Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.

If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.

Our planetary boundaries are being breached by cars and cows It may be a simplistic view, but it seems that almost every critical process is affected by them.

Cars and cows converge in the cornfields, consuming 75% of the entire crop. They dominate almost every planetary boundary. lloydalter.substack.com/p/our-planet...

I am frankly shocked that after Israel leveled all of Gaza murdering countless people with no repercussions at all, they then immediately continued their genocide in another country.

Who could have known.

A cardboard CD album slip cover of Everything Is Great, featuring a collage of absolute bastards looking happy. The upper left corner is missing, with cat toothmarks round the gap

Well the Carsie Blanton and the Burning Hell gig on Saturday night was *amazing* (rage and joy in the right proportions) and the kitten has been devouring their album ever since

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

Is it your opinions, or is it what you said and did with them? I just don't get the people maintaining that an organisation that's about ideas and acting on ideas should be treated like a golf club. Even they generally need you not to play rugby on the greens.

Sure. But when the upshot is that the majority disagree with you and you can't live with that, you're the one who gets to decide what to do with your time and energy. It's graceful not to call the democratic majority "clones".

If you don't support a party's policy, perhaps you belong elsewhere?

Car is king for Scottish Labour -

🚗 Blocking congestion charges
🚗 Aiming to blow active travel budget on fixing potholes
🚗Freezing Glasgow airport parking charges
🚗Protests against introduction of parking permits (~£200 per year)

Unbridled car use is stifling our economy & damaging public health

So her response to being accused of bullying was to blackmail her party leader into backing her but obviously the accusations weren't true, she's a peach.

Never underestimate a ditsy Welsh woman. That's the whole lesson. #taskmaster

This fucking "investigation" has been drip fed and so led BBC News bulletins for two days, demonising queer people and domestic abuse survivors seeking asylum. Every bulletin has quoted Reform.

Other than in the Martin and Gina Ford era, where he used his Trump/Menie cred to be a "classic liberal" prick

We're an ecosocialist party. Both those elements are crucial for a coherent politics for justice and planet.

Hmm, I don't love the implication that SSP ex members should be welcomed as having evolved their views on net zero and queer rights while ex ecology members are assumed to be frozen in the David Icke era and laughed out of town.

Yes, those are much better, but there's still *so much crossfall* out there

We must imagine Sisyphus ableist

Driveway crossfall (it's not a dropped kerb: those come in pairs, are placed, and shouldn't always take the whole width) is antisocial infrastructure. Everyone who even requests one should be forced to wheel a wheelchair across a slope for all eternity.

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

It has a pretty fucked media landscape all of its own

a journalist actually asking difficult questions of a transphobic politician? in Scotland? waow

The fact the Labour Party, Tories and Reform all have specific policies to make it harder to come here and be a social care worker is absolutely disgraceful when this country is going through a social care crisis. #bbcdn

hoping jd vance comes here to negotiate a stronger brexit so we can end up back in the eu

Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD 🇵🇸 @drghadasasa I just read the new Haaretz article about how Israeli planted pines are suddenly dying en masse and it is absolutely worth dissecting. Here are a summary & my observations as a Palestinian scholar who writes on green colonialism. 1/

Very important thread by Dr. Ghada Sasa on "green colonialism" and the mass death of trees in israel (as reported on by Haaretz). Her numbering is off midway through the thread, but I have reproduced it accurately in the order she posted them without skipping anything:

Was this not, in fact, found to be an Excel error?

*mum voice* I believe that's what the young folk call a mood