Sio and Tell
@sio-and-tell.bsky.social
Kindness is a radical act.
Geriatric millennial, cat parent, linguistics enthusiast. I will write again.
Probably.
Image in profile street art from Osan's "Cat Alley"
Geriatric millennial, cat parent, linguistics enthusiast. I will write again.
Probably.
Image in profile street art from Osan's "Cat Alley"
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Sio and Tell
@sio-and-tell.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Intro post:
I'm Sio (they/she)
Right now I'm a TEFL/TESOL teacher in 🇰🇷
I like cats (I am graciously allowed to live with 2), trees, k-pop, happy endings (not a euphemism) and food. I believe that true kindness and viewing other humans as humans will change the world. More to come when I change jobs!
I'm Sio (they/she)
Right now I'm a TEFL/TESOL teacher in 🇰🇷
I like cats (I am graciously allowed to live with 2), trees, k-pop, happy endings (not a euphemism) and food. I believe that true kindness and viewing other humans as humans will change the world. More to come when I change jobs!
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related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
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The original definition of academic freedom came from the American Association of University Professors--the union for professors--in response to suppression against professors for being "too left" & it focused a LOT on universities not being beholden to corporate funders or wealthy benefactors...🧵
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The original definition of academic freedom came from the American Association of University Professors--the union for professors--in response to suppression against professors for being "too left" & it focused a LOT on universities not being beholden to corporate funders or wealthy benefactors...🧵
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The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
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Again: all of this is elite radicalisation and none of it is organically arising from the public. It is MPs and the press flame-grilling their own brains on social media, then inflicting their poisonous spiteful idiocy upon everyone.
December 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Again: all of this is elite radicalisation and none of it is organically arising from the public. It is MPs and the press flame-grilling their own brains on social media, then inflicting their poisonous spiteful idiocy upon everyone.
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It's time for slower art. The constant churn and grind pushed by techno capitalism has reached its inevitable conclusion with AI slop. Let's make our best work and be patient with our process. Let's release art that's worth stopping for and savoring. Let's show each other what humans can do
December 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It's time for slower art. The constant churn and grind pushed by techno capitalism has reached its inevitable conclusion with AI slop. Let's make our best work and be patient with our process. Let's release art that's worth stopping for and savoring. Let's show each other what humans can do
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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If you had it you wouldn't harm & you'd do your best to mitigate suffering. People either don't know what words mean or think there's some other way we get a better world than caring about people. Sorry there's not a shortcut around that.
Don't listen to anyone telling you we don't need empathy. I can't remember which billionaire was trying to tell us empathy is overrated. Do you know the meaning? Being able to get how someone else feels. It can't be applied wrong. If you had it towards someone you couldn't be bigoted against them.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If you had it you wouldn't harm & you'd do your best to mitigate suffering. People either don't know what words mean or think there's some other way we get a better world than caring about people. Sorry there's not a shortcut around that.
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You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence.
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
December 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence.
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
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No one “deserves” to starve.
No one “deserves” to be homeless.
No one “deserves” to be abandoned.
No one “deserves” to be mistreated.
As a society we should be able to agree that food, healthcare & housing are basic human rights.
We should stop leaving people behind.
No one “deserves” to be homeless.
No one “deserves” to be abandoned.
No one “deserves” to be mistreated.
As a society we should be able to agree that food, healthcare & housing are basic human rights.
We should stop leaving people behind.
December 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
No one “deserves” to starve.
No one “deserves” to be homeless.
No one “deserves” to be abandoned.
No one “deserves” to be mistreated.
As a society we should be able to agree that food, healthcare & housing are basic human rights.
We should stop leaving people behind.
No one “deserves” to be homeless.
No one “deserves” to be abandoned.
No one “deserves” to be mistreated.
As a society we should be able to agree that food, healthcare & housing are basic human rights.
We should stop leaving people behind.
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Which views the BBC considers unacceptably political in its presenters is particularly telling, isn't it?
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Which views the BBC considers unacceptably political in its presenters is particularly telling, isn't it?
I just spent 30 minutes trying to remember the name of an immigration expert (academic and former political advisor) to quote in a letter to my MP. At 5.30 am on a Saturday. How is your December going?
December 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I just spent 30 minutes trying to remember the name of an immigration expert (academic and former political advisor) to quote in a letter to my MP. At 5.30 am on a Saturday. How is your December going?
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People get so pissy when I speak out against breeding, as if I'm being pointlessly mean and grumpy about their favorite color or clothing brand. Cats are not colors. They are not clothing. They are sentient creatures who should not have to suffer for human convenience or aesthetic preferences.
