Haven’t been on here for a bit. Thought I’d share a blog post after a few conversations I’ve had recently about AI. Like there’s a lack of non experts musing on it…I know! But if nothing else give the podcast Talk Easy with Tristan Harris a listen.. imaginaryastronaut.xyz/notebook/202...

anna starkey — imaginary astronaut home

This morning’s unexpected closing advice from AI after a long ‘conversation’ which concluded with a more sobering assessment of AI’s risk to humanity than I’d been anticipating. I can’t help imagining...

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I just started reading FUEL and am loving it - it’s such a brilliant idea to have an anthology of prize winning flash fiction (and navigable by a list of first lines!), and even better that profits go to fuel poverty charities - check it out! 👇✨

Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈@taniahershman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today is #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay so why not pick up a copy of the FUEL anthology of prizewinning flash fictions - it's a great read and profits go to four #fuelpoverty charities, including @nea.org.uk. The brand new ebook has 75+12 bonus stories = 87 flash stories! Buy here: www.fuelflash.net

“Good shit takes time. Extend time, bend time, crip time.” RIP Alice Wong - Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life

I’m so happy (and a bit shy) to share that my first ever selected poems are in this collection from @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you so much to editors David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, and I can’t wait to read all the work.

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)@thebrokenspine.co.uk · 10mo ago

Out now: Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 — edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free to download from The Broken Spine website. thebrokenspine.co.uk/product/sele...

I have loved being co-chair of Unlimited and learned so much - and after 5 years it’s time to step back and invite new folk into the role. If you’d like to contribute to making positive change in the culture sector, check out our info pack and please share widely!

Unlimited@weareunlimited.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Let’s change the world, together 🤝 We’re looking for two new Co-Chairs to help steer our future. If you’re a collaborative, inclusive leader with energy and passion for supporting disabled artists, we want to hear from you: bit.ly/3L2zWEG #ArtsLeadership #DisabilityArts #TrusteeOpportunities

Feeling despair about all the shit going on in the world lately and particularly in response to all the flags near us, we decided to paint hope all over our house. It’s so lovely to come home to and also to hear kids chanting ‘hope’ as they go past on the way to school.

The Decode ME study is such a big deal for people living with ME/CFS. We’ve spent decades being dismissed by docs and now there is finally a glimmer of hope for better understanding, even pathways to treatment in the long term….just need more funded research and the gov to pay attention….

DecodeME@decodemestudy.bsky.social · last yr.

Our initial DNA results! DecodeME have discovered that people with an ME/CFS diagnosis have significant genetic differences compared to the general population. - Summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk Check out our full preprint paper: shorturl.at/VwN3s

The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms... It would be great if thousands all suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear): BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell. www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

Name our Storms

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Meantime, if you don’t have the spoons to respond to the very long Green Paper with the damaging proposals for cutting disability welfare support, you can sign a very quick petition here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy

The DWP Green Paper Pathways to Work proposes what we think are devastating cuts to disability benefits. We think the Government must drop these proposals and instead begin a process of co-production ...

petition.parliament.uk

Some rare good news just now. The repairing of the harm their ‘guidance’ has caused will be hard however. And a reminder that @goodlawproject.org are a great organisation to support.

Yes, it's another request to sign and share an open letter. These are the times we live in... Disabled people are being cut out of working life, contrary to what the government say they are doing...if you're in the culture sector, please read, sign, share. www.tinyurl.com/AtWLetter

Wow, look at this: the carbon intensity of UK electricity is currently only 32g/kWh and 86.5% of our electricity right now is coming from renewables. Come on world, this IS possible! And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉 (graphic from grid.iamkate.com )

Open this image up fully. Look to the top right. That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. And that bright point of light? Earth.

Gutted to read this - I have posted here previously about the proposed cuts to PIP and meantime we’re seeing damaging and life changing cuts to Access to Work that are happening right now… particularly to those I know working in the arts

Touretteshero@touretteshero.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4

Dear Restaurants…especially all the cool small ones in Bristol, I’m looking at you - it is time to update your approach to access and to stop telling folk who are immune compromised/vulnerable to illness, that it’s not possible to book your outside tables. Of course it’s possible!

I am planning an event @wshed.bsky.social for the culture sector around our collective role in building togetherness to combat the rise of the far right. I am talking with Hope not Hate and imagining a mix of talk and workshop covering. Is this something you would be interested to attend?

Doing some reading around Time - and am loving @emergencemagazine.bsky.social’s Volume 5 on Time. In particular this piece - the best big picture poetic writing on Earth’s geology I’ve come across emergencemagazine.org/essay/wrinkl...

Wrinkled Time: The Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth – Marcia Bjornerud

“We live in a vast, labyrinthine library of time.” In this essay, geologist Marcia Bjornerud celebrates the deep time-fulness of Earth, and orients us to read the many-volume stories kept in the rock ...

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Bug folk! Who is this lovely and very tiny winged visitor to our garden? Is it a butterfly or a moth? This is is a daisy head that’s about 1.5cm diameter….I’ve never seen a butterfly this tiny - they emerge from a chrysalis full sized right, or do you get baby butterflies?!

An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can

The problem isn’t disability – it’s inaccessibility. 56% of the artists behind the 83 UK projects funded by @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social identify as disabled or having access needs. Director Jo Verrent shares how we made this happen and why it matters! 🔗 Read the blog: bit.ly/42MB19T

Thank you @electricliterature.com and @sfmontgomery.bsky.social for including the "lyric and evocative" Ultimatum Orangutan by @mailbykite.bsky.social in your Poetry Collections About the Disabled Experience. Read this wonderful list and explore the magazine electricliterature.com/7-poetry-col...

Science tells us biological sex is not binary, good legal practice tells us this ruling is not fair, and trans representation would have told us the real impact- nobody is any safer from this decision and trans folk are now at even greater risk of harm. This is a great org to follow and support👇

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · last yr.

The Supreme Court ignored trans voices, harming trans people – and the fairness of its ruling. I’m ashamed of what our law has become, says @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social 💬 goodlaw.social/83qa

“The Royal Society is dead. Three hundred and sixty-five years of history, and it’s ended it as a beard for a fascist. What an utterly utterly shameful end for a once-great society”

Jim Baggott@jimbaggott.bsky.social · last yr.

Can’t argue with this. svpow.com/2025/04/04/t...

A clear, thoughtful and open piece about the decision not to cancel a Mayoral Transport Hustings event @wshed.bsky.social Makes me think that perhaps the nature of our times is that we need truly democratic platforms to remain open AND for peaceful protest to exist alongside each other.

Watershed@wshed.bsky.social · last yr.

Here is a piece from our CEO @clarered.bsky.social on the WECA Mayoral Transport Hustings taking place today. In it Clare shares some context in response to public feedback (some are angry we haven't cancelled the event, others have expressed support). www.watershed.co.uk/articles/not...

Colander partial eclipse in bristol.

Made it along for a bit to the #cripsagainstcuts protest on College Green in Bristol - so great to see Green Party co-leader @carladenyer.bsky.social showing up to speak

Five things you might not know about PIP and a thread. 1) PIP is not a ‘benefit’ of disability, it’s welfare support to cover the additional costs of living with chronic illness or disability - medicine, transport, therapy, specialist equipment (and no, not all of these are available on the NHS)

If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use: t.co/E8QB6EDi9o Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!

Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!