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Who Remembers Attention Spans? Why can't we focus on anything these days? Sean Morley takes a brief interlude from checking the latest death tolls to investigate our belief in the shrinking attention span.

My latest for @nowthenmag.bsky.social:
Who Remembers Attention Spans?

Half of people in the UK think their attention span has shrunk. With "doomscrolling" becoming an increasing concern for policymakers, I ask: but is this even real though?

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/who...

People on twitter are losing their minds over this, including several scientists who I have to assume have either brain poisoned themselves or were always like this. People don't always cite what's best; they cite what they know & researchers from historically excluded communities get the short end.

ascending timber steps in an autumnal forest

view upon a bend in the vine archway on five weirs walk in sheffield

reflection of the winter garden in one of those big metal balls with water running over them

some leaves turning red, currently reddy-green

did a big #sheffield #photography walk today from meadowhall interchange, through concord, wincobank woods, firth park, five weirs walk and then back through town

a front garden filled with fake tombstones. presumably AI generated, because the text on them is bizarre. i don't know how the following list of nonsense words will translate to screen readers, apologies: "Shew is Fourlets", "Love of Douk a Clatsween", "Tome you wars is Lovestone", "Herles our Trolaties FiVE", "Cut yomery fonds", "Lelives Crrlites", and my favourite "Halines to yuks for CLAMPEN".

spooky AI pinterest halloween slop decorations

advice: if you spot one, don't pick it up with a nearby piece of junk mail that's glossy... they slide around like it's an ice rink

it's pretty common in sheffield, i think because everyone has cellars

i mean the 'exotic pets' released into the wild after the 1976 Dangerous Wild Animals Act had to go *somewhere*

i want to believe

UK big cats are also my favourite cryptids

making a halloween salt circle to keep away bad spirits*

*a slug that keeps getting into the hallway

i can imagine it could be quite satisfying

"real slavery has never been tried"

reposting to fix a typo? yes i will re-like, and no i didn't see a thing

oh that's a good idea

oh damn ok, ill see if i can find a mirrored window somewhere

cracking this look out again this morning. never felt so chic and unbothered in the rain

two

i went outside today. you can't make me learn what this means.

is this part of the big AWS problem yesterday?

it's telling that they're interpreting "disagreeing" as some passive, silent state rather than an activity where you start conversations, call people out, and hold them accountable.

does it tell you which of the 14 allergens anywhere, or do you just have to chance it?

don’t own a ring camera lmao what r u doing

he reposted an ai video of himself flying a fighter jet and dropping ...sewage? on yesterday's protests

ive decided it's fine and actually normal for hobbies to be seasonal

i mean i guess you could cure autism if you really want to. personally id miss infrastructure but thats just me.

New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began.

172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.

that looks like too many 'e's and 'ss's but apparently that's a word

i don't know what possesses people

the best posters really get the worst replies on here