Lorraine
@samkathrynolivia.bsky.social
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A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered...
#RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
#RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
June 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered...
#RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
#RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
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Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago
May 23, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago
This outcome was created in the moment that Gordon Brown got caught saying someone had bigoted views, the media went nuts, and Labour didn’t have the courage to stand by that position.
May 8, 2026 at 8:13 PM
This outcome was created in the moment that Gordon Brown got caught saying someone had bigoted views, the media went nuts, and Labour didn’t have the courage to stand by that position.
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"If the UK accepted imports from the US of such products, our food supply would be significantly less safe."
Important message for #FoodSafety and #PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Important message for #FoodSafety and #PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Chlorinated chicken with a side of safety warnings | Letters
Letters: Erik Millstone and Tim Lang look at the evidence. Plus a letter from a woman who had campylobacter while pregnant
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2026 at 7:54 AM
"If the UK accepted imports from the US of such products, our food supply would be significantly less safe."
Important message for #FoodSafety and #PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Important message for #FoodSafety and #PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Going after Parkrun – a non-competitive event which has no changing rooms – perfectly illustrates that it's never been about fairness in sport, women's safety or anything else. It's about bullying and demonising trans people, hounding them out of public life in every space possible. It's disgusting.
Do you know how much of a devil you have to be to threaten Parkrun, one of the most socially progressive, inclusive, beneficial and fucking good vibes organisations we have, with legal action? Demonic! Utterly satanic.
April 25, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Going after Parkrun – a non-competitive event which has no changing rooms – perfectly illustrates that it's never been about fairness in sport, women's safety or anything else. It's about bullying and demonising trans people, hounding them out of public life in every space possible. It's disgusting.
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Anti-rights movements won't stop with trans people.
The Alliance Defending Freedom campaign against abortion rights, gay marriage, and anti-discrimination laws.
Now they are openly backing a case against Parkrun for including trans participants.
www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-...
The Alliance Defending Freedom campaign against abortion rights, gay marriage, and anti-discrimination laws.
Now they are openly backing a case against Parkrun for including trans participants.
www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-...
April 24, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Anti-rights movements won't stop with trans people.
The Alliance Defending Freedom campaign against abortion rights, gay marriage, and anti-discrimination laws.
Now they are openly backing a case against Parkrun for including trans participants.
www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-...
The Alliance Defending Freedom campaign against abortion rights, gay marriage, and anti-discrimination laws.
Now they are openly backing a case against Parkrun for including trans participants.
www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-...
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My workshops for self-funders on Specification By Example in May are filling up nicely, but so far entirely with devs.
Product managers, testers, UX designers and other non-programming software folks are very welcome. I'm hoping for cross-discipline groups.
I even made a spiffy ad and everything.
Product managers, testers, UX designers and other non-programming software folks are very welcome. I'm hoping for cross-discipline groups.
I even made a spiffy ad and everything.
April 22, 2026 at 12:44 PM
My workshops for self-funders on Specification By Example in May are filling up nicely, but so far entirely with devs.
Product managers, testers, UX designers and other non-programming software folks are very welcome. I'm hoping for cross-discipline groups.
I even made a spiffy ad and everything.
Product managers, testers, UX designers and other non-programming software folks are very welcome. I'm hoping for cross-discipline groups.
I even made a spiffy ad and everything.
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A researcher says she made up a disease with two posts on Medium, which led to Copilot telling users it was "intriguing and relatively rare." Posting two preprint papers about it online led to ChatGPT diagnosing people with it. 🧪
skepchick.org/2026/04/chat...
skepchick.org/2026/04/chat...
ChatBots are Diagnosing Diseases that Don’t Exist Based on Blog Posts
Transcript: Many years ago, a friend of mine suggested an experiment: make up a conspiracy theory that was just plausible enough, and then track how far it spreads. It was fun to talk about, and he…
skepchick.org
April 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
A researcher says she made up a disease with two posts on Medium, which led to Copilot telling users it was "intriguing and relatively rare." Posting two preprint papers about it online led to ChatGPT diagnosing people with it. 🧪
skepchick.org/2026/04/chat...
skepchick.org/2026/04/chat...
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If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.
March 28, 2026 at 9:03 AM
If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.
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This has got to be some kind of defamation or something. You can’t just steal people’s IP and then pretend they’re saying something they never said.
March 10, 2026 at 11:13 PM
This has got to be some kind of defamation or something. You can’t just steal people’s IP and then pretend they’re saying something they never said.
