I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list

Sorry just remembering this moment when this got presented in parliament as a legitimate death threat

Every so often a British person of colour offends the chattering classes to the extent that they are willing to overrule 1000 years of habeas corpus to just make them go away I said this in 2014 and 2019 and it’s still true today www.politico.eu/article/brit...

God I wish she’d just go away forever so that anytime I see “MTG” show up in my feed it’s exclusively about Magic: the Gathering again

Steam comments: She needs bigger boobs Tumblr: I can fix her Reddit: how do you beat her ass Ao3: here is 500,000 words of her tragic backstory Bsky: This is a thread about how Orin is a victim of the patriarchy and, therefore, I'm now allowed to like her 1/125 Steam: seriously, can boobs be bigger?

when cat found his family #caturday

Top tip - Avoid ruining a fantastic legacy and all your obituaries by not becoming a terrible bigot in later life. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

I truly hope this is sarcasm, because if it isnt I honestly dont know what to say.

Crits for Cats has been having trouble homing this lovely kitty family due to their shyness. it's such a shame because shy cats can be some of the most rewarding companions you can have. i'm going to share my own shy cat story below: 🧵

Apropos of nothing, there's a huge talent shortage in the cybersecurity space -- so if you're looking for a career, something to consider! 😂

In honor of the SFFWA stepping on a rake like a bunch of bozos who can't understand that writers might not want to embrace AI slop, enjoy this classic Midnight Pals podcast episode about how writing awards are all pretty stupid! midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

Merry Christmas to you all, even the bastards who put me in this ridiculous fluffy thing

Indeco IFP28X pulverizer with googly eyes.

My friend just rescued a cat who had been in a hoarder’s house and then in a shelter’s cage for five months. Came home today. I haven’t wanted to hug something more in my entire life than I want to hug Bob.

the candace owens clusterfuck is not so much voting for face-eating leopards as a face-eating leopard adopting another leopard, training it to eat faces, and then complaining when it eats his own face

i finally had to look at the photos and this is not a real estate listing so much as it is a hidden object game

I bet they got into a lot of trouble together. 😊 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

I know this is something I circle back to a lot, but it honestly feels, to me, like half the attacks on our trans siblings roots back to "children aren't people." The doctor said "boy," so I get to be the parent of a boy child! Not a girl child! How dare my child want things I don't want?!

The Dark Abyss of Our Sins (complete) Jane Austen meets Dragon Age in this political whodunit: gowns, food, brooding, & demons. So many demons. Way more than necessary. The Demons We See books2read.com/u/bzEVz4 The Nightmare We Know books2read.com/u/bQ9je7 The Sins We Seek books2read.com/u/4ElEYz

HERE TEA DRAGONS, my short story collection in the world of Tea Princess Chronicles, is out today! If you need a bite-sized cozy fantasy read this holiday season, whether you've read the series or not, this is for you. 🥰 (PS: Narrated by @natalienaudus.bsky.social!!) books2read.com/hereteadragons

GenAI just recycles old ideas, dumbasses. Its incapable of creating anything new.

This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

Stop asking what victims did or did not do A Harrods survivor’s challenge to us all: Start asking why the British establishment did nothing then and continues to do nothing @sussexbylines.co.uk

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Time for some Christmas LGR! Looking at Pac-Guy Christmas Edition, a little game made with K&P/Multimedia Fusion in 1998 youtu.be/EXlqb3a4U4M More interesting is it became a commercially-sold title, especially risky at a time when Hasbro was going nuclear with legal threats against Pac-Man clones!

While great advice, do NOT just randomly run scripts in a work environment. Your IT Department will rip you to shreds if you do.

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Impertinent kittens WILL get their faces cleaned and they will suffer through it or be chomped. So decrees Tom.

Good morning, kind reminder that when you endorse supposedly "immigration-friendly" narratives such as "we need immigrants to pick our vegetables/clean our shit/sweep our streets" (incl. the most recent Monbiot's piece) you're contributing to the creation of England's internal labour colony

Frustrating. I am getting zero reach on my soap FB page because apparently Meta wants everyone to pay for reach. ($87 a month for Business Plus!) In other news, if you're in Australia, today is probably the last day I can guarantee delivery for Xmas. veronicafoaleessentials.com.au

A brief return of the Murderbot Humble Bundle! The charity is still World Central Kitchen.

Moore: fools! you seek the smoking codex? Moore: know ye not that the smoking codex is mere forgery? Moore: the blustering claptrap of a flapdoodle? Maxwell: that's what i was trying to say Moore: SO WHERE IS IT, MAXWELL? Maxwell: I Maxwell: but

Fucking hell, bad enough closing the Southend campus, forcing students in South Essex to make the choice of going to Colchester (which is a slog and a half) or hoping UEL has an equivalent course they aren't cutting. But cutting essential programs Pathways feels like spite.

Waterstones & James Daunt have made their 100s of millions of £ off the backs of people creating books. Humans that struggle to make a living as Waterstones insist on taking such big cuts of their books. The least they could do as a company is fully support the future stability of human creativity

I had foolishly expected Bluesky to be less weird about people enjoying food than twitter was.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Seems like LLMs are even worse at architecture than they are at art. This is hilariously bad.

This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.

If you missed out big, BIG Black Friday sale, you can still catch a nice deal on any ICC book we have in stock! Your support would be extra-appreciated right now, as we are shaking off the splash damage from the Baker & Taylor bankruptcy, and four figures in invoices will not be honored.

If the trivial things mentioned here _really_ cause the insane levels of lag people experience then the game is even more of a disaster area than I assume.

tapping the sign

I’ve seen the kind of people @kristadb1.bsky.social used to attract on Reddit so I’m not super surprised by what she’s getting here, but also I realized some of this (not all) is people on the Discover tab not understanding how social media works because I used to see this on Facebook.

"We're not making Sims 5 because we don't want our players to have to start over." "EA is keen to retire Sims 4 and start over." Like girl, which is it, I'm getting whiplash

Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.

Busan installed a giant multi-story LED screen over Haeundae Beach... that plays a loop of AI-generated images of Haeundae Beach... that look nothing like Haeundae Beach. The screen is not showing off Haeundae Beach, it is actively preventing people from looking at it to show them something worse.