Not saying you're wrong (I've not yet read Bacteria to AI) but this paper makes these things sound a lot less alarming: arxiv.org/pdf/2603.05498

Where there's Butter and Shoe, there have to be a few others to see. Coffee table book? Website?

I only realised this was happening today, but had the most wonderful time listening to it! Thank you to everyone (and I also belatedly realise that several are you are based in Cambridge lol)

Dave Doogan's turn of phrase in today's Parliamentary debate is delicious: we all knew that Peter Mandelson had "a serious human frailty for other people's wealth"

Progress to report! Since the start of 2025, the number of Pakistani women on #Wikidata has doubled! Over 1,500 more are now there, taking the total to over 3,000 🇵🇰♀️

#Pakistan #GenderRepresentation​ #WikiWomen @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social

Ha! Weirdly, that was indeed one of the very first things to unsteady me as a university student. (Maybe a gateway drug tho. Two years later I was both studying history and reading The Genealogy of Morals...)

This applies to the UK too. Pay your fair share, Amazon!
www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-camp...

Arifa Sobh Khan Pakistani journalist, critic and translator

15. Arifa Sobh Khan, literary journalist, critic and writer. (Article in the Western Punjabi Wikipedia.)

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130246...

Sarah Belal Pakistani human rights activist

14. Sarah Belal, human rights activist. (There's an article in the German Wikipedia.)

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126164...

Huma Jamil Babar Pakistani lawyer in Islamabad

13. Huma Jamil Babar, lawyer, activist and film producer

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125499...

Mahwish Afridi Pakistani development worker

12. Mahwish Afridi, development worker and director at the Hashoo Foundation

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108737...

Noni Byrnes Pakistani analytical chemist

11. Noni Byrnes, former director of the Center for Scientific Review at the #NIH (until her 2025 resignation)

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108143...

Natasha Khan Pakistani singer, songwriter, composer, and audio engineer

10. Natasha Khan (born 1984), Urdu singer and audio engineer now living in London. (Articles for her exist in the Punjabi, Western Punjabi, Saraiki and Urdu wikipedias.)

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66092386

Arifa Rizvi Pakistani writer

9. Arifa Rizvi (عارفہ رضوی, died 1978), PTV newscaster and Urdu short story writer. (She already has an article in the Urdu Wikipedia.)

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65277953

Ayesha Riyaz Resident Representative of Pakistan to the IAEA

8. Ayesha Riyaz, Resident Representative of Pakistan to the @iaeaorg.bsky.social

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51299492

Safia Hayat Urdu and Punjabi poet

7. Safia Hayat (born 1969), Urdu and Punjabi poet. (There are articles in the Hindi, Punjabi and Western Punjabi wikipedias.)

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30450738

Faria Bukhari actor

6. Faria Bukhari, actress. (She has articles in the Kashmiri, Punjabi and Western Punjabi wikipedias.)

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27576199

Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari Pakistani politician

5. Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari (born 1990), daughter of Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari. (She has articles in the Punjabi and Urdu wikipedias, and is apparently here on Bluesky as @bakhtawarbz.bsky.social )

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20643235

Fouzia Bhatti Pakistani poet and writer

4. Fouzia Bhatti (born 1979), Urdu poet and writer. (She already has articles in the Punjabi and Urdu wikipedias.)

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19891523

Hina Sultan Television host and actor

3. Hina Sultan, TV host and actress. (She has articles in the Kashmiri, Punjabi, Western Punjabi, Saraiki and Urdu wikipedias.)

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14864846

Noshi Gilani Pakistani writer

2. Noshi Gilani (born 1964), Urdu poet and former academic living in Australia.

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7061807

Faiza Khan Pakistani artist, curator, activist, and actress

It's also true that most women in Wikidata aren't yet in English @wikipedia.org

So here are 15 Pakistani women still needing English Wikipedia pages #WikiWomen #WikiWomenInRed

1. Faiza Khan (born 1975), painter. (There are articles in Punjabi, Western Punjabi, Saraiki and Urdu Wikipedias.)

Needless to say, we have way further to go on the journey to digital #KnowledgeEquity. For example, Pakistan's population is over 25 times that of Switzerland. Yet Switzerland still has 6 times as many #Wikidata biographical items as Pakistan.

#DigitalDivide #GlobalInequality

Progress to report! Since the start of 2025, the number of Pakistani women on #Wikidata has doubled! Over 1,500 more are now there, taking the total to over 3,000 🇵🇰♀️

#Pakistan #GenderRepresentation​ #WikiWomen @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social

Oof. I've just ratcheted up 500,000 Wikidata edits. That's a slightly embarrassing amount of obsessive data entry.

Belgium just seized 2 British military shipments bound for Israel. At Liège Airport. 33 crates. Military components including lasers, sights, fire control systems, aircraft parts.
The cargo arrived by truck from the UK. It was supposed to fly to Tel Aviv.

Be like Belgium
#stopthewar #Lebanon #gaza

whoops, also bus owner/driver Joe Letts

The Reunion - The Iraq War Peace Bus - BBC Sounds Kirsty Wark reunites peace campaigners who travelled to Baghdad to act as human shields.

Kirsty Wark interviews four of the 'human shields' who joined peace buses to Iraq to try to stop the Iraq War: ex-diplomat Sue Darling, Parisian truck driver Alex Benuraud, journalist Charlotte Edwardes and Australian Donna Mulhearn. Top radio.

UCPI Daily Report, 3 Feb 2026: 'Monica' evidence The Undercover Policing Inquiry hears from 'Monica', and activist deceived into an intimate relationship by spycop Jim Boyling in 1997

New - our report on 'Monica' giving evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Deceived into a relationship by #spycops officer Jim Boyling in the 90s, her testimony is a harrowing illustration of the depths the pointless infiltrations sunk to
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2026/04/15/u...

Well, at least back then he wasn't yet doing war! (Monopoly, tax avoidance & subordination of labour to surveillance logistics were sufficient.) Nevertheless, I found it fascinating that this was one kind of self-restriction he felt he should announce.