Amy Alex Parent
@amyinorbit.bsky.social
I make pixel planes go woosh! Lanky roller derby skater, full time queer👩🏻💻💫🏳️🌈 (I’m an expensive sushi)
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Feeling festive? Buy a trans person a blood test!
gofund.me/9ab28a116
gofund.me/9ab28a116
Donate to Blood tests for trans people in Edinburgh, organized by Josie Giles
We're raising money for a pilot scheme to provide free blood tests to trans peop… Josie Giles needs your support for Blood tests for trans people in Edinburgh
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December 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Feeling festive? Buy a trans person a blood test!
gofund.me/9ab28a116
gofund.me/9ab28a116
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Reminder, the guy who runs ChatGPT is being sued by his little sister for sexually abusing her for a decade: www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/b...
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reminder, the guy who runs ChatGPT is being sued by his little sister for sexually abusing her for a decade: www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/b...
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"The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial."
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on...
www.lemkininstitute.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial."
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
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So idk let’s maybe stay a bit critical of this incredibly convenient narrative from a crisis management AI company that dismisses criticism of the white feminist billionaire, even if that narrative does kind of sort of align with bad things that we know do happen online
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So idk let’s maybe stay a bit critical of this incredibly convenient narrative from a crisis management AI company that dismisses criticism of the white feminist billionaire, even if that narrative does kind of sort of align with bad things that we know do happen online
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💥 Seventy thousand women have now signed our letter. Seventy thousand women saying clearly that exclusion is not in our name and that trans people deserve dignity, safety and belonging.
🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk
#NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite
🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk
#NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
💥 Seventy thousand women have now signed our letter. Seventy thousand women saying clearly that exclusion is not in our name and that trans people deserve dignity, safety and belonging.
🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk
#NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite
🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk
#NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite
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Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
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I had to deal with this awkward and humiliating line of questioning that has absolutely no relevance to trans healthcare
And I had to wait three years for it.
And they denied my application.
The NGS is inhumane and not fit for purpose.
And I had to wait three years for it.
And they denied my application.
The NGS is inhumane and not fit for purpose.
There is absolutely no excuse or reason why this line of questioning should be allowed to continue in a free and open society in Ireland #SpéirGorm trans people should no longer be subject to this tortuous human rights violation they call healthcare! Fuck the NGS!
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December 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I had to deal with this awkward and humiliating line of questioning that has absolutely no relevance to trans healthcare
And I had to wait three years for it.
And they denied my application.
The NGS is inhumane and not fit for purpose.
And I had to wait three years for it.
And they denied my application.
The NGS is inhumane and not fit for purpose.
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If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
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i think we have to get off the defensive on immigration
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
i think we have to get off the defensive on immigration
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits
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As always, the West will dismantle itself for Israel's genocide. Now the UK is openly replacing impartial judges days before important Palestine cases wrap up, without any explanation or clarification. Any pretense of fairness in the legal system is gone.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
As always, the West will dismantle itself for Israel's genocide. Now the UK is openly replacing impartial judges days before important Palestine cases wrap up, without any explanation or clarification. Any pretense of fairness in the legal system is gone.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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This. I've been working with "machine learning" since before the current AI-fever and it's an invaluable tool in science and engineering.
LLMs and GenAI are being misused in a criminally negligent way and using misplaced legitimacy to do it, and that misdirect cannot be allowed to continue.
LLMs and GenAI are being misused in a criminally negligent way and using misplaced legitimacy to do it, and that misdirect cannot be allowed to continue.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This. I've been working with "machine learning" since before the current AI-fever and it's an invaluable tool in science and engineering.
LLMs and GenAI are being misused in a criminally negligent way and using misplaced legitimacy to do it, and that misdirect cannot be allowed to continue.
LLMs and GenAI are being misused in a criminally negligent way and using misplaced legitimacy to do it, and that misdirect cannot be allowed to continue.
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
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It's not normal for a professor to start a class discussing how they "regret" being best buddies with a child sex trafficker and asking them for advice on how to abuse their position to coerce sex from former students.
He shouldn't be there at all. This is an institutional failure.
He shouldn't be there at all. This is an institutional failure.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It's not normal for a professor to start a class discussing how they "regret" being best buddies with a child sex trafficker and asking them for advice on how to abuse their position to coerce sex from former students.
