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We know that the law is not always on the right side of history. The Supreme Court ruling last month does not make public spaces safer for anyone.
May 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We know that the law is not always on the right side of history. The Supreme Court ruling last month does not make public spaces safer for anyone.
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✨The Shortlist 2025!✨
PRIVATE RITES by Julia Armfield
THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley
EXTREMOPHILE by Ian Green
ANNIE BOT by Sierra Greer
SERVICE MODEL by Adrian Tchaikovsky
THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK by Maud Woolf
This year’s winner will be announced on Weds 25 June.
PRIVATE RITES by Julia Armfield
THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley
EXTREMOPHILE by Ian Green
ANNIE BOT by Sierra Greer
SERVICE MODEL by Adrian Tchaikovsky
THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK by Maud Woolf
This year’s winner will be announced on Weds 25 June.
May 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
✨The Shortlist 2025!✨
PRIVATE RITES by Julia Armfield
THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley
EXTREMOPHILE by Ian Green
ANNIE BOT by Sierra Greer
SERVICE MODEL by Adrian Tchaikovsky
THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK by Maud Woolf
This year’s winner will be announced on Weds 25 June.
PRIVATE RITES by Julia Armfield
THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley
EXTREMOPHILE by Ian Green
ANNIE BOT by Sierra Greer
SERVICE MODEL by Adrian Tchaikovsky
THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK by Maud Woolf
This year’s winner will be announced on Weds 25 June.
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Weird how the press allow Farage to self-identify as a working class man of the people when he was assigned son of a stockbroker at birth and spent most of his life presenting as a posh wanker
May 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Weird how the press allow Farage to self-identify as a working class man of the people when he was assigned son of a stockbroker at birth and spent most of his life presenting as a posh wanker
Toilet Police in practice after the Supreme Court ruling:
"FBI: Female Body Inspector" t-shirt, sheriff's badge and latex gloves.
"Excuse me miss, you can't go in there until I perform a Genital Validation check. For your own safety."
Is this really a victory for women? Doesn't feel like it.
"FBI: Female Body Inspector" t-shirt, sheriff's badge and latex gloves.
"Excuse me miss, you can't go in there until I perform a Genital Validation check. For your own safety."
Is this really a victory for women? Doesn't feel like it.
May 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Toilet Police in practice after the Supreme Court ruling:
"FBI: Female Body Inspector" t-shirt, sheriff's badge and latex gloves.
"Excuse me miss, you can't go in there until I perform a Genital Validation check. For your own safety."
Is this really a victory for women? Doesn't feel like it.
"FBI: Female Body Inspector" t-shirt, sheriff's badge and latex gloves.
"Excuse me miss, you can't go in there until I perform a Genital Validation check. For your own safety."
Is this really a victory for women? Doesn't feel like it.
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BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon breaks silence on Supreme Court gender ruling - The National
“We are at risk of making the lives of trans people almost unliveable.”
www.thenational.scot/news/2514025...
“We are at risk of making the lives of trans people almost unliveable.”
www.thenational.scot/news/2514025...
Nicola Sturgeon breaks silence on Supreme Court gender ruling
NICOLA Sturgeon has broken her silence on the Supreme Court judgement on the definition of a woman.
www.thenational.scot
May 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon breaks silence on Supreme Court gender ruling - The National
“We are at risk of making the lives of trans people almost unliveable.”
www.thenational.scot/news/2514025...
“We are at risk of making the lives of trans people almost unliveable.”
www.thenational.scot/news/2514025...
Just realised: how long before Trump realises that music has an industry too?
Next few days an announcement on a tariff for non-US produced music? What kind of odds? Any takers?
Next few days an announcement on a tariff for non-US produced music? What kind of odds? Any takers?
May 6, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Just realised: how long before Trump realises that music has an industry too?
Next few days an announcement on a tariff for non-US produced music? What kind of odds? Any takers?
Next few days an announcement on a tariff for non-US produced music? What kind of odds? Any takers?
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From day one, Israel's leaders and officials loudly broadcast their genocidal intent.
Western leaders and media outlets cannot say they did not know. Instead, they indulged and spread lies about what Israel was doing. And now they must suffer the consequences.
Western leaders and media outlets cannot say they did not know. Instead, they indulged and spread lies about what Israel was doing. And now they must suffer the consequences.
May 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
From day one, Israel's leaders and officials loudly broadcast their genocidal intent.
Western leaders and media outlets cannot say they did not know. Instead, they indulged and spread lies about what Israel was doing. And now they must suffer the consequences.
Western leaders and media outlets cannot say they did not know. Instead, they indulged and spread lies about what Israel was doing. And now they must suffer the consequences.
I guess we can add spirit mediums and other psychic charlatans to the list of "jobs that are going to be replaced by AI".
Wild to think that conning grieving people out of money was a problem someone felt could be "improved" by AI.
Wild to think that conning grieving people out of money was a problem someone felt could be "improved" by AI.
You and me, we gonna live forever… as avatars, at least.
New ‘grief tech’ apps allow grieving families to communicate with dead relatives via an AI afterlife.
✍️ @paticlarke.bsky.social
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New ‘grief tech’ apps allow grieving families to communicate with dead relatives via an AI afterlife.
