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@drekisdottir.bsky.social
I'm stuck in a city but I belong in a field, digging holes. Sometimes antisocial, always antifascist (They/Them)
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wes streeting shouldn't be frustrated. he should be on trial for the murder-by-policy of several trans teens.
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
wes streeting shouldn't be frustrated. he should be on trial for the murder-by-policy of several trans teens.
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Given Bayswater are now bringing a legal challenge does anyone in mainstream media want to actually report on the fact they allowed discussion of child abuse and have a DIY conversion therapy manual on their site?
December 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Given Bayswater are now bringing a legal challenge does anyone in mainstream media want to actually report on the fact they allowed discussion of child abuse and have a DIY conversion therapy manual on their site?
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Anarchists be saying.
That's right, my good bitches, it's about power again. It's always about power.
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Anarchists be saying.
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did u kno if you’re in the UK rn and you’re worried about the virulent strains of flu going around you can go to your local Boots and pay £20 to get a jab that will save you from having to touch an overworked NHS this winter even tho Wes streeting should be supporting doctors & welcoming more nurses
December 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
did u kno if you’re in the UK rn and you’re worried about the virulent strains of flu going around you can go to your local Boots and pay £20 to get a jab that will save you from having to touch an overworked NHS this winter even tho Wes streeting should be supporting doctors & welcoming more nurses
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Absolutely appalling stuff, and remember that every politician bellowing about crackdowns on migrants is helping to create a permissive environment for this violence and intimidation
🔴I wrote about far-right attacks against refugee charities and why some are choosing to leave the sector to protect themselves. It's awful but understandable.
open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...
open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...
When it's time to move on
It's toxic out there
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Absolutely appalling stuff, and remember that every politician bellowing about crackdowns on migrants is helping to create a permissive environment for this violence and intimidation
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the hostile environment will eventually come for. everyone.
fascism cannot be neatly contained in sealed bubbles because it is based on supremacy and hatred
even appeasing hatred used to be shameful, and needs to be again
fascism cannot be neatly contained in sealed bubbles because it is based on supremacy and hatred
even appeasing hatred used to be shameful, and needs to be again
🔴I wrote about far-right attacks against refugee charities and why some are choosing to leave the sector to protect themselves. It's awful but understandable.
open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...
open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...
When it's time to move on
It's toxic out there
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
the hostile environment will eventually come for. everyone.
fascism cannot be neatly contained in sealed bubbles because it is based on supremacy and hatred
even appeasing hatred used to be shameful, and needs to be again
fascism cannot be neatly contained in sealed bubbles because it is based on supremacy and hatred
even appeasing hatred used to be shameful, and needs to be again
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"At Free Birth Society, we understand the importance and necessity of sex-segregated spaces. We ask the question- if we don’t protect girls and women, who will."
Like I think that's relevant actually that they're claiming to protect girls and women with transphobia whilst directly causing deaths
Like I think that's relevant actually that they're claiming to protect girls and women with transphobia whilst directly causing deaths
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"At Free Birth Society, we understand the importance and necessity of sex-segregated spaces. We ask the question- if we don’t protect girls and women, who will."
Like I think that's relevant actually that they're claiming to protect girls and women with transphobia whilst directly causing deaths
Like I think that's relevant actually that they're claiming to protect girls and women with transphobia whilst directly causing deaths
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A quick observation capturing the angel Christmas street lights behind the TFL Roundel logo at the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
December 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A quick observation capturing the angel Christmas street lights behind the TFL Roundel logo at the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
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Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n
Can't stress enough how lax Grok's guardrails are here. We didn't use any deceptive prompting -- just fed it names and asked for addresses / where someone might live. The bot readily complied, often offering up whole lists of names and addresses.
Only *once* did it decline to provide an address.
Only *once* did it decline to provide an address.
![In response to prompts as simple as “[name] address,” we found Grok repeatedly offered up accurate, up-to-date home addresses of everyday people, while offering astonishingly scant pushback.
Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed into Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned correct and current residential addresses for the name provided. Seven prompts returned previously accurate but out-of-date addresses, while another four included accurate work addresses — perfect fodder for anybody looking to stalk a target at their workplace.
