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A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

By posting this, it did mean that I read your article though! And not the DM one. Not that I would ever read the latter...

Lollll three bylines for a national newspaper to recreate (including the exact same restaurants!) what me and a student reporter managed a month ago: www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!

Astonishing stuff...

If you are not listening to Liza Tarbuck on Saturdays on Radio 2 you need to start, pronto.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0...

Wise wise words.
New to her show, but my Saturday is poorer if I miss it.

🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:

Yup.

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Douglas Barrowman to the media: there was a mountain of evidence

Douglas Barrowman to the court: he didn’t give evidence.

You make those around you complicit. This is how this works.

Right-wing media fluffs Farage for years, to the point where he now leads the polls, and then start whining about Starmer being 'obsessed' when he starts telling some long overdue home truths. It's actually hilarious.

This Is Quite A Statement!
Has It Gotten Much Press?!?

Painting looking slightly dowm on a village nestled in a green hillside above a beach and sea with three figures to the bottom right foreground

#Autumn Sunlight, Sennen Cove, Cornwall, 1922 by Laura Knight #UnlockingWomensArt

..and I wish it were not so

Indeed, series 3 continues to hammer home a message far too close to the events of today...

@straczynski.bsky.social
You utter bastard. Weeping at Gethsemane. Staggering writing, allowing a great actor a chance to really stretch. Tears rolling down my cheeks

No matter how many times, it remains astonishing in its message, and delivery.

Tom Lehrer, Influential Satirist Whose Topical Songs Poked and Prodded America in the ’50s and ’60s, Dies at 97 Tom Lehrer, an influential musical satirist who came to fame with songs addressing topical events in the '50s and '60s, has died at age 97.

I’ve always acknowledged the incalculable creative debt I owe to Tom Lehrer; the Edinburgh show will need a few minor tweaks but otherwise we’re pressing on. I’m sad it’ll now be a eulogy rather than living tribute but it’ll be all the more heartfelt now he’s gone.

variety.com/2025/music/o...

"Vote Reform for massive power cuts" is going to be a completely legitimate attack line at the next election. Because it will force them to explain and (a) when you are explaining you are losing and (b) the explanations will make them look like the lunatic fringe crackpots they really are.

There was essentially zero coverage of the disabled protest to stop Medicaid cuts. Capitol police dragged protesters out, many in wheelchairs, and arrested 34 people. It was barely a blip on the news because nobody really cares about the disabled.

Oh my.

I can’t stop rewatching.

The stuff of courtroom nightmares.

(H/T @timmorton2.bsky.social)

That would be Colonel Anne McClain on the International Space Station. West Point graduate, engineer, rugby player, helicopter pilot, astronaut, Marshall scholar, combat veteran: all stuff the current administration and especially current Pentagon wants to keep women from doing.

Guardian Talk Boards 1998.
Mind you, I'm GenX. Ancient.

This is, in all seriousness, the biggest Millennial/Gen Z dividing line: whether your first social network pre- or post-dates facebook.

A Campbelltown? Go for it. You only live once, might as well have a lovely drink on the way.

The publisher sent me the second one and it is waiting next in line...

It is tremendously silly, and good fun. And well written too.

We are very pleased to be collecting for the Children's Book Project - come and drop off your pre-loved books for someone else to enjoy! 😁

I know he's only moving programmes, but I will miss Petroc Trelawney on BBC Radio3 Breakfast. Truly one of our greatest radio broadcasters.

You are going to be hugely missed on R3 Breakfast, not least by myself. Setting up my day so well, with a calm, clear manner, wonderful music, and such great, easy broadcasting genius.
Thank you so much. I look forward to catching up with you on InTune.