Disciple of Telesto

You should hammer all these reps who voted yes on the KIDS Act.

Additionally, keep contacting your other reps as well

...I fucking love getting flashbacks to my early childhood terror born of the tail end of the cold war

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this.

Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.

Flights of Foundry is a wonderful con, and it deserves a platform that will let it grow and work at the scale it needs without running volunteers ragged patching up their current janky lowest-bidder.

I am also a tactical war understander and my understanding is that it's all so fuckig *stupid* and pointless.

Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about.
Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permission The UK’s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a House of Lords committee has warned, as the government prepares to reveal the economic cost of proposals to change copyright rules. A report by peers has urged ministers to develop a licensing regime for the use of creative works in AI products and abandon proposals to let tech firms use the work of novelists, artists, writers and journalists without permission. Continue reading...

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Bingus! #marathon #marathonart

All of this. Plus their makers stole all our work, are trying to change our IP laws to lionise this theft, took a sledgehammer to the creative economy and successfully reframed predictive text generation as the zenith of artistic achievement

Also, the fascism

Let the dog out, then had to bribe him back inside with chicken because it's sunny out, and he wants to sunbathe, but also I am the only person home right now and don't want to leave the door wide open for him while I am upstairs at work!

A snowy landscape littered with ruined buildings ad cranes. There are large plumes of green smoke coming from multiple fires in the near distance

A catwalk with railings leading to a diamond shaped door. Above are red tendrils growing along the ceiling

A long dark hallway lit by glass cases containing strange black tetrahedrons and red tendrils

A mass of metal and ash attached to the ceiling with red tendrils. There are two red circular eyes staring out from the mass.

I got a breach working relatively consistently in D1 so I went and broke into Wrath of the Machine! I have never been able to run the raid, so it was very cool to be able to go and look around. Very creepy and atmospheric!

#DestinyTheGame #WrathOfTheMachine #OOB

yeah... and maybe I'm getting old but... AO3 is literally 'pick fandom from list' so it's just insane to me that people struggle with it.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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“Pioneer” is the word: lesbian heroine Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote 7 utterly distinct novels which you probably don’t know since they are all so different to each other, 150 short stories, a history of Tudor church music and much else. Her (umpteen) letters are fascinating.
Please repost to help.

Yeah, there's definitely occasions where it's not just people struggling with subtext, they're actively incapable of reading the *text*

way to sort through them besides an entire website search that is very much cross your fingers and pray.

I am always so so baffled when people say that Wattpad is more user friendly than AO3
Like, AO3 it's literally open site -> Click on Fandom button -> Locate fandom from the alphabetical list –> oh hey, there's fics.

Meanwhile Wattpad just dumps all the fanfiction into a single category with no easy

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

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Magic just sent Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn a super-rare box of cards worth over $300 And one box alone is worth over $300

Hell yah

www.polygon.com/mtg-amber-gl...

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...

Morning all, please consider filling this in. I want my kids safe online but I'm against age verification generally and especially for VPNs. better to enforce against the companies creating an environment of harm, radicalisation and enshittification I would think, yes?

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Just because your co-worker is invisible to you does not mean they aren't heavily affected by the decisions you make.

When we raise money on (for) kickstarter, a portion is then used to pay for anti-union lawyers to bust up your invisible co-workers. $$ they helped you make, goes to hurting them.

The Zoomer Obsession With DVDs Is A Blueprint For Saving Gaming - Kotaku We ask independent stores if young people are turning up for hard copies as well as the barriers they face

'The conditions rhyme with gaming.' is a beautiful turn of phrase. People want to own their culture, not rent it from a sociopath who jacks the prices every year because they think that'll appease the rabid ghost of Ayn Rand.
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Your 3-minute guide to today’s asylum policy changes

Illustration of a mermaid kissing a centaurs cheek

Just a little Lyla/Fiero cuteness 💕✨

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.