£40.00 Fortnum & Mason Large Wicker Hamper www.ebay.co.uk/itm/17689090... £75.00 Boom Box Working www.ebay.co.uk/itm/17761933... £24.00 Brass Mortar & Pestle www.ebay.co.uk/itm/17677689... £10.00 Alabaster Owl Paperweight www.ebay.co.uk/itm/17738561... from Emmaus Leeds (charity shop, free collect)

You only have to go back a few generations in my family to find Irish people forced to leave their homeland because British colonialism manufactured a famine and made it impossible to stay. It destroyed the region I descend from. It's the literal reason I'm English.

leeds gift ideas 🧵 (trying to focus on local creators and institutions, I'm sure I'll miss some classics)

"In space nobody can hear you stream."

Today I met Tony, a local postman who's served our community for over five years. It’s time to bring Royal Mail into public ownership so the service is available to all and everyone gets a Tony of their own! Over the busy Christmas period, make sure you thank your postie!

Chia pet still going strong

Made myself a little spot to sit in where I can read, space out, whatever. Listen to birds, maybe.

Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.

Me, bracing myself for the seventh customer service representative in a never-ending Escher maze of a phone tree in order to pick up my prescribed meds in a timely manner: please…I need them…to do exactly this……..

one of the big national news stories in New Zealand right now: the country's first Ikea is opening, and everyone's embarrassed it's national news, but here we are

Man I am getting mad and exhausted having to explain fake animal videos made by AI to my parents, who think they just found a funny video. Always a weird dance of “how do I explain this and not make them feel stupid”

Character/armor design commish

"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?" The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.

"AI Is Gonna Eventually Eat Itself... Like When We Fed Cows With Cows And Got Mad Cow Disease".

This game is perfect. Does exactly what it says it does. No endless list of features. No tiring gameplay loops. Just you flying around as a bird. store.steampowered.com/app/1539580/...

do you think they are related to labubus somehow

“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick

I think AI slop is going to ruin the internet as we know it. So many search results are now AI. Articles, videos, images, fake AI. You just feel like giving up when it happens.

Opened my Instagram stories and there’s Willow Smith over in Los Angeles lip synching a middle aged Limerick mans experience of maintaining friendships while being autistic

It is not a stretch at this point to say that, if you are using a Ring doorbell, you are an ICE collaborator. Amazon readily provides data to LEOs and ICE. Don't want to be an ICE collaborator? Then don't use Ring.

This is how @pizzaslut.bsky.social and I flirt

new just stop oil?

My winter form

Sharing some of my favourite smear frames in my handmade game, Scrabdackle! It's coming out TUESDAY! Dec 2! Would love if y'all took a look! 😊💙 store.steampowered.com/app/1578720/... #game #videogame #indiegame #cutegame #animation

kayin.moe/baby-steps Wasn't expecting to do a more full writeup but whatever, here's Baby Steps, talking about Hiking, Climbing, and Being a Fucking Loser.

part of my process of making an indie game is crashing out every Thursday at 2 pm

For the love of everything, please don’t buy your kids shit that lets them talk to LLM or generative AI in general.

I was back at Leeds LGBT Consortium's Art Club with Splodge Blossom Illustration again this evening Tonight we were looking at folk illustrators and I've attempted to draw Princess in the style of Tove Jansson's Moomin

Autumn’s Waning 🍂

AI has ruined image serach for me now. Its just 90% AI gen stuff now, and its all such bad stuff too, like lowest quality everywhere.. None of the "no ai" toggles work either. Just awful, we need to abandon this endpoint of internet and make a new one.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Wondering what it would look like to treat excessive wealth as a public health issue

I'm a committee member a v. cool PhD on GPU e-waste/thermocultures, which includes some research-creation elements. This means that I got an atari punk synth in the mail made out of old GPU boards, with a fan/light sensor element added in. Shout out to Cyrus Lognonné-Khalatbari---this is so joyful!

France in her heist era, love it

This is Rosie. We do not know what she is asking for, but we need you to give it to her right away. 13/10 please hurry (IG: rosalinathepittie)

Today I learned about Gerhard Munthe, who, in the early 20th century, designed some extremely Atari-looking tapestries with titles like "Blood Tower"

i don't want to have to second guess if every image is ai!! i don't want to edit with ai!! i don't wait to generate anything!!!! i don't want to talk to an ai chatbot!!! go away omg

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

good morning from my pocket lint

On the one hand, Reddit explodes every time a single asset in anything game-related is found to be AI, on the other the billionaire CEOs with massive AI investments are saying all the normal people they know don't care about AI use. It's hard to draw any conclusions as to which might be true.

"Would Columbo out you if he figured out you were an egg?" longest thread in NBC Mystery Movie fan forum history, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate

Systems Ultra! 'A delight to read' says MIT Tech Review. Despite aiming for a work that wasn't bound to the present moment (no AI / algorithms), the parts on payment platforms, automotive technology, adult entertainment, supply chains, have proved horribly timely www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

In the Fourth of July show at LIKLIKE we had a mod of Teardown in which you just demolish the White House. I didn't expect it to become so... bipartisan?

I’ve been using a 2007 iPod to listen to music while I work lately and it’s been GREAT, so great that occasionally getting my eardrums exploded by a song I downloaded from Limewire in high school is almost worth it

lol tiktok hid my video for hours, I think it’s because I mentioned tear gas. what’s a cute tiktok euphemism for tear gas? cry smoke? pain fog

this is the platonic ideal of a wikipedia gif, to me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%...

and then JWoods86 had to prove the pic wasn't a copyright violation, he just happened to be right next to the plane crash and also a freakishly haunting billboard. anyway shoutout JWoods86 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Air...

"Is ChatGPT Conscious" has "is corporation my friend" energy

#megaloceros #paleoart #sciart