I saw a post that said:
“I think being forced to be hyper independent as a child has caused me to be irrationally angry with any adult who needs their hand held through anything they do.”
And I felt that in my soul.
Thanks @NetflixUK for putting ads in the middle of the Stephanie vaquer Vs Liv Morgan match, when I pay for no ads!. You're a bunch of wasters. Get it sorted, so sick of this. Been excited for this rematch since wrestle mania and you ruin the pacing with ads #wweraw
In a nationwide trial, ME/CFS registered the lowest Quality of Life score of any condition studied.
Yet Long COVID, ME, dysautonomia and related complex conditions can be severe, life-altering, and deadly - only to be actively stigmatised, mocked, and left trapped at the bottom of medicine's hierarchy.
I’ve broken down the 7 hidden burdens of carrying an "unacceptable illness" - putting words to the systemic dismissal and institutional barriers we face.
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This is horrendous: charity facing bankruptcy because an American couldn’t take their dog into a cafe & is suing them… using Legal Aid.
Don’t you have to have a certain financial back up to immigrate to Scotland? How does that square with claiming legal aid?
When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.
The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.
India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.
Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.
The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.
So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.
The Tavistock Clinic was closed due to an outrageous coordinated lying campaign, driven by @bbcnewsnight and two terf reporters it employed at the time.
Journalists with integrity would revisit what happened.
10,000 patients over 10 years. Just 8 complaints. All about waiting times.
The claim 1,000 patients waiting to sue - stone-cold lie. #Newsnight
Hi @TimesRadio,
Are you journalists?
It's now 4 years since you breathlessly reported the lie that "1000 families" were due to sue the Tavistock.
Trans people told you that was BS. And yet, you didn't listen.
Now the law firms page is a 404. 1/
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btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”
it was called project panama.
here's exactly what happened:
1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”
2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.
it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”
3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.
so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”
4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.
those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.
5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.
6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.
a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.
7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.
the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
Another "Protect our women" is a domestic violence abuser.
Meet Alan Miller. This is what he did to his ex-girlfriend.
She gave me permission to share this with you.
BREAKING: Landmark two-year Dutch review of trans healthcare finds ZERO regret among transitioners. Netherland’s Medical Council warns making trans people go through puberties they do not want is NOT a neutral option.
Meanwhile, the ridiculous UK sticks with the non-peer reviewed Cass Report. Are you going to do something @YvetteCooperMP ? 50 dead and counting. Great report @ErinInTheMorn ✅ . Link below. @jamesmurray_ldn@wesstreeting
This is absolutely heartbreaking. Much more heartbreaking than fathers & mothers carrying bags of human flesh they hope contain some remains of their slaughtered children.
Sounds like axe grinding. It’s reported the Edinburgh Funder was “fired” by Amnesty International for daydreaming and writing HP while they were at work.
Claire Kerrison was arrested at 4:33am from her Brighton home for sending emails concerning 'israel's' genocide in Gaza to her MP Peter Kyle.
Four police officer raided her home on 17 June 2025. They seized her electronics. Held her for over eight hours with no one knowing where she was. Released her on strict bail. Charged her in late 2025 under the Communications Act.
The case dragged on for a full year. She faced multiple court hearings including not-guilty pleas.
The emails were described by those who read them as articulate and non-abusive— simply expressing horror at events in Gaza.
The man who triggered the police complaint? Her own constituency MP, Peter Kyle:
- Britain's trade minister responsible for arms exports to 'israel'.
- Long standing member and previous vice-chair of Labour Friends of 'israel'
Kyle has been accused of breaching the Ministerial Code by failing to declare his LFI membership in the official List of Ministerial Interests for 18 months despite the clear conflict.
The case was finally dismissed yesterday, with costs awarded to Claire Kerrison.
This is why British politicians who are paid/influenced by the 'israel' lobby must be banned from public office.
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Incredible news!
I’m a huge believer that the UK boom period became what it was in no small part thanks to @DamoMackle and his commitment to uplifting the standard of pro wrestling which every wrestler and promotion across the UK and Europe benefited from.
With him and pioneer of womens wrestling @nikkistorm08 at the helm of @ThisIs_Progress the future of the UK scene is in safe and exciting hands.