Can anyone who is a British or international academic who is interested in taking some sort of collective action in protest please contact me? I am interested in trying to coordinate a response and don't know what I'm doing.

if you post anything on youtube, you can and should opt your channel out of this www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Apart from all the other comments on the post, what are the two spools of wire being used for? Your sink should be earthed, sure, but I don't think you'd use uncoated wire for that...

Neurodivergent writer here (both diagnosed and undiagnosed for various things) and OH MY GOD FUCK NO. The LAST thing I need is more intrusive thoughts generated by autocomplete with delusions of grandeur. This is also the last gasp of a tech trend - "But it helps disabled people so much!" Lies.

We've been calling the UK TV listings magazine Radio Times 'Radiotomes' (ending like Socrates) for many, many years, since it was done in a comedy sketch. Also, (now defunct?) fast food place 'Spud-U-Like' was always 'spud-you-lick-ay'.

FPTP is like The One Ring of politics in the UK. They know they need to destroy it, but once it's in their hands they think "Why shouldn't we keep it? We can use it for good!" and then everything goes dead-Boromir-shaped

If you want to know how strong an 8 month old Springer Spaniel is, Coco has been running around the garden with a 4kg rubber coated dumbell in his mouth...

Well, today has not been going according to plan. Penny was supposed to be in the chorus for 2 performances of The Sound of Music. Instead, we're at Basingstoke Hospital. Penny was walking Coco, but he suddenly pulled away and she fell over onto her face. (1/2)

I’m hearing that Rachel Talalay – who also recently lost her husband – is receiving threats over the Good Omens finale, and had to release a statement on Twitter/X making it clear she wasn’t the writer So far, no visible support whatsoever from the “good guys”

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

So after my career break last year, I've been back at work for 5 months, and after various things that have happened, I've decided that I'm going to retire at the end of the year (if not sooner, depending on what happens next!) (1/?)

I hope whoever the next PM is (pray God it's Milliband as least-worst option) does *not* feel the customary obligation to give the unsuccessful candidate a Cabinet post in a show of unity. I want Streeting to be Minister In Charge Of Being In The Stocks Pelted With Rotten Tomatoes.

Well, that took less than 24 hours, lads. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I've been recommending this to everyone who'll listen for several years!

"But WHY are the LGBTQ+ community abandoning Labour in droves? We've got Streeting, he's gay!" "Streeting is a transphobic self-loathing bigot, who backs anti-LGBTQ+ policies and wants to deny trans people healthcare and dignity." ".... but he's GAY!" "What part of 'self-loathing'...?" "But GAY!"

I don't know who any of these people are, but this thread is hysterical!

Let's give these loudmouths a shot. I'm a trans woman in Texas who can't move to a blue state because nobody will hire me. I can line up housing and moving funds, I literally just need a job once there. Would anyone in Seattle like to hire me? I have 12+ years in tech and customer support roles!

caught bowled leg before wicket run out

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

... which reminds me of this story that Barry Cryer told about Willie Rushton:

You honestly don't have to show me what Twitter's saying. That's why I'm here and not there.

I'm just astonished that anyone still uses polygraphs; they were debunked literally decades ago!

Don't fucking get it. Don't give more publicity and support to Britain's biggest TERF.

Making Darth Vader Luke's father may have been a great plot twist, but it was really bad for the franchise.

Polite reminder that the funniest response to someone saying 'May the fourth be with you' today is 'and also with you'. #IYKYK

Bluesky nerds! Can you help me get in touch with someone who works on East Indian languages, specifically in the 18th century?

There we go. This’ll cheer you up.

"My attachment to an AI bot and my potential sadness at it getting deleted means it's conscious " My brother, let me explain to you why fanfic exists, and is not proof fictional characters have consciousness.

TECH BRUNCHLORDS: we believe AI has successfully achieved human-level cognition NEUROLOGISTS: okay so your brain is like, imagine if there was a kind of pudding that sang two bars from Semi-Charmed Life whenever somebody nearby was baking cookies, right? we don’t know why it does that

So a while back, I got possibly my worst author contact form email ever. It was an AI-written message asking me to stop including trans and nonbinary characters in my books. I went UGH and deleted it like it was a pic of roadkill. But I find I still have pent up things to say about it. (1/?)

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

Absolutely adorable thread

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

There's no debate which is improved by the intervention of Tony Blair. This is ableism. It frames anxiety, depression and ADHD as things people just need to get on with, with no acknowledgement of how damaging that attitude is, or how hard it can be to be recognised and diagnosed in the first place.

benches, buses, and bathrooms. they should be everywhere

I just found out that an AI scammer is impersonating me in their spam campaign. I am LIVID. Please, please share this post. Warn people. I’m horrified that someone might be ripped off in my name. No one is safe from being impersonated like this.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25

LOS ANGELES: Please help these kitties Kit & Caboodle. Their owner passed away last week, and I've taken it upon myself to find them a loving forever home. They are GOOD BABIES. Can anyone *LA area only* adopt them? I just don't want them to end up in a kill shelter. Share, RT, ask around... thanks!

Several folks in my mentions said they quit watching the new Count of Monte Cristo on PBS because it features Black actors. My friend, you are going to be shocked when you learn the ethnicity of Alexandre Dumas.

This would be the same guy who, just this week, went to campaign for Orban and reduced his chances of winning the election?

yall can we help with this?

Dad insisted that I wear a tie to go to the cinema. He never went with us, so of course the tie came off as soon as I was on the bus.

Oh my god, Coco is just like this! He got really cross with me earlier for leaving him out in the garden by himself for two minutes!