✍️ @paticlarke.bsky.social
Read more:
You and me, we gonna live forever … as avatars, at least
New ‘grief tech’ apps allow grieving families to communicate with dead relatives via an AI afterlife
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May 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I guess we can add spirit mediums and other psychic charlatans to the list of "jobs that are going to be replaced by AI".
Wild to think that conning grieving people out of money was a problem someone felt could be "improved" by AI.
Wild to think that conning grieving people out of money was a problem someone felt could be "improved" by AI.
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The first 2 colour variants are now unlocked and we are £497 to the second and final goal 🎉💜 LET'S GOOOOOOL!! #Booksky #EnamelPins
BOOKISH PRONOUN ENAMEL PINS campaign is now live on Kickstarter 🎉
I've wanted a bookish themed pronoun pin for a while. In my search I found there were very few and not quite what I was looking for. So I made my own 🤪 I hope you like them 🫣 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fel...
I've wanted a bookish themed pronoun pin for a while. In my search I found there were very few and not quite what I was looking for. So I made my own 🤪 I hope you like them 🫣 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fel...
Bookish Pronoun Enamel Pins
Book shaped pronoun designs as hard enamel pins, available in 4 different colours!
www.kickstarter.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The first 2 colour variants are now unlocked and we are £497 to the second and final goal 🎉💜 LET'S GOOOOOOL!! #Booksky #EnamelPins
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‘The Comprehensive Bookshop” - my cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
May 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
‘The Comprehensive Bookshop” - my cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
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next time NYT publishes some glowing fascist ass kissing puff piece about Elon's "transhumanist" friends they should call it:
Meet The People Who Want To Upgrade Their Bodies With Machines But Are Terrified Of People Who Take Pills To Grow Tits
Meet The People Who Want To Upgrade Their Bodies With Machines But Are Terrified Of People Who Take Pills To Grow Tits
May 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
next time NYT publishes some glowing fascist ass kissing puff piece about Elon's "transhumanist" friends they should call it:
Meet The People Who Want To Upgrade Their Bodies With Machines But Are Terrified Of People Who Take Pills To Grow Tits
Meet The People Who Want To Upgrade Their Bodies With Machines But Are Terrified Of People Who Take Pills To Grow Tits
Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame - Neon Yang.
Katabasis - R. F. Kuang.
The New Age of Sexism - Laura Bates.
And fingers crossed for the as-yet-unnamed-and-probably-not-this-year-being-honest-but-I-still-look-forward-to-it from Becky Chambers 😅
Katabasis - R. F. Kuang.
The New Age of Sexism - Laura Bates.
And fingers crossed for the as-yet-unnamed-and-probably-not-this-year-being-honest-but-I-still-look-forward-to-it from Becky Chambers 😅
Pause! Before you scroll further, quote this with at least one book you're looking forward to in the rest of this year.
May 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame - Neon Yang.
Katabasis - R. F. Kuang.
The New Age of Sexism - Laura Bates.
And fingers crossed for the as-yet-unnamed-and-probably-not-this-year-being-honest-but-I-still-look-forward-to-it from Becky Chambers 😅
Katabasis - R. F. Kuang.
The New Age of Sexism - Laura Bates.
And fingers crossed for the as-yet-unnamed-and-probably-not-this-year-being-honest-but-I-still-look-forward-to-it from Becky Chambers 😅
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Hey, Labour! Statistically there would’ve been about 200 trans voters in this by-election. Whoopsie!
May 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Hey, Labour! Statistically there would’ve been about 200 trans voters in this by-election. Whoopsie!
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If the conclave doesn't pick a nice lad who is perfectly happy to leave us alone we will execute god
April 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If the conclave doesn't pick a nice lad who is perfectly happy to leave us alone we will execute god
"ChatGPT please generate an image of a deep inner sadness. Key words 'fragile', 'impotent', 'cringe'. And include the text 'despair' in uppercase."
April 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"ChatGPT please generate an image of a deep inner sadness. Key words 'fragile', 'impotent', 'cringe'. And include the text 'despair' in uppercase."
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BOOKISH PRONOUN ENAMEL PINS campaign is now live on Kickstarter 🎉
I've wanted a bookish themed pronoun pin for a while. In my search I found there were very few and not quite what I was looking for. So I made my own 🤪 I hope you like them 🫣 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fel...
I've wanted a bookish themed pronoun pin for a while. In my search I found there were very few and not quite what I was looking for. So I made my own 🤪 I hope you like them 🫣 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fel...
Bookish Pronoun Enamel Pins
Book shaped pronoun designs as hard enamel pins, available in 4 different colours!
www.kickstarter.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
BOOKISH PRONOUN ENAMEL PINS campaign is now live on Kickstarter 🎉
I've wanted a bookish themed pronoun pin for a while. In my search I found there were very few and not quite what I was looking for. So I made my own 🤪 I hope you like them 🫣 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fel...
I've wanted a bookish themed pronoun pin for a while. In my search I found there were very few and not quite what I was looking for. So I made my own 🤪 I hope you like them 🫣 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fel...
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Thank you for asking, it's not like I have been programming an automatic Papal betting odds scrapper and plotter that uses a hand-made analysis of the progressiveness of every cardinal on Church issues and also analyses two dozen betting pages...
April 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Thank you for asking, it's not like I have been programming an automatic Papal betting odds scrapper and plotter that uses a hand-made analysis of the progressiveness of every cardinal on Church issues and also analyses two dozen betting pages...