I think I’m meant to be building a network of people. I’m not sure how or why but I do. Obviously that’s not enough to be actionable currently but still

Did I tell you I did AI training and qualification alongside my home-consultancy team? And having thought I was the only one trying to hold a smile while screaming, it turns out everyone was to some extent? Great lines include “the biggest IP theft of all time”

Ahhhhh! Haha. I couldn’t work out why yesterday night I glanced at bluesky and could see I had DMs, when I haven’t registered my ID etc etc… Yesterday, of course, I was in France. DMs have gone again now!

The news all sucks today. Here's a kitten in a library!

We should start removing the citizenship of weasels like this. If you don’t like paying your taxes and want to live in another country, fine, go, but you won’t be getting back in

Went to a button shop in Paris today and spent a fortune on vintage buttons. I can go in the fancy brand stores and come out unmoved, but vintage buttons? Take my money.

Science literacy rates are at an all time low

When I hear people voice this defense of rape unthinkingly I always feel that they mean exactly what they say - why would she (be doing some kind of normal activity)? Rape is intended as punishment/ terror for leading a normal, public facing life - these questions bind and reinforce that that logic

People might look at me and think “why are you so arsed about enjoying being fancy YOU SNOB??” I say might but they do. Some subreddits suck is all 😄 And my answer, that I’m not going to give them directly is: If you’ve never been turned away or sneered at for not fitting in, you don’t know

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I really struggle sometimes because I don’t feel like I deserve anything. I run teams, lots of teams, like 50+ people altogether and I try so hard to be nice and I think people are nice to me because I’m too senior now not to be nice to. I get paid lots and it feels like a lie even though I know

Folks miss this all the time; the art of war is "Baby's First Guide to Generalship." That's *WHY* it's still applicable as a primer; because everything in it is *dirt simple.* The logic behind it hasn't changed in 2,500 years of technological advancement for the same reason basic arithmetic hasn't.

You should see what he says about you

Well shit, at least we get the holiday eh

honestly this is my favorite gender selection of all: that's actually my gender! Opt Out!

Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.

Genuinely fascinated by the news coverage which seems to be trying to position “Losing Face” as being on a par with “Doing a Literal War Crime”

I’ve often thought of us all like aphids in my garden, and here we are. Oblivious, mostly, to the threats we face. Powerless, certainly.

This is a far simpler answer than people would like to believe. Trump issues the order via the National Military Command Center to the commander of Strategic Command, and then STRATCOM carries it out directly. There is no second vote, no veto, no check-and-balance.

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

This is like when I tell people the reason they're concerned about mercury in fish is because of coal fired plants and the mercury isn't there naturally and I get all BIG EYED like wtf. YES WE DID THIS WE POISONED OURSELVES

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

u committed one of the classic blunders, never cancel therapy during a land war in asia

I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.

Could someone just distract Trump with a documentary about himself on repeat and then a tea towel over the face so he falls asleep in his chair? Could we not fucking die for this bs please? I’ve got a new handbag and I’m going on holiday

Secret service agents trying to lure Trump away from the nuclear football with the promise of a "magic hamburger"

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

For me, the question isn’t whether generating art with AI is good or bad. It’s just definitionally impossible. Art is what humans create to express the nonliteral. An algorithm, however much data it has, has no sense of the nonliteral. It might make something that pleases you, but it can’t make art.

Adults forced a young girl named “Cara” to remove her mask for their comfort. Cara’s mother had cancer and was immune compromised. Cara caught covid, gave it to her mom and her mom died. Imagine doing that to a child because you don’t want to see a mask? It’s appalling.

there was a time the old heads remember when the internet existed and capitalism didn't realize what it could do to the place yet the problem is capitalism the internet used to be beautiful and can be again

Thomas gets taken to a black ops site

I am a medieval historian!! The world always is in a state, it has never not been in a state, joy and delight and beauty is what humanity exists for

And he was always so chill and nice to the kids?? Also in British tradespeople terms I have always wanted to know, was Jesus a cabinet maker or a joiner? Or some kind of hybrid? Genuine q for any biblical scholars if you’re reading

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

Successful boomers genuinely don’t get the whole idea of conversation extending beyond themselves even if it’s REEEEAALLY not landing well and occasional intrusive questions for the other party

We put Paris into Netflix an got Emily in Paris. Honestly I quite like it. I just want something easy and comforting to watch. We were watching my little pony but it was getting a bit stressful. We’ve seen them all before but it’s for teaching children social rules so every episode is a faux pas

No one ever warns you when you’re a child who loves a silly tv comedy that you’ll have to spend your adult life concealing an encyclopaedic knowledge of father Ted from Irish colleagues And you can’t say “omg the guy in that call -his surname was CRILLY 😃” because you will sound nuts & maybe racist

Gonna take my child to Paris and be all “look at these steps all the way up to the Sacre Coeur. They’re tiring to walk up, but John wick had to kill guys all the way up. You remember that right?” like any dreamy mother

I remember one year, when my daughter was a tot, I had for my birthday a Hermès silk scarf, so blue and so pretty. 90cm sq in silk. I have worn it to various places, including Costa 😄 It cost £250 then, which was a lot for us at the time. And is now for sale online for £1000???

Well, it is 5.15am and I have not slept at all. Boo.

Well when you put it like that, I’m sold. (from @xiandivyne.bsky.social)

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

You know, once a jury has made its decision you are extremely justified in dropping the "allegedly"

Just seen helpmeleave.us on Instagram (@/helpmeleaveassociation) which I think is a wonderful and needed thing - US folk who are in marginalised communities and need to get out but don’t know how, please have a look, or share - they’re talking about there being a small window of time left to do it

Every ceo demanding licensed people in their organization use AI should wake the fuck up

BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee just formally subpoenaed Pam Bondi to answer questions about the Epstein investigation behind closed doors on April 14. tinyurl.com/ympvmxh2