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Molly Maclachlan
@mollymaclachlan.bsky.social
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Scottish amateur writer/streamer. My posts are often bad.

🏳️‍⚧️ she/her

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mollymaclachlan
Website: https://mollymaclachlan.github.io/website
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Here be trans rights. #TransRights
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Molly Maclachlan @mollymaclachlan.bsky.social · Dec 12
I played Subnautica for the first time earlier this year and it was incredible. I've put more work into the highlight video than any other video I've made, and I'm very proud of it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4uY...
Subnautica is an Absolute MASTERPIECE.
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kevinjkircher.com
A UK research funder used LLMs to screen and desk-reject grant proposals with no human input, then (and this is the unique part) told rejected authors about it. I assume federal appointees in US research agencies are doing the same, though without the "tell people about it" bit.
U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed
The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns
www.science.org
October 5, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
"We see our power, and we are using it"
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social
October 3, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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heatherpaterson.co.uk
EVERY UK MP needs to read this

You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country

This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.
October 3, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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bottles1936.bsky.social
There is NO responsibility upon a complainant to establish whether their partner is trans.

So they don’t have to ask. But our silence can potentially become the “deception”.

What a fucking grotesque allocation of risk.
September 30, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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bottles1936.bsky.social
Yet apparently trans people are expected to navigate their intimate lives beneath the shadow of a prosecutorial interpretation of criminal law that the CPS itself acknowledges has never been determined by the appellate courts.

Oh, and the CPS is crystal clear about something else:
September 30, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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hleehurley.com
The police continue to be the danger they want you to think trans people are [Mail]
‘I know the law and you need to say yes’ Court told what drunk WPC allegedly said to female victim before sexually assaulting her Daily Mail22 Sep 2026By Jack Hardy A FEMALE police officer told another woman ‘I know the law’ before sexually assaulting her, a court has heard. Fiona Anderson, a police constable with Devon and Cornwall Police, is on trial accused of two counts of sexual assault in 2018 while she was visiting Cardiff. Anderson, 33, is alleged to have performed a sex act on the other woman without consent, while she is also accused of touching the alleged victim’s intimate parts without consent. She denies the charges. The two incidents reportedly took place in Cardiff while the defendant was off duty.
September 22, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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danielmcelroy0.bsky.social
We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!
September 23, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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hangrydad.bsky.social
Difficult decisions like "give up a few freebies and get our rich mates to contribute more, or further immiserate the already vulnerable"?
September 20, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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kieranhurley.bsky.social
Bleakly, grimly hilarious that people my age have been hearing this exact same tune on repeat for very literally our entire voting lives now. I'm 40. My daughter starts seconday school next year.
eschatonblog.com Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 16d
things can only get worse with a northern accent
NEW: Andy Burnham will shift his messaging away from "hope" to preparing the public for "challenging times" and "difficult decisions" with Labour officials increasingly concerned the budget will be gloomier than expected
September 20, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement

Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
democracyforsale.substack.com
September 19, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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adambecker.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this.

"Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves."

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Charles, Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development. Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk. This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives." For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control. Those safety concerns must be taken seriously. And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm. But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good. The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined. Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections. It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies. That tells us two things: 1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; & 2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk. That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people. These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow. But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash. In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power. In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are. What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion. When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all. From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong. Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from. It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public. When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares. The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out. But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny. Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab. Heads, they win; tails, we lose. We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk. We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech. And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait. Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves. It's time we hold them accountable. Thank you for reading. In solidarity, Alexandria
September 19, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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ptfen.bsky.social
if you connect your LLM to the internet and it does crimes, you are responsible for those crimes
September 19, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
September 19, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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sloanelysbeth.northsky.social
i thought i was being corrupt in secret.
September 19, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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sloanelysbeth.northsky.social
i've spent six years now watching my country succumb to irreversible fascism and it began with our liberal party saying trans ppl should be banned from sports.

we now have red fascism and blue fascism with no real difference besides pr and branding.
September 18, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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headfallsoff.com
also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley
September 18, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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headfallsoff.com
on some level, you have to accept that yes, people are reacting emotionally without doing detailed research but really you can’t blame them or stop them. this was some bullshit not a single one of us had to think about three years ago and now it’s making shit worse in like most daily interactions
September 18, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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headfallsoff.com
people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent
September 18, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
Sam Altman has literally said this out loud. He wants to sell “intelligence”. He doesn’t mean “AI intelligence” They want to steal all our knowledge by burning our books for the AI, make us unable to think criticallly to rediscover our own humanity, & force us to pay for shitty AI “intelligence”.
September 19, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
Don’t use pronouns for AI. It is not a person nor ever will. Sam Altman isn’t making the god computer of his wet dream nightmares. They’ve made a shitty tool built on theft thats destroying the planet & is meant to lower human critical thinking while given military weapons by rich idiots.
September 19, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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pollik.bsky.social
goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Help the Greens protect trans members | Good Law Project
The Greens took action to protect trans people. Now the party is facing legal action – so we’re defending them in court
goodlawproject.org
September 19, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws".
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists
Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
When you start bargaining which percentage of the people you can sacrifice to stave off fascism, you've already lost to fascism.
pftompkins.bsky.social Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 17d
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
Nichole Hiltz The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people. A building. @treewarrior.bsky.... maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
September 19, 2026 at 5:42 AM