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ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · Aug 24

we don't get anywhere near the Kingdom leaving people behind/throwing anyone under any buses.

you just don't do that with a clean conscience

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 1d

Rain

Abstract picture of the flow lands in Scotland with lots of rain

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 1d

The Flow Lands from Cnoc Craggie

Photo of a distant mountain in Scotland

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 2d

Just had to tell a ghillie I don't eat fish; feel like I just failed some kind of test

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 2d

Corr

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 2d

😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A rainbow in a Scottish glen

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 3d

I'm on holiday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Sketchbook page showing an abstracted Scottish landscape

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 3d

I managed to forget the moon exists last night, so that was good.

Looking at the sky, thinking 'wow I wonder what's making light up there at this time'

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 4d

I'm enjoying it! Elizabeth Taylor keeps occasionally popping into my head

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 4d

There can be a tendency to minimise oppression, to ask the oppressed to be bigger - no. Nope. No.

We *all* need to do that work.

I don't know where I'm going with this one, I've got no insight, but yeah

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 4d

'Love your neighbour' is the theme for Quaker week.

I get the sentiment, where it comes from, and where it wants to go; but we have to think really carefully about asking oppressed people to love someone who is oppressing them

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 4d

Can you tell, I'm Watching Telly? I don't watch proper programmes and adverts and stuff often, and apparently, I can't cope with it

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 4d

'Did you know that if you shave, 1/3 of what you remove is skin?'

Thanks, Dove, I didn't, because no one should know that

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 4d

'Did you know that if you shave, 1/3 of what you remove is skin?'

Thanks, Dove, I didn't, because no one should know that

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, I abandoned that, it was horrendous

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 4d

Watching One Born Every Minute for some reason, and this father is being a complete one. This is horrible. He's haranguing the mother

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 5d

our @fossilfreebooks.org comrade @peter.polari.com has made these gorgeous risograph prints to raise money for the Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza. Only 50: get yours quick polari.press/shop/art-pri...

risograph print - red flowers, green print over saying THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF GENOCIDE

risograph print - green flowers, red print over saying THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF GENOCIDE

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 6d

in a work environment, using it just makes you irrelevant.

that's the long and short of it

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 6d

i *hate* gen AI.

i find it meaningless, in all meanings of that word!

it robs you of potential and stuff, of art - it's a fundamental human impulse They want to take off you

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 6d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 6d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 6d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 6d

my neurology med, which we will call Azerbaijan as i can't remember its name/close enough, makes everything taste like cheap sweeteners/death

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 6d

I think my neighbours are clog dancing

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 6d

Guess who's driving up to Perth on Sunday 🙃

walkhighlands @walkhighlands.co.uk · 6d

Met Office says there will be 122mph wind, gusting to 134mph on the Ben later on.

Screenshot of Met Office weather forecast for Ben Nevis

ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 6d

They're curating us!!!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 7d

"I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard"

RIP to the greatest to ever do it.

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

Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC

YouTube video by maxinebendix

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ellen @elfenzo.bsky.social · 7d

🎶 it's the most predictable time of the year 🎶

When people hurry to tell you how cool they are because they're desperately not listening to Taylor Swift