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@doublehelix

Scientist turned software engineer. He/him 🏹 Field archery πŸ€ Rats 😷 COVID cautious πŸƒ Parkrun https://medium.com/@davidallsopp @doublehelix@mastodon.social @doublehelix on the birdsite

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UN experts urge UK to ensure equal protection for all women and girls and all transgender people GENEVA – The United Kingdom must ensure its ongoing review of statutory guidance under the Equality Act remains compatible with international human rights law and upholds equal protections for all tra...

β€œFrameworks permitting routine exclusion or discretionary verification of sex based on appearance or stereotypes would raise serious concerns under international human rights law…”

UN experts remind the UK that it must avoid gender policing and ensure trans folk can live with safety and dignity.

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01.03.2026 12:15 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP β€” Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

06.03.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 5753 πŸ” 2199 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 80
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

The litigation over who has lawful control of the USIP building plays on, with the Trump administration maintaining control for now. But I'm proud @rcfp.org and I were able to obtain this footage and shed important light on DOGE's intentions when they entered the USIP building nearly one year ago.

06.03.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 567 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Not now, human brain cells on a chip learning Doom

06.03.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

06.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 11000 πŸ” 1257 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 101
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It looks like Tesla is once again using parking garages to stash inventory. There are some 100,000 inventory cars worldwide. 99,998 after today.

06.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 2507 πŸ” 725 πŸ’¬ 203 πŸ“Œ 59
Photo of a few square inches of tree trunk. Growing on the tree trunk are several grey lichens (growing flat on tree), a lichen that looks like a bunch of tiny egg yolks, and a bright red fungus that looks like a half dozen or so round/oval red blobs.

Photo of a few square inches of tree trunk. Growing on the tree trunk are several grey lichens (growing flat on tree), a lichen that looks like a bunch of tiny egg yolks, and a bright red fungus that looks like a half dozen or so round/oval red blobs.

A few square inches of tree trunk. At least 4 species of lichens (Parmelia, two Physcia species and Caloplaca) plus Red Tree Brain Fungus. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends.

06.03.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 2212 πŸ” 266 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 13
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

06.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 11093 πŸ” 1667 πŸ’¬ 416 πŸ“Œ 157
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Oh, just the business vehicle of Nigel Farage masquerading as a political party breaching its obligations at Companies House.

06.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 507 πŸ” 236 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 7

So a lot of the hype around LLMs and a lot of the userbase just fundamentally misunderstands what the technology is and what it’s capable of, instead treating it like a mythical supernatural or religious being. The industry openly encourages this delusion for profit

06.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 700 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say β€œ@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

06.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 3911 πŸ” 445 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 35
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Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

06.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 4541 πŸ” 1659 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 125
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Ceratiomyxa sphaerosperma from Mera, Pastaza, Ecuador. This tiny slime mold makes its spores on little stalks, giving it a distinctive appearance. My favorite feature of these are the glass-like stems.

Olympus OM-1 / 90mm macro lens / MC20 2x teleconverter

06.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 847 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 5

Reported this two weeks ago

06.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 612 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4
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Labour's asylum policies will destroy lives and drive away voters Labour's asylum and immigration policies risk violating international law and are politically self-defeating, writes Daniel Sohege.

My latest piece for the @bigissue.com is out today, on how Labour's attacks on those seeking asylum are not only inhumane, potentially illegal, and seriously counterproductive, but also politically incoherent for a party which claims to be "progressive".

www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...

06.03.2026 11:24 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 6

β€œGender-critical” transphobia now costs every woman athlete Β£185 if they want to compete in an international competition.

Well done transphobes, this is your doing and no-one else’s. Trans people have long been saying that transphobia would harm cis women. We were right, people just don’t listen.

06.03.2026 11:41 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/doub...

06.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🧡Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

06.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 2130 πŸ” 670 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 79

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

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andrrw Tate posting ai cringe and promising to fly to dubai

andrrw Tate posting ai cringe and promising to fly to dubai

Andrew Tate has been detained by Saudi Arabia

Andrew Tate has been detained by Saudi Arabia

how it started / how its going

06.03.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Andrew Tate filmed a video of himself saying he doesn't read books and then he got detained in Saudi Arabia. This is what happens when you don't do the assignment.

05.03.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

bsky.app/profile/doub...

06.03.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

>let claude code fuck with production
>no backups
incredible.

06.03.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 618 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 5

I feel like we, the public, deserve to see how the AI groveled after being confronted with this mistake. They're all absurd, but there's something very schadenfreude around the whole exercise of watching grown folk who should know better try to reconcile with statistically derived apologies.

06.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œCoked-up wolverines tore our nursery apart. Here’s my 15-point newsletter you can read so when YOU use coked-up wolverines, it might not can happen less.”

06.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Andrew Tate has been detained by Saudi Arabia.

So that’s nice!

06.03.2026 03:05 πŸ‘ 740 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 47
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Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command.
It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards.
Automated snapshots were gone too.
In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again.
If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

Tweet Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing

06.03.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 1631 πŸ” 227 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 107

Chotiner: You've made the claim that no one has ever fed you in your life.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Yet there's food in your dish right now.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Let's change the subject to the ripped-open bag of sandwich bread on the floor.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: I have read different things.

05.03.2026 06:11 πŸ‘ 2040 πŸ” 421 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1
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Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

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