Will
@thatwillb.bsky.social
He/him. Autistic chronic undersharer. Welsh learner. Prynhawn da in bio.
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Will
@thatwillb.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I've forgotten how to have pithy thoughts since my Twitter account was nuked. Hey.
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the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
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Not this debunked howler again. For the millionth time, left-wing people call the BBC right-wing because its news output has a clear and repeatedly proven right-leaning bias; right-wing people call it left-wing because some of the presenters are black. Not equal and opposite in any way.
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Not this debunked howler again. For the millionth time, left-wing people call the BBC right-wing because its news output has a clear and repeatedly proven right-leaning bias; right-wing people call it left-wing because some of the presenters are black. Not equal and opposite in any way.
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It's wild seeing people act surprised that Keir 'Alpaca attacker' Starmer is authoritarian. The guy that deported someone for stealing ice cream. The cunt so servile to america that he tried having an autistic man sent to Guantanimo for trying to find out if aliens existed.
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
It's wild seeing people act surprised that Keir 'Alpaca attacker' Starmer is authoritarian. The guy that deported someone for stealing ice cream. The cunt so servile to america that he tried having an autistic man sent to Guantanimo for trying to find out if aliens existed.
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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/us-news/2025...
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 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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Friday the US Supreme Court is set to discuss whether to hear a challenge to Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark decision which extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide. 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 💔
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Friday the US Supreme Court is set to discuss whether to hear a challenge to Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark decision which extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide. 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 💔
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The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
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wow it's almost like systematically dismantling the nhs, while making every single aspect of life harder and more stressful, while just ignoring a plague, while deliberately withdrawing support for people with longterm ill health, while
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
wow it's almost like systematically dismantling the nhs, while making every single aspect of life harder and more stressful, while just ignoring a plague, while deliberately withdrawing support for people with longterm ill health, while
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It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.
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The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
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Good morning autistic comrades
Before you blame yourself for being “too sensitive”, ask what you’re being asked to tolerate.
Not everything that overwhelms you needs fixing.
Some things need leaving behind.
Before you blame yourself for being “too sensitive”, ask what you’re being asked to tolerate.
Not everything that overwhelms you needs fixing.
Some things need leaving behind.
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Good morning autistic comrades
Before you blame yourself for being “too sensitive”, ask what you’re being asked to tolerate.
Not everything that overwhelms you needs fixing.
Some things need leaving behind.
Before you blame yourself for being “too sensitive”, ask what you’re being asked to tolerate.
Not everything that overwhelms you needs fixing.
Some things need leaving behind.
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This from X is a striking example of what I argue in today’s column. Reform and the Tories are out here gleefully saying disabled people on Motability should be forced to drive a 3-wheeler, like a scarlet letter. The stigma is not an accident - it’s the design.
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This from X is a striking example of what I argue in today’s column. Reform and the Tories are out here gleefully saying disabled people on Motability should be forced to drive a 3-wheeler, like a scarlet letter. The stigma is not an accident - it’s the design.
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Every time a journalist asks someone to comment on this they help shift it from being totally unthinkable to being a live controversy. Then, it will be a legal debate with two legitimate schools of thought. Then it will happen.
Tuberville on Trump's third term: "He might be able to go around the Constitution, but that's up to him."
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Every time a journalist asks someone to comment on this they help shift it from being totally unthinkable to being a live controversy. Then, it will be a legal debate with two legitimate schools of thought. Then it will happen.
Never seen the Manic Street Preachers and the League of Gentlemen in the same room
October 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Never seen the Manic Street Preachers and the League of Gentlemen in the same room
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seen quite a few REPOST OR YOU'LL HAVE A BAD TIME things going round later which I know can be tough for some so here is FOREVER IMMUNITY DOG for you all
October 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
seen quite a few REPOST OR YOU'LL HAVE A BAD TIME things going round later which I know can be tough for some so here is FOREVER IMMUNITY DOG for you all
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UK Politics. The "Reform lead" in opinion polls is propped up by older voters.
October 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
UK Politics. The "Reform lead" in opinion polls is propped up by older voters.
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"The enemy is both strong and weak" is number 8 on Umberto Eco's list of the common features of fascism.
so strange that the Green Party are simultaneously much too small to be an effective political force and a big enough threat to Labour that voting for them makes you an evil wrecker who is personally responsible for Lord Protector Nigel Farage.
October 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"The enemy is both strong and weak" is number 8 on Umberto Eco's list of the common features of fascism.
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On the question of why everyone hates the current PM, here: this feels exactly right to me. And straight up, I do not feel like any replacement leader who would be tolerated by the press could do better than this. Possibly worse, if anything.
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
On the question of why everyone hates the current PM, here: this feels exactly right to me. And straight up, I do not feel like any replacement leader who would be tolerated by the press could do better than this. Possibly worse, if anything.
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Music used to have a message. It used to tell us things like ting tang walla walla bing bang. Now it’s all about hot wet butts.
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Music used to have a message. It used to tell us things like ting tang walla walla bing bang. Now it’s all about hot wet butts.
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If you're going to volunteer at a food bank because of the current times, please consider wearing a mask when helping distributing food. Even if they're not wearing a mask themselves, poor people have enough to deal with right now, getting an infectious disease just adds to the burden.
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you're going to volunteer at a food bank because of the current times, please consider wearing a mask when helping distributing food. Even if they're not wearing a mask themselves, poor people have enough to deal with right now, getting an infectious disease just adds to the burden.
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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great wikipedia illustration en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-...
October 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
great wikipedia illustration en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-...
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Jo Cox was killed by a far right terrorist. Brianna Ghey was killed by transphobic classmates with violent and dehumanising obsessions. Neither murder had anything to do with being more civil or the victims’ presence on social media
October 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Jo Cox was killed by a far right terrorist. Brianna Ghey was killed by transphobic classmates with violent and dehumanising obsessions. Neither murder had anything to do with being more civil or the victims’ presence on social media