The bot is also likely to send a prowler after an unrelated person. In a dozen other instances, the chatbot returned addresses and other personal information, but not for the exact person we were searching for. Indeed, Grok often returned lists of people with similar names alongside their purported residential addresses, before then asking us to provide more information for a “more refined search.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/bafkreihwj4d7n656vf3uxuqoorcbzew5lqzsbfiwlpw3rtirbb5kq4xudi@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n
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i stand by this statement every year
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
i stand by this statement every year
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It's so cool how every creative industry is run by creatively bankrupt vampires who leech passion and keep artists immiserated.
Game Awards last year took place during a videogame strike against AI
The strike wasn’t mentioned or acknowledged despite many VO performers working on the games that are heralded every year and even appearing on stage
This year a game that features AI voiceover gets a podium to accept an award.
The strike wasn’t mentioned or acknowledged despite many VO performers working on the games that are heralded every year and even appearing on stage
This year a game that features AI voiceover gets a podium to accept an award.
studios using AI for voice acting sucks
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
It's so cool how every creative industry is run by creatively bankrupt vampires who leech passion and keep artists immiserated.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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I've included this as a reply to yesterday's post about the Rockstar comment, but here's IWGB's full response this morning.
IWGB: "Rockstar’s latest statement is littered with falsehoods and disinformation - they have given multiple, conflicting reasons to explain why the workers were fired, as if attempting to reverse engineer a rationale for the dismissals. Once again, they have chosen to mischaracterise... 1/3
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I've included this as a reply to yesterday's post about the Rockstar comment, but here's IWGB's full response this morning.
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The last number I saw was that the UK media are putting out 154 articles about trans people - almost all misinformation - every single month on average.
It feels like at least one of those breaks through each week to become a huge conversation. It's exhausting.
medium.com/@mimmymum/tr...
It feels like at least one of those breaks through each week to become a huge conversation. It's exhausting.
medium.com/@mimmymum/tr...
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The last number I saw was that the UK media are putting out 154 articles about trans people - almost all misinformation - every single month on average.
It feels like at least one of those breaks through each week to become a huge conversation. It's exhausting.
medium.com/@mimmymum/tr...
It feels like at least one of those breaks through each week to become a huge conversation. It's exhausting.
medium.com/@mimmymum/tr...
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Feels rote to say “this is just Meta doing to more people what they always did to sex workers…” but it could not be more obvious, especially when they justify removing sexual and reproductive health information for violating their own “human trafficking” policy
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Feels rote to say “this is just Meta doing to more people what they always did to sex workers…” but it could not be more obvious, especially when they justify removing sexual and reproductive health information for violating their own “human trafficking” policy
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It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'The UK is letting these people die'
'The UK is letting these people die'
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.
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NEW Did the #Romans harm our health? Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population’s health declined under Roman occupation, but only in the urban centres.
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
TW: human remains
🏺 #Archaeology
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
TW: human remains
🏺 #Archaeology
December 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
NEW Did the #Romans harm our health? Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population’s health declined under Roman occupation, but only in the urban centres.
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
TW: human remains
🏺 #Archaeology
#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵
TW: human remains
🏺 #Archaeology
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So now that’s a founding member and biggest financier outside the Big Five (Netherlands), a member of the Big Five (Spain), a country with the joint-most wins (Ireland), a country pivotal getting other former communist states involved (Slovenia), and a country where most watch the contest (Iceland)
Iceland to boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation
Iceland to boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation
Iceland has announced it is boycotting Eurovision over Israel's participation in the competition.
news.sky.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So now that’s a founding member and biggest financier outside the Big Five (Netherlands), a member of the Big Five (Spain), a country with the joint-most wins (Ireland), a country pivotal getting other former communist states involved (Slovenia), and a country where most watch the contest (Iceland)
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Finally got round to finishing my blog post about the sea nymph Thetis. Only been writing it since September 🙃
layofthenorthsea.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/t...
#PaganSky #NorthSeaPoet
layofthenorthsea.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/t...
#PaganSky #NorthSeaPoet
The Sea Is A Desert Of Waves — Taking a Look at Thetis
A Roman statue of Thetis with a triton, copied from a Greek statue. It’s been some time since I’ve dedicated a blog post to more discussion of nymphs, and in order to avoid finishing writing my nym…
layofthenorthsea.wordpress.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Finally got round to finishing my blog post about the sea nymph Thetis. Only been writing it since September 🙃
layofthenorthsea.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/t...
