Family Beyond the Binary: A study of non-binary people's family experiences. Are you non-binary, 18+ and living in the UK? You are invited to participate in 'Family Beyond the Binary' a groundbreaking research study from UCL and Gendered Intelligence exploring non-binary people's family experiences. The online survey takes around 30 minutes to complete and asks about family relationships, disclosure, wellbeing, stigma and community. You might also be invited to participate in a follow up interview. To find out more visit familybeyondthebinary.co.uk or contact Dr Susie Bower-Brown at s.bower-brown@ucl.ac.uk

Call for research participants! Are you non-binary, aged 18+ and living in the UK?

Would you be willing to spend 30 minutes on a survey on your experiences of family?

qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Please share! I am a researcher on this project - A short thread to follow. 1/14

Force the government to rip up the EHRC’s transphobic guidance It’s been a year since the Supreme Court's decision that accelerated the rollback of trans rights in the UK. It’s been a difficult year, but it’s also been a year of coming together and fighting back....

Over 3,500 people have taken action in less than 48hs.

We need to make sure the government listens to us, and we don't have much time. Will you join us?
action.goodlawproject.org/force-government-rip-ehr...

It's really starting to look like a book 😭

Aaah! Look! Baby's first #audiodrama script! Very, very excited; it's sounding amazing so far (Ben and Tania are superb - please follow them - likewise Ash and Erik)!

Also want to give a special shout out to @helenargh.bsky.social for doing the sensitivity reading - (please follow them as well).

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Ooh, I didn't realise it was properly coming out so soon! Congrats 😁

I suspect you would definitely enjoy it!

It does! I'm so excited 🥰

Update: I found an excellent artist who absolutely gets my vibe! And I've started playing around with ideas for book covers ☺️ It's happening! I'm hoping to have it out sometime next year.
Now to teach myself layout...

Hi all, its your friendly neighborhood retired therapist here to remind you that the horrors persist and so do we!

Have you:
-had a glass of water or something liquid that is not caffeinated recently?
-used any calming or grounding techniques you like?
-eaten a food?

If not, do that now. 💜

Normal Rockwell free speech picture.

All children are innocent and it’s proof of deep and far-reaching moral collapse that their murder is tolerated by so many.

You are currently averaging over 10,000 calls per hour on 5 Calls (!!!) to demand your reps rein in Trump and his catastrophic threats. 🔥📞🔥

come on guys let's go, those are rookie numbers

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today:

Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

It was great to meet you too! And don't worry, it's not like I was there in an official capacity 😁

It's essential that any Code of Practice explains to organisations like Girlguiding that they are fully legally entitled to remain trans-inclusive, and that the Government steps in to ensure that they will not be bullied and harassed into adopting positions contrary to their values.

Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.

The thing that's extremely insulting about "there have to be trade-offs you can't have it good forever" is, some of us have never had it good. We've never had cheap essentials, we've never had good opportunities, we've never had a chance of a decent life.

Imagine Artemis II goes round the dark side of the moon, out of contact for 41 mins, and when it comes back the astronauts just aren't on it

THEY TRAINED THE AI ON ACTUAL WRITERS. YOU CANNOT TELL IF SOMETHING IS AI SIMPLY BASED ON IT USING PROPER GRAMMAR. IT STOLE FROM US!!! IT STOLE!!! IT IS A THIEF AND I WILL NOT EVER BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!!

No worries, rest is important!

Glad you enjoyed the panel 😁 Also I tried to buy some of your books earlier but I think you'd gone for a break - you can expect me to return to try again tomorrow, haha!

I am up scandalously early to get some work done but this is a very good thread and I am going back to my spreadsheet ok bye

This abject terror of emotion is something drilled into a lot of straight dudes in my age group and up in particular and it kills people. Not even being hyperbolic, it’s insanely dangerous and self destructive

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

if u like Lake Mungo, you'll be into Corporeal, a horror game where u investigate a cursed 90s NZ family photo album

Oh hell yeah! Lake Mungo is one of my top three horror films, I shall absolutely wishlist this game 😊

“Why is bluesky so incredibly dull” because you haven’t carefully curated a feed of the most unhinged people on the internet, like i have

OpenAI is planning to discontinue the app for its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year that has since fallen from public view, according to the company. The move is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year. CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has relinquished direct oversight of the company’s safety and security teams so he can focus on raising capital, supply chains and “building datacenters at unprecedented scale,” he told staff on Tuesday. At the same time, he said the company had completed the initial development of its next major AI model, codenamed Spud, and would wind down the Sora AI video mobile app, which employees had complained was a drag on the company’s computing resources during a time of heightened competition with foes such as Anthropic and Google.

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

Everyone is celebrating this because it's good. But it’s important to remember it's also funny.