Because I am still an absolute novice at dressmaking, I of course bought way too much fabric for this overskirt BUT otoh… a) it’s a gorgeous colour b) better to have too much then too little and c) I guess this means I’ll just up the volume!

LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains." buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

"Access as meditation: A love letter to image descriptions & closed captioning" by Bella Milroy=good+free zine on writing alt text (& similar) as reflective opportunity for the alt-text writer. (39 more zines on accessibility+disability justice, many free, catalogued at airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz...)

Just want to do flower arranging for the rest of my days, I think.

love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”

“Benefit caps” (ie reparative amendments for systemic silliness) are just so ridiculous because the money comes back! The money of the working classes always comes back!!! Even our ISAs are too basic to truly drain much from the state lol

These past two years have seen protests across the continent. Kenya. Mozambique. Morocco. Madagascar, where the entry into the fray of the security services, Sudan 2019-style, even sent the president into exile. These protests have to do with anger – rage – at our broken social contracts.

In Solidarity with Sudan: A Bonfire Discussion Join us! 10 December 2025 15:30 GMT/16:30 CET/17:30 Cairo/10:30 EST via zoom Co-organized with Sawiyan, Salam Sudan + Locally Led Register via www.southsouthmovement.org/in-solidarit...

Right and this is such an interesting… disjoint in UX of LLM interfaces. There are patterns from eg Google’s image recognition tool for visually indicating (as it’s all black box really) reliability and it’s really telling how a lot of UX discourse laser focussed on essentially micro-copy but +

The university has made the recording of my talk available at the link below. In case of interest and you missed it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...

Genders in cross diaspora-English revealed depending on whether you call the dude restaurant owner ‘uncle’ or ‘boss[man]’.

One of the most infuriating (amid hot competition) things about discussion of closing music departments is the plea 'oh but we love extra-curricular things like orchestras'. It's a wilfully ignorant reduction of what academic music depts do. High level performance is 1 component within ...

Thanks to everyone who came along to this. I mostly talked about taking a more deliberate approach to tech adoption, and shared some of the findings from this research into how the expansion and adoption of tools like Copilot requires diligence www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries! They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out! archive.org/details/usda... 🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration

Andrew, because he’s a dickhead everyone hates; Mandelson, because he’s a dickhead who made the lobby hacks look like bent clowns. Even then, this was all decided offscreen, far from anything that looks like scrutiny. There are no higher principles at work than “Thou shalt not humiliate the lads”.

Please help Nya’s family of eight secure shelter & winter supplies. This cold is getting worse for them in their tent, and the kids are still malnourished, which is a deadly combination. Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...

I love how the word ‘sometimes’ just gives that vibe in what seems like almost every language

It’s funny when you lift the bonnet of the budget she has really put forward some evil things

Honestly, I think the average British citizen might actually be shocked to hear how many visit visas are refused for things like births, graduations, funerals, weddings - things that they themselves would never stand for if it happened to their British families…

I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books. This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.

Please help out a Black trans man who is need of some bread! Cashapp: $mphighaf Paypal: [email protected]

I always feel a bit of a fraud whenever I like pretty much every post in a thread and then there’s one I’m like “uhhh no babe” before liking the others lol

To tie back to my comparison to other online radicalisation, even if you don't give a shit about trans people, the judiciary becoming increasingly partial on a specific issue should be seen as the canary in the coal mine giving the current direction of travel in this country

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

This!! As someone who consults/freelances, the extra can occasionally just put me into higher tax brackets* but tbh it’s the fact I’m on effective pay cuts for the last 4 years which is doing the real damage…

So yeah perception that you’re being fleeced by taxation when it’s more your employer giving inadequate rises and corporations profiteering you can see why ostensibly high earning people feel aggrieved

We’re looking forward to #CM25 this week. It’s here that ministers will agree on funding across many programme areas such as exploration, space science, Earth observation, telecoms and space safety. 🌍🛰 Follow along with everything happening at #CM25. 👇

The details of over 19,000 people fleeing the Taliban were leaked in the most serious data breach in British history. At least 49 people have been killed as a result. Yet the ICO shrugs. This isn't an isolated case. It's part of a broader trend of the ICO not using its enforcement powers. Enough.

More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care

Yorkshire has some of England’s most beautiful waterfalls, ranging from spectacular and renowned to secluded and magical By Ian Richardson

thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

What a fab, neatly packaged #service #design case study!!

On this day in 1733, slaves led by a woman named Breffu rise up against Danish colonizers in Saint John, in what's now the US Virgin Islands.

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

Winter is unfortunately here, and little girls Remas & Toleen are still stranded in a tent, which is no shelter at all, especially under the rain. It isn't just abject suffering; it's deadly. But you can help them secure shelter. Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...

This is why all the UX guff about leadership and sitting at tables went out the window once some of us started talking about creating the necessary systems of accountability eg ethical boards and associations similar to those that actual engineers and civic “designers” are beholden to lol

Like, the whole point of understanding structural/implicit/embedded racism is to *create counter structures* not to go “well, better shovel more coal on that fire then I guess”

Myusy, a festive sea slug, is a mascot for the coastal town of Hayama, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Myusy supports beach cleanups and activities to protect the marine environment.

I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...

Today is the annual Trans Day of Remembrance, keeping alive the memory of folks hate killed. @thetransfemininereview.com's guide to preserve our work+history has ways all can fight literal erasure (esp. this section on practical steps you can take, eg request yr library buy books by trans authors)

Been meeting way too many jobbing physicists recently for it to be a coincidence. Alright alright, I’ll get on with the modelling in Python course, I got it! 🙄🙄

This delicious meditation on an ideology which needs both clarification and a name from @bubbaprog.xyz is similar / overlapping with the radical liberalism of the @liberalcurrents.com scene. Governance & economics, but not JUST those — a vision of society and an ethos.

Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, which has left Palestinians starving & homeless as winter rains flood the camps. Their tent has been damaged, & they urgently need funds for warm shelter & supplies. Support has fallen a lot since the 'ceasefire':

A bit of #Norwich #LGBTQ #print history for you, served on a platter!

New blog post: The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-open-source-projects/ Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or …

So many scripts to learn, so little time…

We're excited to announce a book deal with @naomieselojor.bsky.social for her novella THE CITY OF FACTORIES, which explores the effects of colonialism on Nigeria through a steampunk setting and fractured father/son relationship. Read more: links.ruadanbooks.com/eselojor #BookSky