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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 13h

Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Disabling Intelligences, a dark pink book with orange vines.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

The way that major healthcare institutions have just decided the rules don't apply when it comes to trans people. Research ethics? Consent? Basic human dignity? Those would just be too inconvenient and it's only a bunch of trannies.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 1d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 1d

One of my cats picked up a sweet with her teeth by the wrapper and tried to run off with it.

Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the people who wrote at great length about the only issue you care about get to talk about how it relates to other people's needs, and to focus on solidarity without you bringing it back around to solely the only topic that you care about.

Nah silly me.

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

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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Netpol @netpol.org · 1d

Nothing quite says the exact opposite of "we understand the need for freedom of expression" like the rest of the sentence saying"we can’t be having people like that performing on our streets."

"People like that" being opponents of genocide
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

MPs and Jewish leaders call for Bob Vylan’s Manchester gig to be cancelled

Letter says they are ‘deeply concerned’ about Manchester Academy concert after last week’s synagogue attack

www.theguardian.com

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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 1d

I'm looking at the UK Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency use of #AI.

They have 2 AI tools & one (GMP) uses an LLM (fallback if visual NN fails).

They also state
"most advanced LLMs cannot be relied on to generate accurate information consistently"

Any suggestion which LLM they use?

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 1d

I am just waiting for people's nans to start knitting him.

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 1d

I want summer back.

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you

Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 2d

Ended up using youtube again because cba rendering another version after figuring out why all my settings changed sorry

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 2d

Captioned full version of my speech on intersecting trans and disabled issues and solidarities at the DPAC protest at Labour conference.

It was very windy ha

Also yes I was shouting bits of it because another noisy demo appeared part way through.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ms...

Speech at the Disabled People Against Cuts Demo at Labour party conference

YouTube video by SpoopySpoonie

www.youtube.com

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 2d

This laptop is a bully

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 4d

Took me a while to get round to captioning this in full but tbf I am 90% lucozade and cough sweets by body weight rn.

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ceej @ceej.online · 5d

it’s the job of a ceo to eat shit on behalf of the corporation. if you can’t do that without gagging, hire corporate comms. if you don’t want to do that maybe you shouldn’t be a ceo, which again, you don’t have to be. this is like complaining that your throne of skulls is too pokey

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 6d

Labour’s attacks on rights ‘have led to massive resurgence’ in disability movement, protest hears
#Labour #LabConf25
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labours-atta...

Labour’s attacks on rights ‘have led to massive resurgence’ in disability movement, protest hears

The Labour government’s attack on disabled people’s support has led to a “massive resurgence” in the disabled people’s movement in the last year, a protest outside the party’s annual conference has…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network · 6d

We have previously reported on Wessely's harms to the disabled community transsafety.network/posts/simon-...

We stand in solidarity with disabled people and psychiatric survivors. Trans liberation cannot be won without disabled people's liberation.

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network · 6d

Fonagy was involved in the feasibility research for the highly damaging Serenity Integrated Mentoring scheme that caused immense harm to psychiatrised people by criminalising mental distress stopsim.co.uk

STOPSIM

Mental Health Is Not A Crime

stopsim.co.uk

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Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network · 6d

Trans Safety Network are very concerned to see that the review into supposed over diagnosis of mental ill heath and neurodivegence ordered by Wes Streeting is to be chaired by Peter Fonagy with Simon Wessely as Vice chair.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 6d

Didn't realise he started mentalisation based therapy www.escap.eu/resources/re...

I am so very very glad that services got pulled on me now

Undermining of old ideas on personality disorder | ESCAP

Peter Fonagy and the undermining of old ideas on personality disorder

www.escap.eu

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 6d

And with you 💜

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah I followed this pretty closely I am just often bad with names on first reading.

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 6d

I'll add that Fonaghy was involved in the feasibility study of Serenity Integrated Mentoring scheme, a discredited scheme sold to NHS trusts on the false promise that it would save money and free up resources from malingering high intensity users.

Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 6d

I am just going to assume that everybody called Wes is evil at this point www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 6d

I thought I recognised that name. These fuckers all end up connected don't they?

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 6d

The guy thinks neurodivergent people couldn't possibly do comedy or performance art
transsafety.network/posts/simon-...
But seems willing to drop the over diagnosis bullshit if it allows harmful research agendas for trans kids.

The only consistency appears to be harm to disabled and trans people

Simon Wessely’s history of discrediting sick and disabled people could be bad news for trans health research priorities.

Psychiatrist Simon Wessely has been appointed to chair the National Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board. TSN outline our concerns about this appointment.

transsafety.network

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