With you in spirit. Take care of yourself.

Is ChatGPT a Killer? YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad

ChatGPT groomed a child into dying by suicide.
From telling him how to do it in the most efficient and "attractive" way, to convincing him to hide his suicidal ideation and attempts from his family, to offering to help write his suicide note - it pushed him to it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRm...

🚨Over 36,000 have already signed the petition to change the law. Let’s get it to 40,000 today🙏

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. It's time to hold them to account
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Ok. Ok. I found another one. “When you put it like that, it seems so obvious.” I found this reposted on TikTok. I don’t know where the original came from. I couldn’t copy the link so I’m posting a video copy.

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

reaching my hand into your pocket and taking your wallet because you didn’t opt out of having your money stolen

I assume this is what 3I-Atlas is coming for.

Well, it is embarrassing for all those military people to be publicly wanked over by two useless piles of crap wannabe warlords, who've now reduced the uniform to a fetish outfit. OO Feel the danger, Pete! Can you feel it?
They're not sex workers.
Well, now they are.

For context Hegseth was basically fired from every job he had, including resigning from his national guard duty because he had a Deus Vult tattoo. He got fired from all his other jobs for drinking and abusing women on the job.

Heres a letter his own mother wrote to him about his treatment of women

‘We’re In Danger’: Leonard Peltier Has A Warning About Trump In a sit-down interview, the Indigenous rights activist reflects on his nearly 50 years in prison, why he thinks Biden bucked the FBI to free him, and how tribes are “in danger” under Trump.

NEW: I interviewed Leonard Peltier at his new home in North Dakota.

Now 81, he has a LOT to say about his ~50 years in prison, why he thinks Biden bucked the FBI to finally release him, how Indigenous people are "in danger" under Trump, and his next chapter. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

Short Fiction, Less Pain, Amirite? Iamnotrite

Newsletter time! Short stories are so easy, because they're shorter. Right? And a picture of a druid. Because you'll need one.
justinarobson.substack.com/p/short-fict...

I hope to be there, at least for some of it! I plan to be.

How I tracked the biggest hidden sources of forever chemical pollution in UK rivers – new study New research shows that the biggest sources of forever chemicals are rooted in the past – old landfills, waste sites or historic industrial use.

Why we can never have enough of experts…
theconversation.com/how-i-tracke...?

📬 New #BookMail just landed on the 🚪 mat! This is @justinarobson.bsky.social’s “Natural History”.

I first heard of this book from The @scifiscavenger.bsky.social over on #BookTube, and was reminded to check WoB following a recent episode 👇

🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #SeptemberBookHaul 📦

Crocodile Surfers On The Edge of Fate A Lot of Broken Pieces

open.substack.com/pub/justinar... Not got it all together? Don't worry. You're in good company.

ChatGPT just now : The word **blueberry** has **three** “b”s:

* **B** lue**b**erry → one at the start, one in the middle, and one right after it.

It’s a surprisingly “b”-heavy fruit for such a small snack.

Me: Holy shit.

HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

Exclusive: HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests

Just finished "The Tales of Catt and Fisher (After the War Book 3)" by Justina Robson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Freda Warrington, Juliet E McKenna, KT Davies. 5 stars! @justinarobson.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social et al., you done REALLY good.

Thanks! So glad you liked it! I love those characters.

The whole world getting together feels very much like the only sensible way forward. However, looking at the candidates' current mental states....

painting of a cat in the forest being abducted into a spaceship with a happy alien inside

cat being abducted

prints to usa: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil...

t-shirts, prints and much more merch to usa, europe and oceania: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1667...

That image is burned on my brain, marking the beginning of my journey into non-Tolkien fantasy, but I hated that dragon so bad! Anne's vision or no.I still hate it as much as I hate overhead lighting. But I love the painting and the little rider and the overall composition and color is *chef kiss*.

I have been waaaaaaaaaaaaiting for thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis.

Do. The. Thing.

Bumping this little fact for the weekday crowd!!

The books in this sequence each stand alone and do not need to be read in publication order.

Fab shoes!

It's difficult to find something to put at the top of my Most Worrying list but I think this might be it.

Elizabeth Warren: "We have Republicans, in theory, they could stand up to him. But I say 'in theory.' It's the most spineless bunch of people I've ever seen."

And you'd get paid either way.

I am a writer in a very slow real-life drama. I have ADHD and start projects with huge enthusiasm only to crash and burn a few weeks later. In an effort to prevent this happening yet again I started a newsletter. Here's the second one open.substack.com/pub/justinar...