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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
By the by, this is an example of why democracies MUST prosecute corruption.

It’s a cancer.

The most corrupt President in US history is using his regular gangster tactics to suppress free media not only in his own country.
The important bit about this story - in reality the only important bit because nothing here is new - is that it delivers to an audience previously unaware of it a truth about the BBC's relationship to power: craven. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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“Also for legal reasons, we’re not able to tell you what that line is.”

From a media law perspective: BS.

There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The world of the GenAI bubble feels like a bunch of people involved in making a blockbuster movie that turns out to be crap.

There’s LOADS of talent and AMAZING things being done and the set is buzzing but - there’s something flat, predictable, unengaging, unoriginal and tedious about the result.
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Articles like this appearing today. This has an interview with two plaintiffs. Hoping things go well tomorrow.

news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/602...
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It’s fascinating talking to defenders of the first amendment when it comes to protecting abusive language against minorities in US schools.

They all think it’s SO obvious you must be a troll or stupid but push them on the details and they don’t agree.
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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AI has transformed tech interviews into a game of cat and mouse.
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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🍁🍂AN AUTUMN GEM😊🍁

I wish I had
my companion to nag...
autumn dusk
小言いふ相手のほしや秋の暮
-Kobayashi Issa, 1823.

Half-forgotten for most of the year, Tenju-an (天授庵), like many of Nanzen-ji's small sub-temples, bursts into life during late autumn.
#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #天授庵
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
And anyway, in Castro, what makes the issue a close one is whether "a students’ rights had been interfered with under the evidence or if plaintiff’s speech had occurred off-campus".

The retweeting complaints is not crucial to the decision. Being a sustained pattern is not key. The single tweet was.
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
“parents are merely trying to teach kids that “connection and love do not require you to ignore your own needs.”

No, I think parents are “merely” not forcing their kids to hug other people against their will because that’s really fucking creepy.
Ahh yes, a totally real trend for which we totally have evidence
www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*.

Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.

& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Evidence has now emerged of the adverse consequences of the laws banning GAHT for trans youth in both the US and UK. This includes sharp declines in mental health and increased suicide attempts among transgender young people.

t.co/YZaiSgdDAl
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5
t.co
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Heads up to followers, but the final high court decision (for now) on marriage equality in Japan is due out this Friday. I'll post when I see the outcome, but will need the weekend to read and summarize the decision. Analysis will be up at @whatthetrans.com hopefully by Monday.
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
While I’m delighted that Farage is under the cosh over his history of racism, I can’t help asking - why now? Why is this suddenly gaining traction now when it has absolutely not been a secret for well over a decade?
Farage’s antisemitism has been on display for years too.

The thing about antisemitism is that all too often it only seems to matter when it’s people not in your own ranks.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I have been reminded about Michael Gove and Sarah Vine's book shelves. Who got the far right books in the divorce, I wonder?
bsky.app/profile/snig...
Interesting how Michael Gove and Sarah Vine had books by fascists, Holocaust deniers, race "scientists", and white supremacists, but none on anti-fascism, Holocaust studies, anti-racism, or how race "science"/eugenics is bad. The absence of balance is what is telling.
www.indy100.com/news/michael...
September 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It’s a day to raise awareness around all forms of violence against women and girls and to call for an end to gender-based violence.

#InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen #EndGenderBasedViolence
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The joke I've usually heard is that foxes are cat software running on dog hardware.
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A little reminder yet again that the proportion of people who are trans in any given population is very similar to the proportion of Jews in Germany in 1933.

Someone at the BBC took the time to edit this article in order to enforce the current anti-trans state ideology.
The evolution of the BBC article on Graham Linehan's conviction and how it describes the trans victim of this crime is beyond atrocious. They actively went out of their way to dehumanize the victim here. They removed all pronouns for her and gendered honorifics such as "Ms."
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I often get frustrated with people who insist that someone who supports the modern far right "was always like that".

Some people do change. Some people do radicalise.

But just to show I'm not being doctrinal about this:

Yes, Bill Maher has always been a creep.
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Omg this is PERFECT
A lot of people replying to this thread want to see a Muppets Knives Out and the only human is Daniel Craig, and you know what? @rianjohnson.bsky.social should just make that movie without a despotic presidential decree.
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Some people thought ELIZA was conscious and that was a few lines of BASIC.

Why are we having this stupid conversation?
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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So the BBC is no longer concerned with facts? First American and now global media tremble at the bellowing of a demented old rapist. Truly sad.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
From an interview 8 years ago, but here’s Armando Iannucci quietly knifing the edgelord anti-woke comedy scene
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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What the actual fuck is going on?
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM