GWR is having a heat stroke #trains #heatwave

Is there a way to make a living having a positive impact on the world, and building a caring and supportive environment while doing so? Asking for a friend

Subvert.fm is live! As essential as Bandcamp currently is to the enormous diaspora of "small" musical artists, said platform's ownership and possible future development is a real and growing source of concern, so with great delight we're joining up with a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Late to the party, but I’ve become a convert of the “Cunk on …” series (BBC). Very funny and completely disrespectful 😂 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001cbmw/cunk-on

Ah Timoson the great progressive reform of prisoners. Who gives them and honest days work and then (checks notes) invites Palantir to come up with a tech dystopian visit to create a digital open air prison… […]

On the off chance, would someone be interested in tickets for UK games expo tickets for Sunday? We bought 2 adult + child but we won’t go after all (31st of May https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/). Happy to undercut the price. #boardgames

I wrote recently about breaking the link between electricity prices and gas, and Zack Polanski has now made it part of the Green Party’s three‑point economic plan […]

"Now sending your social security number to the Chinese government." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwmGlu5wdJw

Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.

A whole other dystopian level for the gig economy right there https://rentahuman.ai/ #ai #reversecentaurs

Excellent article by Bruce Schneier "#ai and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge". "The question is not simply whether #copyright law applies to AI. It is why the law appears to operate so differently depending on who is doing the extracting and for what purpose." […]

Fallout execs: “we need a nuclear war to increase stakeholder value” Me (wincing): “too on the nose, man”

Interesting to note that all my colleagues are inherently makers and that the “GenAI native” way to do software does not scratch that itch (or not as much). They’re basically all dreaming of switching careers at this point. #aisdlc

Moogle sleeping on my daughter’s current sewing project #caturday

As usual at this time of year, I’ve got a bit of #ccc envy, but also not. As an expat/migrant I value catching up with family more.

Relly enjoying the EXIT advent calendar again this year . And on track 💅#games

Well that didn’t take long 😂 #catsofmastadon

[UK: protect NHS] Good work from the Good Law Project - please use this to write to your hospital (and Wes Streeting): Palantir need to go https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/

Round out we can watch Arte (excellent French-German tv channel) from the UK 🤯 Relatedly, this is pretty excellent (I think you can get English subtitles by setting the language): an experiment in living very low energy, low water consumption , while remaining low tech too […]

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The Old King’s Crown, intricate game, like Love Letter’s grown up cousin #boardgames

I'm not coming to the defense of processed foods, many of which are in fact not great for you. But the conservative nutrition obsession is very much about convincing women to feel really guilty about some of the main innovations that enabled us to unshackle ourselves from the kitchen.

The crisis we’re headed for is not measured in the 364 days of the year when conditions are tolerable but the one peak day when they’re not. At that point it’s too late. And whilst people with money to spare can adapt up to a point the rest of nature around us cannot. And that’s without […]

« Being Innocent Won’t Protect You … An authoritarian government doesn’t care. Mistakes are a feature and not a bug of authoritarian surveillance. If ICE targets only people it can go after legally, then everyone knows whether or not they need to fear ICE. If ICE occasionally makes mistakes by […]

UK Petition against introducing Digital ID cards. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

Saw a non tech coworker use an LLM to collate two spreadsheets. The thing returns the requested summary. Me: “you know, LLMs aren’t great at this. For instance, it doesn’t include <a thing>” Him: “ha, indeed! I’ll tell it that” <types to tell the LLM they missed a bit> <LLM regurgitates a […]

Moon Colony Blood Bath is really fun (and merciless) 😅 fun retro futurist look too #boardgames

A bit of fire for this winter 🔥 #harvest #gardening

I reached the point in my life where I feel “I can’t face this meeting today” is a valid reason to cancel a meeting, and I think this is a positive evolution

Solarpunk street #amsterdam #solarpunk

“Careful with that sword” (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) #captioncontest

“Hold my beer” (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports

My daughter and I have been practicing pronouncing Bannau Brychieniog this weekend and I think we’ve got it down now

Increasing the size of the electorate slightly isn't a major electoral reform, Keith. Getting rid of FPTP would be a major electoral reform. Come to think of it, restricting political donations might be a major electoral reform too. I wonder why that's not on the table, Keith […]

One thing I missed from cutting meat out of my diet was crispy bacon. Finally found a fix: (hickory) smoked almonds! It has the sweet smokiness I craved, and crunch, though obviously not exactly the same texture #food

Was I the only one taken aback at the very light hearted take on BBC news this morning, which carefully avoided any root causing? My personal take being omg biodiversity is not going to recover and food prices are going to spiral in the next few years? […]

That time of the year