Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 16hI'd love ubi because I wouldn't have to charge poor people for mental health care. 040
Reposted by RuthTHE NERVE @thenerve.news · 01/10/2026“How are you supposed to sleep when your whole flat is vibrating?”: Slough residents tell Brenna Spain about the unsettling noise pollution from the data centres next door www.thenerve.news/p/slough-dat... 313797
Reposted by RuthBrizo75 @brizo75.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Will we "all be in it together" again like last time? The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation - LSE Inequalities share.google/fuhu2zdJgh48...share.googleThe UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation - LSE InequalitiesThe size of the UK's wealth gap is not only unfair. It poses major risks to our economy, society, democracy and environment. How should policymakers respond? 13721
Reposted by RuthMiss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A reminder, PLEASE ADD AN EMOJI for the sport when you're skeeting excited utterances so we know it's not some new form of fresh hell apocalypse related kthxbai 2387
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just had the most amazing bean salad for dinner and I need to communicate how damn good it was. Unfortunately, it involved a £3 jar of butter beans, and I'm a bit concerned that I may have completely ruined myself for tinned beans. 020
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Anyone got learning resources or pattern recommendations? I'm going to learn/do some freestyle blackwork on some white cotton shirts this autumn. #sewing 010
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I wonder if OP is a reasonably attractive, kind and attentive lover of decent skill, and women sleeping with him are like "okay, if I still wasn't into *this* guy, then guys are just not my thing." 010
Reposted by RuthAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I love this. More carfree travel stories, pls!nytimes.comSeeing Ireland Without a Car (Gift Article)Following a slow scenic route, the author traveled by public transportation and on foot beneath moody fall skies. 1225
Reposted by RuthThoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta. 5894316
Reposted by RuthStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*. 471177350
Reposted by RuthCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...broligarchy.substack.comMeet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom WatsonA Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now 301012398
Reposted by RuthSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh... 22696195
Reposted by RuthAndy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AI plunders our opinions and conversations here on @bsky.app This "Warden", built by Geoff Holdridge, who is apparently Executive Secretary of the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council, does not seek consent, so is stealing. 154
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@glenatron.bsky.social I understand nothing about the jobs you are looking for, and nothing really about these ones, but a friend works here and really rates it. www.dxw.com/careers/?fbc...dxw.comCareers - dxwWe’re always looking for great people to work at dxw We work on things that matter Joining us means you’ll work on projects that make a difference. From helping schools to save money, to improving ser... 110
Reposted by RuthNilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 23/09/2026I have a lot of discussions with people who just don't believe individual action can have much of an impact even though world history is full of examples proving otherwise. By the way the two women who spearheaded this were Mary Manning and Karen Gearon. Nimrod Sejake was in Ireland in exile. 1365156
Reposted by RuthBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381252827
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm doing my best but you need more than a therapist in your corner. 020
Reposted by RuthTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 23/09/2026Andy Burnham says this whilst sitting on the most aggressive anti-protest laws of our lifetimes, which have been used to arrest and charge nuns for holding signs protesting a genocide. 611651
Reposted by RuthTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 23/09/2026Andy Burnham says this whilst rowing back on net zero pledges and preparing to back two massive new drilling projects in the North Sea, as his country burns. 16120
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Digital class attendance is so much easier than a register! Mm. That is why we have spent more than 15 MINUTES going through it, and we have now given up and will be emailing the lecturer. Goodness knows how much the uni is paying for this digital attendance system. 010
Reposted by Ruthmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026things could be worse. at least we're not de facto ruled by a sex cult of guys who worship the computer and think its going to make them immortal if they feed enough poor people to it 61789251
Reposted by RuthTHE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇 19418168
Reposted by Ruth▄▀▄▀▄▀🆂🅺🅰 🅿🆄🅽🅺 🅰🅽🅳 🅲🅾🅼🅸🅲🆂 🅽🅴🆁🅳▄▀▄▀▄▀ @skapunknerd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is the face of someone who is ruining the UK. It's not the people the papers want you to think His INEOS has received £166.8m+ in UK/Scottish government support, plus a £230m UK Government loan guarantee, and public support of circa £397m and avoided up to £4bn in UK tax by living in Monaco 67832384
