The Super Women: Female Protagonists Bundle from @fanatical.com is a stunner! 💜 95 comics in DRM-free CBZ, EPUB & PDF formats. Includes the multi award nominated 'It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth' by Zoe Thorogood and 'By Chance or Providence' by Becky Cloonan. This is amazing! 🎇

Wow! Well, the second point cancels out any AI-generated content, then: "Content must be original and not infringe on any copyright or trademarks..."

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

…Removing your own stylistic cues & voice for fear they make you "sound like AI" is a sure-fire way to make your work bland & lifeless, to say nothing of what it's gonna do to you psychologically, emotionally, & hermeneutically. Develop your voice, & write how you fucking well want to goddam write.

This is going to be a response anytime someone tells me that I’m starting too many sentences with adverbs Admittedly, it’s a writing tic of mine. More simply, I can’t stop doing it. Furthermore, I don’t want to stop. Indeed, I think this the hallmark of my style.

“I don't think this is just a phase.” As the backlash grows against U.S. tech dominance, companies, countries, and individual users are trying to find alternatives https://restofworld.org/2026/big-tech-backlash-alternatives-upscrolled/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

Former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said the head of Mossad pressured her in a series of meetings to drop her investigation into alleged war crimes in occupied Palestine. www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-...

I sincerely beseech you to read this. It is terrifying and important. Repost it, get the word out. Tag media like @npr.org & @nytimes.com @wsj.com and whoever because this is absolutely something that needs to be investigated & reported on ASAP The headline isn't the half of it. READ IT ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Seeing as the heatwave is prompting conversation about #ClimateChange, a reminder that I’ve written and illustrated a basic explainer on the subject. #ClimateCrisis @littleislandbooks.bsky.social www.littleisland.ie/products/sho...

because I'm stubborn, I learned the unicode for an em dash, and now use it properly and frequently, just waiting, like a spider, for someone to tell me they think my writing is AI ctrl+shift+u+2014 fuck AI and everyone who thinks it has any kind of merit.

so yeah, what are "we hearing locally"? the page doesn't say anything at all about what people are saying.

I get the sense from Starmer however, this isn't ideological at all. It's just a spineless and opportunistic attempt to lower bills, by increasing supply of oil and gas (i doubt that will actually happen anyway.. surely it will be inflationary in the longer run).

Spot on, mun!

If last week's election have done anything, it is to highlight how British political podcasts are utterly incapable of doing anything other than talk about English politics. That they then constantly refer to 'British' politics only proves how professionally incompetent they are.

Speaking of ttrpg... ko-fi.com/s/cac0d53eaa

"We have been sold a comforting lie that our purchasing power is the best way to change the world. But rather than offer anything substantial, this lie promotes a myth of individual responsibility that actually inhibits the drastic structural change we desperately need." - from Planet Critical.

If it has more sides than that then it's clearly cosmic horror

This is lovely! I have my eye on a book about Margaret and her work, from @thamesandhudson.bsky.social. Happy 90th Margaret! 🛣️

The Kana Manga Mini Bundle: the Sequel! is out now from @humblebundle.com! Three fantastic manga series featuring post-apocalyptic adventures and tales of magic and friendship in this DRM-free ebook bundle. Perfect for storing in your Libreture library to download whenever you want! 💜

One company dominates the top 10 worst performers: United Utilities. In reverse order of shittiness: 10. Ambleside WwTW. Windermere ~236 hours 9. Near Sawrey. WwTW. Windermere ~241 hours 8. Hayton STW. River Gelt / Eden catchment~242 hours

Huzzah! Tomorrow's Sewage Spill Day when the full stats are released on how much was discharged into rivers, lakes and coasts last year. To whet your appetites I’ve mapped the 2025 spills at outfalls affecting bathing waters. Here are the top 10 worst offenders in reverse order:

Thank you Matthew Rhys for your support❤️ On Thursday, the people of Wales face a stark choice. Choose hope over division, choose Plaid Cymru over Reform. Vote for new leadership for Wales on Thursday by voting Plaid Cymru.

