Reposted by DarklingKate Watson @loreandordure.com · 19hNot only is it a complete non-issue for cis people, but ‘single sex’ hospital wards are no such thing: not when it comes to medical staff, to cleaners, to porters, to ward visitors. It’s a nonsense. They aren’t in any meaningful way single-sex spaces! 45313 0
Reposted by DarklingRebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 16hUkraine took out Yandex, (aka Russia's Google). Contrary to viral posts, this did NOT reduce the number of far-right social media posts. That was just misinformation about misinformation. skepchick.org/2026/10/ukra...skepchick.orgUkraine did not Stop the Russian BotsTranscript: No, Ukraine wiping out Russian data centers did not, in fact, lead to a direct reduction in the number of MAGA and other rightwing fascists’ posts on social media. Sorry. That did not h… 31858258 0
Reposted by DarklingEdmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 12hWe don't need flying cars. We need peace, warmth, a government that functions for everyone, libraries in every neighborhood, and a haunted forest encircling every town, which we can explore at our leisure. 413537 0
Reposted by DarklingStop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 22hWhile Ofcom may be comfortable blurring the lines between real journalism and political propaganda, the British public clearly takes a different view: www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/opinion... /3 0146 0
Reposted by DarklingDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 15/10/2026AI LLMs are (by their perpetrators' admission in currently active lawsuits) trained on illegally acquired material. *How hard is it to say "I will not use, in my work, goods stolen from tens of thousands of my colleagues"?* And to recommend other writers not to do so? ...COME ON. :/ 927082 0
Reposted by DarklingBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong. 123816864 0
Reposted by DarklingNatasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Update - after being recommended it on here I am currently reading Ruth’s book ‘strongmen’. As much as it’s a very necessary read, it is TRULY depressing how many parallels there are between many current politicians’ approach to getting power and dictators of the past like Mussolini and Hitler. 55310 0
Reposted by DarklingEllie Made It @elliemade.bsky.social · 14/10/2026burnham not revoking the palestine action proscription is like a man realising he's walked most of the way to the shop without putting his trousers on and then soldiering on with his purchase regardless, buttocks adjacent to the breeze 1168 0
Reposted by DarklingJames Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026'Standing down there was a very small Kate Bush' is *fantastic*. 3174 0
Reposted by DarklingLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Broke: "LLMs mean we're getting UBI and will never work again!" Woke: "After you die, Facebook will make your account post advertisements for eternity." 12306108 0
Reposted by DarklingDanielle @eruvadhril.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Why is the Venn diagram of "people in positions of authority" and "people who will swallow any sales pitch for Technology™ they don't care to understand" a fuckin circle. 142 0
Reposted by DarklingPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services? 941273479 0
Reposted by DarklingOliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Blaming Russia for Brexit is like blaming being drunk on a third bottle of wine. If you hadn't drunk the two previous ones, you wouldn't be lying in the gutter vomiting. 614624 0
Reposted by DarklingOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Report it to IPSO here: www.ipso.co.uk/making-a-com...ipso.co.uk 47728 0
Reposted by DarklingOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We have a media which portrays opposition to Israel’s crimes as antisemitism. That same media is viciously and relentlessly Islamophobic. And as we see here, has no qualms using antisemitic tropes against “the wrong sort of Jew”. 24775226 0
Reposted by DarklingBat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 12/10/2026Absolute lol to this - but also fairly depressing that MPs spread this nonsense. It has been chosen through a public consultation all the way through. Politicians should not be allowed to monetise their X accounts as it encourages them to spread crap. 052 0
Reposted by DarklingHaz 🏳️⚧️🌌 @haafk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Every day I see lefty AI images and it's like seeing pacifist messaging on a gun. Yes, it IS bad when wealthy plutocrats use their power and influence to destroy the environment, fund wars and promote facism. Hmm. Lots to think about. 023 0
Reposted by DarklingEllen Rose @icklenellierose.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I can’t help but feel like the second issue here is caused by ones like the first… 621011 0
Reposted by DarklingCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026basically no one on here has an information environment that would pass basic hygiene standards comparable to like a restaurant 7686111 0
Reposted by DarklingPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.theferret.scotThe Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre planScotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit. 531131698 0
Reposted by DarklingNash @radiodeadair.com · 10/10/2026Almost every hobby or passtime I've had my entire life - comic books, action figures, trading cards, personal computers, even *the movies* - has been consumed by a bunch of gambling addicts desperate for some new speculative market and we should make gambling illegal because it's their fucking turn 16893323 0
Reposted by DarklingAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026To deny the link between religion and nationalism is to wilfully ignore history. I applaud moderate Christians who speak out against dangerous Christian nationalism today. But Christianity was the state religion of the Roman Empire… 1/3 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comChristian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says reportResearch challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity 29606150 0
