Examples include: joining a dating service joining a single-sex association, such as Girlguiding or the Women’s Institute applying for a bursary, prize or award that is only for women joining a gym and using its ID to access male or female changing rooms registering for sport with a national governing body or sports team, or for competitions applying for a job in social care, policing, prisons or a single-sex service seeking to rent in a shared house, homestay, hall of residence or dormitory registering with a healthcare or social-care provider registering with a single-sex service such as a rape crisis centre or women’s refuge, or being referred between such services.

Sex Matters are demanding biological sex on Digital ID. Below are suggestions for when one should have to use their ID to "verify" their sex.

For the avoidance of doubt – this is a call for the effective repeal of the Gender Recognition Act, in breach of our human rights obligations & EU Law.

It's always a double barrelled surname

Alert @codyjohnston.bsky.social immediately!

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Reminds me when a teacher at school asked that homework be given to him on floppy disks and there was outrage from parents demanding they be returned once the files were copied.

Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy talk about PADDs as personal devices, like iPads. But for a 50 year span in-between they were treated as high-tech scraps of paper.

My job requires so much bullshit sending competing versions and managing read/edit permissions linked to Office365 accounts and "You sent an early draft to the client!" that the idea of a gadget so easily procured and reusable they can be passed around is appealing.

In the era of "we must exclude trans people from playing sport, for Fairness" it's actually quite sickening for various media outlets to be all "check out out, a ROBOT won a marathon!"

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social) Attached: 1 image reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funn...

jonny over on masto doing god's work:

> anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.

neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

"this horse is getting so fast, it's going to become a train any day now"

This is identical to the end stage of the NFT hype cycle btw, when NFTs were being presented as feminist and celebs were trying to increase gender parity among ape hodlers.

Bingle-bongle, dingle-dangle, yickety-do-yickitey-dah, ping-pong, lippy-tappy-too-tah.

Oh and a chunk of their "debt" was made up of interest-free loans from their parents.

They discovered that they had a meagre £600 spare (poor babies) at the end of each month. Oh and they were given a spare £1000.

Keep seeing this so I'll save you a click - they're both on high incomes so they made a budget and stuck to it for about a year without any meaningful change in lifestyle. Incredible journalism 🤦‍♂️

You've got to admit, they did a cracking job patching him up after that incident in opening the Ark of the Covenant.

It's 11 o'clock. When was the last time you heard anyone talk about Ren and Stimpy?

We were so busy replacing all the employees with objectively worse performing AI that we forgot to ask who would buy all the software licenses.

Me as a technical writer asking devs to explain things to me like I'm five...

I didn't even know he was on the run.

That's the performative "Don't mistake me for a tourist" walk, where the sights people pay thousands to see are but background trifles on your morning commute, you know where you're going without glancing at a map and you are ALWAYS IN THE MOST HURRY.

*talking to teenage militant atheist self*

current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church

teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government

current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

Me and who and who and who?

stupid google drive being full and bugging me to upgrade and then i go to delete old stuff and find a video of my stepdad who died last year playing with my nephew and it made me cry and god damn it i can't let that stuff get deleted

Boss has discovered vibe coding and is making it everyone else's problem.

How much was the land?

A great pull quote for the paperback...