Judith

Saw maybe the best film of 2025 yesterday - The Golden Spurtle. Just absolutely great, I love humans and how we just organise the most random stuff and then imbue it with such meaning. 1000/10 would watch again.

Cannot be in town today but I sincerely hope all the fash end up in a luggage locker again getting egged.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Don't be a dick - words I've always tried to live by www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bluesky needs to let me edit my typos ffs wtf is om

A friend has just confirmed that my opinion on a topic (based om my lived experience & learning) was similar to what ChatGPT said. Why are we doing this? I used to work with someone who would google things as I was speaking to see what google said - that was understood to be rude, so why isn't this?

The Gist: AI, a talking dog for the 21st Century. Séamus O'Reilly on the year's biggest con, AI. This is a Christmas Cracker Gist.

I wrote about how much, how fiercely and why, I hate A.I.

On eternal cons, a dying earth and talking dogs.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/

I’m sad to have only just found out that Ann Harper passed - her unwavering commitment to unity and resistance has been a huge source of inspiration to me my whole life. I’m grateful for all the times we got pissed and set the rest of the room to right. Rest in power Ann.

1/ BREAKING: So - it turns out deeply-religious Lord Hodge, the Judge in yesterday’s UK Supreme Court Case that destroyed trans rights, headed a ‘Commission On Same-Sex Relationships’ for the Church of Scotland published in 2011.

Tapping this sign everyday - www.the-pca.org.uk/blog/a-perso...
#TherapistsConnect

Hate this bigoted little toilet island more so with every day. Also hate my profession for kicking trans rights around like a philosophical argument and falling prey to the binaries and dogmas we are meant to be good at challenging/dismantling/healing. Solidarity with the trans community always.

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Oh I like that! When my cat does it I think she looks like a dragon so we refer to it as ‘Smauging’

Just rewatched 12 Angry Men - the 1957 version obvs - absolute 5/5 banger, no notes. “It’s very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.”

I shall frame it and put it on the stairs PRIDE OF PLACE

Can I buy it

Oooo GT I really like those ships

Really helpful guidance in this sea of hot takes

That famous image of Nazi's burning books? They were burning the Institute of Sex Research's books. It is incredibly boring to allow history to repeat itself!

An issue with this is that they are published at a certain point in time so new information isn't included - which is why we need both - but access to information in books/zines/pamphlets is at least something that can't be scrubbed at whim by fascists.

Seeing how quickly Trump's administration has wiped the CDC's website I'm really glad I hoard physical media and I encourage everyone to do the same. I've been lugging a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves around since I was 18, not to mention multiple copies of DIY abortion and reproductive health zines.

I still don’t know what to make of the Raoul Moat one (got it free from Dead Ink Bookshop) - voyeuristic, bleak, sad - a portrait of someone failed by the system but also someone with a horrific capacity for violence - interesting to read it now alongside what’s been happening in the UK recently

Solid start to the year - Meaty had me howling, went into Terra Nullius thinking it was one thing and then it had the most delicious twist - I recommend going in with as little knowledge as possible.

I start the day by lighting a candle and when all my sessions are done I blow it out. It's an oil burner too so the smell is part of getting into the headspace.

I wonder if Charli XCX anticipated people (past it millennials) listening to Brat while taking down their Christmas tree

My cat won’t eat chicken or fish but will devour lametta at any opportunity.

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

If you’re a creator or work in the creative industries or otherwise have a heart, then please add your voice to this UK Gov consultation on AI and Copyright. I said ‘freelance’ for company and ‘unsure’ for super-granular legal stuff but made my voice heard. You can too. www.gov.uk/government/c...

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

The law only ever serves capital.

YouTube video by LankumDublin Radie Peat & Daragh Lynch (LANKUM) - 'Hares on the Mountain' from episode 3 of 'This Ain't No Disco'

Started off this morning listening to Shirley Collins which led me to find this class version of Hares on the Mountain by Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHF4...

Absolutely brilliant piece, challenging, sad, thought-provoking.

If you have that old fisherman’s friend taste highly recommend dissolving it in vodka. We used to call it skaters’ mouthwash. Fair warning, it looks wrong.