Dr Ro Smith

I have made a Tripthulhu, a trippy Cthulhu! You can buy it on things! 🎉 www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1825... #art #Cthulhu #retro

I have made a Tripthulhu, a trippy Cthulhu! You can buy it on things! 🎉 www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1825... #art #Cthulhu #retro

Hand painted stone portrait with rich florals and soft detail. One of my favourite pieces to date. #whimsicalart #handpaintedart #paintedrocks #rockpainting #storybookart

Maybe unpopular opinion but SFF conventions should have way fewer panels and way more "somebody talks about something random and interesting for fifteen minutes"

@ajodasso.bsky.social *waves hello* having seen your Facebook message. I'm not often on here, and if I am it's usually as @rubyjones.bsky.social , but I wanted to make contact.

I don't make the rules

“The world’s largest professional organization of writing educators disagrees with the notion that the rise of generative artificial intelligence in the classroom is unavoidable." www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

A rare occasion where knight of the realm actually protect the rest of us.

Dark…very dark…

Go read my angsty android fiction under my spicy romance pen name, why not?

Had a go at drawing my cat, Garlic, based on one of her photos where she looks like a little model. #art #cat #GarlicTheCat

Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way. For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.

Some of y'all are following this rag. You might want to reconsder that, given this *gestures to the poop they just smeared below*

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

She sleep. #GarlicTheCat

Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country. That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.

Ah yes, the doctor's waiting room, my favourite place. Nothing bad ever happens at the doctor's. Put baby in doctor's mouth.

Generative AI is an engine for churning out contaminated information faster than people can produce safe information, let alone fact check and correct it. And corrections never remove the original contamination, it's an attempt to stem the metaphorical bleeding and hope for the best. 11/

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Rich Berman is suuuuch a cunt

Happy New Year (belatedly). It is extremely cold here. Garlic is all about the snuggles.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

So confused when I see people still using Google to search, especially wheb they're surprised it's rubbish. Use Start Page. Use the no-AI version of DuckDuckGo. Nothing is perfect, but just about anything is better than Google.

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

The main function of AI is to make all text on the internet untrustworthy unless you personally know the source. We will boil the oceans and price people out of heat in winter for this.

Deffo Troughton.

I don't mind all the Robert Redford thirst pics, if I'm honest. There's a lot of old timely heart throbs where I don't get the appeal, but he's not one.

There were TWO (coordinated) shootings at TWO homeless encampments tonight. Minneapolis police say more than a dozen hurt in homeless encampment shootings Police say over a dozen people have been hurt in two separate shootings at two different homeless encampments across the city on the same day.

Jfc.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

*9/16/2025 noncooperation thread* Trump: Oops, South Korea, it was a mistake, don't be mad, c'mon back! South Korea: Oh, we'll be back all right. 3/

*9/16/2025 noncooperation thread* "Funded by donations from the British public" - they're noncooperating across the pond, too! 2/

Robert Redford (1936–2025) 🖤 RIP 🙏🏼🕊🕯