New video! My quest to read all my physical books continues, and I ponder different types of reading impulses youtu.be/iu2u--2qWBU?...

“Not being able to contribute to any website” (referred to about half way down the article) is far too wide a restriction, presumably intended to prevent activist posting on social media. It may mean cutting off the ability to chat with friends and family on FB. It would be the end of my actual job.

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

Have made new in-page comics out of artwork from other projects to give out at Thought Bubble. Here's one using Hollow Work: Archeon which is having text developed by the poet/rapper Andrew Mbaruk.

It's finally time to announce my new comic debuting at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social ✨ 🪞 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 A loose sci-fi retelling of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, mixed with Matrix, Inception & a lot of Rage Against the (AI) Machine💥 www.kitsuneart.net/shop/ttlg

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Even if you were willing to buy that an LLM/Gen AI tool has human-like intellect, you’re still left with the fact that an LLM doesn’t NEED a job to remain alive under capitalism, but a human does. morality-wise, surely many would agree that humans should thus be given priority for jobs due to need

Here's some news. News you can use! You know when you save as tif, right? You know it gives you the option to save with compression? And you go "hell no, compression bad"? Well the thing is not all compression is bad. Here's a handy visual.

#AI is not your friend. AI is your worst enemy because it commits crimes yet can never be punished.

My favourite moments of this episode were all Nick: his ‘oh fuck’ reaction to Alan’s reveal but, even more so, telling Joe twice that he loved him and immediately leaping to hug Alan when he started crying. More of this, please #CelebrityTraitors

I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

My favorite comment on the FT story

Slightly tangential but you can always tell if somebody has never done manual labour, when they talk about it's dignity. Yes fucking up your back by age 40, so dignified!

Do you think he really believes this? Or does he just think enough *other* people will believe it in order for him to achieve his goal of [something awful]? Because that really is completely bananas.

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Honey, who was sold for £400 in a car park and turned out to be both pregnant and epileptic, has single-pawedly spent our whole operations fund. Help please? 😬

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

Now live at MCM comic-con in the Excel Centre! Here all weekend! Come buy some of these lovely comics! Bundle discounts available! (I am not visible as I don't have a second person today to take the picture, but yes, you'll also get to meet me.)

Oh wow, 10/10, so accurate! 💖 Although we’re a little jealous... Imagine if our tiny bookshop had enough space for such a lovely art gallery! 😮

This is brilliant

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament. But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside. Good night.

Women do like the vehicle

here is a question I’m reflecting on: what do you WANT your relationship with social media to be? Like, stepping back from it, what platforms would you LIKE to be spending time on (if any), how much time and doing what?

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

The thing is, if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government

Women do like the vehicle

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Like you can absolutely sit at a computer or the library for a few years and learn the course material and sit a private exam. Nobody is stopping you doing it. You can do it any time. Most adults do not, which also should be a clue about why most young people also probably won't want to

It's reductionism to think that most students are at university solely for either exams or information, especially given how few older adults do that. It serves a much, much wider function of self discovery and socialization after leaving home that is broader than information or accreditation

Again, Mark Zuckerberg's kids go to a screen-free school with 14 students total and multiple specialized tutors

To those who doubted Celebrity Traitors would work I give you CELIA IMRIE FARTING IN A CABIN

Who could have predicted that this would not produce overwhelmingly positive consequences?

I got a new computer recently and have switched to LibreOffice rather than attempting to install MS Office 2000 or whatever ancient version I had on the old computer and something I love is that by default when you open it up there's a Tip of the Day! It makes me feel nostalgic!

News! Goblin Market Small Press Comics Fair Comes to Stanley Arts, South London this Sunday, October 19th. www.brokenfrontier.com/goblin-marke...

"I want to go check how many people died in Hamlet" is the new code for 'after dinner snooze' #TheTraitors #Traitors #celebritytraitors

GCs doing their thing, being utter ghouls about the suicide of a young trans person. Claiming a lack of news coverage as a victory for their cause. Alice’s death got coverage because my family sought press attention to highlight the appalling state of trans healthcare. As for saturation coverage…

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.

"we shat the bed so comprehensively, for so long, that just going back to the standards we used to adhere to in less than a generation is literally impossible" is a bold line to take for an business hoping to avoid going into administration

The new video is here! Let's discuss why Zero TBRs fail. #booktube #booksky

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

This is depressing in and of itself — property developers are capitalists who only care about profit! Why are you helping them??? — but it’s also depressing because of the complete lack of curiosity it seems to betray. No sense of *why* these elements of the planning system might exist.

Update: I got my phone out to make a note while walking, I wrote on the train, I wrote at the station, I wrote sitting on the bottom of the stairs. I made dinner and wrote at my computer, dropping an olive and a fork on the floor because eating and writing are not entirely compatible activities

I've been trying to retrain my brain into drafting mode after years of editing almost exclusively and it finally seems to be taking effect. I spent the whole day in the office desperately wanting to be at home working on a project I will call Niche Romance Book #1.