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𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐗𝐈𝐀 @cruxia.bsky.social · 1d

Had to share this from twitter just because

Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 1d

God I'd love it if the NHS followed literature from 10 years ago let along up-to-date. Plus it's looking like our long covid response will be "it doesn't really exist".

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 3d

"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.

If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

NHS threatens GP practice over trans care

A GP practice in Brighton and Hove is currently under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 3d

I think it is discriminatory surely? Like what would even be their reasoning to exclude? It's not cost so it's either ignorance or transphobia (or both).

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 4d

News in that children are now being prescribed weight loss jabs on the NHS.

@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social

Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?

📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢

All so utterly predictable and fucked up.

Here we go again ✍️

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Birthday!

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hautes mad [x24] @bitdizzy.bsky.social · 5d

KOKO: Koko transsexual rights. Practical Koko human rights
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t call them transsexual rights.
KOKO: Good transition good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve transsexual
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford coherent politics. That’s transmedicalism
KOKO: misogyny professor

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 5d

YES

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 5d

lol what's with them putting that tick at the end? marking their own homework as usual.

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john granule @bogbird.bsky.social · 6d

yeah

horse sitting and sticking their tongue out

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Birthday!

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 7d

stuffs!!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing featuring different items scattered on a page: an apple with a face, a cloud with legs, a flower with legs, a bird, cats, flowers, mushrooms, a cup of steaming coffee and a fish.

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 7d

Nice! Love the use of colour.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 7d

Thanatotheristes is a late Cretaceous tyrannosaur whose name means 'Reaper of death.' I couldn't help this image of it in Grim Reaper guise popping into my head.

Brown pencil on plain notebook paper, 125 × 190 mm, 2020.

#Halloween #Samhain

Brown pencil drawing of a cloaked and hooded figure with the head of a tyrannosaur, facing left, standing amid billowing smoke. The blade of a scythe emerges from the cloak's folds. At the bottom of the image is a scroll with the words, 'Thanatotheristes: Le faucheur de la mort'.

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 7d

It's a hard realisation to make but once you realise how much value you have and that you should love yourself in the same way you want to be loved, I think things only get better from there.

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 8d

Phone sketching Maud from Fingersmith.

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 8d

I managed to catch her playing most of this album in the Royal Albert Hall while she was touring it and it was very much a time.

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 8d

Lead poisoning mainly

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 9d

the Python Software Foundation is foregoing a large NSF grant that would have been contingent on their agreeing to terminate their diversity and inclusion initiatives and given the feds the ability to cripple them financially for refusing to comply

support them here:
www.python.org/psf/donations/

Monday, October 27, 2025
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5
million proposal to US government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPl. It was the PSF's first time applying for government funding, and navigating the intensive process was a steep learning curve for our small team to climb. Seth Larson, PSF Security Developer in Residence, serving as Principal Investigator (PI) with Loren Crary, PSF Deputy Executive Director, as co-Pl, led the multi-round proposal writing process as well as the months-long vetting process. We invested our time and effort because we felt the PS's work is a strong fit for the program and that the benefit to the community if our proposal were accepted was considerable.

We were honored when, after many months of work, our proposal was recommended for funding, particularly as only 36% of new NSF grant applicants are successful on their first attempt. We became concerned, however, when we were presented with the terms and conditions we would be required to agree to if we accepted the grant. These terms included affirming the statement that we "do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEl, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws." This restriction would apply not only to the security work directly funded by the grant, but to any and all activity of the PSF as a whole. Further, violation of this term gave the NSF the right to "claw back" previously approved and transferred funds.
This would create a situation where money we'd already spent could be taken back, which would be an enormous, open-ended financial risk.

In the end, however, the PSF simply can't agree to a statement that we won't operate any programs that
"advance or promote" diversity, equity, and inclusion, as it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community.
We're disappointed to have been put in the position where we had to make this decision, because we believe our proposed project would offer invaluable advances to the Python and greater open source community, protecting millions of PyPl users from attempted supply-chain attacks. The proposed project would create new tools for automated proactive review of all packages uploaded to PyPl, rather than the current process of reactive-only review. These novel tools would rely on capability analysis, designed based on a dataset of known malware. Beyond just protecting PyPl users, the outputs of this work could be transferable for all open source software package registries, such as NPM and Crates.io, improving security across multiple open source ecosystems.

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 10d

Something about the weight of the big ears on this bunny hat I'm wearing feels calming and satisfying and I wonder if I've stumbled across something like the Achewood groin weight.

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ceej @ceej.online · 11d

when you masturbate you’re participating in an unbroken chain stretching back hundreds of thousands of years to the very first humans who stood in awe under the vast mystery of an unpolluted sky and retreated to their caves and hollows to yank pud to horny cave paintings. every stroke a holy mystery

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Zebulun @zebulun.bsky.social · 11d

Beautiful.
Plaid Cymru battered them.

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 11d

"As a young person I am very worried about all this Reefer Madness"

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Mat @thestjohn.bsky.social · 11d

Gotta be the same sort of mindset as Clinton; "I was owed the position, I deserve it."

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14d

Hey folks, my new video is out now, a review of the 2024 horror game Still Wakes The Deep, set aboard a Scottish oilrig. I'm really proud of this one, and I think it might be my best video yet! Please give it a look, and let me know what you think.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Oq...

Still Wakes The Deep - A Workplace Safety Horror

YouTube video by Casey Explosion

www.youtube.com

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