My god there's an audiobook available in Libby from my library for a change, rather than it either simply not being available or being loaned out as 1/1 copies because enforced digital scarcity is a thing

Doing some silly all day training thing tomorrow that I thought was half day but people don't know how to make invites, and I'm taking a leftover Greggs chicken bake and sausage roll for lunch. The show off knobheads there who'll spend loads on show off non-beige lunches can get in the bin

For some it’s a lifeline. For others (like me), it’s guidance. For others, it’s the availability of options. Refusing a diagnosis is a violation of the right to health - ADHD remains a disability, with all the personal and societal consequences it holds. This is not just appalling - it’s dangerous

Dan Sohege@handle.invalid · 3w ago

A formal diagnosis can help some people, it doesn't help everyone though. Restricting the ability to get diagnosed though is disgusting. It is all part of this ongoing trend of trying to deny support for neurodivergent individuals and act like we don't exist. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This is what life needs

JP@hubbellcolours.bsky.social · 4w ago

A little birdy told me you’re getting another Mutiny single this month. If I was a betting man, I’d say put aside a little money if you want to be on the front lines of a pre-order. I hate when I have no heads up and I’m broke.

This endless train of puff pieces about charming neo-Nazis inevitably leads to Nazi ideologies being mainstreamed. Once you shift from "we should kick Nazi's teeth down their throats" to "What if the Nazi is wearing a buttondown shirt?" it's very hard to come back from that. And the Nazis know it.

very excited to only have a few months left of work in me

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · 4w ago

LIFE AT 40 "I am forty. I have wrinkles and grey hair and I would have a walking stick to help me walk." Rita Monaghan, 9 "I am forty. I am turning old. I just left work because I cannot manage going up and down hills. I know I will soon die." Jennifer Turner, 8

From the same piece, written a week ago:

I foolishly put "early night" on our pre holiday to do list for yesterday, and eventually got to sleep about 4.5 hours ago before having to get up. How foolish, but who cares because right now I got that holiday adrenaline babyyyyy! 🛫🇮🇹

Managed to get a last min ticket for NUFC tonight for the once in a blue moon I'm able to get to a match, and thought I'd get a train which is unfortunately mega delayed. On my way now though and might get there in time!

There are just 50 days left to get the petition to save disabled children’s rights to 100,000. It just takes a moment to sign. Will you help by sharing it with all your contacts? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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This is like those overdub videos with the squeaky shoes, oh no

In the words of Westlife playing Fantasy Premier League: "I have a team"

I played Dog Man: Mission Impawsible this morning to get my son past a difficult bit, and I think I'd get quite bored quite quickly of the 50 levels he just finished in two days. I'd make it work for however many zeroes that is though.

Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?

Our wedding was born 13 years ago today, happy birthday to our marriage!

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🧵 My other half said I should quit my job. I can't do that but it got me thinking. How can I combine 20+ years or designing websites and being online with music. So I'm going to do it - @yourbackonline.com Form - forms.gle/fCidjKWD9grJZGCk8 Still in the planning phase, but the idea is there....

The technologies needed to address climate change are already known, decades into their development, and getting cheaper every day. If you ask an LLM what to do about climate, they've already harvested the answer from millions of sources that already described it. Meanwhile it's all powered by gas.

Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This parallels my thinking about AI and climate change. In the near term, AI will make climate change worse. In the medium term, AI could make climate change a lot worse. In the long term, AI might help address climate change -- but it will be too late to matter. mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

clact on, clact off

We're going to Italy in 17 days 🤌

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Ok very much old news given the book is like 60 years old but it's so jarring reading misogynistic stuff when I do pretty well to avoid it everywhere else irl

Dave@davelikesska.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I read Animal Farm and 1984 so far, and I'm giving Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep a go now. My wife's made me a reading list as well so I'm not short of recs for the next 17 years at my current rate, give or take

I'm not sure why I'm super prone to eyelashes in my eyes, it happens multiple times a day and bothers me so much that I have to get them out straight away or I'll all but die. Or do people just walk around with shit in their eyes and just deal with it?

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As AI guzzles water and energy, we are already facing a choice: datacentres or homes? | John Harris

Whitehall wants to triple their number in the UK. Yet in Slough, I saw the impact they’re having on communities, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Ugh I don't fancy speedrunning a GrapheneOS install before I go on holiday in 3 weeks and have things not work properly but the writing's been on the wall long enough

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lol. Google is forcing an update to its Gemini bullshit on phones by deleting the non-ai assistant from every android device. That sucks. If I want to ask my phone to play a song in the car ive got to use their AI. That really sucks.

Stand up allies

I finished reading+listening to Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakely today, I'd recommend it! I started trying to read more this year and that's 3 books I've finished so far, so I'm very happy with that.

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Who's coming out to play tomorrow at the ska and punk show in Leeds?

The familiar and unwanted feeling of standing under my gutter, a local bird habitat, and feeling a drop on my back and wondering whether it's rain drops, gutter water or avian shit.

Sending an "engineer on their way" text at 6.50am on a Monday with no eta is very unfair