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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 15h

Finally, a use for Asil Nadir we can all get behind

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 20h

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely certain I felt him grinding against me on the dancefloor at Streetlife, circa 1998

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 22h

Monstrous Regiment and The Fifth Elephant also feeling uncomfortably close to home

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 23h

This whole thread is a delight

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller looks like a diabolical Jiminiy Cricket...

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 23h

Best one yet!

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like I met a hundred Kashs at UK gay clubs back in the day. Out there in the (fruitless) hope of picking up straight women on the dancefloor, and telling everyone who'll listen how Really, Really Not Gay he is

Always went home alone

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 23h

I haven't read his op-ed yet, but something tells me it might be!

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 23h

is the answer "because they paid me a boatload of money"?

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 23h

We've all had a good chuckle at the Young Conservatives at the Tory Conference, but please take a moment to think about their values and aspirations and then mock them a bit more.

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 23h

A Discworld message for the rest of us, this Party Conference season

Josh Kirby's illustration of Terry Pratchett's Discworld: Great A'Tuin the star turtle, floating through space with 4 elephants on his back, that are in turn supporting the flat, disc-shaped Discworld

Caption reads:
Read Discworld.
Because cunts are still running this one.

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 1d

Think: low-key Hummingbird with more NextDoor-style xenophobia, a Ring doorbell and unrestricted access to the local WhatsApp group 🤣

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 1d

A free short story from @tcparker.bsky.social?! I honestly don't know how one might say no to such a thing. So, yeah, there's that downloaded and sent to my Kindle app. Thanks, Nat!

TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 1d

Midweek reminder that The Nine O'Clock Horses - a bite-size novelette where suburban fragility meets local urban legend via surveillance tech - is FREE ALL MONTH, in celebration of the Creepiest Season

And it's set in Leicester, too. If you like that sort of thing :) 🐴🦇📚

The Nine O'Clock Horses: A Nefarious Bat Single

"Mind how you go, and make sure you're home in time for bed, or the Nine O'Clock Horses will get you. And the sound of horses' hooves on the cobblestones outside... that's how you know they're about. ...

payhip.com

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 1d

Mike! Thank you, lovely ❤️ Welcome to the horrors of the suburban East Midlands and its desperate housewives 🤣

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 1d

*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY*

We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.

More info 🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 1d

Midweek reminder that The Nine O'Clock Horses - a bite-size novelette where suburban fragility meets local urban legend via surveillance tech - is FREE ALL MONTH, in celebration of the Creepiest Season

And it's set in Leicester, too. If you like that sort of thing :) 🐴🦇📚

The Nine O'Clock Horses: A Nefarious Bat Single

"Mind how you go, and make sure you're home in time for bed, or the Nine O'Clock Horses will get you. And the sound of horses' hooves on the cobblestones outside... that's how you know they're about. ...

payhip.com

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be outdone, Sir Keir Starmer announces that he will go harder and faster in delivering patriotic renewal by detonating tactical nukes underneath every university library library’s 800 shelfmark section.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

The TESCREAL Bundle

The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.

www.dair-institute.org

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the communities to come at with spurious handwringing headlines & easily-disprovable Why Are They Like This? hypotheses...

... you right wing fuckers went for *autistics*? A demographic the prevailing stereotype of which is its capacity for analysing & synthesising large volumes of data?!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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