“Without triggering resistance” and “there’s currently no resistance” do not seem to be equivalent sentences

I think the true test of being a “regular” in the local bar scene is how often the owners say “keep an eye on it I just have to pop out” (four different venues in Brum so far 😂)

Helpy. Not once. Never

Q: can anyone find royal mail’s “last posting days for Xmas” for *international* letters? All i can dig up are their normal international “goal” timelines for parcels…

I mean good for him but I don’t wanna hear complaints when it doesn’t sell well. Writing on “men’s issues” obviously limits you to half the potential audience & as it’s the half that prefer “getting buff” or “painting warcraft minifigs” to intellectual tasks like reading you’ve harmed ur own sales 🤷‍♀️

I mean my take is that no commercially available gen AI is ethical or safe to use. (Iterative & focused = maybe). But i’m an “extremist” - are there softer approaches? (*please* pay attention to the caveats e.g. diff between gen & iterative)

I think the true test of being a “regular” in the local bar scene is how often the owners say “keep an eye on it I just have to pop out” (four different venues in Brum so far 😂)

#GardenFlowers - I don’t normally plant anything I can’t eat but I have enjoyed the random old seed packet results this year: I might treat myself to a few “for cutting” flowers next year.

I mean good for him but I don’t wanna hear complaints when it doesn’t sell well. Writing on “men’s issues” obviously limits you to half the potential audience & as it’s the half that prefer “getting buff” or “painting warcraft minifigs” to intellectual tasks like reading you’ve harmed ur own sales 🤷‍♀️

the police yesterday were leaning against the racists' enclosure, chatting and joking and accepting cups of tea from them. meanwhile they fenced off the counter-protestors in an unsmiling line of riot gear. they're not your friends and they will not protect you

Where’s a good online space for posting multiple short book reviews? I do a visual #ThisQuartersBooks on insta but caption isn’t long enough for a few words/fav-least fav summary. Not goodreads, I don’t want to rank or score, or do 1 at a time, more to remind myself about the books than to share 📚

The racism at the heart of the Labour right is absolutely immovable.

Similarly, I have a friend whose parents weren't married, because she was born before Loving vs. Virginia. She's, like, mid 60s.

It’s amazing how quickly the web’s degraded as an info source. B was trying to find comparison info/reviews of a specific tool & even off-google, all AI turned off, the first 5 goodlooking hits were the *same* slopAI article which didn’t talk about the tool he wanted! (Do not give search advice thx)

The police will have the power to make it a criminal offence to cover your face at a public protest if Labour’s proposed policing bill becomes law, putting LGBTQIA+ people attending Pride events in danger of being outed

That's my photo! How cool is that?? (Although I do hope the original user bought a copy from one of the stock photo agencies I work with and didn't just lift it from my social media feed.)

A short discussion from me about the nature of disposable ('burner') phones, and how to get one as safely as possible. Maybe this will help you or someone you know. priorplanning.life/2025/11/12/b...

Sorry but it is absolutely unreasonable that I should have to put the big light on in order to read a book at 3.30 in the afternoon.

Was supposed to be doing Xmas shopping (I have v limited weekends now due to work things ) but I just ended up buying the biggest heaviest fragile object in the chairty* shop for myself - ikea mega-bag for scale *(Thrift store/op shop)

During the Gaza genocide, she co-founded Crips for eSims for Gaza, which has raised millions of dollars to support internet and phone connectivity for Palestinians in Gaza. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_W...

There’s something supremely satisfying about getting a tankard rather than any other pint glass (Yes it is a cheese and raw onion cob - leave your tedious British food opinions in the bin.)

A coalition of Jewish groups has condemned the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for creating the so-called Mamdani Monitor, calling it a "blatantly Islamophobic" and racist targeting of New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...

(thread up for context) - so much this. There's at one local leaflet/poster/promo artist whose work just gives slopAI vibes (think pastel 50s-nostalgia-modernism) and I *know* it isn't but now something about that aesthetic is entirely spoilt for me. I feel really sorry for them.

This is wild but not pleasant trip down memory lane.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

If you don’t know @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s writing and activism, honour her memory and reward yourself by seeking it out. A huge loss, a unique voice.

People are desperate for validation, for acceptance, for reassurance, for someone to tell them they are loved The computer can say these words to them but does so without meaning what it says Desperate people want to see those words in the 2nd person regardless of sincerity So they are exploited

Having so many politics/US public figure words muted means the big news often reaches me like a cryptic crossword I have to solve, but boy howdy whatever has broken today seems super weird…

There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp

#Housegawp and to answer your question, yes it is a private residence (although it was once a hotel). The VIEW. www.onthemarket.com/details/1527...

We must resist this with absolute fury. Effectively asking staff to choose between pay or pension is diabolical. If they they get away with it here it will happen everywhere. Everyone in the education sector needs to get behind this.

OK so I have now read my second mid-1970s protein study - this time by actual proper scientist - where manatees are mentioned as potential foods of the future. Is it just... because they're called sea cows, or did the manatee have some sort of 1970s moment I don't know about?

idk it's just not a very good or subtle look to be repeatedly accused of being a person who likes girls very young and then be head of trust and safety on a social media site and then instaban people who criticise paedophiles. But I am not a big brain social media person what do I know.

1. Open borders, for real -- make it as easy to move between countries as it is to move between states 2. Make millionaires illegal -- 100% tax on income over $1 million. 3. Personhood for everything in the non-human world.

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

(ngl it's actually quite scary to think you can get randomly banned by bsky mods for something you might have said, as a joke, in context, in passing, a month ago without any warning or knowing anyone was concerned or uspet by it).

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Huh, turns out there's no "one month backlog" for the moderation team at all. Mysterious how you float to the top of their pile.

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

#FridayFossil - i really appreciate fossils that are immediately identifiable even by non experts like me 😅 #Beachcombing

Wow, it looks like we have our first death related to alpha-gal syndrome

mention of “the jungle” reminds me again that upton sinclair intended that book to be a shocking expose of abusive labor conditions, but americans took it as a food safety warning instead

Because I can't remember names, I'm hoping the person who contacted me about a history of cancer evaluation project'll see this. You emailed several months ago, when I was v busy. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to search my emails to find yours. This message is to say apologies for not responding :s!

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

5.5 weeks from testing day for the NHS to send me a letter with the results (results which were *immediately available* and required no further analysis). FFS. Luckily I'm fine & the technician showed me the results when I was there so I wasn't waiting in agonies of anxiety. The NHS is broken.

So wait, we are or we aren't allowed to do ostensibly sincere death wishes, or does it just depend

I find the phrase “makes history” nonsensical. Have you seen the stuff historians study? Just dropping an old piece of farm equipment down a well or accidentally freezing to death in a glacier gives you a good shot at the history books

slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes

I sometimes think about the diversity of people who follow me when I push things like this into my feed and I like the fact that it'll hit with c.10%. We are all complex beings and should be so on social media too, sod the algorithm and the push to be a hedgehog. What's your specialism? Everything!