Bloody train broke down a few hundred yards out of Kings Cross. Just got home, only 100min later than expected. Oof.

At the British Library secret maps exhibit

Holy whoooaaaa. 👀 This story is grade A horror.

Science video nerds assemble! If you know anyone who this job at Nature's London office might be suitable for please share and let me know if you have any questions.

42 million people losing their food budget in the month of Thanksgiving. This is going to be devastating in so many ways.

Powerful letter from a non-verbal autistic person. Give it two minutes of your night and feel your heart expand.

"I get it now, it's about working out the worst thing you can do to Nazis and hoping the dice let you do it" a paraphrased review of @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social 's Eat the Reich

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social #2025IgnyteAwards

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform? thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Good advice here. Pete Sutton and I are running a workshop on Getting through the Slush Pile at @bristolcon.bsky.social , if you're interested?

The more I read the responses by BlueSky's dev team, the more annoyed I am about the ways that they've squandered the promise of what this site could be.

Half the audience going "hypocaust" has been my favourite part so far (alongside Jenrick criticism, wish is always welcome!)

Cast of Wonders 657: Plutopalooza by Gretchen Tessmer narrated by Emma Osborne produced by @jeremycarter42.bsky.social - our second story for #BannedBooksWeek www.castofwonders.org/2025/10/cast... CW: end of the world

TOMORROW: Join #BannedBooksWeek youth honorary chair Iris Mogul & student advocates from around the country for a conversation about how young people can fight book bans! 10/8, 3pmCT bit.ly/YouthFightingBookBans #BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 w/ @ncacensorship.bsky.social

✨ It takes all of us to fight for the freedom to read. Take this NEW #BannedBooksWeek quiz to assess your strengths & uncover your individual advocacy style. At the end, get actions you can take based on your result: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/68d400f64d6f970015d8e11b #UniteAgainstBookBans

It's officially the start of #BannedBooksWeek! How are you observing the week? #BTS' RM is reading a book by Patrick Süskind, an author whose work has been banned. Find ideas for titles to read or actions you can take on #LetFreedomReadDay (10/11) at UniteAgainstBookBans.org #UniteAgainstBookBans

"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom." #BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read! #CensorshipIsSo1984 youtu.be/qwtzX15AKvQ?...

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights. https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAOHGODWHATMUPPETS

It's here! Our first #BannedBooksWeek story for 2025 is a lovely piece by a teen author, featuring a bookbinder and a very helpful dragon.

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people? Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help! A thread!

Hexapodia is the key insight

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

And because it's Mid-Autumn Festival and it is a tradition beloved by many. Imagine it being suppressed in the future, where celebration of it is forbidden. Metal Can Lanterns. www.castofwonders.org/2019/09/cast...

*gasp*

Pixel Scroll 10/5/25 Many Are Scrolled But Few Are Pixeled file770.com/pixel-scroll...

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"it might be conscious but unable to express it! You can't know." O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?

Part of same thing "it seems like in humans consciousness just appeared when sufficiently complex systems. So you can't rule it out for LLMs" Yes we can. The way it makes mistakes is exactly indicative of nonconciousness. Of a lack of any sense of comprehension of its inputs. And of self awareness.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

I have ten of these PHYSICS FOR CATS pins to give away! Share the post below👇 for a chance to win one. (UK only: you can share from anywhere but I can't send you a pin).

anyway, reminder that Brando Sando is a mormon in good standing aka he tithes 10% of his income to a church that just announced they filed a brief saying that protecting trans rights infringes on their religious freedom ✌️

Women of Afrofuturism | SFO Museum

Morning commute #SheffieldIsSuper #parklife #outdoorcity

And this is just one reason why Hookland is one of my other #yuletide nominations!

The first of my five #yuletide fandom nominations has been approved! Hardly unexpected (Watership Down is an annual staple of the exchange) but it's always a fun part of the build-up to see those rare fandoms go green.

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

Look, it's not often that my response to terrible bullshit is "no, this isn't primarily about controlling women," but in the case of the Trump/RFK disinformation fest, the impact on women is a bonus. This is primarily about conditioning people to consider autistic people's existence as a problem.

The problem isn't autism. It's fear and hatred of autism. The problem isn't trans people. It's fear and hatred of trans people. The problem isn't immigration. It's fear and hatred of immigrants.

As a parent of autistic children, the news today is particularly maddening to me. As a teacher of science, the news today is particularly maddening to me. TBF, just about everyone should find bullshit health claims particularly maddening...

I have got mine in, and nominated Hookland among other things

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

A salt hag walks the shore at storm, walks peril paths across the cliffs. She knows the wind's rough salt wooing, its dialects of gust and gale. She also knows these places at calm wonder. For her witchery is capable of both squall fury and serenity. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky