idle thought: i wonder if the rush of ads for AI that promises to write student essays (euch) is at least partly the result of exam culture? if you make the target "get an A" instead of "discover interesting ideas" then you can't entirely blame people for wanting to take the easy route

So Dyno bot is down and needed to make some changes curses.

Dragon Drawing in Markers and Colored Pencils

On less serious note I been growing my hair out. Straight but wavey curly stage. I'm enjoying the fringe and ability to flick my hair. Takes so long to grow it out. I'm tempted to go with different hairstyle that longer.

Made some chicky parm tonight with @foxcouncil.com and @romanga.to !! 🧡

Why what is happening in the United States shows the need for the United Kingdom to repair its own constitution Our polity is there for the taking Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-pointl... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

I held off giving the twins full online access until this year (they're 15) but you can't hold back the tide forever. What you can do is talk to them a lot about what they're watching and looking at.

Biggest danger we face is now always online extreme internet generation and people who who think general public think that. Information silos is huge problem and it now risk to democracy itself. I don't think people quite understand that yet.

This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!

Time to watch apple keynote speech well marketing hype machine.

This is an excellent and constructive piece from the chief executive of the CBI @cbieconomics.bsky.social, calling for real tax reform (VAT, property taxes, road pricing). Business lobby (like others) often self-serving but this is clear, honest and serious. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Wow who could have seen this coming at all? Trump soft on China and hard on allies. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Watching call me by your name it gay / bi movie. Normally don't watch queer movies but decided sit down for this. Set in 1980s, first impressions are good. Does something wonderful Italian culture and traditions. Doesn't feel forced but charming.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

This was really good to listen too. These stories still hold up today. Loved this first season.

Honestly quite proud of myself. Written 4 blog posts per month this year. Some longer than others but I kept up with my goal and habit.

Our fans absolutely blow me away, they're so cool #FursuitFriday

Unproven technology with a ton of capital investment. Trying to recover the costs but product is shit.

Excellent. Farage's plan would mean police -or new paramilitary forces - rounding up tens of thousands of people in *every major city* (hundreds of '000s in London). It really shouldn't be hard to make this politically toxic. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/it-wont-wo...

I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up. Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.

An increasingly dictatorial president is deploying the military and police against their enemies, and is using ‘emergency’ powers across the board. This is a common phenomenon, the world over. If you think it is somehow different because it is the US, then you have fallen for exceptionalism.

We need less think pieces on how new media is radicalizing the young and more think pieces on how old media is radicalizing the old

Immigration has dropped dramatically in the last two years – small boat crossings are a small part of the overall picture, but have come to dominate the story (in part because the government has let it)

#Southpark really does satire well. Genius with the writers. Recycling old voice / gag on Trump is brilliant. Rare to see to see two writers standing up when everybody else has folded and given up their responsibility. Also really good joke on AI too.

Questions for #Heterosexuals on bsky; What do you think caused your heterosexuality? When did you decide you were a heterosexual? Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase that you may grow out of?

1/ - Trade Policy in 2025 - Step 1. Donald Trump invents threatened new tariff rates on your country based on some combination of the trade balance, vibes, personal grievance, vibes, how much he likes you, vibes, or a Peter Navarro formula so stupid it made Lesotho enemy #1. Also vibes.

Most interesting thing is Europe lack of preparation around Trump. Lack of building up capacity, lack of building resilience. Instead playing for time and slowly moving. Complete failure to do what is required for Ukraine and feel the pain for it to win. That bet may work Ru running empty.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

NEW BLOGPOST: Why did the jury acquit Ricky Jones? thesecretbarrister.com/2025/08/16/w...

🧊 EMERGENCY Sunday School: Half-Baked Alaska 🧊 Special guest, foreign policy analyst @snellarthur.bsky.social discusses the Trump-Putin 'summit' with @sturdyalex.bsky.social; PLUS update on Gaza and summary of Sudan crisis. 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/772Q... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...

“One part of that coalition is the hardcore racists and nationalists, who are seizing upon a new political mood to try to make their previously fringe ideology a reality. “The other part is made up of opportunists who are happy to give the first group their chance if it will propel them to power.”

What is happening??! 👀😅🤣 #bluesky

"be doubtful when someone likens AI to the industrial revolution in importance. It will do well to match even the telephone and the incandescent lightbulb" on.ft.com/4md80LW

King of the hill revival is good? Reviews seem glowing. I'm glad to see it but wish animation closer to the original. Old ways too expensive now which is a shame.

Problem with OSA british exceptionalism, lack of expertise and experts in civil service. Lobbyists capturing the process. Misunderstanding how internet works. Reality UK place in the world. Ignoring more powerful regulatory bloc EU. Reaching for easy solution to complex or impossible problem.

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Regular reminder that one of the many bad things done by the Blair government was to create a Ministry of Justice by lumping the courts together with prisons/probations to create an underfunded 'super-ministry' invariably at the end of the Whitehall queue for funding.

With Italians reacting with fury to a recent UK Good Food recipe, our poll previously found the rest of the world is committing a great deal of Italian food crimes yougov.co.uk/internationa...

Homophobic attitudes have fallen in Western Europe and the United States

“If you aim directly at election victory you will never get there”—@benansell.bsky.social on Labour’s lost first year in government. www.prospectmagazine...

This a fair point but means dealing with business model of the net. Not sure a single state can put the genie back in the bottle. It needs doing however comes with a big price and possible trade war. Europe dependent of America means it doesn't want do it and certainly not pay the costs.

This sounds bad. Allotments are a form of municipal socialism. Rayner should be all for them. If they *have* to raise more money from them, surely raising the very low rents would be a compromise? Flog them and they're gone forever www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-worl...

Is borderlands really that bad of a movie? Let's find out! I'm expecting it to be awful and bad. Intro seems ok so far.

Took trip yesterday and fancy drawing what I remember seeing. So I'm going try draw the ocean 🌊 and a view with rocks (started it). Needed that sea air...

After yesterday I have couple ideas on my mind. Some unfinished ones to do.

If the finance companies did not want to be liable for hidden commissions, then they should not have paid hidden commissions. Hard to believe they did not know of this legal risk when the payments were made. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This quite good