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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 3h

The 2011 EHRC statutory services code was the result of almost two years work. Numerous consultations were held with relevant stakeholders, including many women's and trans groups.

By contrast, the proposed 2025 code was assembled within weeks, with a one-month consultation assessed by genAI.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4h

I hate being right.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 22h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 20h

We Rate Dogs has joined the frogs.

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Dr Juliette McIntyre ☯︎🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 13h

this is the og of an article that later got heavily edited down by the publisher and it's SO interesting because turns out this fascism DOES have a uniform web.archive.org/web/20251005...

The MAGA Beauty Aesthetic Tells the Story of America Today

In Trump’s circle, performing femininity is a strategy

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 22h

If you want to meet a true believer in global heating, talk to an insurance actuary...

You can't fight the facts. Time for Keir Starmer to step up on the climate crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/14/millions-more-homes-in-great-britain-at-risk-of-flooding-investigation-finds

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 23h

i am usually a very balanced and laid-back person when it comes to questions of taste

Mega Starmie disgusts me

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 1d

It is still somehow, implausibly, hatefully, Tuesday

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Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 1d

françoise fabian: *lighting a cigarette* "Religion has always left me cold. I'm neither for nor against it."

me, so drunk I can't stand straight: "can yuo put that out on me"

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Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · 2d

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 3d

Since the beginning of the war, the town of Alkoma — under RSF control — has been bombed at least 150 times by the Sudanese military.

910 days in, civilians remain the primary victims (and often, targets) of this war.

No one cares about civilians.Today’s update is proof enough.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 3d

Today's quick update [Oct 11]:

- RSF drone strike on a shelter in Elfashir, North Darfur (red); at least 60 civilians reported killed, dozens injured.

- SAF drone strike on Alkoma, North Darfur (orange); at least 16 civilians reported killed.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 5d

The frogs are swarming...

youtu.be/bDtGfvc3WzY?...

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 5d

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 5d

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 12d

If you're watching RPDRUK tonight and wondering about the "lucky cow" gimmick, and whether this means RuPaul is democratising decision making on the show: girl, do I have an article for you...
#dragraceuk

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Ru of Law: how legal systems, principles, and aesthetics are queered and ‘dragged up’ in RuPaul’s Drag Race

This paper explores the jurisprudential concepts of the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race (RPDR): how legal norms and aesthetics are intrinsic to the show’s structure, and how in turn R...

www.tandfonline.com

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 6d

£2.5 billion in assets. £81 million surplus.
Still cutting pay. Still ignoring equalities.

Imperial staff have had enough.
They’re on strike for fair pay, respect and real negotiations. ✊

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 6d

For Black History Month, a reminder that forgotten history also includes the inability of even science fiction to imagine the possibility of African futurity, where she emerges not as a low-budget version of Europe, but a true picture of herself. folukeafrica.com/african-futu...

African Futurity as Forgotten History

On the unimagined possibilities of Blackness

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 7d

currently it's How Bad Do U Want Me but it's been a long afternoon with a long setlist

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James Greenwood-Reeves 🦇 @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 7d

it's week 2 of term, and I've reached the stage of delirium where I am muttering lady gaga lyrics in the voice of hannibal lecter under my breath while managing my inbox

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 7d

Happy International Lesbian Day to all who celebrate!!

[Except the ones who got the UK Supreme Court to define 'lesbian' *for* us; they get nothing from me. A "chilling effect on lesbians", indeed...]

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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