if you’re feeling depressed about the AI changes announced by Google yesterday, let me bring some comfort: some of us are still trying to build AI-free products, and as long as there’s people willing to take the fight, there’s hope 🔥 No opt-in, no opt-out, no nonsense. NO AI.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Disgusted on behalf of the people who perished during WWII and are now being used to justify more genocides instead of being honoured by taking a stand against all genocide and identity based hatred.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Apologies to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social for crossposting her tweets from the nasty place, but I felt this deserves airtime on bluesky because of how emphatically they prove the nasty, immoral, opportunistic politics of Reform.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

@bylinetimes.bsky.social I bought my elderly parents a subscription for Christmas and they tell me they are now receiving emails purporting to be from you asking for money and suggesting they buy shares. Is this from you or has someone hacked your mailing list?

What would David Lammy in opposition have said about secretary of Justice refusing to meet with hunger strikers? or what would former human rights lawyer Sir Kier Starmer have thought then? beliefs before power and after power, just not when in power . www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum

you can pretty much draw a straight line between mark zuckerberg inventing a website that lets you rate the hotness of your female classmates and the united states being burned to the ground by edgelord shitposters

I wish social media understood that just because we share a language, doesn't mean Brits need to be kept informed of the binfire that is the modern United States. Can we have a #BlockTheUSA button, please!

This prize draw is generously supported by some of the cream of British nature writing. A fiver to enter might win you books, art and other goodies. That’s the ‘maybe’… the ‘definitely’ is that it will support our work to connect everyone in England and Wales with their nearby nature.

Entirely unplanned Norfolk photo of the day

Edinburgh Fringe, made a boo boo and bought 4 x tickets for Shitfaced Shakespeare tonight at 915, instead of tomorrow. DM me if anyone wants them. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

'Phone Booth Quickie', a Tintin x Captain Haddock piece by @zelly_land

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

It's utterly mad. These people are the opposite of terrorists. THEY WANT PEACE. The police know they're not terrorists. The government knows they're not terrorists. Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

#Amazon has started creating auto-generated #AI reviews. The review for my @scarfolk.bsky.social book says that it's "full of fun, fascinating articles for children". Would that be the book that I designed around cult brainwashing techniques and contains images of dead & disfigured kids? #scarfolk

R.I.P. Herbie Flowers, composer of some of the greatest bass lines ever recorded ("Space Oddity," "Walk on the Wild Side" "Rock On," "Jump into the Fire"...).

The two genders

I want to take a moment to address the controversy around my upcoming book. But first, I want to say that if you do want to support me and my book despite the controversy, there is one thing you can do that costs you nothing: 1/

New hot sauce landed, excited to try this on my eggs this morning! Bloody Mary, by small batch fermenters Ferm Believers www.fermbelievers.com

6yo is really excited 🤩 but also really full of himself 😎 to learn that once, very briefly, he was the actual **World Record Holder** for being the youngest person in the world 🏆

@hz-f.bsky.social welcome to BlueSky. Look up "starter packs" to find people to follow.

Everyone who’s ever edited a document: oh there’s now a blank page at the end of this Word document, time to get rid of that! Word: no Everyone: please delete Word: shan’t Everyone: * frantically presses delete backspace delete* Word: answer me these riddles three

BMW outpaced Tesla in European electric vehicle sales for the first time ever in July, putting them in the No 1 slot. There’s some evidence the change is in part down to environmentally-conscious buyers put off by Musk’s endorsement of climate-denier, Trump.

I can’t help answer directly but I *can* help with the de-shittification of Google to allow simple working search: use the udm=14 option which is a code option which reverts Google back a decade pre AI crap etc Available in easy-to-use form here: udm14.com

What's your sign?

Bloody hell "Life Lines" on BBC Radio 4 is some incredible, taut, tender drama. Emotional whiplash from going so fast from laughing to crying. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Wow, this is such expansive, beautiful writing. Quite unlike anything I've read in a very long time Emergency by Daisy Hildyard. #BookSky #Books fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/emerge...

Hello BlueSkyers! We are very excited to announce that we are going to be posting our Voting Intention results here, as well as Twitter/X. As ever, we can't wait to see your responses to the work we're doing. Thanks for joining us!

Hello everyone

Oh hello Britain 😳 That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now. Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download

X friends: Let’s connect on here too. Just getting set up but will get round to following back! Keen to replicate the community from there on here: we all know it may become a need not an optional extra. Pls repost so we can all find each other as it doesn’t seem as easy as on X.

Welcome to all of our new users, and a special welcome to the UK, which had the most Bluesky signups of any country for 5 out of the last 7 days! What makes Bluesky different? Some key features: 🧵

Hello Bluesky 👋

nerdy used to mean an unathletic loser with niche hobbies. now it means an unathletic loser who likes some of the most mainstream and profitable intellectual properties of all time

So nice here. Not a single porn bot has followed me. I haven't had my scrolling interrupted by Elon's ugly mug, or his blue ticks' ugly thoughts. Or by advertiser's who think they can ignore my video playback settings. Think I might stay a while.

well i hope all of you who’ve left twitter in the last 48 hours are ready to be sued by elon musk and linda yaccarino for hurting their business.

Those of us who want Musk to get out of our politics (about which he knows nothing and cares less), and for X to stop facilitating and encouraging murderous racist thugs and vile abuse, need to act. Lots of us have to act or it won’t work. Suggestions: RT if you agree.