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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1h

What in the actual fuck? Googles AI basically hallucinated that I somehow accused my podcast host & close friend of toxic behavior & harassment - killing her channel. Keep in my, Vera and I host a podcast together regularly and are good friends and her channel is amazing. This is absolutely fucked.

Council of Geeks @councilofgeeks.bsky.social · 7h

Council of Geeks is over.
I only just learned myself thanks to Google’s AI summary. Thanks Google for letting me know my channel is dead. Some digging, using Google’s AI mode, revealed it’s because of the toxic feud between me and @jessiegender.bsky.social

I wouldn’t have known otherwise.

A screenshot of “AI overview” from Google, which reads:
“The ‘Council of Geeks’ podcast, which included the YouTube Channel run by Nathaniel Wayne (Vera Wylde), has ended. The podcast concluded, and while the YoyTube channel was previously dedicated to content like Doctor Who analysis, it is no longer active.
Podcast and YouTube channel: Both the podcast and the “Council of Geeks” YouTube channel, known for its Doctor Who content, have stopped producing new material.
Reasons: while the specific reasons for the shutdown are not detailed in the provided snippets, the consensus is that the project is over.”

Screenshot from Google AI that reads:
“Harassment allegations
Targeting of creator Jessie Gender. In 2024, a serious public feud developed between Wylde and another content creator, Jessie Gender, over Wylde's podcast, Frak this Podcast!. Gender claimed that Wylde displayed toxic behavior behind the scenes and weaponized her fanbase to target her. Wylde was also accused of ignoring concerns regarding harassment and abuse within her own Discord server.
Abusive behavior toward collaborators. Collaborators on Wylde's podcast and Discord server have corroborated Gender's accusations, alleging a pattern of abusive behavior and harassment.”

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Something Witty @phiguru.myatproto.social · 3h

Y'all, if there has been a fundraiser, Bex has probably chipped in AND boosted it. So like I've discussed before - there is basically $20 that everyone in the incredibly generous #uglydogs community keeps passing around. Right now, it is time for Bex to hold the money.

bex @blueraccoon.bsky.social · 4h

ok #UglyDogs sending up the more formal signal for help. I have created a formal fundraiser here, any help y'all can give would be appreciated but cover your own needs first. The goal is set to cover the mortgage and a large bill we have to pay by EOY.

gofund.me/a307b641b

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 3h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 10h

"Here is a photo that about sums things up. This is my friend and colleague Pastor Jorge Bautista getting shot in the face by an ICE agent's flash bang grenade. Jorge's demeanor is calm and brave. Here's what's true: those who, like Jorge, are calling for Love and Peace and inclusion and the

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

The key thing here where she observes that there was unity and purpose in hounding out the left but now that’s done, there’s just… nothing there. And that’s true, there are few ideas, there’s no project and no purpose beyond sustaining themselves in office while snagging a sweet post-politics gig.

$The Labour right is fracturing The party's right wing won the peace after the Corbyn wars. But do they know what they want now? By Morgan Jones$

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20h

The ex-prosecutor also said this:

“I have a lot of close contacts in law enforcement, and almost to a person, none of them support these actions. As a lawyer, someone who adamantly believes in the rule of law, watching it in open sight in front of my house just be completely eroded…it’s upsetting.”

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Lizzie @lizziecharlton.bsky.social · 4h

Signal activated! Please help out my dear friend and fellow #UglyDog Bex. She is so kind and supportive and funny and creative, and needs a hand to get through some really tough times right now.

bex @blueraccoon.bsky.social · 4h

ok #UglyDogs sending up the more formal signal for help. I have created a formal fundraiser here, any help y'all can give would be appreciated but cover your own needs first. The goal is set to cover the mortgage and a large bill we have to pay by EOY.

gofund.me/a307b641b

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bex @blueraccoon.bsky.social · 4h

ok #UglyDogs sending up the more formal signal for help. I have created a formal fundraiser here, any help y'all can give would be appreciated but cover your own needs first. The goal is set to cover the mortgage and a large bill we have to pay by EOY.

gofund.me/a307b641b

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

I remember a lot of discussion about the importance of understanding the “75 million” people (many commentators rounded up) who voted for Trump in 2020. Interesting to note that more than 75 million people voted for Harris, and yet I saw no such equivalent discourse after the 2024 election.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 21h

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 18h

I spend all this time trying to figure out what the master plan is, and it always hits me: nothing. Just conspiracy brain worms all the way down. And the most smug self-righteousness as Kennedy and cronies destroy over a century of concerted scientific effort and hard work.