🔍NEW STUDY highlights the welfare challenges facing purebred cats in the UK and presents a new framework that encourages an evidence-based perspective.
🔗 Read the full press release: https://ow.ly/qAIk50XyNlj
🔗 Read the open access paper in Animal Welfare: https://ow.ly/QO3n50XyWro
🔗 Read the full press release: https://ow.ly/qAIk50XyNlj
🔗 Read the open access paper in Animal Welfare: https://ow.ly/QO3n50XyWro
December 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
People get so pissy when I speak out against breeding, as if I'm being pointlessly mean and grumpy about their favorite color or clothing brand. Cats are not colors. They are not clothing. They are sentient creatures who should not have to suffer for human convenience or aesthetic preferences.
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Trump was inevitable because nothing was being done to stop him. Him being in the rich white man club meant he could try to overthrow the government & not end up behind bars & be elected again. Not any leftist who didn't vote's fault. But being so pathetic they couldn't beat him was the democrats'.
December 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Trump was inevitable because nothing was being done to stop him. Him being in the rich white man club meant he could try to overthrow the government & not end up behind bars & be elected again. Not any leftist who didn't vote's fault. But being so pathetic they couldn't beat him was the democrats'.
Today was a day. Due to having to suddenly care for my cat, I left bacon under the grill for a couple of extra minutes and it set on fire. Then when I was cleaning it up, I knocked a glass jar that then smashed on the floor. I need to put out my recycling but am convinced I'll get locked out.
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Today was a day. Due to having to suddenly care for my cat, I left bacon under the grill for a couple of extra minutes and it set on fire. Then when I was cleaning it up, I knocked a glass jar that then smashed on the floor. I need to put out my recycling but am convinced I'll get locked out.
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It's actually incredible how much the average person despises AI and how divorced from reality these CEOs are about their role that they think they can just force it down everyone's throat irrespective
McDonald's has taken down a Christmas ad made with AI following online backlash
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
It's actually incredible how much the average person despises AI and how divorced from reality these CEOs are about their role that they think they can just force it down everyone's throat irrespective
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you wouldn't
download
your nan
download
your nan
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
you wouldn't
download
your nan
download
your nan
I read this as UK and it applies tbh
Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I read this as UK and it applies tbh
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“Transgender and nonbinary youth (ages 13 to 24) whose pronouns are respected were 31 percent less likely to attempt suicide in the past year than those whose pronouns are not respected, according to a new report from The Trevor Project”
www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...
www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...
Transgender and nonbinary youth whose pronouns are respected attempt suicide less: report
"It's about effort, and just attempting to be respectful and kind to people," lead author Steven Hobaica tells The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“Transgender and nonbinary youth (ages 13 to 24) whose pronouns are respected were 31 percent less likely to attempt suicide in the past year than those whose pronouns are not respected, according to a new report from The Trevor Project”
www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...
www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...
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"Human rights were never designed only for safe, comfortable times. They were written precisely for moments like this:.. when scapegoating becomes tempting".
Strong piece by Steve on the inhumanity, and illiberalism, of Starmer's calls to restrict human rights.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Strong piece by Steve on the inhumanity, and illiberalism, of Starmer's calls to restrict human rights.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds
The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Human rights were never designed only for safe, comfortable times. They were written precisely for moments like this:.. when scapegoating becomes tempting".
Strong piece by Steve on the inhumanity, and illiberalism, of Starmer's calls to restrict human rights.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Strong piece by Steve on the inhumanity, and illiberalism, of Starmer's calls to restrict human rights.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
McDonald's has taken down a Christmas ad made with AI following online backlash
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
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Human rights were built for hard times, not rewrites when it suits the Government.
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds
The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Human rights were built for hard times, not rewrites when it suits the Government.
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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AI products that do a shitty impression of someone’s dead loved one for money are some of the most depraved and sadistic forms of “big tech innovation” that I’ve seen. Like the emotional manipulation and disrespecting the dead IS the product
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
AI products that do a shitty impression of someone’s dead loved one for money are some of the most depraved and sadistic forms of “big tech innovation” that I’ve seen. Like the emotional manipulation and disrespecting the dead IS the product
Every time a Labour politician says "legitimate concerns" they are about to take away human rights from a vulnerable group. Every. Time.
December 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Every time a Labour politician says "legitimate concerns" they are about to take away human rights from a vulnerable group. Every. Time.
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The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US