Reposted by RuthGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Uk Government definitions of Terrorism : On the left is the Reverend Sue Parfitt, protestor against genocide, described as a terrorist. On the right we have racist gangs who intimidate rnli volunteers, block roads & besieged key infrastructure. They have not been described as terrorists. 613277
Reposted by RuthJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying 854125842
Reposted by RuthZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip? 932315828
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Mamdani really out here proving politicians could actually make our lives better if they chose to do the work. 119832
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Just been to the kind of English place where your neighbour gives away their excess quinces in a basket by the gate, and in the café a perfectly normal man is practicing conducting music in front of his laptop and a flat white. 020
Reposted by RuthRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comJim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration 771093303
Reposted by RuthPip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That's funny cos I'm in the UK and I've lost confidence in the billionaire owner of Manchester United. Sell up and fuck off you parasite. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 42737149
Reposted by RuthPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...democracyforsale.substack.comRevealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance toolExclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot. 331216600
Reposted by RuthKarakwan 🇨🇦 @karakwan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Excellent column. I think this applies to our support of sports teams and other companies who contribute to awful. Until we choose to do without our entertainment/easy purchases, we are complicit. These are tiny sacrifices compared to those others make. It may prevent bigger asks of us later. 031
Reposted by RuthAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026How the BBC’s latest platforming of the bigoted views of the anti-migrant billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is the sign of a national broadcaster that is increasingly losing its way www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...adambienkov.co.ukHow the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British AgendaThe BBC’s platforming of the bigoted views of billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is just the latest sign of a national broadcaster that has lost its way 901260405
Reposted by RuthKirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Such a moving thread about the incredible bravery of the RNLI and the devastating risks they sometimes face. 165
Reposted by RuthMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sellout.theguardian.comFormer Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins PalantirPeer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan 86675155
Reposted by RuthNicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...nicolakelly.substack.comThe RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroesI have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like. 341504485
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If Sam Altman was in your life saying crazy things about AI killing us all, and you were trying to work out whether he was right, as your therapist I would say - Okay, words aside, what is he actually *doing*? 142
Reposted by RuthChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised" 4564358
Reposted by RuthJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253582335
Reposted by RuthJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just Stop Oil protesters were right and they're in jail. Palestine protesters were right and they're in jail. Patriot Platform... not in jail. 214929
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I can't be the only person who thinks XR would have been beaten up and arrested already if they'd tried something like this. 050
Reposted by RuthDanny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom 273862898
Reposted by RuthLum @brokentoys.social · 15/09/2026and this is the harry potter fan fic that led to the writer leading a completely independent and not at all provoked by Russia revolt from Ukraine and consequent decade-long border clash ending in a full scale warfanfiction.netЯ могу, Я должен I can, I must Chapter 18: ASCENSION, a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. + Harry Potter Crossover fanfic | FanFiction 917518
Reposted by RuthLum @brokentoys.social · 15/09/2026this is the harry potter fan fic that led to the writer becoming the lead spokesperson of "AI is going to become, like, Skynet for real and the murderbots will kill us all in like, three months, tops"en.wikipedia.orgHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Wikipedia 719215
Ruth @sugarglider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Shame these people's end of the world cult is destroying the world right now, because of fear of AI ending humanity later. Easier to read version of the below thread: skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsk...skywriter.bluePage by SE Gyges | @segyges.bsky.socialI'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?... 000
Reposted by RuthDarla @basicandbizarre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Hey guys, remember that discredited social experiment that everyone agreed was horrendously abusive? LETS TURN IT INTO A GAME SHOW!!!" 791846