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Crednes Cod Peace @crednescodpeace.bsky.social · 13h

"won an election nobody thought we could win"
What crap.

Everyone knew the Tories were facing wipeout, what was remarkable was that Labour could only attract a paltry 33% of the vote & this pathetic low share of the vote gifted them a massive majority.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13h

Wes Streeting on the lessons of the Caerphilly defeat - Labour aren't telling a compelling story about who they are, who they're for & what they are driving to do.

On the contrary, I'd argue voters have a very good idea who you are, who you're for and what you're doing.

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Lizzie @lizziecharlton.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe the case? You can’t take a tripod with you everywhere.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 11h

Attention @cam.ac.uk. You may feel the legal risks are all one way - of being sued by Russian/ US Evangelical/ JK Rowling proxies.

We are here to tell you, if, out of weakness you betray your trans students, we will help them fight back.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 11h

We are hearing some very troubling stories about trans exclusion, supported by the University, at Cambridge. We are making contact with affected societies and individuals and will fiercely protect the legal rights of trans students to live with respect and dignity.

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Lizzie @lizziecharlton.bsky.social · 10h

Just imagining how horrified the baked beans are to be attached to a fascist.

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RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social · 14h

At the going down of the thongs, and in the morning, We will remember them. And hopefully put them through the wash.

(There were more, far cruder jokes here, but have some #respect. Or not)

Rhydd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhyddian.bsky.social · 23h

Poppy thongs appear to be coming down...

E-commerce site selling "rememberence thongs" emblazoned with Lest We Forget.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 14h

He who controls the media, controls the message (and the masses).

This is Orwellian.

#Educate #Create #Communicate #Resist

Elon Musk - $500B.
Larry Ellison - $393B.
Mark Zuckerbe -$270B.
Jeff Bezos - $237B.
Four men. Nearly $1.4 trillion stacked into private coffers and they own the platforms that shape what you see, hear, and believe. This isn't wealth; it's command-and-control: Musk runs the town square, Ellison is buying your entertainment, Zuckerberg owns your social life, Bezos holds the newsroom.
Total war on public truth. If you think democracy survives when that much money controls the narrative, you're dreaming. Wake up: concentrated fortune = concentrated power = weaponized information.

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 17h

Funny comments under the FT piece, but worth noting:

“Hard-left” is now used to mean “social democratic”, while “hard-right” and "populist" are the polite terms for “far-right”.

The linguistic drift tells its own story.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Hard-left candidate secures landslide in Irish presidential election on.ft.com/4oxeSo5

Hard-left candidate secures landslide in Irish presidential election

Catherine Connolly triumphs in contest marked by significant number of spoilt ballots

on.ft.com

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 13h

If you campaign to abolish tuition fees, tax the rich, up funding for the NHS, nationalise water, you'll soon have a briefcase wanker Labour MP come tell you how actually all of that is very complicated.

If you shave your head and scream "send the buggers back" outside a hotel, not so much

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Kuy Von Braun II @kuyvonbraun.bsky.social · 12h

Defeating Corbyn is literally the foundation of their entire personality

The fact their own brand of politics has *failed utterly* (total disaster) just won’t penetrate their gaslighting

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 12h

The answer of course is that there’s no decency left in the Labour party cause any actual decent and moral people would have left the party multiple times over

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 12h

The last vestiges of “decent” people in labour just refusing to catch up on the fact they truly have lost the high ground on everything

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 1d

Pretending that the solution is to remove what is often the one lifeline transgender children have is just a sickening extra dash of cruelty.

Brianna Ghey used her phone a lot *because she was being bullied for being transgender*.

Labour have made that materially worse.

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 1d

Labour's unevidenced, political puberty blocker ban, it's shoddy, conversion therapy alternative (GET) and the bathroom ban it plans to implement, are policies *proven*, by decades of peer reviewed research, to damage the mental health of trans children.

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 1d

So. Labour has normalised a vicious and disgusting prejudice, and regularly work with extremist, eliminationist transphobes like Maya Forstater and Helen Joyce.

Along with that, Labour have implemented several policies that have extremely harmed the mental health of transgender children.

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 1d

Several Labour MPs refer to themselves as 'gender critical' - that is, they have an irrational hatred of transgender people. In a decent party, 'gender critical' MPs would be immediately ejected, in the same way that you hope racists and other bigots would be ejected.

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