Opened Facebook this morning to see hate speech complaining about these charities, feels appropriate to donate in response

Ryan Love @ryanjl7.bsky.social · yesterday

Bash and Romesh's choice of charities as winners has really annoyed some people. Oh dear. Anyway. If you'd like to donate to either of them: Choose Love - chooselove.org Refugee Council - refugeecouncil.org.uk #CelebrityTraitors

This should be on a billboard in every county in this dumb nation.

Tori Foote@toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 11h ago

The starkest thing about TNG compared to most space opera today is how much it presents the eruption of violence as a total catastrophe, rather than something awesome bsky.app/profile/norm...

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2d ago

Same. There was something that felt really radical about having a TV hero whose superpower was not just intelligence but thoughtfulness, and a kind of moral seriousness. Who showed from that first episode that you “win” by seeking to understand what seems like a threat.

"Oh will they manage to complete the final task in The Traitors? They've only got seconds remaining!!!!" As is always the case

Started playing Baldur's Gate 3 for the first time

Do You Want To Kontinue?

That really hurts. Patrick Stewart was superb in everything he did but beyond that was a great role model for how to be a decent human being

Ikarie XB-1. Its influence can be seen in Kubrick, in Star Trek, in Stalker. It is the under-appreciated UR-text of SFF cinema.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 4d ago

name a film that was ahead of it's time.

When a bluesky post gets out of hand and ends up as a BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play, on at 2.15 this afternoon and thereafter available on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

James Alistair Henry@jamesbluecat.bsky.social · last yr.

I found some old notes for an rpg game using the characters and objects from Cluedo for Call of Cthulhu, where you start on the basic board but it gets weirder and more cosmic horror the further out the players go (randomly generated). Cthudo!

Woooof

Adam Morgan@adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 3d ago

For @wired.com, I spoke with Macmillan and PRH staff about AI at the rest of the Big Five. I also spoke with bestselling authors who've gone to "war" with publishers over AI use and are now demanding disclosures and threatening to leave their publishers altogether. www.wired.com/story/macmil...

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! / Nothing besides remains

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Woah a new dwarf planet 🤯

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory@rubinobservatory.org · 4d ago

Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138! Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier this year. Early analysis suggests it's ~600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune!🔭🧪 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

Brits got to Mars in 2003 though (surely she didn't mean humans?!) Here's what Beagle 2 should have looked like...

Women of GCSE Science. 147 women scientists mapped to every GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics topic, with a quiz, search and reading list #EduSky #WomenInSTEM www.drjonesphysics.com/women-in-sci...

Just wanted to recommend this account, which regularly makes me happy by posting pictures of Gillian Anderson with no context. [contented sigh]

No Context Gillian Anderson@contextgillian.bsky.social · 5d ago

Gillian Anderson

Apropos of nothing, here's Ibn Al-Haytham. He was the first person to: understand how vision works (light goes in, not out!); fully state the law of reflection; understand refraction (700 years before Fermat); apply the scientific method. Arguably the world's first scientist...

I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

While you were asleep, Oxford Street was pedestrianised

Photo essay: We spent the night with the team making it happen • The last bus is packed • The taxi drivers don’t know • The pedicabs don’t care

londoncentric.media

Gotta admit to a growing sense of despair at the trajectory of global events. Thanks to the Serbians and Brazilians for showing that things don't have to get continually worse

London has probably now got the cleanest air out of any equivalent sized cities in the world thanks to Ulez, electric cars and buses.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · last wk.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

The Wildwood trailer was magical, really looking forward to this

Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · 7d ago

Parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children for half term! If you’re going to see a movie this coming week, and your children are 8 or older, go and see Wildwood, a movie that “moves you not just for the story’s tension, but for the artistry it took to make it”.

Given that @file770.bsky.social has decided to platform Jon Del Arroz, I will no longer be writing pieces for them. It's an easy equation. A place that welcomes someone that has harassed me for years is not a place I want to be associated with. file770.com/world-fantas...

Starting the half term holiday at the York Boardgame Convention. Which is lovely and will be an annual fixture!

From over on threads, this struck me as an extraordinarily good point.

Spent one hour in the sloppiest of AI slop presentations. Excruciating.

I like to point out that the segregationist KKK wives in the 1950s were being truthful when they said they would be uncomfortable sharing a restroom with a Black woman. The solution to this is that "uncomfortable" does not justify discrimination against other people.

CZEdwards@czedwards.bsky.social · last wk.

Once again: Dude-hearsay is NOT EVIDENCE. They can make up any bull they want and attribute it to any girlfriend from Canada we don’t know. It is creepy to be interested in other people’s pants parts in a restroom no matter what gender, and the person being creeped on IS THE VICTIM.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Two episodes in to Carrie, it's extraordinarily good

Just a reminder that the STFC cuts will not only end all radio astronomy observations from Jodrell Bank and its e-MERLIN array, they will also end the UK's involvement in the Europe-wide radio astronomy network EVN, of which we were a founder member. Our international partners are astounded...