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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

When the three actors who have the longest history with Harry Potter and the most to gain from sustaining their relationship break ranks solely to support trans people and their right to exist and motherfuckers like HUGH LAURIE and MICHELLE GOMEZ can't even work up the guts

God what a hellworld

I want the jeremy corbyn party to be good but i just completely cannot trust this until they explicitly say trans rights and to assume this party will be pro trans is naive and foolish

many reasons to want Corbyn II to succeed such as "what if things didn't get worse every single year" and "how about reform didn't win" but I would like to submit one more argument that I think will convince many:

it would make briefcase labour types more mad than they have ever been before

I have been so, so consistently lucky in the people with whom I am able to surround myself. The amount of love and joy and respect in my life is unreal

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Welcome to yet another Thursday; it's not quite Friday but at least it's not Tuesday, right? And of course Thursday means @dylanbeatt.ie, @eli.holderness.dev and I will be recording Tech, Bugs & Rock'n'Roll at 4pm UK time, and you can come watch and chat in the chat!
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Three vinyl stickers of the game changer loop-de-loop in progress pride, trans, and non-binary colours respectively. The stickers also have the words "we've been here the whole time"

Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!)

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Fascists appeal to the imaginary past, so it is important to be able teach people who aren’t fascists about actualities. History isn’t a set of facts. It is a contested narrative based on contested evidence.

piercings and tattoos are gender affirming care my gender is "looking sick as fuck"

Normally you'd have to pay £££ for a conference ticket to get @rendle.dev and @davidwhitney.co.uk on the same programme. Or you can come along tomorrow night and see them both for free - our friends @accurx.bsky.social are even providing free drinks and snacks!

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if we were in Amsterdam or Vilnius or London or Stockholm I would have a go-to off the dome, but not.... the city i live in. who am i

getting asked on a date will have you looking up Atlas Obscura for your own damn city after realising you know no cool bars here

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this is not a dig, because I'm terrible at doing this myself, but I love the irony of this image not having alt text

Okay. Short rambling thread. But about how i have learned to accept that I am "pony famous" and how, and why, you need to not talk down people who love what you do.

This is for minor writers or creators everywhere. Read this. /1

as much as we need to learn to say No to protect ourselves, we also need to be able to say Yes when offered help or support, even when it might be difficult to accept

may every politician need the services they cut

I don't mean to detract from your very valid points, but the UK government also absolutely hates its populace. handshake meme / solidarity / rage, etc

Today is Britain at its absolute stinking worst: a full on media and political feeding frenzy targeting someone who righteously sought to punch up for doing so in the wrong way, as we all avert our eyes from a real, genuine evil. Properly grim.

Solidarity with Bob Vylan - end the genocide.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

If you want to be better, go learn from the best

Zohran Mamdani: 40% of the vote, respectable effort, solid victory

Zohran the Destroyer: 100% of the vote, the tribes are united under the new Khagan, we ride

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

Palestine is the original sin. Israel was established in its modern form at the same time as the birth of the postwar 'international rules-based order' and has always been the unspoken exemption. October 7th shoved that contradiction to the forefront and everything since has been crisis management

“yeah no I’m fully aware that we’re at the climate change point of no return but the computer that always tells me I’m right is very very thirsty” 🥺

I am the coolest and best person that ever lived and so are all of my friends

I absolutely fucking love being me

Especially since we all know Jesus was a foot guy.

For those who aren't particularly familiar with Helen Lewis

she is basically responsible for this being terf island. Hardly any papers were doing bigot shit until she championed it through her role as deputy editor as New Statesman.

A lot of bigots got their start on this beat there with her.