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@gloriousobscurity.bsky.social
Art-isht, Designer, Wood worker, maker of things and occasionally also stuff.
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Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
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Just so: the financial crisis laid waste to Thatcherism but our politicians and media are all Thatcherites, so they have spent all the time since desperately trying to prop up the Thatcherite consensus. Doing this has led them to the verge of fascism.
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Just so: the financial crisis laid waste to Thatcherism but our politicians and media are all Thatcherites, so they have spent all the time since desperately trying to prop up the Thatcherite consensus. Doing this has led them to the verge of fascism.
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While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
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this skeet aged like a fine wine
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
this skeet aged like a fine wine
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Anyway time to post this again.
AI is a tool of fascism.
AI is a tool of fascism.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Anyway time to post this again.
AI is a tool of fascism.
AI is a tool of fascism.
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My friend just sent me this t-shirt design and I need it so much.
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
My friend just sent me this t-shirt design and I need it so much.
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That's another brilliant @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social done. Destination Venus is opening from 10am, under the stairs at Harrogate's Everyman Cinema, just in case any of you lovely Thought Bubblers want to drop in and say "hi" before you head home. Otherwise we'll see you next year!
#thoughtbubble
#thoughtbubble
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
That's another brilliant @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social done. Destination Venus is opening from 10am, under the stairs at Harrogate's Everyman Cinema, just in case any of you lovely Thought Bubblers want to drop in and say "hi" before you head home. Otherwise we'll see you next year!
#thoughtbubble
#thoughtbubble
It’s thought bubble day…I am unprepared both mentally and physically…and I’m just attending.
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
It’s thought bubble day…I am unprepared both mentally and physically…and I’m just attending.
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The clips of this are sooooo good and Lupita Nyong'o in a suit with a mustache RAPPING SHAKESPEARE is my new sexual orientation.
Tonight at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and directed by Saheem Ali will be on PBS Great Performances.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
Twelfth Night ~ About | Great Performances | PBS
The Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identity starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Junior Nyong'o and more.
www.pbs.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The clips of this are sooooo good and Lupita Nyong'o in a suit with a mustache RAPPING SHAKESPEARE is my new sexual orientation.
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
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Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says countries and leaders need to shift their approach to climate change and focus on 'improving lives'
cnb.cx
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet
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Hi Devil? Yeah, we love the energy, keep it there. One note, it says smited, not smitten... you're giving smitten... Ok? Ok 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
Archangel Michael smiting the Devil, Luisa Roldan, 1692, originally in Basilica of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, now at Galería de las Colleciones Reales, Madrid
Archangel Michael smiting the Devil, Luisa Roldan, 1692, originally in Basilica of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, now at Galería de las Colleciones Reales, Madrid
September 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Hi Devil? Yeah, we love the energy, keep it there. One note, it says smited, not smitten... you're giving smitten... Ok? Ok 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
Archangel Michael smiting the Devil, Luisa Roldan, 1692, originally in Basilica of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, now at Galería de las Colleciones Reales, Madrid
Archangel Michael smiting the Devil, Luisa Roldan, 1692, originally in Basilica of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, now at Galería de las Colleciones Reales, Madrid
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We are delighted to announce that we will publish @sachacoward.bsky.social’s Queer as Folklore in paperback and ebook editions in December 2025.
Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky
Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky
September 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
We are delighted to announce that we will publish @sachacoward.bsky.social’s Queer as Folklore in paperback and ebook editions in December 2025.
Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky
Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky
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People can make excuses for Reform voters all they like - maybe some are confused rather than racist, maybe some just want to feel pride in their country, yadda yadda - but anyone supporting this grotesque parade of cruelty should be allowed no hiding place
Should really say "Farage plans to tear up the Brexit deal he supported" since it would requiring reneging on the Withdrawal Agreement (most "foreign nationals" claiming benefits are EU citizens with settled status)
://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2111398/nigel-farage-welfare-foreign-nationals
://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2111398/nigel-farage-welfare-foreign-nationals
Nigel Farage to ban all foreign nationals from claiming benefits
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK leader to make announcement at press conference on Monday
www.express.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
People can make excuses for Reform voters all they like - maybe some are confused rather than racist, maybe some just want to feel pride in their country, yadda yadda - but anyone supporting this grotesque parade of cruelty should be allowed no hiding place
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It will never not be darkly funny that right wingers use fears of autism to fuel vaccine denial on the basis of “what if you kid had no empathy?!?!?” while also routinely denying anyone without their exact gender or lack of melanin humanity
September 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
It will never not be darkly funny that right wingers use fears of autism to fuel vaccine denial on the basis of “what if you kid had no empathy?!?!?” while also routinely denying anyone without their exact gender or lack of melanin humanity
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am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP
September 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP
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People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.
June 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.
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Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice.
Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT."
IT IS ART.
YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.
Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT."
IT IS ART.
YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.
I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.
September 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice.
Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT."
IT IS ART.
YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.
Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT."
IT IS ART.
YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.
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With respect, if you are getting played by Farage, in 2025, you need to give your head a wobble.
Red carpet coverage for Farage's big immigration announcement, rather less coverage (e.g. nothing on the BBC homepage) for the farcical U-turns a whole day later www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage rolls back on vow to deport all small-boat arrivals to the UK
Reform leader tells event in Scotland deporting women and children is not part of his party’s plans for the next five years
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
With respect, if you are getting played by Farage, in 2025, you need to give your head a wobble.
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We've said it before and we'll say it again: the EHRC's interim guidance is transphobic and harmful, and it must be stopped.
We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/donate/
We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/donate/
August 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
We've said it before and we'll say it again: the EHRC's interim guidance is transphobic and harmful, and it must be stopped.
We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/donate/
We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/donate/
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once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them
Gina Carano and Disney have settled their legal dispute
Disney is now looking forward 'to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future'
Disney is now looking forward 'to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future'
August 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them
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It really does feel like a lot of formerly reasonable people have been infected by some sort of terrifying brain parasite when it comes to unthinking and total acceptance of using AI tools
Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.
August 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It really does feel like a lot of formerly reasonable people have been infected by some sort of terrifying brain parasite when it comes to unthinking and total acceptance of using AI tools
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If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
August 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK