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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.

Librarians are the very best of people ❤️🏳️‍⚧️📚

AOC played ball and did everything Pelosi told her and was rewarded by being passed over for a 75-year-old who died four months later. There have now been four House votes this year where Dems lost by the margin of members who died in office. No one has more right to say this than her

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil released from ICE detention

my glasses are a lifelong medical intervention my depression meds are a lifelong intervention eating food is a lifelong medical intervention breathing air is a lifelong medical intervention they just want trans people to stop existing.

The Supreme Court just ruled against trans rights. Join us outside the court for an emergency rally at 3:00 pm today to show we won't be silenced.

I just wanted to take a moment to thank @chasestrangio.bsky.social and @aclu.org for their and their team's incredibly dedicated and hard work. We love you and are so so grateful. Sadly this time we will have to continue to fight another day. Our continued support and love for you is unwaivering. Xx

The Trump administration is evil and disgusting

[Exit King.]

Iggy Pop asked if he could borrow my laptop because he wanted something flat to do lines of coke off.

Libraries can’t archive digital subs like we did with print because we have no ownership rights. One of the endless knock-on effects from the lack of digital ownership and the Spotification of digital scholarly content. 🤷‍♀️

So I'm trans and on a female ward in Wes Streeting's NHS and I'm being disallowed from going to the toilet any way other than via bed pan which means that I have the option of direct nursing assistance with my lower body and risk being shifted to a...

Why is it always trans women and girls under the spotlight? Why are there no studies done on transphobia for a change?

Misread this as trans.

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

Open all of the crossings. Let in lifesaving aid at scale, from all directions. Lift restrictions on what & how much aid we can bring in. Ensure our convoys aren’t held up by delays and denials. Release the hostages. Implement the ceasefire. Let us work.

Had a great day at @wearenewlocal.bsky.social's Stronger Things. And on where to start with AI in public services: don't experiment on marginalised and vulnerable people using critical services. Don't use AI in DWP, use it to automate the tax affairs of high-net worth individuals (1/2)

This

Scenes from a commencement: With one word—“Welcome”—Harvard President Alan Garber drew a loud ovation from 30,000 graduating students, parents, alumni and others. When he welcomed “students from around the world, just as it should be,” the applause was thunderous.

The Trump administration is set to expand social media vetting of visa applicants. The policy has done little for national security, says @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, but "it is very effective at chilling free speech."

Clever of him to diversify into shoes

The TERFs can’t do this because there aren’t actually that many of them. The British government was fooling indeed to pick the side comprised almost entirely of fake social media profiles in this fight. Trans people WILL NOT go quietly into the night.

It's cruel. It's an incredible escalation of their anti-trans culture war. And there is still a chance to stop the provision in the Senate, so if you have a trans person in your life you care about, I implore you - make your voice heard with your Senators. Both of them. Republican OR Democrat.

So beautiful ❤️