Diolch Matthew Rhys am y gefnogaeth❤️ Dydd Iau, mae pobl Cymru yn wynebu dewis pwysig. Dewiswch obaith dros rwygiadau, dewiswch Blaid Cymru dros Reform. Pleidleisiwch i arwain Cymru o'r newydd ddydd Iau gyda Phlaid Cymru.

So, uh, is Microsoft now *requiring* an Office 365 subscription even if one deliberately bought an non-“AI” version last year that was supposed to… not require that bullshit? Because if so, I am angrier than a hornet right now.

Starting May 20th, Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won’t have access to the Kindle Store. It’s a bigger cut-off than just the Kindle store though, and affects more than simply buying ebooks.

Ecology Symbol by Ron Cobb (1969, Los Angeles Free Press) Ron Cobb was not only ahead of his time in terms of design, but also in terms of his critical political vision (particularly through his cartoons of the 1960s and 1970s, after Vietnam).

Now we are in May! Sapphic pirates! A fantasy Southeast Asia.

Check out my new song on Bandcamp! Lunarlush brings crisp & bass to sink your ears into🔊🎧 #BandcampFriday sheofficial.bandcamp.com/track/lunarl...

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

This is a fascinating article. "...by the time the information arrived on newsstands we were often looking at a facsimile of the real world. News and culture from the other side of the globe that had been filtered through deadline crunch, bad coffee, and blurry screenshots."

"These quotes were not written by me, never existed, and appear to be AI hallucinations themselves."

FromFB:

While other parties take their orders from London, Plaid Cymru's boss is the people of Wales. Bydd Plaid Cymru wastad yn rhoi buddiannau gorau Cymru'n gyntaf - ni yw'r unig blaid sydd ddim yn atebol i Lundain. Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🗳️

Um, WTAF? Regular people can’t get time off for health issues or birth of a child, but the people who ensure taxes are hard to file in the US get time to shoot kids in the head for sport.

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

I'm hiring for a small freelance project! Are you an artist who does amazing typography design AND are vehemently opposed to generative AI? Please share a link to your portfolio in response here and make sure it includes the best email to contact you, too! 🙏 sharing is appreciated🙏

If I live and work in rural Ireland I'm contributing far more to the local community and economy than a few weeks worth of tourists renting a property that may well be owned by someone who doesn't even live in the area.

Democracy is just crowd control

I've been suspicious of hope since I read Derrick Jensen's piece about it a bit back

Okay, you got there. Now admit people tried to tell you this in advance, and promise to from now on listen more carefully to and also heed the people who understand the harms of "AI", and then we'll have an easier time moving on and going forward.

Fuck Palantir

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

Apparently it was rain that caused the increased radioactivity from the Chernobyl fallout in the western UK. Sellafield managed to 'leak' (read: dump) thousands of gallons of radioactive material into the Irish Sea that year too. www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/d...

Pretending to be a colonizer is still thought of as an ethically neutral exercise, a flight of fancy, but pretending to be a revolutionary is still a bit too scary. At best you need to hide behind a layer of abstraction like everyone being elves.

How do you create an optimistic vision of the future if you cannot adequately depict the world and its villains as a majority of people on the planet view it? Why is the anglo-centric gaming industry more focused on the player being tricked into genocide and then acting like undoing that is victory

Looking at current affairs and looking back at the various eco-optimism board games and wondering how you square that. Genuinely not in a cynical way, just kinda how do you craft an optimistic future that conceptualizes the US as anything but an enemy.

The law is clear: war crimes, of the type being enabled by Elbit, are illegal under British law, and by facilitating these crimes, Elbit is criminally culpable. Protestors are not seeking for the law to be changed; they want it enforced.

Since I don't remember if I shared it, here's my talk "Fascist Bullshit: How ‘Generative AI’ Enacts & Enables Authoritarianism and Eugenics" at the symposium "Virtual Power: AI, Ableism, Racism, and Fascism," at the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 conference, from January of this year:

This went down well on Facebook, where I’ve had and I’m still getting, hundreds of abusive comments. What can I say. I don’t like Nazis.