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The more I hear about inverse proportion, the less I like it.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

2 million people in the UK are paid the national minimum wage.

Reform are a party of the rich, for the rich.

Strange Is The Way, by M. John Henry 10 track album

Happy #bandcampfriday !

I've made the download of my 2025 LP 'Strange Is The Way' free / name your price for today only!

If you like it you might consider buying the physical album - orange vinyl is reduced from £22 to £19 and the CD to only £8!

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mjohnhenry.bandcamp.com/album/strang...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

The Guardian. Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law. Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds.

Swifts are in serious decline across the UK, with their population dropping by 66% since 1995.

Yesterday the Scottish Parliament backed our amendment to introduce nesting bricks in new buildings. This will help reverse that trend and make our communities more liveable for birds. 🌍

Do read this thread. It covers the classic problems of govt IT ventures: capture by the providers, poor information management and huge security holes, improbably complex signup process, and low quality outcomes. Surely it might have been better to partner with a university than this corporate slop?

🚨 BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty enters into force today – without the UK 🌊

81 countries have ratified. The UK still hasn’t.

This treaty could create the largest network of ocean sanctuaries in history. No more excuses. Ratify the #HighSeasTreaty now. 🌍✊⏳

The map's form: transparency
It shows: locations of industry
Its purpose: to record science

MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV MTV still exists. At least, it still exists in the United States, or in certain of that country's markets, for the time being. A flurry of premature obituaries recently blew through the internet after...

MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV

At the Centre of It All Ten years later, an oral history of David Bowie's 'Blackstar'

"Someone told me that the record was done by June. He had a play done, recorded and did singing overdubs for months, made two videos. I don’t know where he found the strength. It never looked to us like he was sick. He was just coming in and singing his ass off. It’s incredible to me."

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

The map's form: living
It shows: farms
Its purpose: to connect

I'm going to do it! And I'm going to skeet them as I close them, so you can enjoy the random stuff that's clogged everything up too.

When I first went to the cinema to watch this, there was a power cut. Right at the point when the ‘Omega 13’ was fired.

We were led out by torchlight and allowed to come back and watch it the following day 🙂

In celebration of the winter solstice, it's the perfect night to make soup in a cauldron over an open fire with your local forest witch.

small hours big time winter solstice! long night? get outside through a bare canopy nice Ursids

21/12/25 - nocturn

Gaza no longer in famine but hunger levels remain critical, UN says Monitor says almost one in eight people face food shortages as flooding and cold exacerbate humanitarian emergency The famine in Gaza has ended as a result of increased humanitarian aid deliveries into the territory, the UN said on Friday, though it warned that levels of hunger and the humanitarian situation remained critical. Almost one in eight people in Gaza still faced food shortages, the UN said, adding that persistent hunger had been made worse by winter flooding and the colder weather. Most people in Gaza live in tents or other substandard accommodation as Israel destroyed much of the housing and civilian infrastructure during its two-year war. Continue reading...

Gaza no longer in famine but hunger levels remain critical, UN says

Your library card is the most priceless card you will ever own.

Sign the petition to end peat sales! No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.

Good morning, please can you share this petition by @peatfree.bsky.social to end peat sales - all previous petitions were for the Conservative Government, and we're now close to making this law with Labour so peat habitat can never be used again actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

A photo taken by my daughter of me bedside my work at the exhibition.

GYM HALL EXHIBITION SPACE Midmills Building Stephen’s Street Inverness IV2 3JP

If you are in Inverness over the next week (9-15 december). Pop along to WASPS and check out the Lonely Arts Club exhibition. I have a few pieces of work up.

GYM HALL
EXHIBITION SPACE
Midmills Building Stephen’s Street
Inverness
IV2 3JP

Cheers

Let’s make history and end the Guga hunt! This may be the shortest email we’ll ever send.

We must stop the hunt. Please take action 👇

This three-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza celebrated her birthday on the rubble of what was once her home.

Thank you for making this one fly so much today, 100+ new followers in 24 hours is lovely, as is seeing people go on to then like 50+ other listings. There's a lot of horrid things going on the world and you lot liking our stuff and saying nice things really does make a difference.

The deal agreed at #COP30 is in some ways genuinely good, in other ways pathetic. Read my thoughts below.

Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’ Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated

The plant, would make ethylene for plastics manufacture - likely to cause ammonia, ozone, nitrogen oxide + PM2.5 pollution - linked to increased cases of heart + breathing conditions - and carcinogenic VOCs - risking people's health says @clientearth.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ask Nature Scot to stop the slaughter! They let the 'hunters' do it! protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...

Print in black and white of a telegraph post and multiple wires where a large number of birds, in silhouette, perch

'The lines are busy' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

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