hari
@hjwright.bsky.social
librarian | artist & writer | AuDHD | rotating smorgasbord of special interests
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Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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December 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
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Absolutely disgrace. Years of trying to lock kids up for Napster, discontinuing movies because of music rights, YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR promo bullsh*t and they're ready to give it ALL away to big tech billionaires
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
December 18, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Absolutely disgrace. Years of trying to lock kids up for Napster, discontinuing movies because of music rights, YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR promo bullsh*t and they're ready to give it ALL away to big tech billionaires
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kinda feel like the Bsky team won't listen to trans users about this, so I'll say it as a Cis Person: I don't want Jesse Singal on here spreading his lying hateful "just asking questions" bullshit. he is not acting in good faith, he causes active harm, and he adds nothing worthwhile to this platform
December 7, 2024 at 8:33 PM
kinda feel like the Bsky team won't listen to trans users about this, so I'll say it as a Cis Person: I don't want Jesse Singal on here spreading his lying hateful "just asking questions" bullshit. he is not acting in good faith, he causes active harm, and he adds nothing worthwhile to this platform
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I was just gonna say this! You often hear 'reasonable moderates' saying things like "Well I just think we should have standards for athletes."
We have this! Athletes are required to be on hormones for months or years before they can compete as a woman.
We have this! Athletes are required to be on hormones for months or years before they can compete as a woman.
The same is true of sports. It is not easy for trans women to play on women's sports teams, and gets harder the higher the level of competition.
People demand a balance of fairness and inclusion that already exists, and wind up furthering outright bans that exist to other and punish trans women.
People demand a balance of fairness and inclusion that already exists, and wind up furthering outright bans that exist to other and punish trans women.
What drives me nuts about the trans youth "debate" is how much of it consists of people who don't know anything demanding compromises that already exist.
Hormones and surgeries for minors receive ABSURD amounts of regulation and scrutiny! Either engage with the facts on this issue or shut up.
Hormones and surgeries for minors receive ABSURD amounts of regulation and scrutiny! Either engage with the facts on this issue or shut up.
December 7, 2024 at 4:11 PM
I was just gonna say this! You often hear 'reasonable moderates' saying things like "Well I just think we should have standards for athletes."
We have this! Athletes are required to be on hormones for months or years before they can compete as a woman.
We have this! Athletes are required to be on hormones for months or years before they can compete as a woman.
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bread time let's have a bread
November 21, 2024 at 7:08 AM
bread time let's have a bread
First truly great Bluesky post
December 7, 2024 at 10:19 AM
First truly great Bluesky post
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It’s genuinely shocking if you’re remotely familiar with the basic facts of trans care and youth medicine.
It is *profoundly* difficult to access gender-affirming care as a minor and the Times has printed more than a dozen articles implying that it is too easy.
It is *profoundly* difficult to access gender-affirming care as a minor and the Times has printed more than a dozen articles implying that it is too easy.
in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court
December 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM
It’s genuinely shocking if you’re remotely familiar with the basic facts of trans care and youth medicine.
It is *profoundly* difficult to access gender-affirming care as a minor and the Times has printed more than a dozen articles implying that it is too easy.
It is *profoundly* difficult to access gender-affirming care as a minor and the Times has printed more than a dozen articles implying that it is too easy.
I regret to inform you that apparently I have not yet been born
Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025
November 23, 2024 at 10:47 PM
I regret to inform you that apparently I have not yet been born
'I mean, there's colour all over it' genuinely sounds like something Trump might come out with. Our film has every colour... the best colours...
this is a perfectly stated embodiment of how so many filmmakers have come to see the artifice of film as something to hide and in doing so paradoxically makes their movies look and feel incredibly artificial
Jon M. Chu talking about the color in WICKED just made me irrationally angry.
November 23, 2024 at 4:00 PM
'I mean, there's colour all over it' genuinely sounds like something Trump might come out with. Our film has every colour... the best colours...
gonna use this partly to log my film watching
November 21, 2024 at 7:24 PM
gonna use this partly to log my film watching
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Great Britain postal stationery card uprated with a ½d stamp, sent in 1896 from Malton in Yorkshire to Galați, Romania. As the affixed Romanian postal label (scarce, by the way: I’ve only seen one other) says, the card was ‘Nereclamat’ (‘Unclaimed’) and returned to sender in GB #philately #stamps
November 19, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Great Britain postal stationery card uprated with a ½d stamp, sent in 1896 from Malton in Yorkshire to Galați, Romania. As the affixed Romanian postal label (scarce, by the way: I’ve only seen one other) says, the card was ‘Nereclamat’ (‘Unclaimed’) and returned to sender in GB #philately #stamps