I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

That magpie right there does not remotely realise how lucky it is that I have netting on the windows 😬 #CatSky #Caturday

A quick heads up; The UK government is currently holding a consultation on the Online Safety Act. The consultation lasts until the end of next month. Please fill it out if you live in the UK and/or share it around to get more eyes on it. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

A cause for national shame. This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe. Until 2015, the UK was top. We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe. We're now near Albania.

Mousse knows the new pay offer my employer has made us and she is not happy about it. If they don’t have an offer matching inflation soon I might just have to sic her on management. That might be scarier than me striking. #CatSky #MousseCat #FairPay

BREAKING: Zack Polanski alleged to have kept using WinRAR ‘considerably’ beyond the end of the provided 40 day free trial

100% this! Every time I’ve been encouraged to use AI for work it’s done this. I spent ages doing annoying rewriting instead of just… doing the nice puzzle of writing it in the first place!

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

"people called Russo, they go in the house?"

I’m having shower thoughts about dubbing. When English stuff is dubbed in French, sometimes they have to make sentences that are a bit odd or change meaning, I suspect partly because it takes more words to translate the same stuff. Is it the reverse in English dubbed French movies?!

An expert opinion that the scam reported by the BBC wouldn’t work, and so was a scam on applicants not the system, seems like important context

In other news, I don’t know if it’s the UK weather and pressure changes but this month I keep having #migraines. Basically every week. I am not a fan of this, whatever is causing it needs to go away.

I just found out that #WhiskerWednesday is a thing and what do you mean I could have spammed people with #cat pics outside of Saturdays?! Anyway here is Croissant with one of her classic expressions. #CatSky 🥐

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I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Very much recommend doing this - will improve your reading life!

As a 6'4" man who has spent the morning flyering, people who have their letterboxes at the very bottom of the front door should be fed to wolves.

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

“Ministers justified reducing support for people too disabled or ill to work by arguing it would remove the “perverse incentives” that discourage employment… as if a twentysomething bedbound with ME just needs “incentivising” to get back to the building site” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It is utterly terrifying that Palantir is being pushed onto the NHS whether patients want it or not. The Good Law Project page makes it ridiculously easy to write to your local NHS trust- take a minute to help us all keep our data safe from their hands!

NGL this makes me feel better about the typo I put in a work email yesterday.

Every. Goddamn. Company.

It’s the girls’ first birthday! 🥳 In 365 days they have gone from tiny sprouts to chonkausoruses. Please enjoy a before and after. Again, brace for unbearable cuteness… #CatSky #CatsofBluesky

the thing is, people could easily just watch the fucking shitty wizard show and keep their mouth shut abt it. but they want to not only do whatever they want, they want to tell people about it and argue about how they're still a good person. they want everyone else to assuage their guilt for them

In the last hour of #Caturday please let me bring you my biological daughter Brioche and her perfect little sleepy face and toe beans 😍 #Catsky #CatsOfBluesky

No one is trying to tell you that you are not allowed to feel nostalgic for what Harry Potter may have once meant to you as a kid; they are literally just asking you to not fund their destruction.

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

New Philosophy Tube drops on YouTube in a week. It’s a massive one about the history of conversion therapy from 1849-2026, as the British health service is bringing it back. You can see it now on Nebula, or if you’re a Patreon patron.

I don’t want 99% of the “advancements” being forced on and/or sold to me. I want clean air, clean water, and a stable ecosystem and planet. I want free healthcare and education. I want justice and collective liberation.

we dare you to find a museum more ready

Actually crying 😂

Honestly very much my energy today

I believe I’ve just taken my best ever picture of Mousse. #catsky

This! This this this! ⬇️

Just Fancy That! Sam Altman on ads in ChatGPT. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Oh I forgot to use #CatSky #CatsOfBluesky #Cats didn’t I? Well, there you go. 🐈‍⬛🐈

It’s #Caturday so indulge me… An intro post to my babies. Born in March, among 9 kittens from 2 mums, in my friend’s garden. Being allergic, he setup a safe nest outside & fed them as much as possible. I first met them at 4 weeks old. I meant to adopt 1 or MAYBE 2. ⚠️ Brace for cuteness. ⚠️ 1/7

Will the winter never be over, Will the dark days never go? Must the buttercup and the clover Be always hid under the snow? Ah, lend me your little ear, love! Hark! 'tis a beautiful thing; The weariest month of the year, love, Is shortest and nearest to spring. Adeline Whitney

The girls apparently understand umbrellas now and I think I have actually died from the cuteness. #CatSky

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

In August I decided that I would keep 3, not 2 kittens because Croissant slept on my pillow at night and was a total foster fail. I don’t have a single regret. This cat spoons with me at night. She’s bonkers in the best ways. She loves her sisters. What a fucking blessing. #CatSky #CroissantTheCat

Loin d'être l'arbitre neutre que ses créateurs prétendent vendre, ChatGPT semble avoir franchi une ligne rouge inquiétante en intégrant dans ses sources Grokipedia, l'encyclopédie générée par l'IA d'Elon Musk. Par Romain Leclaire

Friends! And strangers! I've just used Good Law Project's tool to email MPs on the Council of Europe and let them know they don’t have to bend down to Sex Matter’s transphobic threats. The more they hear from us, the harder it’ll be for them to ignore us. Be an ally, takes 1m: goodlaw.social/9f10d1

Mousse is so confused by the new water fountain that she has forgotten how to sit up like a normal feline.

Mousse is a good multitasking cat. She supervises my work and also guards my clementine.

Juuuuust setting up and will be live soon. #ADMIN

Of course it’s also time for #caturday photo dump of the kittens