JP Blackband
@jpblackband.bsky.social
Warhammer, Blood Bowl, rugby, and politics
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I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
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When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
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Your periodic reminder that if the global economy doesn’t get to net zero emissions temperatures will keep rising to the point where they trigger the failure of natural carbon sinks, runaway climate breakdown, and the collapse of the only civilisation-supporting biosphere in the known universe.
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Your periodic reminder that if the global economy doesn’t get to net zero emissions temperatures will keep rising to the point where they trigger the failure of natural carbon sinks, runaway climate breakdown, and the collapse of the only civilisation-supporting biosphere in the known universe.
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Really far off topic but I think Zoe Bread is doing real investigative journalism that we haven't seen since corporate media took over.
This is comic book level, Gotham style, evil. Yet it's reality in Manchester.
This is comic book level, Gotham style, evil. Yet it's reality in Manchester.
December 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Really far off topic but I think Zoe Bread is doing real investigative journalism that we haven't seen since corporate media took over.
This is comic book level, Gotham style, evil. Yet it's reality in Manchester.
This is comic book level, Gotham style, evil. Yet it's reality in Manchester.
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Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.
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Sought and found asylum in the UK
R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sought and found asylum in the UK
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Leading anti-trans writer Kathleen Stock (whom Rowling is “proud” to call her friend), now comes out with this gem on abortion. Who could have foreseen that TERFs would attack bodily autonomy? All of us did. All of us.
Transphobia rots your brain.
Transphobia rots your brain.
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Leading anti-trans writer Kathleen Stock (whom Rowling is “proud” to call her friend), now comes out with this gem on abortion. Who could have foreseen that TERFs would attack bodily autonomy? All of us did. All of us.
Transphobia rots your brain.
Transphobia rots your brain.
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Whenever people discuss if ChatGPT should be used in education, it should be noted that OpenAI's board includes a a professor who sought advice from a pedophile on how to manipulate one of his mentees into having sex with him, and in those conversations they substituted her name with a racial slur.
OpenAI is among the handful of the most powerful non-governmental institutions in the world.
Larry Summers could get fully jettisoned from Harvard (hasn't yet happened!) and yet still be fine so long as he is helping determine the future of AI.
Larry Summers could get fully jettisoned from Harvard (hasn't yet happened!) and yet still be fine so long as he is helping determine the future of AI.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Whenever people discuss if ChatGPT should be used in education, it should be noted that OpenAI's board includes a a professor who sought advice from a pedophile on how to manipulate one of his mentees into having sex with him, and in those conversations they substituted her name with a racial slur.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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This is Nazi shit, theres no way of dressing it up thats not Nazi shit, and it should be treated as if it was proposed by Himmler
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is Nazi shit, theres no way of dressing it up thats not Nazi shit, and it should be treated as if it was proposed by Himmler
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An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
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we're all very tired, and apparently nobody anywhere gives a shit about anything any more
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
we're all very tired, and apparently nobody anywhere gives a shit about anything any more
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parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
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For real, check this out. Evil.
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
For real, check this out. Evil.
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I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
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when your sword’s really long,
but you pronounce it wrong
that’s claymore
but you pronounce it wrong
that’s claymore
March 7, 2024 at 4:04 AM
when your sword’s really long,
but you pronounce it wrong
that’s claymore
but you pronounce it wrong
that’s claymore
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If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years
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Yes, because Badenoch’s was a criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence, whereas Reeves’ was not.
Badenoch says hacking into Harriet Harman's website 17 years ago 'not the same' as Reeves breaking law
Badenoch says hacking into Harriet Harman's website 17 years ago 'not the same' as Reeves breaking law
Kemi Badenoch has said hacking into Harriet Harman's website when she was younger is "not the same" as Rachel Reeves failing to get a £900 rental licence for her home.
news.sky.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Yes, because Badenoch’s was a criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence, whereas Reeves’ was not.
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It is unbelievable that not a single session for the Terminally Ill Adults Bill Committee will include terminally ill people. You cannot exclude their voices, and their experience is vital in understanding the workability of the proposed. #AssistedDyingBill
humanists.uk/2025/10/29/t...
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Terminally Ill Adults Select Committee won’t hear from the terminally ill
The House of Lords Select Committee for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has just announced its final oral witnesses, and it will not hear from terminally ill individuals or those who have...
humanists.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It is unbelievable that not a single session for the Terminally Ill Adults Bill Committee will include terminally ill people. You cannot exclude their voices, and their experience is vital in understanding the workability of the proposed. #AssistedDyingBill
humanists.uk/2025/10/29/t...
humanists.uk/2025/10/29/t...
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Every even-numbered thing you read about AI is "they've checked yet again and it turns out everything it says is wrong" and every odd-numbered thing you read about AI is "they've given OpenAI a new contract to decide who goes to prison and it has all your names to pick from"
October 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Every even-numbered thing you read about AI is "they've checked yet again and it turns out everything it says is wrong" and every odd-numbered thing you read about AI is "they've given OpenAI a new contract to decide who goes to prison and it has all your names to pick from"
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Slight problem with these headlines in that the report literally recommends keeping the clean power target. institute.global/insights/cli...
October 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Slight problem with these headlines in that the report literally recommends keeping the clean power target. institute.global/insights/cli...
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
This is an excellent letter, and as always a reminder that if you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met ONE person with autism
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
October 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This is an excellent letter, and as always a reminder that if you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met ONE person with autism