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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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autogynephagia @cas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Dear all trans women: Whatever you talk about or how you behave is how women talk and behave, because you are a woman who talks and exhibits behavior. You do not need to copy or mimic some kind of headcanon cis woman. Literally *anything* you do is definitionally something a woman does.

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Umbra The Lioness @umbralioness.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

READ. THIS. ARTICLE!

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Most people don't know how to pronounce my name ("SOAR'lyeh" is close enough) but I've never had anyone giggle at it. Let alone a supposed professional. I know Anglophone SF culture has always been parochial, but you would think. You would bloody well think.

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Sam P-F @smhwpf.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Good to see one paper taking a stand.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/08/2025

I don't know how you can say that blatantly discriminating against trans people is not discrimination, but that's the UK now. Don't think for a second it will stop with trans people. We've been telling you this for a decade.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 05/08/2025

6/ Analysis - @jamiewareham.co.uk "This is a rare positive ruling for the Trans+ community - but it only received a handful of mainstream media stories. I'm confident if the ruling had been negative, it would have been blasted across headlines as a propaganda tool against gender affirming care."

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 05/08/2025

A UK judge has ruled that a private gender clinic was right to get an "outstanding" review from the UK medical regulator the Clinical Quality Commission 🏳️‍⚧️ It's a rare positive ruling for the Trans+ community - let's take a look at it 🧵

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

UK organisations with trans members/service users: this is the time to:- a) refuse to comply with transphobia b) make it clear to your trans members/service users that you are going to refuse, so they know they are safe. Don't be intimidated into appeasing fascists, please.

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

YES. More trans girls everywhere please.

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I think a lot of people need to realize that they’re not too much to love, that they’ve been loved by the wrong people, and that’s not your fault; it’s their fault for trying to diminish you.

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Dear UK govt, You seem a bit confused about this, so I hope that I can make it clearer:- - LLMs are not people. Corporations are also not people. - trans people, Palestinians, refugees, disabled people, and indeed all other human beings *are* all people. Please act accordingly. FFS. Merry

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 08/08/2025

OpenAI doesn't realise that PhD-level expertise has very little to do with the stuff you know and more to do with how you can think. I forget facts from mine all the time! The value in my PhD is knowing how to reliably generate, evaluate, and defend or dismiss information that's new to the world.

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Among so much I don't understand about "gender criticals" (such a misnomer) who still think they're protecting women: if hating on trans women was good for cis women, *Donald Trump wouldn't do it*. They need to look at which men agree with them, and *why they do so*.

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Well they should stop pursuing aims that kill lots of people then, shouldn't they.

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If enough cis people and enough organisations refuse to comply with the UK gvt's transphobic bullshit it *will* become undoable. Protect trans women using women's spaces/trans men using men's. Be inclusive. Be kind. Put the safety of trans ppl over the comfort of a tiny minority of bigots.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 08/08/2025

Happy International Cat Day! Put your paws together please for the felines who work hard to keep the places you love running. Fliss makes sure young plants have plenty of heat for growing in the glasshouses at Stourhead in Wiltshire...

A black and white cat curled up on top of a flower pot, with the stem of the plant in the pot just about visible through the fur.

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The UK for the past 80 years, accurately: Chamberlain was wrong and appeasing fascists is bad. We are an awesome country and we won't do *that* again. The UK gvt at the moment: I know we're Labour but we can have a little fascism (and a lot of appeasing Trump) as a treat.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/08/2025

I would like everything everywhere to stop getting worse all the time

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Sending huge solidarity to trans actors and other trans performing arts industry professionals today. It's got to be *horrible* knowing that there are colleagues (actors and directors and writers and crew) still willing to work with Rowling. :(

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It's such a fricking far-right playbook thing. They put the comfort of the only women they deem acceptable (cis, but let's face it also het, white, abled, femme, thin, and apparently under 5'11" too...) ahead of the *safety* of all other women. It's enraging anyone is falling for it.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Trans rights *are* good. If you oppose them, you need to fix your heart, especially before you run for an office that controls other people's lives.

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Autistic humans don’t burn out from being autistic. We burn out from performing something we’re not. Smiling when it hurts. Shrinking so others feel big. Pretending we’re fine. Masking is survival. Unmasking is living with your needs met, truly.

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I'm one of those no longer entitled to a booster, and I'm livid. And worried. :( If you're not at the bare minimum wearing a mask on public transport and in crowded indoor spaces at the moment... please start doing so again. Bringing the infection rate down is even more crucial now.

