Reposted by ButsyJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more. 338898 388
Reposted by ButsyComics Outta Context 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 23/03/2026#MondayMorning 611136 111
Reposted by ButsyAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 19/03/2026It really gets my goat when people tell me I may not like AI but it’s here to stay & there’s nothing we can do about it. Yes there is! We don’t have to bow down to every corporate demand! We can fight, regulate, use the law. We can & must ensure this tech benefits humanity & doesn’t dismantle it. 10646192 646
Reposted by ButsyKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/02/2026stories like this will mention the AI "doomer narrative" (SkyNet will kill us all, often pushed by industry insiders), but not mention it pre-empts more realistic criticism (Grok's data center in Memphis is aiming its pollution directly at black people) the industry doesn't want to talk aboutnytimes.comPeople Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much. 13716194 716
Reposted by ButsyStefanie 🏳️⚧️ @foxenlock.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Trans in the Machine is fully funded! But with under a week left, there’s still time to hit some stretch goals. The more we make, the more goes to good causes and mutual aid. So, shout it loud and share far and wide. Post anywhere you can think of. 🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... 11267137 267
Reposted by ButsySophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026UK friends, fans of my essays, radical femmes, and femmephiles! My forthcoming book FEMMEPHILIA is available for 25% off if you pre-order *this week* (before the end of Friday) from @waterstones.bsky.social - just enter FEB26 at the checkout www.waterstones.com/book/femmeph...waterstones.comFemmephilia by Sophie Lewis | WaterstonesBuy Femmephilia by Sophie Lewis from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. 03210 32
Reposted by Butsythe pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake And a happy year of the whores to you all 3757682571 5.8K
Reposted by ButsyThe Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Your reminder that close friend of Peter Mandelson (the guy who was also close personal friend & corrupt enabler of Jeffrey Epstein) Emily Maitlis claims personal credit for creating the moral panic around the Tavistock gender care clinic. This has never, ever been about the safety of children.thepinknews.comEmily Maitlis says her BBC work led to closure of UK's only youth gender clinicFormer BBC Newsnight journalist Emily Maitlis has said her work on the programme led to the closure of England's only youth gender clinic. 311344 113
Reposted by ButsyNina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026good morning, it is day 3 of strikes at the University of Essex to save 400 jobs across all depts & stop the closure of our Southend Campus and our Foundation Year programme. The campus cat Pebbles is in solidarity 💕 412051 120
Reposted by ButsyJosephine Riesman @josie.zone · 16/02/2026"...and that concludes our intensive three-day pitch to your employer and/or government" 220648 206
Reposted by ButsyCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026BREAKING⚡️The High Court has just ruled that the government's draconian ban of Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a massive blow to the Home Office’s authoritarian approach. They need to stop criminalising people protesting a genocide and start ending the UK's complicity 20807212 807
Reposted by ButsyGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights. 562770803 2.8K
Reposted by ButsyCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/02/2026HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d... 7025201031 2.5K
Reposted by Butsyuncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leyla.money · 01/02/2026every time i see some new attempt to Streamline and Optimize our Lives i think about this kurt vonnegut quote that does rounds. we're dancing animals! not everything needs to be optimized! sometimes a tedious task creates an unlikely opportunity to learn something about yourself! or for joy!! 224888 248
Reposted by ButsyDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Tech billionaires aren't robber barons. Robber barons donated money to educational and cultural institutions, from universities to newspapers. Tech billionaires are destroying them - and building their fortunes on destroying the human capacity to think, learn, empathize, and concentrate. 19138 91
Reposted by ButsyPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 03/02/2026It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice 17584241275 8.4K
Reposted by ButsyAndrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 28/01/2026I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!aiskillshub.org.ukAI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub 421128499 1.1K
Butsy @doctorbutler78.bsky.social · 29/01/2026My issue with academia swallowing this grift wholesale 110 1
Butsy @doctorbutler78.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Rep Omar with the Glasgow pub rule response. Love to see it. 021 2
Reposted by ButsyDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Reminder that British journalists have a weird fetish for Harry Potter because it's a fantasy world where nobody mentions how fucking weird it is that everybody was privately educated in just five schools 181294258 1.3K
Reposted by ButsyStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 10/11/2025 42005727 2K
Reposted by ButsyGlyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 26/01/2026#AI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study finds - www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "Britain is losing more jobs than it creates owing to artificial intelligence, Morgan Stanley research suggests" <slowhandclap/>theguardian.comAI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study findsBritain is losing more jobs than it creates owing to artificial intelligence, Morgan Stanley research suggests 367 7
Reposted by ButsyMark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup... 18199148 199
Reposted by ButsyJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 09/10/2025It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK. 117144267730 14.4K
Reposted by ButsyCedric Moore @cedricmoorejr.bsky.social · 07/01/2026“The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.” -Hunter S. Thompson ~2 weeks after 9/11 227173 271
Reposted by ButsyNaoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win 6548207 548
Reposted by ButsyStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 08/01/2026 549951353 5K
Reposted by ButsyJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/01/2026The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year is SLOP! “Slop isn’t a new word. It has moved from the pig sty, to the algorithm, and now forms newcompounds such as sloppunk, slopification, and friend slop,” Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright said. “This productivity has no end in sight.” 🧵 638787 387
Reposted by ButsyAveTeresa @aveteresa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Folks, @womensaidireland.bsky.social have closed their X account on principle. Follow them here, give them some real engagement to acknowledge both the rightness of that decision, but also of letting go of high follower numbers (even if the algorithm meant that no longer signified actual reach). 014895 148
Reposted by ButsyBrendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026British people on Bluesky trying to pretend they don't see the replies they're getting from people in NI about how state murder has long been legal in the UK: 427474 274
Reposted by ButsyGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Love this from Guillermo del Toro 35191287531 19.1K
Reposted by Butsyonion person @junlper.beer · 16/12/2025the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them 6595481493 9.5K
Reposted by ButsyYukimi Ogawa @fluoritewitch.bsky.social · 16/12/2025My Japanese collection (translated) is included in the 20 books recommended here☺️ www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/455317 054 5
Reposted by ButsyThe Onion @theonion.com · 05/12/2025Quentin Tarantino Slams Paul Dano As Worst Actor On Wikifeet theonion.com/quentin-tarantino-slam… 161854216 1.9K
Butsy @doctorbutler78.bsky.social · 08/12/2025More integrity with regards to AI than either academic institution in the North. 010 1
Reposted by ButsyRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 07/12/2025then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM 1042776723 2.8K
Reposted by ButsyAAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/11/2025i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao 21221137499 22.1K
Reposted by ButsyRutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1 336100425078 10K
Reposted by ButsyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/11/2025“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago 12993361568 9.3K
Reposted by ButsyBloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 24/11/2025Udo Kier has passed away at 81. A singular screen presence, Kier had a long history in the horror genre, starring in films including Mark of the Devil, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Blade, Feardotcom, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears. 12584158 584
Reposted by ButsyIan Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate. 121177526866 17.8K