My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
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"What if all the Ai is gone tomorrow? How would everyone survive without it?" is sort of like asking "what if herpes suddenly stopped existing?"
I'm one of those who are a bit ambivalent about Lego's shift from "make something from this pile of bricks" to near-exclusively licensed kits. Doubtless this is due to a childhood spent making houses and rockets on my parent's carpet. But damn if this isn't gorgeous. www.lego.com/en-gb/produc...
Hubble Space Telescope 11382 | LEGO® Icons | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop GB
Build the Hubble Space Telescope
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As an aside, if any other professionals were as incompetent as certain journalists, they'd be sacked and disbarred. But in the rightwing press, gross incompetence appears to be a qualification. After all, without its bullshitters for hire, how else would capital deny, deflect and distract?
Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.
Your regular reminder that you can't appease a bully. You show them your belly, they'll just bully you even more. Seriously, @amnestyuk.bsky.social, on behalf of all of us, stand up to this spoiled, schoolyard beehutch, will you? Give her the bloody nose she deserves. You're letting everyone down.
Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors
Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo
Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales
Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis
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At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Can't be the first to say this, but (and yay UEFA - brilliant) this works equally well if you swap out "football" for maybe "water" or "a stable climate". Look at me being the revolutionary socialist. "No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation."
Absolutely fascinating book history thread:
Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · last wk.A thread on special editions, luxury books, and publishing history: In 1903, J. M. Dent created Everyman’s Library, intended as a cheap line of hardbacks to make a classical education accessible as mass literacy rates were on the rise.
My next Black Library novel has been announced: Bjorn the Fell-Handed. #warhammer40k #warhammer30k #warhammercommunity #BjorntheFellhanded #authorslife
This is a great thread, with loads of interesting information and links.
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · last wk.A widely used definition of space junk: any object in space which does not now, or in the foreseeable future, serve a useful purpose. 🧪 🔭
I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
A little fact about me - when I'm between book projects, Satisfactory has a tendency to entirely consume my leisure time. Obviously, it'll depend on how it plays, but I'll keep an eye out for this one: gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Satisfactory: The Board Game by MOOD Publishing - Gamefound
A 1-4 player, Competitive, Sandbox, Engine-Builder tabletop experience based on the global video game phenomenon. As a Pioneer for the FICSIT Corporation, you are tasked with exploring an alien planet...
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www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl... I had SO much fun spending a year of my life inside Bjorn's dreadnought sarcophagus. #BjorntheFellhanded #warhammer40k
Bjorn the Fell-handed stars in a new Black Library novel
The iconic Space Wolves Dreadnought awakens to battle the Death Guard.
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Yep, that'll definitely convert a few heathens. This is self-aggrandisement, plain and simple. Anyone doing this can't sincerely expect this to have any effect, beyond creating a clip of someone yelling at them to be posted for victim points.
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10
We're joining @creatorsrights.bsky.social in calling on Government to protect creators from the existential threat of GenAI Help get the petition to 10,000 signatures - sign the petition 🔽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.
Barrister Rajiv Menon KC is facing potentially two-years in prison for doing his job. This has never happened in British legal history. Sign the petition 👇 https://netpol.org/2026/07/15/stop-the-prosecution-of-rajiv-menon-save-britains-juries/
Buses, famously for the richer classes and upper orders.
This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.
Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2w agooh come on
My chat with @alexdoddy.bsky.social on Scribes and Scriveners is now live on Warhammer+ for your viewing pleasure. You can also find the great conversation I was privileged to be a part of on the open submission process, released a few months ago. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
Ogors thunder onto Warhammer TV in a new Battle Report
Check out what’s on Warhammer TV this week.
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Jonathan D. Beer@jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 2w agoIt was an enormous pleasure to sit down with @alexdoddy.bsky.social and talk about DOMINION GENESIS, my other stories, and my journey to writing for Black Library. My sincere thanks to the Scribes and Scriveners team for making it such a fun conversation. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
There are some good reasons why you shouldn't pre-order things, but there are also some quite good ones. The most compelling of these is that when your pre-ordered product arrives, because you've already paid for it, it feels like you're receiving a present from yourself in the past.
Patrick's Surprise Gift Unboxing
ALT: Patrick's Surprise Gift Unboxing
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