Ben Bowman

I finished balatro, thanks everyone. Might post this to LinkedIn as achievements go

Someone found Paul Merton's burner account

We need to hear this from Prof. Farhana Sultana... "epistemic injustice is itself [a harm], & that the erasure of Indigenous & Global South knowledge systems from climate governance is structurally embedded in the colonial architectures of global env pol rather than incidental to them"

How it started: How it's going:

first result in my camera roll for “boat”. you’re welcome

Andy Burn'em approved the gas field is it?

Yet another fossil fuelled data centre for Anthropic, this one also facing significant pushback from people who don't want to suck in polluted air to power every LinkedIn guy's vibe-coded website www.statesman.com/business/tec...

Bluesky friends, what do you call this style of poster? With all the text in different font faces. The least AI possible style and therefore the poster of the future

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Butlerian Jihad posting will continue until conditions improve. Strict regulation is the *moderate* position.

Good time for a referendum on rejoining the EU tbh

Ireland has the highest concentration of water and power ravenous, pollution-spewing, data centres per head of population in ALL Europe. We need to unite and fight this.

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

(letters in alternating colours of the rainbow) AI slop posters are really starting to get on my... (three flicky lines) TITS (three flicky lines) (scroll banner) BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM ❤︎⁠ it's like when boomers discovered clip art ❤︎⁠

Confession that at first I thought this must be some tiktok manosphere stunt gone wrong but... Someone using Makaton to scold a tiger is probably learning disabled, no? Looks like a tragic accident

Brazilian prosecutors are suing Shell over the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods. It’s the first time globally that a national public prosecutor has sued an oil major for climate damages. www.afp.com/en/brazil-pr...

You could improve on 90% of American politics coverage by just reading the Hunger Games

Anyone who sells you a tool that promises to outsource the work of your relationships, or the loving tasks of connecting to our friends and family, is someone who is trying to rob you of your own humanity. For god's sake. Say no to this. Say no to all of it.

Transition Templates AI & Digital at #RSD15. ecolabsblog.com/2026/10/08/t...

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Agree. But also no homework for kids. Problem solved

Or, higher volumes of low quality applications that are already pushing us into old fashioned approaches like needing to make personal contact, and which require real care so that we reinforce rather than lose the inclusive & equity work we've put into such processes

Wait they have a plague lab that doesn't check if the plague people caught the plague or give them plague medicine if they do?

youtu.be/sJZe-9pASTA?... was so scared of this

Kind of wondering if, after spending my formative years absolutely locked on to bots on Unreal Tournament, I could trigger a Pavlovian response and focus on my work by playing the intro music at the start of my day, M-M-M-Monster Kill for every five carriage returns in the word processor

"I'm banishing you to the National League"

1,000,001 video game remakes and still no roguelike of "Zombies Ate My Neighbours", make it make sense

words to live by

Do you know what is a conspiracy? Holograms. What happened to holograms? They used to be on bank cards and everything. I'm sure there was a hologram shop on Milsom Street in Bath. Who took our holograms??

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM

When allistics blow up and scream at you, that's also a failure of social skills. When allistics pretend to be nice to you, only to then go behind your back and talk shit about how weird you are to their REAL friends, that's also a failure of social skills. That's just normalized behavior, not skill

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

Very, very, last minute, but do join us for Kidical Mass in Bath tomorrow at 11am! There'll be bubbles 🫧 and chanting by children 🎶 📣 What do we want: SAFER STREETS! When do we want it: NOW! Another popular one is this: Hey ho, hey ho Stinky cars have go to go 😆 Poster design by Alice, not AI 🙌

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

I had loads of Game Boy games but the first time I really saved up pocket money for one, asked the bloke at Dixons to get it out of the cabinet, bought it and had my mind blown by it was Monster Max. Had no idea what I was getting into. I can still hear it in my ears

Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.

(holding phone camera up) could you please ponder this, your holiness, for the memes

New post: 'Reform’s Donations are not Normal'. Plotted every donation in the Electoral Commission donations register in grey - and Reform's recent mega donations in red.

I like that "The Green Menace" suggests @zackpolanski.bsky.social is on the phone to andy burnham to cancel drilling in the North Sea, but also that he's got a fight with Spiderman later on

the "killing eve" and "football" crossover is extremely niche, i know, but i am really thinking of spurs as a villanelle character murdering shit football managers' reputations (mourinho, frank, de zerbi) also stalked from afar by a nemesis/lover (pochettino) towards inevitable doom & death

Ice Cube did a song about this like eight years ago

A mic drop on LinkedIn by someone resisting the University of Sydney, Australia who are planning to replace educators with AI chatbots: "Anyone impressed with the slop produced by such a system was never interested in creative or critical thinking to begin with" www.linkedin.com/posts/lian-s...

It's a work in progress, but I've written and signed a pledge to my students this year that I will not use GenAI in teaching www.bennosaurus.com/no-ai-pledge

When you're unschooling but also it's been a hard day

Hi friends! If you're interested in young people's environmental activism, climate change or anything like that, please join us to launch our Handbook of Young People's Environmental Action on 22nd September, 2pm-3pm UK time... EventBrite link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

£21bn pounds (plus £3bn a year to maintain it) and Trident relies on a balloon and the balloon's popped. Adds up