DMHardc
@dmhardcc.bsky.social
Interested in everything. Gen X, further left than you think, exhausted. 🇯🇲🇬🇧
Like with self-driving cars, feels only right that we send at least one human operator to supervise. One might suggest that it should be the most enthusiastic champion of this endeavour.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
SPACEX SPENDS $5 TRILLION OF TAXPAYER MONEY ON SHIT THAT CAN BE EASILY DONE ON THE PLANET WE ALREADY INHABIT
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
The quote posts for this are magnificent (except this one, obviously)
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
"The US military came under pressure to buy into just-in-time supply chains of the sort used by companies like Amazon. This worked great, right up until the moment you’re fighting a war, when it turns out you suddenly run out of bullets."
Drought conditions
This week: southern Britain has too little water; this map projection has far too much. But first: in praise of inefficiency.
jonn.substack.com
And the Voice of the Vacuum Cleaner was heard in the Land.
I don't dunk on people but the dude saying 'If you hate AI, could you get through a working day if it all went away tomorrow?!'is testing my resolve on that so much. I don't use your dogshit thief machine incompetence tech, Sparkie. I fucking work for a living.
They’ve NEVER truly changed. It’s like Farage and the Hitler youth songs shit - if you actually were embarrassed by any of that, the real world response would never be ‘I’m going to represent exactly the same kind of politics but with the inconvenient words edited out.’
I'm fascinated by this new form of PR that's emerged with LLM companies where they leak stories like 'our product spontaneously assembled an army of domestic appliances & announced it would exterminate the lowly hairless apes - we barely managed to pull the plug' to imply it's really powerful
Living on this planet, especially as a member of a privileged society, our lives are intimately bound with the lives of others, including those who live thousands of miles away. We cannot excuse ourselves from the responsibilities we owe to each other.
Every woman who has made my life at work a wretched misery of racism looks pretty much like this woman and pulls this same face. Some sort of ur-Karen that populates senior and relatively senior positions, inexplicably, and tells you to Be Kind while destroying you from the soul out
I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.
Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival
Save 1 Million Black Books One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books
gofundme.com
This bloke has spent his life curating an extraordinary and unique collection of Black authored books in London. The place keeps getting broken into and he’s now 76 years old. Please donate if you can and share whether you can donate or not xx gofund.me/b7c4f3640
Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival
Save 1 Million Black Books One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books
gofund.me
These people will all be dead in 50 years. The damage they inflict on your children and grandchildren will exist for geological time. Are you going to let them get away with it? www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
"Grocers are already bringing in more products from abroad because of the poor conditions at home" But the time is coming - soon - when countries will hold onto their own And the UK imports getting on for half its food www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farmers warn shoppers face smaller and more expensive vegetables due to hot weather
This year's harvest could be the worst on record due to the exceptionally dry spring and summer.
bbc.co.uk
how tf is there not a Geordie community publishing project called WorPress
I just can't stress enough that this isn't a real thing. What it actually means is *the absence* of some mechanism that artificially normalizes right-wing thought to give it *the appearance* of being on an even footing with what actual normal people think and talk about.
Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that what Musk is doing with SpaceX is orders of magnitude worse than Michael Gove's Stonehenge tunnel boomdoggle. It's worse than the Taliban blowing up the Bamiyan Buddhas.
Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 10h agoOkay, so speaking as a professional archaeologist whose job it is to make decisions on this stuff, the moon should be given protections equivalent to, if not exceeding World Heritage status. What Musk is doing is an act of cultural and environmental vandalism and he should fucking swing for it.
I can't get through the work day rn with the amount of AI crap being shoehorned into once-usable software & platforms & systems. If it all disappeared this morning, I'd cry with relief at the world becoming navigable (ish) again.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 23h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
The billionaire & special interest class that casually buys elections in America got together & spent an unprecedented $62 million to smear El-Sayed, out-spending him 10-1, and mobilized the entire Democratic Party establishment to sink him, AND HE STILL WON. Media cope:
Politico@politico.com · 14h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
"Liddle's work"? As if he'd written 'A la recherche du temps perdu' rather than a selection of bigoted middle aged rants.
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
For GOD'S SAKE. Massive landowners call for ban on disposable BBQs, but at the same time call for "a lifting of the ban on controlled burning" 'You oiks shouldn't burn moorland - that's OUR job' Entitled double standards. Ban both. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Calls to ban disposable barbecues in England and Wales over wildfire risk
Lib Dems and many Labour MPs join farmers, landowners and firefighters in urging temporary prohibition
theguardian.com
bristol, uk! 8th august, 10.30am, queens square counter protest against bristol rises & 10+ other far-right groups who are mobilising from across the country bristol is antifascist, let's run them out of town again 🏴 via @bristolantifascist.bsky.social 🖤
Friends who love books! I suggested to Aine that there were plenty of us on here who would donate to help her raise money for her woefully under-funded school library. Please help prove me right by donating whatever you can.
AineMcCaul ✍🏼@ainemccaul.bsky.social · yesterdayHi Alom, I finally got a fundraiser set up and approved by the school board (thanks for that wonderful idea btw) and here is the link below. gofund.me/55e46e8ca
The Jeep Rubicon Childkiller. Celebrate the climate emergency and mow down pedestrians with 5,000 pounds of pointless metal.
