Matt Freeman

Sorry to hear you won’t be at Dragonmeet. But health first!

Passive voice is the thing I notice most in bad journalism. It’s so frustrating.

Finding my friends and having regular meet-ups with them is what keeps me sane and able to function in the world.

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

Caught up with Celebrity Traitors last night and now oops, I’m invested.

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

Relevant to Mrs Wyrd's interests, but Mattel are making articulated female rugby player dolls. The one I saw a promo of was based on Ilona Maher, a US player. And dear gods, that is a jacked and ripped Barbie.

All you folks making D&D Barbies should pay attention

Back in August several academics raised concerns that a Deloitte report to government may have been generated using AI. Deloitte denied this and put the citation errors down to poor editing.

Anyway, Deloitte are refunding the government $440,000 for a report that was written using AI.

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses? Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

In memoriam...

Donegal has now being upgraded to a Red wind warning from 4pm to 6pm. Please heed this warning with risk of severe and damaging gusts. #StormAmy

Just finished Once & Future, by my favourite comics author @kierongillen.bsky.social All I can say is, you magnificent bastard, you did it again. Congrats also to the rest of the team - never forget comics require a group to bring them to life, not just the author. Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain.

Here is the first of all those cards I'm not going to send.

Presumably they delivereth in the middleth? 😁

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

Sooner or later the synthetics are going to break in a way that requires actual humans to go over there. Or a higher up wants a personal tour. Or marketing wants to get some shots of the actual facility.

Al poses with Elijah Wood

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

tweet that reads: Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Yeah, this is pretty much it, isn't it?

I want to take a second to recognize that Lee Moriarty & Hangman Page are not only phenomenal wrestlers, but good PEOPLE too.

Advocating for human rights, fighting against fascism, curious about the world & open to learning about the people in it, and with a deep respect for equality.

#AEWDynamite

News paper clipping: 'There is no ethical way to use the major Al image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists. - MOLLY CRABAPPLE, artist and activist

I don’t usually share about my mental health, but in light of some recent White House comments about autism, I feel like this is something personal I'd like to talk about. In my twenties, I went through addiction and recovery. Since then I’ve spent years trying to understand myself better. I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD and OCD, and after years of therapy, my therapist has told me he has “zero doubt” I’m on the spectrum, even though I’ve never gone through the full formal diagnostic process. Whether or not I’d check every box doesn’t matter to me. What matters is that I relate deeply to much of the autistic experience, and learning about it has helped me find healthier ways to cope and communicate. That said, for many people who do experience enough distress or impairment, having a formal diagnosis can make a huge difference in getting the support and accommodations they need. I’ve also seen firsthand how autism is overlooked, misunderstood, and stigmatized. Those misunderstandings make life harder than it needs to be. Autism isn’t a flaw to be fixed—it’s a variation, like being left-handed in a right-handed world. The world wasn’t designed with autistic people in mind, but that doesn’t make them broken—it just means things take some adapting. That’s why it’s so harmful to see people with serious influence like Trump and RFK Jr. pushing the false claim that Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. There is no scientific evidence for this. Worse, it unfairly places blame on expectant mothers while ignoring real and complex factors involved, like genetics. All it does is reinforce stigma against autistic people, people who deserve understanding and respect, not fear-mongering.

Something I shared on Facebook, the only place I've personally seen people justifying Trump's and RFK's Tylenol claims, and I felt compelled to say something.

Figured I'd share here as well 💙

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Just deal with people being different than you.

Weird how this keeps happening.

No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer:

1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors!

2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy

3) Language learning via Mango

💙📚 And:

I think I can still quote the prophecy from The Dark is Rising off by heart. Three from the circle, three from the track etc.