Look at the pure joy!!

YEARNING

The shadow of your smile

Here are the promised Pardalotes! It was a grey, wet day with very little light so most of my photos didn't work, but it was a thrill just to have seen these tiny beauties at all. #birds

European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

A mulga parrot pair allopreening. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.

⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️ A massive data centre, BIGGER than the village they want to build it next to, has been proposed in Fife. If you're in the area PLEASE file an objection to it, the damage it will do is unbearable to think about. aprs.scot/auchtertool-... 👇 More resources below👇

Protect old hollow trees.

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Who can identify? #books #booksky #reading

‼️Look at this insanely perfect shot my husband just captured with his phone. We're both very sad he didn't have a real camera, but this is still amazing.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Real good bit about the slippery slope of genAI use. A battle we're already fighting, especially against the C-suite.

Please watch and support the release of Mexico's first stop motion film so that you can both prove that your love for animation as an art form is true and stick it to the industry's equivalent of Benedict Arnold.

2-113 - Games in Education stand with @lizcable.bsky.social I'll be here from 1030-12ish on Friday/Saturday, demoing a passion project: Seize The Power: A game about unfair rules, hard negotiation, and collective action. Please come by and try our game. (Tiz & I worked on it since 2019.)

We need to start calling Reform’s calls for us to return to Imperial measurements what it is: a foot fetish

A lot of British people will tell you that we're having a bad time because our houses are built for cold weather, but actually the problem is that billionaires and industrialists suck donkey balls and our politicians are cowardly self-interested cunts. Similar, but subtly different.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

I don't post enough in support of trans rights, and the way the UK government is trying to quietly erase their ability to exist in public view is horrifying and wouldn't look much out of place in a theocratic dictatorship (some of which now rate better than the UK for trans rights)

Happy #WorldOtterDay "Otter" Hand embroidery artwork #WildlifeArt #embroidery #ThreadPainting

Two fun facts for #UKGE: 1. This Friday I'm setting Asher's Ridge live on itch.io and DTRPG (hotel internet willing!) 2. It's also my 6 y/o son's zine-making debut. He's made his own zine to give away on my stand, and he would be *delighted* if anyone stopped by and asked for one at 3A-412 ❤️

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

We should be at least aware of the assault on the freedom and the accuracy of the information, and the interests of it's absolute control. 🧪

STOP TELLING ME AI IS THE FUTURE OH MY GOD

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Fun fact: Crows 🐦‍⬛ wag their tails when they’re happy.😃

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

just guys being dudes

Huh.

because I know y’all can’t click and read

I hate this shit.

I mean, robot/AI stories are almost all stories about slaves, and "robot uprising" stories are about slave rebellions. Do we honestly think slaves rebel just because there are stories about slave rebellions? Or is there perhaps some OTHER reason for such uprisings?

Here's a free version of the same article gcaptain.com/drowning/

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I miss the sound of Aussie magpies.

This is gonna sound mean, but I think we have enough science fiction where characters process their trauma in healthy and hinged ways under the supervision of competent professionals. We need to get back to Cordelia Naismith trying to drown her psychiatrist in a fishtank.

Note to myself and anyone else who cares: Plans for UKGE Friday/Saturday: 10:30am - 12:30pm: demoing Seize the Power at the academic stand. Come over to learn about (play?) a game that isn't fun. 1pm - 4:30pm: demoing Guess the Growl at the Clarendon Games stand (3-610) Sunday is still TBC.

At last it can be revealed

Today is my birthday. If you wanna give me something: Spread my art. Thank you.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

I am delighted

Banned Book Club was about history repeating itself, so we had to include the story of how banned book clubs in America now meet in secret to read it, just like Hyun Sook and her friends did... and she still gets invited to join! It's called Banned Book Club: Afterward.

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