This is really good to see - it was something that was really apparent when I was at university and the snobbery to people that had a Glaswegian, Fife or Highland accent was really prevalent.

I have emailed my MP asking where he expects me to pee when in public, given his party's support of my urinary leash. Darkly funny for someone with a PhD, published papers, a job - the sort of person that Labour seem to want for their precious GDP and economy - to be needing to email their MP to find out where I am expected to piss.

The ruling is abhorrent and the carve outs which basically forbid trans people from any space like toilets or hospital wards is sickening to the extent I am now looking for jobs in Ireland. The interpretation isn't even one of forced detransition, it is entirely eliminationist for transgender people while also excluding feminine men and masculine women from shared spaces that are interpreted as single sex. It is the bigoted fantasy of what the worst elements of the evangelical right wanted in the US.

If this doesn't sit well with you, there is a protest this Saturday in George Square 2pm to 5pm: https://bsky.app/profile/whatthetrans.com/post/3lmyfzhiag22c

Christ, what an asshole

Yes, I was aware though under the impression of improving geospatial and mapping models. There are many ways in which we are now entwined into these systems and so it's a matter of deciding, on a personal level, what you are comfortable with.

I am certainly not comfortable with the data going to Saudi Arabia where access to such is used for active suppression and harm.

Maybe it was a naive viewpoint at the time, but the climate of 2016 was very different to what it is now.

I'm a level 50 Pokémon Go player, who has played since release day, and that's the app deleted.

Next up will be requesting removal of my data under GDPR.

I am not sure what you don't understand about the statement that walking back support is, in fact, walking back support.

Walking back support in one area is walking back support.

It ain't that complex. As soon as concessions are made, the far right demands more because there must always be an enemy to crush completely for the in-group. Who will then pick a new enemy when it comes politically convenient.

The US regime believes in notifying parents, irrespective of the possible harm, if their child might be gay or trans but won't bother with bullying so severe it leads to suicide. The US is fucked.

Ahh, phrenology is apparently scientific if you do it with AI?

I fucking hate this timeline

I think it is a link to X so I won't click on it.

This was just announced https://retrohandhelds.gg/retroid-pocket-flip-2-announced/

Kinda totally past the point of caring about that distinction tbh. We're seeing where conservatism leads and it's abhorrent for anyone with a mild sense of decency that cares a shred about science and a world with even a hint of equality and acceptance.

I really cannot fathom how anyone that has been paying the slightest bit of attention to anything they've been doing during their PhD could vote for Trump and his fascists.

They were very clear what they were going to do and that included cutting this support.

It's a huge assault on the sciences and Trump being in power and acting as king has already been impacting American researchers in hard sciences to the point where papers on physics and chemistry that are under peer review are requested by authors (and in some cases journals that should be investigated by COPE) to be substantially changed.

The censorship is incredibly wide ranging and these idiot PhDs don't seem to have woken up yet to how bad it is.