Reposted by Ems/MikeTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 1hI have never been so brutally called out in my life 313225
Reposted by Ems/MikeCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging. 252617692
Reposted by Ems/MikeHugh Pumphrey @hughpumphrey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This is why pervasive use of GenAI by university students is such a problem. (*) We do not set you an essay on the fauna of the lower Carboniferous because we want to read it (*) We do not make you write a computer program from scratch because we need to run that program (1/2) 39831
Reposted by Ems/MikeTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 12hIMO, the issue is not the monetary contribution, it's that an awful lot of people conflate fun activities that you do in your spare time as also being the same thing in terms of work, as in - not *real* work Games are enjoyable activities you do on the evenings and weekends with your mates 518247
Reposted by Ems/MikeRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 9hAnyway, this isn't about the merits of either policy, but about how we as a society view the generations - who is deserving and valued, who is worth protecting, when we demand the state steps in vs when we insist it's a matter of "personal responsibility". Pensioners trump children, every day 9405
Reposted by Ems/MikeRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 9hJust comparing last week's pensions discourse with this week's £100k childcare discourse. In both instances, you have groups who are generally deemed "wealthy". For one, it's unthinkable to contemplate taking their state benefits away. For the other, there is outrage if you try to give it to them 57520
Reposted by Ems/MikeSarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 13hTo the surprise of absolutely no one, but to their courage, victims of far-right figures arguing they are “protecting women and girls” from unknown and unseen particular threat from migrants are coming forward to tell their story of sexual and domestic abusetheguardian.com‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrolsSeven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement 3335160
Reposted by Ems/MikeChris Kendall @ottocr.at · 05/10/2026Decades of protest groups: US BOMBERS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY US Administration: here’s exactly what it will take for us to remove our bombers from your country 8395
Ems/Mike @kaosmark2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The leaders of the illiberal democrats have already decided to support an illiberal social media ban, a digital section 28, and to not treat all adults as equally legally capable of making decisions about their health (age phased smoking ban). There's better things to throw shade at the greens for 100
Reposted by Ems/MikeUnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 30/09/2026The whole thing is a bigoted disgrace. The cis don't have to tell each other if they are married, if they have herpes, if they are a Tory, if they've been convicted of horrendous offences. But if we fail to disclose we're trans, off to prison we go and have to sign the sex offenders register. 27119
Reposted by Ems/MikeDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What does it mean to be a member-led party when the Greens have 230,000 members but only 1835 voted on the Zionism Is Racism motion? Doesn't seem like you can claim the result as the iron-clad democratic will of the membership while dismissing the concerns of actual democratically elected MPs 3548472
Reposted by Ems/MikeLivsbian 🌈 @livvytrouble.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don’t think the normies realise that under Labour the UK is to the right of *Donald Trump* on trans issues 😕 07414
Reposted by Ems/MikeAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about thistheguardian.comNearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana MahmoodHome secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK 10451156
Reposted by Ems/Mikejess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners. 1086753968
Reposted by Ems/MikeJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 04/10/2026Going to piss off everyone I do not believe any ethnostate of any kind should exist. AND Much of the driving motivation behind this specific motion is in fact rooted in antisemitism. Lots of the people involved here are not acting in good faith. The horrible situation will be damaging to Greens. 1532538
Reposted by Ems/MikeThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That the BBC still puts ‘inflated‘ in speech marks tells us things about the state of BBC journalism. Bothsidesism has rotted its soul. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukMan City guilty charges: Which clubs did 'inflated' money flow to in transfer market?BBC Sport follows the trail of transfer money flowing to other clubs during Manchester City's period of financial rule-breaking. 1528358
Reposted by Ems/MikeKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026The new track is called “guess what? We’re white” 1041510242
Reposted by Ems/MikeCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...growinguptransgender.comLeaving the UK with a heavy heartToday, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look… 1341353485
Reposted by Ems/MikeAbra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It is very okay to pursue aspects of transition because you want them even if you don't think you "need" them. We got trapped into talking almost exclusively about "need" by transphobes who made us fight for medical care and other forms of transition. 213037
Reposted by Ems/MikeRexxie Rose @rexxierose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026lately ive noticed politics take a sharp turn into using hope *as* whats being sold on its own, and its not how hope works, like people are meant to be given hope by actually being helped and having their lives changed, but we're being sold "the idea that things may get better" by politicians 2598
Reposted by Ems/Mikemaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 168187464706
Reposted by Ems/MikeAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy 312108594
Reposted by Ems/MikeCourtney Love Lies Bleeding 🫦 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 30/09/2026that’s weird there must be some kind of glitch, it looks like the Secretary for Labour For Trans Rights keeps blocking the accounts of trans people 731941
Reposted by Ems/MikeTheo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026Every AI CEO sounds like this. 81066305
Reposted by Ems/MikeHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134743781
Reposted by Ems/MikeCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it. 12768149
Reposted by Ems/MikeDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ending the triple lock isn’t the same as cutting pensions. Thatcher linked the state pension to inflation rather than earnings growth with the result that the value of pensions fell relative to earnings. The triple lock was designed to reverse than trend. It’s done its job. Restore the earnings link 1611425
Reposted by Ems/MikeLance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article. 5474121
Reposted by Ems/MikeRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How about considering the voters of today - in hospitality and creative industries and education and the wider services sector and the gig economy - who actually exist and are the working class we actually have rather than trying to bring back the fantasy working class voters of the past? 47823
Reposted by Ems/MikeAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope." 482523717
Reposted by Ems/MikeLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026Imagine saying there is nobody in NI politics who wants to go back 28 years and relitigate everything again when that is all the DUP want. 2879
Reposted by Ems/MikeDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply. 121068394
Reposted by Ems/MikeRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Basically she has a choice: -implement trans segregation -get yelled at by the telegraph And oppressing an entire minority is a lesser, frivolous cost to her 10576144
Reposted by Ems/MikeBrendan McNally @brendanmcn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Very odd comment, now deleted, as the Garvaghy road residents are of a Christian background too, and as it happens, Catholic tradition has disobedience to unjust law as a fully orthodox part of its theology. 97215
Reposted by Ems/MikeTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath. 4574697
Reposted by Ems/MikeThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that. 391004416
Ems/Mike @kaosmark2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026But public transport has poor people on it. He might get infected from them being poor near him. 020
Ems/Mike @kaosmark2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI pain is real, women's pain isn't (according to techbros, Doctors, and just men in general) 000
Reposted by Ems/Miketaenia @taenia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026this shit would be funnier if I could get ny fucking doctors to believe that I am capable of feeling pain 129158
Reposted by Ems/MikeTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026No, PIP is not being made available to “recently medicalised layabouts”, you mad fucking bastard, have you ever tried applying for PIP for someone? 726124
Reposted by Ems/MikeLyra @8bitblackmage.co.uk · 24/09/2026"NHS Impose requirement to live in your desired neurotype for 2 years before being able to seek treatment" 1930284
Reposted by Ems/MikeSam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Favorite thing about this quote: it shows up like 4 chapters into Count Zero after Neuromancer waited 2/3 of its runtime before revealing. Gibson was just like "hang on, I was too subtle last time." 09320
Reposted by Ems/MikeLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 25/09/2026'more in step with public mood' Confirmation they think X is the public. 1421046
Reposted by Ems/MikeBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026Just booked a private covid booster shot because I'm no longer eligible for an NHS one. From the same pharmacy where I get my private Mounjaro to control my diabetes because I'm not eligible for that on the NHS. I swear I remember a time when we had free-at-point-of-use healthcare in England. 47019
Reposted by Ems/MikeTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've stopped using Booking dot com and the other travel platforms for this reason They are rife with scammers and the platforms are often incredibly slow to act, if at all Booking dot com's own 'AI trip planner' was also shown to give flat out wrong information What are we doing?bbc.co.ukScam booking sent Loughborough family to Wetherspoon pub near Tower BridgeWhich? says staff are turning away up to 20 tourists a day after scammers used the pub's address. 126521
