Today is my birthday and if you wanted to get me a gift, feel free to share my work 😊 🦊 🐟

Common Threads Press call for nonfic writing+art on craft+disability: "often romanticised as therapeutic, relaxing, universal, but whose hands, bodies, rhythms are centered? Disability offers radical reimaginings of craft..." (pays you $200) www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/pages/submis... #DHmakes

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, is magic."

Das schlimmste Wort, das mir dort begegnet ist: Klima-Keulung (climate culling). Natürlich wissen die Herrschaften ganz genau Bescheid über Planetare Grenzen. Ihre Antwort darauf ist in ähnlich abartiger Form verfasst, wie auch ihr sonstiger Umgang mit Menschen.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

One amongst many reasons I won't use "AI". I'm autistic. By definition that means my brain thinks differently to the majority. AI spits out the average of its training set. By design it will water down my thoughts into mediocrity. I've done a lot of work to learn to celebrate my square-peg brain.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

This is a very good analysis of a very tiresome phenomenon. Also...Goodge Street. [waits expectantly]

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

And here we are. The robot overlords need you.

The only surprise is they admit it

The more specific point, and pertinent, is that you don't get to become a billionaire without having reconciled on some level that your comfort, leisure, lifestyle, desires, can and should be facilitated through the exploitation of others

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

I wonder if one reason women tend to find LLMs less appealing than men do is because many of us have a history of being flattered for gross ends and find flattery more off-putting and suspicious than men do

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

Those aren't hallucinations. It's 100% obvious this mushroom lets you see the fairies.

Photo shows 5 Greenlandic women in their national dress with beaded yokes. In the late 1920s Norway sought to possess East Greenland. Norwegian knitting designer Annichen Sibbern Bøhn designed a sweater which mimicked the Greenlandic beaded yoke. And that's how yoked sweaters became a thing. 🧵

I needed some good news this evening—Bandcamp's guidelines for generative AI in music and audio blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...

If you need a craft activist to stay sane right now, I’ve got you. Make yourself a little voodoo doll. Free pattern and instructions: www.patreon.com/posts/148048...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

I have become obsessed with reading the different articles published in the “How many sexes are there? How many genders are there?” commentary in Archives of Sexual Behavior. The diversity of opinions & research presented reflects the state of the field: This is complicated. There is no consensus.

Be the bird that doesn't twitch a feather.

Happy New Planner Day to all those who celebrate!

Recently commented to my son on the awesome yellow trainers a woman on the train platform was wearing. She saw us noticing and grinned madly. Nice, except she then got on the train, sat at the window right by us, and kept catching my eye and grinning at me until the train left. Very long minute

I missed this one: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

Essential educational thread. It's quite the mix of "sure, yes, familiar" and "... Wait, what?"

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

2025 had an obvious conservative tilt and I need you weirdos to work double time next year. I need you to hike up your thrifted levis and look me in the eye and promise me you’re gonna get weirder this year to scare the squares. We can’t let them get comfortable.

this, also in minis producers and indie RPG writers. the big companies dont *need* your orders (their shareholders do!) but small indies pay their bills via your purchase

David, no!! WE NEED HIM!! 😱😱 #PoseRef

I took several textile classes at SFSU around 2007. For one assignment I did a bunch of hand embroidery, outlining some geometric shapes with thick bands of brick stitch. When I showed it to my professor, he said something like it was beautifully done but I should consider some rougher marks, …

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

Prufrock is difficult. I grow old…I grow old… That rough beast’s hour is foretold. Shall I take up falconry? Do I dare the goshawk’s screech? I shall wear thick leather gloves and walk along the beach I have seen the falcon’s gyre widen out of reach I do not think mine will return to me.

This is just a note to say that I have eaten the falcon in a widening gyre and that you were probably saving for anarchy Forgive me it was delicious so rough and full of passionate intensity

Ooh shawl pattern inspo right here...

In 1811-12, the Luddites attempted to resist some of the first waves of machine-industrialisation. They were crushed. 20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour. Think on, dear hearts, think on.

it was I think better when there were ways for people who hate being on screen to make a creative living I don’t think it’s an improvement that we’re creating a culture where everyone creative also has to be hot

Elisabeth Sommerville (Canadian, born 1947) "The Skating Party", 2015. Lithograph on Paper, 51 × 38 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Starting my great American novel: It was the stupidest of times. It was the, again to be clear, stupidest of times.

Re-posting with alt text because the post accompanying this is obviously wrong, it's clearly a picture of a woman on a Crosscountry train having found a place to sit on the floor and read, her coffee cup beside her, folks queuing for the loo behind her

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Stealworkers

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

Speedweve/speed darners etc are such *genius* and I'm delighted they're easier to get hold of these days. Even more delighted ppl are putting out cool resources for using them!

I have a joke about Prometheus but its tough to deliver