Reposted by j4 Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 1hthe tech industry is about to invent books 19360301195
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 1hWe have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have also left undone those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no fun in us 100
Reposted by j4 Cllr Dr Max Morris @maxmorris.bsky.social · 14hMy speech to Oxford City Council proposing the Green Group's motion on the EHRC Code of Practice and Trans Rights 🏳️⚧️💚 @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social 0203
Reposted by j4 KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026scheduled post Molly Tuttle performing a bluegrass rendition of the Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 hit song White Rabbit. at Hulaween in Live Oak, Florida 87520
Reposted by j4 cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 15hLook. Say what you like about Jeffrey Archer. 2449
Reposted by j4 Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The part of your brain that determines how much bullshit you can tolerate at any given time should be called the fucks capacitor. 1534680
Reposted by j4 Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 13hThe moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in 49878175
Reposted by j4 Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 11hResearch shows that one in four people would walk more if pavements were less cluttered. Related: I will never not be impressed by how Mancunians made their feelings known about unwanted pavement clutter: 0185
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 1h"The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust hath the just’s umbrella." 000
Reposted by j4 Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 15hReading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵 11283118
Reposted by j4 Eric Pazdziora @ericpazdziora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Opera doesn't make money. Opera’s what you spend money *on*.” “But . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily. --Terry Pratchett, 'Maskerade' 71180336
Reposted by j4 REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 10hi still think this is one of the finest JKR commentaries of the era 317623
Reposted by j4 brainfruit! @brainfruit.bsky.social · 9hCan you count? Are you sure? Announcing SHEEPS, a game where you have several thousand problems. Count the sheep pouring out of mysterious portals, gain unfair counting advantages, survive terrible counting curses. Discover, at long last, a use for math. Coming 2027. Wishlist: bit.ly/countsheeps 15518
Reposted by j4 Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 8hThere isn't a left wing way of doing car transport as default for the same reason there isn't a left wing way of doing fast fashion. People will always need transport & clothing & we can & should do that equitably & sustainably but we can't cling to the idea that it's going to look like it does now. 0152
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 1hSomething like this? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/33356312...ebay.co.ukQ-Connect Suspension File Label Inserts Perforated White 51 Easy to Tear | eBay UKEasily identify file contents at a glance. Perforated for easy separation. White inserts for suspension files. Blank for writing or printing. Suspension File Label Inserts Perforated White 51 Easy to Tear Q-Connect x 3. 000
Reposted by j4 Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 16hI want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions 441365253
Reposted by j4 karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 6hcoroner: it appears the subject died of multiple tab wounds 1139680
Reposted by j4 Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence. 4035481247
Reposted by j4 toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 16hFound the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 13575952072
Reposted by j4 Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026 257661
Reposted by j4 cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 4hDid you know that you can tempt most Marxists to bed using petit pois? Peas: the means of seduction. 353
Reposted by j4 Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3hOne thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 523179692
Reposted by j4 Dayna EM Craig @narcissistprayer.com · 4hGot a commercial flat top griddle to cheer myself up and I'm not gonna lie that actually worked. It's breakfast always now. I run a pretend diner. Mental illness who, how do you want your egg. 54810
Reposted by j4 kottke.org @kottke.org · 2hFrom a tongue-in-cheek Google Japan, a conveyor belt keyboard, where the keys move and your hand stays still while typing. One of several unusual keyboards released by the company. You can even build your own. [youtube.com]youtube.comGboard くるくるバージョンGboard チームからの新しいご提案、Gboard くるくるバージョンをご紹介します。 Gboard くるくるバージョンは、キーがあなたの手元に流れてくる新しいキーボードです。 ご家庭でも DIY できるよう設計図を公開しています。くわしくは以下のウェブサイトをご覧ください。 0194
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 2hEverything HAS swallowed me! I would love to read your book but inside an everything it's too dark to read 000
Reposted by j4 Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3hFUCK IT. Let's give away 3 more signed paperbacks of my latest novel, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter! You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated! 60141116
