Turn off your Face ID and Touch ID if you are taking your phones to the protests. Keep it in airplane mode and use encrypted apps where possible. Protect yourself. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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...aaaaaaand it’s time for a new, AUNTIFA’S TIPS FOR #protests 1. WEAR SNEAKERS OR OTHER SENSIBLE SHOES. consider this a marathon. it is physical activity and you will be walking or standing for hours, so wear comfortable, yet protective shoes: - no sandals - no open-toes - no open heals - no […]

"But how," you are wondering, "can we possibly commemorate YOU, Jonn, on the day of your birth?" Well luckily I have a newsletter. You can sign up for that. (Go on, it's my birthday.)

I think this will always be my favourite bsky.app/profile/sand...

Been clear if you just look at the actual evidence that the Conservatives ought to have focussed first on winning back Liberal Democrat switchers, because it is easier, and because their best argument to get Reform switchers back is 'only a Tory vote can beat Labour'.

Abolish the Home Office

I cannot BELIEVE that none of my friends want to go see Dracula’s Dog with me on the big screen. https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617235/zoltan-hound-of-dracula-aka-draculas-dog/ 😢

HT @stephenkb.bsky.social for bringing this little piece of hope to my attention: https://www.tumblr.com/joemuggs/738242047012749313/the-local-is-the-local

A funny thing about the renovations in Parliament is it exposes just how much “hanging around and making small talk with passer-by this specific route you can loiter in, now inaccessible due to scaffolding” was a load-bearing part of my relationship with some contacts.

I have a favourite toilet at Heathrow Airport now.

#StarTrekMeme #startrekmemes

Something that would really help stop Andrew Tate and his ilk influencing children in our schools: Arts classes which were about thinking rather than regurgitating facts.

Germany doing it right. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-new-trans-law-gender-debate-lgbtq-intersex-nonbinary-v3/a-70604185 Beate von Miquel, the chair of the National Council of German Women's Organizations (DF) and a gender researcher, told DW that the issue was being politically […]

I've started a newsletter! Not a paid-for one on Substack or Ghost or anything like that, just an old-fashioned email once every week or two in your inbox letting you know if I've released any new stories or done something else which I think you may find mildly amusing and/or interesting […]

It mystery. https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115372342161648330

I watched Invasion Of The Star Creatures because I was promised sexy women in glass tubes. I did not receive sexy women in glass tubes. This is the worst case of false advertising since David Cameron convinced me that the Tory Party had changed for the better.

There are good use cases for AI. Not a single one of them is “Previously, I would have had to have paid a human to do this!”

I've read it but can't remember what it was. Can you? https://mstdn.social/@bit101/115363373786408366

[eats lots of cheese before bedtime] This will end well, I’m certain.

Your occasional reminder that the Cass Review was commissioned with the conclusion as an objective to be reached and should not be trusted, let alone used as a basis for any kind of policy. https://masto.ai/@transworld/115358094268982963

"The LLMs told me what I wanted to hear" is not the slamdunk some people appear to think it is. Depressing, really.

Perfect.

Trump admin lies about #ice being attacked, so they can be the victim. The Technique is called DARVO (Deny Attack Reverse Victim & Offender) But when people see that the "attackers" are people in frog costumes, it visually destroys the lie. There for sharing our silly protests on social media […]

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

i dropped an angry rain frog gif in work teams, assuming no one would pick up on what i was feeling. a coworker instantly shot back a gif of an inflatable dinosaur costume. the shifting political landscape creates new languages.

So basically - and like a lot of people - I'm looking for something very much like a #framework laptop - modular, repairable etc - only not from a company run by apologists for fascism. Any recommendations? Not that I can remotely afford anything of the kind any time soon, but it would be nice […]

I don’t know whether I like the phrase technology vegan, but it feels like there’s something there.. https://beach.city/@pandora_parrot/115345744309739316

"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry." -- Nick Clegg #AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech

Wait fucking Badenoch says her favourite author is *Terry Pratchett*? JFC none of these fucking chuds have anything more than the very thinnest surface-level understanding of any media they've ever encountered do they? Or she's just lying

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

Off to watch Frankenstein (1931) at the cinema, and I am excite!

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me #accessibility #alttext #blind

Now, I'm just a simple unfrozen caveman, but it seems to me that the competitive advantage of Deloitte et al used to be "we hire experienced, talent, brilliant people, if you pay us, you can have access to them." What I'm hearing here is, instead, "we have a subscription to ChatGPT." 🤔

The second news story was Deloitte charging the Australian government $290k for a report that was generated by an LLM, full of nonsense. These consulting firms aren't just *talking* about using AI in lieu of having smart people research and think hard—they're actually doing it.

I've seen a couple of news stories recently that tell me how completely screwed that major consulting firms are. The first was Accenture laying off 1% of their workforce to demonstrate that they're all in on GenAI. Really? Accenture wants to advertise that they can be replaced by an $20/month LLM?

girl are you the tower of babel because you are stacked in defiance of god and I cannot speak coherently when you go down

Huh. So taking a multivitamin at night can, in some people, cause insomnia. This fact brought to you by insomnia.

Liz Truss: 6 September to 22 October Whoever the fuck the French prime minister was: 9 September to 6 October we did it, record beat!

If Theresa May had been able to pass a Brexit deal, and continues until the 2024 defeat cos of inflation, Badenoch gets sacked in the 2022 reshuffle, from howls of 'why?!' from her media cheerleaders and polite coughing of 'she was actually a dreadful MoS' from the whips' office.

I know Home Secretary is the modern Grand Vizier, that thinking is not in the job description and public displays of authoritarianism are, but still… If you are not free to do something every moment of every day, you are not free to do something. (Whether […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Pertissue Fisher came out to the hallway of her apartment in her nightgown to find armed agents yelling “police.” She had a gun pointed in her face. She was handcuffed. She was held until 3 AM before being released. Fisher isn’t suspected of any crime. She lives in the building. Alicia Brooks […]

Ooh, are we collecting new #bluesky escapees today? That is so cool! Look, if you’re joining us and suffering a bit of grief over losing things, take a breath and take heart. When you get oriented, look up @bsky.brid.gy and pour a tea (or wine) and you’ll be able to figure out how to keep […]

Yes. And it won't win over a single voter whose main concern is immigration. Pointlessly self-destructive.

I think about this a lot

This was the last straw for me. Cancelled my membership today. https://mstdn.social/@JugglingWithEggs/115308952627111237

ahemm,,,, #meme