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JMOBrien_Dublin in the Bad Place. Reader & writer (Novel Fair 2024). Lover & hater. Day job: digital for non-profits, founder @digitalcharitylab.bsky.social Dublin, Ireland. She/her ☺️
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

…And all while wearing a dress!

BBC Sounds app is now blocked in Ireland? Ffs will they not let us have _anything_

The word 'skorts' was simply not designed to be spoken aloud by so many people

"We are breaking the bodies and the minds of the children of #Gaza. We are starving the children of Gaza. (...) We are complicit. We are causing this, you, us and everyone who does nothing about it...” Mike Ryan, @who.int

Saw Sinners last night, it is MIGHTY crack - charismatic performances, fascinating historical details and the music is absolutely unforgettable

Holy shit. Have the BBC reanimated the corpse of Agatha Christie with AI?

Amazing how much money the people tasked with solving the housing crisis make from the housing crisis. Probably something to read into there but I'm very tired.

"turning a big dial that says 'Woke' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right"

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

What do people that end emails with the first letter of their name do with all the spare time they’ve saved?

What a shocker www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I love how trans people are disabled when it's time to take our rights away but superhuman when it's time to take our medals away

In a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda

A calculator that costs 1 trillion dollars, but it’s also wrong

This video about the 1984 Dublin Car Show contains the first recorded instance of an Irishman attempting to say “synthesiser” at 00:57

One reason for skepticism towards AI hype is many of the same people insisted the Metaverse was definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that, and before that insisted NFTs were definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that. LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.

This is one of the best pieces of writing about procrastination ever done, I think of it on approximately a weekly basis

Really enjoying Ike Barinholtz in The Studio. He’s like Mark Wahlberg gone right.

The Onion is absolutely on fire at the moment @theonion.com

Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans theonion.com/chinese...

Really enjoying Bechdel Cast on Muriel's Wedding - podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/m.... I always thought the purpose of the Brice character was that he's a man who truly fancies Muriel, she's just so self-loathing she doesn't take it in. And he's just as gormless as her, which is super cute 😊

Quitting twitter for bluesky

these Bernie rallies are giving me life, so lucky to have him out there educating the masses. every Democratic leader should be out there doing that, where the hell are they

Just found a little Yorkie wandering in Rialto, Dublin 8. Pretty sure he’s male. Friendly, collar on but no tags. If anyone knows his owner, can you please tell them he’s in the Garda station on Sundrive Rd in Crumlin? #lostdogdublin #lostdog

Just one of the many reasons football will have a massive fight on its hands if it tries to ban trans women. Here's Man City's Kerstin Casparij, dedicating her goal today to trans people

New short story competition with the deadly journal Frazzled Lit www.frazzledlit.com/p/the-frazzl...

As we've covered "a.i." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading us to a world devoid of meaning or art. I would hope such savvy artists like Pulp and Stereolab would understand this but I guess Gen X is never beating the allegations. www.welcometohellworld.com/gen-x-is-nev...

Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.

The inevitable result of the UK ruling on who counts as a woman is going to be intense harassment of anyone who doesn't fit within certain gender norms. And you know Starmer is going to try and 'fix' this by policing bathrooms using AI to scan body types or something equally stupid.

In 2015, the GRA was so uncontroversial that I watched beacon of progress, Willie O’Dea, give a speech in the Dáil saying he didn’t think it went far enough

That big rich transphobe trying to rub it in everyone’s faces by smoking a cigar is so pathetic. Any of us can buy and smoke a cigar at any time; we choose not to because they smell like turds

Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

Don’t shame people for not immediately reading all the books they buy. Some books aren’t made to be ready right away, okay? Some books need time to mature. Some books need to cure for a while. Some books are prosciutto, and don’t you forget it.

The harper's letter crowd is pretending the real threat to free speech is the same as the fake one they spent years panicking about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I am now defined by biology. Everything the feminist movement has fought against. Expect legal discrimination on basis of periods and menopause in future

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

transphobes are happily going to walk all women back into having no rights at all the stupid fucks

I have a proposal

I'm not sure if I should speak out against the guy kicking my ass. I don't want to be seen as anti-ass kicking, which I generally support