Reposted by j4 Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 2h"But how am I supposed to get around on a bike with my two dogs, whatever is in that basket, whatever is in those panniers and whatever (presumably cursèd object) is in that mysterious wooden box being guarded by an undead cat?" 082
Reposted by j4 Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 10hCars are a perfect storm of physical power differential over others, likelihood of impunity, socially reinforced entitlement, normalisation of threats of violence, & a dynamic that frames all other road users as "in the way" to make even otherwise kind considerate gentle people be their worst selves 3217
Reposted by j4 Dave Gruel @enterim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I saw a band last night who, on the logic that everyone usually misses at least 1 set at a show to smoke or socialize, insisted we miss their set so we watch everyone else. They refused to start until everyone left the room and closed the door. Whenever someone tried to peek, they stopped playing. 1275
Reposted by j4 Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager 20396911545
Reposted by j4 flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21hYou should understand this stuff not as analysis of public opinion - since when did the lads give a fuck about that? - and not even as threats. These are promises: we, the press, are now going to fuck you up, and we won’t stop screaming until your lives are utterly miserable. 1737697
Reposted by j4 BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19hthe UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop. 421026163
Reposted by j4 Dr Michael Fraser @ffinlo.bsky.social · 18hCount Binface is coming to Oxford. Sheldonian Series: Personal Identity Emma Dabiri (author & broadcaster), Jon Harvey, (Count Binface, comedian), Catrin Nye (BBC journalist), Prof Lady Sue Black (President, St John's). 10 November, 1730, Sheldonian Theatre www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheldonian...eventbrite.co.ukSheldonian Series: Personal IdentityA discussion on personal identity in a digital age, with Emma Dabiri, Jon Harvey, Catrin Nye and Professor Lady Sue Black. 012
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I thought "omg what" & then read the thing it was replying to, & it was much more obviously sarcasm (I think "a joke" is stretching the definition a bit) when seen in that context! 120
Reposted by j4 Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you think "but how am I supposed to do this without a car?" you should ask yourself "how do people in similar circumstances but without access to a car do this & what does it mean for them if the answer is that they can't?" Because for someone else that's not a hypothetical question. 15716
Reposted by j4 Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think we're within a few years of Democrats/liberals/leftists being forced to make a hard choice between coddling violent drivers in our cities -- blocking traffic enforcement, defending "free" parking, saying $75,000 cars are for the "working class" -- and realizing those are fascist positions. 1397
Reposted by j4 Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this. 30800194
Reposted by j4 Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 05/10/2026This stuff drives me nuts. As Richard rightly points out, egg yolk is an emulsifier. Things like MSG, Citric Acid, Acetic acid, etc are completely harmless ingredients found in many foods. Just because you don't recognise it, doesn't automatically make it bad. 149213
Reposted by j4 Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Electric car dependency still sucks shit 18210
Reposted by j4 mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 49102601821
Reposted by j4 Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Absolutely fuck the EHRC and Stephenson in particular. And solidarity to the trans folks fighting back on what absolutely, obviously, is an erosion of rights they've had for decades. 07018
Reposted by j4 Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Conservatives want more road injuries and slower public transport. 0266
Reposted by j4 Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain.'” Yes. Because the usual thing is to PAY YOUR ESSENTIAL SUPPLIERS, NOT STEAL FROM THEM. 17426
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not sure quite where this fits into your analysis, but I think the "tolerance paradox" thing is related: e.g. if rules are (wisely) set up such that people can't be kicked out of a group for bad/vindictive reasons, this can make it hard for 'good' people to kick out 'bad' (oversimplified). IYSWIM. 010
Reposted by j4 Rich @rich531forever.bsky.social · 05/10/2026static.klipy.comLogan Roy Says Oh, Fuck OffALT: Logan Roy Says Oh, Fuck Off 2242
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Tickets still available for Dar Williams in Bristol TOMORROW NIGHT. Free to anybody who can use them. 011
j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I missed conference because I can't easily get a whole weekend off childcare & my feet hurt too much to do the amount of walking around that conferences involve. Didn't occur to me that I could have attended online (for as little as £10) so I didn't do that either. I wish I'd got more involved. :-( 230
![Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.
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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nycc7oummopgeptw555s6icn/bafkreicwbyb3msa5cnllbexjrxrmuw2s6qj36aiitv2tp5aos5nsz2pem4)
![Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/bafkreicu2p2o3is64z5k37n222hgahp67ssca6ro3nggbjtpwasig2zzbi)
