Anna Djinn

Feminist, activist, co-founder of @nordicmodelnow

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

To state there is a brain disease identified as “ADHD” is a clear misrepresentation of science and ethical violations. Yet - mental health professionals will report it as such… routinely.

One reason why I am embarrassed to be part of such an industry.

[Care Not Killing @CNKAlliance]

“Those who backed Ms Leadbeater's original Bill could use the Parliament Act to bypass the Lords if they can get another MP to take it through the Commons again. Yet this would be in the face of voters' opposition… [A new mega-poll] showed a majority in every single British constituency do not want their MP to support a law pushed through Parliament without full scrutiny by both Houses.”
https://t.co/pdbv8LjfQ4

[Antipsychiatry @AntipsychiatryU]

Do you agree?

Psychiatric Drugging of Children and Youth as a Form of Child Abuse: Not a Radical Proposition
https://t.co/4aULSKXNsB

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Minma Kutjara, 2013 by Indigenous Australian artist Maringka Baker #womensart

[Wazhma Tokhi @WazhmaTokhi]

To continue doing business in Afghanistan, some choose to portray life for women and girls as “normal.” This is the narrative promoted by Saad Mohseni. But the reality is impossible to hide: daily reports, images, and videos reveal a system of repression, fear, and gender apartheid.

Meanwhile, in Herat, 21 women have reportedly been detained by the Taliban’s morality police after authorities threatened to arrest and imprison women and girls deemed non-compliant with the regime’s dress code.

While some promote a story of progress and normalcy, Afghan women are being surveilled, detained, silenced, and stripped of their most basic rights. The world must not allow propaganda to erase their reality.
#AfghanWomen #GenderApartheid

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

They survived Taliban’s system of gender apartheid in Afghanistan and have dedicated their lives to ensuring world understands what it means in practice: more than 200 decrees, laws and directives designed to exclude women from education, work, public life and basic freedoms.

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

John Lamont MP (@John2Win) reiterates that the Salisbury Convention does not apply to the assisted suicide Bill. It is not a manifesto commitment, nor is it a Government Bill. The Lords were under no obligation to pass it.

[Nordic Model Now! @nordicmodelnow]

Let’s build a world without porn, without prostitution

https://t.co/g5cteffZ0E

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage.” Suppose I seriously make such an assertion to you. Surely you’d want to check it out, see for yourself. . . I lead you to my garage. You look inside and see a ladder, empty paint cans, an old tricycle—but no dragon.

“Where’s the dragon?” you ask. “Oh, she’s right here,” I reply, waving vaguely.

“I neglected to mention that she’s an invisible dragon.” You propose spreading flour on the floor of the garage to capture the dragon’s footprints. “Good idea,” I say, “but this dragon floats in the air.”

Then you’ll use an infrared sensor to detect the invisible fire. “Good idea, but the invisible fire is also heatless.”

You’ll spray-paint the dragon and make her visible. “Good idea, but she’s an incorporeal dragon and the paint won’t stick.” . . . Now, what is the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all?

If there’s no way to disprove my contention, no conceivable experiment that would count against it, what does it mean to say that my dragon exists? Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.”

— Carl Sagan

[Victoria Rixon @Victoria_Rixon]

The one thing maternity services cannot give women is time.

And that matters more than most people realise.

People often ask me why our caesarean section rates continue to rise. Yes, caesarean sections save lives, and we should never lose sight of that. But we now have the highest caesarean section rates, the highest induction rates, and some of the highest levels of intervention on record.

Following the Ockenden Review, there was a clear and important emphasis on listening to women, respecting their choices, and ensuring access to maternal request caesarean section where appropriate. I support that principle. Women should be listened to and their choices respected.

But I've always felt there was a missing part of the conversation.

Where was the recommendation to give women more time?

More antenatal appointments. More educational opportunities. More continuity. More space to sit with midwives, ask questions, discuss risks and benefits, learn from other women, and come to a fully informed decision about their birth.

Because time is what allows education. And education is what allows genuine informed choice.

If a national review had said, "Give women more time, more support, more continuity, and more opportunities to understand their options," would some women have made different decisions about how they gave birth? We cannot know.

What we do know is that intervention rates have continued to rise.

At the same time, maternity services were not given more staff, more bed space, more theatre capacity, or significantly more resources to accommodate the consequences of increasing complexity and intervention. More caesarean sections mean longer hospital stays, greater demand on theatres, more postnatal care, more medicines, and more pressure on already stretched services.

