@alicedonald.bsky.social & I on Reform's plans for the ECHR (and others) and what it will mean for everyone.
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@alicedonald.bsky.social & I on Reform's plans for the ECHR (and others) and what it will mean for everyone.
Pertinent question, but more important for me is "will Polanski's style force the Green agenda into the national discourse in a way that the party has completely failed to do, despite electoral support?" The Greens have the same number of MPs as Reform, but which party is always on TV?
Please use fewer words.
Lean writing is too rare.
Let's see how this goes.
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
That's the... spirit.
That's the spirit.
I don't like Nigel Farage, but unlike many of you I would actually piss on him if he was on fire.
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
I've always felt that the actual composition part of writing, especially when it comes to dialogue, is essentially musical.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
My wife and our 16-year-old accidentally wandered into a sex shop and heard the sales assistant tell a client "this is the Swiss army knife of sex toys" and honestly I'm not sure that's a comparison you want to be making.
It's funny how the educational attainment of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation migrant children isn't due to the hard work, resilience and assimilation the right wing beg of our communities. Instead, it's due to the idea we have somehow stolen our grades from the 'white working class'
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
Nail on the fucking head.
To many Americans will assume this means other people's children and for that reason will be in favor.
Gonna get hammered to celebrate.
10,000 days clean. Half a lifetime.
Nationalism is by default unimaginative and paradoxically every example of it is broadly similar to other examples everywhere else in the world. It's always about flags and chants and xenophobic exceptionalism. The mantra of people who don't have the imagination to actually love where they live.
Today I went snorkeling and saw a shark. A four-foot Port Jackson shark. But it was still cool.
He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
Genius is an overused term, but it applies here.
Pretty city.
It’s like someone used a ‘worst possible idea you could have’ generator, and shat on it.
Me whenever I inadvertently turn on or read Irish mainstream media and journalism...
Nick-knacking or nick-knocking, suburban Dublin, 70s/80s.
He's not. He's a lying sack of shit.
I don't know why any of those people are smiling. This idea is fucking shit.
I've a 17-hour flight coming up and I am thrilled that some day I'll be able to do it with my face 50cm behind some stranger's arse, for an apparent saving of zero actual space.
The main benefit to a Dyson sphere is that you don't have to change the bags. The drawback is that they emigrate and move jobs abroad to avoid paying taxes whilst trying to make that sound patriotic.
Guess where this is.
Sydney making this Dubliner feel extra welcome.
They put paint...on a plane...that took off anyway to deliver weapons to an army overseen by a leader wanted for war crimes.
We are soooo fortunate!
It's cold and we're getting one nice day before it pisses rain all week, but hey, we'll enjoy it anyway!
We have already seen a whale.
Jet lag has its upsides.
One of my best bits of writing advice: The problem on page 48 of your 50 page script is actually on page 2. Took me ages to work that out, because notes from execs focus on the pay off that feels wrong to them, not the set up, which you skilfully hid, and is where the actual problem is.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary [wo]men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary [wo]man. - Elbert Hubbard Link to You're Dead to Me by @gregjenner.bsky.social and the episode on the arts & crafts movement: www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
Day 20,137 and I still haven't been able to bring myself to try porridge.
I was 11 that year and it felt like the teacher we had knew corporal punishment was about to be banned so got as many whacks in as she could while she could. When the ban came in she had zero authority. We ran wild.
"David Lammy is facing possible legal action over a plan to invite staff from the oil firm Shell and the defence firm BAE Systems to work inside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office." The scream echoes in the void forever. (Or until the next GE.) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yihoo! Congratulations!
IN FLIGHT drops on Channel 4 today! (I co-wrote Ep 4) It's a tense, twisty, violent 6-part thriller starring Katherine Kelly and you can get it in your eyeballs right now on the Channel 4 website, or on Channel 4 tonight at 9pm! #inflight www.channel4.com
I gave the recreational ones a good bash from 16 and it did not go well. Hence my leeriness, I guess.
No shade on those who take meds, of course. I haven't shut the door on them myself. I'd have to be sure that they wouldn't affect my creativity though.
Chatting with the 16-year-old about ADHD meds (as you do) and she said "nah, I'd be worried I wouldn't be me anymore and I like being me". I mean, of course she does, she's awesome. Thrilled. 16-year-old me absolutely did not like being me. Sad to think.
It does sound like Douglas when he was Martin's age, though!
