Free Speech Defender™

Wrong about a lot, pls correct me. DMs open. I mostly lurk, RT, & argue on this account. If you say “pronouns in bio” you’ve lost the argument. He/him 🏳️‍🌈

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

I have done nowhere enough threads to justify this but I thought I'd make a thread of my (good) threads to help me keep track.

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

@Aldcroft1Julie @MartinSLewis Julie - you will now have people in the comments offering to help you. Please be aware many or all of these will be scammers too.

Consider reaching out to the financial ombudsman service regarding your issue or even media outlets

[Max Spero @max_spero_]

Consider the 8 page conference paper. Perhaps the LaTex for the paper is 100,000 ASCII characters (a character set of 128).

I could brute force the entire space of conference papers, there are only 128^100,000 possible conference papers of this length.

So let’s just create them all. By Tobias’s “monkey dart” standard, there are almost certainly several brilliant papers in here. All of which should absolutely get published. But finding it ourselves is a lot of work. Maybe we just submit them all and let peer review decide what is actually publishable?

Congratulations, we re-derived why it’s not helpful when people spray and pray AI generated paper submissions.

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

This is why I'm going to keep banging this drum. We desperately need a federal law that protects people from these lawsuits.

You do not have freedom of speech if a thin-skinned censor like Taibbi can cash out your retirement fund with a call to a bad lawyer.

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

@SoBrittlish @tomhfh There’s no way you’re British and juries out on whether you’re even human.

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

@Mo_Porkburger @eigenrobot This betrays a concerning lack of knowledge of how UK elections work

[Edward Gibbon @EdwardEGibbon]

Anyway, I think of this as a classic modern British tale - Tory government legislates for something it barely understands; public bodies do that; everybody is unhappy.

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

@patio11 @glitchtruth I’ve been wondering the same thing funnily enough and had the same thought re: them being *just* above that bar

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

If you decide to sign two critical election forms this differently, you ideally do not want them blown up on page 2 of the Daily Mail.

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

@vinnyc3 @FactoryQuack @adgirlMM @MeidasTouch If they decide it is constitutional will you agree? Or will you find a reason to say they are wrong?

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

I might settle for less than that plus improving my working conditions but ultimately my employer did one thing you never do. In trying to fuck me they accidentally fucked the taxman and sadly he don’t like that

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

Last time my employer tried to fuck with me I sent two strongly worded emails and made one call. They immediately backed down. This time them fucking with me might just cost them over 24k

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni.

Is that fair?

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

I’m the only person at my job who is in a union. Previously I’ve been pretty lowkey about it.

This week my employer has fucked me about massively.

So guess who is getting a whole ass union recruitment pack delivered next week.

The finding out stage for my boss begins now.

[TitanofZwitscher @TitanofZ]

@PushDemsLeft Also the bill is pregnant for some reason, which probably isn’t illegal, but feels like it should be

[Adith Arun @aditharun_]

[1/3] Men's testosterone levels did not plummet over the past decade like many wellness podcasts would have you believe... we just switched the measurement assay from immunoassay to mass spectrometry

When we switched assays, we observed a ~100% increase in self-reported healthy men with low testosterone. The threshold needed to be updated when the assay changed.

Arun AS, Durant TJS, El-Khoury JM, Krumholz HM. Re-evaluating the threshold for low total testosterone. Clinical Chemistry 2025.

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

Has the twitter algorithm been tweaked in a pro-natalist way? My ‘for you’ feed has a whole bunch of pro-pregnancy posts in it. Might just be a random fluke but also I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk is putting a finger on the scale given his views.

[Free Speech Defender™ @FreeExpression]

@cuckfapitalism @postoctobrist I dm’d her a couple of times and she was always so gracious and kind.

Very sad to find out she passed and seeing the gross replies is sad.

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

Wait. Now it’s okay that the government demands that a tech company delete something?

If memory serves, just a short time ago this very action was described in the most heated terms (and not entirely without reason) as a totalitarian violation of the right to free speech.

[Cody Johnston @drmistercody]

Once again, they know. They do not care.

[Travis View @travis_view]

I’ve got it: What if we pointed out their hypocrisy? After we point out their hypocrisy, they’ll have no choice but to behave in a manner that is consistent with their purported values.