The result is a system where staff have less time than ever before.

Less time to listen.
Less time to educate.
Less time to support.
Less time to care.

And that is the paradox.

We rightly talk about choice, but meaningful choice requires more than simply offering options. It requires the time, space, education and relationships that allow women to understand those options fully.

If we truly want informed choice, then we must invest in the one thing maternity services are currently unable to provide:

Time.

[How To AI @HowToAI_]

OpenAI and Google are about to have a massive legal problem and nobody is talking about it.

Every major AI lab has sworn to courts that their models do not store exact copies of copyrighted books.

They claim their safety filters block verbatim regurgitation. They use this as their primary legal defense against copyright infringement.

Researchers proved it is entirely an illusion.

They published a paper called "Alignment Whack-a-Mole" exposes a vulnerability that could destroy the foundation of fair use in AI.

They use a complex jailbreak or a malicious hack. They just fine-tuned the models.

They trained ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek on a simple, benign task: expanding plot summaries into full text.

The safety filters instantly collapsed.

The models started reproducing 85% to 90% of copyrighted books word-for-word. Single verbatim spans exceeding 460 words.

They did this without ever seeing the actual book text in the prompt. Only semantic descriptions.

But here is the detail that will terrify AI executives.

You don't even need to fine-tune the AI on the specific book you want to extract.

The researchers fine-tuned a model exclusively on the works of Haruki Murakami.

That single action unlocked the verbatim recall of over 30 completely unrelated authors.

Fine-tuning doesn't teach the model new text. It acts as a skeleton key. It reactivates the latent, word-for-word memorization hidden deep inside the pre-training weights.

And it happened across three different models from three different companies. They all memorized the exact same books in the exact same places.

It is an industry-wide vulnerability.

[Not Dead Yet UK @TheNotDeadYetUK]

It was great to support everyone down in Rochester to make the message loud and clear that disabled people do not want to return of the failed assisted suicide bill with @OtherHalfOrg

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Labour say E-Wing at HMP Downview is not part of the “general women’s estate.”

But E-Wing is run by the same governor, funded from the same budget, staffed by the same prison officers and supported by the same services as the rest of Downview.

Its prisoners can mix freely with female prisoners during the day.

[SHERA Research Group: Health Law Rights Support © @SheraFamily]

'72.5% of all judgments contained at least one instance of judicial victim‑blaming and also evidence of gender bias with “mothers’ behaviour scrutinised intensely while the fathers’ conduct was contextualised or minimised' #familycourt. via @Right2Equality https://t.co/y6J5JocsEb

[Camus @newstart_2024]

“We’re diagnosing boys with ADHD for acting like boys.”

Erica Komisar said this on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO. Little boys have a huge testosterone surge between ages 3–6. They need to run, jump, wrestle, and move constantly. Instead, we put them in classrooms that reward sitting still, regulating emotions, and being quiet — behaviors that come more naturally to girls. When they can’t, we label them as disordered.

Boys’ schools get this — they do short lessons then let the kids run around multiple times a day. Regular schools don’t.

It feels like we’ve built an education system that works better for one type of kid and then act surprised when the other type struggles or gets medicated.

These early labels follow boys for years and can damage their confidence and self-image long-term. We’re not letting boys be boys.

Do you think our school system is unfairly set up against how boys naturally learn and behave?

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

According the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration drugs we prescribe for ADHD (Adderall, Concerta, Ritalin etc...) can lead to "Severe Psychological Dependence & categorizes them as "high potential for abuse.
So let's go ahead & prescribe them to 4 year olds. Child abuse

[John Lamont MP 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @John2Win]

We don’t make laws by opinion poll.

Parliament did its job by properly scrutinising the Assisted Dying Bill.

If laws were rushed through simply because they were popular, so many would pass without proper consideration of the real-world consequences. 👇

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Labour government have proved that their net zero policies are gigantic piss take. They tell us plebs to turn off our lights, reduce eating red meat and dairy and also slap carbon taxes on us, yet they are ramming through hundreds of massive data centres that hoover up energy and water - which risk higher energy bills and jeopardise energy and water security.

▪️These gigantic hyperscale data centres that consume as much electricity in 24 hours as roughly 89 average streets use over an entire year.

▪️The UK now hosts more than 500 active data centres (the third largest in the world). They have been rammed through despite huge local community concerns about the impact on their local landscapes and energy and water consumption.

