Time once again to rep my favorite place for giving: anelder.org - they supply food, firewood and supplies for traditional crafting to Navajo Elders. If you have the cash, please give these folks a hand.

Some embroideries take a long time to finish. Like this one. Started March 2021 (!!) and finished November 2025. But atleast the embroidery has not lost its meaning. 😁🙄 If you feel a need to express your feelings about the state of the world, the free pattern is here: payhip.com/b/7Q1k #Embroidery

Just published a book. Think it's good. People say it is. But really need to sell more copies. Please grab one. Cheap! davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...

If you are looking for something colourful to embroider, may I suggest you a wee look in my shop: payhip.com/polkaandbloom And there is 20% off with the code TISTHESEASON20, valid until tomorrow midnight. #Embroidery

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I made the first risengrød of the season. 😍 #WhatDanesEat

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

Universitiws are one of the only three truly world-class institutions that the UK has and this government wants them to collapse. It's mind boggling.

Anyway time to post this again. AI is a tool of fascism.

We'll be in Denmark for Christmas and I'll give my husband the greatest gift ever: watching all the episodes of Jul i Gammelby. 😀🇩🇰

Artists and makers...don't use AI. Even if it's to add an extra dimension to your own work. Using precious water and power resources "just for fun" is so disappointing. And you definitely should know better. 🙄

I should probably get up and start the day. But staying cosy in bed listening to the wind and Danish radio also appeals... 😁

Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Our neighbours' cat came in to say hello this morning. So cute. 😻

All good art is political! There is none that isn’t. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’ We’ve just dirtied the word ‘politics,’ made it sound like it’s unpatriotic or something. — Toni Morrison

I was reminded how much I like the work of Danish painter Harald Giersing. 😀 www.google.com/search?clien...

Shittification and shareholder return A rehash of an old thread Why is everything crap. Well, here we learn why Adam Smith was an early Marxist, in that though he had great faith in markets He had zero faith in merchants And the reason why, is why no one answers your helpline 1/n

Is it just me or are 90% of ads on Instagram just AI slop these days? 🙄🙄🙄

Three weeks without Blake. It sucks to be a dog person who doesn't have a dog. 🥺

Trying to tidy my sewing room but I keep getting distracted by the piles of stuff... 🙃

Someone on Instagram asked if they could use one of my embroidery photos to advertise their embroidery workshop... Maybe use one of your photos, of the actual thing you will be teaching?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Or maybe they are going to rip off my design as well. 🙄

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The last of the æblekage. It's the taste of Sunday lunch at my grandparents' house... 😍🥹🇩🇰 #WhatDanesEat

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

I’m sorry but any Labour MP not publicly denouncing Shabana Mahmood‘s disgusting proposal to turn asylum seekers’ lives into a living hell is complicit. Fascists claim that the overtone window is destroyed, that they won. Labour MPs now get to decide whether that’s true or not. This is on you.

I spent most of last week working on my Groundhog Day quilt and I'd pulled a lot of my fabrics out of the cabinet. A complete mess. Yesterday I tidied it all and how delightful to look at the neat stacks. I know it won't last long... 😁 #QuiltSky Before 👉 after

People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.

Watching a cooking video and the host, while holding up a dish that has a label that says PYREX, says "so I went out and bought some Tupperware". I guess Tupperware has gone full hoover. 😁

*slaps roof of history* Just seeing how much more fascism we can fit in this decade.

Even with my bedrock low opinion of Labour, I was clinging to some shred of hope that even they would realise that stealing the last remaining possessions of people who have fled for their lives was a disgusting policy. Turns out there isn't a bottom to this particular barrel they are scraping.

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

Currently eating æblekage. IYKYK. 😍🇩🇰

Another tip for Swedish learners: starting December 1 the annual Julkalender will start on SVT, the national broadcaster. It's a story broken into 24 short episodes, aired before school and after school. It will be available worldwide and is subtitled!

Calling LLMs AI has to be one of the greatest marketing “successes” of all time. People, including ones who run companies, have been hearing the phrase “AI” in pop culture for 60 years. They hear about AI, assume the product is what the term has always meant, & proceed as though it’s fucking Data.

hey, seattle, here's a bookstore to avoid (as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)

We just watched last night's episode of Task Master and it was so good, so funny. I laughed so hard, I pulled something in my back! 😂🙃

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This is what I taught myself how to do a few months after I got an iPhone and it fell out of my girly-pockets one too many times. You will need: 1: a washable yarn, decently sturdy. 2: a crochet hook suitable to the chosen yarn. 3: ideally, beads or a button. Or make the cover-flap really long.

Starling puddle bath. 😀 #BirdSky

I like how the title of the Art Detectives TV show is clearly inspired by the book cover for The Shock of The New (which accompanied the TV series of the same name), a book about modern art. 😀

New episode in your podfeed, starring @suchmayer.bsky.social, whose new book #BadLanguage is out next week! We talk about many things, including coming out as a speech act, power, shame, finding vocab for oneself... Listen/read via theallusionist.org/disobedience and The Podplaces

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

Going to Art Galleries Can Improve Wellbeing. “Enjoying original works of art in a gallery can relieve stress, reduce the risk of heart disease and boost your immune system, according to the first study of its kind.” [theguardian.com]

Just finished this book. Really enjoyed it. 😀 #BookSky app.thestorygraph.com/books/775e05...

A rainy day is the perfect time to work on a quilt: my #GroundhogDayQuiltReplica I'm deep diving in my stash for this one. I'll worry about tidying the mess later! 🙃😂 #QuiltSky

Lately I've been enjoying the videos of a Danish YouTuber who seemed like a sensible sort of person. Then I watched one where they just casually said "I asked ChatGPT..." and I'm now reconsidering my estimation of them. 😬🙄