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@loungeiguana.bsky.social
Lizard.Still sorting out my pronouns, but they/them will do fine. Cocktails. 🏳️⚧️⚧️rights, TERFs/GC will be blocked. Left-leaning but finance background, go figure. Climate change and renewable energy: ask me about my heat pump at your peril. UK-based.
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Brief PSA: If you're on the transphobia moderation list bsky.app/profile/asuk... I will never re-share any of your content.
I haven't blocked all accounts on it as I think some of my old follows deserve the benefit of the doubt. But forwarding labelled content implies I don't care, and I do.
I haven't blocked all accounts on it as I think some of my old follows deserve the benefit of the doubt. But forwarding labelled content implies I don't care, and I do.
"Remember this: try. "
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"Remember this: try. "
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is there literally anything an elite journalist can do to get blackballed other than MeToo a powerful colleague
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
is there literally anything an elite journalist can do to get blackballed other than MeToo a powerful colleague
Question: the former political editor of the Times thinks that the BBC is pro-trans. 70% of trans people not only disagree, but think it's hostile to trans people.
Who to believe? 🤔
Who to believe? 🤔
70% of trans people believe BBC News is hostile. (And anyone who has listened to Justin Webb knows they are clearly right.) goodlaw.social/kyxv
Poll shows 70% of trans people think BBC News is ‘hostile’
The right wing claims the corporation is ‘pro-trans’, but the people at the sharp end of its coverage disagree. The BBC must stop its attack on trans people.
goodlaw.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Question: the former political editor of the Times thinks that the BBC is pro-trans. 70% of trans people not only disagree, but think it's hostile to trans people.
Who to believe? 🤔
Who to believe? 🤔
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New Video Out on Nebula now
nebula.tv/videos/miamu...
nebula.tv/videos/miamu...
Mia Mulder — What Does It Mean To
I wanted to examine identity, how we use it, why we have it, why it matters and in the process I lost my mind.
nebula.tv
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
New Video Out on Nebula now
nebula.tv/videos/miamu...
nebula.tv/videos/miamu...
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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If you want to see how badly Maitlis behaved, read this 🧵. She effectively manufactured a story to harm trans kids from nothing, then used her influence to mainstream it.
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
If you want to see how badly Maitlis behaved, read this 🧵. She effectively manufactured a story to harm trans kids from nothing, then used her influence to mainstream it.
I presume an impact assessment would basically say "we know it's going to be harmful, that's the point." It's not that they haven't considered it it's that they already know and don't care. They probably don't care about FOIs either: GC have dominated the public narrative.
FOI reveals the EHRC couldn’t even be bothered to finish an impact assessment for their new code of practice. When Bridget Phillipson asked for it on 8 October, all they managed to hand over was an unfinished “working draft”. 1/
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I presume an impact assessment would basically say "we know it's going to be harmful, that's the point." It's not that they haven't considered it it's that they already know and don't care. They probably don't care about FOIs either: GC have dominated the public narrative.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
"The “liberal media bias” claim was never about accuracy. It was about working the refs. And it worked. Traditional outlets moved right, hired conservatives, softened coverage, and paid settlements — all to prove they weren’t biased."
BBC take note.
BBC take note.
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"The “liberal media bias” claim was never about accuracy. It was about working the refs. And it worked. Traditional outlets moved right, hired conservatives, softened coverage, and paid settlements — all to prove they weren’t biased."
BBC take note.
BBC take note.
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This is as stupid as the Tories kneecapping solar. That subsidy is needed while we build the industry, we're not there yet but this will lead to job losses - even if you don't care about decarbonising home heat.
Sincerely hope this doesn't happen.
Sincerely hope this doesn't happen.
This will kill the heat pump market.
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: chancellor plans to fund energy efficiency levies via warm homes plan as part of drive to lower energy bills
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is as stupid as the Tories kneecapping solar. That subsidy is needed while we build the industry, we're not there yet but this will lead to job losses - even if you don't care about decarbonising home heat.
Sincerely hope this doesn't happen.
Sincerely hope this doesn't happen.
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How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought on.ft.com/43qoQ2L
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought on.ft.com/43qoQ2L
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
"the data, although preliminary, indicates after a sufficient period of hormone therapy, trans women and cis women can compete against each other in a meaningful manner."
Pity sports bodies seem to care more about appeasing transphobes than what the data says.
Pity sports bodies seem to care more about appeasing transphobes than what the data says.
Joanna Harper (one of my heroes) researches trans athletes. She says Nike has retreated.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/11/2...
www.outsports.com/2025/11/11/2...
