Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

You can't bully yourself into being better, whether it's learning a new skill or regulating your emotions. Getting better only happens with practice, patience, kindness and time. There is a little kid in you that didn't get those things when they needed them most, don't ignore them, hold their hand.

With alt text because disabled people aren't made up:

If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.

Austen’s Dick joke #inthenavy 🛁

I totally agree with Prof Lupton's long list of reasons to reject generative AI. It's morally corrupt, unsustainable, dangerous, biased, and suffocates intellectual rigour. All to make a handful of obscenely wealthy men even richer.

Sometimes I am embarrassed to be a white man. I have never seen such a bunch of pussies. The most targeted people, in their own minds, are straight white men. Grow a set. No one is targeting us. You bring on all your own hate by trying to take rights away from everyone else, dumbasses. #USDemocracy

One of the aspects of our shift from an information to a narrative driven society is exactly this. Leaders have to be perpetually engaged. And if they are not they leave to conversation to the charlatans. This rather than free stuff is the essence of Mamdani-ism.

Who could have imagined turning over campus instructional infrastructure to a private equity backed for-profit firm would have a downside? Not like this is the end of the semester with students studying for exams that start tomorrow. And all their course materials are inaccessible. 🤡

"Always bet on Black" --Cheyney McKnight #NotYourMommasHistory #USPolitics #History

I don’t know if y’all understand what a big deal this is. The fashion world is DEEPLY committed to the erasure of disability and hiding disabled people away and a belief that we should never be seen. To see MULTIPLE disabled people on the red carpet feels like a pivotal moment.

I am wildly unsurprised so many men use an environmental disaster machine built on creative theft just to make it a woman who fawns over him. Wow. This is my shocked face.

If you took all the money wasted on Gen AI and paid real human beings to create real art, stories, animation, movies, science, history, education, even code—we would be living in an unthinkably explosive Renaissance of beauty and knowledge. Not to mention a truly Biblical economic boom.

Jay Chou’s 25 albums have sold more than 30 million copies – and the music video for his latest hit, Gold Rush Town, was filmed at Sovereign Hill.

Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd’s Crown

I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it.

But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not.

A great many white readers in 1967 were not ready to accept a brown-skinned hero. But they weren’t expecting one. I didn’t make an issue of it, and you have to be well into the book before you realize that Ged, like most of the characters, isn’t white.

"Any of us can be protestors and we are all members of communities" @rcquaker.bsky.social gave evidence at the Joint Committee on Human Rights' inquiry on the expansion of police powers and the impact on the right to protest.

Cities die when they’re imagined and designed as places people go to work, not live.

Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.

We're currently recruiting for five (yes five!) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership awards at IWM See the full list of projects and partners here, with further details of how to apply: www.iwm.org.uk/research/doc...

AI doesn’t even make sense in your own capitalist terms! it doesn’t make a profit! it’s just ten of the dumbest bitches on earth passing around the same billion dollars and pretending they’re geniuses

Wow. Such incredible creativity and craft skills!

Absolutely. #BookSky

My friend
who studies viruses
says we are in
an epidemiological crisis. My friend
who studies computers
says we are in
an epistemological crisis. So I asked my friend who studies history which it is and after a moment she said: yes. * Week 317… librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/p...

Excellent and empoweringe educacioun will nevir be "efficient" yn the waye that a businesse doth stryve to be "efficient." It ys the heighte of knavery to use one standarde to measure everye human activitye. Businesses are ther to make profits. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire. One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

An LLM is nothing like a sewing machine, and only a dickhead who devalues textiles could even come up with that. Every single garment is handmade, from the cutting up. We have been attempting to automate for literally a century. It’s not happening. Circular knits are about the pinnacle.

Here's a great engine of early modern society, in culture, in trade, in religion and in politics. A goose quill pen c. 1590 - c. 1596 (Rijksmuseum)

History is not a settled field. We remain in discussion, debate, and research on every event in the past and are likely to forever remain uncommitted to one singular “true” version of the past.

People are taking unusual measures to the thwart the scourge of AI

No one is trying to tell you that you are not allowed to feel nostalgic for what Harry Potter may have once meant to you as a kid; they are literally just asking you to not fund their destruction.

because I will always be the "I have a skilled trades/labour background, not an education" person, I will tell you that a big part of becoming skilled in anything is trying, failing, and being willing to try again despite how much it hurt. That's key labour, and without it, it's all an illusion

Our favourite Welsh Viking is having a lovely rant about all the ways Vikings are portrayed wrongly in film, tv and games. Black biker-gang outfits, lack of colour, filth everywhere, it all comes up! Enjoy: youtu.be/SiQnkLflvHc?...

Saw someone say the world is a boring place because there are no elves or dragons, so I'm legally obliged to share this:

I am forever grateful that Terry Pratchett was with us as long as he was and it was not even close to enough his work made me a better person, and I do not think I'm alone in that GNU Terry Pratchett, we are so much poorer without you

'If generative AI is shaped by power, politics and principle, then education cannot treat it as neutral infrastructure. It is not simply a tool that reflects human bias. It is a technology aligned to particular visions of the future.' 3/3

This trio of books by Pam Inder reveal the hidden worlds of the British workers behind the garments: 🧵 Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid 🎀 Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods - new in hardback 🪡 Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen - now in paperback! 📚 bit.ly/3NkwO8D

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i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it

After I noted how a century ago there was a pandemic followed by fascism and a world war, the historian called me and explained that a century ago there was a pandemic followed by fascism and a world war and also by nuclear explosions, so let us hope history stops repeating.

Come and work with us at Glasgow! Full time permanent post in History of Art: lecturer in material and visual culture with specialism in dress history or textile history. Details below 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR311/l...