Lauren

The boycott of OpenAI(ChatGPT) has now surpassed 4 million. We’re also seeing many small businesses (and even some mid-sized companies) cancel their subscriptions. One of the most amazing things over the past year has been watching consumers remind big corporations just how much power they have.

Niiice. I remember finding a pot of bilious green in our store (c. 2003) which was already an ended colour. It was great for warp beasts. Can’t beat a bit of goblin green though. Top colour

Is that the same shade but better quality than GW goblin green?

What happens when a women’s health business is labelled “adult content”?

🚫 Bank accounts blocked
⚠️ Payments flagged
📉 High risk tags

New research from CensHERship and The Case For Her shows how outdated systems misclassify FemTech.

Read more: www.censhership.co.uk/research

Disabled journalist has DWP Access to Work support slashed Journalist Emily Davison, who is legally blind, has had her DWP Access to Work support slashed by 80%. She fears she could be forced to leave work

I'm hearing more and more stories like this one in The Big Issue - it really does seem like Access to Work is being cut by stealth @bigissue.com

My beloved dragon boat!!!!

1 Harvest Moon (original)
2 Lego Star Wars trilogy (original)
3 Final Fantasy, VIII or IX I’m not sure but leaning to VIII for the replayability of the card collections which I’ve never achieved
4 Zelda: Windwaker
5 Pikmin cos I’d realllly love to finish it!

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

Ah so sorry to hear that about your mum. Life’s handed you some shit recently!

Has anyone played A Game About Digging a Hole? And the subsequent prequel ebook, A Tale About Digging a Hole? I read the book first and it really made the game more emotive. I build a really good first hole with ledges for descending and all sorts. Now I’m building (digging) a massive full-yard hole

just fucking do SOMETHING and don’t let the constant stream of atrocities keep you frozen in inaction.

yeah, pay attention to the news, but make sure you know when/how to look away at least long enough to take care of those around you & do what you can to support work that needs doing.

thanks
9/9.

develop an ethic of radical care for others.

part of any successful movement means making sure everyone is fed + housed & that the children aren’t sitting in their own filth.

change the diaper.

buy diapers for someone in need.

set up a community diaper drive for vulnerable families.

8/9

Supportive cat-thumbs up here from Brian and Carl..

Weird Pride in a Hostile World | Autistic Realms Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A refusal to shrink. A quiet, feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us so ...

Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us something else
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not to be all gay and emo but Spiritfarer is still one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had in my life and I played it like five years ago

I hope you made it (and back!)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

🔥

Its a really great image that shows the breadth and diversity of ARPS staff (and why we aren’t interchangeable)

Build the Union: UCU's national recruitment campaign UCU's major initiative to build our union.

(More on Build the Union and associated resources here: www.ucu.org.uk/btu)

Hearing about the building to win project, identifying concepts behind engagement and then discussing that into concrete ideas was a really valuable part of today’s #UCU #ARPS AGM

Theme of discussion in this section could perhaps be summed up as "we are worth more than being treated as replaceable cogs" when ARPS staff hold a diverse range of roles vital to the academic teams / academic "mission" (by extension civic responsibilities) of our institutions...

Image of violet Loveheart sweet (round with raised purple heart outline) with purple text in the middle that says "#LoveOurARPS

#UCU annual meeting for Academic Related & Professional Services (ARPS) staff today. We began with heartfelt thanks to our former committee secretary Jenny + introductory speech from current president Maria @chondrogianni.bsky.social recognising the breadth of work ARPS members undertake across HE.

Together Alliance: Become a Co-Signatory The voices of division in our country are growing louder. But we can change things together. Together Alliance is mobilising and organising across the country to bring a message of hope over fear, pri...

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Cheers!

Sweet! My copy of the book arrived yesterday. Weekend reading!

London I am in you! For the next 20h. 10 of which will hopefully be sleeping and then 6 chairing the UCU ARPS annual general meeting before getting a train home 😆. Looking forward to it!

You’ll be missed Amy!

(Btw I replied to your email but I’ve had a weird block on emails the last week so if you replied back.. I didn’t get it! Issue fixed now)

Still on time though!! 🎉

Not including hidden redundancies (eg. fixed term contracts not renewed), which is likely to double this reported figure.