I love to go to Chat GPT 5 with its alleged “PhD level expertise” and an ask it about my MA thesis work and see that it really cannot do that level of academic work whatever. It can do a SIMULACRUM of that work, which might fool you if you did not have any expertise.
Conventional, store-bought turkeys have been selectively bred for large breasts. They’re so top heavy it gets in the way of turkey funtimes. Consequently: factory turkeys are all the result of artificial insemination because our lust for white meat has turned them all into turkey incels.
So they’ll arrest 474 people for holding signs opposing genocide, but the people trying to burn down immigration centres have legitimate concerns? Is that right? Have I missed something?
Fuck those sad, scared, arseholes and I hope they fix their damaged hearts or die.
You can still listen live. (I'm listening to R4X from France right now.) Playback is gone unless the show is also a podcast.
10 August 1903 | A Czech Jewish woman, Růžena Schneiderová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 19 October 1944. She did not survive.
If we think about the supposed value of AI for education in light of the things I've said above, it becomes clear WHY these folks are pushing for its integration into all levels of education. Moreover, it should be clear why we need to push back against it with everything we have.
I'm considering putting a glass of frozen raspberries in the fridge to thaw overnight and chucking that in. But it's getting past the mental block first. It's sensory!
At 55 years of age I am determined to will myself to finally eat a bowl of porridge. I suspect it'll give me an extra year or two of life. But god almighty I don't want to touch it. Vile gack altogether.
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My Reddit's been awash with ads for it.
Random thoughts as they pass by number 23,195: Lucas may have done it accidentally, but C3PO is written as a failure in tech "recruitment" that leads to a neurodivergent droid with anxiety and poor social skills to be given the identity "protocol droid". Like if I was a diplomat. The very idea.
Haha you guys sure showed that AI sucks by using AI to show AI sucks. We’re all laughing about how much AI sucks thanks to you using the AI service and wasting energy and polluting low income communities and stealing from artists and writers to show AI sucks. Too funny!
Ten years from now the only film projects capable of securing any finance will be a nine-hour trilogy based on Tom Bombadil's backstory and Emerald Fennell's bukkake version of Pride and Prejudice.
I don’t want my daughter playing basketball with a trans woman. I just want her to play basketball while men throw sex toys at her, like God intended.
A lot of Palestinians managed to access things like sugar and cheese yesterday because the prices fell quite abruptly and the shops managed to fill shelves again. Now is a really good time to donate so they can stock up. If you're overwhelmed by the number of people in need, just choose randomly.
I swear GenAI is The Producers on a multi-billion-dollar scale.
Did a new one
Until I joined online dating I had absolutely no idea how bad people's reading comprehension level could be. They're short prompts with easy words and still people can't read them. On the plus side I've ruled out all the men in my area because of it. So there's that.
Exactly this. The primary reason for the lack of empathy is that the Sudanese civilians being murdered do not register with enough people as having been sufficiently human.
The laughter built and built until, at a moment that was later difficult to pinpoint, it became a hysterical scream.
Thoughts and prayers, obviously.
I think it's really worth noting that this concentration camp was opened one month and three days ago. This woman saw enough horror in that time to quit and tell the public what she saw. Which suggests that it's not as bad as we think, or as bad as we can envision from her description—it's worse.
Fascinating. news.sky.com/story/how-in...
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
Yellow rat.
When I find myself in times of trouble Feathers flurry through my door Speaking words of wisdom Nevermore
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
Masterpiece.
5 August 1905 | A German Jewish woman, Martha Voss, was born in Loesnich. During the war she lived in The Hague. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
Maybe it's because Tolkien invented the genre in order to create an English folklore he felt was lacking compared to other European cultures, so it feels inherently European and specifically English? (I'm with you, though. An American accent in a fantasy setting makes the tone... unserious.)
Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)
I don't think reporting on the nationality, ethnicity or immigration status of criminals serves any purpose, other than to give us something to talk about whilst water to companies continue to fill our rivers with our own shit
Also, apparently she voted for the Iraq war and voted against investigating the decision to go to war. The security forces have form, and so does she.
tl;dr - Cooper may or may not be making the claim in good faith, but the chances that this "disturbing information" is bollocks are extremely high.
I didn't change my mind about the evil stupidity of the war, but I could see that he was sure about the threat. Turns out the information he had access to was an easily debunked fantasy cooked up by a Baghdad taxi driver that the CIA seized on, ginned up, and used to kill half a million people. /