megan
@meganmay.bsky.social
Green Party, Unite the Union, feminist organiser. Pro abortion pro trans pro sex work decrim. She/her
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
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We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
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If you’re based in Scotland, please stand in solidarity with sex workers by coming to Scotland for Decrim’s protest outside Scottish Parliament next Tuesday. Sex workers and allies will be there protesting Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic model bill.
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you’re based in Scotland, please stand in solidarity with sex workers by coming to Scotland for Decrim’s protest outside Scottish Parliament next Tuesday. Sex workers and allies will be there protesting Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic model bill.
It’s soggy as hell outside today, why is the UK so damp.. 😭
November 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It’s soggy as hell outside today, why is the UK so damp.. 😭
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Our ancient texts have been forgotten by the community
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Our ancient texts have been forgotten by the community
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Everyone deserves to be housed in a community, not a camp, and the sound of gunfire and explosions are just one of the many ways that accommodation at Crowborough is utterly unsuitable for people seeking sanctuary.
#CommunitiesNotCamps
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
#CommunitiesNotCamps
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Fury as asylum seekers fleeing war zones housed near police firearms test site
The government plans to house asylum seekers at a military training camp in East Sussex - but campaigners fear its proximity to a police firearms test centre could be re-traumatising
www.mirror.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Everyone deserves to be housed in a community, not a camp, and the sound of gunfire and explosions are just one of the many ways that accommodation at Crowborough is utterly unsuitable for people seeking sanctuary.
#CommunitiesNotCamps
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
#CommunitiesNotCamps
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Morgan McSweeney assuring Starmer that no No 10 staff briefed against ministers:
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Morgan McSweeney assuring Starmer that no No 10 staff briefed against ministers:
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COMMENTARIAT: Streeting is statemanlike, a man of the people. He has really impressed me today.
STREETING: If anything, nurses get paid too much! They're like a Mexican cartel!
STREETING: If anything, nurses get paid too much! They're like a Mexican cartel!
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
COMMENTARIAT: Streeting is statemanlike, a man of the people. He has really impressed me today.
STREETING: If anything, nurses get paid too much! They're like a Mexican cartel!
STREETING: If anything, nurses get paid too much! They're like a Mexican cartel!
I’ll be speaking at this event on the 27th Nov on behalf of Decrim Now - please come along if you’re a trade union member!
Trade union support is a key part of the fight for sex workers’ rights. We need your help in order to win decrim and protect sex workers’ safety, health, and rights.
Trade union support is a key part of the fight for sex workers’ rights. We need your help in order to win decrim and protect sex workers’ safety, health, and rights.
Is sex work a trade union issue?
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I’ll be speaking at this event on the 27th Nov on behalf of Decrim Now - please come along if you’re a trade union member!
Trade union support is a key part of the fight for sex workers’ rights. We need your help in order to win decrim and protect sex workers’ safety, health, and rights.
Trade union support is a key part of the fight for sex workers’ rights. We need your help in order to win decrim and protect sex workers’ safety, health, and rights.
This is honestly one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever read.
“Goodman and Clay believed that letters were the least reliable of the three cues, and that as people became better readers, they no longer needed to pay attention to all the letters in words.” This is literally not what reading is
“Goodman and Clay believed that letters were the least reliable of the three cues, and that as people became better readers, they no longer needed to pay attention to all the letters in words.” This is literally not what reading is
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is honestly one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever read.
“Goodman and Clay believed that letters were the least reliable of the three cues, and that as people became better readers, they no longer needed to pay attention to all the letters in words.” This is literally not what reading is
“Goodman and Clay believed that letters were the least reliable of the three cues, and that as people became better readers, they no longer needed to pay attention to all the letters in words.” This is literally not what reading is
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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
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Is sex work a trade union issue?
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Is sex work a trade union issue?
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
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When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
BREAKING: Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
Tim Davie has resigned as the BBC's director-general.
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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It's pretty obvious that incitement to violence (ostensibly a police matter) is OK with this government as long as the targets are trans. Unless the message is that you can say whatever you like online with no consequences
Police must focus on ‘streets not tweets’, says Wes Streeting after Graham Linehan arrest
Police must focus on ‘streets not tweets’, says Wes Streeting after Graham Linehan arrest
Health secretary subtly blamed Tory governments after Father Ted writer arrested over social media posts
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UK politics live – latest updates
Keir Starmer wants the police to “focus on policing streets and not tweets”, Wes Streeting has said, after the writer of TV’s Father Ted was arrested at Heathrow over three social media posts on transgender issues.
Graham Linehan, who also created the IT Crowd, said he was intercepted by five armed officers after flying in from Arizona, and told he was under arrest over the posts. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
It's pretty obvious that incitement to violence (ostensibly a police matter) is OK with this government as long as the targets are trans. Unless the message is that you can say whatever you like online with no consequences
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"Life changing policies"
1. You'll be poorer
2. Or destitute or dead, if you're disabled
3. If you're already poor, we're upping the likelihood that your kid will die
4. We're arresting your gran for terrorism, if she survived winter
5. Make Britain racist & queerphobic again!
6. Ban the trans
1. You'll be poorer
2. Or destitute or dead, if you're disabled
3. If you're already poor, we're upping the likelihood that your kid will die
4. We're arresting your gran for terrorism, if she survived winter
5. Make Britain racist & queerphobic again!
6. Ban the trans
Why aren't Labour's life-changing policies connecting with voters - and what can the party do? It's down to messaging, how it's told, and the messengers...
Why don’t Labour’s workers’ and renters’ rights reforms cut through to voters – and how should they? – LabourList
When millions of workers and renters don’t know you’re doing more to improve their rights than any government in half a century, something is going…
labourlist.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"Life changing policies"
1. You'll be poorer
2. Or destitute or dead, if you're disabled
3. If you're already poor, we're upping the likelihood that your kid will die
4. We're arresting your gran for terrorism, if she survived winter
5. Make Britain racist & queerphobic again!
6. Ban the trans
1. You'll be poorer
2. Or destitute or dead, if you're disabled
3. If you're already poor, we're upping the likelihood that your kid will die
4. We're arresting your gran for terrorism, if she survived winter
5. Make Britain racist & queerphobic again!
6. Ban the trans
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Because it’s drowned out by the hateful, racist shit of Labour’s immigration policies, which they drone on about pretty much every day.
Why aren't Labour's life-changing policies connecting with voters - and what can the party do? It's down to messaging, how it's told, and the messengers...
Why don’t Labour’s workers’ and renters’ rights reforms cut through to voters – and how should they? – LabourList
When millions of workers and renters don’t know you’re doing more to improve their rights than any government in half a century, something is going…
labourlist.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Because it’s drowned out by the hateful, racist shit of Labour’s immigration policies, which they drone on about pretty much every day.
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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
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You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.
Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war
With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.