Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

List of individuals who have forfeited their honour (since August 2023)

Fascinating guide to all the people awarded gongs (mostly by the Conservatives) who have subsequently turned out to be criminals.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

So good

“The right for queer people to gather openly to be boring and discuss sandwiches is as fundamental to me as the right to dress as a horse and get ridden in a sex dungeon” - being boring is OK. Last share for this one, was lovely to be on paper at the weekend: observer.co.uk/style/featur...

"I'm sorry but we couldn't find any studies showing asthma inhalers are effective for guys named Pete born on a Tuesday. We must follow the evidence here."

Purity culture *is* pedophilia and rape culture. It inherently sexualizes children, keeps them ignorant and controlled, and victim-blames them when they are abused. There's nothing redemptive or protective about it.

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Got home to post from Nigel

We deserve an art centrifuge. Spin out the bigotry into the void and safeguard the art from the AI machine

New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.

I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

if you're transitioning does that mean you get a rude tag

Which is funny given Sopel has written multiple Tonty biogs

NHS England » Consultation: Feminising and masculinising medicines in the management of gender incongruence in children and young people – evidence reviews NHS England » Consultation: Feminising and masculinising medicines in the management of gender incongruence in children and young people – evidence reviews

1/🧵 I am reviewing NHS England’s “evidence” papers supporting their ban of GHAT for 16- and 17-year-olds.

It’s hard not to see this as a deliberate and malicious attempt to manipulate the evidence base. Most notably, the scope is restricted to monotherapy or GnRH analogues.

Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

Most people have both oestrogen and testosterone in their bodies, which makes a nonsense of the “cross sex” bit. You’re just getting more of what you already have

"...these arguments have become implausibly detached from the legal & factual context in which [I/Goodwin] were decided. They fail to take seriously the increasingly serious incursions on the privacy rights of trans people that are likely to occur if the trans-exclusionary interpretation prevails"

Trying not to doomscroll. Popped on here for five minutes. DOOM. Why can’t it be flirting instead?

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

"But a Guardian investigation has shown the money isn’t necessarily real, the datacentres may not be new, the jobs are unaccounted for – and the supercomputer site 12 miles north of London is still a scaffolding yard" - fascinating report from @aishadown.bsky.social

Hannah Spencer being harrassed by fascist YouTube streamers in Manchester, every week they are at it

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

The idea that if you abandon enough of your principles you can make yourself too small a target for the right wing to bludgeon assumes a fidelity to reality on the part o their messaging that's simply not in evidence.

Trump is on TV pretending Biden gave Ukraine F-35s and space lasers.

Trump wants to pick Iran's new leader - will a hostile regime under fire agree? The president's vision of Iran's future could meet fierce opposition, writes chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet.

I’d put my money on Betteridge’s Law holding.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

yeah, i think he really is going to invade cuba in the next few months

Cynthia Erivo in Dracula

Cynthia Erivo

Cynthia Erivo

Cynthia Erivo and crew

Standing ovation and 3x curtain calls for Cynthia Erivo

Not seen them in years. For me, they never really worked as anything other than intro level for a topic that was completely new to me. The commissioning and marketing seemed to be way off for anything that could either cross over or be really useful

lol at the academics mentioning short form academic imprints like Pivot or Element like they ever reach a broader audience

The fight for the right: Conservatives vs Reform Which party is the future of the right?

Spectator (fash weekly) keep outdoing themselves for awful events with horrific lineups www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fight-...

Everyone involved should be booted out of the country tbh.

Thank God for the House of Lords, standing up for the people against the elected representatives of the people.

If NPR knew for a fact the strike was based on outdated data or AI that would absolutely be the headline.

Does Shabana Mahmood admire Noem more or less now Trump has fired her?

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM