AS FOR EXAMPLE WHEN LUDACRIS RAPS

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

“It’s not that I wouldn’t miss people if they retained their corporeal form when they’re not in my presence - but they just don’t. I don’t make the rules.” Keep The Daily Tism in the room with you at all times by signing up to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/145597...

Paige Thomas, 38, who has extreme sensory aversions, is exhausted by social interactions and cries when balloons pop unexpectedly, still needs someone who knows what they’re talking about to validate what’s bleeding obvious to anyone who’s paying attention.

My son bought me what I thought was a drill. Turned out to be a toblerone gaffer-taped to a bottle of Bailey’s.

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year. Im sure there will be no issues there at all.

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

For those in the UK Birmingham, B'ham Hospice do a fab Christmas Tree collection service in return for a donation. If you book in between now and Jan 5th, they'll collect it from outside your home over the weekend of the 10th/11th. birminghamhospice.org.uk/treecycling

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

More of this. For humans too. "The overpass is 200 feet wide and 209 feet long, covering 41,800 square feet, state officials said. It was completed within a year, faster than projected." www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Merry Christmas to my mother, who got my toddler a toy fire engine that not only makes lots of noise, it also sprays real water

Santa Claus Pikachu at the Shibuya Pokemon Center in Tokyo

Not quite a full #DuvetKnowItsChristmas entry this year, as I have an entire (single) bed in a spare room mostly free of junk, but I think I gain points for yoga mat, random wig, and Dad having to scavange a bulb from his bedside lamp because mine didn't have one.

We've banished my brother to the office. No curtains? No problem. Gaffer tape and black card has done the job. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

I’ve been using this hashtag to frame my poor nephew’s looming experience as a lovely tradition as we set him up here for the next four nights. #Duvetknowitschristmas

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Snowcat with twig whiskers #artadventcalendar #snow #cat

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

Grandma did a perfect accidental spoonerism of bucks fizz earlier: “Who is getting the fucks bizz?” 😮‍💨

This was posted yesterday by a retired senior officer and now corporate leader. If AI cannot even generate a map of the US accurately what is it all about? Lunacy.

Happy Holidays! Christmas family foto with my newly handsewn fuzzy Christmas troll tree (with a pair of vintage doll feet) and my troll dolls are in awe with their new festive friend. #crafts #diy #christmas #vintage #dolls #trolldolls #retro #sewing #handsewing #plushie #toys #cat

Plain language is communication that your audience or readers can understand the first time they hear or read it. The terminology you use will vary depending on the audience. Always aim to avoid jargon when possible, especially when you have a broad general audience.

Anyone can become disabled. Anyone can become chronically ill. It’s not a choice. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. You can be the healthiest person in the world & completely disabled in an instant. It’s a minority group you can join anytime.

I just don't understand how or why academics are citing papers that don't exist. First, you should know by now that LLMs make things up, so if you for some reason found it that way and then didn't double check the citation is real, you are simply an enormous rube.

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve. #Storytime

I spend an awful lot of time thinking about this moment in the history of King Crimson and it's transformative implications for our understanding of authorship. There's a straight line from here to me seeing my audience as co-creators of my work.

Excellent news! Another man who can’t laugh at himself.

Meanwhile the BBC has suddenly announced Huey Morgan is leaving 6 Music in just over a week's time, with comments disabled on their Insta post. I never forgave him for making nasty and extremely obviously wrong public comments about Lauren Laverne many years ago, so good riddance from me at least

There is so much, much more to read in kids’ books than Walliams or Rowling. It’s an embarrassingly rich world. Check out @louiestowell.bsky.social or @nadiashireen.bsky.social or any number of glorious, funny, heartfelt titles. You’ve got such treats in store without spending blood money.

Surprised. Not.

David Walliams hosted an ultra-sleazy secretive men-only dinner where the waitresses were seriously sexually harassed, propositioned, groped, & frightened, 3 years running, and never really apologised, and somehow got away with it www.thebookseller.com/news/trade-r...

Just a cyclamen appreciation post... Photo: Chris Davies, Anglesey Abbey

If someone quotes a post, and then the quoted post gets deleted, but for some reason you want to find out who made that now-deleted post, then you can use this lookup tool I just made: dracos.co.uk/made/bluesky...

Thinking about my mate Sausage today, named that since a teenage camping trip when he wanted his sausages cooked for longer than anyone else. You never know when life is going to ambush you with something that sticks forever. Sausage is in his 50s now.

Stirchley folk - @artefactstirchley.bsky.social are crowdfunding. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/artefact-r...

Hang on in there, its nearly the shortest day, we can make it.

Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️ Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Athens c. 475-465 BC. Photo Getty Museum: www.getty.edu/art/collecti... #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

“media literacy shouldn’t just be a side topic but treated as civic infrastructure”. The teaching of it a type of “psychological inoculation”. In Finland journalists impart this wisdom. Can’t see this working in the UK when so much of our media relies on its ability to misinform ignorant people.

The experiences of trans people, and others assumed to be trans, when using the bathroom in accordance with the UK Supreme Court ruling: 🧵 (CW: violence)

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Very happy indeed about this. Erasmus was a formative experience of my life and tragic it has been denied to so many since Brexit. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Sign my petition calling on Rachel Reeves to end tax breaks for fossil fuel companies and fund a Jobs Guarantee instead: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...