One day we'll look back and conveniently everyone will have always been against this
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One day we'll look back and conveniently everyone will have always been against this
Do you live in Oxford? I'm running a noticing workshop at Caper Books for children ages 5 to 9 year olds and their grown-ups based on finding joyous, tiny stories in ordinary things: to help with overwhelm and find the magic in the everyday! And tickets are only £3! To book: tinyurl.com/4tutvvfm
just bought intermezzo. my hopes are not high but my respect for her can be
Thank you for your time, take as much as you need. I'm not in any rush 😊
SHE CAME DOWN IN A BUBBLE, DOUG!!!
Thanks for the shout! Got a conversation going. Can't wait to find my telescope 😄
fantastic set of questions, thank you! I would love to be able to see the planets—at the very least I'd like to be able to see astrological phenomena more clearly. Photography is the goal. I have loads of time to put into it, at least an hour a day. My budget is ~$1000 (US)
hi friends, do you have any astronomer friends who have a decent breakdown of personal telescopes? i live in botswana and have amazing night skies and would love to treat myself with a telescope for my 40th this year, please help me find something that will work for me
"if an under-18 user is having suicidal ideation, we will attempt to contact the users’ parents" I am extremely curious about how OpenAI is planning to do this.
you ever sneezed so hard that the car you're driving shakes? me neither. just watched someone sneeze in a kia shortage and I feel that should be featured in the commercials
If anyone deserves to have imposter syndrome it's him
I do hope this is the last time I write about inherited trauma
i was going to write about antigone from a fascist perspective given the current state of affairs in the world, but i realised i can't add a valuable enough perspective to that particular conversation, other than to express my own thoughts about it. the generational would conversation is more _me_
antigone isn’t just a play about law and defiance—it’s about breaking generational wounds. in this post i explore what her story can teach us about healing cycles of pain.
Sometimes my interest in state spying and my interest in stalkerware overlap in weird ways. For example, Kenya arrested four journalists, seized their devices and returned them with FlexiSpy installed: cpj.org/2025/09/spyw...
seen this at least 5 times today and I've seen a cheesecake boat in the ocean each time until I remember
one thing that is much worse on Bluesky than the previous platform: the lack of truly global voices and coverage over half the users are in the USA, while many countries are simply so absent, stories like this only appear here erratically Kenyan Gen X protesters follow Nepal closely, but not here
The easiest part of my job is being fighty and mean to powerful people when they are wrong. The hardest part of my job is being constructive and kind to people with less power than me when they are wrong.
when i imagined cooper's chase from the description of the book it was more like a little village community with individual cottages like in portwenn in doc martin.
anyway, rubbish movie if you've read the book. rubbish movie if you haven't.
they also made movie joyce such a sorry little character shoving cakes down peoples throats *bleh* meanwhile she was so much more than just-a-nurse-joyce
joyce, one of the titular characters, had just moved into cooper's chase, according to the book. how long did the renovations to her "flat" take? (considering each flat is customised to their occupant)
cooper's chase doesn't feel like a retirement home at all. i don't know about everyone else but i couldn't help wonder how everyone who lived there (the movie version) could afford to do so and how do the renovations work?
i don't know who it was on my tl that said the thursday murder club was rubbish but they were right. a brilliant cast and the odd easter egg sprinkled about were not enough to save this movie. i wonder how richard osman truly felt about how his book was adapted
The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified
the cost of giving up the sounds of the "city" traffic (ew) and the adhan (😔) — though I haven't heard an adhan at all since covid times
living in the suburbs sounds like living in a lawnmowers orgy
bookmarks are finally on bsky hooray! 🔖
Lunar eclipse night 🌙 ✨️
them: it's not that deep me: similar to your intellectual capabilities
Me too. It was taught to us at school when I lived in the Seychelles
Is there a definitive guide to using the search function on bsky? I keep trying to use it the way I used the twitter search function but it doesn't seem to work the same way 🤔
Thanks so much. Will DM you
I was not signed in. At least, as far as I've been using it I was signed out whenever I closed the browser and I'd be required to sign-in upon return. I don't remember clearing my cache lately though 😔
Very different book from my usual too. I'm glad to know you've already read it 😊
new book day 💃🏻🕺
I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
It makes me rather giddy to know that despite what others may say about learning going out of fashion, so many of us are fascinated—dare i say ready and willing—to learn. In Our Time is an not-paywalled wealth of knowledge & we need more of it bsky.app/profile/hann...
I know she's otherwise engaged but either Zeinab Badawi or Amol Rajan
Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
I very much doubt it too. Unfortunately Botswana has done little in terms of economic diversification, heavily relying on diamond income these past few decades. This may be the push she needs to finally consider other options
toddlers really have a keen sense of how to humble their parents 😅
No worries. Listening to it on Apple already ☺️
me: can I tell you something I love about you? 3yo: not today
not available on Deezer, in case anyone was wondering
I hope he has a well-deserved rest. Melvyn Bragg is a most engaging host and his stern but inviting approach to the conversations will definitely be missed.
gosh the last one was a proper struggle today
Double ugh. I miss African twitter but I'm definitely not going back to that hellsite
been saying this too 😩
I wish this platform wasn’t so US-centric. Dare I say it.
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i have no skin in this game but timolie rolls off the tongue imho
really rather enjoying this podcast where the qi elves explore food facts—from blue bananas to turnip ice cream www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
this is a shame. i'm desperate to finish the book before i watch it but i suspect I'll reply saying 'you were right'
Ocean’s 9 but it’s all these women suing the shit out of Meta and taking control of the company
this is old news but i still can't get over a German mobile phone being called a 'handy'
I will think about this a more and see if I can fit it into my tiffin piece
this is a lovely light-hearted read. but because i'm me, i can't help but wonder: what is the cultural implication of having a light lunch? in many warmer commonwealth nations lunch is the primary meal, the heaviest meal that usually requires a light rest/full-on nap afterwards.
i'm annoyed that we are unable to opt-out of us politics the way us citizens are able to opt-out of it
This diagram is excellent and 100000% correct.
of course they think i'm being paranoid while conveniently forgetting that they refused to attend my wedding in kenya because they were supposedly afraid of terrorism. you are the terror, usa.
i finally got a visa for the us—after being repeatedly rejected since the orange-faced leader's premier stint at presidency. now i've had to tell family that i actually won't be visiting because it's really unsafe visiting from the safety of a 'shithole' country.
my cousin in colarado has no idea what's going with e.g. the cdc. they seems to think that our canadian cousins are being paranoid about visiting the us. dude, people are being deported without cause. to countries they may have never even heard of. this is wild to me.
also, do remember to get your boosters as adults. it truly helps to minimise the effects of conditions like shingles that flare up thanks to stress
ive said before and i'll say again: i am an ai hater, im done with "nuance" around ai, and if you use it or you promote it- i honest to god think less of you.
in conclusion: if you feel lighter after someone leaves your life it probably wasn’t friendship. more a performance review you kept failing for not worshipping them hard enough.
if you're interested in examining the flaws in the american criminal justice system, read adam benforado's unfair. he explores the factors that lead to wrongful convictions which are often not based on science or evidence.
This kind of threat and bullying tactics deserve a strong response. Tech companies call the shots in their home country, but they need to obey the law elsewhere, which includes competition and data privacy. #Apple #TechEthics www.macrumors.com/2025/08/28/a...
today we discussed death 💃🏻
✋🏻 attended secondary school in botswana (igcse) in the early naughties and it was wild to me how we jumped from ancient egypt and greece in primary school to wwii in secondary school. zero idea what happened in between. went from being my strongest subject to my weakest subject.
if a book says “tiktok sensation” on the front i am putting it back
i'm laughing so hard at this after i heard that snoop didn't know how to explain two mums to a child 😂
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
i felt compelled to block him after a while because surely there has to be more to your life than some festival in the desert. seems very privileged to me.
there was a guy on twitter a few years ago who would jump into my comments talking about being an original member of burning man whateverthefuck that means, and waxing lyrical about the benefits of the festival. it did not help to assuage my confusion
i'm also super unclear on what all these people are doing out in the desert
are there any people of colour at burning man?
I sort of want to write about this but I'm not sure how, but essentially: a lot of policy making has to take into account the fact that a lot of people are quite to very stupid, and that's fine, it's just not usually spoken about, but it's something we need to take into account wrt AI
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
duck me i'm starting another rewatch of Kilmore girls (Post without correcting the autocorrect)
In an effort to move away from our over-reliance on coal, Botswana, in partnership with USAID, initiated a rooftop solar programme that invites consumers to generate electricity for ourselves with options to sell any excess back to the grid
Botswana has set herself a goal of achieving 50% renewable energy penetration by 2036 has been set, and the Sinotswana Green Energy project is a tangible demonstration of this commitment.
why did they name him mingus?
i'm envious of anyone who has any ounce of energy at this point
People don’t want this. Wanting this is not normal. It’s weird.
anaïs nin = woman in male fields
this, after her morning declaration: 'when i was your age i used to be old'
amidst a puzzle game 3yo announces that the two mama cats are having a 'mama meeting' because the kitten doesn't have a dad. and in case i was confused she clarified 'mama, the kitten has two mamas' 😅
his campaign truly needs to be studied. gosh, the united states of north america are in dire need of a leader like him
i genuinely dislike US politics. that said, i really hope mamdani wins new york. although with how their politics operate, i am somewhat doubtful
“Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty” … or how to lose government contracts all over the world in one easy step. 🖕🏾🖕🏾 www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
we all got this
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
Yahhhh… the wonder is gone.
like where are all the 'men' who 'protect'?
