Lee L
@dragon-writes.bsky.social
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some of you seem to prefer this meme format
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
some of you seem to prefer this meme format
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Okay real talk, the only sense in which GenAI is "here to stay" is that even after the bubble pops, AI is digital asbestos that is poisoning everything and we'll probably be picking the detritus out of everywhere it's ended up for years, assuming there's a will to remove it en masse that is.
December 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Okay real talk, the only sense in which GenAI is "here to stay" is that even after the bubble pops, AI is digital asbestos that is poisoning everything and we'll probably be picking the detritus out of everywhere it's ended up for years, assuming there's a will to remove it en masse that is.
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I don’t want your shitty dignity and respect. Nothing short of equality and justice will do.
December 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I don’t want your shitty dignity and respect. Nothing short of equality and justice will do.
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An important 🧵
Contains detailed info on Simon Wessley, senior psychiatrist within trans healthcare who champions psychosomatic causes for unexplained medical symptoms
Exposes concerning bias amongst CYP clinicians
Advises on withdrawing permission for your data to be used in research
and more
Contains detailed info on Simon Wessley, senior psychiatrist within trans healthcare who champions psychosomatic causes for unexplained medical symptoms
Exposes concerning bias amongst CYP clinicians
Advises on withdrawing permission for your data to be used in research
and more
Trans Safety Network are concerned to see that NHS England have committed to expanding the role of the National Research Oversight Board for Children and Young People’s Gender Services to cover audit and research for adult patients too.
December 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
An important 🧵
Contains detailed info on Simon Wessley, senior psychiatrist within trans healthcare who champions psychosomatic causes for unexplained medical symptoms
Exposes concerning bias amongst CYP clinicians
Advises on withdrawing permission for your data to be used in research
and more
Contains detailed info on Simon Wessley, senior psychiatrist within trans healthcare who champions psychosomatic causes for unexplained medical symptoms
Exposes concerning bias amongst CYP clinicians
Advises on withdrawing permission for your data to be used in research
and more
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'At a time of increasing marginalisation as transgender and disabled people, we have a choice – retreat from the world or push forward and create.'
Vital words from my dear friend and colleague Jamie Hale of @cripticarts.bsky.social www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/let-...
Vital words from my dear friend and colleague Jamie Hale of @cripticarts.bsky.social www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/let-...
Jamie Hale on recognition of trans and disabled artists' work
Jamie Hale challenges the theatre industry to recognise transgender and disabled artists' work as influenced by their context rather than defined by it
www.thestage.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
'At a time of increasing marginalisation as transgender and disabled people, we have a choice – retreat from the world or push forward and create.'
Vital words from my dear friend and colleague Jamie Hale of @cripticarts.bsky.social www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/let-...
Vital words from my dear friend and colleague Jamie Hale of @cripticarts.bsky.social www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/let-...
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🚩 Heads up - I’m in the pub two glasses of wine down and have not read the Levy report, so, correct me if I’ve misunderstood.
May I repeat: for a health issue NOT classified as a mental health condition, why are psychiatrists and psychologists the first line of assessment for trans patients? 🚩
May I repeat: for a health issue NOT classified as a mental health condition, why are psychiatrists and psychologists the first line of assessment for trans patients? 🚩
“First assessments should be conducted by a senior clinician, such as a psychiatrist or consultant clinical psychologist, in a face-to-face meeting.”
This is going to be interesting.
This is going to be interesting.
December 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚩 Heads up - I’m in the pub two glasses of wine down and have not read the Levy report, so, correct me if I’ve misunderstood.
May I repeat: for a health issue NOT classified as a mental health condition, why are psychiatrists and psychologists the first line of assessment for trans patients? 🚩
May I repeat: for a health issue NOT classified as a mental health condition, why are psychiatrists and psychologists the first line of assessment for trans patients? 🚩
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It is a sign of how fundamentally abused and traumatised trans communities are in the UK that many folks are responding to Levy with relief and cautious welcome.
It could have been a lot worse.
But it fundamentally fails to deliver meaningful improvements to trans healthcare. 1/4
It could have been a lot worse.
But it fundamentally fails to deliver meaningful improvements to trans healthcare. 1/4
December 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It is a sign of how fundamentally abused and traumatised trans communities are in the UK that many folks are responding to Levy with relief and cautious welcome.
It could have been a lot worse.
But it fundamentally fails to deliver meaningful improvements to trans healthcare. 1/4
It could have been a lot worse.
But it fundamentally fails to deliver meaningful improvements to trans healthcare. 1/4
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Let me make one thing plain right now: i changed my sex. I changed my sex so hard it broke sex and gender into a million little pieces and you will never be able to reassemble them.
It is 2025. The EHRC in the UK keeps trying to materialize a trans bathroom ban out of a muddled UKSC opinion third-sexing all trans people. A bill to criminalise those who provide trans minors with transition care passed in the US House of Representatives.
And cis "allies" still think this helps.
And cis "allies" still think this helps.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Let me make one thing plain right now: i changed my sex. I changed my sex so hard it broke sex and gender into a million little pieces and you will never be able to reassemble them.
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I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
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if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade
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One of my favourite Christmas bits is humming O Tennenbaum for about 5 minutes, and then eventually coming in with this sing for “though cowards flinch and traitors sneer we’ll keep the red flag flying here”
December 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
One of my favourite Christmas bits is humming O Tennenbaum for about 5 minutes, and then eventually coming in with this sing for “though cowards flinch and traitors sneer we’ll keep the red flag flying here”
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![Windows dialog window:
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The action you attempted: "Start simple task. "
Status: Failed to initialise.
Possible causes:
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Incredible how Wes Streeting has gone from "being on leadership manoeuvres" to "triggering a doctor's strike during a flu crisis whilst comparing them to the mafia".
Impressive mixed innings between ambitious backroom briefings and how bad he is at being a minister.
Impressive mixed innings between ambitious backroom briefings and how bad he is at being a minister.
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Incredible how Wes Streeting has gone from "being on leadership manoeuvres" to "triggering a doctor's strike during a flu crisis whilst comparing them to the mafia".
Impressive mixed innings between ambitious backroom briefings and how bad he is at being a minister.
Impressive mixed innings between ambitious backroom briefings and how bad he is at being a minister.
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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The more I have looked at the artist’s other work, the more I have become convinced that this is probably awkward and fake-looking on purpose.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The more I have looked at the artist’s other work, the more I have become convinced that this is probably awkward and fake-looking on purpose.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
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the worst part is how effective it all is
if you're the average person out there casually skimming over 50 headlines a week saying "being transgender is bad and trans people are evil" - not even reading the main body.
You're gonna start to believe it. That's just how persistence works.
if you're the average person out there casually skimming over 50 headlines a week saying "being transgender is bad and trans people are evil" - not even reading the main body.
You're gonna start to believe it. That's just how persistence works.
Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
the worst part is how effective it all is
if you're the average person out there casually skimming over 50 headlines a week saying "being transgender is bad and trans people are evil" - not even reading the main body.
You're gonna start to believe it. That's just how persistence works.
if you're the average person out there casually skimming over 50 headlines a week saying "being transgender is bad and trans people are evil" - not even reading the main body.
You're gonna start to believe it. That's just how persistence works.
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The Tribunal’s findings on Sex Matters and Forstater are crystal clear:
• Not skilled evidence
• Not expert
• Not impartial
• Not reliable
• Polemic rather than evidence
• Material that could not support findings of fact
So why are UK news media & politicians listening to them!!??
• Not skilled evidence
• Not expert
• Not impartial
• Not reliable
• Polemic rather than evidence
• Material that could not support findings of fact
So why are UK news media & politicians listening to them!!??
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Tribunal’s findings on Sex Matters and Forstater are crystal clear:
• Not skilled evidence
• Not expert
• Not impartial
• Not reliable
• Polemic rather than evidence
• Material that could not support findings of fact
So why are UK news media & politicians listening to them!!??
• Not skilled evidence
• Not expert
• Not impartial
• Not reliable
• Polemic rather than evidence
• Material that could not support findings of fact
So why are UK news media & politicians listening to them!!??
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You see a video called "The Worst Indie Game of 2025". As the narrator furiously recounts every programming error, every reason why the characters suck and the story makes no sense, you realize the game is about your actual real life so far.
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
You see a video called "The Worst Indie Game of 2025". As the narrator furiously recounts every programming error, every reason why the characters suck and the story makes no sense, you realize the game is about your actual real life so far.
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Anyone who says “be normal” betrays that they have an implicit value system of who is considered normal and who is not, and when you have that, you will always value some people and traits over another. They will always replicate hierarchies of power in the long run.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Anyone who says “be normal” betrays that they have an implicit value system of who is considered normal and who is not, and when you have that, you will always value some people and traits over another. They will always replicate hierarchies of power in the long run.