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Vicky Richards

@vickyerichards.bsky.social

Editor, writer, attempted comic, nerd. Funny bits @ Reductress & Daily Mash 🃏 Top buyer of lemon & coriander cous cous at my local Sainsburys. She/her. 🐉🧙‍♀

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legalized gamboling@ohtazer.goblinmo.de · 5mo ago

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"
Glennyrodge@glennyrodge.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

theguardian.com

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them October 14 2025, The Times The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.
Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 10mo ago

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Vicky Richards@vickyerichards.bsky.social · last yr.

Today's good news: Discovered practice has paid off and I can now run slightly faster Today's bad news: Running at increased speed without learning how to close my mouth is now causing me to swallow double the amount of flies

Lisa Holdsworth@lisaholdsworth.bsky.social · last yr.

Please help us with this really important bit of research. Any information you give us is confidential but will help us understand the scale of the problem and tackle it. Please share.

Writers' Guild of Great Britain@writersguildgb.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ Writers – have you been asked to work for free? Then join our call for evidence on the type + amount of free work that has been requested of you over the past 12 months to help us identify + tackle the problem

Stephanie@stephknee.bsky.social · last yr.

“So how did the care sector work before immigration?” Women did it. For free. Except now families can’t live well on one income and no one’s retiring at 55 on a fat pension, free to care for their parents, their husband’s parents, and their grandchildren. Undoing care-for-profit will be expensive