I am enjoying saying "why the long face?" to our greyhound.
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Writer, artist, parent. I write about art in lutruwita at Makeando.art they/them. Free Palestine.
This is the world Republicans want to leave your children & grandchildren.
Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Arctic is cooking and we are in serious trouble In what should be one of the coldest places on Earth Its 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), as hot as Orlando Florida Without Arctic natural air conditioning systems we are toast www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...
If I seem like a cranky old guy now, it is largely because I spent five years working on a film about how one of the most intelligent, talented & hardworking people I know wrote a best-selling book, had fame & money & lost everything because he spoke the wrong way to a powerful Eton graduate.
Bluesky is not a "liberal bubble". It's just one of increasingly few public spaces where Nazis get called out, and if that makes you uncomfortable, you need to think about that.
in the dark night amongst the trees, between the leaves, lit only by moonlight is this super secret, lovely lo-fi, analogue album from a cabin in the woods… The forthcoming brand new album of original songs ‘Far From Nowhere’ out 🍂 2025 ffm.to/farfromnowhere
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Japanese Girls Beating Michael Gove's Doppelgänger With Electric Eels Down His Pants, Fuck I Bet That Hurts It's 9:00AM
just so anyone who votes in Tasmanian Council elections has this in mind www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12...
A landlord body was given a $100,000 government grant. The way it was spent raised questions
When a landlord association headed by an Airbnb owner and mayoral aspirant was given a grant, it raised questions. An audit has found multiple concerns.
abc.net.au
@willowtalksbooks.bsky.social I don't know who said this first , but House of leaves is the horror equivalent of Infinite Jest.
Dropbox has the worst interface. So tedious to use.
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.
Answering the big question once and for all...
Are the Avatar movies really that bad?
YouTube video by Willow Heath
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AI listings have made apartment hunting even more debasing:
AI Listings Have Made Apartment Hunting Even More Debasing | Defector
I started reading Valley of the Dolls for the first time the other night. It opens in 1945, with Anne Wells landing in New York and securing a job as a secretary at Henry Bellamy’s theatrical agency.…
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Emily Wilson. The brain that launched a thousand ships... straight into the side of Christopher Nolan's coke-addled noggin.
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the...
404media.co
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
I'm doing research for a horror something, and having moments where i find things that just erupt my central idea like finding a fungus growing underground thats just massive. its such a rush.
Bleak beyond words. "AI labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale" www.news.com.au/technology/o...
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
I think that a freelance comedy writer will have a better idea of the concerns of the electorate than a multi millionaire hedgefund manager. But we’ve convinced ourselves that being an “ordinary working person” is about being a thug and a bigot, more than it’s about being a person who works.
The final book in Whitehead's outstanding trilogy of trilogies (each book being 3 connected novellas/short novels), about Harlem furniture salesman and fence Ray Carney, the whole thing having taken him from 1959 to end in 1986.
This is an excellent post by @dadadrummer.bsky.social on AI shitslop music and what's happening on your favourite music streaming service. Take note, and perhaps think about paying artists rather than screwing them. open.substack.com/pub/dadadrum...
A Modest Proposal
Pay human artists and solve the AI music problem
open.substack.com
Mark Zuckerberg's G700 Landed in Monterey, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 37 min.
interesting piece from the nyt on a cooper-hewitt exhibit of musical playback devices. kinda sad, but then what isn;'t these days? no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/a...
When Listening to Music Was a Team Sport (Gift Article)
An exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt celebrates the glorious machines that gave us the soundtracks of our lives before streaming sites shoved them toward obsolescence.
nytimes.com
GOD DAMN its the sacred droning key stone of the universe, back again to drill my third eye
Bbyron coley@byroncoley.bsky.social · last wk.
rec of the day FULL SIZE "plays the song" (open mouth/3 lobed LP) worth trying to track down document of a great live set in NC. philly all-stars playing a VU-meets-Rhys Chatham one chord throwdown for the ages. somebody should press more of this. fast. openmouthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/full-s...
"HIS ASHEN VISAGE PAINTED ORANGE LIKE A MAD CLOWN . . . " "MAD CREEPY CORRUPT OLD CLOWNS POSSE CON-SEQUENCES . . . " "THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS *AND* DRAIN THE SWAMPS . . . " "AND THE END OF AN ERROR . . . " FIRST AS TRAGEDY SECOND AS FARCES www.thedailybeast.com/bleak-realit...
Bleak Reality Inside Trump’s Empty Kennedy Center Revealed
The MAGA makeover has turned the venue into a “black hole.”
thedailybeast.com
Uncle Duke@uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 8mo agohere is a handy visual guide to tell when your turkey is done