He shouldn't be there at all. This is an institutional failure.
He shouldn't be there at all. This is an institutional failure.
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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burning down the world’s rainforests so we can lie worse about what an $8 lipstick might look like on a pair of actual human lips. phenomenal, wow
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
burning down the world’s rainforests so we can lie worse about what an $8 lipstick might look like on a pair of actual human lips. phenomenal, wow
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My group will be boycotting LPSC and any other LPI meetings.
My group will be boycotting LPSC and any other LPI meetings.
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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My group will be boycotting LPSC and any other LPI meetings.
My group will be boycotting LPSC and any other LPI meetings.
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the lesson media people should take from the BBC blow up last week is that no matter how transphobic your editorial bent is, it will never ever ever satisfy the fascists
"One irony of this situation is that while those on the British left tend to defend the BBC on principle, they are often exasperated by its deference to the right-wing press..."
Exactly.
"The Plan to Bring Down a Giant." www.cjr.org/the_media_to... in Columbia Journalism Review.
Recommended.
Exactly.
"The Plan to Bring Down a Giant." www.cjr.org/the_media_to... in Columbia Journalism Review.
Recommended.
The Plan to Bring Down a Giant: How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC.
How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC.
www.cjr.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
the lesson media people should take from the BBC blow up last week is that no matter how transphobic your editorial bent is, it will never ever ever satisfy the fascists
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if you are disgusted by government proposals for refugees - please, please write to both your local MP and to public.enquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk
Fill their inbox with your shock and dismay. Be polite but be clear
If you want text then I'm happy to share what I wrote
Fill their inbox with your shock and dismay. Be polite but be clear
If you want text then I'm happy to share what I wrote
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
if you are disgusted by government proposals for refugees - please, please write to both your local MP and to public.enquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk
Fill their inbox with your shock and dismay. Be polite but be clear
If you want text then I'm happy to share what I wrote
Fill their inbox with your shock and dismay. Be polite but be clear
If you want text then I'm happy to share what I wrote
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The way Labour are talking about migrants validates far right narratives of dehumanisation *at a time of far right riots and racist violence*. The leadership group responsible needs to be removed right now as a matter of public safety. This is simply a factual description of the situation before us.
Honestly, the potential case for getting rid of Starmer before was the lack of any political project and absence of charisma. But now No.10 is creating a moral imperative for the PLP to act as well.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The way Labour are talking about migrants validates far right narratives of dehumanisation *at a time of far right riots and racist violence*. The leadership group responsible needs to be removed right now as a matter of public safety. This is simply a factual description of the situation before us.
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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The LLM thing is remarkable because if anyone was like "I never went to medical school anyway here's my magic anti disease device pls give 100 billion" they'd be laughed out the room or beaten with sticks but we're supposed to let guys who never read a book hand us an app claiming it'll write them
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The LLM thing is remarkable because if anyone was like "I never went to medical school anyway here's my magic anti disease device pls give 100 billion" they'd be laughed out the room or beaten with sticks but we're supposed to let guys who never read a book hand us an app claiming it'll write them
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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reminder to all my trans friends that a man who campaigned with this much support and love for us just destroyed the most machine politician to ever exist in spite of all odds. turns out vocally caring about us is a winning strategy!!
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
reminder to all my trans friends that a man who campaigned with this much support and love for us just destroyed the most machine politician to ever exist in spite of all odds. turns out vocally caring about us is a winning strategy!!
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Weird that there's been no leaks from 30+ people supposedly leaking information! I'm sure there's nothing to that and Rockstar is telling the truth here. After all, why would they lie about union busting after being caught union busting?
NEW: Rockstar Games says the 30+ employees it fired last week were leaking confidential information, disputing allegations that the company is union-busting.
The union says it was a private chat with labor organizers. This messy battle isn't over yet. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The union says it was a private chat with labor organizers. This messy battle isn't over yet. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Says Fired Employees Were Leaking Information
Rockstar Games terminated more than 30 people last week in an action that a labor group called “union-busting.”
www.bloomberg.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Weird that there's been no leaks from 30+ people supposedly leaking information! I'm sure there's nothing to that and Rockstar is telling the truth here. After all, why would they lie about union busting after being caught union busting?