Shannon Vallor
@shannonvallor.bsky.social
Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Trying not to lose it.
Dumping rain and our house just sprung a massive window leak; in the process of digging around for duct tape to seal off the outside until we can get it fixed, we found *another* leak under the water heater tank that has already stained and warped the floor. Holidays off to a fine start.
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Dumping rain and our house just sprung a massive window leak; in the process of digging around for duct tape to seal off the outside until we can get it fixed, we found *another* leak under the water heater tank that has already stained and warped the floor. Holidays off to a fine start.
It helps to have a very heavy, stable base - we use the Krinner one (pictured) and ours has not been able to pull it down. Ymmv. Also, no glass ornaments and a dense tree
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
It helps to have a very heavy, stable base - we use the Krinner one (pictured) and ours has not been able to pull it down. Ymmv. Also, no glass ornaments and a dense tree
Me looking up and alternating between ‘such inexpressible, transcendent beauty!’ and ‘please no pooping do you hear me?
NO POOPING!!’
NO POOPING!!’
December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Me looking up and alternating between ‘such inexpressible, transcendent beauty!’ and ‘please no pooping do you hear me?
NO POOPING!!’
NO POOPING!!’
Spent the day chatting with Sylvie Delacroix at SEPAI in Rome; it’s amazing when you go to a conference and meet a lovely person that you should already have met but somehow just never did! Plus last night i went to a great vegan cat cafe for dinner and got to pet this stripey chonkster
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Spent the day chatting with Sylvie Delacroix at SEPAI in Rome; it’s amazing when you go to a conference and meet a lovely person that you should already have met but somehow just never did! Plus last night i went to a great vegan cat cafe for dinner and got to pet this stripey chonkster
Reading the puppy books a month before we bring her home and trying not to freak out because now
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Reading the puppy books a month before we bring her home and trying not to freak out because now
My two moods in 2025
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My two moods in 2025
After five years in Scotland, my husband has made some friends locally, something at which I have failed miserably (not counting my lovely work colleagues). So he’s off having adventures today while I’m staying home with the cat. She’s good company, she knows all the good sunspots
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
After five years in Scotland, my husband has made some friends locally, something at which I have failed miserably (not counting my lovely work colleagues). So he’s off having adventures today while I’m staying home with the cat. She’s good company, she knows all the good sunspots
I stared at this headline too long and now my brain won’t go
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I stared at this headline too long and now my brain won’t go
Many know Carol had a boyfriend cat, who visited her daily for all four years of her life. She often danced for him. Sometimes he got inside and ran under the bed with her. He tragically passed away two weeks ago and she is wrecked still (us too). We are getting her a dog. She’ll thank us later.
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Many know Carol had a boyfriend cat, who visited her daily for all four years of her life. She often danced for him. Sometimes he got inside and ran under the bed with her. He tragically passed away two weeks ago and she is wrecked still (us too). We are getting her a dog. She’ll thank us later.
I wonder how that happened
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I wonder how that happened
It takes a lot for me to be horror-struck by anything a major media outlet writes or does these days, given the absolutely appalling state of journalism, but after what I have seen from the NYT, the Economist, FT and Condé Nast today, I just want to say,
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It takes a lot for me to be horror-struck by anything a major media outlet writes or does these days, given the absolutely appalling state of journalism, but after what I have seen from the NYT, the Economist, FT and Condé Nast today, I just want to say,
Dahlias in Madrid, Part 2
October 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Dahlias in Madrid, Part 2
Because we all need some beauty today, here are some dahlias in Madrid (part 1)
October 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Because we all need some beauty today, here are some dahlias in Madrid (part 1)
