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Jo Zebedee@TheSecretBookshelf

@jozebwrites.bsky.social

Writes blasting sci fi and fantasy. Dogsbody at Secret Bookshelf Carrickfergus. Consultant in all things management

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The Northern Sun@thenorthernsun.bsky.social · 4d ago

The MSM completely missed the gravity of last night's Ukrainian missile strike on the Progress Rocket Center in Samara, Russia. This isn't just another industrial fire. This is the definitive end of independent Russian space dominance and a massive blow to their national pride. 1/5

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last wk.

Largely nonviolent movements have toppled many regimes, from Bangladesh last year to most of Eastern Europe in 1989 to... Lots documenting it, including Erica chenoweth.bsky.social's famous work and the Swarthmore archives on nonviolence. Weird how people still assume...

Peege@mrpeege.bsky.social · 2w ago

All im saying Jeff, is that holding up signs & peacefulness didnt get rid of bad people throughout history. Weve been trying here & it hasn't worked. Im not advocating for violence, just saying we need different tactics

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last week, I went to the theatre. Stood up to let a late middle aged couple into their seats next to us. Earwigged them as they sat down. “Hmm. Quite an angle.” “AI says it’s not a bad view.” “Ah! Good!” They were sitting in the ACTUAL seats. But they were trusting AI more than their own eyes.

Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Dear Diary The launch of our scheme to use the Royal Navy to stop small boats has gone exactly to plan. It is so patently absurd that it is all anyone can talk about, providing the perfect distraction from all our dodgy financial dealings"

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Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A reminder that for all those preppers, survivalists and 'natural' healing fans that civilization is the ultimate survival plan. It's the one created by the people who grew up actually surviving all the shit we worry so little about now. It was their ambition to live like us.

Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 3w ago

"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs

What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority Belfast Telegraph27 Jul 2026ALLISON MORRIS I’ve thought long and hard about commenting on the controversy over the cancellation of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) event at Féile an Phobail — not because I don’t have an opinion, but because it is a debate that attracts the most toxic elements. WRN NI was not a group I was familiar with beforehand, so I did some research. No speakers were listed in the Féile programme for the planned event, which in itself is odd as there are for almost every other of the 90-plus debates and discussions. The group has since announced who its speakers were to be in a series of online posts. My research took me down quite the rabbit hole — a who’s who of the anti-trans movement not just on this island but Europe-wide. I don’t pretend to understand their motivation. In fact, I remain baffled as to why in one of the most dangerous places for women to live in Europe, the group — which has spoken out about femicide before — is obsessing about a small minority instead of the actual dangers we face from domestic violence and femicide. I have worked for decades covering violence against women and girls in all the distressing forms that takes. I know the names of every woman and child murdered in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years without even having to look them up. Not a single one was caused by a trans woman — I checked the list twice just to be sure. None of them were murdered in a public toilet either, which having looked at the online posts of WRN and their many affiliates, is apparently the most dangerous place on earth for women, with trans predators lurking in every cubicle. Apart from the absurdity of much of the group’s argument regarding the perceived dangers of trans women, the claim that women are being silenced by Féile is the most disingenuous of them all.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4w ago

So many important points. He continues: "Long after the AI bubble bursts, we'll be dealing with its catastrophic carbon emissions. The Second Law of Thermodynamics isn't up for debate. Once we sink enough therms into the sea, we are losing the ice-caps."

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4w ago

But of course, read the whole thread. Grateful for Cory Doctorow, and grateful he writes about Silicon Valley with a flamethrower....

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4w ago

As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3y ago

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 4w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.