Look, I lived through the Dot-Com bubble crash at the start of my internet career in 2000-2001 and man are there some similarities with the AI situation. Not that the tech is worthless, but that an ocean of investor money has flowed into products nobody is ever going to pay for

My game "Replicube": Code, Logic, and Math never looked so TASTY🍉 25% off on Steam right now to celebrate back to school! s.team/a/3401490

It's day 22, 10 days left, and we are meandering gracefully (🦆) towards 38,000 participants, entirely via social media shares and word-of-mouth! If you can share the survey link in any new places, one-on-one with friends, on a local #LGBTQ+ mailing list, or anywhere else... survey.gendercensus.com

❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin. #SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Conference organisers are excited to announce that Ecosocialism 2025 will host the biggest delegation of Asia-Pacific activists to the conference since 2019. But we need your help. www.greenleft.org.au/content/help...

For US folks preparing for the weekend, the #InternetArchive mirrors Sprout Distro zines, including Turn Off Your Phone: archive.org/details/turn... Want to support their preservation of activist resources? Donate $5+, then tell us about your donation! archivezine.org#donate #ArchiveZine2025

I'm making a zine with some other volunteers as part of a fundraiser for the Internet Archive, thought I'd share it here archivezine.org #ArchiveZine2025

What continues to fascinate me about AI art is not necessarily that people are making it at all but rather the sheer number of them who keep insisting that they're the real artists now. Them! They're just as good as people who make art from scratch!

Every worker knows salaries are completely arbitrary and have nothing to do with with skills, abilities, societal contribution. It’s made up classism. What is real is using institutional bigotry to make an arbitrary thing even more punitive for minorities.

If Māori respond appropriately to racism, it's deemed "disruptive", "disrespectful". The expectation is that Māori should sit small and silent and reverent; grateful to be allowed entry. Anything other than servile is deemed "uncivil".

It looks silly that this bowerbird built his bower this close to the road but there were branches out to the road before the tree got cut back, so it made sense at the time.

It's hard to explain to people outside of Dunedin just how huge this is. 500 people to a protest is a big deal no matter what the cause, couple that with 10°C & some of the most drenching drizzle you could image. Proud of you Dunedin

Trans people are taoka! (says a sticker on a pole in the Octagon, central Ōtepoti)

Naturally I've no photos of people from the Labour Day March this morning, only my absurdist shots of amusing things I noticed while I was there 😂 First time ever that I went to the march. Good vibes and great turnout given how hard many have been celebrating. I hope the year keeps improving.

Relieved Dutton’s out? Handy reminder: Albanese’s Labor government is, at best, complacent, at worst, complicit in Israel’s genocide. Gaza is being bombed, starved, ethnically cleansed. Voting out morally bankrupt leaders isn’t enough—we must still hold power to account for the most vulnerable.

This petition to stop NZ First's stupid sex definitions bill has been open for nearly a week and has 1.2k signatures The hate group's petition that spawned this bill took four months to get 2.2k signatures Let's show just how little hate there is petitions.parliament.nz/cc70b2c2-cfd...

Endangered Species of Japan 🌸

I volunteered at a booth this morning for the Socialist Alliance. Made my own shirt and bracelets 💚❤️ It was a good day, may the days only get better. May we all keep fighting for what is right. People and planet before profit.

Ha, turns out my risograph print order has been at the post office for a month, so could finally fold some more of my public bookcase zines. Of course Kodama had to sit on the unfolded zines because they were a rectangle.

Thinking about that fig quote from Epictetus and how he somehow left the crucial fig wasp orgy out of the process.

Taken on my Seagull 4B-1 with Ilford Pan F Plus film. There is some moisture damage and a double exposure. From memory, it also went through an airport scanner at least once.

"Expect further policy reach in the future in the provision of universal basic income (UBI), which many of these tech bros are very keen on. They understand more than most how many professions are under threat and how many people will be left without work." www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Im-f...

Painted this bat today.

I'm going through user-made tilesets for an old DOS mahjong solitaire game and I found what's possibly the most evil one

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Still adding to my vote preferences ref sheet weeks later because it's not spreadsheet hell it's a spreadsheet adventure.

I started off really well intentioned to write the date on all of my instant photos and it didn't work out so I'm glad I've been scanning them.

Photo taken Oct 2023 on my Seagull 4B-1 camera. Taken on Ilford HP5+ film and developed with Paranol S.

Creative Commons guidelines for open culture: Nudging Users to Reference Institutions when Using Public Domain Materials #CreativeCommons #GLAMS

Whether the "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign stole the music is up for debate, but I found today that the font they used throughout was a pirated clone (XBAND Rough) of a real font (FF Confidential).

Look, nothing can beat Kermit the Frog in a pirate's hat (advertising the Muppet Treasure Island adventure game CD-ROM from 1996).

You might not be aware, but publishers don't allow libraries to buy permanent copies of ebooks/audiobooks. They are rented to them at a much higher rate than an individual can buy them. And they're limited to a low number of rentals before being charged again. #supportLibraries

The Man Who Wants AI to Help You ‘Cheat on Everything’ 🔗 www.404media.co/the-man-who-...

"Doing the same thing over and over again & expecting different results is insanity". Welcome to the insanity that is the Charters Towers Regional Council who are again trying to do the same thing they attempt just about every single year at the cost of 100s of 1000s $$$

Election scorecard by Australians for AI Safety on where 2025 Federal Election parties and candidates sit on: 1. Forming a well-resourced, independent technical body to assess AI risks and advise on safety standards. 2. A dedicated AI Act with mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI systems.

AWN has joined other leading autism organizations in releasing a joint statement on upholding scientific integrity and supporting the autism community: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...

Our #AutismAcceptanceMonth podcast episode focuses on #antiracism and #neurodiversity: has #QualitativeResearch been complacent about its ability to highlight marginalised perspectives? Sohail speaks to Dr Morénike Giwa Onaiwu: www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne... #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent

Petition for queer Americans to seek asylum in Australia. Ends in 3 days [23rd Apr] and is only be signed by AU residents, will be taken to parliament. Required information to sign is first/last name and email. www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... #LGBT #Queer #GSM #Trans #Transgender #Gay #Australia

When you vote, remember who has pledged to support trans rights: transjustice.org.au/pledge/ Currently signed: - 10 Socialist Alliance (83%) - 100 Greens (54%) - 3 Victorian Socialists (50%) - 10 Climate 200 (28%) - 2 Australian Democrats (28%) - 15 Labor (6%) - 1 Animal Justice Party (3%)

The Benefits of Bats: Celebrating the critical contributions of bats on International Bat Appreciation Day iucn.org/story/202504... #BatAppreciationDay #bats 🦇 #batsneedfriends #lovebats

I'm finally working on putting up my own public bookcase (street library, little Free library, boite à livres, Bücherschrank etc). 1/9

Art by • Doug Beekman

The name of the game is going to be visible solidarity and mutual aid. Wearing a mask is a really good start, even if you don’t think you ‘need’ to.