I've spent a bit of time looking for online document collaboration that is not going to shove AI down my throat (and get in the way of the writing) and is definitely never going to use content as AI training data. And it seems to be maybe Dropbox? Am I missing something obvious?

Let the burning of your indignation become a fire that moves you to true and beautiful action.

Reasons why @joalo.bsky.social may be right that Victoria is Best State.

If anyone's ever wondered why my cis ass goes hard on behalf of trans folks and trans women especially, often regardless of their own character? This kinda shit is why. Same reason I'm speaking up about Link now, same reason with regards to that petition for Aveta when they got targeted too.

¿Porque no los tres?

As far as we know, the BBC didn't officially refused to interview @greenparty.org.uk leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social during conference - but leaving out our Jewish party leader in the week a terrorist murdered and terrorised Jewish people in his own city feels like a very deliberate editorial call

I’ll try again. All of these original artworks are still available on my website, there are some spooky things and some nice textures and lines that you won’t find anywhere else. Thank you for looking. 🖼️ and if you share this that would be super www.chloecumming.com

In a diagram of a chess position which direction does the knight symbol face? Left or right?

Putting aside the question of AI personhood, a slur requires a history of dehumanization. In order to fuction, the slur has to call into being that history of dehumanization for its injurious force. There is no such history for LLMs, regardless of claims otherwise.

The Welsh for owl is the delightfully onomatopoeic gwdihŵ. Enjoy this happy owl story from Wales.

"Doctor Who is back for the new season on One..." BBC1 trailer for "Remembrance of the Daleks" part 1 (1988). #DoctorWho

I’m singing “Venlafaxine” to the tune of hit single “Bob the Builder”, so now you are too.

PSNI officers were used to arrest some of the Palestine Action protesters yesterday. Does any of the devolved administrations have the authority to refuse sending police to assist elsewhere in the UK? (I’ll probably end up neck deep in legislation to find the answer to this but I need breakfast.)

The instinct of this government is ever further restrictions on civil liberties. It is authoritarian at its core, and at this stage needs to be opposed by anyone who at all considers themselves a progressive.

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

How to make your suburb less bland: lessons from 1911. Possibly of interest to @acarpen.bsky.social who is often heard complaining about bland architecture around Cambridge’s growing fringes

Large language models can suck my bits.

the reason bigotry is bad isnt because it treats ANYTHING as a mere object, its bad because it objectifies PEOPLE. if you treat an inanimate object as an inanimate object, that is acttually what we would like to call "sensible"

its impossible to dehumanise an LLM because its not human. its impossible to be bigoted towards an LLM is because its not a person. we can all engage in our little sophistries of "oh but your brain also uses electrons" but at the end of the day one of us is a person and one is not

"As political allegory, then, the return of Odysseus could be the reassertion of a monarch over a fractious oligarchy. The Odyssey could be seen as advocating for the expedience of autocracy over the corrupted dangers of oligarchy (or, perhaps, a proto-democracy)." neoskosmos.com/en/2025/10/0...

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

"Protests Are Highly Effective, Met Police Confirm"

i will NOT let the DEVELOPER WOKE MOB stop me from enjoying COMMUNIST WAFFLES

Look at these fucks who all of a sudden know what a proscribed organisation is

For one thing when he was alive I hadn’t heard of him, which was definitely a better state of affairs.

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying, "It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza" "These are separate things and we should condemn them both"

Today is grey and wet and cold and has had two power cuts, as if the world is clamouring for a duvet.

Oh no. One of the deceased in Manchester was killed by gunshot from police

And this is the problem. Because antisemitism is always, always wrong. This was an attack on British Jews, praying in their shul on the holiest day of the year. If your response to hearing of their murder starts with “but Gaza” you are missing the point.

If you believe the specific requirement for additional registration with the US Copyright Office is excluding work you know was stolen for the LibGen database, let the SoA know.

Buy Ellie’s things! They’re shiny and nice!

i think there is this idea that "well at some point we will all have to use the mind poison so we should make sure our children have an advantage and start them on the mind poison early" like did this happen when cigarettes were invented too

Why is Amol Rajan everywhere? Oh gods and he’s talking to that abusive headteacher. Might be time for radio off.

Budget cuts come for us all. My contract with Amtrak is not being renewed and it's up tomorrow. I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography. #gigeconomy #opentowork

CW: depression, ideation (& the brain) Case study: stimulation of the sustantia nigra produces acute, intense depression that dissipates as soon as stimulation stops. Wow. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17561432/ (FYI: In follow-up, the individual had no mood issues 5 yrs out; whew!).

If you see this skeet, skeet a pic from your device with no explanation

Whew! Not felt energised enough by work to take a longer route home for a while. Not very far, not very fast, but it makes me happy. strava.app.link/bIK3Ex9S8Wb

"There's good news and there's bad news. The bad news is that you're stuck here in Purgatory forever." "Oh, that's a bit disappointing, if I'm honest. What's the good news?" "Here's your library card."

One of my friends applied to the High Court for a winding-up petition against the London subsidiary of Credit Suisse, which got their attention.

The heating in my building is not working "because of a mechanical problem with an item of equipment". At this rate there's going to be a mechanical problem with my fingers. *fx: goes to find more coffee to hug*

there are simply no words to describe the grief of this happening on yom kippur.

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

The Ambassador of South Africa to France, who filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Criminal Court, has died after falling from the 22nd floor of the hotel where he was staying in Paris. It was reported that the ambassador had been unreachable for the two days prior to his death

Dear lazysky please recommend me a book!

Crying wolf is actually ok WHEN THERES A FUCKING WOLF

Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?