The University of Nottingham doing redundancies and cutting the arts was insulting because they lied about their finances and made stupid decisions. My former uni, Exeter, doing redundancies and cutting the arts is insulting because they are in profit and don't need to. Stop cutting the arts.

It might happen!

I feel like I'm going insane, because I just overheard someone saying they were shouting at AI because it wasn't doing a fairly straightforward task and was doing something else and/or the actual request but badly/with extra stuff. Chat, the prompt was for something that takes 2 seconds on Canva.

Y'know, with companies like Sony moving to digital only and subscription services, and the big developers increasingly showing interest in using AI to make games, the AAA bubble might burst (hopefully alongside AI).

Look, amongst everyone's valid rage a Sony right now, Hideo Kojima has said that it is sad and scary. You don't piss off Hideo Kojima.

Honestly shouldn't even be a choice. It's a choice between something that benefits like, 3 people, or something that affects every living thing.

Fortunately, @emilyvhs.bsky.social has continued to be on board with the idea

10 years since I woke up hungover, had breakfast on the beach, and got engaged to @realbengilbert.bsky.social 💕

Banning online spaces leaves teenagers with nowhere to go. It's always take, take, take. They took away youth centres and physical spaces, and now they want the online spaces too. For some people, they will find more risky ways to access content, for others, they will be left with nowhere to be.

If I'd been banned from the online spaces I used to socialise as a teenager, my life would have been radically and immeasurably worse. Banning social media is a pathetic alternative to regulating it. Tech companies collecting yet more private data to 'enforce' a ban will be fucking disastrous.

Don't mean to brag, but I am so good at finding all the incense/soup deaths in Road to Empress II.

Honestly, as long as USA are hosting the Men's World Cup, the tournament is a bit of a joke. Maybe don't host an international tournament if you don't want international visitors.

Even though it can feel silly to grieve over people we didn't personally know but whose art touched us, I would rather shed my tears and embrace the humanity of that than pretend I'm not sad about it.

I bought @realbengilbert.bsky.social the extended LOtR DVDs for his birthday, but the real gift was him getting to be with me as I watched them for the first time and pronounced them 'pretty good'.

I feel sad whenever anyone says that AI makes art more accessible. Governments are actively reducing accessibility of art, only to then push for AI to do a worse job at it, whilst stealing from actual artists. All because billionaires want some fast cash.

I'm old enough to remember when Google was smarter than me

'Developers, therefore, bear a particular ethical and spiritual responsibility, for every design choice reflects a vision of humanity.'

A day of watching whatever tf we felt like. A dream.

Today was @realbengilbert.bsky.social's birthday, and to celebrate we watched: - 3 episodes of Pokémon Indigo League (St Anne 2-parter + giant Pokémon) - LoTR (Fellowship, extended) - Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 - 1 episode of Doctor Who (The Unicorn and the Wasp) A good day.

So I'm playing Nier: Automata for the first time and where has it been all my life. So many thoughts I'll need a huge thread to unravel. But for now, I came across this, quite possibly the best interpretation of Romeo + Juliet I have ever seen, by robots who clearly don't have the full context.

A key thing missing from Uni of Nottingham discourse I'm seeing - yes, 2700 people currently at risk, with over 600 expected to be made redundant. This doesn't include the 350 job losses last year, or the MARS redundancies the year before. All part of the same problem.

Merrily We Roll Along made me imagine being a playwright when I saw it as a teenager, so unfortunately seeing it 20 years later during my longest creative dry spell has broken me. 'How did you ever get there from here' YEAH GOOD QUESTION SONDHEIM THANKS 😭

As someone who just soared through Pluribus after trudging through a rewatch of House, can I just say - Karolina Wydra is an absolute joy, and it was such a delight to see more of what she's capable of after being one of the few bright spots in the zombie years of House.

Cannot stress enough to anyone outside the UK that the Greens are the only ones with a Jewish leader and Reform are literal Nazis.

There's no election in my area, so I can't vote green and do a middle finger to reform. If you're in a location that does have an election this week, please do it for me.

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Pleased to see that being one of 300 staff made redundant by the Uni of Nottingham, they're back on their feet and... ...making 600 more people redundant and getting rid of 42 courses. And selling a ton of property. Whilst apparently paying a firm to spy on pro-palestine employees? Cool I guess

Just received a thrilled and thrilling message from @realbengilbert.bsky.social to inform me there are still discount Easter eggs at Sainsbury's. Hope everyone's day has a similar little piece of all-caps delight in it.

Like I KNOW I live in the city furthest from the sea but I FEEL it on days like this.

Finally finished watching House with @realbengilbert.bsky.social (his first time all the way through) and OH BOY that ending is one of the best in television, up there with Angel and Ashes to Ashes for having an extremely wobbly run up but managing to stick the landing

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Literally within the past year, Trump has proposed a Citizenship Gold Card to expedite citizenship for rich foreign nationals. He also chops and changes tariffs on his own whims, based on who doesn't let him play with whatever toys he wants. Loser shit.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Can't help but notice that as soon as energy costs started to come down, Trump decided to start another war (I also know there are more obvious reasons why Trump has done this) Wars are very convenient for distracting from crimes and keeping profits up

People occasionally mention green energy as not being able to maintain consistent energy like fossil fuels Sorry, they can if you actually invest and pick the most suitable ones for where you are Can solar fix the UK's problems alone? Of course not! Tidal? Probably, we're a fuckin island

This was such a hard watch (I think in a good way, just...jfc) www.jpf-film.org.uk/films/blue-b...

Ok there is not a hospital ship going to Greenland. It ain't happening. But if it did, you can bet toddler in chief would send a bill afterwards.

In a job hunt, sometimes it's totally cool to get the generic "candidates whose skills and experience match the requirements for this post more closely than your own" rejection. And sometimes it sucks because you know you ticked every box and did a bangin application.

Ah, today I found out that Elon Musk appears in the Epstein Files, no just complicit, but BEGGING to go to the island. I also found out that in France, his twitter offices have been raided and he's been summoned for an interview on 20 April. The more you know 👀

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In case you missed it, Jeff Bezos funded a documentary, directed by Brett Ratner of all people, about Melania Trump. They spent $35m on marketing alone, just shy of the film's budget. The UK premiere sold 1 ticket. The second screening sold 2 tickets.

Suella Braverman MP has joined the Reform party, despite briefings from the party last summer to the Daily Mail, GB News and others that it would refuse her if she wanted to join.

What an absolute joke to have Suella Braverman claiming that the country is broken when she was literally in government and helped to break it Reform were never going to reform anything and every second hand Tory they take in should confirm that all the more

I can only assume one of two things are true about current Labour leadership: 1) They actually want the far right to get a bigger foothold in the UK Or 2) They are profoundly stupid

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power