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

Backed. Africanfuturist animation? Made in Cape Town? Yes PLEASE

Oh @fortrenn.bsky.social I thought nothing could beat your MA Pop Cult but LOOK AT THIS

Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!

Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word about my Patreon? My goal for the day is one new patron. Patrons help support my art and my existence. You'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, & other fun posts. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

One thing to know about Magistrates is that the qualifications for becoming one are: 1) be aged between 18-74, 2) be literate, and 3) be ‘of good character’ (no previous convictions or bankruptcy) If you’re up for it, you can help beat bias in the system by entering it

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

Good read. Unlike me, the writer still welcomes AI in principle (so if you resent us Luddites, still read it), but recognises how it's changing human cognitive processes. I am always glad to see this being given attention. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

SO cute!

Good thread on misguided "inclusivity" but I'll just hijack this bit to say: Ugly Christmas Sweaters are a terrible terrible fake tradition that I resent deeply. They weren't a thing until Bridget Jones, afaik? And now the shops are full of them and my kids want them and it's SO FREAKING WASTEFUL

It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer… I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

That's me, that's me! It's live at last!

Oh HELL no.

Ralph Fiennes, and to nearly the same extent, Christian Bale. I agree on Leo also, but he's in the Christian Bale slot, where it's just a little bit less intolerable.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

Ooooh I would have so been applying for this if still in London. www.searchpress.com/jobs

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Maths... If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars. If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars. Tax the rich.

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The rapid proliferation of services powered by artificial intelligence, ranging from the genuinely useful to the frivolous to the unnecessary, has a common element: the need for vast amounts of electricity and water for the data centers that make them possible.

Oof.

To opt out: settings & privacy > data privacy > data for genAI improvement.