How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas Party

Such a small but lovely Christmas thing is the massive Big Yellow Self Storage building near the Hammersmith Flyover turning off the S on either side so it now reads ELF STORAGE.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Proper lol at this

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad

Not a bubble btw

The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.

Y'all they really just fucking highlighted the text black in word on the redacted Epstein files. At least for the digital text files anyway. You can just fucking copy and paste it elsewhere to read it LMAO. I just tried it because I was like there's no fucking way and shit worked flawless.

Dec 23rd's book advent is @aptshadow.bsky.social's Shroud: a wonderfully dark and tense tale of two women accidentally stranded on an incredibly inhospitable planet, a perilous journey to survive, and all the fantastic big ideas and alien weirdness you might love and expect from this author! 📚💙🪐

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

This is the barn owl stained glass window in St Thomas’s Church at Harty on the Isle of Sheppey. Sure did hear those last night in the moments when I drifted in and out of sleep! #NightInAChurch #Sheppey #WinterSolstice

i made an illustration for it last year... go read it, great writing

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Made a tiny Christmas tree out of fossils: the stars are crinoid ossicles, the trunk dinosaur bone & the branches are sharks’ teeth 🎄🦴

Look mum, no hands! Look mum, no feet! Look mum, no skin! …I think the Drukhari are here!

There are so many bright people writing deep and thoughtful pieces about what it means to live in a world where large language models have become ubiquitous. Provide them a platform instead of publishing yet another story about how "I asked ChatGPT to solve today's wordle and it got it wrong"

THE POINT OF THIS IS THAT MY HUSBAND IS ALSO TRANS WE HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR TEN YEARS HE IS THE HUSBAND FORMERLY KNOWN AS WIFE

happy holidays

We've got a book of toxic wallpaper that can kill (arsenic I think). It was made as a reference to avoid toxic wallpaper but I guess when they made it they didn't think about the fact that the samples were also toxic

this seems like a very reasonable concern to have about using LLMs

HORIZON STEEL FRONTIERS

In her Times column today about why she would send a Christmas card to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Libby Purves manages to slip in an even more horrendous paragraph:

The Apothecary Diaries on Netflix is such a weird show, tonally. I'm about seven episodes in, I think. It's like, imagine Daria crossed with Sherlock Holmes is kidnapped and sold into servitude into the Palace in Definitely Not Imperial China, and ends up using her skills to help people around her.

I'll always remember when the French translator for Dark Sky emailed me to ask "is the chapter title 'Explosives And The Will To Use Them' named after the Crime In Stereo album?!" and I wondered how she knew Crime In Stereo, then looked her up and she played roller derby and it made sense.

OWLCAT GAMES

the catchiest sex-ed BOP you will ever hear

He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you're awake He knows you would taste really good So be ready with your stake Oh You'd better not shout You'd better not cry He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi Dracula is coming to town

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Wow I'm now never taking a Waymo I make automated trains for a living and lemme tell you there is a backup for "the network is down"

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...

I've seen some people saying that the new SFWA rule on "AI" in the Nebulas will prevent people from being transparent about their LLM use. Newsflash: They wouldn't have been anyway. It would cost them readers. It would cost them votes. It would potentially cost them opportunities with publishers.

Seems as good a time as any to wheel out this absolute banger meme of mine again

Do not entrust your mental health to a chat bot. (I'm not objective here. Full disclosure: I'm a mental health professional) (but, still)

I have two questions: a) was this apartment decorated by AI? ii) why would you take so many pictures of the inside. Why would you not stick to pictures of the outside. Or maybe just redact all of the decor with big black lines, I hear that’s popular these days.

The head of the EHRC Mary-Anne Stephenson donated to this case Alison Bailey finally lost against Stonewall. Looks like she supports the power imbalance in the legal system that wealth produces & of the kind that has been used to exclude trans girl guides. The rich punching down with their money.

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

VAR: "Joshua was just shielding Jake Paul's jaw from the ball in a side-to-side action"

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

"What was the last thing you said to your players before they came out for the second half?" "I'd rather keep that to myself if you don't mind!" Eddie Howe opting for discretion there 😆

This is my most searched video on TikTok, it’s how to use physics to open a chocolate orange without banging it on anything

It's not just David Walliams who should suffer professional ruin, it's all the senior staff at his publisher involved in implementing a policy whose only possible interpretation is that they believed that he represented a danger to their employees but continued to work with him anyway.

A pun so terrible I couldn't not use my amateur doodling skills to illustrate it.

Sometimes I marvel at the miracle that is webcomics, every page update someone manages to put up is a gift considering The State Of Things in this world🤌💖

Bloody hell, Newcastle are up for this.