My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

All the right hobbies, but not necessarily in the right order....

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Libraries rule

Couldn't trace this back to a definitive creator, but: Epicurus all the way, bro

remains the greatest celebrity photo ever taken

A superb thread which I had to read twice as the first time I was too busy marvelling at the alt text for every image.

More reasons to love alt text.

“Are we going to charge him, Sarge?” “Not right away, constable. Stick him in a cell and let him sweat for a while.” “Er…”

This actually made me cry (yes I know, real world problems) but oh my goodness, that expression, that finger point, that oblivious cat...

How many women under oath equals one billionaire

Fabulous thread about birds as ex partners

Donalbane! Relistening to the Penny Dreadfuls for Valentine's Day is romantic right?

ugh why does it keep crying

rules for watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) - try to guess the age of everyone in screen - shout “78!” or similar - look cast up on IMDb - discover they are all younger than you are now

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

19 January 1902 | A Jewish artist David Olère was born in Warsaw. In 1918 he emigrated to France. In March 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was forced to work in Sonderkommando. After the war he showed the horrifying world of gas chambers in drawings & paintings.

Like I needed any encouragement....

Training the Russian army for Ivan the Terrible 😳

Great thread, especially this bit.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

I could not love this curator more - intellectual shade thrown all over Hercules (Cleveland Museum of Arts)

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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

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This is great, thank you.

I'm always late, but this is still funny.

Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.

British Culture: Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979. Photo © Virginia Turbett via @britcultarchive.bsky.social britishculturearchive.co.uk/archive-gall...

I'm in.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

This is a fabulous interview/advice column! The socks bit especially....

Following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social breaks my heart every day. As it should.

Great thread.

The thread under the Unsolicited Hick Pic is superb.

'Making people pay for retail goods would kill the shoplifting industry.'

Today I got down my 1986 copy of Rider, in honour of Jilly. I was far too young to be given the hardback from the library by my mother 😳 but I couldn't wait to get my own copy. I normally keep my books pristine, no broken spine. But this one has been so well read and loved, and it shows it.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Great thread, thank you.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

I've just added a couple of Maureen Duffy books to my wish list. I knew her name but hadn't read her - yet.

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.