Reposted by Chris Boylean armored personnel carrier full of cats @hex.ooo · 16/07/2026someone from the riaa help me out. what's it come to at this rate? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_g... 031
Reposted by Chris Boylean armored personnel carrier full of cats @hex.ooo · 16/07/2026i've had to dm two people i follow here in a week to tell them that youtube's new share link thing has exposed their yt channel name (= probably their google acct name, probably government name). awful. go into your privacy settings in the youtube app and turn that off asap if you haven't already 122
Reposted by Chris Boylean armored personnel carrier full of cats @hex.ooo · 16/07/2026the second paragraph of this article describes it as "the Labour government rule". actually good writing for once. authoritarian policies don't appear out of thin air. every journalist should ascribe them to their authors www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comBritish girl, 15, stranded in Rome for six weeks due to new passport rulesThe dual national, who missed six weeks of school, is latest of several children affected by recent Home Office policy 011
Reposted by Chris BoyleCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/20263. Share information on your risk register to everyone with power and responsibility. Refuse to sit quiet while children's lives are being completely destroyed. Speak up. Rebel loudly. Centre child safety. Refuse to be complicit in actions that will lead to children's deaths. 31696136
Reposted by Chris BoyleCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/20262. Start a risk register with the risk of trans child death at the very top. Document the enormous harm. Document explicitly the serious risk to life. Document the risk to children dropping out of education. Document the increased violence. Document clearly how acute harm is caused by policy. 31881143
Reposted by Chris BoyleCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Three things they can do: 1. Call it what it is. Call it segregation & discrimination. Tell the trans kids who are facing it that what they are facing is overt discrimination. Don't sugar coat the overt violence. 32116211
Reposted by Chris BoyleEmber Green @embergreen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026People forget this. Austerity was a purposeful, economically unnecessary, political decision which hurt those who can’t work the hardest. These deaths were entirely predictable & avoidable, but for my whole life, people have argued in favour of austerity. share.google/oTRdJYHfO3mn...share.googleOver 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, finds studyResearch comes as government signals fresh round of public spending cuts 215279
Reposted by Chris Boyle👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/07/2026the cognitive dissonance required to threaten to sue *Amnesty International* out of existence and still think of yourself as a good person is incredible 102021387
Reposted by Chris BoyleZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...goodlawproject.org‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law ProjectThe equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back 401425566
Reposted by Chris BoyleWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 16/07/2026This is Winnie. He got so excited that he briefly forgot how to be a dog. You can laugh, but he'd like to point out you look this ridiculous all the time. 13/10 (TT: brisbreaks) 243143062011
Reposted by Chris BoyleLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16/07/2026Folks, is this a headline that makes a person look like the goodie? "Amnesty 'won't survive' Rowling action." [Times Scotland front page] 26494136
Reposted by Chris BoyleNight of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If you call Beira's Place, the rape shelter JK Rowling set up specifically so she could deny help to rape victims she suspects of being trans, your call is not confidential and may be listened to by JK Rowling, who may tweet to her audience of millions to ridicule you and express contempt for you. 382184782
Reposted by Chris BoyleLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16/07/2026Trans people are banned from everything and can barely name their oppressors lest they are monstered by the media and in parliament. Never mind the threat of jail for not disclosing being trans before a sexual encounter or even for saying some shit. It's surreal being trans in the UK right now. 151512427
Chris Boyle @chris.boyle.name · 19/06/2026Email from Thames Water: "Make your water go further this summer" Me: Ah yes, by putting my finger over the hosepipe, do continue. 000
Reposted by Chris BoyleKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 15/05/2026a) this is absolutely right, and b) this skeet literally uses AI's beloved 'it's not X, it's Y' construction BECAUSE THAT IS HOW PEOPLE USE LANGUAGE AND WE WERE HERE FIRST. 425343
Reposted by Chris BoyleOxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 15/05/2026🎉 It’s happening! Direct Oxford–Bristol trains start on Monday, running every two hours from Monday to Saturday. Weekday Oxford departures are at 0700, 0903, 1103, 1303, 1504, 1904 and 2103: the journey takes ~1hr10. 47821
Reposted by Chris BoyleThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026One of the greatest garden path ledes I've ever read. 110022
Reposted by Chris BoyleNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Why must a conversion therapy ban be a) "balanced" and b) "Targeted"? a) Is there a "balance" between torturing people and not torturing them...? b) Conversion therapy is torture and it doesn't matter who its victims are, it should be banned for everyone. 19826
Reposted by Chris BoyleEleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Begging that at least one Labour mp comprehends this (unlikely) 224073
Reposted by Chris Boylean armored personnel carrier full of cats @hex.ooo · 14/05/2026me reading the news today 042
Reposted by Chris BoyleAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it. 6961252565
Reposted by Chris Boylean armored personnel carrier full of cats @hex.ooo · 11/04/2026see you in 50 years for Hidden Figures 2 (this time they're trans) i guess 051
Reposted by Chris Boylesirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I think I'm coming to view LLMs as essentially being the Fae. The Fae are usually seen as not having souls, and therefore not having consciousness in a way we can recognize; they don't understand the difference between lies and truth, kindness and cruelty; > 517559
