I do not like AI generated video captions and AI generated articles and AI generated voice-overs and AI generated posters and AI generated videos and AI generated music, I do not like being treated as nothing more than a vessel to be force-fed zero-effort empty soulless content, I do not like it!

If you MUST message me about a national emergency DON’T SAY I “should not undertake any activity that could start a fire” SAY “do not do anything that could start a fire” You’re not drafting legislation, you’re talking to people many of whom have a reading age of 6.

Don't speak too soon, but i think that alert just made it rain!

It would be useful if the alert stayed on your screen after you turn the noise off. I didn't read it because I just wanted to shut the noise up. It quite distracted me from stoking my bonfire.

Jesus christ. I don't know about wildfires, but there's probably a spate of heart attacks right now!

This really is not good. Thoughts with all fire personnel across the country. I know from seeing my dad come back from field fires how bloody knackering it is dealing with that. Can't imagine what it's like to a mountain!

Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fans of last week’s mountain fires will be pleased to hear that the other mountain is now in fact on fire

Remember, kids: A-Levels aren't the be all and end all to succeeding in life. You need to be skinny and good looking too.

I have to go for a Chinese meal this evening. For the first time in my life, I do not want to eat Chinese food. It is hotter than Satan's anus in my office already. I just want to mainline choc ices.

Currently sitting in the garden looking for a meteor shower. Also got the flight tracker app open, because I am stupid and have confused planes and meteors before. Now, there are things moving slowly in the sky, that are not on the app. And I don't want to alarm anyone...

Green Alien Dance Animation

ALT: Green Alien Dance Animation

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ok but what about a little baby water buffalo he's just a baby!

So glad we had to go through the whole leadership debacle just for more of the same, but with a northern accent.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d ago

Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps

As a big fan of independent book shops I never thought I'd be pleased to see one closed, but there truly is a first time for everything.

Stoatwobbler@stoatwobbler.bsky.social · last wk.

Oldspeak Books is shutting their premises. Citing an inability to maintain a welcoming environment. But if you want to create a welcoming environment, don't be so utterly stupid as to put "remigration now" flags in your front window!

The world needs more of whatever this is 💯 #cuddlepuddle

Well, if AI were banned tomorrow the only effect it would have on my life would be no longer having to ignore all the desperate pleas by companies to use the bloody thing! But looking wider, I think right now I'd be fairly happy to give up the whole Internet!

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Said goodbye to this lad tonight. Gilbert was technically my ex's cat, but he had been mine while we were still together, and the one thing that got me through lockdown. I will miss his perpetually perplexed little face.

Christ! As someone who doesn't even like asking friends out for a drink or a meal for my birthday (because I don't want people to feel obliged to come or buy me a card or gift) I just can't imagine how self centred you have to be to act like this.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Attack of the birthdayzillas: the people turning their big days into epic events – at huge cost to their guests

Talking of right wing opinions, seeing working heavy horses is the one thing that conjures reform-voting adjacent levels of nostalgia for me. It's such a restful and beautiful thing to watch a team of horses plough a field.

Cambridge Diary@cambridgediary.bsky.social · 2w ago

2nd August 2021 Harvesting the wildflower meadow at King's College. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

Anyone know where the power steering fluid goes? I think i have discovered my most right wing opinion - feminism has gone too far when it results in me getting oily fingers. Engines are boy things.

I feel this sign is a little redundant this summer...

That's two power cuts this evening. Trying to sew by candle light is not fun. Nor is the silence when my normal sound track of music/podcasts/TV stops. Don't leave me alone with my thoughts!

This is a very lovely thread. I recommend everyone takes a few moments to marvel in the beauty of nature. I really needed this today!

Sarah May@sarahmay1.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last week the posy I brought home from the garden had a chrysalis attached though I didn't notice till I got home. If you, like me, haven't watched a butterfly emerge you won't be prepared for how amazing or how long emergence takes #TinyJoys a 🧵

Just when I thought i couldn't hate them more...

Disappointed Optimist@disappoptimism.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you’re a book person like me, you’re mentally likening this to a form of intellectual ethnic cleansing. If you’re a regular person you may well just be thinking “Fuck these guys are genuinely evil” #ai #LLM futurism.com/artificial-i...

Our thanks to the numerous teams tackling the Holme Fen fire and to everyone who’s shown concern for this special site. Please share how important it is that any ignition source, from the smallest cigarette ember to portable bbqs and campfires are kept well away from our flammable dry peat soils!

Cambridgeshire@cambridgeshireuk.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fire at peat nature reserve 'could burn for days' #Cambridgeshire #BBCNews

This is quite exciting (and also quite predictable). Not quite sure it deserves the 'emergency incident' label, though. www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/emergen...

Seven human skeletons found in Queensgate Roundabout works

Seven human skeletons have been found by workers carrying out the Queensgate Roundabout works.

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Oh, no. Genuinely such sad news. I know he had his troubles, but he bought so much joy throughout my childhood and beyond. I hope he knew how loved he was by so many.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 3w ago

Wildlife presenter and comedian Bill Oddie has died

That there is not one solitary person close enough to this man to say "Bryan, mate, you've just typed 'become my own blood boy'. Do you think you may have gone a little too far? Come out for a beer with the lads." really is quite sad.

Bad Medical Takes@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 3w ago

My dear man (for this most certainly is a man), not only has she probably not noticed, she does not give one shiny shit about you. Let it go.

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 3w ago

A powerful woman at my work has wronged me. I can't do much about it, but I can make sure she's the very last email address I put into every mail or meeting invite, after everyone else of any level. I know she'll clock it but would sound insane to bring it up.

Kathy Burke.

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 3w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

I do worry a lot about the future for kids, but increasingly I also worry how this is going to affect my own generation growing older. Selfishly as well as selflessly, we must act.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 3w ago

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

Now opening nominations for the Best Image of Climate Politics in a Nutshell 🌎