Slop is the perfect word to describe the low-quality, high-volume, AI-generated content being thrown around. If you don't have time to write it, I don't have time to read it.

I want to believe they greenlit the X-Men/Star Trek crossover just so they could write this gag.

This is a HILARIOUS book!

I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs. It is fact now. Sorry.

I'm impressed: getting the terminal speed from the catapult launcher to precisely match the lorry is an impressive bit of engineering. www.reddit.com/r/theydidthe...

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage. I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong. Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole. Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you... (Photos AP)

Some of us didn't hop online in the 90s or the 2000s to get rich and famous, man. Some of us hopped online in the 90s and 2000s 'cause it was FUN to chat with people all over the world... for free! Baby, we grew up when it cost a zillion dollars to call long distance! We had pen pals at school!

In sad #Caturday news: Former Foreign Office cat Palmerston dies in Bermuda www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Roses are red Kudzu’s ill-mannered When it finally happens We’re all getting hammered

I really went goblin mode executing these two challenging face angles in one piece. I see why y'all hire me tbh

From the recipe: "That's when you know you're going downhill: when you let yourself be tainted with both commercialism and numerology" 🤣🤣🤣

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

I’m allowed to post this today

Thank you everyone who's been sharing my work - I'm part way towards getting rent sorted. Got a few more days, and plenty more gorgeous pendants looking for homes: oishiny.etsy.com #Handmade #ShopSmall #Etsy

oh myyyyyy gaaaawd “Because you kept saying you couldn’t believe you were gonna sell this.”

It's Valentines Day, which means today is the perfect day to remind you what's coming for you... 🤘💀🤘 'Sorrow of the Styx'

Warhammer Owner Games Workshop Bans Its Creative Staff From Using GenAI.

I love Lego so much.

Someone saying the Left is too dismissive of the dangers of AI. We are not. We understand that the dangers are fiscal, social, environmental, even neurobiological (because that shit will fuck your cognition up). We are dismissive of the science fictional claims of the snake oil salesfolk.

So, er, @wiswell.bsky.social , did Shesheshen write this skeet?

Realised I'd mislaid my copy of Dweller, so bought a new epub, and a couple of other books for good measure. You should too, to give The Crime Child an excellent birthday.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

With thanks to @jillybobww.bsky.social for posting about it, whoever brought it to my attention (I can't remember, I'm sorry!), and @dinajames.com for buying it and shipping to Canada. Perfect birthday boy.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

Makers of Plagiarism Bot 9000 upset about the bot being Plagiarized, per reports

Survival comes with a cost. My domestic thriller The Silent Places is on for $2.99 until February 16. Payhip payhip.com/b/4nIg Kobo www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/... Apple books.apple.com/us/book/the-... GooglePlay play.google.com/store/books/... Smashwords www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

I love the bakery at the end of my road.

This week is your last chance to watch (or rewatch) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power before Netflix deletes it on 20th Feb. One of my favourite shows - animated or otherwise - of the last ten years.

oh captain our captain

There is no LGB without the T. We rise together and we fall together. Part of my speech in Parliament for LGBTQ+ History Month:

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours https://theonion.com/exhausted-friends-slowly-realize-they-were-playing-board-game-wrong-entire-6-hours/

“Two questions, Mitch: How much do you weigh, and what’s the most sensitive part of any elephant’s anatomy?”

Goals.

Quite a lot of the radical rightward shift in the Overton window can be laid at the feet of media and public officials treating these as valid alternate viewpoints worthy of debate instead of fuel for a public flogging.

This is so true it hurts.

🎶 You and I in a little toy shop / Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got... 🎶

The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)

age verification? I remember when google's motto was "don't be evil."

This reminds me of @carolconnolly.bsky.social's story about being short at a concert, finding a hi-vis jacket, putting it on, & starting to order tall people to the back so short people could see. It worked, to her horror and delight. :D

I'm sorry, but That's Life! is not "the magazine that shaped America". It's the BBC telly juggernaut that shaped consumer regulation in the 80s.

He/Him

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

No. Hard no. No fucking way. Never. Ever. Ever.

Ok people, you know what to do. I seriously can't recommend the Eric Carter series enough. I'm doing a reread right now via the Graphic Audio adaptations, and they're soooo good. So much grit, humanity, and dark hilarity. Very cathartic in these modern times!