WHERE'S YOUR STRING OF ONIONS, CITIZEN?

Afraid I have gone completely native. May never come home. #brittany

My favourite variant of this was @thatnatt.bsky.social saying “I’m like marmite, me. A byproduct of the brewing industry.”

Rich Neville@richneville.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.

Saw this big boy today. Also, holidays FUCK YEAH! (And crawling inside a 6,500 year old grave was pretty exciting)

My sister-in-law died because we had a government who wanted to "let it rip" and "eat out to help out" (a programme responsible for most of the new infections in late summer 2020). The atmosphere WAS stifling but it was trying to stifle anyone who thought we should maybe try to keep people safe.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d ago

No need for anyone to agree with me - but some of the responses to this on here reminds me just how stifling and absolutist a period in our national discourse Covid was.

I just... I feel like I'm going a bit mad? The British government very visibly opposed locking down, we spent all of November 2020 ignoring every sign in order to "save Christmas." The BBC's weakness was not deference to science, but to the government! Laura K was reposting videos of buckets!

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d ago

No need for anyone to agree with me - but some of the responses to this on here reminds me just how stifling and absolutist a period in our national discourse Covid was.

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Food growers & farmers are increasingly experiencing climate breakdown harvests That means higher prices - and more food insecurity. Politicians have been quiet on this growing crisis - but silence isn't good enough when our food supply is at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than half of England officially in drought - Environment Agency

The drought declarations follow an exceptionally hot and dry period, which has hit rivers, crops and nature.

bbc.co.uk

Rewilding isn't a side project of the climate fight. It is the fight. This great man makes the case plainly: "the rewilding of the world will suck enormous amounts of carbon from the air and lock it away in expanding wilderness.” That's not a hope, it's an observed pattern across ecosystems.

The science was right. In 1988, Dr Syukuro Manabe predicted the Mediterranean region, North Africa and Southern California would all dry out in summers due to rising levels of greenhouse gases. In 2021 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics with two others for reliably predicting global heating.

Wrote two lines of Javascript to make news websites actually look like what they *feel* like to me

Reading this after the @gregorynorminton.bsky.social piece it quotes and it is searing. For any of us there won't just be one moment of realisation, that we've passed from one state into another. Find ways to help each other through these times. This is one.

Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · last wk.

With the great burning upon us, I wrote about what it means to raise the next generation, the one who will not let us be their teachers. I hope it hits with some people. medium.com/@patchgaley/...

I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵

THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX

Jay Tholen@jaytholen.net · 2w ago

one of those things that was cool in star trek but absolutely sucks now that it's real

From the perspective of a cynical AI investor, the question isn't, "Can AI do your job?" The question is, "Can an AI salesman convince your boss that an AI can do your job?" 23/

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/

REVEALED: Almost three-quarters of riverbanks in England have no public access - new analysis by @righttoroam.bsky.social @lewis-winks.bsky.social As heatwaves get worse we need a right to responsibly access rivers @angelaeagle1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost 75% of England’s riverbanks ‘off limits’ to public, figures show

Campaigners urge government to introduce right of access to water, particularly as heatwaves become more common

theguardian.com

This seat doesn't belong to Labour for us to "steal". It belongs to Greater Manchester. This Thursday we have a chance to run this wonderful city-region for people, not profit, by voting Green as your first preference vote. www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

The Green plan to steal the Manchester mayoralty

The Prime Minister has left a vacancy that Zack Polanski's party would love to fill

newstatesman.com

He had him murdered and dismembered with a bone saw for being a journalist

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

Medievalists, prepare. Hildegard of Bingen might be a Playmobil figure. www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/rhei...

Playmobil-Figur von Hildegard von Bingen geplant: Verhandlungen laufen

Die Schwarzwaldmarie war ein Verkaufsschlager, bald könnte es auch eine Ikone aus Rheinhessen als Playmobil-Figur geben. Verdient hätte es die heilige Hildegard allemal.

allgemeine-zeitung.de

It's partially on Starmer. The UK has long been one of the best places to be an ethnic minority, because of political and civic society leadership. It's being dragged backwards in part because of a failure of leadership by Starmer.

"no one on a temporary (work) visa should have the automatic right to stay forever" nothing about settlement is automatic. but not one single labour MP will call this out, because they've spent months repeating this same lie with regard to the settlement consultation. an endless shower of cowards

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 3w ago

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This reminds me of when I used to do Ian Bowler videos, & couldn't be bothered to put on the bottom half of the suit (can you guess which ones I was semi-nude in?). If any of you go on telly after my death to give a moving tribute about how much I meant to you, please put on trousers first.

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lindsey Graham died from aorta rupture stemming from hardening of arteries: preliminary finding from medical examiner.

The idea that we shouldn’t speak ill of the dead seems ridiculous to me. What more important time is there to set the public memory of the good or bad a person has put into the world than when they die. It’s the gift we give to those we loved, and the bill due for those who made others miserable.

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 3y ago

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."

How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased

Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.

wired.com