Spacefall

This is an excellent terrible idea. Watch a film where the characters go see a real film, then actually screen that film, and then when it’s over go back and finish watching the first film.

brattlefilm.org/film-series/...

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

This new schools guidance is even worse than Section 28. I feel sick.

There's a crochet one too: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

If anyone's following along, now streetmap.co.uk has disappeared, a very similar (arguably easier to use) site with #ordnancesurvey #maps (1:25k and 1:50k and larger scales) is:

https://www.sysmaps.co.uk/sysmaps_os.html

#uk

Call to Allies: Complete the ‘Earned Settlement’ Consultation - Migrants' Rights Network New 'earned settlement' proposals left members of our Network feeling incredibly distressed. We're calling on allies to respond.

The idea of ‘earned settlement’ is racist and classist. 📣 So, why are we calling on allies to complete the Government’s ‘Earned Settlement’ consultation?

Find out more: migrantsrights.org.uk/2026/01/29/e...

#HostileEnvironment #Migration

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Titled "Careless laws cost rights", has "Ghostbusters" logo-style pictures of people using different mobility aids coming through "banned" (general prohibition) signs. From left, a child using a manual wheelchair with power attachment, two adults on a tandem mobility scooter, a person using a powerchair with a pram attached to the front, a person using a manual wheelchair with an e-assist handcycle attachment, a child using a powerchair. Subtitle "New mobility aid laws must provide equal mobility rights for all" and hashtag MobilityJustice.

Current rules about mobility aids are complicated, confusing & don't make much sense.

These two resources look at existing rules, the consequences they have for Disabled people, & options for possible changes.

wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/consideratio...

wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/wp-content/u...

NHS Trust Spent Millions on Controversial ‘Spy Camera’ Tech Despite Damning Internal Report Exclusive: An NHS trust spent over £2.4m on Oxevision, a technology that films vulnerable patients in their bedrooms 24/7, even after its own internal evaluation report highlighted significant issues ...

NHS Trust Spent Millions on Controversial ‘Spy Camera’ Tech Despite Damning Internal Report

Transparency was lacking ‘from the start’ in leaked documents

Damning reporting on Oxevision from @harriepw at @novaramedia.com

novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/n...

Good job prompting to get some care. Best wishes for recovery.

International Twist Your Seatpost Day
https://www.guyjeanbikes.com/2026/01/02/international-twist-your-seatpost-day/
Happy International Twist Your Seatpost Day to all who celebrate! And that should include everyone who has a seatpost.

It’s very simple to play along:

Loosen your seatpost clamp […]

This made me get up and sort out bins just in time

Levy Review: A scathing audit of NHS Trans+ healthcare that isn’t radical enough to fix the problems While the Levy Review correctly identifies some of the issues with Gender Dysphoria Clinics, its recommendations tinker around the edges

The Levy Review is a “missed opportunity to give all trans people timely and local access to gender affirming hormones on the basis of informed consent - the most effective way to clear long waiting lists,” says Tammy Hymas of @transactualuk.bsky.social

www.wearequeeraf.com/levy-review-...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/113488282272850633

Important Christmas reminder: download all the manuals from all the devices your family got this year and store them in a folder. Thank me in half a year if you need them 😉

I am looking forward to #DuvetTheyKnowItsChristmas (Capitalise each word of hashtag to maximise accessibility) - 15 years, gosh!

A good cause as well as a good laugh and brilliant Christmas stories.

The open letter is here and still open, but use the email at the top to do so. tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Happy family-tech-support-mas to my fellow geeks who observe this fascinating holiday tradition. Scholars believe that today’s festive new phone transfers, Bluetooth hearing aid pairings and wifi extender setups date back to the 1980s teenager fixing the 12:00 VCR, and possibly even further.

I would love to read the news and have some kind of non-despair about literally anything. Going to try my best to achieve localised pockets of non-shittiness within my tiny realm of control.

I get that some gamers don't care about gen'AI' effect on the people it takes from, or the planet, but you'd think they'd care that RAM prices have sextupled.

Blake looking confused .. as usual

Avon looking crazy … as usual (for series D, anyway)

Happy Gauda Prime Day to Servalan and anyone else who celebrates. #Blakes7 #GaudaPrimeDay

YouTube video by Six One Indie Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Receives the Indie Game Award 2025 for Narrative

Wake up, Sleeper. Congratulations to our Narrative recipient for 2025, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector!

@joannechocolat.bsky.social in case you’ve not seen it yet, and to pass on to others.

I am not the most-affected by this of people I know, but I can't read on a page with moving content.

The WCAG "stops within 5 seconds" isn't in my view good enough. NOTHING should move without "active-user-intent to do so" and "bad patterns" tricking ppl should also be non-WCAGgable!

#Blakes7
One week to #GaudaPrimeDay warning ⚠️
Don't worry, I'm sure everything will be fine.

Endless screaming

Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Oh that sucks

Medieval deaf communication Communicating with hand signs has a long history. Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe among both deaf and hearing communities.

How did people with deafness or hearing impairment communicate in the Middle Ages? This post discusses sign language and the story of Thomas Tillsye - one of tne first recorded uses of sign language in England.
wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi...