What a beautiful morning to listen to Chumbawamba

"This Hog the Property of Mr. William White of Kingston, Surrey," 18th century @kleinman.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

UK online safety law in practice.

pro tip: don't post your email address on linkedin unless you want about twenty emails within half an hour of dubious origin asking to participate in your study

i would like a more powerful computer. not to play games, but to make my LaTeX compilation times faster lmao

Excited to reveal, I'm working on the mascot redesign for @xeiaso.net @techaro.lol's Anubis!

if i send emails external to the university, my name is what i set in my mail client (thunderbird / k-9 mail), but internally it formats my name as "CLIFFORD G. (2004599)" (surname + initials + student no.); today is not the first time someone has called me clifford based on this,,

We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire. Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.

I posted the text of my talk on 'Decomputing as Resistance' danmcquillan.org/decomputing_... It's a work-in-progress: comments welcome!

thanks a lot to mira for covering our protest!

we are out, safe and alive

Giving the final talk next week in the Media of Cooperation series 'Unstitching Datafication'. I'll try to pull some recent themes together under the heading 'Decomputing as Resistance' 1.15pm UK / 1.15pm CET 16-7-25 Free signup via www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/events/le...

Don't forget, spreading rumors and hearsay without proof about someone you don't like in the attempt to get them ostracized is a form of bullying and has taken the life of a respected animal advocate this summer already. We are better than that.

Our statement on the Labour government’s escalating authoritarian crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement. We will not be silenced. We are the majority. We urge you to join us on the streets of London next Saturday (19 July) and march for Palestine.

just felt the annoying tendrils of compulsory computing (allmanm and blank 2021) as i helped my dad do a workplace id check, which can only be performed on a mobile device (you'd have to spoof a user agent to do it on desktop, i imagine), but my dad's phone camera is scratched to fuck, so then had

my current scraper-blocker is fine enough, but this one might work a bit nicer / be more maintainable: git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away (i am not currently using anubis, it's a pain to use with caddy)

For incisive critiques of AI's technopolitics, see the other articles in the @berlinergazette.bsky.social collection 'Unboxing AI-Capitalism' berlinergazette.de/category/feu...

Wes Streeting is bullying GPs to use AI transcription even though NHS England has warned doctors about resulting liability for clinical negligence www.gov.uk/government/n... , www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/technol...

Yup. The most you can say about an LLM rn is that it finds relationships between words. These relationships absolutely do not have to be based on anything factual. It just depends on the data it's been trained on; which is why when trained on large diverse inputs, its output looks vaguely correct.

project for some quiet time: build a docker image for taguette from HEAD (instead of the tagged 1.4.1 release) and stick it on some container registry; there are (at least) these many changes since 1.4.1: gitlab.com/remram44/tag...

after seeing how dreadful chatgpt is at summarising me, i really want to poison it by redirecting ai crawlers to a fake version of my website where i pretend to be garth marenghi

The 2025 Digital Good Network Summer School is underway! Our 3 day summer school brings interdisciplinary researchers together to discuss ideas, hear from key voices, and engage with a range of theoretical, methodological and professional development topics relating to the digital good.

Dr Helton Levy (they/he) @heltonlevy.bsky.social + Genevieve Clifford (she/it) @mun-tonsi.net present "Radical impediments: The ideological underpinnings of lacking infrastructure affecting trans+ communities in contemporary UK" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25 Waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com 🌈🎓

interesting day today, firstly thanks @leightonevans.bsky.social for organising today's codah conference :) latterly, troy showed me the history of computing collection (my first time), and had a lovely time joyfully looking at various hardware and written artefacts

an exciting month ahead! attending the @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social summer school in sheffield, and co-leading a panel with @heltonlevy.bsky.social at the @tvce.bsky.social symposium in london! now time to get my ducks in a row for both :)

Not transsexual as in "the medico-legal establishment defines me". Transsexual as in "sex is a social construct imposed on my flesh, and I have transcended both".

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

absolutely loving reading john law's "after method: mess in social science research"! feels great seeing the mess of science written so succinctly :)

Our lovely #TVCE member @mun-tonsi.net is looking for study participants. #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 Check it out ⬇️⬇️

The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra... Deadline for submissions 28th April #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity #Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT

So thrilled to say that my new article on the echoes of Section 28 in the moral panic around trans people in the UK is out now, along with the rest of the first issue of @genderandjustice.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1332/3033...

GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order. Read about our new plans and support our tentative (but necessary) optimism in an update from founder @kim.town. gfsc.community/the-future-o...

i hate how teams automatically turns on automatic transcription when you turn meeting recording on, and also it doesn't let you record locally. i'm getting around this using obs, but c'mon microsoft,,,

I'm looking to recruit transgender people aged 18+ and living in Wales for my PhD study, we'll chat about your experiences of digital technologies (online or in-person). £20 gift card in return for participation. Interested? Email me at [email protected]! More information: mun-tonsi.net/phd.

The Greek Coast Guard is infamous for illegal “pushbacks” keeping migrants from shore. A Norwegian man who exposes them on his blog could face years in prison.

Presenting some thoughts on queer villains in Oslo in the Queer Materialism workshop www.nsuweb.org/circle-8-que...

I thought I’d start putting together a list for people working within queer and trans Marxism. Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you! go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP

ready for day two of the queer materialism workshop in oslo

i think i am going to spin up my own gotosocial instance, a beautiful project for a saturday

yay! i got accepted for the @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social summer school! :)

so glad to have met @katta.bsky.social at swansea uni today, thanks again for your talk (and for our chat)!

yearning for an early 2000s citroën xsara picasso or berlingo. my mom had the former, and my grandad the latter. many fond memories, and wish either could be my first car

had a productive couple of weeks, drafted (and redrafted) my ethics application, applied for the esrc digital good network summer school, and submitted an abstract for the queer kinship conference in oxford :)

This list would have blown my fuckin mind as a babytrans of fifteen or sixteen. Love that there is such a diversity of trans femme fiction!

The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

to be specific: -share our work -give us money -attend our live streams and talks -don't let your friends get away with casual transphobia -engage positively with our communities -learn about other people who live in the same world as you

Our editorial, "Academic publishing and the privilege of a platform", explores the importance of breaking down paywalls, redistributing academic wealth, and amplifying the voices of writers from contexts such as Palestine and Ukraine.

interacting with eVision (my university's system for research engagement and progress) has to be one of the least favourite things i have to do every three months. i have a template in hedgedoc which i share with my supervisor and we copy / paste that into evision because it has a hateful interface

absolutely adore vylet pony's new album (monarch of monsters); a fantastic soundtrack for an evening of beamer (LaTeX) editing hell vyletpony.bandcamp.com/album/monarc...