iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 9h

God I love the block button, an AI defender not accepting I won’t enter into a lengthy debate with them and saying my calm responses were ‘lashing out’? Into the void you go!

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 9h

Jacobin doing bioessentialism about *checks notes* reading books? It’s more likely than you’d think!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11h

Just a reminder: child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on X is not a flash-in-the-pan thing associated with Grok's loose image generation rules. It is a persistent, ONGOING feature of X Fair to assume X will be one of the few to carry a live-streamed execution too, btw www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

Despite Pledges From Musk, Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X
Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

Elon Musk has long vowed to remove child sexual abuse material on his social media platform, X. But some of the content continues to appear.

A review by the Canadian Center for Child Protection found that the site’s own artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, responded to requests from users by creating dozens of sexualized and sometimes sexually explicit photos of children, including victims previously known to law enforcement, at the beginning of the year. The images included children in sexualized poses with partially exposed genitals, in states of undress and with fluid on their faces.

A separate analysis by The New York Times found that during the first half of the year, users on X posted child sexual abuse material previously flagged by authorities, including some of the most egregious content that the site attempts to block using automated filters.

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 10h

CW graphic sexual violence in link I’ve read Brison’s ‘Aftermath’ and this book by Trezise sounds like a brilliant companion read. As someone whose partner left them after me being raped, it will be interesting to see how a man worked through his masculine socialisation to stay and actually care.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 11h

“If Hamas didn’t attack Israel on October 7th, the number of casualties would be zero.” That’s just verifiably false. Before October 7th, the Israeli army was already killing several hundred Palestinians per year. And in some years, much more.

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 10h

This on the over-diagnosis myth: even the government’s own commissioned report shows this is false and that there are multiple factors increasing the need for mental health support. Will the Burnham gov stop peddling these lies yet? Or are we going to see a continued attack on disabled people?

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BioWare Problems @biowareproblems.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An image of Bellara in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The text reads, "(flirting) so what kind of data have you been collecting lately?"

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 10h

As well as being a PhD student I’m also a indie sensitivity reader, so I’m pretty clued in with the bookish community and what they’re saying about AI. What I can say is that everyone is pissed off. No one wants this except the corporations to save a quick buck. GenAI is a plagiarism machine.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Polanski not winning a very safe Labour seat is not the vast failure that it is being spun as but that’s going to be the story all day.

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As someone who sometimes experiences psychosis, it stings every time I see supposed lefties throw it around as a way to disparage opposition In a time where we need a greater commitment on disability justice, when we need support for Mad Pride, we need to retire using this term as a pejorative

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Alexandra Halaby 🇵🇸 @iskandrah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Be a human.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/10/2026

the main tradeoff of going to grad school isn't money or prestige. that would be laughable. the main reason to do it is so you can ruthlessly pick apart movies that touch on your area of subject expertise

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DrakenKnight @drakenknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Ed Sheeran thing really does demonstrate that this isn't just an obsession of a fringe group of lefty weirdos. Supporting Palestinians against Israeli genocide is a really normie position. The problem is support for Israel remains an absolutely immovable condition for the *elite*.

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@channel4tv.bsky.social, now do a “The Overdiagnosis Myth” documentary, seeing as you’re so committed to righting the wrongs surrounding neurodivergence

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve been back to writing fiction recently and then I realised, “oops this has a lot of unintentional gothic themes and ambience”. I haven’t engaged in a great deal of gothic literature in comparison to, say, high or fantasy, so I’ve set about remedying that both for fun and to better my own work.

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Instead of viewing people’s use of AI as a… deviation from proper care, [MH] providers should pay… attention to the human needs AI is meeting” While I disagree with the space given by the writer for pro vs con of AI usage for MH, it is correct that we need to ask *why* people are turning to AI

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A brilliant article on how the current conversations around the undeserving disabled person harkens back hundreds of years — but that disabled people have always campaigned for their rights in the face of such oppression

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

IMHO if you helped to invent a now very popular stereotype that a minority group (in this case, trans people) are sexual predators "with the mentality of a rapist", then that should most certainly be in the first paragraph of your obituary, no matter what other good or decent deeds you may have done

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/09/2026

I thought this meant sex like the verb for a minute but yes this is true both ways, every interpretation possible of ‘sex’ is a social construct

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The PhD student experience

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Clare Bonetree @blooyonder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When the government's own impact assessment suggests that a Bill could result in vulnerable people dying as a result of coercion, then surely it is unethical to allow it to pass into legislation. I don't think it's exaggerating to call this horrific

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Catherine Baker @cat-baker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My first solo-author article, Is the Far-Right Anti-Science?, is now published in Social Epistemology. It explores the far-right’s epistemic struggle to claim scientific authority, attacking and co-opting science to legitimise white supremacy & misogyny—an issue academia must increasingly attend to

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

“this person is bad so their work was always bad” is also a really dangerous view to take because it leads to - unconscious or not - a bias towards “but I do like this other person’s work, ergo they must be a good person” which, as we have seen over and over, is simply not true

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

Huh, would you look at that, a trans healthcare story based on made up numbers, we've definitely never seen that before

Claire Prosho, a Trans+ healthcare researcher who worked on the Gender Clinic Files investigative series with QueerAF and What The Trans?!, raised question marks about the claim of higher rates of surgical referral in Wales in a letter she sent on August 29 to Mabon ap Gwynfor, the Welsh minister for health and social care.

