Helping my 11 y.o. learn the order of the planets for her homework today -- made me think of this, by the awesome Fatima Asghar www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E_W...
Fatimah Asghar - "Pluto Shits on the Universe"
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Theatre-maker, writer, dad; joint artistic director of @companywolves.org
“The most important thing about the gadget isn’t what it does, it’s who it does it for and who it does it to.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
A vivid and entertaining polemnic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire
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So proud of everyone involved in this amazing play, and lucky to be working on it.
Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 4w agoIn 2021, local residents successfully prevented a Home Office raid on Kenmure Street in Glasgow. How will These Are Our Neighbours - a new play by Katharine Williams - tell that story with just three actors? Maddy Costa finds out
I am very much looking forward to seeing Anna Von Hausswolff on Wednesday evening.
Isn't this a lovely thing! So looking forward the launch...!
Glasgow SF Writers' Circle@gsfwc.bsky.social · last mo.#CoverReveal alert! Behold the cover art for our new anthology Haverin, designed by our own Jenni Coutts. Look carefully and you'll spot some sneaky clues to the tales inside. Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40 @jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)
this week's post is mostly a roundup of just some of the seemingly countless attacks on Flock cameras margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/people-rea...
Thoroughly recommend Corinne Salisbury's furious play Slayers, at Assembly George Square for the rest of the Fringe. Strong stuff.
Going to weigh in here with some personal stuff. My son is diagnosed autistic. It made a world of difference because his school had to make accommodations that allowed him to actually cope and learn there, rather than be categorised as "naughty" in an escalating round of attempted control that
Jack@jackinpogform.bsky.social · 2mo agoFunny innit? The risk of misdiagnosing a single neurotypical person is worth dragging each and every ND person back to the 90s where they were 'difficult,' 'thick' or 'disruptive'
Very nice from @citymystic.bsky.social AI koolaid compared to Salem witch-trial hysteria. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
The Spectral Evidence for AI
AI is bad enough on its own without giving it god-like powers
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I would like to see this exhibition - love Leonora Carrington's work.
Leonora Carrington work painted during psychiatric confinement to go on show for first time
Exclusive: Villa Pilar, painted in 1940 during the surrealist artist’s stay in a Spanish sanatorium, will be displayed at London’s Freud museum
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Another resource someone shared with me recently: digital self-defence
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After all the horrendous far-right activity in Glasgow in recent days, someone sent me this guide to bystander intervention, which I found really useful -- I'm sharing it here in case anyone else finds it helpful.
The 5Ds of Bystander Intervention
WE TURN THE CARE WE HAVE FOR EACH OTHER INTO SIMPLE, CREATIVE, AND EFFECTIVE ACTION
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I am very proud indeed to have my short story The Other Mara in issue 7 of the fantastic Thin Skin Magazine... !
Thin Skin magazine@thin-skin.bsky.social · 5mo agoYes, we've done it again, bang on schedule (you may not care about that but we do). Delighted to present Issue 7. thin-skin.com
Whether you've gone out and done your bit for democracy, or that's another day at the office done with, you deserve a reward. So here's our Ewan Downie's new story, 'The Other Mara', as a wee treat for you. Check it out on Thin Skin at the link below. @thin-skin.bsky.social @ewandownie.com
The Other Mara - Thin Skin
I keep dreaming about the other girl. She is looking down into the water, and I’m looking up at her through the silvered surface. She is wearing a white slip that reflects the moon. She reaches for me...
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Check out the latest issue of Strange Horizons for a brand new poem from our Ewan Downie! Just a heads up that 'Beetles' is not one for entomophobes. @ewandownie.com @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Beetles
in dark / some thing / moves some / thing moves / in dark
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E.M. Faulds is back with 'To Stave Off the Void', part of the new anthology Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity -- subjects very close to our hearts! Preorders are available now from the link below. aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... @bethkesh.bsky.social @aanpress.bsky.social
New project: extracting all the books from my kindle, breaking the DRM so I can access them elsewhere, and exiting the Amazon ecosystem.
Our Ewan Downie's on a roll! Check out 'Semele', the latest story in his ongoing exploration of the Dionysus myth, in the new issue of Carmina Magazine. @ewandownie.com carminamagazine.com/issues-main/...
Semele by Ewan Downie | Carmina Magazine | March 2026
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Applications now OPEN for our 2026 Theatre-Maker Placement programme! Company of Wolves are offering a rare opportunity for 2 early career artists to be embedded in the operations of one of Scotland’s foremost contemporary performance companies. INFO HERE: companyofwolves.org/news/theatre...
NEW OPPORTUNITY: Theatre-Maker Placements 2026
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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“We lack the language that would let us prize the arduous, the uncomfortable, the slow and wandering, the unpredictable, the vulnerable or risky, the intimate, the embodied.”
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take…
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