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I feel like people don’t understand how bad this abortion fight is about to get or how far into poverty a forced pregnancy can sink a person. What will end up happening is using low income people as breeders to provide children for white evangelicals. That domestic supply of infants.

submitted 9 days ago • 92 comments

Today was a good day in work. I'm so proud of my clever colleagues and so impressed by the people who made a thing in 1985 that still looks amazing today.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

After 10 months of searching for the truth, it remains unclear why Hilary Cass included overtly transphobic talking points…

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I just watched Chappell Roan give her acceptance speech and she’s like “give us health insurance” and I could not fucking love her more I swear

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Top trolling by the always entertaining @oxfordclarion.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Teen Vogue has had sharper political coverage and commentary than most of the mainstream media for years now. Love this for them.

submitted 30 days ago • 25 comments

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

submitted 27 days ago • 155 comments

What makes the [Jesse Singal Follower] tag so useful is that, in addition to enthusiastic transphobes, it targets exactly the overlap of "thinks they're smart," "but is a credulous rube particularly outside their expertise," and "is one argument away from being reactionary on such issues."

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

lets get one thing straight here folks. you may hate it when sonic the hedgehog underwater (move slow, scary drowning). BUT. we all love it when sonic the hedgehog eat a bubble and make a little noise like "woPAH". we all love it dont we folks

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

2024 has broken 2023's record, which broke 2022's, which broke 2021's, which broke 2020's, which broke 2019's, which broke 2018's, which broke 2015's. You need to go back to 2017 for this number to be lower than the year before. There is no reforming this system.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop. I want our World Wide Web back.

submitted 38 days ago • 103 comments

My new gaming rig (in the fullest sense of the term 😉)

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Frantically learning about Consul and how to deploy it because I said I'd look at deploying Loki and it requires it (or etcd). So I guess we're getting a service mesh now. 🤷🏻

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

My appeal hearing is next week, either Tuesday or Wednesday (awaiting final scheduling) at the Royal Court of Justice in London, would love some folks to show up wearing "Legalise Nonbinary" merch. Note that there's zero markup on these, I don't get anything from sales. enby.myspreadshop.co.uk

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

seconding this; I had to stop reading it

submitted 41 days ago • 17 comments

"It's vulgar to discuss money" is an orthodoxy that only benefits the people who have it.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

"Why did you transition (science fiction answers only?)" ART took a couple of inches off my height and I've grown my hair out a little, but that's not transition and the humans are always focusing on the wrong things.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

New pots today!

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

love how google ai goes into detail for all the men, and then for the women, it just goes "eh, some broad"

submitted 48 days ago • 25 comments

ahh! if you've never had this chance: CP is delightful, warm, stupidly hilarious, has world-class cast (Cumberbatch, who can do brilliant comedy, was doing it on his rest days from MCU movies because he loved it so much; also Roger Allam and Stephanie Cole!!) and I love it so much.

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

I can think of loads of occasions when I've yelled at servers, but it's usually because I've misconfigured them #dividedByACommonLanguage

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

To cut a long story short, the richest man in the world has recognised that representative democracies are, at this point, an impediment to his further accrual of wealth and power, and so is acting directly against those democracies. His peer group is following suit.

submitted 47 days ago • 16 comments

Conclave was excellent. So sharp. So much drama. Ridiculous levels of flouncing. And yes, exactly one Cardinal Archbishop who you'd take home to meet your parents.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

In response to the Oxford Literary Festival's programming of Helen Joyce and Julie Bindel (amounting to an entire third of its 'LGBTQ+' offering), I have withdrawn from my scheduled session on 'Shakespeare for the Modern Age.'

submitted 48 days ago • 83 comments

I'm involved in tech hiring. I've interviewed thousands of engineers. And I'd like to tell you about a disturbing trend I've seen in tech in the last 10 years 🧵

submitted 52 days ago • 11 comments

lemon pig of 2024 before and after absorbing all my bad luck over the calendar year like a fucked up little yellow dorian grey. it is nearly time to rest, my faithful child.

submitted 54 days ago • 179 comments

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

submitted 58 days ago • 93 comments

Given that e.g. triptorelin is used in adult trans care, would I be safe in assuming it's also used in YP trans care alongside HRT, i.e. not always to delay puberty? As in, the ban is couched/justified entirely in terms of PBs, but denies other trans care without even the fig leaf of PB "concerns"?

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Caroline Litman is the mother of Alice Litman, a young trans woman who died to suicide at 20. An official inquest found NHS delays in offering medical transition contributed to Alice's suicide. Today, she has found an audit of trans suicides used to exonerate the NHS did not include her daughter.

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

Aurora says non-binary rights 💛🤍💜🖤

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

That a right-wing lawyer just suggested before the Supreme Court that Americans don't have a right to not conform is... a real mask-off moment in a way I suspect is not going to get enough attention.

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The NHS are currently undertaking an egregious campaign of disregard for medical research ethics and international human rights bodies are raising the alarm about this

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Still think AI is beniegn? “… data labellers and AI workers from Kenya who do work for companies like Facebook, Scale AI and OpenAI published an open letter to U.S. in which they said: Our working conditions amount to modern day slavery.” theconversation.com/ai-is-a-mult...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

submitted 85 days ago • 62 comments