It’s always when I’m at my most overstimulated that a racist preacher decides to set up a mic in the city centre #justbelfastthings

Another day dealing with entitled senior male academics

It never ceases to amaze me how even though all requests/payment only come through me, men working on things at the house will repeatedly only address my partner and not even look at me when speaking. Pls get a grip it’s 2026

It’s barely half way through October and I already look and feel like this

Either I just received the most hilarious phishing attempt I’ve ever read, or Oprah is interested in digital harm and ICL and wants me to join her book club

I’m feeling as if this Life in the UK citizenship test has a lot of trick questions…

Spooky season recs: I maintain my position that the Interview with a Vampire series is the best tv show I’ve ever seen (both horror and not), but the new Carrie series has also not disappointed thus far!

I finally got AI-hallucinated in a journal article today. PSA: Thomas Zarmsky does not exist!

Finding it v concerning that if you told me I just landed in Tenerife instead of London, based on the temp I’d believe you

If you’re in Belfast tomorrow afternoon, please consider joining!

you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare you

UK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence halls

The University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings.

wkyt.com

Today’s academic humiliation ritual: asking for a discount code to buy copies of your own book

I am begging the UK grocery stores to put the Christmas crackers and food away. We are not even close to Halloween. Insanity.

The alarms are all flashing red.

The work of the Siracusa Institute is even more impressive given the working conditions - this is the hottest I’ve ever been in my life (but it is gorg!)

Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation

Firms like Meta, Google and TikTok should face "substantial" penalties if they don't give the option, minister says.

bbc.co.uk

Not the worst way to ring in one’s 30s (if I owe you an email, this is why)

I really hate this timeline www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Despite frequent errors mixing up criminal and civil law, Coyote v Acme is peak cinema

It is truly appalling how there are people preaching blatant anti LGBT and anti Muslim hate speech on microphones outside Belfast City Hall almost daily and the PSNI does absolutely nothing.

In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

This should be illegal.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2mo ago

The gloves are designed to disguise federal agents’ excessive use of force. trib.al/g2Yphwd

I am just a v stressed out Lecturer, begging the uni to pls develop some tool that lets us view our classes in calendar form as opposed to having to manually populate our own each year. It is 2026.

My American mind cannot comprehend seeing a President speak free from the street with no security or bulletproof vests/glass, but this was cool!

Many in the migrants' rights sector have been warning about exactly this. AI is absolutely not suitable for being used in asylum cases. Not only because of the risk of "hallucination", but also because it is unable to deal with the nuance and complexity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’

theguardian.com

The lack of mention of climate change/climate crisis from most mainstream news articles I’ve seen about the wildfires in Europe is astounding. “Heatwaves” caused the fire - ok, what caused the heatwaves? This seems like a form of disinformation at this stage.

Serious q: Is it acceptable for me to put that I was part of a Guinness world record for the most people in bald caps on my Pure profile?

States have voted, overwhelmingly, to remove Karim Khan as ICC Prosecutor: www.reuters.com/world/icc-me... In a world where #metoo often still feels beyond reach, these states did the right thing. Now the hard work of institutional reform & pursuing justice for Gaza & beyond can take center stage.

ICC members dismiss prosecutor Karim Khan, diplomatic sources say

Member states ​of the International ‌Criminal Court on Friday voted ​to dismiss ​Karim Khan as prosecutor ⁠following allegations ​of sexual misconduct, ​two diplomatic sources told Reuters.

reuters.com