The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
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It shouldn't fall to trans people to explain to cis people why creating laws that effectively amount to "If you have or ever had a penis, you must behave this way; If you have, or ever had a vagina, you must behave this other way" is horrifically dangerous for everyone's rights.
Over twice the average uk salary for being sacked.
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it
Hundreds of MPs just voted to abolish one of the fundamental pillars of democracy (the right to jury trial), but yeah, let's reheat "hypnotits" that's important.
When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.
They can avoid having to do this every few years by installing bollards, otherwise the endless pavement parking will trash the place again.
Broken link on the post, try www.theferret.scot/revealed-com...
42 fires in listed or significant buildings. That really is a lot.
Daily mail article saying the Harry Potter series will be the steaming event of the decade
Lovely typo in a Harry Potter TV show article.
Interesting to see that a review with 32 experts published in British Journal of Psychiatry last week found no evidence that ADHD is being overdiagnosed
www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/no-over...
Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?
I asked "who here has met an 80 year old?"
Every hand went up.
"They remember WWII. How many of you have ever met a kindergartener?"
Every hand went up.
"They DON'T remember the pandemic. For the rest of your lives, when they want to know about it, you're the historical sources they'll turn to."
leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"
While I agree with not voting in categories you're not actually qualified to vote in, the qualification is literally "watch a cartoon."
If you can't watch movies that make up a quarter of all box office grosses then what are you even doing in this industry? How can you consider yourself up-to-date?
If you choose to pursue a 'gender critical' lifestyle, you will lose most of your family and friends.
You will make new friends but all you'll have in common is being ostracised by everyone you used to care about.
Whenever people talk about “difficult conversations” with their kids about, say, gay people, what they actually mean is “I, the adult, don’t want to talk about that because I find it disgusting because I’m a raging homophobe.” It’s nothing to do with the kids, it’s about their own homophobia.
"Never once did we say we'd cut council taxes" says Farage
"It's on your leaflet"
"I didn't put it there, we did not say we'd cut taxes"
"But it's on your leaflet"
"My name isn't on that leaflet"
And this is the anti-trans logic loop:
1. demand evidence
2. design reviews that cannot find evidence
3. cite absence of evidence as justification for withdrawing care
4. use withdrawal of care to prevent generation of new evidence.
It's what the Reagan administration did to trans folks.
It's PAINFUL and hilarious.
bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site
every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods
Remember when Edwin Poots just openly admitted on Twitter that the Tory government offered the DUP MPs bribes for votes in the form of of peerages and basically nobody actually reacted to it at all despite it being an open confirmation of corruption in Westminster from a high profile elected rep
Today’s episode of terfs keep losing.
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.
Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵
As with most things, Pratchett had the explanation for the lack of money in the arts
Which is why, @nytimes.com, learning that a piece of writing is AI changes how people feel about it, in the same way that most people are repulsed by learning a once-favoured artist is a rapist: because context is inherent to interpreting art, and the sole context of genAI is profound contempt.
It's like a very long, pleasantly worded, bullet point list of SO MUCH stuff they did. Delicious and grotesque.
Hasbro can get fucked.
Top Trump officials plan to lock themselves underground and then cross their fingers that nobody welds their bunker doors shut and fills the ventilation intakes with cement.
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
not that it was okay with gaza (or lebanon or syria) either, but the broadening of the way western media and politicians just treat israel's every action as presumptively justified is quite incredible