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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 9h

Looks like JK Rowling and Sex Matters have overplayed their hand perhaps?

EHRC Interim Guidance has been withdrawn. The Final Guidance hasn't been laid before Parliament because the EHRC hasn't done an Equalities Impact Assessment on it.

EHRC drops interim trans advice and urges ministers to act fast to approve its guidance

Equalities watchdog removes interim response to supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman from its website

www.theguardian.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

If Labour doesn't intend to adhere to its human rights obligations anyway, there's little point in us being signatories to the ECHR. Better, more honest, for Mahmood to join Reform in campaigning to leave it.

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 1d

Also not a lawyer, but I do spend a lot of time reading legal documents.
That just looks like word salad to me, and I assume it is intentional.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 2d

Can I use this to discipline anyone in my department who uses Copilot?

Our Microsoft account manager keeps spamming me with requests for a meeting to discus how to use Copilot "more effectively" in our company.

Tweet from @ZackKorman

Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen.

Screenshot shows The numbers [1,2,3] in cells [A1,A2,A3]
In cell A4, there is the formula '=COPILOT("som the numbers above") which returns a result of 15. The correct answer should be 6.

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Just Em 🏳️‍⚧️ [illegal lesbian] @agirlcalleddave.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently, the FiLiA conference is going well.

Jean Hatchet says Lucy Masoud attacked her at the FiLiA conference and had to be held back after throwing a drink over Hatchet. lol

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 2d

Looking at switching electricity providers.
Interesting choice of titles at Home Energy 🤔. Should save about £150 per month with them vs @utilitywarehouse.bsky.social

Name section of form showing the options "Mr, Mrs, Mx, Ms, Miss, and Madam" for title.

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 3d

😱 I remember going to school in one of those.

Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 4d

Yes

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 5d

Or when a man attacked me so violently that I ended up in hospital, and this happened in a very busy train station at about 6pm on a weekday, with CCTV cameras everywhere, the 🐷 just don't want to know.

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Kate 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @itskateactually.bsky.social · 5d

Given recent trends in the UK, I expect we’ll be seeing people being arrested in 3-6 months for holding signs saying, “I Oppose Trans Genocide. I Support Bash Back.”

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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Jonathan Duffy @sixjbd.bsky.social · Dec 19

An interesting graphic on the causes of Rape:

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for the promo Jules xoxo

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Sarah Savage @ohsarahsavage.bsky.social · 6d

Our city is being invaded by transphobes. Allowing this conference to go ahead represents a failure of leadership and safeguarding by the Brighton Centre and Brighton Council.

Statement by @transpridebrighton.bsky.social on the TERF conference this weekend.

www.scenemag.co.uk/our-city-is-...

"Our city is being invaded by transphobes this weekend." Trans Pride Brighton issues statement ahead of "anti-trans" Filia Conference

This weekend the Brighton Centre will host the Filia Conference 2025, an event which bills itself as a feminist event, raising issues about global women's rights. Sounds great, right? Well, it’s a lie...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Skree Ghoulsen 🔜 LBX 105✨ @breebird33.bsky.social · 7d

then perish 😀

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.

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 10d

'He insisted the purpose of debt recovery fees is “not to generate profit but to act as a fair and effective deterrent against deliberate non-payment”.'

That is a penalty charge surely? Which is illegal.

Parking ticket debt recovery firms make ‘disproportionately high’ 63% profits

The companies are used by parking operators to attempt to collect money for unpaid tickets.

www.standard.co.uk

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12d

Killing random Jewish worshippers at synagogues in the Diaspora doesn't help or avenge Palestinians. It does, however, support the Zionist narrative that Jews are under siege everywhere, which is used to manufacture consent for genocide.

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 12d

PSA 🚨📢

If you take another company’s purchase invoice, change the name on it to your own, and claim it on your tax return, HMRC will catch you.

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Tessa CGI @tessawm.bsky.social · 12d

Stop making me have to accept AI, eg let me uninstall it from my phone, or any app have a manual control switch.
I've been graphic designer and 3D modeler for 15 years. I can solve problems way faster then AI glitchiness not to mention principals of an artist.

Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 13d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 13d

More closely related to Morrisons, in that both took over respective divisions of Safeways.

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 15d

I suspect a lot of people are not going to realise that Royal Mail != Post Office, and there is going to be a lot of confusion.

Royal Mail to take over thousands of UK convenience stores

Royal Mail also announced they will hire around 20,000 temporary workers ahead of Christmas

www.independent.co.uk

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 16d

That is a supply chain, and there is a supply chain in any economic system

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 16d

Translation: Trump announces 100% on films made outside the USA

How the 🤬 is that supposed to work. Tariffs are a tax on goods that are brought across the border. That is just not how film distribution works these days. Does he know /anything/ about how cross-border tax works?

Trump annuncia «tariffe al 100% sui film realizzati fuori dagli Usa»

“La California, con il suo governatore debole e incompetente, è stata particolarmente colpita!”, ha scritto il presidente degli Stati Uniti su Truth Social

www.ilsole24ore.com

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 16d

👍🏻 to the Torygraph for actually describing this bigoted drunkard as "Eton-educated".

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 16d

Neither of those prove that you have a right to work in the UK.