if my yearbook photo were ai slop next to the word “cringe,” id burn down the school

Bosses used ChatGPT for legal advice re: site planning issue (in terms of city obligations/responsibilities) in making a big contract. Our lawyer signed off on this. And surprise surprise the answer wasn’t wholly correct! Quite incorrect in fact. Now they are in panic mode and I just - wanna scream

Day 1258 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and you might think this is just a candlesnuff fungus for today BUT this is actually my appropriately timed and abstract piece simply titled 'Rudolph' 🎄🎅🤶🦌🔴👃🤣🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters #365DaysWild

I will never see all the weird books this world holds, which is melancholy, but at least I'll never run out.

People can get quite peculiar in their 80s and 90s...

The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.

Autistic parents can be a curse.

Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.

Springer Nature retracting papers based on bonkers dataset www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism

Once I stayed up all night drawing actual illustrations for a spot that ran nationally on short notice and I would like to tell the people who “hardly slept” because they were “writing prompts” that they are soft pathetic babies who can go to baby hell.

One of the first cases following the Supreme Court’s decision on the definition of sex under the Equality Act has found it didn’t decide which changing room a trans person should use. Reflections on the Peggie case by a specialist discrimination law KC: https://goodlaw.social/32xs

Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking

ICYMI: this is very obviously a crisis every bit as emergent - and indivisible from - climate breakdown.

It's baked in. They know damn well the impact this has. Now their go to is to ask: do you want to file a grievance, which if you ever have, you know is a complete waste of time. It is a delaying tactic. If and when anyone gets back to you, it is with some BS form letter that does nothing.

They’re tricking the working class into thinking ChatGPT is like having servants so that the working class will not notice that they are the servants

I want to talk briefly about the need for solidarity among minority groups, and how this relates to the Guardian's transphobic columnists... 🧵

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.

Thanks, I hate it. "We have been talking to multiple sources, and it looks like things are about to get way worse than you can possibly imagine. Think of the crypto boom, COVID shortages, and scalpers era, all combined into one."

1️⃣ Visible Health has launched a local clinical trial feature. One of the first surfacing to users is an ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) trial led by Trudie Chalder, a researcher whose work has been highly controversial in ME. This raises important patient-safety concerns.

Embroidered Japanese silk was fashioned into a tea gown in the late #1870s, the addition of blue silk panels shaping it into the bustle style silhouette. The exquisite-ness of the stitch means that I would take absolutely no refreshments whilst wearing. Sold via #coraginsburg #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

So if all mental health diagnoses are "overdiagnosis", can female-presenting autistics and ME patients get the personality disorder and "somatisation" diagnoses removed from our medical records? Oh no, of course not.

there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician

Another fun bonus. A company in Canada has designed a process to remove and purify lithium that has been getting dumped into the tailings ponds in the oil patch. The last 70 years of waste creation may actually turn into a whole new industry for the Canadian north. Recycling wins all around :)

The recycle rate for Fossil Fuels is 100% because it Kills everything and then they all become Fossil Fuels again Silly!

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

IKR...!! And just my luck.... I bought this tub of 250 million year old Himalayan salt last week and it's already fkn expired...!!

I put up some peg boards, on the long one is most of my fancier yarns, hand dyed cottons and linen, and some silk. On the short one is some cakes of blanket yarn. The little cups have crochet odds and ends, along with other crafting supplies, and blank cassettes for my boombox/cassette recorder.

World Cup and Eurovision neck and neck over what event is going to be the bigger disaster

What sticks out to me is how absolutely unafraid of prosecution this psychopath is. Part of it is narcissistic personality disorder, but it's mostly the perceived weakness of Democrats. Should they retake power, no one expects Democrats to hold anyone accountable.

Paul Poiret and the robe-culotte, about 1911. Photos my own via current exhibition at MAD Paris.

In that case he should have one of his self-driving cars drive him to one of his rockets, hop in his rocket, and launch.

Only tangentially related, but FUN FACT, gang: At least 9 Japanese medical schools, including the illustrious Tokyo Medical University, have been caught CHANGING THE SCORES on admission exams to exclude female applicants for the last 20 YEARS. This is real! It happened! www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

!!! HEY.

Don't you love how searching for "severe ME" on Bluesky gets you results for "severe mental illness"? 🙄

Every so often I read the "health" section of the Guardian then curse myself for my stupidity.

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

This week Koko has an injured leg and has been on strict rest—so no chasing squirrels. She is not happy. I bought her a new horse stuffy to make it up to her. This morning she went Don Corleone on me.

The transgender experience in the UK right now is basically just waking up to discover what else you've been banned from.

Good morning only to the three obviously stoned teenagers I saw eating an entire advent calendar at the mall yesterday.

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

Regarding university students getting disability accommodation: just wanted to mention some of those students DO believe they're abled and neurotypical and are gaming the system, and sadly that doesn't neatly clear it up, because some of them are wrong.