George O. Wood

After all the bile and vitriol she's been unjustly subjected to, @ilhanmn.bsky.social is still smiling. Her humanity is profoundly refreshing.

A researcher mapped 335,000+ surveillance cameras across America. Flock's response? Try to take it down. Our response? Build a tool so you can find those near your home: https://proton.me/flock-camera-map

Reposting this amazing and exceptionally needed resource! Kudos!

One would naturally assume that the same cisgender women who object to sharing a hospital ward with transgender women would warmly embrace sharing a ward with transgender men. Or do they want to have their cake and eat it?

There’s that famous BBC balanced coverage, showing all sides of the story so readers can make an informed judgement.

Is it just me, or does the recent flurry of “AI escaping confinement and committing serious crimes” stories smack less of super intelligence and more of “we vibe-coded our sandboxes”? If I made software that hacked something, I’d be in prison right now. But the AI CEOs seem rather Teflon on this.

As they say, “the times are bad when the folk music gets good.” This is poetry.

I was really proud to be volunteering at the #GreatNorthRun today. Deployed to the last 800 metres, I had a great perspective of the final dash to the finish line. Well done to everyone who participated today, and especially thank you to my fantastic team of fellow volunteers; I’m proud of you all.

It would seem that Reform is everything we already knew they were. Kudos @channel4news.bsky.social, this is exemplary journalism.

Dolly Parton leaves in her wake a legacy of unconditional benevolence, kindness, and compassion. Her death is more than the loss of an icon; it is the loss of the kind of role model we so desperately need at the moment. Rest in peace, ma'am.

Checkmate, Nige.

A couple more snaps from the #eclipse yesterday. Would we call this a “fire rainbow”? I’m not sure, but either way it was very pretty! 🌈

The clouds were not hugely in my favour, but I managed to snap this which I’m reasonably happy with! #Eclipse #Wylam

Again and again and again these days, I find myself circling back to this video from @carlosmaza.bsky.social.

I truly believe that the next trend in AI-generated fuckery will be the manipulation of operational images, such satellite images & medical scans—technical visual documents whose default (para)empirical status can be leveraged. Google playing its part in recreationally extinguishing the evidentiary.

Apparently, £5m can’t buy you a thick skin or the ability to read the room. Cry me a river, Nige.

Gosh, there are so many people for whom this should be required watching.

This is basically a mood…

What?! Paying people for their labor works? I’m shocked! Shocked!

Using some very rough maths, I reckon that billionaires account for approximately ~0.0000413% of the human population on Earth. Yet between them, they hoard ~13.4% of the world’s money ($20.1 trillion). Think about that the next time one of these whiny twats complains about having to pay tax.

Europeans… Europeans… Europeans… Fuck off! Europe is a continent, not a pissing nationality!

I reckon this doesn't need saying, but fuck it, I'm feeling direct… Even if you trust this government to define “trusted news” sources in good faith, will you trust the next one to do so? Something, something, Ellison, something.

Okay, UKsters, the media is useless re: extreme heat, so let’s do this. I’m from Southern California, spent the last ten years living outside Seattle, which has a similar climate to Scotland, where I am now. Here’s what I know. 1. Heat exhaustion and sickness are no fucking joke. Do not tempt them.

Indeed. I reckon it'll also be very telling whether or not his opinions on electoral reform are immune to the all-too-familiar convenience-fuelled spinelessness which his predecessor succumbed to so laughably quickly.

This is rather good, I must admit. @greenparty.org.uk, take notes. Good British satire wins votes and alienates sycophants.

People on the “call a general election because Andy Burnham is further left than the country voted for” bandwagon would do well to remember that Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak were all further right than the country voted for in 2017. If you don't like the system, campaign to change it.

More Ignorance than Political Ideology….

Congratulations to Andy Burnham. As a nation, we now find ourselves at an era-defining crossroads. If Burnham's all but inevitable premiership champions electoral reform (small ‘r’), we might just manage to cease our dissent into Reform (big ‘r’)'s divisive rhetoric. That “if”, though, is immense.

We need to stop using the terms “left” and “right” in political discourse. They're overly simplistic, and they very neatly sanitise bad behaviour. I'd argue that a 3D spectrum along evidential/emotional, inclusive/exclusive, and libertarian/authoritarian axes would be a far more useful tool today.

@bsky.app why are the trending feeds getting noticeably worse? Currently the ”Makerfield Election“ feed is, I reckon, less than 1/3 content which has anything at all to do with the Makerfield by-election. It's mostly football and Nigel-bloody-Farage. Quite an important thing to get right, no?

Whatever the results are in Makerfield today, I find little cause for optimism, personally. We are living in a dark time.

Well, this is a bit horrifying. Let me be clear, the St George’s Cross has lost its meaning as a national symbol. The far-right has co-opted it as a symbol of hatred, division, and intolerance. This is my flag: 🇬🇧 Not this: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 I am British, not English.

I've given gwood.dev a little Pride Month makeover. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This is counter-productive, authoritarian and chilling. The British state should not be in the business of banning commentators and journalists from entering the country, without compelling reason. Finding their views objectionable is nowhere near enough. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

The British government has revoked Hasan Piker’s ETA because his presence in the country “is not conducive to the public good.” Lawfare, much? He was supposed to be meeting @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social, and speaking at the @ox.ac.uk Union. Very disappointing indeed.

The point of these attacks is twofold: 1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true. 2. Grind people down until they lose hope. We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change. There is absolutely no way they win this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I’m seeing a steady increase in slop accounts appearing on this platform and following my account. I hope the @bsky.app team can get it under control, sans vibe code ideally.

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What I do not understand— and maybe it is just my ignorance— how Starmer equates the Greens and Reform as if they are equal evils. Just totally unequipped for the moment.