“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it”

so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

Oh, I assumed this was about Greg, maker of regular sized condoms, but who is 6 foot 9 3/4

Putin’s hired thugs fight dirty to disrupt clean energy in Europe Cheaply recruited disruptors are targeting energy projects in Latvia and Lithuania — and experts warn that Russia could be planning to hit western countries next

"A senior official from another Baltic state said Russia was also 'weaponising' the net-zero agenda to stir up public resentments."

"...it is only a matter of time before the tactics that are now being tested on the Baltic states are turned against other countries, including the UK and Germany"

A catalogue listing for a plumbing component: Draw Off Cock Washer

Telling another cowboy to stand down:

The government's determination to lose the next election to a party with no abiding commitment to parliamentary democracy is a remarkable piece of negligence.

AI is literally the antithesis of art

Correct response

Meta is logging its workers’ every keystroke to train the AI that will replace them.

Extract what workers know. Model it. Cut the workers.
This is happening because governments are letting it happen. On this. On Palantir. On facial recognition.

Inaction is still a choice. And someone is making it.

It’s Earth Day… Hug a tree!

- Text the tree the next day.
- Start hugging the tree regularly.
- Meet the tree’s parents.
- Move in with the tree.
- Marry the tree.
- Stop hugging the tree.
- Grow apart from the tree.
- Start hugging other trees.
- Divorce the tree.
- Die alone.

Two Palestinians killed in Israeli settler raid on West Bank village, medics say The Violence in Al-Mughayyir Follows a Deadly Day Across the West Bank, With a Palestinian Teen Killed in a Separate Car Incident Near Hebron and Another Resident Dying of Wounds From a Prior Israeli ...

A child was shot dead near school. Communities are living in fear that settlers can return at any moment. Villages are surrounded by outposts and violent extremists hellbent on forcing Palestinians off their land at any cost. 1/3

Closeup on the pope-hatted saint rolling his eyes in utter boredom at everyone banging on about his dragon

Bro is absolutely sick of your anti dragon bullsh**

we have a whole political and media class that has basically made policy making of any import impossible for nearly two decades by treating anything other than spending cuts and authoritarianism as "unserious" and/or "reckless"

The idea that you need to send corrupt sociopaths as Ambassadors to DC is so funny, because it's a standard we have never applied anywhere.

We don't appoint corrupt gangsters to embassies in Moscow or religious fanatics to Tehran.

Also, Mamdani is able to handle Trump fine without becoming him.

I can’t believe immigrants have taken over our proud 16th C heritage

Thing about consequences is they're never just about retribution or punishment for bad actors or people who've fucked up, they're a necessary part of maintaining standards and ideals that you intend others to abide by in the future. Feels like as a society we're losing sight of this basic principle.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Headline reads “US-Israel war on Iran US spending on 'reckless' Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN”

Environment Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025

Environment Almost half of EU's busiest flight routes are 'hard or impossible' to book on trains- report

So often the world’s problems are presented as inescapable random events beyond our control. But here’s 3 headlines from TODAY that demonstrate how much of what is happening is about **choices**

(From @theguardian.com)

I disagree with the flak this app gets. Just don't follow people that make you cringe. Mute them. Follow the funny ones. It's like hanging out in the coloring book section of a bookstore and being like wow this place is for idiots

Earlier this week, I was asked to guest on a science podcast to dicuss the phenomenon of Imposter Syndrome

My immediate thought was "Crap, why are they asking me? I don't know what I'm doing!"

So yeah, I have some relevant insight

I've long stopped caring about what zionism means to anyone. I care about the outcomes and minimizing bloodshed.

Bender STEALING IS A FORM OF CREATIVITY

The year 2026

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

I hate it here

NEW: Nigel Farage says X is now becoming “a very unpleasant place” due to a rise racist accounts and content Reform leader says that many of his ethnic minority candidates are experiencing huge levels of abuse

BRB, just telling my stockbroker to go big on Hot-Dog man memes

The dog encounters a hedgehog for the first time it was… the size of a bear a large bear teeth glinting in moonlight spikes… everywhere like knitting needles only longer sharper I saw it off chased it away well I would have if it hadn’t prickled my nose …ouch

Good morning @dragonslayerma.bsky.social, what a great #PromptCombo - #NatureHasWeapons. This true story came to mind so sharing it before diving into meetings. Slightly less serious than my usual poems!

#poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“it’s hard for the human brain to encounter evil in ludicrous form, and still recognise it as such. That’s how it creeps up on you”

Brilliant insight from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on why we remain fundamentally in denial of the current moment
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel's hegemonic ideology is Kahanism: pursuing a Jewish non-democratic one state where Palestinians are subjugated, expelled or dead.
Some say this is an inevitable continuation of Zionism, others that it is a corruption of Zionism.
I disagree with both accounts, but don't mind either.

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Really living up to that king moniker. And honestly there’s quite a lot of the Henry viii in him

So Palantir are like Fascist fascists i see yeah maybe we shouldn’t integrate the nazi computer into the NHS

first of all, this is 8 years old. secondly, this is a distortion of what he said and not a direct quote from the video, which isn’t great but significantly less controversial than this. he said “they believe it’s their land, we believe it’s ours, which is why there isn’t peace.”