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World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men The International Chess Federation will stop allowing transgender women to participate in women's tournaments. The group said changing genders has a "significant impact" on a player's status.

All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.

Never forgive men for treating programming as a meaningless thing your secretary did while women were inventing and developing the field, then, once they realized it was going to be important, shoving women out of it and claiming only Male Logic Brains could perform it.

I welcome the government’s move to recognise Palestinian statehood, but it must be unconditional and immediate.

In Gaza, Israel is killing one person every 12 minutes, and famine is continuing to mount.

We need sanctions, an arms embargo, and recognition now.

Recognition of the state of Palestine should not be used as a bargaining chip. It should have happened months ago.

We also need far greater action to stop the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, including fully ceasing arms sales and implementing sanctions against the Israeli cabinet.

Rewatching Kaos and, whilst I still assume there's a big asterisk around in what capacity she's gonna be playing the role, Billie Piper really could go hard as the Doctor.

We’re going up to @edfringe.bsky.social this year and currently have nothing booked!

Which amazing shows, other than Sluts With Consoles by @dogmouththeatre.bsky.social should we make sure to check out?

Love a bit of new writing, performance art, and immersive or gig theatre too. Recommend away!

Computing the nine billion names of God on a Raspberry Pi

z80.timholyoake.uk/the-nine-bil...

#SciFi #RetroComputing

Absolutely not a silliness too far!! Lady M doesn't have anywhere near as many speeches as you might expect from her impact on the play but she dominates when she does speak. When I've finished it you'll have to try it and see what you think ;)

I'm having so much fun 😁

The user area of an application, with a crumpled paper background image and cartoony fonts. The nav bar shows two purple buttons ('New Dada!' and 'Log out!') with a welcome header underneath ('Welcome, shakespeare!'). A section displays 'Your saved Dadas', with two listings. The first reads 'Comedy of Errors without Angelo, featuring Hamlet from Hamlet, with the speeches shuffled within each scene'. The second reads 'Macbeth with every speech shuffled'.

Getting closer... 👀

(I'm so excited about this. I think it's the silliest thing I've ever made.)

#DadaShakespeare

“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok”

well, I asked God using TempleOS and I’m still trying to interpret the answer

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

It might not be sweater weather yet but thank god we have one day this week of trouser weather.

all writers secretly wish their closest loved ones would earnestly tell them 'you should write your truth' (instead of what really happens which is, for some reason, your colleagues at your completely banal day job going 'hahaha you should write about this place, that'd make a great story')

I was gonna begrudingly accept that the inclusion of one 'you should write a book about this, June' conversation in the finale of The Handmaid's Tale was earned, but two!! two separate 'wRiTe iT dOWn' scenes!! fucking two!!!

GLORIOUS

Pro-tip: if you're building something to randomise Shakespeare plays, make sure you test it with someone who knows the histories, and will therefore spot immediately that, er, half the characters are (unintentionally) missing. Thanks @realbengilbert.bsky.social!

How to respond to the EHRC consultation Good Law Project has taken advice from a leading public law King’s Counsel on how to respond to the EHRC’s consultation. What follows is a form which, after you complete it, will automatically be sent...

With 38 hrs to go to the EHRC consultation deadline I'm seeing posts from people feeling bad they're too stressed to engage.
The GLP⬇️has removed all but the last step, a general comment box. This is a far easier task. I hope it helps those who want to, to get their voice heard without too much pain.

So humid out there it was like running through soup this morning 🫠

DADA MACBETH (Act One) by Emily Holyoake, after William Shakespeare Play Dada Macbeth here What is Dada Macbeth?It’s a randomised Macbeth experience. Built in Twine, Dada Macbeth will randomise the text and stage d…

Anyway it's called Dada Shakespeare, I'm super excited about it, and it'll build on the ideas I was playing with here (made before I had any knowledge of loops/databases, no wonder I only did Act 1)

emilyholyoake.com/dada-macbeth/

(incidentally/accidentally this was also their first appearance onstage, making it feel like they got transported somehow then immediately had a breakdown because of that)

Fave so far has been:
- shuffle speeches but keep act/scene order intact
- add a character from a second play
- second play has extra scene in Act 3
- added character spends a whole scene talking to themselves

Building an app to randomise the text of Shakespeare plays and it's producing some v entertaining results.

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Image description: A pink graphic line drawing on a white background, showing a figure with a stick and a backpack climbing a hill, beyond this hill the landscape has flattened out, with a pink gem-shaped logo for the Chronically ill Artists Network in the corner, and #ClimbingTinyMountains at the bottom. Black text in speech marks reads: “Fluctuation is not unreliability. It’s a reality of our lives. Planning with care makes it manageable”.

Access isn’t optional. It’s not a ‘nice to have’. It’s a right. If your event, residency or opportunity isn’t accessible to chronically ill artists, then it’s not for all artists. 🧵(1/3)

#ClimbingTinyMountains #ChronicallyillArtistsNetwork #CIAN #DisabilityJustice

Cropped screenshot of a Google Keep note, the title of which is 'Pretentious notes lol'

Not 34-year old me getting a JSTOR account because my fixation with Severance/Dollhouse/R.U.R. has reached a terrifying critical velocity and I'm now working on... something??

A screenshot of a review, with highlighted text reading 'Everyone's so improbably gorgeous you won't give a shit whether they live or die.'

In honour of me beginning a rewatch of Dollhouse and making it into my entire personality, please enjoy a snippet from Charlie Brooker's completely unhinged review after watching 2 episodes.

it's 2047

every single tv show and movie is written by jack thorne or russell t davies

all the other screenwriters have gone feral and roam the countryside, handing copies of their scripts to cows and shouting 'set-up! payoff!' into the wind

the bbc streams a 24hr reality show about nice trains

Omfg my feet once got sunburned horribly in the exact pattern of my gladiator sandals and it was humiliating

Fucking adored Bring The House Down by Charlotte Runcie - reminded me of We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman in its agonising specificity, and Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls in its feverish love. I want more novels about theatre from people who get the absolute beautiful cringe of it all.