i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

As a writer, I strive to always relfect our world somehow, esp in fantasy and sci fi. In Kipo, I wrote about a fictional dystopian Los Angeles that LGBTQ+ kids are very much a part of, bc it reflects the real LA we based it on. LGBTQ+ kids exist. Trans kids exist. That shouldn't be controversial.

OMG so frustrated by the UK's immigration systems. I have indefinite leave to remain, which has superceded my now expired British Residence Permit. There is no actual piece of paper / card to say this, only a share code. But noone has told the airlines who insist on a document that doesn't exist.

In one minute! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annie-bot-...

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Excited to be talking AI & SF (incl. killer-love-sex-art bots) with 2025's @clarkeaward.bsky.social winner, Sierra Greer, my fave @drkatedevlin.bsky.social and the Science Museum's Jenny Wong Thurs 2 Oct at 1pm BST at Kings' online AI conference. Tix are free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annie-bot-...

A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

Great answer. Added alt text.

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

Elon Musk, a white South African, will end up causing more misery across the African continent than anyone else in recent history

This stuff is wild. And also a good reminder to subscribe to WIRED.

I've written about this a half-dozen times since 2015, because it continues to be relevant that the alt-right originally weaponized irony and memes in order to 1) spread extremism without consequence and 2) cultivate all these semi-ironic violent extremist edgelords foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/15/c...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Read the thread. She saw it ALL coming.

From the original Swedish researchers.

“Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.” —@thetattooedprof.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/some... 1/n

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

“This confirms once more that when it comes to copyright and its enforcement, there is one law for the rich corporations, and another law for the rest of us.”

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

Anyway, I made a Bitsy game and I had a really good experience doing it. I'm particularly proud of the big piece of art towards the end, which I spent much of Saturday doing. It's gothic horror with dark humour so it's not for everyone but I hope you enjoy it. mandyjwatson.itch.io/to-reanimate...

This is a good line though: "One does not teach ‘Macbeth’ and then give “equal prominence” to a text arguing that regicide is a good idea to provide “balance.” The balance comes from the critical skills taught to analyse the text, not from teaching an “opposing” novel."

The follow up point by point rebuttal makes me feel heartened that local journalism isn't dead but by GOD when you hear what he says in his own words it's...not far off the 14 words. dorseteye.com/a-response-t... #KidlitUK

This is NOT just america. This is happening here. Local coverage of it, if you can bear the pop up ads.... www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2548259... #UKKidlit #Edusky

In my latest Substack article, I’m talking about the Anthropic lawsuit, what it means for authors, and most importantly what we can do as a collective to push back. 📚✍🏾 open.substack.com/pub/nadinema...

Best thing I saw at Ed. Fringe (before I had to rush home for a cat emergency). I'd 💯 go again if I was in London that week. sohotheatre.com/events/cabba.... Cabbage ushers-in (sorry!) a delightful absurdist whimsy about cinema jobs & queer crushes. Hilarious, charming, peculiar with killer costumes

Teenagers can die and be maimed by violence, but cannot be allowed to read about it. Teenagers can get SID and underage pregnancies and suffer sexual violence, but must be protected from reading about sex. Does that about sum it up?

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Bristol! I will be back tomorrow for a special event at the Museum. www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/bri...

If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

"We're going to destroy access to useful, factual information and use a water-destroying electricity hog that screws up all the time." people: that sounds bad. why? "It'll make a ton of money for my underground bunker once I've drained all you rubes dry" people: oh. can I write a novel with it?

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

We should all have freedom of movement, to seek a better life for ourselves and our loved ones, and especially to get out of an unbearable situation. Some people vote like they're billionaires-in-waiting, but we're actually all asylum-seekers-in-waiting.

Some actual stats on migration from the UK GOV. In 2024: 1 million extensions of stay, 374k EU settlement, 257k citizenship, 163k settlement, 436k study visas, 286k work visas, 71k family visas, 111k asylum seekers, 33k humanitarian www.gov.uk/government/s...

A big part of why I'm here is exactly the same reason asylum seekers are here - because of a history that fundamentally broke our countries, centuries of European exploitation, slavery, colonialism, segregation, political interference, pillaging resources, corruption* and now climate change.

Re-upping this whole thread from last month:

The truth is there are three kinds of people: the disabled, the pre-disabled, and the doomed to die suddenly. Most of us will be disabled at some point.

Oh look, it's me! I'm here on ILR. So are many friends. The legal process has cost me £14 000 so far over the last 3 years, including paying a £5000 NHS surcharge before I even set foot in the country. Migrants means all of us - asylum seekers, students, ex-pats, EU, and people on high level visas

Still listening to BRIDGE by @laurenbeukes.com while I draw. Usually multiverse tales are literally escapist fantasies. Lauren asks a smart question about jumping worlds I'd never thought of before. So DARK. Read this book! laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/

"I did nothing to these people, but every day I have to see them gleefully cheer online about the anticipated death of my chosen profession. I had no idea we artists were so hated—I still don't know why. What did my silly little cat drawings do to earn so much contempt?"

*Sounds plausible #authors #rippedoff

Yep. Also Central Asia is on fire and the working class is carrying the torch. The Nepalese government has been deposed, Indoensia is having a One-Piece revolution, and Modi feels the walls closing in. If you look outside the US, there's reason to hope everywhere. We're winning globally.

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

Apart from rudely pointing out that Moxyland is almost 20 years old (it's only 17!) this Salotto Giallo review of the new Fanucci edition is gorgeously written, thoughtful and incisive and ALSO points out all the horrible resonances/relevances today. salottogiallo.com/2025/09/01/m...

Review: 'Promises' is a tale of how the dream of migrant life rarely works out as desired for young Africans, especially when the path they take is neither straight nor narrow, and puts them at odds with an inhospitable authority.

Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Sauútiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: Sauúti Terrors! Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry. Jan 2026.

this should be a compulsory read to everyone in higher education regardless of your proximity to AI

Just to note that Clarke Award winners, Sierra Grier and @laurenbeukes.com will be talking about SFF at this online event on 2nd Oct and it looks to be super interesting: