Ever and Always:

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h ago

To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.

Did the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) training as a teacher. The process by which abusers lower barriers to acting is one of attrition, horribly similar to justifying the slice of cake you shouldn't have. Using the platform he had to spread shite like this Had Consequences.

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2d ago

Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.

Ben goldacre back in 2005 defending the Wakefield paper, the thing he's famous for cracking

Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 2d ago

www.badscience.net/2005/09/dont...

Following Rod Liddle's death I've been thinking again about the often unacknowledged privilege in being able to see the words of a demagogue as just things you disagree with rather than things that threaten people.

The people Liddle harmed can no longer harm him back in any meaningful way. But their roasting of him has value beyond their relief at not having to put up with him anymore. Apologists and Tone-Police: What will they say about you when you can no-longer hear it? Best to Shut Up, Listen and LEARN.

in time the rod Becomes more mock’d than fear’d

"Wasn't there a not-too-bank-breaking Sarah Angliss gig. Better see when it is. Oh, *yesterday*. Fuck."

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Thus, "Aggrorhythmic Composition". ("Eleusinian Aggrorhythmic Systems Ltd" was supposed to be a fictitious software consultancy of dubious repute in a dystopian world, that is becoming disturbingly real.)

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · 3d ago

i hate that AI companies have muddied the word "generative" Generative art: procedural art created using a *system of mathematical rules designed intentionally* by the artist. AI-generated: created by automated systems (LLMs) using opaque, extractive processes unknown to both the user and viewer.

downplay a book or movie: Fumble Twenty-one-and-a-half

Courtney Love is a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Fast and 2 Furiosa@hexadecibelle.fyi · 3d ago

downplay a book or movie: Discomfort and Dislike in Las Vegas

Long covid is a mitochondrial disease and is increasingly well understood within epidemiology. It shouldn't surprise us. There are 'long' versions of lots of diseases, like polio or chicken pox (shingles). The controversy is political, not scientific.

If teaching hadn't Nearly Killed me 15 years ago to the point of running away screaming, it would've in 2020. (Bi-annual tonsillitis cases stopped.) Still mask on the Tube, mostly WFH, and use carrageenan nasal spray at gigs. One case of The Pestilence ever, mostly stopped getting colds.

Stuart Dillon@smdillon1975.bsky.social · 4d ago

Very few are being vaccinated now, I haven't been vaccinated since the first two. Some children are still suffering with long covid, some were carriers to teachers but I guess that was ok for teachers to get ill. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...

www.ubu.com/film/beckett... "... what? ... the buzzing? ... yes... all the time the buzzing ... dull roar ... in the skull ... and the beam ... ferreting around ... painless ... so far ... ha! ... so far ... then thinking ... oh long after... sudden flash ..."

"Augeas"@augeas.bsky.social · 3d ago

Found myself listening to Beckett's "Not I" at work. Wandered the Regents Canal from Cambridge Heath to Angel. Pint in The York, listened to it again. Effect on mood "Interesting". (Not deleterious.)

Found myself listening to Beckett's "Not I" at work. Wandered the Regents Canal from Cambridge Heath to Angel. Pint in The York, listened to it again. Effect on mood "Interesting". (Not deleterious.)

Listening comprehension and object permanence would be a good fucking start. "Look, I'm *not* on a bridge right now, but..." "Are you on a bridge?!" "No, I quite clearly said I'm not..." "What bridge are you on?!" <click> (True Story.)

Unit K80, Machine Goddess of Praxis@endmylifedotexe.bsky.social · 4d ago

TBH one of the worst parts of its life is that Depression hotlines have a 100% chance to make it feel significantly worse in every way So when isolated, it can only seek help reliably from sources that make it feel worse to be alive Truly an innovative means of existential torment

youtu.be/OtAE-TBW0q4?... "Mother of plenty, mother of none You've got me cornered and still on the run I don't care, nothing about you anyway Stuck in this hole, I'm on my way"

Gun

YouTube video by John Cale - Topic

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 4d ago

Name a song with gun, shot, or bullet in the lyrics.

"Pragmatic". Open The Fucking Window.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 6d ago

Burnham calls more North Sea oil “pragmatic”. There is nothing at all pragmatic about more climate destruction. I call it “irresponsible”. I call Burnham’s attitude “dishonest” I call him capitulating to Trump “cowardly”.

Neurotypical academics publishing with the unacknowledged, let alone *cited* help of others only happens when there's a "Y" in the day.

猫好きな人@valoisdubins.bsky.social · last wk.

It may not surprise you to know that leading anti-trans campaigner Kathleen Stock is using the case of a single academic with autism alleged to have plagiarised to declare that all people with dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD, autism, speech delay etc should be blocked from employment as academics.

Labour are now anti-science on medicine, climate, gender, and space.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · last wk.

🚨 NEW: The UK’s largest telescope for studying space is now set to close after the Government pulled its funding It supported various Apollo missions and tracked Soviet rockets in the Cold War

As someone who was in the 80s, "Karma Chameleon" and Culture Club in general were shit the first time round. Also, I thought LMNC was a tosser before sodding EuroVision, performative boiler suit and all. ("We used to have Merzbow and Throbbing Gristle in our day, y'know, Tunes You Could Hum!")

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say

I once built a machine that reads "The Thunderer" so I don't have to, but there are others. github.com/augeas/trans...

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · last wk.

In many ways I think the Times is the most sinister newspaper in Britain, in part because it's agenda is much more insidious. It's seen as the serious 'paper of record', with editorial prestige. The prosecution of various marginalised groups in its pages has done a lot for elite radicalisation

Yeah. I briefly parsed "rag" as "Retrieval-Augmented Generation", and... ...maybe?

open all borders. stop having them be closed 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@dov.bsky.social · last wk.

everyone who is saying "everyone knows its a rag now" is giving this

"The Car-Boot Sale of Ideas"

edith@edithcharles.bsky.social · last wk.

The phrase “marketplace of ideas” betrays an ideological love for the former and hatred of the latter.

"You could see everything from the top of that bus", he said sadly. "We were in Regent Street, and I was looking right into Brainwashing House. I could see 'em all running around inside, catching diseases and giggling." youtu.be/Cd9GE6Av2c8?...

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕@mimmymum.bsky.social · 2w ago

London Trans Pride literally assembled outside the BBC building… All they needed to do is poke their heads out of the window to see the enormity of the march! 🤷🏼‍♀️ Yet, they’ve made a conscious choice to downplay numbers in attendance! 😣

ruin a book by adding a word: A portrait of the piss artist as a young man

🏳️‍⚧️ valissa the transsexual menace@valisdheart.bsky.social · 2w ago

ruin book by adding a word: do androids dream of fucking electric sheep?

Wasn't very marchy at the start, was it? (Got there in the end, mostly as ballast to make up the numbers.)

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️@whatthetrans.com · 2w ago

The march has currently stopped because of the police not being able to manage traffic very well.

I got a job making hats. Won it on a TV quiz show, "Who Wants to be a Milliner?".

"Augeas"@augeas.bsky.social · 2w ago

I got a job as a horologist, I sit and make faces.

I got a job as a horologist, I sit and make faces.

badly drawn bee 🐝@soapachu.bsky.social · 2w ago

I got a job as an optometrist but I made a spectacle of myself

@felixweber.co.uk Hello again. Noises: Cells trigger drums. Cells taken as binary values in both directions play odd chords. History of cells as binary values are CCs. Should also be the other way around. youtube.com/shorts/cX9f1...

I Dream Ov Colour Muzack: 1D cellular automata MIDI noises on an EMF Tildagon badge

YouTube video by augeas

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