jenny breadful
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librarian. cat lady. parkrunner. sunglass enthusiast. she/her.
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The WI gives an honourable statement in response to an enforced decision. There's more in the article
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The WI gives an honourable statement in response to an enforced decision. There's more in the article
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‘The people running the library seem not to see their institution as a library at all, in the sense of furthering the diffusion of knowledge or the nourishment of community.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
‘The people running the library seem not to see their institution as a library at all, in the sense of furthering the diffusion of knowledge or the nourishment of community.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This feels like the central toxicity of these dude-gurus: They're feeding men an ideology that immediately casts it as "virtue signaling" whenever anyone states a moral value of any kind. An explicitly nihilistic worldview and a recipe for lifelong misery.
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This feels like the central toxicity of these dude-gurus: They're feeding men an ideology that immediately casts it as "virtue signaling" whenever anyone states a moral value of any kind. An explicitly nihilistic worldview and a recipe for lifelong misery.
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What I said about girl guides goes the same for the women’s institute.
I’m fucking fed up of billionaires stripping away ordinary folks’ little bits of joy and community.
I’m fucking fed up of billionaires stripping away ordinary folks’ little bits of joy and community.
I have a higher proportion of trans people in my life than the average person in the U.K. - trans men and trans women as well as some enbys, most of them are young adults.
In no way shape or form would any of them (now or a few years ago as kids) pose any kind of threat to a bunch of girl guides. 🏳️⚧️🫶
In no way shape or form would any of them (now or a few years ago as kids) pose any kind of threat to a bunch of girl guides. 🏳️⚧️🫶
December 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What I said about girl guides goes the same for the women’s institute.
I’m fucking fed up of billionaires stripping away ordinary folks’ little bits of joy and community.
I’m fucking fed up of billionaires stripping away ordinary folks’ little bits of joy and community.
this is like that bit in The Simpsons where Homer's brother makes his employee who talked shit about Homer call him back and say the opposite so that Bart and Lisa can hear it
Sen. Roger Marshall on Trump's health: "I'll work 110 hours a week. He outworks me. He's the first person I've ever known that works harder than I do. He runs around that golf course. He's in incredible shape right now. And you talk about sharp! He's playing 4 dimensional chess"
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
this is like that bit in The Simpsons where Homer's brother makes his employee who talked shit about Homer call him back and say the opposite so that Bart and Lisa can hear it
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Agreed. You have to make sure you are directing your justifiable anger toward the perpetrators.
Being angry at the Womens Institute or Girl Guides is like being mad at someone for being taken hostage and complying with the guy with the gun.
Being angry at the Womens Institute or Girl Guides is like being mad at someone for being taken hostage and complying with the guy with the gun.
Like, this is why they're targetting those organisations. They're shooting fish in a barrel because they know those organisations can't fight back. The organsiations that want to be trans inclusive are allies, not the enemy. Don't let the actual villains convince you otherwise
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Agreed. You have to make sure you are directing your justifiable anger toward the perpetrators.
Being angry at the Womens Institute or Girl Guides is like being mad at someone for being taken hostage and complying with the guy with the gun.
Being angry at the Womens Institute or Girl Guides is like being mad at someone for being taken hostage and complying with the guy with the gun.
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This correct, and almost none of it is organically arising from the public. The relentless fear and hate of the last decade was deliberately imposed by opportunist politicians, toxic media outlets, crackpot activists and malignant squillionaires, working hand in hand towards similar goals.
There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This correct, and almost none of it is organically arising from the public. The relentless fear and hate of the last decade was deliberately imposed by opportunist politicians, toxic media outlets, crackpot activists and malignant squillionaires, working hand in hand towards similar goals.
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What you DO NOT DO is clutch pearls and talk about "respect and dignity" while you surrender to fascism and expect the people you're excising from society to give you a "there, there, now. we know it was hard" pat on the back.
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
What you DO NOT DO is clutch pearls and talk about "respect and dignity" while you surrender to fascism and expect the people you're excising from society to give you a "there, there, now. we know it was hard" pat on the back.
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing
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Google is using enshittigication to punish people for refusing to use their AI.
Disabling Gemini now also disables things like spellcheck and inbox tabs in gmail, basic features of the service that existed long before AI.
They can't make the carrot appealing, so they employ the stick.
Disabling Gemini now also disables things like spellcheck and inbox tabs in gmail, basic features of the service that existed long before AI.
They can't make the carrot appealing, so they employ the stick.
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Google is using enshittigication to punish people for refusing to use their AI.
Disabling Gemini now also disables things like spellcheck and inbox tabs in gmail, basic features of the service that existed long before AI.
They can't make the carrot appealing, so they employ the stick.
Disabling Gemini now also disables things like spellcheck and inbox tabs in gmail, basic features of the service that existed long before AI.
They can't make the carrot appealing, so they employ the stick.
