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Sarah Sherwood
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Any pronouns | Distinction MSc Bioarchaeology | Will ID bones if you ask nicely | also me: @zooarchs-n-crafts.bsky.social
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hedgewizardly.bsky.social
JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.
jessothomson.co.uk Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Apr 16
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
April 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
suddenly-sarah.bsky.social
The government should not be able to define my sexuality for me. I am a lesbian and so is my girlfriend. The audacity to label us as a straight relationship is insulting.
The government does not get to decide who you are as a person.
evanurquhart.bsky.social Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · Apr 16
Going through the For Some Women decision, and something I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is that the court took it upon itself to define lesbians in a way that excludes some cis lesbians and includes some straight trans men.
Accordingly, a person with same sex orientation as a lesbian must be a female who is sexually oriented towards (or attracted to) females, and lesbians as a group are females who share the characteristic of being sexually oriented to females. This is coherent and understandable on a biological understanding of sex. On the other hand, if a GRC under section 9(1) of the GRA 2004 were to alter the meaning of sex under the EA 2010, it would mean that a trans woman (a biological male) with a GRC (so legally female) who remains sexually oriented to other females would become a same sex attracted female, in other words, a lesbian. The concept of sexual orientation towards members of a particular sex in section 12 is rendered meaningless. It would also affect the composition of the groups who share the same sexual orientation (because a trans woman with a GRC and a sexual orientation towards women would fall to be treated as a lesbian) in a similar way as described above in relation to women and girls.
April 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.

Solidarity 💜
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Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
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April 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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zooarchs-n-crafts.bsky.social
"Untitled" is one of my all time favourite pieces of art. To reduce it to "candies in variously coloured wrappers" is an insult to the artist, the queer community, and those lost to the AIDs crisis.
out.com Out Magazine @out.com · Jan 27
Guest writer Ignacio Darnaude explores how the Smithsonian erases the queer and AIDS-related meaning behind Felix González-Torres’s iconic work. 🍬
🔗: bit.ly/4aBytOf
January 31, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

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OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.
January 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
A venn diagram. The three circles are labelled: The Archaeologist The Pirate The Dog The area where all threel overlap is labelled: Loves digging things up Dog/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Gets excited by bones Pirate/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Good with maps Dog/Pirate overlap is labelled: Buries things for later
January 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM