This was the final slide from my Reasons To Be Cheerful talk yesterday at #DDDPerth and it seems to have resonated with a lot of people so I’m sharing it here.

im gonna be my hot gay transsexual self regardless of how much they're trying to genocide us. i'd rather they not, but like, im not gonna stop anyway

I also feel stressed and one of the things I’d recommend is intentionally building trusting supportive relationships with another human being where both parties can support each other through the highs and lows of life. And if not that I’d recommend getting into the saxophone

thank goodness that there is still beauty and love in the world no matter what fascists would have you believe

can't believe I forgot: I'm god's specialest little boy and I'm always gonna be ok

oh god what an unutterably depressing list of people I used to like

Zack Polanski in his first speech as Green Party leader: "My message to Labour is very clear. We are not here to be disappointed by you. We are not here to be concerned by you. We're here to replace you."

why the fuck are so many of my loved ones Going Through It right now. mercury in gatorade or whatever

wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work

new tech thing after AI should be love

Welcome to Bluesky.

tech ceo: we poured all our money and resources into creating you. please tell us how we can turn a profit ai superintellegence: i don't know. you guys kinda chunked it ngl

Technically a Caesar cipher is military-grade encryption. They don’t mention *which* military

so the only legislative victories of labour, the uk's "centre-left" party are thus far 1. legal to kill grandma 2. all trans people banned 3. like 65% of all adults are now technically terrorists 4. do you have a loicense to read wikipedia

"Military grade encryption" by which people mean the password input for the key derivation function for the AES key is written on a post it that's stuck on the wall visible from someone's webcam

Good thing the UK government hasn’t gone all in on promoting AI, then, because I’m pretty sure the largest cooling load requirement in data centres comes from the vast amount of data required by generative AI. But it’s cool we’ve got the first “tech” version of paper straws.

god is testing me today and brother i have not studied

And then the tech people told each other that we were too privileged to need to unionize

Social constructs are incredibly important because, and here’s the thing, we are social

will gemini also get yelled at by my boss for me if i show up to work 15 minutes late?

hope is a discipline.

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

With Trump's tariffs hitting imports hard, software engineers should learn languages like C, C#, Rust, and Ruby which don't use `import` statements. This week, I hope to submit a Python Enhancement Proposal to change the `import` keyword to `use` to avoid tariffs. `from humor import bad_joke`

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

When the three actors who have the longest history with Harry Potter and the most to gain from sustaining their relationship break ranks solely to support trans people and their right to exist and motherfuckers like HUGH LAURIE and MICHELLE GOMEZ can't even work up the guts God what a hellworld

I want the jeremy corbyn party to be good but i just completely cannot trust this until they explicitly say trans rights and to assume this party will be pro trans is naive and foolish

many reasons to want Corbyn II to succeed such as "what if things didn't get worse every single year" and "how about reform didn't win" but I would like to submit one more argument that I think will convince many: it would make briefcase labour types more mad than they have ever been before

I have been so, so consistently lucky in the people with whom I am able to surround myself. The amount of love and joy and respect in my life is unreal

Welcome to yet another Thursday; it's not quite Friday but at least it's not Tuesday, right? And of course Thursday means @dylanbeatt.ie, @eli.holderness.dev and I will be recording Tech, Bugs & Rock'n'Roll at 4pm UK time, and you can come watch and chat in the chat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNuh...

Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!) UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game... International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

Fascists appeal to the imaginary past, so it is important to be able teach people who aren’t fascists about actualities. History isn’t a set of facts. It is a contested narrative based on contested evidence.

piercings and tattoos are gender affirming care my gender is "looking sick as fuck"

Normally you'd have to pay £££ for a conference ticket to get @rendle.dev and @davidwhitney.co.uk on the same programme. Or you can come along tomorrow night and see them both for free - our friends @accurx.bsky.social are even providing free drinks and snacks! www.meetup.com/london-net-u...

getting asked on a date will have you looking up Atlas Obscura for your own damn city after realising you know no cool bars here

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

Okay. Short rambling thread. But about how i have learned to accept that I am "pony famous" and how, and why, you need to not talk down people who love what you do. This is for minor writers or creators everywhere. Read this. /1

as much as we need to learn to say No to protect ourselves, we also need to be able to say Yes when offered help or support, even when it might be difficult to accept

may every politician need the services they cut

Today is Britain at its absolute stinking worst: a full on media and political feeding frenzy targeting someone who righteously sought to punch up for doing so in the wrong way, as we all avert our eyes from a real, genuine evil. Properly grim. Solidarity with Bob Vylan - end the genocide.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

If you want to be better, go learn from the best

Zohran Mamdani: 40% of the vote, respectable effort, solid victory Zohran the Destroyer: 100% of the vote, the tribes are united under the new Khagan, we ride

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

Palestine is the original sin. Israel was established in its modern form at the same time as the birth of the postwar 'international rules-based order' and has always been the unspoken exemption. October 7th shoved that contradiction to the forefront and everything since has been crisis management

“yeah no I’m fully aware that we’re at the climate change point of no return but the computer that always tells me I’m right is very very thirsty” 🥺

I absolutely fucking love being me

For those who aren't particularly familiar with Helen Lewis she is basically responsible for this being terf island. Hardly any papers were doing bigot shit until she championed it through her role as deputy editor as New Statesman. A lot of bigots got their start on this beat there with her.

holy shit woke cpus