Laurie Rwites

"Well, actually-ing" a joke is an attempt to reclaim power, used often by the Bourgeoisie

No I didn't drink 'enough water' today.

That’s a hell of a diss on the British cultural environment. Sorry.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Again, I have to ask: what do people in power think the UK actually *makes*? Because we don't build stuff any more. You and your predecessors deliberately shifted us towards being a service economy a generation ago. All we have going for us is our art, music, educational establishments...

If you have a billion dollars or more, you are evil. You don't start out as evil, so it's not like only evil people ever get a billion dollars; it's just that being a billionaire forced you to make a choice, be evil or change how you do things and stop being a billionaire. Billionaires choose evil.

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I just read this for the first time about a month ago! Making my way through The Culture. Banks is so good at giving you obvious clues to something, without giving you the something yet.

Specifically remember the narrator's pronoun antics making my brain itch almost immediately.

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Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon.

A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:

www.georgiafort.com/support

By my friend, the amazing cartoonist @mikedawson.bsky.social

Part of a longer story. You need to follow him.

Mr Rogers said "Look for the helpers."

He was right that those are the most important figures in any historic event. It's exactly why ICE and Trump are targeting, and murdering them.
It's the people there specifically to help that threaten this regime.

Protect the helpers!

But I DO always have a tab of Wikipedia open.

Not just to research though, sometimes it's because I'm in an ADHD hole and did you know there's a Wikipedia entry for the concept of a hole? BRB.

It took me long enough to figure out how to turn off "AI Overview" on Google so I could get rid of that shit.

The presence of AI chatbots genuinely makes research harder.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Kansas Cop Resigns After Writing “Pig” on His Own Coffee Cup After receiving national attention, the McDonald's security cameras revealed he was the real culprit the whole time.

He drew it himself.
www.gq.com/story/police...

Most of you follow for my art, but I live in Minneapolis right now & I have to tell you how bad things are here now. I'm not sure if what you're seeing on the news really does it justice. It's basically a battle ground on the streets.

Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

Either digital piracy is illegal or it isn't.

If it isn't, I look forward to founding the 'Amazon of free digital content.' Including, of course, shows "scraped" from Amazon.

This! I see other creatives focusing too hard on the output, but it's the input, the training, that's the crime.

They scraped other people's IP and sold it in bulk.
End of story.

The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!"

"Man Standing Up In A Town Hall" meme

I think forcing a website to shut down until the "Create revenge porn" switch is put in the "off" position is an acceptable form of government censorship

It's worth reminding each other every couple days that every delay you create, every horrible opportunity you deter means someone gets home to their family, might even mean someones actual life is saved. All of it is worth it.

Elon Musk quote tweeted the following and added 💯: “Elon Musk @elonmusk “If White men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they will be 1000x times more hostile and cruel when they are a majority over Whites. White solidarity is the only way to survive.”

Elon Musk is a White supremacist and any media outlet that continues to pretend otherwise is promoting White supremacy. The same goes for all major institutions, politicians etc who continue to normalise the world’s largest conduit for White supremacist, Paedophilic and other vile content : Musk’s X

Yep.

gregpak.net/2026/01/10/s...

This is genuinely a good idea. We should do this. There should be a maximum wage, the same way there’s a minimum wage.

The multimillionaires and billionaires will not perceive any appreciable difference in their lifestyle at all, but millions of normal people would benefit daily.

no one needs a billion dollars and that's why I will set the tax rate at 100% for everything over 100 million

important message to all bluesky users

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Last year I started reading Banks, on many nudgings by my Hoooosband.

Enthusiastically mowed through about half of his sci-fi catalogue, before my husband sheepishly mentioned. "I was actually recommending his Lit Fiction stuff."

Too late now! Glasgow can wait. I have SPACE STUFF to read!