Bets Von Count
@betsvc.bsky.social
Dedicated feline enthusiast, avid reader, music lover, tea drinker, pro-abortion feminist, history fan, Marshmallow, pro adoptee rights, fond of the gin. Si/i. Dublin, Ireland.
I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie
I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing & sharing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same?
I've signed this petition calling for the government to stop X allowing their chatbot Grok to ‘digitally undress’ women and share sexualised and illegal photos of children. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
January 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie
Reposted by Bets Von Count
i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
Reposted by Bets Von Count
One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:46 AM
One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.
Reposted by Bets Von Count
O'Donovan demonstrating the dangers of technological illiteracy. It is *chilling* to me that someone with this poor a grasp of the issues is in charge of anything.
My word. (Again.)
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
January 8, 2026 at 11:57 AM
O'Donovan demonstrating the dangers of technological illiteracy. It is *chilling* to me that someone with this poor a grasp of the issues is in charge of anything.
The plumber, whose name I will not reveal for GDPR purposes once competed against a-ha in a sort of pre reality TV show situation in front of record execs. a-ha won, obviously enough. I have now met someone that once met a-ha!!! I now feel better about having to reveal my dietary issues to him.
January 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
The plumber, whose name I will not reveal for GDPR purposes once competed against a-ha in a sort of pre reality TV show situation in front of record execs. a-ha won, obviously enough. I have now met someone that once met a-ha!!! I now feel better about having to reveal my dietary issues to him.
I am unsure if I can use the loo because a plumber is doing his thing upstairs. Unfortunately I have IBS. I am going to have to explain my medical history to the fecking plumber in about five minutes.
January 7, 2026 at 9:44 AM
I am unsure if I can use the loo because a plumber is doing his thing upstairs. Unfortunately I have IBS. I am going to have to explain my medical history to the fecking plumber in about five minutes.
Reposted by Bets Von Count
Oy
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Oy
Reposted by Bets Von Count
Speaking of #Greenland and #adoption never forget when Denmark kidnapped 22 inuit children and sent them to Denmark in order to make them "cultured" and Danish, so they could go back and modernise Greenland. 🥚
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...
Little Danes experiment - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Speaking of #Greenland and #adoption never forget when Denmark kidnapped 22 inuit children and sent them to Denmark in order to make them "cultured" and Danish, so they could go back and modernise Greenland. 🥚
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...
The men are coming about our leak.I am up about an hour before I should be. Can't find my glasses, typing this out pure blind. I hope they can sort the leak and also that I can go back to bed.
January 5, 2026 at 6:57 AM
The men are coming about our leak.I am up about an hour before I should be. Can't find my glasses, typing this out pure blind. I hope they can sort the leak and also that I can go back to bed.
Awake in the middle of the night, which sucks. I often wake up to an earworm. The last two days it has been Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas', which I don't care for. Tonight it is 'I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)'. A refreshing surprise.
January 4, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Awake in the middle of the night, which sucks. I often wake up to an earworm. The last two days it has been Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas', which I don't care for. Tonight it is 'I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)'. A refreshing surprise.
Reposted by Bets Von Count
Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
Sinister night birds are early this year. It's not even January.
December 31, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Sinister night birds are early this year. It's not even January.
Reposted by Bets Von Count
AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT:
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
December 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT:
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
Reposted by Bets Von Count
If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.
December 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.
Reposted by Bets Von Count
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
December 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
My brother in law got me an otter!! I am the adoptive parent of an otter! Best Christmas ever!
December 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
My brother in law got me an otter!! I am the adoptive parent of an otter! Best Christmas ever!
Reposted by Bets Von Count
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
Reposted by Bets Von Count
Fourth wise man gave Jesus the gift of Lynx Africa buff.ly/RboP1DZ
December 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Fourth wise man gave Jesus the gift of Lynx Africa buff.ly/RboP1DZ
Terrible idea to start 'Home For Christmas' season 3 at this hour of the night. I need some anti histamines, stat!
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Terrible idea to start 'Home For Christmas' season 3 at this hour of the night. I need some anti histamines, stat!
Reposted by Bets Von Count
my latest in The Ditch. Ireland is not immune to foreign interference, but it comes in many guises, not just from state actors. and it won't always be this clumsy
CitizenGo’s attempted intervention in the presidential election was clumsy but remarkable: a foreign political organisation whose board includes a corrupt ex-politician linked to an international money laundering scheme tried to influence an Irish election
www.ontheditch.com/the-foreign-...
www.ontheditch.com/the-foreign-...
Foreign political organisation tried to interfere in Ireland
Its board includes a corrupt ex-politician linked to an international money laundering scheme.
www.ontheditch.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
my latest in The Ditch. Ireland is not immune to foreign interference, but it comes in many guises, not just from state actors. and it won't always be this clumsy
Reposted by Bets Von Count
I haven’t even looked at half of Josep Goded’s posts over the past 24 hours and I’m STUNNED at the number of Israeli attacks on civilians in the West Bank and Gaza‼️😭🤬 And, the world looks away and govts do NOTHING to stop Israel, & even aid and abet THE TERRORIST STATE OF ISRAEL IN ITS GENOCIDE ‼️
🇵🇸🇵🇸
🇵🇸🇵🇸
Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, during the night, abducting several Palestinians as raids took place across the West Bank.
December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I haven’t even looked at half of Josep Goded’s posts over the past 24 hours and I’m STUNNED at the number of Israeli attacks on civilians in the West Bank and Gaza‼️😭🤬 And, the world looks away and govts do NOTHING to stop Israel, & even aid and abet THE TERRORIST STATE OF ISRAEL IN ITS GENOCIDE ‼️
🇵🇸🇵🇸
🇵🇸🇵🇸
