Conor Mc Bride
@pigworker.bsky.social
they/them
I'm Conor. I'm a nonbinary
Computer Scientist. God loves irony.
Femme presenting apartheid target. Cardiac outpatient. Hatstand owner. Tomato grower. Doctor Who fan.
@pigworker@types.pl on fedi
I'm Conor. I'm a nonbinary
Computer Scientist. God loves irony.
Femme presenting apartheid target. Cardiac outpatient. Hatstand owner. Tomato grower. Doctor Who fan.
@pigworker@types.pl on fedi
The people who elected Donald Trump are responsible for the political actions of Donald Trump.
Those actions are genocidal. I don't blame him. I blame all of youse.
Those actions are genocidal. I don't blame him. I blame all of youse.
December 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The people who elected Donald Trump are responsible for the political actions of Donald Trump.
Those actions are genocidal. I don't blame him. I blame all of youse.
Those actions are genocidal. I don't blame him. I blame all of youse.
I will not blame the USA on Trump. I will blame Trump on the USA.
December 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I will not blame the USA on Trump. I will blame Trump on the USA.
FUCKING STUPID VOTERS WANTED TO BE LIED TO
December 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
FUCKING STUPID VOTERS WANTED TO BE LIED TO
"If it didn't cause death on a large scale, our business model would be fucked." is why we tolerate *cars*.
December 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"If it didn't cause death on a large scale, our business model would be fucked." is why we tolerate *cars*.
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North American politics at its finest.
December 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
North American politics at its finest.
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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
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Sup losers~ looks like I'm going to be in London for the new year!
Don't have any plans for new years celebrations so hmu if you have something I could join!
Don't have any plans for new years celebrations so hmu if you have something I could join!
December 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sup losers~ looks like I'm going to be in London for the new year!
Don't have any plans for new years celebrations so hmu if you have something I could join!
Don't have any plans for new years celebrations so hmu if you have something I could join!
HANGMEN ALSO DIE
MERRY CHRISTMAS
MERRY CHRISTMAS
December 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
HANGMEN ALSO DIE
MERRY CHRISTMAS
MERRY CHRISTMAS
If Trump wants to claim to not remember being a pedo, the best move he could make is to shit himself in white trousers on a golf course.
December 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
If Trump wants to claim to not remember being a pedo, the best move he could make is to shit himself in white trousers on a golf course.
Is "Galen" about to become rhyming slang?
December 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Is "Galen" about to become rhyming slang?
In the future, El Salvador will have a tourist industry based on Americans going to visit what Americans voted to do to Americans.
December 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
In the future, El Salvador will have a tourist industry based on Americans going to visit what Americans voted to do to Americans.
Trump needs the machine of unelected repression more than the machine of unelected repression needs Trump. Any president will do, as long as there is no comeback to the brutes at the sharp end.
I call it the Praetorian threshold: when the police state decides it must protect itself at all costs.
I call it the Praetorian threshold: when the police state decides it must protect itself at all costs.
December 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Trump needs the machine of unelected repression more than the machine of unelected repression needs Trump. Any president will do, as long as there is no comeback to the brutes at the sharp end.
I call it the Praetorian threshold: when the police state decides it must protect itself at all costs.
I call it the Praetorian threshold: when the police state decides it must protect itself at all costs.
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But that’s only one of the advantages…
December 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
But that’s only one of the advantages…
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she said you can do just exactly
what you want to
Thanks God I said
And is it even okay if I don't paragraph
my letters
Sweetcakes God said
who knows where she picked that up
what I'm telling you is
Yes Yes Yes
—God Says Yes To Me
By Kaylin Haught
what you want to
Thanks God I said
And is it even okay if I don't paragraph
my letters
Sweetcakes God said
who knows where she picked that up
what I'm telling you is
Yes Yes Yes
—God Says Yes To Me
By Kaylin Haught
December 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
she said you can do just exactly
what you want to
Thanks God I said
And is it even okay if I don't paragraph
my letters
Sweetcakes God said
who knows where she picked that up
what I'm telling you is
Yes Yes Yes
—God Says Yes To Me
By Kaylin Haught
what you want to
Thanks God I said
And is it even okay if I don't paragraph
my letters
Sweetcakes God said
who knows where she picked that up
what I'm telling you is
Yes Yes Yes
—God Says Yes To Me
By Kaylin Haught
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Would anyone like a poem?
I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said yes
I asked her if it was okay to be short
and she said it sure is
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish
and she said honey
she calls me that sometimes
I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said yes
I asked her if it was okay to be short
and she said it sure is
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish
and she said honey
she calls me that sometimes
December 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Would anyone like a poem?
I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said yes
I asked her if it was okay to be short
and she said it sure is
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish
and she said honey
she calls me that sometimes
I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said yes
I asked her if it was okay to be short
and she said it sure is
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish
and she said honey
she calls me that sometimes
Travelling from Sheffield to Glasgow, I broke my journey in Edinburgh last night to run an errand. I was on the return part of an Off-Peak Return, and carrying on with the rest of my journey, within the ticket’s month of validity.
But the app today said “used ticket”, and that caused grief.
But the app today said “used ticket”, and that caused grief.
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Travelling from Sheffield to Glasgow, I broke my journey in Edinburgh last night to run an errand. I was on the return part of an Off-Peak Return, and carrying on with the rest of my journey, within the ticket’s month of validity.
But the app today said “used ticket”, and that caused grief.
But the app today said “used ticket”, and that caused grief.
The reason I wish people didn't refer to the UK as "TERF Island" isn't only that it erases the parts of the UK which are not Great Britain (e.g., the bigoted part I come from).
It's because it fumbles the chance to notice nearby Ireland, where (apart from the bit in the UK), Gender Self-Id ftw!
It's because it fumbles the chance to notice nearby Ireland, where (apart from the bit in the UK), Gender Self-Id ftw!
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The reason I wish people didn't refer to the UK as "TERF Island" isn't only that it erases the parts of the UK which are not Great Britain (e.g., the bigoted part I come from).
It's because it fumbles the chance to notice nearby Ireland, where (apart from the bit in the UK), Gender Self-Id ftw!
It's because it fumbles the chance to notice nearby Ireland, where (apart from the bit in the UK), Gender Self-Id ftw!
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Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans
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That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people
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Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans
Please give it a follow to stay up to date 🏳️⚧️🧬
Please give it a follow to stay up to date 🏳️⚧️🧬
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call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
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"Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power".
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power".
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed
The "The camp male villain passes through the police cordon by dragging up." escape happened a lot in late 60s/early 70s television. I can think of at least two versions of it in Special Branch alone. It wouldn't happen now, because police officers today can just see "biology".
December 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The "The camp male villain passes through the police cordon by dragging up." escape happened a lot in late 60s/early 70s television. I can think of at least two versions of it in Special Branch alone. It wouldn't happen now, because police officers today can just see "biology".
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
I'm afraid David Walliams will live on as the unimaginative way drunk men choose things to shout at trans women.
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I'm afraid David Walliams will live on as the unimaginative way drunk men choose things to shout at trans women.
I hope you're all enjoying the Epstein Filet.
December 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I hope you're all enjoying the Epstein Filet.
Paedophilia is a status symbol of success. It's only wrong when the wrong people do it.
That's the culture I grew up with. I come from 1953.
That's the culture I grew up with. I come from 1953.
December 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Paedophilia is a status symbol of success. It's only wrong when the wrong people do it.
That's the culture I grew up with. I come from 1953.
That's the culture I grew up with. I come from 1953.