Ahhh saw this and immediately thought of @brunelmuseum.bsky.social peepshows of the Thames Tunnel!
03.12.2025 18:13
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Ahhh saw this and immediately thought of @brunelmuseum.bsky.social peepshows of the Thames Tunnel!
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
applying for jobs again
The Belles of London City Morris singing as they climb to the top of Primrose Hill to dance
A dawn celebrant in tall pointy hat and robes, in slightly misty light on Primrose Hill
Seeing the sun rise on May 1, from Primrose Hill looking east over London
Belles of London City morris dancers cavorting in the dawn sunlight
May morning, Primrose Hill. Such scenes! Felt very London and very pagan, all at the same time. Huge privilege to see it.
The Belles of London City Morris at Primrose Hill for May morning 2025
The Belles of London City Morris at Primrose Hill for May morning 2025. Gathering for a massive group hug having successfully coaxed the sun to rise.
The Belles of London City Morris at Primrose Hill for May morning 2025. A dancer prepares in the very dim pre-dawn light
The Belles of London City Morris at Primrose Hill for May morning 2025
and the Belles, oh my goodness
The Belles of London City dance in the sunrise on May Morning, 1 May 2025, Primrose Hill, London
May morning, Primrose Hill (right at this moment)
There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟
Rewatching Thelma and Louise after a friend mentioned it recently. GOD it still holds up. I maybe haven’t seen this since I was a teenager? And wow, it hits different now - but is just as brilliant.
How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading?
For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced.
merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
Explore our newly unveiled 2024 report to see what we’re doing to keep music alive. This is just one glimpse. 👉 Available now online: bit.ly/MVT2024
Venues don’t just appear overnight; they’re built on years, decades, sometimes generations of passion and hard work. We’re standing firm so that music has a home, now and forever.
Irresponsible developments next to iconic venues lead to venue closures. That’s not right! These venues are lifelines for their communities, the pulse of culture, and the reason people flock to these areas in the first place.
In 2024, Music Venue Trust fought hard against inappropriate planning applications threatening grassroots music venues (GMVs) — and won 97.6% of the time.
Reactionary Tech is Reactionary Politics The alliance between tech billionaires and far-right authoritarians should be a cause for grave democratic concern. Crucially, it being on full display since Trump’s inauguration should be a wakeup call for journalists, politicians, and scholars who have gone along with the portrayal of tech CEOs as mere ‘innovators’ and ‘entrepreneurs’ whose aims and actions are beyond or outside politics. As with the resurgence of the far-right, the rise of tech oligarchs is the result of a long series of mainstream failures: from sycophantic media coverage of the endless stream of unfulfilled promises to tax policies (or a lack thereof) that have allowed tech CEOs to become so rich they can literally spend hundreds of millions influencing politics domestically and abroad. From antitrust policies (or a lack thereof) that have allowed tech giants to obtain near-monopoly status to media policies that for too long have ignored the internet and failed to fund public service alternatives to the tech giants that now threaten democracy. The liberal rhetoric of saving democracy through fact-checking and media literacy was always a pipe dream. No amount of literacy training can counter the resurgence of oligarchic and authoritarian rule.
"As with the resurgence of the far-right, the rise of tech oligarchs is the result of a long series of mainstream failures"
A few thoughts on reactionary tech oligarchy by @jfarkas.bsky.social and I for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...
At this point I am now becoming JEALOUS when the Hanged Man shows up in readings I do for other people 😂 that card has been a regular presence for me for a long long time. It has utterly disappeared over the last year (to the extent that I actually CHECKED MY DECK to make sure it was there!) #tarot
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever
Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
We don't want more AI. We want things to be reasonably priced and to be able to put the heating on without bankrupting ourselves, not computers that use so much energy they cause natural disasters making fake videos of natural disasters.
Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember:
You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/
Alexa, show me a man with no soul …
Post-apocalypse show pausing for the apocalypse
Good friends invite you round to wassail their apple trees. Great friends also make sure to give you the chance to CEREMONIALLY BURN ALL THE THINGS TO LET GO OF FROM 2024
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HA! The whole thing is so full of those glorious little throwaway jokes. So, so good.
Sorry but ‘Accrington Queen’ is making me laugh far more than is justified (am chilling in a snoozy heap of children watching Wallace & Gromit)
Screenshot of text message reading “I can no longer remember my life before the belles. I know I had a lot going on, but lord alone knows what I did or why I thought it was relevant.”
Extremely relatable Belles content (if you think we’re all a bit obsessed with each other, we are)
This too; nuanced, thoughtful, and caring. (And remember that, as we all know, just because some pillock associates themselves with your protest, doesn’t mean you want them there…)
Oh this is great. These protests are more complicated than they’ve sometimes been reported as; this digs in to some of it.
Another date for your diary, before all our brains shut down for Christmas. On 25 Jan we'll be dancing at @brunelmuseum.bsky.social - and not only that, we'll be teaching dances down in the Tunnel Shaft itself! Come & drink mulled things with us - tickets up now: thebrunelmuseum.com/events/event...
In the approximately 13 minutes between finishing work and rushing off to a nativity performance, I managed to squeeze in some lino-cutting and printing. Arrived at school out of breath and with inky fingers 🙌