Katie
@dryadula.bsky.social
Library worker and student. Multi-genre reader. Parent. No genAI.
Petition to save the University of Dundee's Department of Philosophy. The department has Scotland's only art and philosophy major, where students are asked to reflect on philosophical questions through their studio practice and on their studio practice through their arguments. c.org/Z8RtDGzdxY
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Due to deadline brain I forgot to do the weekly good news thread yesterday. So, for one day only, it's a saturday good news thread (or until next time I forget). What's YOUR good news from the week? What's made you smile?
Resident Alien: Alan Tudyk's Hilarious Laugh
Alt: Resident Alien: Alan Tudyk's super awkward Laugh where he goes Ha ha ha ha ha like someone who has never experienced humour.
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My novella-in-flash ‘William Prichard & Co’ is two years old today! To celebrate, I am giving away a copy. You can read more about the NIF on Goodreads & my website. If you would like to be in the draw, please repost & dm me. I will pick names out of the hat on Saturday 22 August. Sorry UK ONLY.
Got a looooong shift at work today and then I'm supposed to be going straight afterwards. We'll see, I may crumple and need to go home.
Whole family paused outside the tram door causing me to have to do an ungainly scurry to get around them onto it. I get it, I've had the omg is this the right train/tram/bus panic many a time. But if I'd missed it, I would've been late.
Woke up to Bluesky telling me I have 30+ notifications. That has never happened before. In reality there were two which is much more typical. Not sure if there was a lot of bot action overnight or it's something to do with having beta features enabled. I know they're working on notifications atm.
Set your alarms! We open for submissions in two weeks!
Finished watching Upstart Crow today. Mainly can't figure out why I found Kit Marlowe so attractive throughout. The wig, maybe?
Heard a quiet knock on the door several hours ago and when I went to look nobody was there. Still mildly freaked out/curious what that was all about.
Everyone is talking about the first CD album they owned and I've been racking my brain but I can't remember. I had cassette albums first and remember both the first I owned and bought. Drawing a blank on the switch to CD. I do remember having to borrow my brothers' CDs when I got my first player.
Are you a disabled library information worker or librarian and want to inspire and encourage peers into the sector? Read on⬇️
Catherine Finch@cathyfinch1234.bsky.social · 7d agoAre you a disabled library information worker or librarian? Want your story to inspire and encourage other deaf, blind, disabled, neurodivergent people into the LIS profession? Then I'd love to interview you for our @cilip.bsky.social 's Disability Network website
I felt immense sadness while reading this report. “I use it fairly regularly… despite not liking it.” Heartbreaking.
Young people, teachers' and parents' use of AI to support literacy in 2026 | National Literacy Trust
In 2026, we combined surveys, focus groups and interviews to explore changing use of, and attitudes to, generative AI among young people, teachers and parents.
literacytrust.org.uk
I'm on yet another Sims 4 binge so I am likely to survive, at least.
Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · last wk.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?
People mock artists of the medieval period for never having seen the animals they drew. But the 17th century is equally guilty. This is a seal. Allegedly. Tho the seal is armed so maybe I shouldn't chat shit about it.
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe "Warschauer Wanderrobbe" of 1625, a crown wearing and heavily armed seal with a canon on its back, clearly didn't give a fuck. What a print! #skystorians
Please read through this thread and considering lending a hand to these folks, there is a gofundme in the second post of the thread, if you can’t afford a donation, please share! It’s been a shit time for small businesses, and bookshops especially. Please help this one to keep going ❤️
Stephen Cox says "Preorder Terror"@stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · last wk.#books #indiebooks #bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk a bad summer and needs some love to make rent. Cooperative, volunteer led, books and arts space, supports indies music zines, you name it. Woke AF. This team supported newbie me when I walked into the writing group in 2013. Now 5 books!
9 more sales needed in 29 minutes or I go down in flames of hubris!
Richard Herring@herring1967.bsky.social · last wk.Need to sell 20 more tickets to reach my goal of 1500 tickets sold! Can I do it? If not my Fringe has been for NOTHING!
They finished what they were making, it's a Halloween Candy Store.
Katie@dryadula.bsky.social · 2w agoDaughter and husband are building a craft kit together and I love listening to them work away at it and chat as they go
I'd really like to play a video game where you make stained glass. I did make some irl once but I was scared of the lead.
Happy Timezones BlackSkyGamers It’s been a few days since the news about Twitch’s auto opt in Generative AI training was announced So, @conflictedairrrttv.bsky.social made quick carousel about it & how to opt out PLEASE REPOST,SHARE, & SAVE THIS #blackskygamers | #creatorsofblacksky |
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 2w agoTwitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
Thanks for scaring the life out of me UK emergency alert. I wasn't planning on setting any fireworks off 🙄
I have something to do this afternoon which is personally important and which I will find challenging. Hoping I'm on good form today and that it will go well.
Can I suggest that we do as they do in Cape Town, which is a bucket in the shower that you can then apply to plants, or use to flush the loo. #PublicServiceAnnouncement #Drought
If you live in the UK please sign this petition against data centres! act.38degrees.org.uk/act/datacent...
Stop these monster data centres before they wreck our neighbourhoods!
Are you worried about this too?
act.38degrees.org.uk
I was working during most of the eclipse but I did take a pinhole projector with me for the trip home. My best experience of it, though was the shadow through dappled branches. Click on to get the better look.
Anthropic is now embedding an invisible marker in Claude's text to meet a new EU transparency law, and it survives simple copy-paste. However, it may be easy to strip with a few extra steps, and my guess it will really only useful for catching the laziest unedited AI use.
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models | TechCrunch
Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.
techcrunch.com
My husband just told me one of our elderly neighbours has bought a tiny drone and he saw him accidentally fly it into our front window and then underneath our car. By accident, presumably.
