This was beautiful and brought back some deep memories and you can rewind to see.

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒@marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 6h ago

Orcas are swimming and vocalizing right now on the livestream! 🫍 orcalab.org/live-streams/

For some reason I am watching "The Glittering Prizes" a 1976 British tv drama about a group of 1950's Cambridge graduates and their subsequent adult lives. To say it's "aged badly" isn't quite right. It's like an artifact from an almost unimaginably distant time ...

So I kind of followed the @ernie.tedium.co thing and slapped up half a dozen .isos on a Ventoy stick and desktop Linux really is in quite a remarkable place right now and all of the most interesting distros are simultaneously worth a look and about 35 degrees askew from what I gut-level want.

I do think there is something quite autistic about the adult immigrant experience: every brand on the supermarket aisles is novel and needs to be parsed for how it fits in; the deep history of where you are deserves to be looked at with a PhD gaze, etc.

Video Game Watcher@ashstoneman.bsky.social · yesterday

Today my primary care doctor told me that menopause is autism and all immigrants have autism, so I guess I have to go without the medication I went there for for a little while

My metatake is that McMorrow is actually a smart politician who deserves a future in elected politics and Stevens is not.

This is correct but Americans would not accept it because they have been taught to believe election counts are only legit if they are real-time incremental but also that they are a specific kind of sports where there are no comebacks. The solution is Irish counts.

Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 21h ago

it's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything

The huge gap between "the political leaning of Missouri manifested via direct democracy" and "the political leaning of Missouri manifested via representative democracy" is so curious to me: a big cohort voting for initiatives and for R state reps who try their damndest not to enforce them.

Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20h ago

Very heartening news out of Missouri and Kansas. I know all of us here are by definition Terminally Online, but it gives me a lot of hope for the future of our country that folks are rejecting blatant authoritarianism and crony corporatism more and more.

Yeah this is I think the correct benefit of hindsight take: the primary focus of remote schooling should have been preventing backsliding, and students should have just had however long they were remote added to their normative timeline where ever possible. bsky.app/profile/baja...

Professional Husband@bajaenjoyer.bsky.social · yesterday

One public school teacher’s ¢2 here: remote learning in k-12 was the right call from an epidemiological perspective, but we should have also fully acknowledged that we needed to basically reteach 1-2 grade levels worth of curriculum to millions of kids afterward instead of just waving them through

I think punk was basically politically fine until any of its participants got on the property ladder, a path which leads directly to Julie Birchall

Did a thing with my stupid project: claude.ai/code/artifac...

Claude Artifact

Try out Artifacts created by Claude users

claude.ai

Having spent a part of the evening learning about the establishment of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen and Peter Benoit's deep Flemishness I was reminded that "Koninklijk" is one of my favourite Dutch/Vlaams words, it's such a task to say "Royal".

Sebas@ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · last yr.

During WWII, the Dutch national library was forced by the Nazis to change its name from Royal Library to National Library, but there was a paper shortage, so instead of printing new paperwork, they just crossed it out and scribbled it in

gas town is my emotional support dumpster fire

These are all fun but the Suzi Quatro one, oh my. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Sade wasn’t particularly friendly’: the stories behind music’s most iconic portraits – in pictures

Photographer Gered Mankowitz opens up about the secret stories behind iconic images of Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Annie Lennox that have have become indelible parts of pop culture history

theguardian.com

For shits and giggles I asked a few LLMs to write a good .zshrc today and then got them to critique the others' efforts and it all broke their vectorised brains. I am not so cruel to ask them to do a .emacs.

The thing about writing up a year-long research project is that the act of writing - of making sense of something on the page so that someone else can pick it up and use it - is completely transformational for both your own understanding of it and the quality of analysis.

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 7d ago

At the stage of writing up where night and day don't matter anymore and I may have just eaten some jam off my nightie.

📖 Bibliography of courtesy and conduct books in seventeenth-century England ✍️ Gertrude Elizabeth Noyes 🗓 Published: 1937 🔗 https://openlibrary.org/works/OL11124610W

extreme income inequality is bad for a lot of reasons but today the one i'm mad at is people having the wealth and power to force me to live inside their delusions

the logical conclusion of emacs brain is ninety thousand dollars worth of shale gas burned & water evaporated every month to avoid actively spending any time writing software

I will remember him being a twat on camera outside the Cleveland Centre — an indulgence granted him by Newsnight, I think — and then forget he ever existed.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rod Liddle was a piece of shit in both his private and public life, and it speaks to the state of British media that they're praising the man. He presaged the steep downward decline of British broadsheet print columnists into increasingly open racism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people.

A lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person

I made one of my first radio docs about the effect of that summer on writers. Ian McEwan was in south London imagining a family rotting into sibling incest in The Cement Garden. Stephen Poliakoff, spooked by the NF, wrote Strawberry Fields, imagining green fascists running guns up baking motorways.

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's weird reading John L Williams' (v good) Heatwave, about the summer of 1976, and seeing temperatures over 32 described as so extreme that people lost their minds. At least it seems they invented road-building material that doesn't melt. And we don't have a ladybird plague.

yeah he sees himself as being in a negotiation with Iran but at war with Minnesota

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

"Disputed, at best" means the irritating wee toff is too much of a coward to say outright that he thinks it's bollocks. He's both wrong and a fucking weasel.

Various flavors of covid denialism (lab leak, exaggeration of school closures, pretend ignorance of the reasons for all such things) have become a cult belief among many journalists.

The most recent ep of @danhon.com 's show made me think about how a lot of people don't distinguish between writing to think and writing to produce an artifact, and how modern work is predicated on not giving people *time* to think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYE7...

How People Work, Live! ... with Russell Davies

YouTube video by Dan Hon

youtube.com

Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 5d ago

I think straightforward deskilling is probably fixable, and frankly I have lost faith in this kind of study, but as a person who writes a lot, I think there is a very real difference between gesturing at ideas and working them through, and LLMs really have a lot of people conflating the two.

The best band Factory ever signed was the Durutti Column

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

In a hypothetical Muppet Odyssey, the no-name crewmembers should all be pigs. Then Circe turns them into humans with thick Boston accents, and we get a Matt Damon cameo.

Jeez, you've found the secret of engagement here Marie - invite English people to talk about the nonces at their schools.

Also i do kinda think a lot of online culture generation is done by people in industries that missed the boom or precarious outlook. art, tech, artists, sw, journalism, academia, etc

Wandering Hoo@wanderlib.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yeah, insofar as vibes were bad, it wasn't from Biden's economic policy.

As a 70s kid who got the arse-end of Th*tch*r's Britain in the 80s I think this is really bloody important; if you step back, Right to Buy and utility privatisation was essentially a massive ideological swindle to direct wage income towards ensuring the primacy of capital.

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 6d ago

But the moral/psychological problems he identifies really begin in the early 1980s. Some of the most interesting parts of Piketty IMO are where he demonstrates that the 1970s is the *only* period in capitalist history when a basic promise of liberalism - primacy of 'earned' income - is delivered