Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think most people working in machine learning are actually fairly intelligent, not the gibbering idiots you seem to think they are, and can in fact tell what people mean when they say "AI is bad". 1261
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026tbf coming from prominent conservatives, a group of people who get money thrown at them to do nothing of value or substance, it's an understandable mistake 020
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026While stating the government's claimed justification as fact, no less. 0140
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As someone who is still doing that to herself on a daily basis - yes, please feel free to express worry for me, it fucking sucks. 110
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If only RTD had had an opportunity recently to write a show about the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry and its consequences, in which he could have put transphobia front and centre. Wouldn't that have been nice? 190
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Now, look, I may have stolen millions of pounds, that's true. But I also used that money to buy lots of shiny things for myself, thus stimulating the local economy. It's almost a selfless act, if you think about it. I'm a modern day Robin Hood. 0130
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The other side of that coin is how incredibly easy it would be for Burnham to fix the most immediate problems we face. Minor amendments to the GRA and EA2010, rescinding the puberty blocker ban and the schools guidance; these are things he could do right now if he wanted to. He just doesn't want to. 0607
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026£4 15s for a flag? In 1881?! That's like £750 in modern terms. 010
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Look, I think you should focus on my legacy, not this silly rules row" - me, after stealing the entire contents of Jason Burt's house 140
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I remember a Christian saying once that Jesus said "turn the other cheek" only because Christians were a small minority at the time; had they been the dominant power in society, he would have said "if someone slaps you on your cheek, punch them in the face", or words to that effect. Madness. 150
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Any glimmer of hope for transphobes is pretty much always going to be a dark day for democracy, because their ideology needs to be imposed upon the population by force. 0895
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It also wouldn't be relevant even if it were true. The Nazis were not quiet about their hatred of queer people, and the notion that them arresting people *quietly* would somehow make it reasonable to ignore their anti-LGBTQ laws is obvious nonsense. 1150
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Now I'm no expert on NI - certainly in no way qualified to be, say, secretary of state - but I was rather under the impression that the entire problem with the current march is that some people do, in fact, want to go back 28 years. 070
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Presumably built on hope in the sense of "we hope you'll still vote for us even though we're sticking to our stupid fiscal rules". 010
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And how would you say that's going in...oh, I don't know, the UK? 020
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I mean she already plugged her husband's cock in a song, so... 010
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Now I'm no NHS administrator, but I would have thought that imposing a mandatory wait time in the face of "soaring demand for diagnoses" would make things worse, not better. 1150
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The WHRC - the group behind the "women's declaration" - has explicitly called for the "elimination" of the "practice of transgenderism". Supporting such bigotry ought to be grounds for immediate expulsion from any sane political party. That it isn't is frankly terrifying. 0194
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fortunately bluesky's age verification is implemented client-side, allowing it to be bypassed by a custom rule for your ad blocker. 1220
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We don't even have a decent centre-left. Maybe focus on that. 050
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Transphobes have been very open about the fact that they view sports as a wedge issue; if they can get people to agree that trans women aren't *really* women in the context of sports, it's much easier for them to extend that to toilets and other public services. 0527
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026...did you ask them for comment, or are they name-searching on bluesky? 110
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ah, artifact farming; the reason I quit genshin and similar games several times 🙃 011
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's also not a real statistic, just a bunch of GPs guesstimating. 070
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's just a nazi mob, Sloane. It's not something important, like a trans woman trying to take a piss in a public toilet. 031
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026No, no, you see, changing the law is actually the supreme court's job. The job of an MP is to wibble on about dignity and respect. Easy mistake to make. 130
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026FWIW, I appreciated your deleted post on this topic. I get that academics prefer to keep things civil, and there are good reasons for that, but imo anger helps to make it clear that this isn't just some intellectual debate; it's a fight against bigotry and forceful oppression of a minority group. 090
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It's not actually scoldy, it's a blade runner joke:youtube.comBlade Runner - Voight-Kampff Test (HQ)YouTube video by Guillermo St 010
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Does he think "don't take our votes for granted" means that we're allowed to vote as we please only if doing so has no effect on the outcome? 0230
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If only they had this energy for urging transphobic politicians to change course. 0260
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026mine (Labour) replied to my letter with the usual "dignity and respect" bullshit 🙃 010
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026yeah, my reaction to the direct was "welp, guess I need a switch 2 now" 020
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Love a good zombie apocalypse story, but it would be wonderful if our fiction was less "humans are the real danger" and more "no, actually, the flesh-eating monsters that destroyed the world as we know it are the real danger, and people are generally helpful, what the fuck is wrong with you?". 030
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Feel like the devs needed to learn that not every minor NPC needs to be talking as you walk by them. 000
Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Reducing the impact of the cancellations to "uncertainty and worry" is just bullshit. 050