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boys being boys (being violent to girls & queer people & each other) is just normal and fine of course. that's the whole damn ruling class of [insert country here]. god forbid a "boy" exists who likes hanging out with girls and she herself is a girl who considers other girls her equals
i love this point bc it really is so absurd that so much of transmisogyny is predicated on protecting girls from the violence of boys so one would think that actively encouraging boys to view girls as their peers and confidants would be good. and yet
very funny to me that both liberal and radical feminist legal policy are complete and utter failures of projects because in response to a situation where "boys" want to play with girls and associate with girls the response by the state is to ban this to ensure it's either become a patriarch or die
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
boys being boys (being violent to girls & queer people & each other) is just normal and fine of course. that's the whole damn ruling class of [insert country here]. god forbid a "boy" exists who likes hanging out with girls and she herself is a girl who considers other girls her equals
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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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In a time when governments need to learn, they continually demonstrate that they have learned exactly nothing. Government is about being the custodian of the well-being of 26 million people - this is not custodianship, it's incompetence bordering on negligence.
EXCLUSIVE: Funding and support plans for national disability insurance scheme participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
In a time when governments need to learn, they continually demonstrate that they have learned exactly nothing. Government is about being the custodian of the well-being of 26 million people - this is not custodianship, it's incompetence bordering on negligence.
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". . . without government policy also reducing the ability of property speculators to outbid homeowners . . . the problem will take much longer to solve," writes Australia Institute Chief Economist Greg Jericho in The Point.
Read here: thepoint.com.au/news/251203-...
Read here: thepoint.com.au/news/251203-...
December 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
". . . without government policy also reducing the ability of property speculators to outbid homeowners . . . the problem will take much longer to solve," writes Australia Institute Chief Economist Greg Jericho in The Point.
Read here: thepoint.com.au/news/251203-...
Read here: thepoint.com.au/news/251203-...
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Enormous shout-out to the Australian and Kiwi librarians standing up to Elsevier. This is killer.
Librarians versus the world
Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Enormous shout-out to the Australian and Kiwi librarians standing up to Elsevier. This is killer.
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James Cameron on how close he came to directing 1993’s Jurassic Park & what he thinks of Steven Spielberg’s adaptation. I love this for the honesty, modesty & graciousness of Cameron’s reflections. (It’s from the latest edition of the estimable Empire magazine.)
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
James Cameron on how close he came to directing 1993’s Jurassic Park & what he thinks of Steven Spielberg’s adaptation. I love this for the honesty, modesty & graciousness of Cameron’s reflections. (It’s from the latest edition of the estimable Empire magazine.)
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This is a good Q with a bunch of useful replies - also reminds me of the fuzziness around SUV (there are now SUVs that are remarkably small??)
At some point it's worth just switching to a number (like the mass or volume of a car, or the absolute energy consumption of a digital service)
At some point it's worth just switching to a number (like the mass or volume of a car, or the absolute energy consumption of a digital service)
Whenever I mention AI on here, I am encouraged to note the difference between AI in the form of large language models (LLMs), which everyone hates, and AI in the form of machine learning (ML), which everyone seems to feel is just fine.
Question: is there a clear distinction or is it a spectrum?
Question: is there a clear distinction or is it a spectrum?
December 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is a good Q with a bunch of useful replies - also reminds me of the fuzziness around SUV (there are now SUVs that are remarkably small??)
At some point it's worth just switching to a number (like the mass or volume of a car, or the absolute energy consumption of a digital service)
At some point it's worth just switching to a number (like the mass or volume of a car, or the absolute energy consumption of a digital service)
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You really need an acid bath after reading this puff piece shit
Excellent article for reminding everyone why new gas fields need to be banned and gas companies need to be taxed out of existence.
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Trump wants to ‘drill, baby, drill’. This Australian giant is happy to help
Oil and gas giant Woodside is expanding in the US under its American chief executive. Over brunch in New York, Meg O’Neill explains why she thinks the climate conversation has fundamentally changed.
www.smh.com.au
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
You really need an acid bath after reading this puff piece shit
Welcome to Derry will always be conflated with Derry Girls in my mind and we all know Pennywise would not have lasted five minutes against that crew
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Welcome to Derry will always be conflated with Derry Girls in my mind and we all know Pennywise would not have lasted five minutes against that crew
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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I feel like we're moving closer to the inevitable day when Liz Truss announces she's defected to Reform, and Reform frantically spins that she absolutely has not
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I feel like we're moving closer to the inevitable day when Liz Truss announces she's defected to Reform, and Reform frantically spins that she absolutely has not
me: well what else am i gonna eat, i can't just have garlic bread for dinner
my husband: you could put cheese on it
this is why i married him lol
my husband: you could put cheese on it
this is why i married him lol
December 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
me: well what else am i gonna eat, i can't just have garlic bread for dinner
my husband: you could put cheese on it
this is why i married him lol
my husband: you could put cheese on it
this is why i married him lol
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I resent gen-AI for this so much. It's literally stealing joy because you now have to suspect every image you see instead of simply enjoying it.
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I resent gen-AI for this so much. It's literally stealing joy because you now have to suspect every image you see instead of simply enjoying it.