Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️🌈
@finokoye.bsky.social
She/her, queerness as praxis, research as activism, mmanwu-obsessed communist anchoress in training, idk 🏳️🌈🐢🐦
No DMs please, I’m Brit”ish”.
https://finokoye.com
No DMs please, I’m Brit”ish”.
https://finokoye.com
Just want to do flower arranging for the rest of my days, I think.
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Just want to do flower arranging for the rest of my days, I think.
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love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
“Benefit caps” (ie reparative amendments for systemic silliness) are just so ridiculous because the money comes back! The money of the working classes always comes back!!!
Even our ISAs are too basic to truly drain much from the state lol
Even our ISAs are too basic to truly drain much from the state lol
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“Benefit caps” (ie reparative amendments for systemic silliness) are just so ridiculous because the money comes back! The money of the working classes always comes back!!!
Even our ISAs are too basic to truly drain much from the state lol
Even our ISAs are too basic to truly drain much from the state lol
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These past two years have seen protests across the continent. Kenya. Mozambique. Morocco. Madagascar, where the entry into the fray of the security services, Sudan 2019-style, even sent the president into exile. These protests have to do with anger – rage – at our broken social contracts.
We’re in a brave new world – even if our leaders are not
Starting this week, our guest columnist forages for hope in the underbrush of African politics.
continent.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
These past two years have seen protests across the continent. Kenya. Mozambique. Morocco. Madagascar, where the entry into the fray of the security services, Sudan 2019-style, even sent the president into exile. These protests have to do with anger – rage – at our broken social contracts.
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In Solidarity with Sudan: A Bonfire Discussion
Join us!
10 December 2025
15:30 GMT/16:30 CET/17:30 Cairo/10:30 EST
via zoom
Co-organized with Sawiyan, Salam Sudan + Locally Led
Register via www.southsouthmovement.org/in-solidarit...
Join us!
10 December 2025
15:30 GMT/16:30 CET/17:30 Cairo/10:30 EST
via zoom
Co-organized with Sawiyan, Salam Sudan + Locally Led
Register via www.southsouthmovement.org/in-solidarit...
November 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
In Solidarity with Sudan: A Bonfire Discussion
Join us!
10 December 2025
15:30 GMT/16:30 CET/17:30 Cairo/10:30 EST
via zoom
Co-organized with Sawiyan, Salam Sudan + Locally Led
Register via www.southsouthmovement.org/in-solidarit...
Join us!
10 December 2025
15:30 GMT/16:30 CET/17:30 Cairo/10:30 EST
via zoom
Co-organized with Sawiyan, Salam Sudan + Locally Led
Register via www.southsouthmovement.org/in-solidarit...
Right and this is such an interesting… disjoint in UX of LLM interfaces.
There are patterns from eg Google’s image recognition tool for visually indicating (as it’s all black box really) reliability and it’s really telling how a lot of UX discourse laser focussed on essentially micro-copy but +
There are patterns from eg Google’s image recognition tool for visually indicating (as it’s all black box really) reliability and it’s really telling how a lot of UX discourse laser focussed on essentially micro-copy but +
It's really telling that the metrics that they're aiming for are things like "user interaction rate" and not things like "is it correct/helpful"
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Right and this is such an interesting… disjoint in UX of LLM interfaces.
There are patterns from eg Google’s image recognition tool for visually indicating (as it’s all black box really) reliability and it’s really telling how a lot of UX discourse laser focussed on essentially micro-copy but +
There are patterns from eg Google’s image recognition tool for visually indicating (as it’s all black box really) reliability and it’s really telling how a lot of UX discourse laser focussed on essentially micro-copy but +
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The university has made the recording of my talk available at the link below. In case of interest and you missed it.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The university has made the recording of my talk available at the link below. In case of interest and you missed it.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
Genders in cross diaspora-English revealed depending on whether you call the dude restaurant owner ‘uncle’ or ‘boss[man]’.
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Genders in cross diaspora-English revealed depending on whether you call the dude restaurant owner ‘uncle’ or ‘boss[man]’.
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One of the most infuriating (amid hot competition) things about discussion of closing music departments is the plea 'oh but we love extra-curricular things like orchestras'. It's a wilfully ignorant reduction of what academic music depts do. High level performance is 1 component within ...
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
One of the most infuriating (amid hot competition) things about discussion of closing music departments is the plea 'oh but we love extra-curricular things like orchestras'. It's a wilfully ignorant reduction of what academic music depts do. High level performance is 1 component within ...
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Thanks to everyone who came along to this. I mostly talked about taking a more deliberate approach to tech adoption, and shared some of the findings from this research into how the expansion and adoption of tools like Copilot requires diligence www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Thanks to everyone who came along to this. I mostly talked about taking a more deliberate approach to tech adoption, and shared some of the findings from this research into how the expansion and adoption of tools like Copilot requires diligence www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
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The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
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Andrew, because he’s a dickhead everyone hates; Mandelson, because he’s a dickhead who made the lobby hacks look like bent clowns. Even then, this was all decided offscreen, far from anything that looks like scrutiny. There are no higher principles at work than “Thou shalt not humiliate the lads”.
