After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Pope Leo retweeted this from Senator Chris Murphy: “Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.”
Old English, art (watercolour, portrait drawing), science, science fiction, history (but only the old stuff). Oh, and poetry - I wrote a book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drawing-Diagram-Rosemary-Badcoe/dp/1945752394/ref=sr_1_1
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After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Pope Leo retweeted this from Senator Chris Murphy: “Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.”
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
What chatbots are actually doing, and why you shouldn't be using them for anything much at all arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/w...
Meanwhile the petition to repeal the #onlinesafetyact is creeping up in numbers, now at 71,000 https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 Repeal might be unrealistic, but rewrite severely is absolutely necessary. [1/several]
I second this. It's great!
What do they call a non meatbird?
I would suggest advising people to 'consult multiple chatbots' is not the way forward...
Hey, we have a drought on, you know. Leave that water where you find it.
Would you like to win a summery Cornish care package? My latest novel ("a captivating tale" - HEAT), Cornish tea, honey and Parmesan thins. Just repost this and I'll put you in the draw! Ends Sunday 22 June, then I'll draw the winner. (UK only, sorry!) #Cornwall #books 💙📚
This poem breaks me open every time.
Absolutely loved this mini course to think critically about GenAI! Can only recommend it to anyone!
I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n
Bat detectors are great. There's a kit to build your own.
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No, no the Brits should charge Americans for using English at all. Or maga could invent another language - they are not, after all, making any sense in this one
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"This is an act of war against the entire world" Staggering analysis from Martin Wolf of @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/d96d...
Strange men on golf courses distributing tariffs is no basis for a system of government. Bring back the women lying in ponds.
This funny 'American Pie' parody bites hard — from a comedy show that went out a few days ago in the UK
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day." "And are you?" "No. That's where it all falls down, of course." Hhgttg. Evergreen.
This 👇, btw, is an important point. The US Africa command in Stuttgart, to take one example, isn’t there to protect Germany. But both can of course be true: Europe has been free-riding AND the US has a self-interest in being in Europe.
yes, I tend to check out a variety of places to see which is best for me. Blackwells used to be good too.
And their art stuff is good. Sad end.
I order books from them online as an alternative to amazon. They're very efficient.
Thanks, America. We'll bear it in mind
Ah yes, that time when everyone rushed to the US's aid.
Brilliantly quality books made with exceptional care.
Founder of Signal 👀 🔥
I couldn't help but write up some quick thoughts trying to capture the sheer insanity (and illegality!) of that Trump group chat. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...
Do Seed Oils Make You Sick? [Spoiler: nope.] www.consumerreports.org/health/healt... via Consumer Reports "...these oils are rich in unsaturated fats, which experts have told us for years are better choices because they don’t clog arteries the way saturated fats do."
It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]: 1/8
Penelope Keith's career as a hitwoman has been outed by Russell Brand. But she is not the only one of our celebrated actresses to have had a secret past.
If you're trans and worried about the current legal landscape, I do free "know your rights" trainings. I can only give legal advice in Illinois, but I can give an informational training to your trans group anywhere in the US, and it's free. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
On 18.03.2014, #Russia annexed #Crimea. In his speech, #Putin assured the people of Ukraine that 🇷🇺 doesn't want to harm Ukraine, respects it's territorial integrity, and does not want "other regions" of Ukraine. Now, 3 years into the full-scale invasion, he talks about "peace". Don't. Trust. Putin.
It's not their farm.
We all know they'll pinch the stuff anyway. But we don't have to make it easy.
No, they'll just go and trade with countries that aren't obviously insane.
yeah, what happened to that? and the excuse of the US having all those guns to defeat government tyranny?
Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?
A little short-term "disturbance" is a small price to pay for permanently higher prices, permanently reduced real wages, permanently impaired national productivity, permanent conflict with betrayed ex-allies, and permanent surrender of global influence to China.
Zelensky said he had brokered a peace deal for Canada to take over the USA, during a summit to which the US was not invited.
Join the Facebook group Sprecaþ Englisc. Free classes in old English and a great community!
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Jamelle Bouie hits it out of the park. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Say all together now: "STATE-OF-THE-ART CLIMATE MODELS SHOW WARMING STOPS ONCE WE STOP EMITTING CARBON" So, "There's still time to stop the worst impacts of climate change."
Plenty of other programmes will let you do that - Dropbox, Google drive, etc.
Libre Office is very similar, without the rubbish.
😂 I don't suppose it made them a lot. They had a certain class, though.
