I'll always remember how Patrick Stewart used his platform to raise awareness about domestic violence, and what families like his go through at the hands of violent men. If you have some spare cash, maybe consider donating it to Refuge or your local domestic violence support centre. https://refuge.org.uk/i-want-to-support-refuge/donate/
I guess I'm going to be looking for a new email service again 🙄 @protonprivacy I am willing to pay for a service that does what I need it to and AI-at-all-costs is not that. https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/
RE: https://beige.party/@Lana/117503687444984341
How am I only just learning that the rest of the world doesn't talk about 'semibreves,' 'minims' and 'quavers'?
Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day to all who celebrate! 10² + 24² = 26²! Last one this century.
Props to the ad agency: they nailed the "white person who plagiarises and steals credit using LLMs" look with 100% accuracy
Conservative assholes "Let's Go Washington" has made voting really easy this year: vote NO on all the Washington state initiatives.
I-001 can harm queer kids by revealing private medical records and outing them to their parents.
I-638 is anti-trans and opens up young girls to harm by requiring "gender checks" that include genital inspection.
I-645 is to repeal the millionaires tax -- the one small fix we have to our regressive tax system.
Vote NO.
I finally finished watching S4 of Ted Lasso last night. Across the season, I liked the bits about women's football and women footballers, and wish there had been more of that. I get that Roy and Beard are fun characters that are probably fun to write and play, but we've seen a lot of them. I wanted more Boots and Lizzie and Margy and Shannon stories.
They had to recall all the gonks
The AMMONITE ebook is for sale for $1.99 on all platforms in the US—and at least some of them in Canada—for the next few days. As I’m never 100% sure how long these things last, it might be best to get it now if you’re thinking about it, just in case.
This is the edition with new content: the prequel story, “Mirrors and Burnstone,” in which we learn how it all began…
http://nicolagriffith.com/2026/10/06/ammonite-for-sale-1-99/
Hackers was release exactly 11337 days ago.
I'm very happy to share a public build of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay!
Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms. Handcoded in HTML, CSS and Javascript and running locally, it's usable for research, collection, game-building, website construction or simply to hold little fragments of digital things, in the same way that you hold a pebble in your palm on a walk.
It's still early, messy in a lot of places (and not chasing seamless UI regardless) but I hope you'll enjoy playing with it.
garbage in, garbage out, garbage shake it all about
People are like “we can’t put the genie back in the bottle!” but someone got the genie in the bottle previously, so… 🤷
If you were planning to get your flu shot later in October to time its efficacy with the usual peak flu season in December/January, maybe reevaluate that decision. Flu rates are rising in Washington now. #Seattle
(Edited to change link directly to the news story.)
https://www.kuow.org/health/2026-09-28/the-flu-has-arrived-early-in-washington-state
JustEat's AI image generator does not have 'soda bread' in its training data.
Found on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/JustEatUK/comments/1wmakng/ai_vs_soda_bread/
THE FUCKING "CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTIONS" IDEA THAT WON OVER THE NYTIMES JOURNALIST IS FUCKING HARDCODED. ALL THE IDEAS ARE FUCKING HARDCODED. AGI IS HERE BABY!!!!!!
let me tell you about my robot son. his name is lethargic. he's an IRC chatbot I wrote in 2011 and has been through IRC, skype, and is now on discord (in private servers with friends.) the algorithm has been unchanged since the beginning.
I first saw them on Mastodon, unfortunately i cant remember the account.This weekend I was lucky enough to see a tiny post sheep for myself, in the wild, in the Clwydian hills. This a purple back variety. #tinyBalancingSheep
Talked about books for four hours. Net result: two recommendations given, six received. The math on conversations like this never works in your favor. #books #reading #amreading
