Since this post, nearly 300 of you donated about $11k and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. The union shared photos with me today of food being distributed. Remaining money will be evenly distributed among the 160 union members in the form of gift cards. Thank you. ❤️

Tonight, on an all new #StarTrek #JellicoTrek, Captain Jellico pays a call on his old friend Quark.

So, two eggs mayonnaise, a prawn Darhe'el, a Kotan Pa'Dar, and four Gallitep salads. #StarTrek #Fawltytowersposting

Managed to find the complete Ulysses 31 DVD boxset, and it quickly became one of my daughter's favourite programmes.

ngl the person who paid $66.60 on my lil goat painting went directly to my bp medication plus high protein foods to manage my diabetic diet. it matters so very fuckin much, thank you to everyone who has gotten somethin from me. yall make a huge impact.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

Facts

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

BBC describing Zarah Sultana as "Far-Left." But the BBC do not use the term "Far-Right" for Nigel Farage. Subtle and clever form of manipulation.

Because,much like they're convinced that there's a secret cabal or 'cathedral' responsible for propagating the woke mind virus in government or otherwise, they also believe there's something similar for the humanities in general, which is why everyone hates them, so destroying it is job number one

The "cyber expert" being anyone with half a brain who can use a web browser...?

The more I read about the climate disaster, the more I wish I didn't know. Today's learning was about how the government believes it can carry on burning 'recovered' plastics for power, if only CCUS can be brought in at scale. I want to make a joke about fantasy books right here, but I'm broken.

A Möbus strip.

Getting rid of things (closing courts) caused a massive problem, so getting rid of more things will obviously fix it... 🤔

I was so pleased JC brought me in on this project. If you write or are a journalist or do any kind of storytelling (science or not) I highly recommend checking this out. There is so much in the about mechanics and risk/benefits of how you connect to audiences.

also freedom of trade, movement, being part of a vast trading block…

That’s the best part of where I’m at rn politically. Some might think that because I’ve opted out of electoral politics that I’ve given up, I’m not resisting, and I’m a pessimist but none of that is true. I realized that I can just build things with others without waiting for permission.

Great analysis of how we can use our consumer power to vote no. And a constant strategy means wholesale lifestyle changes. In the end they are only many small changes for us, but they could make big change at the other end.

Are any of us ready for even a temporary overshoot in significant enough numbers? theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

"A police leader has claimed that the display of national flags on streets has become a "tool of division." She said it was part of a "disturbing" trend in rising hate-fuelled rhetoric and deliberate misinformation about immigration and asylum seekers". www.lbc.co.uk/article/flag...

ChatGPT is down. Freelancers are still loading pretty reliably.

People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.

Looking for a new podcast? Try The Palestine Festival of Literature Podcast, the official podcast Palfest! www.palfest.org/podcast

39 games for $12! Solo tabletop from across the indie, with cozy journaling, little narrative gamebooks, survival horror, high fantasy, ecology, and more! itch.io/b/3361/sprin...

love this for you ICC www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

In the past hours, Israel has: - killed 2 people in air raids in Gaza City and southern Gaza - killed 1 person in drone attacks on southern Lebanon - continued 3-days of military threats across occupied West Bank - attacked olive harvests & other crops in the occupied West Bank

Paulina Borsook "warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through The Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, a book based on her 1990s writing" www.thenerdreich.com/she-warned-a...

I’m trying to pass portfolios of other artists to clients I can’t take and the amount of you that don’t have your contact details readily available! I want to give you woooorrrkk!

In his semi-regular column on the TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits Tom’s Midnight Garden, a Carnegie Medal-winning novel that’s had multiple adaptations. britishfantasysociety.org/the-tv-that-...

idk if you knew this but awards are exist to cement the legitimacy of the organization bestowing the awards and not intended for the award-recipient

OpenAI's Sora 2 is flooding social media with videos of women being strangled. Yet another example of generative AI companies failing to prevent users from creating media that violates their own policies against violent content. www.404media.co/openais-sora...

A new digital comic store called Sweet Shop has launched in beta with a hard-line "no AI" policy.

Who said “Reform Councillors are all as dodgy AF”❗️ Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to turf old ppl out closing 5 council-run care homes & 5 day centres to sell off the land for £4 million And get this - a cabinet member owns a private care company with his wife so could make £’s from it 1

Oldest surviving victim of Post Office Horizon scandal finally receives compensation payout. “I don't want to put my feet up,” said Betty Brown, 92. “I just want the other sub-postmasters to have what I have been given. That's all I want – justice for every one of them.”

#OTD 1839 • The Chartist Uprising at Newport 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel. It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed. www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp... #Wales ##History

Yeah in 2009 all the big banks made a bad bet on sub prime mortgages and nearly collapsed the US economy, but a government bailout saved them. This wasn't that long ago, Axios.

was talking to my pharmacist about how much worse at driving all the cameras and driving automation shit is making people, and more generally how outsourcing your directional/navigational knowledge (and knowledge in general) is making us dumber and less capable

Resistance to data centers is strong in the South- check out @mediajustice.bsky.social ‘s new report for a landscape review and key ways Black, brown and working class communities are taking action! bit.ly/nodatacenters

Went to Laugharne castle yesterday and I walked in, predictably wearing my favourite Rhaglan castle hoodie, and the people working in the giftshop immediately started ripping into me for having the nerve to walk in wearing another castle's hoodie lol

NEW: a Goodreads librarian went rogue, edited the site to expose 'censorship in favor of Trump fascism'. To hear them tell it, Goodreads was removing criticism of Trump’s book from the site. www.404media.co/rogue-goodre...

It's a potted history, armchair psychology, perhaps. But there's a thread linking all the people screaming about their 'English culture'.

A great read!

#OTD 1966 • Aberfan Disaster 🥀 On Friday the 21st of October 1966, a wave of coal waste slid down the Aberfan Valley, taking the lives of 116 children and 28 adults with it. #Wales #History

In 2 days Ofwat, the water regulator, will decide if they will approve Thames Water's plan to: 💩set their own rules on performance 💩operate outside the law for 15 years 💩cut back on agreed investment levels 🤑protect investor profits

Also there is something wrong with politicians suggesting a "radically less generous welfare state" because people use that money to feed and house themselves and we've seen over and over again that when these cuts get applied people fucking die.

Day 320 of not regretting leaving Labour. Reeves leads attack on the environment (which includes us!) But bankers will get their bonuses more quickly.

How do we improve citizen science? I'm presenting at the Australian Citizen Science Association conference about how we co-created 10 recommendations with researchers and the public. You can read our discussion paper pre-print here: doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.13.670232 #CitSciOz25

The Oatmeal's view on AI art is quite interesting. It brings some mediocrity to the world, but also, it can help artists with tasks they find administrative. In the end, it will never have a heart. And that's what makes a difference. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media. www.facebook.com/100000960660...