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I read the first one when my job was primarily #bookstagram and never for a moment imagined it becoming the thing it has. I keep meaning to go through it again...

Quite emotional watching my cosy morning interior decor American YouTubers with their little ad segments shifted to imploring US voters to check their voter registration and how to look up their local candidates and everything. It is nice to see people doing their bit, such as it is.

bluesky has four types of users

"DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them." seems like the best advice I've seen on here for forever.

apropos of me considering setting up a little youtube channel just showing shorts of my sped-up linocutting & printing, here's an unedited snippet from the making of this little dude #printmaking

Got my flu jab this morning and the fabulous angel in Boots who had me, the worst injectionphobe you know, inoculated smoothly and without trauma in moments, told me almost half her colleagues refuse the *free* jab. And they work in the main place poorly people go to to buy medicine! Wild, just wild

Nobody loved Donna Freedman as much as I did but this is so absolutely utterly dire, wtf.

The next phase of AI training data. Hundreds of thousands of workers in South Asia and Latin America are being paid to wear cameras on their head to record as they engage in their work - from cutting hair to textiles and through to domestic chores www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Earlier I was trying to explain about the US president talking about his special animal recognition test and finished up by saying he was probably going to rename snakes "America longs", which seemed so probable as I thought I was making a joke, I wondered if it were actually true

When I worked for AQA, I used to get up early on clocks change day and make a fortune just telling people what time it was. Wild that people would pay £1.50 a go to text someone and ask these things, but they did, in droves...

Am I about to have a 5.45pm Monster? Looks like it!

I'd just sort of forgotten that weather....does this.

okay I need you all to stay Calm and Normal about this, but I have discovered that there is a variety of autumn raspberry called "Himbo Top" www.rhs.org.uk/plants/23977...

London air quality

SPITE IS AN FREE AND RENEWEABLE ART MATERIAL THAT EXISTS

Rewatching Glee in a post-Euphoria world is so weird...

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Quick coffee and some Mercury Awards mid-work - Suede looking lovely, but is Richard's guitar out of tune or is it a bad mix?!

well in this day and age it is helpful to rule out pen brands to covet

adopting this practice immediately

One woman scientist named in UK’s GCSE science syllabus. Three named in A level science. How many men? 85 and 178. Funny that. Half of my 50 PhD students have been women; four of them (and one man) are now professors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Crikey, they're bringing back Glee? Is it because I watched an entire season in about two sittings the other day?

Shoutout to the Digital Education is Pointless session at #ALTc26 - the best conference format for presenting sector data I've seen in a very long while! (@julievoce.bsky.social and colleagues)

"UK digital education has more pilots than British Airways" gets a good laugh from the crowd, who, I suspect, recognise the exhaustion of continual evaluation of EdTech that often doesn't quite meet the mark, whether in terms of accessibility, usefulness, ethics, functionality, or workload...

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Alongside this fine racoon, you can find other wood carvings on my website! ✨ bisonrimant.fr

A merry #ALTC26 to everyone; very pleasant evening in the pub, lovely to see people I've not seen in too long (including people I actually work with!) and now, time to try and get some rest before the most important thing: pre-conference coffee...

UNCLEAR

checked the weather forecast as if I needed to for Cardiff in October, took all the nice things out and chucked in three pairs of black jeans and three black t-shirts, fashion be damned.

The fact that this wasn't learnt from household voice-controlled tech following instructions given on the radio...

That's it, that's the thing. Perfect.

WOW for Jaime and Carlos, that's the most interesting dance and interpretation of a song we've had on #Strictly for a good long while...

Aw Shaun Wright-Phillips, what a delight <3 #strictly

Later than planned, I am doing Yuletide signups, and as someone who still can't believe we don't write disclaimers these days, I realise there are SO many fandom words I don't speak these days (or things I expect to have to say!). Quite hard work, ageing.

from experience, I know the answer is "Love Shack"

OH MY GOD WE ARE FINALLY GETTING AN M&S HERE I've never seen local Facebook so happy this is hilarious www.somersetlive.co.uk/whats-on/maj...

Bagged lettuce lasts longer than this!

Queen YouTube now has a TV stream and it's playing our favourite, which we had on a big TV at our wedding. The best bit is every moment John Deacon is just trying to get through it in this outfit: youtu.be/uHP-qgzUVLM?...

kind of nice to log on and see that there are one to two other people who've had a worse week than me

I’ve tried multiple times to ditch FB/Insta and the result is not making rent. As a self employed artist I have to have my work visible where ppl are or I don’t eat. The tattoo industry has consolidated itself around Instagram & if you’re not there you’re invisible. I hate it.

Yet again filling out a reference for someone that takes as long as it would for me to fill out a job application. I wouldn't mind so much if I thought anyone actually read these things, as opposed to using them as backup in case the AI gets the hiring wrong.

Today has been so rough. One thing after another, then at the petrol station a random man called me "a fucking idiot" because I would not have him aggressively insist my wife drive off from the pump without paying just so he could fill up WHICH ISN'T HOW PETROL STATIONS WORK

When I was young, most of the bands I went to see did not sell their own merch at the merch table, and now when bands do it is wildly exciting and confusing to me. Mark Hamilton just sold me an Ash lucky bag, for goodness' sake.

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oh, I am looking forward to this...

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

Behind on #thearchers but when Henry and Khalil are talking about "having to go to college" after GCSEs - isn't further education mandatory in the UK now? I mean it wasn't when I was young, but I thought this had changed?