The base of a 2,000 year old, Late Iron Age Durotrigian style Black Burnished Ware bowl from Winterborne Kingston #Dorset A series of squiggles were scored into the fabric prior to firing - decoration, doodle or pot-makers mark? 📷 during cleaning in June 2013 #FindsFriday

I met these good people in Telluride in the autumn and can confirm that they are UTTERLY, UTTERLY DELIGHTFUL. Can't wait to see Pillion. Friends who've seen it have all told me it's a full-on masterpiece 🔥

Ok, this is cool. In America, in Nebraska, we lived next to an airbase. British Vulcans were based there; Vulcans are the coolest of planes - an art nouveau Star Wars of a shape and Neil Young feedback of a roar. I recall them flying over, and here one is, all faded like a photocopy of a photocopy

Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives. If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜

The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users. #EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct

This is no longer AI. It's a programme designed to give a specific response. Like back in the 80s we learned BASIC and you could write a programme that would make the computer answer the question "who is the best?" with "Arthur is the best". I was eight years old and it was fun. It wasn't AI.

The martyrdom of Edmund, King of East Anglia by Viking invaders, tied to a tree and shot through with arrows. A 15th Century wall painting at Stoke Dry, Rutland. Today's the feast of St Edmund of East Anglia.

“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager.

Appearance of the Comet, 1618-1619 19 Nov 1618 (Rijksmuseum)

gasping for air here oh my god

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

Here’s the Fieldfare pochoir update you’ve been waiting for. I cut a very fiddly stencil with lots of holes for black stripes and streaks. And it worked! I actually said “wow!” to myself.

"Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

AI bubble looking good today. youtu.be/1ujRE2IkEIo?...

I still think about this little short film and just how utterly brilliant it is. youtu.be/RSmjqss0XKQ?...

"Like all men, but more so, he was a hunter"

Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My biggest fear when visiting a foreign country is that after a day of wandering I'll happen upon a little museum of me. Shuffling along with other tourists through rooms of my discarded effects and lost memories, unable to translate the labels. Learning nothing about myself.

Oh this is LOVELY. Claire talking about her role in H is for Hawk. She is not only an astonishing actor but an extraordinarily accomplished natural hawk-handler, entirely in tune with the birds www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Reading about the "Bristol-sized" city they're planning to build over where I live and staring at the illustration of "Forest City 1" is making me feel a kind of way

Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.

Tail-end of a 72 hour migraine listening to the blazing saddles soundtrack while one of my parrots wrecks a cardboard box laughing hysterically then impersonating my mother having a coughing fit and outside two pheasants duke it out on my waterlogged lawn

Ah the 1970s. Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

a “Space Force”, if you will

this is just such a stark contrast to the general Western mood that climate politics is dead. THIS is what climate politics is about (the political economy of decarbonization). Everything else follows.

The best short ghost story ever.

'"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, and I recognize... we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on.'

We went to a nuclear power station.

Me, underneath clouds during the solar storm

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy Stephano king King: oh criminy King: this again King: is there no one who will rid me of this vexing trillionaire Joyce Carol Oates:

Maplins Wicker Man

let us now have a good long look

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

HERE IT IS!!!!!

A friend showed me this screenshot and I started cackling, I was staining my tongue three different colors with OtterPops in 1998 are you fucking kidding me

Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...

Teen Vogue and their incredible reporters have been the bar for a bunch of years... Their reporting was the frontline of holding back fascism and protecting all of us. Today is a dark day. (And personally, Lex and the other Teen Vogue reporters are just awesome people.)

Local parish magazine never disappoints

City Lights, a San Francisco Institution founded by the late great Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has banners posted for this time in history

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Oh god @sinblache.bsky.social is it “nostalgia for nuclear tests” time already?

This is a piece of the Mamdani campaign that I think is really underdiscussed—that in a moment of terror and despair, his premise is that standing up against fascism can be joyous.

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.