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Time. We don't have time to be curious. Change in academia to accommodate this kind of thing takes years, many specialists, concrete use cases, piloting and evaluation, and most are just not equipped to handle this mid potato being rammed into everything any better than "please, don't, not now".

It's like the opposite of Country House youtu.be/1mOGviDFRQU?...

Palantir was a warning sign. Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment. All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

just autocorrected it to Haunted Rivalry and I know there must be a dozen Hallowe'en fics with this title on AO3 surely

aaaaaargh

extremely ready

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I won’t repost the photo of that man with the formerly prestigious award he’s been regifted but I think it’s going to be really hard for future historians if this period to understand that as well as being confused and terrified, a lot of us exist in a constant and debilitating state of cringe.

About an inch of knitting in 90 minutes, I won't win prizes for speed or accuracy, but this is only my third ever pair of socks so I'm pleased so far, and I do love this colour #knitsky

Re. previous, "You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you are capable of it now" is another one that can be cross-stitched for the office

I find it depressing that so many people seem determined to outsource their basic brain functions. Like WHY ARE YOU EVEN ALIVE IF THAT'S HOW LITTLE YOU THINK ABOUT EXISTENCE

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Let's knit some more socks and watch old TV <3

Got a bit emotional at the BBC advert for using Bitesize for revision instead of GenAI, it's really very good...

Love the way that for a whole chunk of LotR they just go to various people's houses and get presents.

"two of every ologist" is the timeline I aspire to <3 (plus a million artists, a nation of snarkers, and of course, everyone in digital education)

This place is important. We need somewhere that fosters critical thinking and art and connection. We need somewhere to stay properly informed. We will need a place that preserved all these things when it’s time to rebuild from this mess. We must guard the vibes here with our digital lives.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

I think about this picture I took of the Queen’s Gambit board game in 2022 a lot.

There are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky – more than half (56%) of all MPs 🔴 This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs 🔶 Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs 🟢 All the 4 Green MPs 🔵 But only 5% of Conservative MPs ➡️ No Reform MPs

I got stuck in one of these in Cardiff once and I still have nightmares about it. If you select accessible entry when signing up (in the UK, anyway) you don't have to go through the horrific contraptions.

Spent all afternoon working on some slides for a presentation I'm somewhat anxious about. Showed them to P this evening and asked "If you went to a presentation and saw these slides would you think, ah yes, here are slides someone made? P said yes, so hopefully they'll do.

Fancy a trip around the British Museum with a weird nerd lecturing you about Videogames?! This Friday I'm running an evening tour... it's the next closest experience to being locked in a lift with me for a couple of hours. Marketing is my passion... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-videog...

When I was growing up there was an active IRA bombing campaign, London's crime and homelessness were exploding out of control, the schools were struggling to stay afloat and people were fleeing the capital as fast as poss. The portrait of London we see now is the product of deep historical amnesia.

alright I can't sleep time to see if Heated Rivalry is all that

it was SO GOOD let's DO IT AGAIN www.eventbrite.com/e/heated-riv...

The Rocky Horror documentary, Strange Journey, was like a massive hug of a film, I don't know that I'll feel more heartwarmed by anything this year, a triumph of creativity and fandom at its best.

Taking ten minutes out of my morning to get super invested in Amber Glenn, recommended

An extraordinary week for archeology. This may be the most astonishing find. A 120 m-long wall of 62 7 000 years old monoliths submerged in the Atlantic Ocean near Seing Island.

So anyway, I've been knitting the knit stitch wrong for a year now, knitting through the back instead of the front, and this year I resolved to learn to do it properly and it's MUCH faster, isn't it?! 🧶

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it's probably just as well I've already done the wedding dress thing or else whatever the heck this is on the left would absolutely be happening

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just really enjoyed these pictures of people and their vehicles from a photography book I may now need www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

oh hey! Discord is asking how we feel about AI. Here's the survey!

i guess i should post the link for folks who don't know about my snail mail zine club, im so good at capitalism you guys 📬 ko-fi.com/s/dcc28f448f

Twice at work today I’ve had to reply to complaining customers explaining that prices or opening times stated by Google AI but not on our website are not our fault or responsibility

My parents, the most aspiring middle class, literal Daily Mail, largely internet-illiterate people, were so distressed by the America news and weird BBC reporting tone that they actively sought out and watched the video to come to their own appalled conclusions. Truly never imagined this possible.

It's such a great time to be rereading The Two Towers: sometimes now I'll be halfway through a scene like, oh, JRR, a bit on the nose there mate

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

I've not even seen a single episode yet and yet today demonstrated the capacity to discuss it for fifteen minutes

Please make adding alt text to images your New Year's resolution. It is one solid thing you CAN do to help a lot of people right now. Feeling hopeless? Write alt text. Feeling powerless? Write alt text. Feel the need to help? Write alt text.

Young man against flames: whose miniature does he wear, for whom does his heart burn? Elizabethan romance by Nicholas Hilliard.

The worst of it is when you log on and have to find out why everyone is reupping "how to turn off autoplay" again

so did anyone else have one raisin between layers of Pass the Parcel or was that just the party I went to

Guys, we did it. We invented the Commodore 64

So much on at this time, about which I hope to say more at the end of the week, but suffice to say we got into bed at 6.15 with series 3 of Bluey, this is where my brain is at after two full days of work and all the life things