"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately?

anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.

Another absolutely terrifying day to live on TERF Island, the place that has now enshrined in law that little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. I feel like I am going to vomit.

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

All this money & energy spent to make life more miserable for trans people could've been used to fight against domestic violence, wage disparity, sexual harassment, harassment of people accessing abortion services, proper childcare provision; you know, to make the world a better place instead.

Absolutely hate “we went too far” revisionist history. “We all believed women and it went too far.” No we did not all believe women. I was there

fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

The working class in Britain is multiracial and multifaith but very rarely is class discussed in these terms. My latest column on the struggles of the South Asian working class — past and present.

hyphenonline.com/2024/11/21/b...

You know who hasn't had this degree of media support for their financial interests? Disabled people, poor people with more than two kids, public sector workers (after all that clapping for the NHS). I'm not usually a 'blame the media' person but seriously - this is mad

To clarify, I never said these are the ONLY historians in Britain in my starter packs. They are just meant to be a helpful tool for people to reconnect. I've even asked people to give me a shout if they want to be added. Hardly gatekeeping.

Part I: go.bsky.app/Fpw6Tvr
Part II: go.bsky.app/8aaAtPg

Don’t know if it’s because of the circles I travel in, but kind of wild how there’s so much talk of dead internet and what it was like pre-social media and yet livejournal is almost never mentioned despite being pretty fundamental in shaping fandom and social justice oriented spaces

Kicking things off by forcing everyone to look at the lookalike I got of my dog