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I'm one of those no longer entitled to the COVID booster and... yeah. Not good. :( (Also, do the gvt want to reduce the number of ppl too disabled to work or not?! Long Covid is a growing problem, and utterly horrible for those who get it...)

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It’s a queer joy to be in Iceland this week and talk about my new book at the Reykjavik Pride conference. It was energising to be in an atmosphere of sunshine and (painted) rainbows while talking through some of the feelings that shape our struggles for legal and social justice. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇸

Man takes selfie with his new book in front of a rainbow road.

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Oh, I've just fallen in love with tenor Nicky Spence's voice! Aaaaah so beautiful. (New album of art songs (by Kaprálová, Dvořák, Bartók, and Křička) he's released with the awesome pianist (and Spence's husband :) ) Dylan Perez. It's called "Sparks and Ashes". V recommended. :) ) #TinyJoys

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Leonoliomonolio @lolrigole.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The most powerful argument for me was when a blind colleague said that when he found that due to the strong alt text etiquette on mastodon he was finally able to browse through hours of cat pics and viz content, he almost cried. You think blind people don’t look at your stuff but they do. Let them.

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Visually impairment is a wide spectrum. Sometimes it's just nice to know the colours, sometimes something needs to be pointed out because there isn't enough contrast, sometimes people just want to know what's in the picture. ALT-text isn't easy, but it helps.

A guide to writing ALT-text
there is a photo of a capybara chilling in the water.
Around it is descriptive text describing the photo (colour, expression, description, identify who, interesting features)

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POST | Aberdeen Culture @postabdn.com · 07/08/2025

Hate groups are planning to gather outside the Links Road Hotel again this Saturday at noon. A counter-protest is being organised to stand in solidarity with the city’s asylum seekers. Share and help spread the word.

Poster for “All Out Against Fascism” protest. Aberdeen events: 12pm and 5:30pm at 213 Links Road on Saturday 9 August. Message reads “Stand against hate, racism and lies” with protest photo and supporting group logos.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

📢 ABERDEEN AND PETERHEAD: ALL OUT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Get organised THIS weekend to stand up against the anti-migrant hate that's rearing its ugly head once again. Spread the word. Migrants are not the enemy.

ALT TEXT: A red, green and white poster with black text which reads: "All out in Aberdeen. Stand against hate, racism and lies! Saturday August 9th 12pm 213 Links Road AB24 5EF"

ALT TEXT: A red, green and white poster with black text which reads: "All out in Peterhead. Stand against hate, racism and lies! Saturday August 9th 12pm Drummers Corner AB42 1ZP"

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

When Nabil's house was destroyed in an Israeli assault, he managed to save his kindergarten graduation certificate. Now he and his brothers long to go back to school. Please help them to survive this war and recover their dream. www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-... @mommunism.bsky.social #MutualAid 🍉

A young Palestinian boy beams as he holds up his kindergarten graduation certificate, which features a picture of him wearing ana academic gown and a mortarboard, holding a scroll.

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Simon Waldman @swaldman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The Marks & Spencers thing. So far as I can make out, this is the full story: "A female shop assistant asked a customer if they would like help with anything. She was quite tall." EVERYTHING else is noise and fury about nothing, but with real consequences.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 07/08/2025

Designed a new sign for my convention table. Might be too subtle, idk, what do you reckon?! No Oxford comma we die like men!

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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

If you want to stop a large proportion of major crimes, actually doing something about domestic abuse would have a massive impact.

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Michael Marshall @michael-marshall.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Good news in @newscientist.com! We're a step closer to understanding myalgic encephalomyelitis, aka chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): A big genetic study has linked eight regions of the genome to the condition. loom.ly/EYuHytA

A computer-generated image of two DNA double helices, with the backbones in blue and the "rungs" in red (Credit: BlackJack3D / Getty Images)

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Save The Hellfire @savethehellfire.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Devil's-Bit Scabious blowing in the early morning breeze. #sunrise #wildflowerhour #nature

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Magnificent rock samphire photographed yesterday #wildflowerhour #coastalplants

Photo of rock samphire growing on a sea wall with the beach and town the other side of the estuary in the background.

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Autistic liberation isn’t just about ending ableism. It’s about unlearning the shame we were taught. Stopping the scripts we still perform. Seeing ourselves through our own gaze, not theirs. That’s where everything starts. That’s where we begin to live.

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Not a new complaint from me but so very tired of reactionary updates of migration measures on BBC news. Drop fed moral panic by the same media which will then - again- report migration is one of top public electoral concerns.

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