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Log in here and it's the same as it was before (except now we have bookmarks which is nice). Log in on twitter and immediately my account gets restricted for trying to post. Now I guess I have to prove I'm not a bot? FFS.

Sad to report I have logged back into social media. I had a peaceful time without it for a couple of months.

Instant migraine.

YouTube video by We're In Hell AI WEAPONS

Currently watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0X4...

FathomVerse | mobile game FathomVerse is a mobile game designed to inspire a new wave of ocean explorers and improve AI for ocean life.

Well this is fun so far. www.fathomverse.game

Life, free energy, and the pursuit of goals Many Minds · Episode

Fabulous discussion with Dr. Kate Nave - wide-ranging, nuanced, clear, smart thinking about agency, purpose, life, cybernetics, the FEP, process philosophy and lots more! open.spotify.com/episode/4PKy...

But what about TikTok

YouTube video by Cults to Consciousness 8 Women from 8 Cults Compare Notes

Pretty great discussion. Look at all those similarities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR5n...

... “total shutdown” is planned for March 15...

Website for the General Strike:
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Absolutely loved this book. kathrynmannix.com/books/with-t... I would recommend it to everyone. I'm going to buy extra copies to give away. Don't be put off thinking it will be depressing - there's a lightness of touch that keeps it readable.

Assisted Death and Women | Substack Assisted dying seems to be pushing ahead in the UK? But how does this affect women? For a change this momentous, we must debate how this will affect us all.

Thanks! I wasn't logged in here but I definitely saw it on twitter and I've been listening to this podcast on it. otherhalforg.substack.com/podcast

(I loved The Fly btw. Glossed over that there.) Where would you recommend I start?

Yeah I've heard a lot about him and was working my way up to it. Think the only one I've seen is The Fly. The Substance was fine. I don't know what I was expecting. I'd already watched a review and knew enough.

The Substance didn't gross me out as much as I'd feared. Maybe I'm ready for more Cronenberg (always avoided due to this worry).

Opportunity to contribute to domestic abuse research

Did You Even Consider Every Possible Lived Experience Before Recklessly Posting Your Chili Recipe on Social Media? Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make the...

"Not only did you share a thoughtless, cruel recipe, but you also had the audacity to call it the 'best chili recipe in the world.' Really? Have you tried every chili recipe? How do you think this makes the creators of other recipes feel?"

An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics, in...

Read this pretty much overnight (finished the next morning) and really enjoyed it.

"Zombie's tattoos were a way for him to tell off the world. But the world didn't get the message ...[and] his perception of himself changed." @socimages.bsky.social's founders @lisawade.bsky.social and Gwen Sharp, 2010, in "Skull Face and the Self-Fulfilling Stereotype." tinyurl.com/SI-SkullFace

In the background of the text, a black and white photo of the author, Jody Day, blurred and indistinct, ghostly. The text reads: "The 3am bag lady blues: scaring yourself about ageing alone without children" Line break 'But who's going to be there for me when I'm old? is a thought that keeps many women without children awake at 3am. And in that 'hour of the wolf' as they call it in Russia... ' Line break https://jodyday.substack.com

In my latest essay, I explore the 'bag lady' fantasy that haunts the minds of so many women ageing without children, and perhaps even more so those also without partners. And I unpack my own surprising response to meeting my own inner bag lady.
jodyday.substack.com/p/the-3am-ba...
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Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill: What happens next? | Institute for Government Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill passed second reading on 29 November by a wider than expected margin, 330–275.

Really disappointed that this was voted through as it's deeply flawed. Hope it will be sufficiently amended before becoming law, but I have my doubts.

This campaign is fairly unique and answers many questions I have about implementation. kadoh.uk

I wish that in documentaries they would have a box come up with the names of the species on-screen the way they do for talking heads. (Like if it's footage of a toad there's a box saying Common toad / Bufo bufo.)

Clever!

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Moby Dick Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most popular idea sent in by listeners.

Late to the game, but I am loving Moby Dick. I love how each chapter is a surprise - will it be a detailed explanation of why whales are fish? a story relayed from somewhere else? continuation of the plot?

(Of course there's an In Our Time on Moby Dick. Very helpful to poor atheists like me.)

YouTube video by Before Skool Daniel Schmachtenberger - Why We're Creating a Future That Nobody Wants

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzCV...

Alex Ruck Keene KC on assisted dying: 'Parliamentarians are being radically unsupported' As MPs prepare to vote on assisted dying, Sienna Rodgers talks to barrister Alex Ruck Keene KC who emerged from working on a landmark case with a l...

Great interview about problems with the assisted dying bill. www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop

I like this feature. Wouldn't have known it was there without this post.

Over the weekend my follower count ticked past 5,000 - whether you found me on purpose, by accident, or via someone's starter pack, I hope you find my content worth it. By way of thanks here is a thread bringing together stuff that I've found useful during my first 18 months or so on Bluesky. (1/16)

Old age rational suicide In the societal debate surrounding voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, there is a concern that older people will be left exposed to any legislation, subject to either faint suggestion...

Can't stop researching assisted suicide & euthanasia given the UK bill. Ended up highlighting a whole lot of this paper on "old age rational suicide" doi.org/10.1111/soc4... then found out there's an end of life studies group at the university of Glasgow gla.ac.uk/research/az/...