Joanna Harper researches trans athletes, says Nike pulled the plug - Outsports
Pioneering researcher and Power 100 honoree Joanna Harper was working on an important project when she says Nike pulled the plug.
www.outsports.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"the data, although preliminary, indicates after a sufficient period of hormone therapy, trans women and cis women can compete against each other in a meaningful manner."
Pity sports bodies seem to care more about appeasing transphobes than what the data says.
Pity sports bodies seem to care more about appeasing transphobes than what the data says.
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Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?
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This is even funnier than it just being Streeting on manoeuvres.
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This is even funnier than it just being Streeting on manoeuvres.
"a security guard entered one of the hotel’s women’s restrooms and demanded that Ansley Baker exit a stall, accusing her of being a man and forcing her to show ID to prove her gender."
She is a lesbian cis woman. This is what bathroom bills mean in practice.
She is a lesbian cis woman. This is what bathroom bills mean in practice.
A hotel misgendered & humiliated a lesbian restroom user. Now the hotel is paying the price. - buff.ly/TDJK0yK
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"a security guard entered one of the hotel’s women’s restrooms and demanded that Ansley Baker exit a stall, accusing her of being a man and forcing her to show ID to prove her gender."
She is a lesbian cis woman. This is what bathroom bills mean in practice.
She is a lesbian cis woman. This is what bathroom bills mean in practice.
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i think the most sick thing about govt going all in on Esther's phone shit after her daughter was murdered in a crime which had not nothing to do with phones
... is that I spoke to Brianna's friends. On Tiktok. They were everything to her - you want to take that away from other kids like Brianna?
... is that I spoke to Brianna's friends. On Tiktok. They were everything to her - you want to take that away from other kids like Brianna?
Do you not think it's bizarre to have strangers on the internet decide they know better than Brianna's own loved ones on what is or isn't insulting to her memory?
I've got no time for Rosie Duffield, but she turned up at a drop-in event in Parliament and that's been the limit of her involvement.
I've got no time for Rosie Duffield, but she turned up at a drop-in event in Parliament and that's been the limit of her involvement.
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
i think the most sick thing about govt going all in on Esther's phone shit after her daughter was murdered in a crime which had not nothing to do with phones
... is that I spoke to Brianna's friends. On Tiktok. They were everything to her - you want to take that away from other kids like Brianna?
... is that I spoke to Brianna's friends. On Tiktok. They were everything to her - you want to take that away from other kids like Brianna?
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This is stone-cold racism from Daniel Hannan, a man who was born in Peru, notorious home of the implacably murderous Sendero Luminoso guerrillas, to where he should clearly be immediately deported.
Spectator running a piece by Daniel Hannan which leans heavily into the inferred idea that you're not necessarily British if you come from a migrant background, even if you were born and brought up here.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is stone-cold racism from Daniel Hannan, a man who was born in Peru, notorious home of the implacably murderous Sendero Luminoso guerrillas, to where he should clearly be immediately deported.
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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I just want to reiterate, if you are using the front page of national newspapers to say how the media are biased against you, the standing assumption is that you are acting in bad faith. Remarkably, being silent is a key component of being silenced.
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I just want to reiterate, if you are using the front page of national newspapers to say how the media are biased against you, the standing assumption is that you are acting in bad faith. Remarkably, being silent is a key component of being silenced.
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Of course, using claims of systematic bias as a means to drive systematic bias is also of a very old playbook. None of this is new, but the tactic of claiming conservatives are marginalised has been the modus operandi of the alt-right since the 2010s. They will destroy the BBC if they can.
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Of course, using claims of systematic bias as a means to drive systematic bias is also of a very old playbook. None of this is new, but the tactic of claiming conservatives are marginalised has been the modus operandi of the alt-right since the 2010s. They will destroy the BBC if they can.
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Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.
🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.
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It is lovely that Nebula is AI-free as well as ad-free tbh. It’s like YouTube but good.
Completely AI-free and devoid of slop, I think we've managed to build a platform which very much *isn't* designed to keep you swiping and scrolling, but wants you to find something you actually want to watch as fast as possible.
Which I guess is the ultimate side benefit of being ad free.
Which I guess is the ultimate side benefit of being ad free.
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
It is lovely that Nebula is AI-free as well as ad-free tbh. It’s like YouTube but good.
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“Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story,” said one. “What’s going on here is much more about macro politics.”
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some say
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
“Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story,” said one. “What’s going on here is much more about macro politics.”
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...