Shoddyknight (they/them)
@shoddyknight.bsky.social
Roller Derby player - Thembo Party Killer #451
Software Dev
Non binary Queer
Software Dev
Non binary Queer
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This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.
This will be used to abuse.
This will be used to abuse.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.
This will be used to abuse.
This will be used to abuse.
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🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
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AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
Let's go Zack
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Let's go Zack
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People prefer trains to planes. 👇🏼
The trick is you actually have to build them instead of dicking around for decades then pulling the plug to focus on road building and airport expansions.
The trick is you actually have to build them instead of dicking around for decades then pulling the plug to focus on road building and airport expansions.
August 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
People prefer trains to planes. 👇🏼
The trick is you actually have to build them instead of dicking around for decades then pulling the plug to focus on road building and airport expansions.
The trick is you actually have to build them instead of dicking around for decades then pulling the plug to focus on road building and airport expansions.
Honestly hope someone fucking decks Keith
June 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Honestly hope someone fucking decks Keith
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Th cynic in me wonders whether the advertising agencies ran a competition to see who could run a whole proposal off the smallest change…
Sattchi winning a 500k contract around one hovering full stop being the winner
Sattchi winning a 500k contract around one hovering full stop being the winner
June 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Th cynic in me wonders whether the advertising agencies ran a competition to see who could run a whole proposal off the smallest change…
Sattchi winning a 500k contract around one hovering full stop being the winner
Sattchi winning a 500k contract around one hovering full stop being the winner
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'Starmer denies being bad at politics' is a great headline ngl.
June 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
'Starmer denies being bad at politics' is a great headline ngl.
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The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
www.npr.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖
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"Are you the people that give the guidance or are you the people who don't give the guidance and encourage people to seek legal advice?" Get her, Jade
June 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Are you the people that give the guidance or are you the people who don't give the guidance and encourage people to seek legal advice?" Get her, Jade
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Every fucking day its just “trans people still allowed to exist: how dare they“
Today, Maya Forstater is an expert in being trans and making dramas based on books about being trans.
Look at the language in this article. Every day it is like this.
Every single fucking day.
Look at the language in this article. Every day it is like this.
Every single fucking day.
June 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Every fucking day its just “trans people still allowed to exist: how dare they“
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“We just counter the threat from Reform, by doing exactly what they want to do!” is the same as “we must counter the Luftwaffe by getting the RAF to bomb Coventry first”
June 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“We just counter the threat from Reform, by doing exactly what they want to do!” is the same as “we must counter the Luftwaffe by getting the RAF to bomb Coventry first”
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Y'know when a supermarket says "we've got 100s of items price-matched to Aldi" but people still go to Aldi, because *everything* there is price-matched to Aldi. This is the far-right loon version of that.
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
The Labour faction influencing Downing Street’s pitch to Reform UK voters has urged ministers to “root out DEI”.
An article from the Blue Labour campaign group, titled What is to be Done, calls for the government to legislate against diversity, equity and inclusion, echoing the rightwing backlash from Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Y'know when a supermarket says "we've got 100s of items price-matched to Aldi" but people still go to Aldi, because *everything* there is price-matched to Aldi. This is the far-right loon version of that.
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A researcher calculates that, without increased production, AI will consume up to 82 terrawatt-hours of electricity this year—around the same as the annual electricity consumption of Switzerland.
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.
wrd.cm
May 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A researcher calculates that, without increased production, AI will consume up to 82 terrawatt-hours of electricity this year—around the same as the annual electricity consumption of Switzerland.
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It's just so funny this ruling has caused complete and utter chaos yet it's considered politically unacceptable just to say "yeah Supreme Court has made a complete hash of things, ruling is incoherent and incongruent with obvious intentions of government in 2010, we must legislate to correct this"
Labour to cancel its women’s conference after supreme court gender ruling
Trans rights and gender critical campaigners criticise decision after party told it risks legal challenge if conference goes ahead
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Trans rights and gender critical campaigners criticise decision after party told it risks legal challenge if conference goes ahead
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour to cancel its women’s conference after supreme court gender ruling
Trans rights and gender critical campaigners criticise decision after party told it risks legal challenge if conference goes ahead
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
It's just so funny this ruling has caused complete and utter chaos yet it's considered politically unacceptable just to say "yeah Supreme Court has made a complete hash of things, ruling is incoherent and incongruent with obvious intentions of government in 2010, we must legislate to correct this"
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“And here comes the new Pope but…Wwait…..what’s that?! That’s the Undertaker’s music!!”
May 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“And here comes the new Pope but…Wwait…..what’s that?! That’s the Undertaker’s music!!”
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Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.
arstechnica.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."
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Labour lost to more progressive parties, not to Reform. Them going even harder on Reform-like policies should be every bit of evidence we need to show it's actually the right move to abandon Labour and go for more progressive alternatives. Despite the low turnout this is not a progressive loss.
Sure looks like Tories switched to Reform, but Labour voters actually switched to Lib Dems and Greens. This wasn't a loss for progressives, if anything it's an improvement to move away from Labour. Conservatives + Reform only changed by +1 seat total.
May 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Labour lost to more progressive parties, not to Reform. Them going even harder on Reform-like policies should be every bit of evidence we need to show it's actually the right move to abandon Labour and go for more progressive alternatives. Despite the low turnout this is not a progressive loss.
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It is deeply weird that only after a sustained years-long campaign to deprive trans people of every right enjoyed by cis people did the Guardian ask someone from a womens' refuge if they had ever had problems resulting from trans women using their services & got the reply 'Never, in fifteen years"
May 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It is deeply weird that only after a sustained years-long campaign to deprive trans people of every right enjoyed by cis people did the Guardian ask someone from a womens' refuge if they had ever had problems resulting from trans women using their services & got the reply 'Never, in fifteen years"
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LEEDS UNITED CHAMPIONSHIP CHAMPIONS 2024/25
AND, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY….
#historymakers #LUFC #MOT
AND, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY….
#historymakers #LUFC #MOT
May 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
LEEDS UNITED CHAMPIONSHIP CHAMPIONS 2024/25
AND, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY….
#historymakers #LUFC #MOT
AND, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY….
#historymakers #LUFC #MOT
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I have no love for the Canadian liberals or the Australian Labour Party but
Lmao at the right wing Party leaders in both countries losing their seats
Lmao at the right wing Party leaders in both countries losing their seats
May 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I have no love for the Canadian liberals or the Australian Labour Party but
Lmao at the right wing Party leaders in both countries losing their seats
Lmao at the right wing Party leaders in both countries losing their seats
My beautiful old Poppy coming for morning cuddles on Thursday
April 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
My beautiful old Poppy coming for morning cuddles on Thursday
Struggling with world news, but personally my recovery from Achilles Rupture is going well and my hearing has returned/improved post ENT surgery 🥰
April 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Struggling with world news, but personally my recovery from Achilles Rupture is going well and my hearing has returned/improved post ENT surgery 🥰
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All of us, whether we’re trans or not, deserve dignity and respect, and the freedom to go about our daily lives without fear of abuse or harassment. Govt has urgent Qs to answer about how it will ensure those rights for trans people - sadly I didn't get those answers yesterday.
April 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
All of us, whether we’re trans or not, deserve dignity and respect, and the freedom to go about our daily lives without fear of abuse or harassment. Govt has urgent Qs to answer about how it will ensure those rights for trans people - sadly I didn't get those answers yesterday.