Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Writers of Bluesky, who is running good pitching workshops? 050
Reposted by Susanna ForrestMolly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Hope you enjoy not having air conditioning next summer so that incels can generate unlimited big titty anime girls on demand 5462158
Reposted by Susanna ForrestDjamé 🟥 @zehavoc.bsky.social · 22/12/2024can't believe the latest elon musk crazy shit is not trending here. TF;DR: he deleted that far-right terrorist account, then reactivated it but without its history and with search and translate deactivated. 24445192
Reposted by Susanna ForrestAnna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas. 15272412273
Reposted by Susanna ForrestFootpad @footpad.bsky.social · 24/10/2024For readers' reference, here are the two court cases. Hundreds of documents, more than five years. Even if you just scan the list, it's a chilling insight into what a corporate predator can put an artist through. www.courtlistener.com/docket/15766... www.courtlistener.com/docket/67399...courtlistener.comNorris v. Goldner, 1:19-cv-05491 - CourtListener.comDocket for Norris v. Goldner, 1:19-cv-05491 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information. 08025
Reposted by Susanna ForrestDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/10/2024Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon? Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist? Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property? Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?gofundme.comDonate to Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex NorrisI am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for he… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics 3680837111
Reposted by Susanna Forrestnoeinan @noeinan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Orca also used to team up with humans to hunt whales. Random but interesting orca fact www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kil...atlasobscura.comThe Killer Whales of Eden and the 'Law of the Tongue'Orcas and humans once hunted together in southeastern Australia, until their millennia-old relationship broke down. 0193
Reposted by Susanna Forrestpopgengoogling.bsky.social @popgengoogling.bsky.social · 22/11/2024One man's echo chamber is another man's Social Science Genetic Association Consortium 1224
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We’re already in a hybrid war with Russia. Have been for years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...theguardian.comWhat is hybrid warfare, which some fear Russia will use after Ukraine’s strike?Strike with US-made missiles has prompted fears of Russian reprisal that would broaden the scope of a frontline 010
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 18/11/2024In the mailbox today from the Swedish government: “If Crisis or War Comes,” our guide to surviving war, nukes, terrorist attacks, climate-change freakeries, propaganda, and cyberwarfare. And explaining it to our children. First published 1961. #lifeinsweden 050
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Feeling less invested in Bluesky since learning it’s owned by bitcoin people and that EM is being encouraged to buy it. 330
Reposted by Susanna ForrestJon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Cars in the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of cars on the U.K's roads as there were 30 years ago, but the media are still running articles claiming that a handful of cycle lanes and LTNs 'cause congestion' in London...🙄 34859249
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 14/11/2024If Trump pulls a Truss/Kwarteng/Varoufakis move on the economy can he, like Truss and Kwarteng, be speedily ejected? 310
Reposted by Susanna ForrestDarren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024This is not a drill, a mummified sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. It's too young to have enlarged upper canines. Paper is OA ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... cont...nature.comMummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia 392034718
Reposted by Susanna ForrestMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 14/11/2024A Tennessee Board of Education has now banned Wicked, Beloved and 35 other books as "pornography." Under a new TN law, any description of sexual activity is "harmful to minors." Another 150 books have already been flagged for removal. Sex workers tried to warn you. www.wsmv.com/2024/11/14/r...wsmv.comRutherford County faces heated debate over book bans in school as 150 more titles are pulled from library shelvesThe book bans were initiated by board member Caleb Tidwell, who flagged the titles as sexually explicit under school board policy and state obscenity laws. 781514681
Reposted by Susanna ForrestDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/06/2024Look at me. Listen to me: If someone is selling you a "search" & "knowledge" "AI" product they claim is smarter & better & faster than you, but it literally cannot be guaranteed to give you simple true facts about consensus reality when asked, then that product DOES NOT WORK and SHOULD NOT BE USED. 161136469
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Starter packs are excellent. On the hunt for book business, EU, Sweden, and archaeology packs. ❤️ 020
Reposted by Susanna ForrestGaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 07/11/2024NB someone asked me for a Guardian/Observer starter pack so i can legitimately say THERE IS ONE HERE IT IS go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX PS i absolutely did not make it, credit due to @severincarrell.bsky.social i think 136939
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 16/09/2024Sudden flood of dodgy male catfishers on Blue Sky. 010
Reposted by Susanna ForrestGrumpyGirdle 🏴〓〓🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸🐈⬛🐾📚🌊☮️ @grumpygirdle.bsky.social · 26/08/2024Oasis reunion announced 11467103
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 19/08/2024Imagine if the media just ignored Elon Musk. 080
Reposted by Susanna ForrestAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 13/08/2024We love desperate local angles, and this is about as desperate and as weird as it gets. 23615
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 13/08/2024Applause for Ukraine for successfully militarising chutzpah. 010
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 06/08/2024Go Reuters! And the New Scientist! www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...reuters.comEquestrian governing body finds blue horse tongues in dressage reviewThe equestrian governing body (FEI) in charge of the Olympic riding in Versailles has found pictures of horses with blue tongues caused by oxygen shortage during dressage competition, the organisation's chief vet told Reuters on Tuesday. 030
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 06/08/2024"In calls to save the wild horse, I hear a plea to protect the animal from the reality of that treasured title. An animal cannot be both wild and safe. Wildness is a violence or necessarily includes it. I can’t kill romanticization without romanticizing death." www.conjunctions.com/online/artic...conjunctions.comRendered, by Julia Juster | Conjunctions — The forum for innovative writingConjunctions Online, July 24, 2024 000