![NEWS AGENTS
The News Agents • @newsagents.... • 10m
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November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Andrew, because he’s a dickhead everyone hates; Mandelson, because he’s a dickhead who made the lobby hacks look like bent clowns. Even then, this was all decided offscreen, far from anything that looks like scrutiny. There are no higher principles at work than “Thou shalt not humiliate the lads”.
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Please help Nya’s family of eight secure shelter & winter supplies. This cold is getting worse for them in their tent, and the kids are still malnourished, which is a deadly combination.
Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Please help Nya’s family of eight secure shelter & winter supplies. This cold is getting worse for them in their tent, and the kids are still malnourished, which is a deadly combination.
Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
I love how the word ‘sometimes’ just gives that vibe in what seems like almost every language
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I love how the word ‘sometimes’ just gives that vibe in what seems like almost every language
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It’s funny when you lift the bonnet of the budget she has really put forward some evil things
🚨 BREAKING: Chancellor continues freeze on housing benefit – missing a crucial opportunity to prevent homelessness.
As rents continue to rise, this will directly lead to homelessness for many of us. #Budget2025
As rents continue to rise, this will directly lead to homelessness for many of us. #Budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It’s funny when you lift the bonnet of the budget she has really put forward some evil things
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Honestly, I think the average British citizen might actually be shocked to hear how many visit visas are refused for things like births, graduations, funerals, weddings - things that they themselves would never stand for if it happened to their British families…
one of the most endlessly petty "we don't think you'll leave" visit visa refusals imaginable. see also: funerals, weddings
Great-grandmother denied visa to attend Christening in Reading
Tutu Melaku says it is an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Honestly, I think the average British citizen might actually be shocked to hear how many visit visas are refused for things like births, graduations, funerals, weddings - things that they themselves would never stand for if it happened to their British families…
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I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
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Please help out a Black trans man who is need of some bread!
Cashapp: $mphighaf
Paypal: [email protected]
Cashapp: $mphighaf
Paypal: [email protected]
if anyone could send money for
the below
that would be awesome
ca: mphighaf
pp: [email protected]
#HelpFolksLive2025 #trans #disabled #ubi #mutualaid #audhd #voidpunk #socialism
if these systems/orgs were enough so many wouldnt need help
the below
that would be awesome
ca: mphighaf
pp: [email protected]
#HelpFolksLive2025 #trans #disabled #ubi #mutualaid #audhd #voidpunk #socialism
if these systems/orgs were enough so many wouldnt need help
1. Rent: 1100$
2. Pet rent: 40$
3. Electricity: 100$
4. Med Card App: 50$
5. Bike: ??? (Bc transit be transitting)(also cptsd)
6. Wifi: 10$
2. Pet rent: 40$
3. Electricity: 100$
4. Med Card App: 50$
5. Bike: ??? (Bc transit be transitting)(also cptsd)
6. Wifi: 10$
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Please help out a Black trans man who is need of some bread!
Cashapp: $mphighaf
Paypal: [email protected]
Cashapp: $mphighaf
Paypal: [email protected]
I always feel a bit of a fraud whenever I like pretty much every post in a thread and then there’s one I’m like “uhhh no babe” before liking the others lol
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I always feel a bit of a fraud whenever I like pretty much every post in a thread and then there’s one I’m like “uhhh no babe” before liking the others lol
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To tie back to my comparison to other online radicalisation, even if you don't give a shit about trans people, the judiciary becoming increasingly partial on a specific issue should be seen as the canary in the coal mine giving the current direction of travel in this country
Like it was obvious when the Supreme Court randomly decided to rewrite the Equality Act, but I think there's a large amount if journalistic negligence that no one really treats judges as anything other than neutral conduits through which the word of law moves
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
To tie back to my comparison to other online radicalisation, even if you don't give a shit about trans people, the judiciary becoming increasingly partial on a specific issue should be seen as the canary in the coal mine giving the current direction of travel in this country
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
This!! As someone who consults/freelances, the extra can occasionally just put me into higher tax brackets* but tbh it’s the fact I’m on effective pay cuts for the last 4 years which is doing the real damage…
My gym has gone up 11% my SIM card 17% and broadband 10% this year. Barely anyone gets a rise that big. So they feel fleeced by 40% tax bracket every time their pay goes up because employers long ago broke the idea they share success with employers
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This!! As someone who consults/freelances, the extra can occasionally just put me into higher tax brackets* but tbh it’s the fact I’m on effective pay cuts for the last 4 years which is doing the real damage…
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So yeah perception that you’re being fleeced by taxation when it’s more your employer giving inadequate rises and corporations profiteering you can see why ostensibly high earning people feel aggrieved
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
So yeah perception that you’re being fleeced by taxation when it’s more your employer giving inadequate rises and corporations profiteering you can see why ostensibly high earning people feel aggrieved