Notices by anandamide (anandamide@dataare.cool)

Ursula LeGuin QotD

"He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in"

- The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula LeGuin QotD

"Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it"

- The Dispossessed

(You should read The Dispossessed. And if you've already read it, read it again)

I am on Lindisfarne and took this photo of what seemed to be weathered stonework, but which I now realise is masonry possessed by the howling spirits of the pit

This sounds brilliant and totally safe and is absolutely not giving me flashbacks to 2008

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/

Compilation of protests against the SC ruling.

Protests this weekend in:

Exeter
Manchester
Guildford
Truro
Leicester
Lancaster
Winchester
Leicester

https://whatthetrans.com/compilation-of-protests-against-the-supreme-court/

#Trans #UKpol

ALSO:

Compilation of #UK petitions for #Trans rights. I'd signed some of these but was unaware of most others so this is really helpful!

https://augeas.eu.pythonanywhere.com/

@goatsarah god I'm so confused with it. No idea what's happening. It's very pretty; the costumes are nice and the twinks are cute. This sums up the reasons I'm still watching.

TERF island strikes again. Bad fucking news.

'The University of Sussex has been fined £585,000 by the higher education regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), for failing to uphold freedom of speech

...

The OfS criticised the university's policy statement on Trans and Non-Binary equality, saying its requirement to "positively represent trans people" and an assertion that "transphobic propaganda [would] not be tolerated" could lead staff and students to "self-censor"'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9vr4vjzgqo

You all know Labour are fully on board the trans hate train but just to hammer the point home:

'Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said free speech and academic freedom were "non-negotiables" in universities... If you go to university you must be prepared to have your views challenged, hear contrary opinions and be exposed to uncomfortable truths'

Sorry but this is too good to leave on Bluesky

"The (Democratic) party itself has become a loosely affiliated group of ultra-wealthy individuals and highly compensated consultants put in charge of defending the interests of the socially-conscious wing of the ruling class without ever endangering their bottom line"

https://www.reallyveryhuman.com/out-w-the-old/

"Electoral common sense for left-leaning voters has always been that it's far better to hold your nose and vote for a spineless centrist than to abstain and pave the way for a grasping fascist, but that only works if the centrist wins. If the old school approach can't meet the crucial moment we're at, if all holding our noses did was put us one step closer to a situation we can't vote our way out of, then that approach has to go"

Oh god this is so believable. AI bros and Business Leaders have no interest in softer sciences, so they've Dunning-Krugered themselves into believing their googly-eyed autocomplete is a real boy

From https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

"Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars"

It's great to see someone FINALLY mention the magnetosphere issue, in the very first sentence no less, but this article rips into the idea so much more thoroughly than that, and with admirable gusto.

#skeptic #musk #mars

https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

[Places hand to earpiece]

"...and we're getting news that TERFs are now Transvestigating Andrew Tate"

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-tate-transgender-conspiracy-theory/

#Rust is woke now

Doing A Thing and I'm wondering what queer sex-positive spaces I know on mastodon (other than woof.group).

1 - any advice gratefully received, but mainly

2 - OMG I love the federated system. It was so befuddling at first and now here I am thinking of all the different hamlets on #Mastodon, from the giant cities like .social, the communities like kinky.business, the little commune I currently live in. For all the mess and the drama, it's adorable, it's human scale. I love it. I love you, Mastoo

The socialist anarchists I follow on BlueSky doing the Lord's work

This was requested as a UK version of the attached, which tbh is pure genius

omg