Reposted by Susanna ForrestNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2024Russian disinformation contributed to riots in the UK by spreading, and perhaps originating, the lie that a recent murder by someone born in the UK was by an immigrant. Even made up a fake name. Ex-Twitter apparently helped spread the false info too, including (unsurprisingly) the website's owner.telegraph.co.ukThe obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ outlet fuelling violence on Britain’s streetsChannel3 Now falsely named the Southport murderer, sending conspiracy theorists and the far-Right into a tailspin. How did this happen? 5199107
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 01/08/2024Soooo will the UK media stop coverage of abuse in equestrianism now or will they pick up on press coverage of further scandals at the Olympics? idraetsmonitor.dk/nyheder/art1...idraetsmonitor.dkDanish Olympic riders face harsh criticism: Photos reveal potential horse abusePhotos taken this year reveal Danish Olympic riders on horses in potentially »extreme pain«, according to several veterinarians and experts in the field. Based on the images, the Danish riders have no... 022
Reposted by Susanna ForrestThe Onion @theonion.com · 22/07/2024"It’s getting harder and harder to come up with enough incoherent perspectives to meet the moment."theonion.comNews Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed OpinionsNEW YORK—Calling out the unsustainable pace at which historic events seemed to be occurring, local man Brad Gifford told reporters Monday that important news stories were now happening faster than ... 181653419
Reposted by Susanna ForrestTim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 20/07/2024This piece from The Bookseller seems to confirm Informa /Taylor & Francis / Routledge intends to use academic work to train AI without any consultation with authors. www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...thebookseller.comAcademic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AIAuthors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment. 5204141
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 09/07/2024Four women writers who did not have a room of their own or a private income. womenshistorynetwork.org/radical-port...womenshistorynetwork.orgRadical Portraits of Working Class Women Writers – Laura MawVirginia Woolf’s maxim in her now-classic polemic was this: ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction’.[1] But what if a writer did not have access to these resource… 0126
Reposted by Susanna ForrestParis Marx @parismarx.com · 05/07/2024Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.disconnect.blogGenerative AI is a climate disasterTech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share 2118431083
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 02/07/2024“The authors said that almost all the Nazi poems they discovered fit the current Russian context perfectly, except for a few obvious anachronisms. References to Germany were changed to Russia, but otherwise the poems were published in exact translations.” www.theguardian.com/world/articl...theguardian.comPranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi versePatriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z poetry’ 045
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 16/06/2024What should I read next? - The Quickening by Elizabeth Rush, - High Caucasus by Tom Parfitt or - My Work by Olga Ravn? 000
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 15/06/2024Does anyone write love letters? Between news items about Dylan writing to Hardy and Clapton to Boyd it feels like we’ve lost some innocence and eloquence along the way. 030
Reposted by Susanna ForrestBarbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 10/06/2024New research, and very exciting: "While dolphins and parrots have been observed addressing each other by mimicking the sound of others from their species, elephants are the first non-human animals known to use names that do not involve imitation." 🧪🌍theguardian.comElephants call each other by name, study findsResearchers used artificial intelligence algorithm to analyse calls by two herds of African savanna elephants in Kenya 0197
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 10/06/2024Tried to use Twitter for the first time in months. Couldn’t even post anything. What an incredible genius EM is. 110
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 18/05/2024BEL MOONEY IMAGINES should get memed to hell and back. What a crappy way to pay your bills. 041
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 11/05/2024Too cloudy the one night we have northern lights… 020
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 08/05/2024Why don’t British people have samovars? Why do we make individual cups or pots and save tea urns for public spaces? Anyway, that’s what I’m pondering today. 030
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 19/03/2024Starting to notice that a lot of people don’t check news sources when they are interested in a country. And a younger generation doesn’t seem to even think about radio. Or am I getting a false impression? 020
Reposted by Susanna ForrestAdam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/03/2024Allow me to regale / regael you with some of my favourite Irish names for animals… 5. Ladybird = bóín Dé or “God’s little cow” 4. Otter = madra uisce or “sea dog” 3. Bat = amadáinín or “little fool” 2. Jellyfish = smugairle róin or “seal snot” 1. Hedgehog = gráinneog or “horrible little thing” 1021959
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Why is there not already a massive lawsuit re. Boeing? Because all the airlines would have to ground the planes and lose business? 020
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 14/03/2024Because “growing pool of freelancers” actually means “no more essential apprenticeships”. lithub.com/publishing-m...lithub.comPublishing Models That Rely on Gig Workers Are Bad For EverybodyThere are only two reasons to get into book publishing: the books (that’s how they get us formerly idealistic English majors) and the people (the other weirdos who also got gotten by the books). Th… 010
Reposted by Susanna ForrestTess Snider @malkyne.com · 10/03/2024Before you use that chatbot prompt, you should be aware that these generative AI companies are using so much power that they're trying to get more power plants built. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... 13595309
Reposted by Susanna ForrestAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 11/03/2024Jawdropping PR screw-up from the royals. The Princess is obviously undergoing a crisis of one sort or another. I continue to think an irrefutable argument against royalty is that it’s not fair to condemn people to permanent hyperpublic lives for our entertainment www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...theguardian.comFirst post-op photo of Princess of Wales withdrawn due to ‘manipulation’Picture agencies issue ‘kill notice’ after editing error of the image of Catherine with her children comes to light 1620323