"I highlighted how, using accurate data gathered for the UK Gender Services Monitor, coupled with other data gathered by Freedom of Information Act requests, the surgical referral rate for the Welsh Gender Service was actually lower than that in England," Prosho tells QueerAF. "And far below the '3x - 4x national referral rate' claimed by Nick Wallis and the right-wing media."

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fascist agitators self-styling as a paramilitary force, is it? Every journalist and politician who has fed in to the idea of a *immigration* crisis and not a *humanitarian* one is culpable for the increased volume and audacity of this sort

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s a sign of the times (and times to come) that disabled people are being targeted in the media — and not just right-wing media, as that terrible Ch4 doc on ADHD showed. We are slipping ever-closer to fascism, and all of this is to manufacture consent for the decimation of welfare.

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

completely real question i had to answer for the hospital im getting top surgery at

a surgery form. the question being asked is "what are your pronouns?" the only answers are yes or no.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

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Alan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Instead of a Marking boycott, staff at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social are being forced to not work because management are issuing a 100% pay deduction to those participating in ASOS. This is absolutely shameful. I support @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social in their fight to keep the soul of this institution.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 22/05/2026

Starmer was elected on promises of improving a country in shambles, and what he has proceeded to do is ignore the most pressing concerns to instead fixate on a petty, cruel, and fundamentally inhuman agenda of scapegoating immigrants, policing bathrooms, and tearing away support from the vulnerable.

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

CW sexual violence and drugs in link Baby’s first time being cited! 😱 I feel like a Proper Academic™️ now And what an excellent article to be cited in, too — in fact, I look forward to drawing upon it in my own work in the future! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

#MutualAid call out! My friend Ethan is a disabled trans man living in the States whose welfare is getting fucked around so he has *no* income. He’s also diabetic so it’s crucial he can eat nutritious meals. I donated $25 today (name removed as it’s a deadname), can anyone (partially) match?

A Threads post from @eclecticethan: “Ugh, I’m in dire need of milk and some other stuff, but I don’t have money for it. I thought Fry’s didn’t have a purchase minimum but they do, and I can’t afford that rn. I really need milk, coffee creamer, stuff for salad, and some other stuff. 🙃 Anyone willing to help? PP is ethnow14@gmail.com and Vn mo is EclecticEthan.”

A receipt from PayPal at 10:43 today to me, saying “You’ve sent $25.00 USD to”

It is cut off for privacy reasons but Ethan can vouch that I sent him the money

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Not wanting to call any one person out, this is a loving call in - Gender Recognition Certificates are not just for trans people. Intersex people wrongly assigned a gender at birth that does not match their lived reality also use GRCs to alter their birth certificates.

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

CW sexual violence in thread This case, as Finn demonstrates, shows the great disparity between how crimes are treated, with sexual violence being treated as essentially an “honest mistake” in comparison to other crimes. The so-called criminal justice system does not protect victim-survivors.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

DWP manipulates its own benefit fraud and error data — and the public's perception of the issue — when the vital figures have hardly changed By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social

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DWP benefit fraud and error remains largely the same since 2025

DWP manipulates its own benefit fraud and error data, and the public's perception of the issue, when the vital figures have hardly changed

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merman hellville @seafoamghost.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

IF anyone wanted to get me something for my birthday, would you consider any size donation to my good good pals’ GFM? multiple health emergencies (human and animal), car breakdown, flooding 😵‍💫 all on top of life just being so expensive for us disabled folk shares also so appreciated! #MutualAid

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Donate to Amber, Brooke, and the Wee Feline Detective, organized by Brooke Shank

Amber and Brooke’s GFM: Total: $12000 Thank you for looking at our Go… Brooke Shank needs your support for Amber, Brooke, and the Wee Feline Detective

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Reading older ethnography methods books has me arguing with the author in the margins (they had the cheek to say anthropology “contributed very little directly to colonial domination” 🙃)

A hand-written note in an ethnographic methods book. It refers to a part saying anthropology barely contributed to colonialism. I have written “this is absolutely false from Indigenous perspectives + shows a need to decolonise anthropology (+ its methodologies)”

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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"...liberalism is the conception of freedom within the State just as anarchism is its conception beyond it..." Albert Meltzer, Black Flag (1974)

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Life update for Elle: On a lovely holiday to Athens (which I can barely afford, especially as I didn’t account for immense inflation of certain things due to the CoL crisis), so of course I’m having a 2-day fibro flare that’s stopped me doing things 🙃

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A glorious Beltane to all who celebrate. 🔥

The cover of a Ladybird 'Easy-Reading' book, showing a father and his two young children standing in a shed, surrounded by numerous tools. The youngest child, with their back to us, has a bundle of canes in their arms, while the elder child is choosing a spade/fork from the selection propped against the wall. The father, smoking a pipe, is looking out of the open shed door at the large Wicker Man on the hill behind them. The title of this 'Well-Loved Tale' is "The Wicker Man".

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Had a really good supervision the other day! I’ve finally settled on what method I’m doing, and it’s all basically come together nicely while being a way for me to crip scholarship by doing something accessible to me: digital ethnography! Really excited to get into it from next academic year!

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Elle | they/them | Published as Lynsay Hodges @ellehodges.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I have family events coming up soon So there’ll be the inevitable questions about what I study after me saying I’m a PhD student And when I say “cultural studies” it’s never enough of a description for folks So I get to see in real time the light die in their eyes when I say “sexual violence” 🙃

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