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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 8h

Sure. Science is full of people not in that field making ignorant criticism of the work done by people who actually do know what they are talking about.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 2d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 1d

Ok. I'm looking forward to seeing the ones Peter Capaldi is wearing, because I'm rewatching season 9 right now. Also, can't remember the Matt Smith one, so wondering what is with my memory as I have just watched them fairly recently!

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 1d

And today, we have the opposite story I noticed from the Mirror:

"New BBC drama is so 'brilliant' viewers are watching it all in one sitting"

This time, based on reddit threads from people who clearly loved it.

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Will Rosecrans @willrosecrans.com · 3d

Here's some footage of Antifa being violent that I'm sure Andy would insist represents the current situation in Portland right now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ipr...

3+ Hours of WW2 Footage In Color

YouTube video by Real History

www.youtube.com

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 2d

I think both are pretty bad! Unless "snack your kids" means feeding them snacks more often than proper meals.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy

First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people.

Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy.

www.motherjones.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.

It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2d

Larry Grayson's Generation Game (14th October 1978). Larry meets K9.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 2d

Forced to share pins, left open to fraud!

1 in 5 with mental health conditions risk financial abuse by sharing pins as banks don't offer carers cards, 3rd party notifications or controls. We want to change that. Full info www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/10...

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK

The European commissioner for human rights is in step with GLP’s ongoing legal challenge to the EHRC’s interim guidance, where we argue that the regulator’s approach would be incompatible with trans people’s human rights 👇

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK

Human rights commissioner calls on parliament to make sure guidance following the Supreme Court’s decision in April promotes inclusion.

goodlawproject.org

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 2d

I guess, it would be an interesting exercise if you could get some of the flag-waving protestors and have THEM take a mandatory English test to make sure their language skills were up to snuff.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2d

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 2d

I assume this is Gareth Roberts the former Dr Who writer. But why does he have a byline portrait that makes him look like Hannibal Lecter?

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katy manning @manningofficial.bsky.social · 2d

i made it to 79
& feel
just fine , now the next stop
for katy is 80 thank you all for being in my life ❤️

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 2d

Trump himself is stupid, which is sufficient explanation for why he keeps telling people what he's doing in tweets - but yes he does also think anyone likely to believe him is stupid also.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Appalling and sloppy... but EVEN more so when you consider the show's subject matter...

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 3d

Being mentioned as the reference point for Sally Wainwright, seeing as how that show was notoriously always a barrel of laughs.

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 3d

"BBC viewers 'switch off' as Happy Valley creator's latest show branded 'depressing'"

Of course, it's another article of "I cobbled together a bunch of comments on X and called it journalism", and it's an Express headline (so BBC bashing expected) - but I'm still getting whiplash for "Happy Valley"

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 3d

You make a good point.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 4d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sure you think that calling straight people "normal" is totally not homophobic also.

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 4d

Is this another one of those "Trump found a doctor who was willing to sign something Trump had written about his own health" stories?

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Paul 🍉 @paul2626.bsky.social · 4d

WAsn't appointing Mandelson meant to be the original "grown-ups back in charge" move back in 2024?

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