I have nothing to say that won’t get me in trouble but do not assume this means I have nothing to say.

Pubconf Party after NDC London! @linebreakers.band providing music alongside speakers being funny and speakers doing singing. Open to everyone, no NDC attendance required. pubconf.io/events/2026/...

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is

“The average person knows 3 guitar chords” is a statistical error. The average person knows 0 chords. However there goes Guitar Georg, he knows all the chords. He is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

FWIW, I've never had a year typify "You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fail to the level of your systems" more than 2025. Emotionally and energy wise --fires and fascism factored in -- I've never been more punched out. But I worked and lined up more work based on old habits saving me.

A message for you all to carry through the year

When you saw no cultural footprint, that was when Avatar carried you.

This is the funniest shit I have ever seen. He kicks the dude in the beans and then mocks him

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

filling out the gender critical membership card: 1) Name: 2) Age: ⏹️ 45-65 ⏹️ 65+ 3) I am a failed ⏹️ academic ⏹️ video game reviewer ⏹️ music reviewer ⏹️ fashion columnist

you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do

the problem for transphobes is that at this point nearly everyone has met or at least interacted with a trans person and figured out that they're just people trying to live their lives. this is why they want to ban trans people from existing in public at all costs

You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real Both are true

yeah I'm involved in unethical non monogamy. no no, nobody's cheating on anyone else; me and my polycucle just operate a whaling ship.

An update on the hero who subdued one of the shooters at Bondi Beach

I really wish we as a society didn't devalue trans people as much as we do, because the trans community knows SO MUCH about all the completely wild and unexpected previously-seemingly-unconnected things that happen when you re-spec your endocrine system!

Hell, if you can't get the ADHD medicated, anxiety is often the only thing you can use to get shit done (*eyes every AFAB person in my wife's family*)

Be grateful you don't have obsessive hatred in your heart. One of the wildest and saddest things is the entire communities out there that have to insert their hatred into every possible conversation topic. They can't even have normal discussions about hobbies. You see this with radicalized flx too.

"either this thing is a crime or you have to be totally fine with it" is such a silly straw man for any number of reasons, not least of which is that as a prison abolitionist, I don't feel like incarceration is a good solution to things I DO think are crimes!

The only consistent thing in British politics is Absolutely Fuck You.

6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Labour bars trans women delegates from entering or voting in its 2026 Women’s Conference in UK.

Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera. This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw. But it's not very far off.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Future episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? Will be like I've found some new information on your great grandfather from his online kink survey. It says here that he was 75% Brat Tamer. Wow. Okay. I never knew this about him.

The Doctor is right and correct

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.

Fun fact: while many other languages have syntactic sugar, C is the only language with syntactic hydrochloric acid

Good morning from the Cursed Timeline, where irony's emaciated corpse rots under the heat-lamps of progress. One of these images is the homepage of nature.com today. The other is a figure from a scientific paper that was published in one of their journals last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

GIG ALERT! Friday 5 December, we're throwing a Build Stuff afterparty at Alaus Namai in Vilnius! A night of live tech comedy video disco alt pop punk rock'n'roll with @dylanbeatt.ie, @rendle.dev, @eli.holderness.dev, @vagifabilov.bsky.social and Hannes Lowette. Doors 19:00! FREE! See you there! 🤘🏼

I bet it’s okay to eat a little bit of lava

DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do -- MAMDANI: Active perception check. DM: ...that's a natural 20 MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3 #smbc

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

An intimidating thing about being trans is deciding to take control of your own happiness Most of the time, things happen at you and you take what you're given. Being trans involves taking control of and responsibility for your future It's both the greatest gift in life and also sometimes scary

Call me the Edmund Fitzgerald the way twenty-nine good men lost their lives going down on me.

hey so if ever was a time to love trans people it’s now

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

it's only a clique if it's from the warlord period in china, otherwise it's a sparkling friend group

huge thanks to everyone who came to my talk just now! Slides are here: github.com/eli-miriam/t... The worked example of ECDSA can be found within these slides: github.com/eli-miriam/t... (after the explanation of ECC curve parameters) #Oredev

you have to be earnest. you have to.

Yet another instalment of "tech company just can't resist overtly supporting white supremacists, even if it is strategically a massive own goal"

So, @frame.work decided to be the J.K. Rowling of tech then. community.frame.work/t/framework-...