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Ms Chatelaine
@theelaineg.bsky.social
She/her: Writer, Greens councillor, trans person, living with fibromyalgia

My novella, Unexploded Remnants, is available wherever you can buy Tor.com books
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Looking forward to Starmer ordering the arrest of 80% of the UK population on terrorism charges.
December 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Happy to talk to @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social at @404media.co about this issue of Instagram adding weird sometimes inaccurate headlines and summaries for Google searches. I find it troubling. www.404media.co/instagram-is...
Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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every journalist & editor involved in every story covering Peggie's loss at the tribunal as some kind of "partial" victory should be considered this level of racist cunt and get called such to their face for it should the chance ever arise
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TW: RACISM AND SO THE REST

Terfs and MSM, this is your champion
December 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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“… because that would require me to think and act like a human.”
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Gotta needlepoint this
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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While this particular annoying tech is new, for a long time now we've been on this societal slide toward "how can you expect me to figure this out without an Expert Guide"

infantilization is the word people say but it's actually anti-infantilization, because infants try shit out
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"Israel, the only nation state of the Jewish people" is a mad button to push when you think about it, it's "Israel, the Jewish people's only ethnostate" blithely treating it as a lip-wibbling thing an ethnic group only has the one nation in which all other ethnic groups are to be rendered uncitizens
Two things that come to mind as I see this

1) Important to remember that Zohran Mamdani's relatively conciliatory approach to the issue of Palestine and his joy-based attitude does not actually stem any of the criticism.

2) It's doubtful that anyone in Democratic leadership comes to his defense
December 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Neil Mcintosh, Editor of the Daily Record and Chief at Reach Plc, which controls the Record, Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, Manchester Evening News, Liverpool Echo, BirminghamLive, Nottingham Post and BelfastLive, WalesOnline, OK! magazine, and Sunday Mail.
December 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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If you're wondering how deep the rot of transphobic hatred is in our media - here's the head of Reach plc and editor of the Daily Record.

Absolutely vile bigotry spouted from the very top of our media. Our society won't be free of hatred until people like him are gone from positions of power.
December 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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People have the right not to be discriminated against solely on the basis of a sincere religious, political or philosophical belief. That does not give them the right to discriminate against other employees. Such discriminatory behaviour may well see them face disciplinary action in the workplace.
December 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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A couple of notes. If you're a line manager in an organisation too small to have an HR department, check the ACAS website for best practise. www.acas.org.uk/acas-code-of...
HR departments countrywide need to start treating gendercrit employees as potentially hostile. As soon as you are required to interact with one, you dust off the rulebook, you dot every eye and cross every t, and you assume bad faith at every turn.

They are a threat to every organisation.
December 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The BBC is now consistently using a transphobic slur to refer to trans people.

Transphobes are still not happy. That's still not hateful and cruel enough.
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Yeah, how the fuck is this NOT defamatory, actually? That's not just spin, that's a straight up lie claiming that Upton, according to a legal ruling, harassed Peggie.
#C4News went above & beyond, reporting:

"a nurse has won a harassment claim against Dr Beth Upton."

No she didn't. NHS FIFE harassed her, not Upton.

This is almost defamatory, & they mentioned none of the dismissed parts or the implications for trans women in SS spaces. I complained to Ofcom.
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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at what point do you admit that the silly billy smol beans maybe can't possibly be such silly billy smol beans and must maybe actually just be fuckin dogshit people who know exactly what they're doing but just... what they *wanna* do is fuck. you. over.
No, it hasn’t. Do we think this is because they *don’t* understand.
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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The Daily Record has clearly been under instructions to make Anas Sarwar look less bad for having backed a racist who harassed her trans co-worker by just packing their paper with the most brazenly biased spins on the NHS Fife case available.

Scottish journalism, folks. What a sorry state it's in.
December 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Nigel Farage's former campaign staffer, who accused him of breaking electoral law, was expelled by Reform for allegedly keeping sex toys in Farage’s Clacton office. (Telegraph)

???There’d been an oversized cock in there since the start.
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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That's it. That's the victory the transphobes are declaring.

"Hey, would you mind changing somewhere else until we can get this transphobe out of your face?"

No wonder Sex Matters are actually reading it and are enraged, their prospectus of hatred as the default has taken another battering.
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Gross language and framing (thanks, British Establishment) but ideal outcome:

The tribunal found that there is no strict legal requirement to exclude trans women from women's changing rooms.
This is the key paragraph in the Sandie Peggie decision.
December 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This is the second decision - both first instance - since the appalling For (Some) Women Scotland decision to find that there is no trans bathroom ban. www.gov.uk/employment-t...
B M Kelly v Leonardo UK Ltd: 8001497/2024
Employment Tribunal decision.
www.gov.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.

She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...
www.judiciary.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM