The Independent Phillipson tells universities to take firm action to protect Jewish students Story by Nina Lloyd • 11h L International Women's Day © PA Archive Bridget Phillipson has written to vice-chancellors urging them to take "practical and proportionate steps" to protect Jewish students as part of Government efforts to stamp out antisemitism following the Manchester terror attack.

Universities risk sanctions over Gaza protests, watchdog says POLITICAL THINKING 日日G RADIO Joshua Nevett Political reporter 2 hours ago Universities could face sanctions if pro-Palestinian protests descend into harassment and discrimination against Jewish students on campus, the free speech director at the watchdog for higher education in England has said. Arif Ahmed, from the Office for Students (OfS), told the BBC freedom of speech did not mean the freedom to intimidate, harass, and discriminate against Jewish students.

University of Sussex fined £585k in transgender free speech rOW GETTY IMAGES Branwen Jeffreys > Education Editor 25 March 2025 The University of Sussex has been fined £585,000 by the higher education regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), for failing to uphold freedom of speech. The OfS investigation started with the case of Prof Kathleen Stock, who left the university in 2021 after being accused of transphobia for her views on sex and gender issues. The OfS said the university's policy statement on trans and non-binary equality, including a requirement to "positively represent trans people", could lead to staff and students preventing themselves from voicing opposing views. The University of Sussex plans to legally challenge the OfS findings, vice-chancellor Prof Sasha Roseneil said. Describing the judgement as an "unreasonably absolutist definition of free speech", the university said the ruling would leave institutions "powerless to prevent abusive, bullying and harassing speech".

Kishwer Falkner @EHRCChair • 01/06/2023 Congratulations to Arif Ahmed on his appointment as the first Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom at the @officestudents We are grateful for his contribution as a Commissioner, and wish him well when he leaves the EHRC Board to take up his new post in August. ors The Office for Students (O... • 01/06/2023 We have today welcomed the appointment of Professor Arif Ahmed as our first Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom. 12 L7 16 79 ıll 14K

“Free speech for me, but not for thee!”

They’re not even pretending that it was only ever just about free speech anymore…

I was watching @lunazera.bsky.social last night and the idea for this meme came to me like a vision.

To this day we're still referencing the quoted clip. I don't think there's any other way this interaction would go down. 😂

#vtuber #vsky #LZQT

Picture of a TikTok of mine, the bottom left corner to turn off the ai settings will say “privacy settings”.

In the privacy settings scroll to “Allow AI to remix content” and uncheck it. You’ll have to do it for each video unfortunately as there to larger “opt-out” function.

Heads up to all my content creators and streamers!

Tiktok rolled out a fixed update that makes it so your videos are AUTOMATICALLY in for Ai scraping!

Only way to fix it is to go to each video, hit the settings in the bottom right and turn it off!

Spread to word to let others know.

tiktok screenshot of the privacy settings on a video, allow ai to remix content is toggled at the bottom

just had to go ONE BY ONE disabling ai remix on all of my videos on tiktok, there doesn’t seem to be a way to mass edit and this has been retroactively implemented on ALL videos, i’m livid

my character & shape design tips pdf ^^ (link below)

Solid Cat

i need to post the whole statement because it is the sexiest thing ive ever read and my excitement for this game (which was already really high), has now tripled

a cartoon character is laying in a bed with a pillow ALT: a cartoon character is laying in a bed with a pillow

Passed out in a clinic 8 hours ago. They gave me 500cc of iv fluid and a vitamin C.

Table showing Executive Functions and how they work together from Brown, T.E (2001) from the Manual for Attention Deficit Disorder Scales for Children and Adolescents. Activation: Organizing, prioritizing, and activating to work Focus: Focusing, sustaining, and shifting attention to tasks Effort: Regulating alertness, sustaining effort, and processing speed Emotion: Managing frustration and modulating emotions Memory: Utilizing working memory and accessing recall Action: Monitoring and self-regulating action

Our executive functions control all these departments in our brain.

When it comes to 'Activation, Focus, & Action' i've always described it as 'inertia'

An object in motion will stay in motion. An object at rest will stay at rest. (Until something else causes it to stop/start.)

Fucking WHAT

thats pretty nice. congrats 👏🎉

Finland is Incredibly Bad at Treating Transgender Young People — Assigned A new study out of Finland casts doubt on the efficacy of the country’s lengthy assessments, harsh, invasive questioning, and delayed medical treatments.

A study from Finland has been used to cast doubt on gender affirming care for youth.

But Finland never offered gender affirming care.

Perhaps invasive, adversarial, fruitless years of assessment harm trans youth? New opinion by @evanurquhart.bsky.social:

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Prof. Riittakerttu Kaltiala who set up Finnish CYP gender services advised Cass. Now NHS England will use this study to further endorse its ‘care’ of trans CYP along Finnish lines. The failure to apply critical thinking to this area of healthcare shows ‘trans bad, cis good’ levels of brain activity.

Kitsu holding a stuffie that looks a lot like her!

Lovely art of me done on @jaxxylope.bsky.social ‘s donate and draw stream! He did really well and the money is going to an excellent cause!

It's Race Day! We are on track for the @prismaticmotorsports.com Race for a Cause 24! We will be giving updates here, as possible in between our stints. Pan, Ari, Sean and Nexie will be taking on this track and raising money for BelongTo!❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏁

Broadcast Link: www.youtube.com/live/8CjA3aL...

I didn't know Mario Gundam's existed

the faces are rather expensive bits of audio-animatronic hardware, even on the “dummy” units, which this appears to be.

After all, you don’t want to hit a pot hole or two and have Thomas’s face come flying off the back of the truck where a kid could see it.

Talk about traumatizing…

A replica of Thomas the Tank Engine being transported on a large flatbed truck. It’s strapped down in multiple places and the face portion is covered by a large black bag

Thomas gets taken to a black ops site

oh my bad. i didnt believe it if it was the punisher because jon bernthal punisher was the first punisher ive seen and jon was grounded enough for an AAA franchise . Dam, i didnt believe it at first because the jon one is so different than this. well, might find this movie soon. thanks

Maxwell: Florida scrub-jay may lose protected status if aspiring homebuilder gets his way If you live in Florida long enough, you learn that two kinds of people move here. One comes to Florida, appreciating what the state has to offer. The other moves in and immediately starts trying to ch...

"A young tech entrepreneur who recently moved to Florida got upset when he ran into obstacles while trying to build a house on the habitat for the endangered Florida scrub-jay.

So he filed a lawsuit attempting to strip the bird of its federal protection."

Pretty obsessed with this group of Thai kids who absolutely shred (have to do this one on two parts)

The photo is a screenshot of a tweet from an account called "Prep Propaganda." It reads: "Young right wing men in France during the 1980’s wore tassel loafers as an outwardly preppy aesthetical statement of conservative principles against their socialist government" The tweet carries an attached photo, showing someone wearing white trousers, navy socks, and snuff colored tassel loafers. They are sitting in a leather chair that's on top of an old rug, telegraphing a kind of online "Old Money" aesthetic.

the CIA posts stuff like this so you can feel like you're part of the ruling class by purchasing a pair of $150 loafers off eBay instead of asking for affordable housing, free healthcare, and better working conditions

wait what movie is this?

whats going on?

A quote by Rick Owens. It reads: "Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead."

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work.

Let's talk about it. 🧵

hey! your balloon!