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@quantumonium.bsky.social

Tired. I probably know you from Barbelith? I like RPGs, philosophy, comics, that sort of thing. Anyway nice to see you, come on in.

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Peace Pangolin@peace-pangolin.bsky.social · 7h ago

I saw a video from a recovering alcoholic. He talked about how he used to buy rounds of drinks all the time. It wasn't generosity. He was trying to get everyone else hammered so he wouldn't feel so guilty and awkward about being sloshed himself. I feel like similar happens with some AI pushers.

Labour for Trans Rights@labour4transrights.bsky.social · 12h ago

Today the new Code of Practice comes into force, systematically excluding trans people from public facilities and services across the UK. It will go down in history as the Starmer government’s shame. But it’s not too late for Andy Burnham to change course.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h ago

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

Interesting passage in the mea culpa on antisemitism from Tory council candidate at centre of selection row, supporting the view - fiercely denied by most on left at the time - that Corbyn was a magnet drawing antisemitic cranks into Labour. By 2015, when I was 22 turning 23, this ideology had become my whole exis-tence. I welcomed Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader because I saw him as hostile to Israel and aligned with anti-Zionist politics. In my mind, all of this was part of the same war. Alongside those I associated with, I began targeting Jewish MPs and becoming loudly vocal about what we called "Jew-ish infiltration". One of my peers had been arrested and jailed for targeting Luciana Berger in an antisemitic cam-paign. Rather than seeing that as a
Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 12h ago

Really weird to me how incredibly rich white men get to say stuff like "in three to four years we'll be achieving nuclear fusion from honey" and the stock markets go "wow, sounds great bro!" and the news just reports it with maybe a paragraph at the end of "critics say this is unlikely".

Miranda Keeling@mirandakeeling.com · 10h ago

Woman on a bus (reading from an article): Have you ever discussed your fantasies with your partner? Her friend: Like the one where I’m in a cottage by the sea completely on my own with a book and a cup of tea?

Nicola Pitchford@npitchford.bsky.social · 2d ago

“All writers are making maps of the cicatrix of their lives, disturbing the ghost soil, unearthing artefacts of unreliable memory. Being an English child of the 1970s, there is possibly a little more need than usual for exorcism. For there’s no getting away from the fact it was a bloody weird time.”

A stack of books with Hookland Fragments Volume One by David Southwell on top. The cover has a beautiful black-and-white linocut by Maria Strutz of a bear juggling bones and stars.
Positive Money UK@positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · yesterday

#TaxTheBanks 💰👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks

#TaxTheBanks

Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...

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ActionAid UK@actionaiduk.bsky.social · yesterday

Joanne O’Neill, the co-director of advocacy and influencing at ActionAid UK, said the government should also take “meaningful action” to hold UK banks to account for their impact on the climate and human rights. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Jim Rossignol@rossignol.bsky.social · 14h ago

This is a pretty good summary of why this stuff has zero appeal to anyone who actually enjoys making anything, and there will never be anything Ai companies can do about that. (Green absolutely torching his own credibility is just an astonishing unforced error. Write your own words!)

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 14h ago

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

David K. Barnes@davidkbarnes.com · yesterday

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterday

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and #climatecrisis That’s $700,000 a minute Iran conflict windfall over 3 months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage Story by Jillian Ambrose and me www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

theguardian.com

Quantum@quantumonium.bsky.social · 21h ago

Turns out Quinns is like next week, can't wait. That episode where Aabria and Brennan talked* was transcendent and amazing and an example of two paragons at the top of their game flying together on golden wings, but they were 100% wrong about lebkuchen, so wrong, they hate Xmas :( *the third time

Brennan Lee Mulligan Talks All Things Tabletop In New Trailer For Adventuring Academy Season 7 - The Fandomentals

NEW SEASON PREMIERES FEBRUARY 20TH

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Quantum@quantumonium.bsky.social · 6d ago

Knew this would be good but just watched it and it's really good, nice to have some chewy commentary and chunky concepts. Adventuring Academy is going from strength to strength, Quinns guest when?