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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 1d

As a trans person, I'm here to say that just going out to buy groceries is frightening. I mean, I do it, but I won't pretend I'm not scared.

What I'm scared of is people who have been cajoled to hate me.

Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 1d

This is the Diane Abbott thing. For some of us out-group people, we're visually clockable. For other out-group people, you can pass until you're grassed up. Neither is pleasant, and we owe each other fellow feeling. But the former is manifestly worse, as an experience.

Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 1d

I sometimes say "Cheer up! I might never happen!" to people whose faces turn sour obviously at their awareness of my existence.

Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 1d

I've done "microagression training" at uni. It was bullshit. All of the examples were plain aggression and about race.

I don't go out much. People seem to scowl at me when I do.

Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 1d

It's not directly murderous. But that's the best thing there is to say about it.

GeekOnALeash [Biological trans woman] 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 1d

Call it what it is: Genocide. Legal erasure, ministerial attacks, non-existent health care. This is not a debate. It's an attack on our existence!

medium.com/@geekonaleas...

The UK’s Trans Genocide

The slow machinery of erasure: courts, clinics and ministers weaponising our disappearance

medium.com

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Elizabeth Veldon @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, it will make them even less electable

Scots warned they'll 'see a lot more' of Keir Starmer ahead of Holyrood election

ARE Labour trying to throw the Holyrood election next year?

www.thenational.scot

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 1d

tous unis contre le pen

Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 1d

I may eventually be prescribed hormones when I have lived for a quarter of a millenium.

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 1d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 2d

I try to motivate students to think about what they're doing by reminding them of the world of shit software with which they are already exasperated.

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 2d

PL folks! Write a text editor once every ten years to see if we've made it any easier. I promise youse, we have!

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 2d

The key question of our era is CAN HUMANS THINK?

My first-years give me grounds for hope.
The behaviour of the backspace key in this editor makes me sad: corner case of backspace at line start unconsidered, marks docked.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 2d

Because - amazingly - a citation is apparently needed.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars has declared that Israel is committing genocide. www.bbc.com/news/article...

As has the United Nation’s Commission of Inquiry www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say - BBC News

The world's leading association of genocide scholars cited several actions by Israel, including attacks on the healthcare sector and the killing of children.

www.bbc.com

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 2d

What CS103 "Machines, Languages and Computation" is really about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo0i...

CS103 25/26 4. What's Going On?

YouTube video by Conor McBride

www.youtube.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 2d

This is the world we live in - where good people are mocked and thugs are celebrated - I presume the Business Secretary will say this is a great example of freedom of speech

www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/10...

Rosie Jones assaulted by 'homophobic, ableist' thugs : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

Rosie Jones assaulted by 'homophobic, ableist' thugs - She and fellow comic Lee Peart targeted on train home from a gig

www.chortle.co.uk

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 2d

Not me. Wains to teach.

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 2d

What's more, Keir Starmer should be saying so.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 2d

Cass Review slammed AGAIN. This time by Australian academics.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/c...

Cass Review full of 'stigma' and should not guide trans youth care, say experts

A newly published study has argued the Cass Review into trans youth care, published in April 2024, is full of 'stigma' and 'misinformation'.

www.thepinknews.com

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 2d

Snake sloughs off old skin. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Nearly two thirds of Tory members want pact with Reform, poll suggests, with close to half supporting full merger – as it happened

Half of Tory members also want Kemi Badenoch to be replaced as Conservative leader

www.theguardian.com

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 2d

A gem.

Zoe's feather boa @zoesfeatherboa.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keen in The Feathered Serpent.

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rsnikhil.bsky.social @rsnikhil.bsky.social · 2d

I am pleased to accept the suggestion of becoming an insultant. We shall exult in the insult.

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 3d

Good piece from Nesrine Malik, arguing that the Tory snake is still alive, more venomous than ever, and that the Conservative Party is merely the dead skin it has sloughed off.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don’t despair, Tories: look upon Reform and see your rightful and fitting legacy | Nesrine Malik

If Kemi Badenoch wonders why her party conference looks and feels like a sideshow, perhaps she should reflect on the Conservatives’ 14 years in power, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 3d

The "propagandistic quantifier", i.e., "not all, but enough to be a thing" is insufficiently appreciated.

Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 3d

I'm thinking of starting a sideline as a comanagement nsultant.

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