Dr Rick

Stone using the penthouse unconventionally, Moon more normally. Bonus of a Chime in a bucket.

From Will Self of all people, an absolutely clinical deconstruction of Kathleen Stock. Nice to know that some writers can see through some of the GC crowd.

A rare picture of Chime, the beautiful differently abled* baby, on my lap. * cerebellar hypoplasia

Good to have rediscovered an old hobby, and I've enjoyed learning the new-to-me FTO (the octahedron). I won't ever be quick, but that's ok.

With wife. All hail wife.

I did not have "a statement from the Church of Wales makes me weep with gratitude for a bit of common fucking humanity" on my bingo card, but there you are.

The tell with all of this is your kids can be taught by sex bots dressed up like John Oliver, but the tech barons send their kids to schools where they don't allow phones and there is an art AND music teacher.

This is so beautiful, and painful, and joyful. I really loved it, and I'm a mess.

We really need to accept that our kids childhoods aren't and cannot be like ours. Like sure, I grew up with no phone and no computer but that was 30 years ago!!! Time moves on and it's unkind, yes--but you won't stop change.

Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

TIL: John Berry Meachum was born enslaved in 1789, bought his freedom at 21 with his carpentry work. At age 32, he set up schools in St. Louis to educate enslaved children. When Missouri passed a law to make that illegal, he bought a steamboat, anchored it in the middle of the Mississippi...

I'm a "not". And he's right.

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

It really is quite the thing to be wackier and massively nastier than e.g. the early Brexit era Tories of 2017, but here we are.

Newest boy.

There are a lot reasons to be angry with Labour but for me this is the main one: they looked at the UK's vast resentment machine & said, yes we can make that work for us because we're the smart politics guys. They've failed miserably & in the process helped embed a punch-down ethos across the board.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

On the topic of Rubicons crossed, that's the first time I've ever shouted "WHY are you in the TOASTER" at a cat.

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Why I'm not worried about AI replacing meaningful work: look at the fucking state of it. Google search is now almost useless. Some of that's greed, but plenty is LLMs. MS has jumped on the LLM coding train. Two years ago, Word mostly worked. Now, it's so bad I've gone back to LaTeX. It's SHIT.

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

The 3 genders

It is SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE, you bastards

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war." - Ilya Kaminsky

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

This really brings home to me just how wildly different American universities are to British ones. I went to university to read mathematics, and ALL my courses were in mathematics. We're much more specialised at 18 then they are at 22. (I have no particular view on whether this is good or not.)

Seemingly I am now determined as both warm and safe.

These gentlemen moved in with us on Friday. So far we all seem to be happy about it. They were nearly Miles and Ivan, but we decided on Moon and Stone x @marthawells.com

2/ ~old jk is best jk~