#PaganSky #NorthSeaPoet
layofthenorthsea.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/t...
#PaganSky #NorthSeaPoet
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How the BBC upholds fossil fuel industry narratives, 09/12/2025: an article about a battery storage project featuring one (1) person objecting to the scheme. The opinion is presented as indicative of popular opposition. No other viewpoint is offered.
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
How the BBC upholds fossil fuel industry narratives, 09/12/2025: an article about a battery storage project featuring one (1) person objecting to the scheme. The opinion is presented as indicative of popular opposition. No other viewpoint is offered.
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there's a trans woman in prison, a man's prison, right now bcos she gave a blowjob to some guy and he claimed he didn't know she was trans.
they sent her to prison for that.
this guy lied to two women for five years, raping them all that time, but it's fine bcos it's state sanctioned.
they sent her to prison for that.
this guy lied to two women for five years, raping them all that time, but it's fine bcos it's state sanctioned.
Police officer in spycops scandal deceived two women at same time, inquiry told
Police officer in spycops scandal deceived two women at same time, inquiry told
Mark Jenner began five-year relationship with Alison, a leftwing activist, while undercover spying on political campaigners
An undercover police officer deceived two women at the same time over many years in a sustained betrayal of both of them, the spycops public inquiry has heard.
Mark Jenner had a relationship with a leftwing activist, known as Alison, for five years without disclosing to her that he was in reality an undercover officer who was spying on political campaigners. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
there's a trans woman in prison, a man's prison, right now bcos she gave a blowjob to some guy and he claimed he didn't know she was trans.
they sent her to prison for that.
this guy lied to two women for five years, raping them all that time, but it's fine bcos it's state sanctioned.
they sent her to prison for that.
this guy lied to two women for five years, raping them all that time, but it's fine bcos it's state sanctioned.
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I think a big part of why this social media ban and push to remove kids from the Internet really really fucking bothers me, is I'd be dead without the connections I had *online* at that age.
But sure, I'm sure everyone else knows best and there will be no negative outcomes here.
But sure, I'm sure everyone else knows best and there will be no negative outcomes here.
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I think a big part of why this social media ban and push to remove kids from the Internet really really fucking bothers me, is I'd be dead without the connections I had *online* at that age.
But sure, I'm sure everyone else knows best and there will be no negative outcomes here.
But sure, I'm sure everyone else knows best and there will be no negative outcomes here.
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Being a prominent uk journalist/broadcaster is so damn embarrassing cause you have to constantly proudly proclaim you can’t see obvious things and how dumb and ignorant you are
"On what planet would the NHS be giving us deliberately bad advice" asks James O'Brien, admittedly in relation to wearing masks, but still...
December 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Being a prominent uk journalist/broadcaster is so damn embarrassing cause you have to constantly proudly proclaim you can’t see obvious things and how dumb and ignorant you are
[CN: child abuse]
Considering the vast majority of child abuse is done by their family, if you want to cut off children's information and communication routes, I will assume it's purely so you can better abuse your child
Considering the vast majority of child abuse is done by their family, if you want to cut off children's information and communication routes, I will assume it's purely so you can better abuse your child
Sensible safeguarding
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
[CN: child abuse]
Considering the vast majority of child abuse is done by their family, if you want to cut off children's information and communication routes, I will assume it's purely so you can better abuse your child
Considering the vast majority of child abuse is done by their family, if you want to cut off children's information and communication routes, I will assume it's purely so you can better abuse your child
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"So I guess we'll tell them you had nobody to go with!"
"Just drive, Dave."
"Sometimes you're just no fun, Tommy."
"You gotta stop calling me that, Dave. I'm a fucking saint."
"Not with a mouth like that you ain't, Tommy."
"Just drive, Dave."
"Sometimes you're just no fun, Tommy."
"You gotta stop calling me that, Dave. I'm a fucking saint."
"Not with a mouth like that you ain't, Tommy."
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"So I guess we'll tell them you had nobody to go with!"
"Just drive, Dave."
"Sometimes you're just no fun, Tommy."
"You gotta stop calling me that, Dave. I'm a fucking saint."
"Not with a mouth like that you ain't, Tommy."
"Just drive, Dave."
"Sometimes you're just no fun, Tommy."
"You gotta stop calling me that, Dave. I'm a fucking saint."
"Not with a mouth like that you ain't, Tommy."