Ethel Weapon

Ethel Weapon

@lousadzak.bsky.social

Exhilarated absurdist. Against nature. Music fiend. Physical media appreciator. Trans and trapped in England. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

1,830 Followers 1,438 Following 5,406 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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LP cover 
VIRTUOSO SAW
DAVID WEISS with members of the
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

Mr Aweiss, a bearded man in formal attire including a white bow tie, has a large Stanley Handyman saw clutched in one hand, and a violin bow in the other

Another successful morning’s foraging in the grime pits of Lancashire #vinyl #NowPlaying

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Bright yellow keys in a computer keyboard that also has miniature plastic ducks glued in a row above the top set of the keys and inbetween other keys where there are gaps.

“I wanted a keyboard that quacked but it was too expensive. So we compromised” said the lady at the counter

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just a smol bean, sooo harshly treated for wearing out my boot leather in the tranny-kicking mines

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They wouldn’t even let trans people speak. They trampled all over the intent of lawmakers. They trampled all over Goodwin vs UK.

If contempt is a form of hatred, then hatred is emblazoned here.

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*Coupland dammit

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IIRC Douglas Copland made this “joke” in Microserfs (1995) where he put it in the mouth of Alice Cooper

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You are conflating generic terms (hypernymy) with abstractions in programming.

The imprecision this brings is the point.

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The Bermuda Triangle episode, presumably

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An abstraction removes you from the underlying implementation details, but is still well-defined.

Generating black box code by feeding NL phrases into the machine is a very far cry from that.

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a man in a lab coat is standing in front of a display case with a face on it that says moisturise me Alt: Cassandra from Dr Who, an animate piece of skin in a frame, with a face, says "moisturise me, moisturise me!" while being sprinkled with water
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So "blue passports" don't actually fill the aching void huh

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Natural language is not at a "higher abstraction level" than code. Any more than it is of mathematical notation, musical notation, or dance notation.

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The "Fried Squid" card which you see flashed for a second has "Not to be used as a Fraud Squad card" on it...

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Vibe coding is eval() level evil

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There’s an important difference between abstraction and vagueness.

The levels of hierarchy in an object oriented system demonstrate abstraction. Using a few words of natural language to provide an imprecise spec does not.

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Missing Doctor Who Recovered!

The Film is Fabulous! team are pleased to announce the recovery of two missing episodes of Doctor Who, from the serial entitled, ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’:

The Nightmare Begins (Broadcast: 13th Nov 1965)
Devil’s Planet (Broadcast: 27th Nov 1965)

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Zack Polanski blames both Conservative and Labour governments for regression in trans rights (EXCLUSIVE) Zack Polanski pointed to Conservative and Labour governments, saying there has been an “acceleration of that regression," at Trans Mission.

"It’s particularly horrendous to me when you have someone from within our own community who demonises a minority group. I don’t know what’s going on in Wes Streeting’s head, but what I do know is it’s terrifying for trans people,” he said.

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

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It was never about evidence of efficacy or safety, systematic reviews, or concerns for regret. All of it was pretense to fool gullible liberals into joining on the trans elimination project. They don't want us to exist. You cannot compromise with that.

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NHS 'capitulating' to anti-trans lobby, policy expert says NHS England has been accused of 'capitulating' to anti-trans pundits and campaigners after it banned hormone prescriptions for trans teens.

NHS ‘capitulating’ to anti-trans lobby, policy expert says

www.thepinknews.com/...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Here's the star spangled roster for the famously banging disco'd LGB Alliance conference in April, btw

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So was Alfred Rosenberg

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The Matter Of “Material Girls” Conspiracy Theory In Anti-Trans Philosophy

If you are rallying behind the flag of Kathleen Stock, your ability to recognize a coherent argument seems highly questionable

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Breaking News graphic: “Top EU court rules all EU states must provide legal gender recognition to their citizens who moved to another EU country.” Background resembles the trans pride flag.

🧵 We welcome today’s judgement from the Court of Justice of the EU saying that all EU Member States must provide legal gender recognition procedures to their citizens who exercised their right to move and reside in another EU Member State.

Stay tuned for more information!
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

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A subject on which she has what might charitably be called pre-modern views

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This is like being a chemist that eschews chemical formulae and works only with alchemical recipes.

Natural language is not a “higher level abstraction”, just a less precise form of expression.

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The mantra of “best interests” is also woven through the extremely transphobic draft schools guidance. Including, even, that not allowing transition may be in the “best interests” of other people

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Love that film!

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“an assisted death might be the right choice” is probably just Kathleen contemplating trans lives

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Your letter was only the start of it

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