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“Instead of producing what looks like a generic critique from a nameless LLM,” Wired reported last week, Expert Review “lists a number of real academics and authors available to weigh in on your text. To be clear: Those people have nothing to do with this process.”🤬
Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive
The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.
www.wired.com
March 10, 2026 at 11:12 PM
“Instead of producing what looks like a generic critique from a nameless LLM,” Wired reported last week, Expert Review “lists a number of real academics and authors available to weigh in on your text. To be clear: Those people have nothing to do with this process.”🤬
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So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
March 10, 2026 at 11:11 PM
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
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This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
March 7, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
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Today's ruling on the EHRC's interim guidance is a disappointing, confusing and mixed picture.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
The High Court has ruled on our challenge to the EHRC’s interim guidance.
The judgment contains some good news for trans rights – but plenty of bad.
Read our analysis
goodlawproject.org/update/high-...
The judgment contains some good news for trans rights – but plenty of bad.
Read our analysis
goodlawproject.org/update/high-...
High Court rules on lawfulness of the EHRC’s interim guidance
High Court decides services may lawfully allow trans women to use women’s facilities – but the fight for trans rights continues
goodlawproject.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Today's ruling on the EHRC's interim guidance is a disappointing, confusing and mixed picture.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
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This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Online leftists miss the point when they treat trans, women’s, BIPOC, and disabled struggles as secondary to the “workers’ revolution.” Dismantling racial supremacy and patriarchy is the revolution. If you overthrow capitalism without uprooting those foundations, it just comes back with a new names.
February 13, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Online leftists miss the point when they treat trans, women’s, BIPOC, and disabled struggles as secondary to the “workers’ revolution.” Dismantling racial supremacy and patriarchy is the revolution. If you overthrow capitalism without uprooting those foundations, it just comes back with a new names.
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In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different.
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:19 PM
In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different.
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
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Robert Peston, "Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?"
Zack Polanski, "Firmly very much in favour"
"Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure"
"Whether its economically, socially, culturally"
Zack Polanski, "Firmly very much in favour"
"Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure"
"Whether its economically, socially, culturally"
February 12, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Robert Peston, "Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?"
Zack Polanski, "Firmly very much in favour"
"Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure"
"Whether its economically, socially, culturally"
Zack Polanski, "Firmly very much in favour"
"Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure"
"Whether its economically, socially, culturally"
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Why was Jeffrey Epstein obsessed with genes?
@juliametraux.bsky.social said it best: "Evil men like Epstein are, in the simplest form, obsessed with eugenics because they believe that their ill-gotten gains are the product of some innate superiority."
@juliametraux.bsky.social said it best: "Evil men like Epstein are, in the simplest form, obsessed with eugenics because they believe that their ill-gotten gains are the product of some innate superiority."
Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics
In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."
www.motherjones.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Why was Jeffrey Epstein obsessed with genes?
@juliametraux.bsky.social said it best: "Evil men like Epstein are, in the simplest form, obsessed with eugenics because they believe that their ill-gotten gains are the product of some innate superiority."
@juliametraux.bsky.social said it best: "Evil men like Epstein are, in the simplest form, obsessed with eugenics because they believe that their ill-gotten gains are the product of some innate superiority."
You can’t choose to act like anti-immigration rhetoric has legitimacy for 2 decades, even creating policy based on it’s lies, then wash your hands of the result
February 12, 2026 at 12:18 AM
You can’t choose to act like anti-immigration rhetoric has legitimacy for 2 decades, even creating policy based on it’s lies, then wash your hands of the result
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And meanwhile my PhD advisor, who continued to have a relationship with Epstein through all of this, told me he couldn’t do anything about the racism and I should stop trying to get the guy who did it to me in trouble
February 10, 2026 at 11:49 PM
And meanwhile my PhD advisor, who continued to have a relationship with Epstein through all of this, told me he couldn’t do anything about the racism and I should stop trying to get the guy who did it to me in trouble
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Thinking about the time I was at a quantum gravity meeting and the man across from me was talking to me and a man next to him turned and said in all seriousness “don’t talk to her, she’s difficult” and it was because I had reacted ”badly” to racism. Meanwhile their heroes were hanging with Epstein.
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Thinking about the time I was at a quantum gravity meeting and the man across from me was talking to me and a man next to him turned and said in all seriousness “don’t talk to her, she’s difficult” and it was because I had reacted ”badly” to racism. Meanwhile their heroes were hanging with Epstein.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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February 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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