Jo Lindsay Walton

All lactose is tolerable for the pure of heart

BTW why didn’t Midas himself become gold? Or at least grow golden bit by bit, a gold cheek as he itched his cheek, gold teeth and lips from gnawing on the edge of his thumb? What about his clothes, I mean at least his underpants?

tbf phone numbers were only 3 digits long in those days - mine was 910

What we know about the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire and what comes next The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas includes halting military actions, an Israeli withdrawal, increased humanitarian aid, and a prisoner swap. But it doesn’t guarantee an end to the war or tha...

"Currently, Israel holds some 11,000 Palestinians in its prisons, a third of whom are administrative detainees, held without charge or trial. About 400 of them are minors" mondoweiss.net/2025/10/what...

Couple on train talking about their friends Rachel and Phoebe losing my mind is this even legal

The Digital Humanities

Does the EHRC Interim Guidance imply people have to use their "biological sex" bathrooms? Are there case studies of organisations that are taking different approaches? Do they offer legal reasoning?

WE’LL NEVER STOP: 9 More Ships Now 140 Nautical Miles from Gaza. The mission continues! Despite the illegal abduction of the Global Sumud Flotilla crew, a powerful new fleet is now critically close to the shores of Gaza. This collaborative fleet, a union of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (@gazafreedomflotilla) and Thousand Madleens to Gaza (@thousandmadleenstogaza), is sailing with nearly 150 people from 30 countries. They are just 140 nautical miles from Gaza right now. The world is their witness. Follow the live tracker now to see all nine boats in real-time on the Freedom Flotilla website and share this message widely. Stop the Genocide. Keep your eyes on Gaza.

WE’LL NEVER STOP: 9 More Ships Now 140 Nautical Miles from Gaza.

The mission continues! Despite the illegal abduction of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla crew, a powerful new fleet is now critically close to the shores of Gaza.

@freedomflotilla.bsky.social

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Many many years later I'm still like where's my Chumbacappela at

Was anyone there that time Chumbawumba took the stage and just said, We're sorry we can't play, somebody stole all our instruments and then they left again

The world's first carbon border tax will soon go live — shaking up global trade The European Union is poised to fully implement its carbon border tax from Jan. 1.

The world's first carbon border tax is about to go live, roiling — and possibly reshaping —global trade share.google/yTtxujzkAx8a...
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Diagram showing three "doughnuts" (planetary boundaries and social boundaries) showing huge amounts of climate change being caused by the richer countries, and huge amounts of social protection shortfall in poorest 40% of countries

The famous planetary boundaries OH NO!UGHNUT, updated for 2025 + disaggregated into MINI DOUGHNUTS

terrible sunset

On the typhoon in Samantha Harvey's Orbital WHM considers his changing emotional reaction to death and destruction in fiction with a close reading of Orbital of Samantha Harvey.

The Typhoon in Orbital: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...

OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.

Can anyone think of a worse use of the final scraps of our carbon budget than a new TikTok style social media app based on AI generated video content www.wired.com/story/openai...

Left: Inside the Labour party conference

Right: Outside the Labour party conference

Twine Handbook Twine and Interactive Fiction: The Handbook October 2023

My Twine slide deck turned into a Twine handbook, for you: docs.google.com/presentation... #Twine

short ai

Can students read? Can I read? What is it to have read Bleak House? muse.jhu.edu/article/922346

Actually would you mind not smoking in here? That’s not an ashtray that’s a mobile sandpit for me to stick my head in when I’m driving between my home sand and my work sand

The cream rising to the top

Sneaking into the rapture to fight god

for whom the tad poles

Clear Jo they call me because of my communication style or maybe my conscience

who called it Freshers' Week and not Lurgy Hadron Collider

it’s cool that they invented gambling for writing code

Who called it “Going down a rabbit hole” when “Descending a harecase” would’ve been more poetic.

"Will it be recorded"

If I ever pulled together a heist crew, it would just be so hard to find a date everybody can do

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