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She/her. Same username over on Cohost. Chinese Singaporean immigrant in the UK. Writer. Nintendo enthusiast. SF Giants fan. Ailuromaniac. Bibliophile. You can find my TTRPGs here: https://atfruitbat.itch.io/
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"“It is stealing,” he said this weekend. “If these lobbies succeed in convincing our government we will effectively be handing all the wealth created by the creative industries, hundreds of billions, and giving it all straight to the tech industry.”" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"“[...] we cannot imagine any of these people, the majority of whom are likely British citizens with no prior engagement with the Home Office, have ever knowingly consented to the Home Office receiving and storing their data.”"

Uni looks like Little Totoro :3

The Starmer aide/AI stuff feels a bit canary/coalmine because this isn't letting electoral factors triumph over good governance or sinply doing something I don't like - things every government does - this is falling for a scam. There are people in Nunber 10 who are just idiots.

🤷‍♀️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Molotov College is a GMless, diceless superhero TTRPG. Inspired by media like The Umbrella Academy and X-Men, the players take on the roles of superpowered misfits resisting the doomed future while dealing with the messy interpersonal drama. aryl-ether.itch.io/molotov-coll...

Okay this article is completely insane. OpenAI is going to make *more than its entire subscription revenue from 2024* (they spent $9bn to lose $5bn in 2024 btw) - $3 billion - selling “agents”? OpenAI doesn’t have a functional agent product! It doesn’t exist! What the hell is going on?

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Remember when Musk bought Twitter, and he made all the engineers come up with some kind of bullshit summary of the code they were supposed to have written that week - never mind that it doesn't work like that! Anyway, sounds like the same rubbish

In the books, Lan Wangji falls for Wei Wuxian when they study at Cloud Recesses. He's too repressed to show it. In The Untamed, you could argue he falls after Nevernight. Though I'd say it's prob at Xuanwu cave - coz he sings to Wei Wuxian. So how trash a boyfriend he is varies by source material 🤣

I need everyone to be crystal clear that this is a continuation of RFK and the wellness community’s *obsession* with the elimination of the disabled and the chronically ill. They are disgusted by us, they view illness and disability as weakness, and they believe in using eugenics to disappear us.

There's a line from T.H. White's The Once and Future King, about Arthur watching Lancelot and Guinevere as they all have dinner together: "He saw that his friend and wife were looking at each other with the wide pupils of madness, so he quickly attended to his plate."

WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

This never gets tired www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAIG...

Woody Guthrie

This is a great article. There are also graphics like this you can download, print and distribute. Find the pdf here: maketheroadny.org/we-protect-us/

I repeat, if you or a loved one was recently fired from the federal government during your probationary period, and the reason you were given was poor performance, please reach out to us at www.centerforemploymentjustice.com. We have a plan and may be able to help you.

Gotta enjoy these moments when I can!

DOGE engineer Edward Coristine, 19, is the grandson of a notorious KGB spy.

Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

The US is using its listening stations on UK soil to obtain critical information about the battlefields in Ukraine. Now Trump is aligned with Putin these have to go. We cannot risk information from them getting into Putin's hands.

Musk may cut Starlink support for Ukraine if Zelenskyy doesn’t sign the deal to give America access to rare earth minerals, negotiators have said. (Reuters) Mafia Politics.

Five more signatures gets this to 95k! So close to a Westminster debate and protecting us from the MAGA fascism that’s got sepsis rates soaring and children who have been abused having to leave state for an abortion

SPEEDMECH ehronlime.itch.io/speedmech

When I say everything is 15% off in my birthday sale (code "SchmooplesBday") you know what that means right? It means Discount Snails! Come outta yer shells and hit the sales, snail friends! #malacology #cuteart #artshop

men who dressed like this from 2008 - 2012 had preppy menswear blogs

We've got 1 more episode of Star Wars: The Acolyte to go... I wish the writing was better. There are some cool ideas in there, and it started off fairly well. But characters are now just ticking off plot points in a way that makes me wince. It's a pity because they have some really good actors.

AI disrupts the wumao industry: "...OpenAI also said it had uncovered a separate Chinese campaign, called Sponsored Discontent, that used OpenAI’s technologies to generate English-language posts that criticized Chinese dissidents."

This is just awful. Acronyms make things feel abstract and plausibly unimportant, but PRAMS "was developed in 1987 to reduce infant morbidity and mortality" www.cdc.gov/prams/about/...

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

Sounds a regular Monday for the Tories 🤷‍♀️

The band has a music video for our latest single! Check out Maritime by Man Made Origin here and the other usual places! youtu.be/37H8pMvRkj8?...

We are delighted to announce a new Six-Week Workshop scholarship for Trans writers. The Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for the Six-Week Workshop, has been offered by an anonymous donor and will be available for the first time this year.

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.