look, I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up but I think I may have discovered something incredible on worldcat
commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant)
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Scottish and sweary and not even sorry. Taking an eternity to write a book. You can stick your ai up your airse. Also run @theskylark.bsky.social
how do I turn off the "liked by <mutals>" thing Bluesky just added. I don't fucking want that
Love the chutzpah with which this email is written, esp given the content of the PDF book of cartoons attached. (I left out the most racist*, fatphobic and sexist-bordering-on-misogynistic ones.) * believe me, the cannibals one is relatively benign in comparison
Trying to get my head into work mode after eight days' holiday and ooh it's lunchtime, no point starting now.
If you read fiction and you don't like AI you're a hypocrite. If you eat monster munch and don't like asbestos you're a blacksmith. If you play videogames and don't like stubbing your toe you're a submarine captain. We can all just SAY things. It's not hard.
Wait, we're supposed to be "being kind" on Bluesky? When did that start?
Calling all Wham! fans! Anderson's material relating to this trip and the rough cut film that he produced for the band are true treasures of our Lindsay Anderson Archive - we're delighted to see them getting used! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘I thought it didn’t stand a cat’s chance in hell’: Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China
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You know, I think we'd all manage ok if you shared slightly fewer screenshots of Elon being awful on X.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 167: Stop telling yourself it will get easier; it won't. But with time, with work and with patience, it may just get better.
Many left-wing writers are still on X. I think if you’d asked them five years ago if they’d stay if the owner was a white supremacist who advocated race war and the murder of people who opposed mass deportations they would have said no of course not, that’s crazy. And yet
The decision of so many people to keep using X in its race-war phase has made me a bit more cynical overall about the ability to draw moral red lines. It’s beyond disappointing.
Graun: ..authors cautioned against extrapolating the findings to the global population because the psychology of the volunteers, all classified as western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic – or Weird – could differ dramatically from other populations. Also the Graun: Which type are you?
Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you?
Investigation finds evidence of distinct groups, from big-picture thinkers to those who sweat the small stuff
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'..from door handles to furniture, stained glass to light fittings, all minutely considered by Mackintosh as an exemplary Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. Its double destruction has been a disaster, but...its rebirth as a hugely costly phoenix from the flames feels as far away as it ever was.'
‘Future generations will curse us for its loss’: can nothing save Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh’s masterpiece?
Stratospheric costs could prevent the fire-damaged landmark from returning to its former glory. Now, unless a wealthy patron is found, the building seems destined for ‘soulless’ facade retention or ‘c...
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Channel 4 player is suddenly inundated with Chat ads full of seemingly clueless young people who don't know how to look up a book or a webpage to learn how to do something, like simple arithmetic being the main example.
Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 2w agoGod, it’s exhausting saying “fuck off” to all the ads for AI products as I walk round London. Just had to buy a bottle of water cos my throat was dry from saying “fuck off” to them. So many. So much fucking off.
Reminder when Billionaires talk about “the collapse of society” they’re not talking about a nuclear war or an extinction level event, they’re talking about all of us getting wise and deciding it’s time to bring out the guillotines and give them the ol’ French Haircut
The Glasgow Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony had a peak of 950k on Channel 5 on Thursday night. For Birmingham 2022, when it was on BBC One, it had a peak of 5.2 million.
50k watched the Opening Ceremony on TNT Sports 2, which makes me wonder what the viewing figures are going to be on an average day.
Making Tax Digital has finally given me a reason to be sort of happy about earning too little for HMRC to care about. People earning £20k will in just 2 years be expected to find money for software and/or an accountant. The form worked fine! It got it done, once a year! This is so unnecessary.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2w agogoing to try and figure out how to deal with fucking Make Tax Digital this morning so do please picture me as a bear you have just encountered in the forest for the time being, expect it'll make me so cranky I'll attack at the slightest provocation, apologies in advance
Everyone who uses "smart glasses" to be legally required to strap one of these to their head and light it up when the camera is on
@asls.org.uk Brings back memories of the baguette duel. Maybe there should have been a whole bread-based series of contests to decide the matter.
Sophie Hall@sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 2w agoFinally, someone asking the important questions
Rich people lost their homes to wildfires in California and nothing changed.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w agoThis isn’t tens of thousands of poor people losing their homes in the global south, but tens of thousands of rich people fleeing a popular vacation spot in the south of France, so maybe the rich countries will finally care about climate change.
They really don’t and you’ll be rehiring ppl soon.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘Customers prefer AI chatbots to humans’ says British Gas boss as 1,300 call centre staff axed