Reposted by DarklingPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026But partial truths only from the Observer, who fails to report WHO revealed the Arron Banks/Leave EU emails (me and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social ) and that she, unlike me, suffered years of legal threats, online abuse (including Andrew Neil) and then was peremptorily sacked by the Observerx.comPeter Jukes (@peterjukes) on XBut partial truths only from the Observer, who fails to report WHO revealed the Arron Banks/Leave EU emails (me and @carolecadwalla) and that she, unlike me, suffered years of legal threats, online ab... 527680 0
Reposted by DarklingDuncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Any proof of a European city benefiting from its many international residents terrifies them and undermines their entire thesis. 916618 0
Reposted by DarklingDorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It is okay to let people dislike things. It is also okay to let them vent their dislike in public and on social media. It is okay to dislike things without having a moral and political reason for doing so. I need you all to please stop tying your entire identities up in the things you consume. 5429130 0
Reposted by DarklingMejoff @mejoff-things.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3fgoodlaw.socialSadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobiaTell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights 022 0
Reposted by DarklingJuliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 10/10/20261. This software did nothing 'on its own'. The human who approved its programming and release is responsible. 2. These programs are based on scraped government website instructions and millions of illegally obtained novels without any attempt made to distinguish between fact and fiction. 926387 0
Reposted by DarklingLemonCurb @lemoncurdmatcha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026So this is the shit the LeGuin bot was vague posting about 05815 0
Reposted by DarklingSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The Bjg Time Chatlie account seeking to identify & incite vs RNLI staff as traitors was run by a recruitment consultant in Worcestershire who is a Restore donor & Cromwell Club member. He hss now deactivated the anon troll account after being publicly identifird www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comRecruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activistsTom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase 39534285 0
Reposted by Darklinggita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am not a programmer at all but I found this so thought provoking 214427 0
Reposted by DarklingA Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026What is the rate of “false” diagnosis? What is the actual harm done? Especially when the main intervention is “understanding and reasonable adjustments”? Or is this just the transphobic moral panic collecting another set of victims? 4342896 0
Reposted by DarklingMagdalena Miedl aka espressozitron @mmiedl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"There is something revealing in the gap between the masculine fantasy of protection and its reality: the fantasy requires a stranger, an obvious villain, a moment of uncomplicated heroism. Reality asks a man to believe a woman over his friend." 219871 0
Reposted by DarklingI Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You ever hear about how Dianetics has remained a bestseller for 75 years? Yeah. 171328413 0
Reposted by DarklingJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026jonn.substack.com/p/the-last-l... 1102 0
Reposted by DarklingMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 575216554225 0
Reposted by DarklingEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 06/10/2026one thing tech bros and political journalists have in common is the absolute inability to consider the possibility they’re being played 14012 0
Reposted by Darklingmcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of 6164082448 0
Reposted by DarklingJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10796403031 0
Reposted by DarklingPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image. 5428491092 0
Reposted by DarklingNatasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026‘We are different from Reform. Totes’ Kemi’s Conservatives. Also Kemi’s Conservatives - ‘we want to completely deregulate everything, stop people talking or doing anything about climate change and if you claim from the welfare state you’re a lazy loser and we’re coming for the little you have’. 910020 0
Reposted by DarklingSunny Ella @sunnywillow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Zionism is racism. The United Nations voted to declare it as such in 1975, half a century ago. This isn’t new, and this isn’t controversial. 12240821269 0
Reposted by DarklingDr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you see billionaire-owned media outlets huffing and puffing about politicians opposing NHS privatisation being “ideological”, remember that all politicians are ideological. But only a few oppose private company shareholders getting rich from delivering NHS patient care🚨💙 218366 0
Reposted by DarklingJjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation” 182482848 0
Reposted by DarklingNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds. 269196976058 0
Reposted by DarklingWhaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026truly the worst of the worst.... 1927868 0
Reposted by DarklingTBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 03/10/2026It's so fucking dumb to see these companies try to thread the needle, looking for the exact millimeter of space where they think the public is willing to let them use the Garbage Machine to belch garbage into the product. 4370103 0
Reposted by DarklingDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Churchill specifically wanted ‘corkscrew’ thinkers. He believed that the Germans were too conventional, conservative. Too ‘straight’ Geoffrey Pyke. Prolific inventor. Very beardy and weird Turing. Code breaker. Gay. Dudley Clarke. Invented SAS. Bonkers. Cross dresser 3440781 0
Reposted by Darklingill-boo-mi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd. 15565311142 0
Reposted by Darkling💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live. 51220548 0