▪️These enormous data centres are giant industrial facilities consuming vast quantities of electricity, water and land while placing increasing pressure on the UK’s energy infrastructure.

▪️Water consumption by data centres is expected to reach 9.3 trillion litres, while CO2 emissions will rise to 399 million tons.

▪️Annual power consumption from data centres is projected to double to 945 TWh by 2030, around ‌the ⁠same as the whole of Japan’s energy consumption, with AI accounting for 40% of the total.

▪️It is estimated that data-centre power and water consumption could double by 2030 due to AI growth.

▪️Emerging research suggests large AI facilities can create localised warming effects around their sites, sometimes described as a “data heat island” effect.

Net zero for us, but not for the tech giants. Power taken from us to power Big Tech data centres.

[Nordic Model Now! @nordicmodelnow]

“PORN, A LINK IN THE PROSTITUTION SYSTEM

FREEDOM AND EQUALITY ARE FOR EVERYONE OR FOR NO ONE

The prostitution system is a patriarchal organisation, the last bastion of a long history in which men’s desires have always taken precedence over those of women. Feminism is therefore abolitionist since it puts women’s desire and will back at the centre. As for abolitionism, it has never killed anyone, whereas the prostitute-killer system kills every day…

In the twenty-first century, the sex industry has become a sprawling market whose ramifications continue to grow with new technologies and the advent of globalised capitalism. It is a sector worth hundreds of billions of dollars per year and is based on the exploitation of human beings and their vulnerabilities (poverty, origins, migration, etc.).

Some people then try to make people believe that prostitution has always existed, that empowerment is possible, a form of emancipation. It is not very progressive to want to maintain a market of domination, violence and exploitation of the human person. It is more akin to sexual slavery.

PORNOGRAPHY AND PROSTITUTION ARE TWO COMMUNICATING VESSELS.

The sex industry, whether it’s strip clubs, erotic massage parlours, peep shows or escort agencies, is always the same. Pornographic images and films, which are increasingly accessible and even invasive, also participate in this prostitution system, because they have the same motives – see the report published in September 2023 by the [French] High Council for Equality between Women and Men or Nadia’s testimony.

New technologies are helping to trivialise the system and create a demand for vulnerable and increasingly younger women. Advertising is complicit, through its hypersexualisation. This trivialisation and pervasiveness contribute to the “sexualisation” of society and has a great impact on the sexual practices and self-esteem of young boys and girls. In porn, hundreds of thousands of women are brutalised and raped for the pleasure of the male audience, who then seek to reproduce the same acts in their own sexual relations.

PORN IS NOT CINEMA!

Pornographic films contain real, unsimulated, physical, sexual or verbal violence against women. Rape culture, misogyny, unsimulated acts obtained by money: this is filmed prostitution.

More than 2.3 million children in France watch videos on pornographic sites every month! Viewer numbers are up sharply. The edifying figures of Arcom show that 51% of 12-year-old boys consume porn, compared with 53% of men. An increase of 36% among minors since 2017.

Pornography has become the school of sexism, as Sylvie-Pierre Brossolette, the president of the High Council for Equality between Women and Men, pointed out: “This school of sexist violence that is pornography must stop.” By trivialising and eroticising sexual violence, it trains future generations in rape culture.

But rape is violence, it is a crime. As Gisèle Halimi has said, “On rape, we have made progress, but it is a visible violence. Whereas prostitution is dressed up as a choice. And this is what we must fight radically”. This porno-criminal violence must stop, women victims must be protected, illegal videos (90% of content) must be removed.

We must say no to the porn industry, which cultivates rape culture, but also sexism, racism, torture, and LGBT-phobias. Many prostituted women mention the influence of pornography on the increasingly specific, and increasingly degrading, dehumanising demands made of them by johns. Before making the choice to buy a sexual act, every man should remember that prostitution kills every day in the world.

Faced with this persistent trivialisation, we, the survivors of prostitution and porn, have been asking for two and a half years for phase 2 of the French 2016 Nordic Model law, and above all for a real substantial budget for its full and complete application, not forgetting the johns without whom there would be no prostitution.

LET’S BUILD A WORLD WITHOUT PORN, WITHOUT PROSTITUTION!”

To read more of this excellent article by Florence Jacquet, see the link in the next tweet.

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

Sir John Hayes MP makes it clear that the assisted suicide Bill did not receive unusual levels of consideration, as many of its supporters complain. In reality, it had no pre-legislative scrutiny at all, and no independent reviews.