For example it's not libel to say that Israelis love killing children. They have killed more children at a higher rate in a single year than anyone else in the last two decades.
This article is almost two years old and Israel has continued targeting women and children at a disproportionate rate even after the "ceasefire"
Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:
Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.
Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.
Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination.
e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee.
If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).
A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.
This is probably going to be a bit of a controversial take, but the way people in the Sleep Token fandom demand the band constantly give them stuff is shitty entitled behavior and unacceptable. Its been 1 year. One (1). Since they released Even in Arcadia, and it's been 7 months since they ended their month long tour. Before that they dropped an album in 2023 (TMBTE) and toured for a while after that. I dont care how long they actually toured, because any amount of time touring, constantly traveling, and playing almost every night would be exhausting.
2 years between albums is lowkey insane, especially with touring between.
I understand we live in a fast paced world, where people have everything at their fingertips when they demande it, and that the tik tok ification of the internet makes people demand that instant gratification and shortens attention spans. But you guys need to back the fuck off. Dont act like the swifties who demand she constantly give them everything and it causes a decline in the quality of her art.
People who complain we're in a sleep token drought and that they need the band to do something need to fucking stop. You have four albums, three instrumental album, and 3 EPs. That's more than enough. Or are you that quick to toss things to the side and stop reflecting and savouring and enjoying what you have already been so blessed to be given.
Clearly you need to be reminded YOURE NOT ENTITLED TO ANYTHING FROM ANYONE. I know people are very very quick to forget, but theyre all real people too, and they experience the same emotions and burn out that you might. Hell Vessel literally sang "I know these words are boring, I know I should be touring, but I can't always be killing the game." He straight up told everyone to be patient.
Making music is HARD. It's a job and also an art, and art takes time. Touring in a band is a job. I know people don't see it as such, but it is. Except imagine you're stuck working for even just one month straight. You are locked in the place you work in, and you're constantly doing something for your job with very few breaks. Now think of how exhausting that would be, and not to mention doing it away from home. I dont know what country these people live in, NOR IS IT MY BUSINESS. But no matter what kind of tour you're doing youre still going to be away from home a while.
And not to mention the sheer EMOTIONAL toll of everything. The weight of the planning, the schedule, the budget, the crew, the fans, and the art itself. I imagine it cant be pleasant to spend so much time immersing yourself in an art that is meant to dig deep and stick its fingers into some emotional wounds. Have you ever cried before? You feel absolutely exhausted after, right? Vessel cries almost every performance, sometimes during multiple songs. I wouldn't be surprised if he lays down in bed and passes tf out after. I know I'd be exhausted.
I think you all need to consider putting yourself in their shoes and contemplate what it might feel like to do such an intense job and go "yeah, they deserve a break" especially with all the backlash they receive. Maybe the backlash bothers them and maybe it doesnt, but take into consideration that its gotta wear you down. Constant negativity even from a small minority would wear anyone down after a while.
And then theres the process of actually making music. You have to be inspired. You have to write the songs, you have to make sure it works and sounds the way you want. Then you've gotta record and produce it and work out all the kinks and get things exactly how you want. Then you gotta work out how you're going to get it out there. And amongst all this youre dping merch drops, approving or declining designs and working with your company to do drops and do xyz amount of this product, but spread that out across 4 different stores. Then theyve gotta create puzzles for you to interact with and get the excitement going, and i dont even wanna think about what all goes into the puzzle planninbg process. After seeing Thornhill defend these guys and theyre time and the amount of work that goes into everything they do? Wtf is wrong with you??
Not only demanding artists rush their art because youre bored and want them to actually do something. Be it tour or release music? I'd be downright embarrassed by the entitled behavior. I think we need to start putting this into perspective with any artist actually and let them work on their art instead of complaining they havent done anything in 7 months.
I'm not in the music business, but I do play music, and I am a human being who gets tired and understands a very very base level of what goes into music. I am also a very very big fan of sleep token, but also I dont mind waiting one bit. Look at what happened to Tobias Forge? The man worked nonstop for 15 years straight and now he's gotta take an indefinite break. The body is not meant to take that kind of grind. You'll burn out fast and then there won't be anything.
I just really think that collectively as a fandom, we need to stop constantly asking them to do something and take time to reflect on and appreciate what we have been given already. Nothing lasts forever, and when sleep token is gone someday then you'll really regret spending all your time begging for more rather than living in the moment and appreciating what you've been given while you had it.
Please please please stop demanding people do things when theyve not done anything in the public eye for half a year. Please. Enjoy what you've got while you have it and appreciate the hardwork that goes into it and instead say "thank you so much for all this hardwork you're putting into this band, but don't forget to take time for yourself and take care of yourself as well so you can continue to work on the projects you want to do!"
"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t
pretty sure I did the chrome//flags thing a while ago, but also i switched to firefox, which is not without the occasional bullshit, but is vastly less bullshitty than chrome.
This is why I treat genai "features" like the invasive blackberry bushes they are: cut, root, burn, and vigilantly watch for new shoots to uproot. I'm 54 years old and the world got by fine without genai for most of my lifetime.
tags via@KKglinka #psa#having read the article#it's not clickbait#chrome is reaching#across all chromium browsers#to link a prepatory structure#this malware packet#will therefore occur#with all chromium browsers#it has nothing to do#with the actual ai interface#instead chrome is either#using your personal computer#as part of a cloud server#the way bitcoin malware works#or it's recording your own#actions on the computer#with a continuously active#background module#either way#that's malware#a 4gig trojan virus
I see arguments that people hate sleep token because they have a big female fan base but I have yet to see anyone argue that there is a weird rabid hate for R&B from some people and those are the parts people really hate about sleep token. Are we ready for this conversation yet?
OKAY. MY POWER IS TURNED OFF. I NEED $457.33 IN ORDER TO GET IT BACK ON. It is 81° outside and I have animals.
If you want a commission? Hit me. I have A LOT right now, but I promise it will get done and you will get goodies.
If you want to loan me money and I pay you back Thursday? I can totally do that!
If you want to donate? I am not above it right now. My house was 77 and within an hour it went up to 86. I am keeping me and my animals cool with wet washcloths..
Psst... hey kid. Wanna buy a bracelet?
My life is financial ruin, lol 🥲 every cent goes towards helping my disabled self stay alive. Thank you.
Wait why is youtube now putting an ai button on videos that’s like “tell me what this video is about”??? Do they think we’re too stupid to watch video now?
Like is the pitch at this point really that we should be relying on ai to do our jobs, make our art, make our music, do our homework, do our chores, research for us, write our papers and emails and texts, summarize all our books and videos and movies into a single sentence, strap a chatbot to your physical body so it can tell you how to respond to people in real life, replace therapy and friends and partners, think for us, do for us, exist for us, and this is being sold as “convenience”? Wow ai saves me so much time! It’s so nice to have something that can live for me so I have more time to *checks notes scribbled on hand* uhh. Sit and stare blankly at a wall? I think that’s all that’s left really
Fuck Meyer-Briggs whatever typology. This INTFP shit is only for redditors up their own asses to substitute for a personality. Use my new typology instead!
That elderly couple who volunteers at the soup kitchen after church on Sundays and attends every town hall meeting has done more community direct action than 99% of internet leftists 🤷🏽♀️
#lol this post is stupid spup kitchens were created by the gov after they literally destroyed black radical organizers lives#and since when does going to a town hall meeting and working within the system help anybody in any significant way
100% agree homeless people should just starve and dumpster dive till le epic revolution happens!
and for sure local politics is so stupid it only handles dumb things like your schoolboard, judges, infrastructure, and rent laws! now tweets? Thats where the real work happens!
Local activism stopped garbage collection from being privatized in my hometown and local activism is what defunds the police and keeps libraries and community gardens open and gets done most of the things people waiting around for a revolution claim they want.
The weird former hippie suburban wine moms donating bags of quinoa chips and money to the food pantry I go to sometimes have done more for me materially then any defeatist political rant on tumblr ever has.
#local politics#so many people saying local elections won’t do anything for police brutality#when a lot of places in the US elect their sherrif!#and judges!#and all the other people in charge of the police!#but no I’m just a filthy moderate for suggesting we use EVERY tool at our disposal to improve the state of things (tags via @sofiadragon)
My spouse goes to every single school meeting they host, and often is the only person to show up. When the school was debating putting The Ten Commandments in every school room, they held a meeting about it. Guess who was the only parent to be at that meeting? Guess who voted “no”? Guess what the school released as a memo after the meeting? (“Due to popular vote we will not be hanging religious writings in our school rooms.”) And this is just the only time I can prove his vote was the deciding factor in policy change, I know he’s probably swayed more changes (or prevented changes), like taking books from the library or imposing collective punishments on students or letting cops run around inside the building. Because he always shows up.
Go to your local meetings. Vote in the small elections. You will see direct, real change in your world.
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