Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Interesting test for our "national" London-based media outlets whether they even bother to mention this dynamic

Me at every email I know was written by an LLM:

We bought a dremel.

Painted this in just over 4hrs; 1hr of which was getting my dumb brain around the dice. I’ve kept score for #KCD Tom McKay during an IRL game of #Farkle (!!) - so I’ve looked his Farkle Demon right in the eyes as it stared out through those glorious baby blues. He’s smiling, but he’ll destroy you.

For a while I was concerned that the rise of "AI" "art" and my growing (and entirely correct) hatred of it might cause me to falsely diagnose 'real' art as being AI and hurt some human artists. Fortunately, exactly that just happened twice within 24 hours, which was insightful. 1/n

No but the way I literally, at 11:40pm last night, FELT IT HAPPEN because I get an icy slow stab between my shoulderblades and the sudden need to cough. I just went - "there it is!" and checked my calendar and lo and behold...

After finishing a silly little drawing - a fleeting moment of joy - was absolutely shredded by being dismissively snapped at by someone in my immediate vicinity, getting sudden white hot ovulation pain and then reading that the Global Sumud Flotilla has had 7 boats attacked in the last few hours.

Gonna turn out that Tylenol actually causes the Rapture

Israel Is Trying to Smear the Gaza Aid Flotilla As ‘Terrorists’. We Must Not Let It by Yanis Varoufakis

the “Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle” needs as much support as it can get right now. it’s halfway there with just 2 days to go! itch.io/b/2979/play-... please share and spread the word.

Fuuuucking hell, I knew the UK was basic but THIS basic?!

Anyway, here’s your form of consent, Bluesky.

DO NOT go back to twitter that is the hitler site. i am dead serious with this shit. its main role as a de-facto organ of the trump admin is to facilitate nazi propaganda. you cannot be posting your doodles on the "euthanize all trans people" forum just because they still allow pornography

Holy shit scorched earth motherfucker

Tbf, nothing will ever beat the GW website front page at that time. "The Queen is dead: PREPARE FOR SKIRMISH COMBAT!"

“Maybe I met him on some boys’ trip? I feel like I’ve seen his penis before. Have we ever gone swimming at the same time? You have a mole right here under your rib cage, right?” said Trump

Naked authoritarian fascism. Love and support to the entire team at @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, who *will* come out the other side of this horrendous abuse of power. Disgusted to see ABC caving to this glaringly illegal and unconstitutional threat from Brendan Carr.

Join the Green Party! I just did!

RETURN THE TYRANTS TO THE FUCKING LAND

I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's shocking how laid back some companies are about using AI. I've had interviews where people openly talked about using it for projects and then got super sheepish and defensive when I expressed objections. Interviews tend to go downhill from there.

Queen

Got a book (Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow) on a recommendation to try to start reading proper books again and got to page 30 thereabouts and it started feeling pretty Zi0nist... Instant DNF. Well, I tried. Shame. Luckily I got it from a charity shop; and it'll be going straight back to charity.

Hey, artist! Quote with your fanart!✨ •••••••••• It's the most ambitious portrait I've ever done - two full bodies WITH A LI'L BONUS STILL LIFE, for funsies. Learned a lot doing it - and long may that continue. The KCD fandom is WILDLY talented (inc Madeleine!) and I just wanna soak it ALL up!!

We've all seen what consistent exposure to and over-reliance on AI tools can do - and it's the OPPOSITE of "advantageous". Though I guess cognitive atrophy and psychosis IS significant; so he's half-right.

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

Excellent article by @eurogamer.bsky.social. Fantastic work & a model for how other games outlets & games journalists should be covering this issue. Please read it and share widely. It's giving a voice to many developers often left unheard on paypro censorship www.eurogamer.net/queer-develo...

Got Clip Studio Paint 4.0 on that mad deal... Let's see if I use it even once. **Awkwardly side-eyes Rebelle 7**

Truly a cabbage fit for a lord. I mean, how majestic and ethereal is this?!?

This poison fingered arsehole has done so much damage to our political sphere.

i don't know about favourite but nothing makes me laugh as consistently as "hee hoo peenut"

Difficult choice but this one gets me every time

Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.

The spiders in the steam server room as people rush to buy silksong

Ah bloody hell. Just bought some makeup from a small Scottish business cos I'm trying to buy local/small/more ethical and on a live they've just said that ChatGPT was their best friend for the development. ...we'll see if my face is going to fall off. I feel like I'm going INSANE.

So, Labour MPs seem far more 'concerned' about the politics of Jeremy Corbyn and Zack Polanski than they are about the politics of Nigel Farage 🤔 Speaks volumes.

Who the hell were the 21 abstentions? All Labour, if Tories and Lib Dems voted against?

And for the many video game lawyers who follow me because I'm a policy nerd: wouldn't it be a great opportunity for your business to offer discounted support to emerging/existing media outlets to support their reporting? Short answer: yes, yes it would be.

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFF

"These flag obsessives are scaring us" Cooper - "This calls for more flags"

Oh my god I’ve done MORE ART before the month’s even out. Unheard of. #Hansry have a LOT to answer for. Drawn in #Procreate with the DigitalArtJunky oil pastel and charcoal brushes. #kcd | #kingdomcomedeliverance | #HansCapon | #HenryofSkalitz | #kcd2

I don't have much time to draw outside work but I really wanted to do a fanart of my favorite bohemian knights ✨ #art #kcd2 #kingdomcomedeliverance #hansry #illustration

These two definitely need a lot of four-leaf clovers #hansry #henryofskalitz #hanscapon #kcd #fanart

This vid is so important if you're a fan of gaming or FAIR PAY IN GENERAL. Brilliantly put together and presented, as ever. MORE OF THIS, I SAY!

is a reply guy a bad thing? I cherish the replies on my art sooooo much. 1 reply is worth like 60 likes

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

this is what glasgow city council is warning about btw. the uk government is engaging in policies designed to overwhelm council homelessness services and destroy social cohesion while making life miserable for our most vulnerable populations - refugees and other homeless people alike

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.