So, I have taken a monumental (for me) step and put some of my originals up for sale. I plan to slowly add new works. #art #originalart #newbeginnings irishartmart.ie/artist/nomsk...

Surprise, surprise. The party hell-bent on destroying the social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental fabric of the US doesn't want experts studying "how social, economic, political, cultural and environmental forces affect the lives of people."

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: Office365 in spaceship nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

View from Artemis II today. Crescent Earth. A view humans haven't captured since 1972.

Chanting TRANSLUNAR INJECTION BURN, like I’m in a song by The Orb

I missed this whole discussion because of family funerals, but wow, this thread is worth a read (and yes, still a genocidal murdering fucker, mmn-hmm)

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

"Victor are we go/no-go for lunar orbit?" "Sorry Reid, I just got a mail saying I haven't done my ransomware awareness training. It was due end of March? So I'm doing that now. Then timesheets. Just got the reminder."

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Artemis II lifts off

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

Click thru to the pdf with a list of all the degrees now eliminates like for example women's studies and exceptional needs early childhood education and journalism and architecture and visual arts and political science and foreign language teacher ed and African & African American studies and

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

‘When the Last Worker Is Cut Down, the Last Piece of Truth Destroyed, and the Climate Is Fucked, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Data Centres.’

Finally, a car company thinking about what the consumer really wants. The consumer?

[at space coven] Andy Weir: beep boop submitted for the approval of the space coven, i call this the story of the martian Weir: it is a story about the cold triumph of science, with no distracting theme or motif Weir: only science Weir: beep boop

was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please

can we make this the new #1 most blocked account pls

Writing is hard & that's good, actually. The imagining bits, the thinking-through bits, the sitting down & doing it bits, the revising it bits, the showing it to people bits, the starting again bits. All challenging & all what it's actually about. Chairs should be better tho, holy shit.

About half the people employed by a university in the UK are not academics, and *everybody* is busy all year round: there are no long dreamy summer vacations with nothing to do

1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️

I'm chasing for work. What I do: Technical Marketing. Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn ads; from setup to making the things WORK. Search Engine Optimisation. Email marketing. Social media. Website traffic analysis and optimisation. And fixing things that aren't going right. Drop me a line!

every environmentalist who has for DECADES been saying we need to get off oil and gas, watching governments panic at this energy crisis

Huge numbers of people are not filling out the claim form because this is the assumption they're making, that a class action settlement means a $15 gift card. THAT IS NOT THE CASE HERE. bsky.app/profile/edut...

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

(Standard disclaimer that Morris was, like most of his peers, happy to indulge in a high degree of cultural appropriation and the purchase of artifacts. If you go hunting for a pure hero from that era you won't find one. Morris, a socialist and proto-feminist, was a lot better than most though.)

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few." - William Morris, born 191 years ago today.

"I have never been in any rich man's house which would not have looked the better for having a bonfire made of nine-tenths of all that it held" - William Morris, being a catty little bitch

‪"If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving a tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all." - William Morris, trolling every creator with self-confidence issues on BlueSky

Primary school students joined us at TU Dublin for a co-design workshop exploring e-waste, vaping, and material circularity. Using discarded vapes collected in their communities, we worked together to rethink waste as a starting point for design. www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou... #EduSky #HigherEd

CFP: DARK MATTER: Revisiting the Architecture of Coal in Post-War Europe Conference, Dublin, 5+6 November 2026 images.adsttc.com/submissions/...

Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more.

You know how we're getting helpful suggestions now on how to save energy- work from home, fly less, select which of your children to continue feeding, that sort of thing. Was just wondering if anyone had suggested to our tech overlords they power down the AI junk generators for a couple of weeks?

Additional tickets have been released for Dr Deirdre Foley's talk on Wednesday 25th March from 6-7pm in the Wood Quay Venue, 'Women and Girls in Jacob's Biscuit Factory, c.1911-1977'. Reserve your spot at the link below!🔗 @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/women-and-...

Don't mean to break the internet but... Drew this today. New print! Yoga Dogs #yoga #dogs #illustration davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/bran...

The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out

From the last time a technology was inevitable.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I don’t agree with her issues with space westerns, and was originally v excited about this Firefly animation, but I do agree with the rest of her criticisms. I would have loved to see a grown-up Buffy dealing with teenaged ‘daughter’ and perimenopause at the same time.

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Can anyone confirm that, if I go to the Works Lookup on the Anthropic settlement site and search on author, and my name appears in the column Copyright Registered Claimant(s), this means I have indeed submitted a claim on the works listed?

So that you can go to the pub and talk angrily about how modernist architecture had been misrepresented by the lecturer with your friends. This is how you actually learn thing…

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

NASA teams all polled “go” for an Artemis II launch in early April www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/s...

The londondeadpubs guy has branched out to find Ireland's finest pub, swotting away its London competitors with a perfect 10-10-10 score. And it's not the Gravediggers. www.tiktok.com/@deadpubs/vi...