Actually, pre-WWII books often had adverts in the back.
...absolutely incredible. Here's what Medieval Bologna would have looked like when all its towers were intact. Florence didn't have so many but did have dozens, so the richest part of the city center would have looked much like this. Much to the despair of the city fire brigade! 11/?
The peer-reviewed science shows that the primary factor behind the increase in wildfire extent in the western U.S. is increased aridity and fuel load due to human-caused warming. Via #AAAS #SciLine: www.sciline.org/climate/clim...
#science #detox
I thought they were generally 'packed in a protective atmosphere'. But generally the whole lettuce etc is better, rather than the chopped up leaves.
Andy Weir's The Martian is the best audiobook I've listened to for a long time.
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10
I saw this described a few days ago (can't find the original) as: when you ask GenAi a question, you're not saying "What is the answer to this question?", you're saying "What might an answer to this question sound like?"
In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
Here I am on Project Aboena, with the 3rd installment of my Jupiter Diaries... #Poem #SciFi #Future #Frigate #Gigajoule #JDollar projectabeona.wordpress.com/2024/12/09/t...
He didn't. That's just Disney.
Soþlice!
Way ahead of you.
Horrified to discover that a good mince pie is something like 25% of your daily requirement of sugar, fat, nice stuff etc. Probably won't stop me though.
It's 'cos we remember that the world used to be hopeful a few decades ago.
Issue 75 of the wonderful Street Cake Magazine with my poem "Time core initiation in..." #Poem #Poetry #TimeMachine #TheoryOfTimeTravel #KennedyVsNixon #Vikings #LambdaOfP #TimeCore www.streetcakemagazine.com/uploads/2/4/...
Shifting baseline syndrome explains how we normalise the continual visceration of once unimaginably rich ecosystems. Rewilding – our minds, lands, and seas – is the solution. 🌏
Shifting Baseline Syndrome is such a powerful term/concept for so many things (environment, politics, media, work/life balance…)
Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets. Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades. But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2 🗃️🧪
. Bach to the future...
brilliant game, just finished it on gamepass.
I usually eschew what I think of as "arbitrary weirdness" in poems, but sometimes the weird is a big part of the point... #Poem, #Poetry, #PoemAbout, #SciFi, #Sphinx, #Eschatology, #Cafe, #TeaRooms www.ianbadcoe.uk/2024/11/at-f...
Does not bode well.
Used to play this decades ago...
The Photographs As Somewhat Reliable Evidence Era: 1822-2024. Made it past two centuries, not bad.
www.goodreads.com/quotes/19806...
Tranquility Java, 2011 Hengki Koentjoro
Yes, it seems to retain more of the OE sounds. Gotta love the book that's "Written in an accessible style for a wide readership" with a price tag of £85!
OMG.
Believe me, this is not good news.
so geometrically wonderful
Did you see this? It seemed to me to be good. loreandordure.com/2024/04/16/t...
but surely you wrote it in the past?
Breaking my Bluesky silence to say hey, cyclists - PLEASE STOP USING FLASHING LIGHTS ON YOUR BIKES. You might think they're making you safer, but in fact the opposite is true. For motorists like myself and the millions of other migraine sufferers who drive, flashing lights put both of us at risk.
To paraphrase @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com : They are not meant to serve you the truth; they are meant to serve you truth-shaped sentences.
Those trousers need turning up.
Beautiful. Was it borbling?
I very much enjoyed it. Nice to read something shorter and stand alone on occasion, though I enjoy the trilogies too.
Used to really enjoy his artwork. Will check out the book.
Use the bread maker all the time. Bung it on overnight (takes 5 mins), fresh bread in the morning. Brilliant.
This is basically Amazon telling Prime Video customers to go fuck themselves, by adding ads to and removing features from existing subscriptions:
that is beautiful (if scary)
Norway’s intelligence service released its annual threat report but I can’t get over how hard the cover art goes
20 indeed. Learning stuff, all sorts of random stuff, is fun. And possibly the only point to it all.
There's so many amazing beetles I just haven't met yet, but I suspect warty leaf beetles will remain a constant source of happiness no matter how many others I meet. A little lumpy serotonin pill sprouts legs and ambles off before taking flight. 🥹 🌿 🪲
What about if your microwave had a grill thingy? (Urgent question as it's Friday (wot we got) dinner night
Huh. arstechnica.com/science/2024...
I found them brilliant, even without me understanding all of it.
The books are well worth it too, though you have to be in it for the long haul. And many other nautical phrases you won't really understand.
Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. 