We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5

the yoga instructor tells me to engage my core. i toggle the swtich and feel my power levels rising. core engaged. plasma vents at 34%. within minutes my shoulder mounted turbo canons will be armed. namaste.

THINK ABOUT IT - dashare.zone ADMIN

trans rights and women’s rights are not in opposition, they are in fact two fronts of the same war, and cis women should support trans folk not just because it’s the morally correct thing to do but also because an attack on trans folk is an attack on us

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

This is Bodie. His presence indicates the beginning of Pride Month. May his whimsy and steadfastness bring joy and confidence to all. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)

🔥𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬: why should a family in Ireland pay more for electricity so a billion-dollar tech company can pay less? 💵

Biggest source of friction for me is turn off fecking AI. I want answers not hallucinations

Lil' reminder that the discount code for my vehicle's lil' limp is still valid - enter the code FECKINGCAR at checkout for 10% off any print orders 🛍️ bsky.app/profile/ciar...

Mr Sakila didn’t just become passively unresponsive at the scene - the video shows multiple men restraining him on the ground with their body weight, including one who knelt and then with his hands pressed down in his neck. Truly disturbing footage www.thejournal.ie/yves-sakila-...

Musk/trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible. the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 750,000 to date. about 88 deaths per hour. It includes deaths from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, malnutrition, diarrhea and more. Two-thirds of these deaths are children. www.salon.com/2025/11/19/t...

There's not a single other medical procedure that has less than a 1% regret rate. Heart surgery has a 20% regret rate.

evidently the kids are starting to say "that's AI" as slang for "that's bullshit" and I could not be happier

They've been clear for a while. One of the key figures in setting up the LGB Alliance, Gary Powell, is a lobbyist with previous work for the Witherspoon Institute (anti abortion, anti same sex marriage) and CBC (pro conversion therapy, anti sperm donation) transsafety.network/posts/profil...

Delighted to tell you all that I have a new series in @thejournal.ie where I get to grips with all things Ireland-coded! Have you ever stopped to think... what exactly is a parish pump? jrnl.ie/7040952

Big Tech has "built a billion-dollar industry on stolen voices because they thought no one would make them pay for it," said a lawyer for the journalists and audiobook narrators suing under Illinois' biometric privacy law.

Definitive Millennial song? Sounds like you’re still tethered to the possibility of systematising the world to impose your own meaning, a bid to ignore the crushing nothingness. Anyway, in Ireland it’s Maniac 2000

There's a screenshot going around of authors admitting to AI use and one of them appears to write hardcore monsterfucking fics and this makes me sad. If you're not writing monsterfucking fics for the sheer, genuine love of the game then what the hell are we even doing here?

On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible. Read the full piece: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

There is something so insidious about the "only take them as long as you need them" language that they always frame as a very compassionate moderate position. My brain has quirky chemistry. When I go off my meds, it gets bleak. Just like when I take off my glasses, I can't see as well.

6 days to rent! 200-300 a day would get us there! That’s only 10-20 sales a day (depending if folks are buying a pencil or a hardcover art book) Thousands of graphic novels and hundreds of albums and films to browse in store and online! littledeercomics.ie

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

This is a very worrying development. A government so entirely bereft of ideas is a tabula rasa for any passing plausible huckster to write upon.

I’m a big crocheter and I’ve bought a lot of wool from Hobbii over the years. Safe to say I will absolutely never use them again. Even before we get into anything even more serious, generative ai is destroying the crochet and knitting community. Support your local wool shop.

Oreo is a rescue badger (Taxidea taxus) at the Northwest Wildlife Sanctuary in Oak Harbor, WA. www.northwestwildlifesanctuary.com She's being offered her favorite snack: cheese, to lure her from the safety of her dark void. Audio on for badger hissing. 🦡❤️🧀

#D7 folks, Benito is missing from around North Circular Road, keep an eye out.

This makes me angry on so many levels. As a Dublin woman who avoided O'Connell St that week, as a queer librarian who's heard the impact on public librarians harassed by some of these men, but also we've seen in Belfast and over in Britain that arrested far right are majority domestic abusers.

Speak this wondrousness into existence!

A&E admissions with heart & breathing conditions go up when air pollution is high. In areas with high air pollution chronic levels of heart & breathing conditions are higher. A city with cleaner air is a city with less pressure on hospitals. It's a city where children grow up healthier.

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

Museums are awesome, curators and educators are awesome. You never know when a moment of kindness or just offering to satisfy and enable someone's curiosity can have a huge impact.

LOVE this. Once I was walking in the Phoenix Park with a visiting college friend. A passing jogger tutted in disapproval and said, as only a Dub can, ‘Ah here, would you ever hold her hand.’ We laughed but he took my hand. Some shenanigans ensued; our 20th wedding anniversary is in September.

On the one hand I think we should allow cult members an ‘off-ramp’, as it were on the other hand that off-ramp needs to include sincere and proportionate reparations to anyone that they harmed

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Great thread on Peig.

Mr Beast

Today in social justice toolkit: A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation. You've given them only bad options. I give some examples & then we talk about how to design them. This one's pretty important. Read and share, please?

The Department of Justice keeps Its own bees on the roof of St Stephen’s Green and labels their produce ‘Just Honey’

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed today in a targeted Israeli strike. The IDF fired live rounds and stun grenades at the Red Cross ambulances trying to reach her. She is the 4th journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. Photo via X @HindRFoundation.

I also want to shout @lataco.bsky.social's great feature on the organizing in Monterey Park, aptly titled "How to Stop a Data Center in Your Backyard":

Straight up milking the market

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

BE A SURVIVOR ! Milkshake is no longer afraid, she’s a survivor and always has been. Have a nice evening to anyone reading this.

Today SCOTUS, in a grave disservice to queer and trans people across the country, held that statutes banning conversion therapy are subject to First Amendment strict scrutiny. Basically, SCOTUS handed therapists a First Amendment right to torture queer people. Only Justice Jackson dissented.

It's Trans Day of Visibility, but a shout out to the invisible trans people - the ones who haven't realised, the ones who haven't shared it, and, sadly, the ones for whom it's just too dangerous to be yourself in public. I might not see you, but I know you're out there.

I could take a moment to go get a laundry basket *or* I could attempt to pick up the entire pile in my arms, clinging to it like a shipwrecked sailor clutches a piece of driftwood, shedding socks down the stairs like rose petals.