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About last weekend….Grateful for being invited to speak at a great conference, being so cared for and for everyone’s enthusiasm for what I had to say! And all the rock art ❤️ #CampoLameiro

Omnivores will come into your DMs unprompted and then ask what do you eat and then they're just airfrying some frozen chicken nuggets on their feed

Turning on your wake up alarms after holiday is a hate crime

Osip Mandelstam's poem Tristia. That breathtaking first line: "I have mastered the art of saying goodbye."

After getting my hopeless minus eight minus six astigmatic eyes lasered fifteen years ago, I am back in the land of glasses-wearing, and oddly I feel more like myself

Sent what I would spend easily, everyone's threshold is different, but also every bit helps - if you can, you should (if you cannot, do not feel bad, the system fails us all)

Cites MIT study on decreasing cognitive function, stares at the University in disgust

Last snorkel of the trip and out beyond the headland saw a beautiful common octopus emerge from their rock, camouflage into the rocky bed, then jet forward and wrap around a rock before becoming green and grey mottled, wrapping their tentacles around it, followed by a court of wrasse and bream

Rima desperately needs help, and bluesky is making posts from this account inaccessible from notifications, please do donate or boost

Reading a book by Alexanderos Papadiamandis and the translation is so Irish it brings a sense of joy

Current state of the labour party, sir Keith can fuck right off and fuck off again

Reading Kostas Karyotakis and this resonated

Look, I like Món. But she is so wrong about LLMs, just don't interact with them, the theft climate crisis making you stupid machine is a say no situation, not a "I can fix him" thing

Come on unprecedented events, hurry up

I am so tired. Have been having conversations with people since the overlords refused voluntary and are now prevaricating and trying to force a ballot even though we are at a majority.

Can anyone explain why I see getting a tattoo as a fun little decision but putting a sticker on an item feels overwhelmingly permanent?

A grand free talk here

Join a union, if your company doesn't have a union make one (quietly at first), discuss salaries (some people will have been told its taboo, treat them gently), write to your MP, write to whoever you need to, register your discontent because I personally do not want to wield a shovel to dig graves

My MP gave a boilerplate response, I provide receipts be our public servants. Cunts. (Yes there is a typo on your and you're, I had to use my phone to screenshot, go away)

The Wicker Man. First watch, beguiled by Lord Summerisle and his idyll; fifth watch, reluctantly realising that Howie was right, and how totalitarian regimes can be wrapped in pretty paper but serve the richest above all else

like, at least monarchy has had several centuries of inbreeding, these are de novo idiots

I find it fundamentally offensive that our new tech overbro-lords are such idiots

I have this horrible feeling JF Vance's coterie are leaving oxforshire, there are so many helicopters and loud planes

It is obscene and shameful to see Newnham Cambridge excluding trans women from fellowships. Nearly all the trans women I know in academia are precarious, and trans women are criminally underrepresented in every field relevant to the talent they have. This is pure nastiness (and that's the point)

Forgive trying to greentext on bluesky, but >Spends a few centuries doing actual imperialism >Winds down actual empire and spends a century doing soft cultural imperialism and counting itself as an international language >Why do we have so many asylum seekers wanting to come here? >mfw

Vegetables and meat are still unavailable in the markets, and cheese and sugar are still far from affordable. This movement suddenly stopped in the midst of a wider battle, a broader cycle of genocide imposed on the people of Gaza, without any coverage of their daily realities.

this is why I actually love my job doing technical editing, it's perfect

"I am such a sad cancelled millionaire, why can't I publish writing saying other people should have fundamentally fewer rights without people being mean to me 🥺🥺🥺" fuck off man

Hey @bsky.app stop deleting people who are begging for recognition of their basic humanity to be honoured, why are you doing this? What could be the purpose of this policy? I'd like an answer makes sense.

Screams again into the void about AI being a cognitohazard

oi @teamlabouruk.bsky.social this was already abhorrent and shouldn't have been done so I got a VPN, let me message my friends and also stop killing trans people you fucking GHOULS. Be ashamed of yourselves. And yeah, even you, for working there. Normally I think we should treat people [cont]

so my VPN is playing up, so I thought I'd try the app. It won't recognise me as over 18. I am fucking 33 years old.

UK Government: We're going all in on AI. Look at our AI animal mascots! Look at the jacked bulldog! Also UK Government: delete your photos and emails. We need fresh water, so don't overload the data centres. Will someone please think of the motherfucking data centres!

Fuck, can this government stop being evil for even a minute (no, they can't, the ghouls)

this is a @margaret.bsky.social appreciation post, her free reading novellas and books have got me through some Difficult Times. Also her books are hilarious, I think you should buy them. But mostly this is when I am very tender and broken her book club is the excact balm I need

I read entire threads about so called writers freaking out about their chat 4.0 going offline

justice for the poor girl who works at m&s asking about bra fittings; I got my first bra fitting from a very cis woman who called my tits pathetic at aged 13, imagine being a minimum wage worker and getting the Rowling industrial brain worm money going after you. Have peace, babe, we're with you

Imagine being a minimum wage girlie then getting the full force of a billionaire bullying you. Grim

Screaming into the void as I open up my inbox and work as though everything is normal and fine

I've got a bunch of people engaging in my anti AI posts, they should look down my feed and give some money directly to Palestinians

I'm out of discretionary funds, please donate when I cannot until next week

Trying to do an ultra fast track paper (edit within 36 actual, not working, hours) whilst the horrors persist after a night of insomnia is really testing the maximum "the horrors persistent, but so do I"

I have an idea: parasite game (with apologies to Hwang Dong-hyuk) All billionares in this world are stuck in a minimum wage job. Their assistants, helpers, and household staff are retained for full pay and put up elsewhere in comfortable housing

it's a balm for the anger inside, I promise - @lazaruscorporation.co.uk offers a vision of post-capitalist resistance that includes those marginalised that we need right now

I am SCREAMING at work at the moment as we are supposed to enter a period of (unpaid, extra work, no reduction in unobtainable targets) 'improving our workflows' without being told what money has been ringfenced for this. Improvements in quality of life require investment, and I am so tired

Losing followers for promoting gazan fundraisers. Look, I get it, seeing starving babies is hideous, and I know I am privileged because I have spare money I can chuck their way, and I know it's not a fun timeline, but good lord we all understand that

workers’ souls are expelled, it means that repression has become a weapon to silence the truth. But the truth cannot be killed, and silence does not protect the killer. Those who live genocide know that standing against it is not a choice, but an unavoidable duty.