over its new Interim Transgender Search Guidance.
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Hopefully most people will recognize these as scams but if you get a DM from "Bluesky" saying that your account was suspended and you need to click on some skeezy link to reinstate it, that is not how any of this works. You can report that account for impersonation.

Yessss

Yeah. It would solve so many problems! But god forbid we teach people about risks and help them make good choices, instead of pretending the risky activities only affect Those Bad People Over There

Yeahh, I see some of them

I can see why people might have had a knee-jerk reaction, if they don't know your general stance on this kind of ban

But they really did zoom past the actual words you said, huh

Yeah. Like, banning choking porn is not going to help anyone and will actively cause more harm

But we can argue against the ban without downplaying the risks involved in breath play.

As with most porn bans, my stance here is 'what if we tackled this issue by improving sex ed instead'

We’re taking on the EHRC interim guidance in court After more than six months of disruption unleashed by the EHRC’s guidance, we’re arguing at the High Court that it is legally flawed.

We're in court today and tomorrow, taking on the EHRC's (now withdrawn) interim guidance, issued in haste following the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.

In accordance with our general practice, we are publishing the Skeleton Arguments of the Parties. goodlaw.social/h3nw

So sometimes I use chrome's read aloud function to listen to a text article while I work...
Just tried. Its fucking AI.. its AWFUL. It doesnt even read the article its like trying to summarise it and have two fake ai voices have a conversation about the article?!

This is bad on SO many levels.

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This is fascinating to me, because Oh Boy do I have internal thoughts

Doing a symptom diary for my PIP application has really hammered home how much time I waste on non-optionally Having Thoughts when I need to be Doing Things. Hours every day

I'm sure there are also upsides, but it sure is A Lot

*was considered a fast reader, once they realised I was in fact reading and not just looking at the pictures

After another child was like "*I* can read that book to you" and told me some absolute nonsense story they made up

And I was like "no actually it says this, give the book back thanks" 😂

It explained a lot! I was considered a fast reader in primary school, but as I got older I found that other 'fast readers' were getting through books way faster than I could and I couldn't understand why.

I still slow down to read fiction though, often. It's nice to hear the characters' voices

It wasn't until a couple of years ago, when people were talking about 'bionic reading' on social media, that I realised not everyone is like this

And then I tried moving my eyes over the words without hearing the sounds in my head, and found that to be faster

Yeah I have also been thinking about this today

I definitely never 'sounded out' the words aloud – I never read aloud unless teachers actively insisted, and did not find it helpful

But my default way of reading is to read each word to myself in my head, so I 'hear' it there instead

(going off my memory of Content Design, Second Edition by Sarah Winters. I can probably dig out references, if you would be interested)

Teaching people to read via the cueing method might also contribute to bad social media misunderstandings though! Just, there are other factors too

People do also read differently online compared to when they're reading off paper, though

There are eye tracking studies that show this. When reading online, people's unconscious eye movements tend to skim down the first few words of each line rather than landing on every word.

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

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Oliver is a good friend and could really use the help if you can offer it.

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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down

What if you don't, though

What if we kick the fascists out before they can do their worst

What if there are treatments coming that we don't know exist yet, and those help us to recover

What if things are tough for a while, but we look after each other and make it through, banged-up but alive

Yeah no that makes sense

And I can see how 'well, *this* pro-Palestine guy thinks Hitler was right' could easily be used in bad faith to discredit pro-Palestine coverage in general

...Christ, what a world

Ah, hm. Yeah that's fair