Carlie Pendleton (they/she)

Officially joined @greenparty.org.uk today 💚

Here’s to hope 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

busta rhymes on a float at the macy's thanksgiving parade with the ninja turtles

thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I’m hooked

Why do we call it a 'turkey'?

Nature: Winter is a time of slowing down, resting, conserving energy and recovering for the year ahead

Capitalism: NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL SELL SELL, EXTENDED OPENING HOURS, CHECK OUT OUR SALES, BUY EVERYTHING WE SAY YOU NEED FOR AN ELABORATE LABOUR-INTENSIVE FESTIVAL, WORK YOURSELF TO THE BONE

Hopefully the knowledge that advanced degrees ward off the most insecure men on the planet will encourage more women to pursue PhDs

‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

Food for thought: students don’t want ‘cheap AI’ instruction (anyone with half a brain cell knows this already). But worth telegraphing to a sector being tapped for AI investment: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Friday, 28 November Naked tour through the museum
🖼️ Guided tour of the current exhibition
📅 28 November German: 6:30 p.m. | English: 8:00 p.m.
🌈 Participation naked, ages 18 and up
📩 Registration necessary: tours@queermuseumvienna.com

www.queermuseumvienna.com/en/naked-in-...
#Vienna #Wien
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...

A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?

"you don't fix patriarchy by dating it"

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Let us remember who Dick
Cheney really was.

Me for Zeteo, with 🧾:
zeteo.com/p/dick-chene...

Thanks for this Caitlin 🫶

I never went to university but I’d love to do a mad PhD ‘I always thought students spent three years getting stoned, lying that they were into jazz — then got their parents’ mates to give them a job’

You know those "mad", "woke" PhDs that the press go nuts over every so often? I think they sound great: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Happy Reformation Day to all those who celebrate!

You rang?

Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody promoting Zohran

POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet

“We will hold the millionaires and billionaires accountable!”
“So you’re going to raise taxes on billionaires?”
“Whoa whoa whoa commie let’s not go overboard. Why do you hate freedom?”

Early Career Researcher Double bill

Join us 28 October, 5:30pm (UK) for the first IHR History of Sexuality Seminar of the new term!

This Early Career Researcher Double Bill is an ONLINE ONLY seminar.

For more information and to register in order to receive the Zoom link please go to: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

History of Sexuality The seminar series explores historical perspectives on themes as varied as queer(ing) history, sexual reform and identity-based movements and sexuality

The IHR History of Sexuality Seminar is now on Bluesky! Check out our upcoming seminars at www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Women's History Seminar series at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Lecture 1: 'Disabled Women, the Labour State and Enterprise in 20th Century Britain' by Professor Lucy Delap

Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk.

🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room

Register for free tickets ⬇️

Honoured to be sharing Gill’s headspace with you after she gleefully retweeted a Times article “exposing” how taxpayer money is being wasted on my, and other queer scholars’, research 🌈