I take no joy in making this prediction: CEO’s are going to compel workers to wear devices imbued with their ai doppelgänger.

The “ai wearable” at work and the luxury surveillance pendant, glasses, ring, and necklace are the two prongs of an all-out assault on the idea that people should ever have any freedom from ubiquitous tracking and recording.

Wow, I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Well, not that shocked...

Now, I have a healthy fear of the disk horse (thanks to @ravenswordpress.com for the term) but... we appear to be talking about paying for poetry👀 www.patreon.com/cw/DevanBarlow (redoing this post bc I forgot the link 😅)

He reads a big book He reads a little book He reads an old book He reads a new book He reads a book that reminds him of the good times He reads a book that reminds him of the better times

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

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People in the UK who care about the rights of creators to try to make a living from their work, here's a petition to parliament. Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data. Please sign and share widely. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

And for UK people who enjoy music, this one closes sooner. Require all AI 'musicians' and songs to have a visible AI notice. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... Remember, while 'likes' are nice, reposts get these in front of more people. (Bluesky is not Twitter.)

THE HOLLOW SEA (OtP 4) coming June 19! The ghost-hunting team discovers some spirits refuse to be silenced. Click here to preorder directly from me: www.jordanlhawk.com/products/the... Click here to preorder from a corporation: buy.bookfunnel.com/sixyivi94v

“As the annual Pride parade weaved its way through Durham… the rainbow flags were almost matched in number by trade union banners, as miners, postal workers, and train drivers swelled the parade’s ranks in solidarity, making it the biggest in Durham Pride’s history.” Solidarity is our strength. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I've been awake for over thirty hours I might be tasting the passage of time at this point

Holy shit that landing was fukken wimdy

Old Twitter functioned as a very powerful machine for breaking down a lot of barriers and creating connections, empathy and solidarity where that was possible. This was often pathologised as "radicalisation" because people weren't used to the mingling-driven erosion of loyalty to elites.

Unfortunately the people running bluesky have not really understood what was great about old Twitter and have chosen to protect a smaller class of predatory power users much the same as X now does so long as they fall in the liberal columnist side of the political spectrum.

Back in earlier Twitter, the plurality of views was the ability to encounter people from completely different walks of life and experience and build movements and connections spanning the planet over chance connections. The right turned "plurality" into "you need predators as well as normal people"

Ah, good ol' UK weather lmao

In the spirit of Pride Month, I think all ostensibly straight women should go on at least one date with a woman, just to make sure. And if it goes well move in with her. In solidarity.

Starting up a new series on my YT channel! Drinks & Twinks is where I talk about queer indie comics, manga, and manhwa. Come check it out. youtube.com/@ohphukdisch...

…Are you kidding me? This country's treatment of voice actors is fucking abysmal. Aqua Teen Hunger Force essentially built Adult Swim, & if there were any justice, Carey Means shouldn't have to work another day in his life. Between this & Andy Merrill's trouble, i just… what the fuck. What the fuck.

Oh look. She is literally using your money to hurt people. Yes, including children.

Nyohoho I found it 😁

Happy PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 Celebrate bride by reading queer webcomics! This is my webcomic Grand adventure yonder. It’s about magical gay pirates. New page here : grandadventureyonder.the-comic.org/comics/#cont... #pride #gaycomic

Sooo I finally wrote a project introduction post for my upcoming Spoonie Bestiary collection (launching 16th June!) 👀 Turns out I was feeling weirdly anxious about sharing this project with everyone lol. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... #ArtistSupport #spoonie #ChronicPain #ChronicWarrior

Go my quetzalcoatlus... #art #sciart

Last month was the release of All That Glitters, my silly aspec spyfi asking “what if your superspy was a lemur? And not the story’s main character?” Currently on sale on Payhip & available wide: payhip.com/b/GCD3B

I'm sure there used to be some secret trick to moving the arm rest at the end of a row. Does anyone know what it is? Does it tragically involve a screwdriver?

Paid yet more disability tax at CLT. Step 1: Pay airport prices for a nice cold drink. Step 2: Get paged to the gate by disability assistance. Step 3: Put drink on counter to fish out passport and boarding pass. Step 4: Immediately forget drink is there, knock it off counter.

I've decided to take the train to York on monday to avoid being dead by jetlag on the motorway 🤣

It's Pride Month. Bring your fire.

There is a young child on this flight who has decided to spend it standing on her chair and yelling MOMMY! MOMMY! because she is seated with Daddy instead and this is suboptimal.

No upgrades available RIP this is what I get for forgetting to book my flights for six months 🙃

Ah!! @drslayton.bsky.social this is by far the best preorder campaign I’ve experienced! Arrived early: a signed & personalized book, an illustrated map printed on canvas! (it’s soft and flexible!!) +an envelope of character art cards & a bookmark. It’s so lovely!! ❤️🖤🌙🌞🌙🖤❤️ 🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride #BookSky 🏳️‍🌈

Godspeed to the incredibly lorge bugge walking along concourse E at CLT airport, safe travels my dude

Alright, it's Pride and I'm pushing this thing. Trans voices are becoming increasingly curtailed, but you can still go directly to the source. go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

If you want to go see the finale of The Amazing Digital Circus at the cinema, I thoroughly recommend you make sure there's an audience member in the back row who got absolutely fucking baked before they walked in and doesn't know that there are other people present 🤣

I’m all set up and ready to go for my first ever @torontocomics.bsky.social! Come see me at Table 15 on the 2nd floor basketball court at the Mattamy Athletic Center! Yay TCAF!

Why thank you, Morgan. I'm ace and all my MCs are somewhere on that spectrum. Like Roz! She's also like, super distracted by ghosts. tinyurl.com/DarkSentinels

I meant buy GAY books, autocorrect getting worse by the day!

*Please note this is a digital mockup, final product may differ slightly* litpinsandco.com/collections/...

I PREORDERED THIS SO FAST

One for Bluepals here in the UK: have your say on which animals should be on our banknotes. On the topic of finding joy in small things, imagine booting Churchill off the money and replacing him with a puffin ♥️ www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

Real talk. As someone who has severe depression and struggles with suicidal thoughts and tendencies, having a dog really helps keep me here.

You know the drill. Buy guy books!

Dear Bluesky peeps - a favour? My beloved clever niece is in her final year at LIS and her dissertation project is on politically radical reading. She needs cool people to fill in her survey! If you have 10 minutes and OPINIONS about books and politics and empathy... forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Self-reccing Triple Strike starring Alan, a demisexual inspector in a queer normative world, which means everyone is very respectful about his inability to notice the flirting, even if it perhaps makes them wonder about his inspecting abilities.

If self-rec is okay...everything I write is aspec because I cannot imagine the allo experience lol ACE OF HEARTS (2022) is a M/F new adult romance with an asexual heroine, in which a fake marriage for free tuition creates real feelings.

THE ENDLESS SEA BETWEEN US (2023) is a F/F romantasy about a demisexual lesbian witch and a panromantic asexual mermaid, and taking down the "nice guy" who thinks you owe him a chance simply for being there.

The Lucky Machine features my ace girl, Inix, as she figures out what makes her happiest in life (after having a terrible start as a sex robot). It's short and p sweet if you ask me. TheLuckyMachine.com for links, and right now if you get directly from me it's 50% off the ebook :D