Absolutely brutal line

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The Fighting Fund has been absolutely indispensable so far, helping pay for additional legal costs (e.g. immigration stuff) and some of the bills of our more vulnerable members. We're - to put it very lightly - *deeply* grateful for what people have contributed so far ❤️

I've been hands off on helping organise these so far while I navigate Everything Else but I'll be there on the day mucking in (and hopefully doing some game design 🤞)

IWGB Game Jam · Luma Come to Ancient Robot Workshop on the 25th of April and take part in an evening game jam with ex-Rockster Workers! Support ex-Rockstar workers Fighting Fund…

Hey Edinburgh peeps! @ancientrobotgames.bsky.social / @arworkshop.bsky.social are teaming up with The Dismissed (hi! 👋) to run a series of fundraising events for our Fighting Fund, the first of which is a tabletop game jam this Saturday, 25th April! Sign up on Luma: luma.com/mqyg8kqh

Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

I dunno about y'all but I'm fairly sure we were sold out. Everybody involved needs to be held accountable for this, and the data centers need to be held not just to the same, but to higher environmental standards.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

That sound you hear are historians of science, gender, STS etc collectively banging their heads against the nearest hard surface until sweet sweet oblivion

I almost forgot it was out and wasn’t in a rush to watch it because some of Filoni’s stuff has bounced off me in the last couple years but now I’m intrigued!

watch the free youtube stream instead 🥰

AI agents, foetuses, flags - conservatives constantly seek out vessels to assign sentience so they can prioritise their rights over those of actual persons

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

I really can't put this more clearly.

If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on.

There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.

Sora

Please join me for a rousing round of: lol, get fucked
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Insta-blocking anyone who speaks positively about this show. Rowling is a bigot who is actively campaigning to make trans lives worse so if you watch this show I will assume you are a transphobe, end of.

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal:

If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people.

That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

i needed this reminder; thank you, courtney

How To Ban Conversion Therapy YouTube video by Philosophy Tube

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy.
Proud to expose this stuff ✊

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Meanwhile there is some small cause for optimism. The Green Party’s policy positions on trans healthcare are better and last I checked also include a trans-led public inquiry to hold people accountable.

Trans kids: stay alive

Everyone else: keep the receipts! 5/5

In my opinion, Labour are failing to deliver their promised ban on conversion therapy because any legally robust definition of it would show that the NHS are doing it to trans people, and implicate this government in the practice. 4/5

The NHS say this flows from the Cass Review but this is a distortion. Cass’ conclusions say the evidence for trans kids’ HRT is “inconsistent” but if you actually read the Review’s own evidence it shows positive outcomes! That’s 1 reason Cass was rejected by international medical authorities.
3/5

Philosophy Tube — How To Ban Conversion Therapy A complete history of conversion therapy from 1849-now, when it is STILL legal and STILL happening.

Labour’s healthcare bans are shameful and have already harmed British kids. Wes Streeting’s normalisation of conversion therapy is a stain on the country. Every NHS doctor and admin who went along with this has undermined public confidence in the profession.
2/5

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Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).

This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

The US military is a cowardly, pompuous, and evil force.

Are Labour MPs starting to realise just how badly they’ve messed things up for LGBTQ people?

nebula.tv/videos/philo...

Every bsky staff member keeps talking about how the goal is Nice Social Media but then the second they're even remotely pushed back against for something shitty, and they immediately crash out for multiple days crying about their subhuman userbase.

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org