Reposted by Chris BoyleJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Hans Zimmer is possibly my favourite composer of all time. I think it's important that we sep- Nah. No. Fuck 'im. Trans rights are human rights. 21931309
Reposted by Chris BoyleHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching. 483106881545
Reposted by Chris BoyleDavid Baumiller @apolloyorp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I have an Excel joke it's really good most people rate it Oct 10 131275274
Reposted by Chris BoyleKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/03/2026Govt: "Any reform ... must also ensure that AI developers can access high quality content. It is clear through the consultation and our subsequent engagement that there is no consensus on how these objectives should be achieved." Authors: Pay for work. AI: No. Govt: There's no consensus 🥺thebookseller.comGovernment scraps copyright exception as preferred option for AI training in win for creative industriesThe UK government has today (18th March) published a Copyright and Artificial Intelligence report outlining that it is moving away from the copyright exception for AI training widely rejected by the c... 211433
Reposted by Chris BoyleWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18/03/2026We only rate dogs. This appears to be a kangaroo stuck in your trunk. Please release him he doesn't belong there. And only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (TT: saussagedawggg) 857008791
Reposted by Chris Boylean armored personnel carrier full of cats @hex.ooo · 19/03/2026happy 10th birthday to this classic 052
Reposted by Chris BoyleSanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 17/03/2026I have a p-hacking joke but I can't repeat it 947050
Reposted by Chris Boylesamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 17/03/2026I have an artificial intelligence joke and whether or not you're interested, I'm gonna tell you it 864451
Reposted by Chris BoyleIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I have a comedy writer joke, but because there's one other comedy writer joke being made it can't go ahead, but would you like 5 identical Celebrity Going On Holiday jokes instead? 38619
Reposted by Chris Boylebarleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 10/03/2026If you bought into the "won't someone PLEASE think of the children" narrative for even a second, you're an idiot and I fucking hate your guts. This was never about kids. Trans people have been saying that since the start. The goal is to slowly legislate trans people out of public life. 7314121
Reposted by Chris BoyleMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10/03/2026‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye. 23564041174
Reposted by Chris BoyleJenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 10/03/2026quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...radiotimes.comNcuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for freeAlongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner. 3217161028
Reposted by Chris BoyleEd Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. 🧵 1/3 4395214
Reposted by Chris BoyleAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/03/2026They never ask the question of the evidence of harms from withholding treatment. Despite the fact they found no evidence of harms from HRT. Wihtholding treatment from a population like this is not a neutral act, it is an intervention in and of itself. One that has no basis in medicine. 254260
Reposted by Chris BoyleAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/03/2026The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth. 262570837
Reposted by Chris BoyleOxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Send us your leaflets! We'd love to know what claims candidates are making while standing for public office. Are the parties' claims consistent across wards? Are they achievable? Do they even relate to the council for which they are standing? We'll write it if you send us the leaflets. Email in bio. 1218
Chris Boyle @chris.boyle.name · 09/03/2026Stagecoach announcing a new logo/livery: "You’re Not Just Customers. You’re Oxford Tubers."media.tenor.coma potato is being held up in a room with the words oh hi how are you holding upAlt: Clip from the game Portal 2. GLADoS in potato-powered form is falling down a lift shaft and saying "Oh, hi. How are you holding up? Because I'm a potato." 000
Reposted by Chris BoyleIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/02/2026When everyone talked about quitting tech and becoming farmers that was not what we meant 938182
Reposted by Chris BoyleChris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I think the European Union just killed off the concept of the infinite scroll (and with it, most apps that you use on a daily basis) www.reuters.com/business/med...reuters.comTikTok hit with charges of breaching EU online content rules, app may have to changeSocial media app TikTok was charged by EU tech regulators on Friday with breaching EU online content rules through its addictive features and was told that it may have to change the design of its app ... 4336
Reposted by Chris BoyleClearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026An attempt to disconnect our gas connection earlier today👇 SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬 11677220
Reposted by Chris BoyleOxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Oxford Mutual Aid (O.M.A.) have tallied up their 2025 in their latest newsletter: With the help of more than 500 volunteers, they packed and delivered more than 10,000 food parcels in Oxford last year. An eye-opening 885 of their more than food parcel recipients were children under 12. 187
Reposted by Chris BoyleAl Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Got meself a wee project which took up my whole evening, I think people call this kind of thing a "timeline cleanse"? 6715143
Reposted by Chris Boyledaryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026how many very large and long term studies have there been on this now, that everyone who's "just concerned" is free to ignore? but their feelings are all that ever matters, over any number of lives 0204
Reposted by Chris BoyleEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Luckily VPNs haven't been invented. 13643141