I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

We are so looking forward to welcoming you!

At my first @octocon.bsky.social panel of the day (I know, I know, it's 4pm but I have been having a blast sitting behind the @norncon.bsky.social table)

@pauljholden.com and @mikeowencarroll.bsky.social are being delightfully chaotic, and @paulcarroll.bsky.social is gleefully enabling them.

"in fairness, Catherine Connolly could spend her entire seven years in the office doing nothing but going from school to school doing keepy-uppies and it would probably have a better effect on social cohesion than almost anything else that the president can actually do"

At @octocon.bsky.social for a great day of conventioning! Have a blast.!

Make sure you swing by Liz Bourke. 2 euro per hardback, 1 euro per soft back!

#Octocon #Octocon2025 #Fantasy #SciFi #ReadingCommunity

I hope to god the reporter and their editor are prepared to go to jail to protect their source here, because the regime will absolutely want to make an example of this man. Like all fascists, they know neighbors helping each other wins every time.

A while back I started paying attention to torture by the good guys in media aimed at children. Usually the good guy doesn't torture the bad guy directly but arranges a third party to do the torturing. Zootopia was a particularly bleak example.

We need to stop the small number of people objecting to infrastructure AND
We need not to annoy the small number of people objecting to saving the planet is an interesting set of beliefs to hold at the same time

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Contrast this with the speech made by Micheal Martin at COP27, where he said:

"If this generation doesn’t step up urgently, future generations will not forgive us.

As leaders, it is our responsibility to drive the transformation necessary."

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

Awwww. You will be missed!
Best of luck today!

Never forget that the rise of the frog resistance was foretold by a great prophet, many years ago, in a more innocent time.

#PortlandFrog

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0fu...

It's eternally frustrating that the HSE has the blinkers on & only looks to UK when it comes to trans healthcare when Spain & Malta are right there! In Spain I can walk into a pharmacist & get estrogen patches. No GP, no traumatic assessments. Just medicine without the bullshit and no one is harmed.

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

I get the assumptions and I know I look youngish for my age thanks to my pure heart and noble intentions and it's not like I'm deliberately dressing old or anything to combat it but damn, this is annoying

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

I just realized that the Portland Antifascist Frog has singlehandedly reclaimed amphibians from the “alt right”. Yet another way he is a Great American.

i'll tell you what's going to be "polarising" – crop losses, coastal flooding, more destruction and extended blackouts like storm éowyn

Yikes. Just got a message from my child’s school: some children’s books by Andrew Cope (inc. Spy Dogs, Spy Cats, and Spy Pups series) have a printed URL at the back. This used to go to the author’s website, but now goes to an “adult content” site.

So, yeah… be careful with that URL 😳