Reposted by ThomasWKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down. 165108192617
Reposted by ThomasWPatrizio Lainà @patriziolaina.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Kovaa ja aiheellista kritiikkiä suomalaiselle elinkeinoelämälle Siilasmaalta: ”Uudistus edellyttää johtajuutta ja rohkeutta, jota monilta suomalaisilta yhtiöiltä valitettavasti puuttuu.” Väitän, että osittain tämä johtuu yritysten poliittisista investoinneista. www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...hs.fi60-vuotias | Suomi on tekemässä virheen, sanoo Risto Siilasmaa datakeskuksistaSuomen tekoälykehitys on harhateillä, jos maa rakennetaan täyteen ulkomaisten digijättien datakeskuksia, sanoo 60 vuotta täyttävä Risto Siilasmaa. 1756
ThomasW @thwes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The city I live in Finland already has pickup trucks that are too big for the city. Even bigger ones are just impossible. 000
Reposted by ThomasWKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/03/2026Cheers to everyone who delayed fossil fuel phaseout by saying "you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight" Because thanks to them everyone now has to face a situation where fossil fuels are switched off overnight 🙃🙃🙃 282170592
Reposted by ThomasWDavid Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Not content with shooting children at school, America is now gassing them too! And some think Europe is failing! 041
ThomasW @thwes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I just muted a certain 3-letter acronym of an US agency, and oh boy did it clear my feed… As i’m not an american nor do I live there, I do NOT want it to take over my whole bsky feed. 010
Reposted by ThomasWJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 27/12/2025Goat down! I repeat: Goat down! www.dn.se/sverige/stor... 11735238
Reposted by ThomasWDublin 2029 @dublin2029.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Stockholm here we come! We’re at #SMOFcon42 from 5-7 Dec, with bids from Portugal, Poland, Canada, Norway, Scotland, France & Germany. Ask #Dublin2029 questions at the Q&A (12.00 - 16.00 WET/13.00 - 17.00 CET on Sat) or join us at the International Party (from 18.00 WET). Will we see you there? 074
Reposted by ThomasWTade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025The lesson of genAI has very little to do with genAI. The real lesson here is that as soon as your bosses found something that could approximate the worst possible worker in your team, they obliterated entry-level jobs. It's not coming alive. That's nonsensical. But your bosses are already alive. 317845
Reposted by ThomasWNome @nome.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't. 88139564223
Reposted by ThomasWHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 25/07/2025That flight tickets are often cheaper than the same trip with train. We need carbon taxes. 0511
Reposted by ThomasWAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 21/07/2025SMOFCon is really good for those who want to know *how* to run a convention. 161
Reposted by ThomasWAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Finland almost coal-free four years ahead of schedule. Coal power has dropped to less than 1% of its energy mix. Wind energy has more than doubled since 2020, now supplying 25% of the country's electricity while reducing consumer priceshttps://buff.ly/MOTqcuf #ShareGoodNewsTooeuronews.comHow Finland has replaced coal power with wind in less than 10 yearsWind power in Finland has more than doubled since 2020 to supply a quarter of the country’s energy. 8511172
Reposted by ThomasWDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/04/2025the magical thinking about testosterone + estrogen is off the charts these days. the gender anxiety seething beneath the new right is unreal. they are frightened of the modern world--and of themselves. they might not like what they felt if they looked inside www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...liberalcurrents.comThe New Gender SynthesisTo be only masculine or only feminine is to be half a human being. 16676158
Reposted by ThomasWArturo Serrano @carturo222.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The next-next-next generation of #StarTrek will need to adjust to the fact that the Federation's model for "pluralistic democracy with moral authority" should now be the EU, not the US. 1123
Reposted by ThomasWCamestros Felapton @camestrosf.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The plan is working. Boycotting Tesla is making right wing dipshits so angry that they are buying electric cars to own the libs. 😊 813130
Reposted by ThomasWHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 11/02/2025I see Hugo nominations are open and people are doing eligibility posts and … I think The Night Guest is eligible for the novella category? Anyway no pressure, just look at this pretty dog. 817015
Reposted by ThomasWAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Now that corporations & entities are people, since you can run for US president if you were born in the US or were here when the Declaration of Independence was made, Canada is eligible to run for US president. So is Lake Michigan. 4929
Reposted by ThomasWTade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Somehow, Palpatine returned.* [*No irony] 37710
Reposted by ThomasWCamestros Felapton @camestrosf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Inside me are two wolves: one thinks it is an ethics committee and the other wants a big nap. 072
Reposted by ThomasWAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Recent studies show that sea turtle populations are booming worldwide. Loggerhead nests off the northwest African coast: 35,000 from 500. Kemp’s ridley nests: 17,000 from 702, and a 2023 survey discovered 150,000 green turtle nests in New Caledonia. buff.ly/40AUae1 #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyBloomberg - Are you a robot?We've detected unusual activity from your computer network 27211
Reposted by ThomasWEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/12/2024Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/wheresyoured.atNever Forgive ThemIn the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor... 19153711815
Reposted by ThomasWJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I see Yoon Suk Yeol has decided to move from the 'fucking around' stage of his failing presidency to the 'finding out'. 511210
ThomasW @thwes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I think U.S. is about to have a cultural revolution, though not a woke or progressive one, but one like China had during Mao era. 000
Reposted by ThomasWCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Reminder: during times of turmoil it does not matter if you aren't interested in politics, politics is interested in *you*. 831287
Reposted by ThomasWPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024If you're gen x or millennial, odds are you have known some people online for *decades*. Across multiple now-dead forums, across vast gulfs of time in internet years. You've probably got a friend group that outlived multiple sites. 1074293850
Reposted by ThomasWAK Faulkner @ravenswordpress.com · 20/06/2024Not really. It's just another walled garden. Eventually the owners will allow ads in to bring revenue, then the usefulness will be crushed under the increasing weight of ads until we have to find a new IRC clone. 1331
Reposted by ThomasWProf. Nycteris, Whimsician @nycteris.bsky.social · 24/10/2024And fond memories of Trillian! We need a service that connects across sites! 2181
Reposted by ThomasWPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024Which is interesting. Gen X and millennials grew up having to learn how to use computers, how to go online, etc. One of these skills later generations didn't learn, was how to reconnect outside walled gardens. 61981136
Reposted by ThomasWPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024If you're over the age of 30, your first internet friends were outside walled gardens, they didn't really exist yet. You found them, and then found them in half a dozen different places none of which were the really *important* thing. The important thing was they were there. 151924139
Reposted by ThomasWPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships. 19774031380
Reposted by ThomasWPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024And, weirdly, this same group of people are also the ones who also learned how to preserve their media the same way. Not *only* do they still talk to a person they met on ICQ 25 years ago, but they still have the same rip of a movie they pirated then too, or such. 50178693
Reposted by ThomasWPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024People who are much older, are busy oogling shrimp jesuses and big boobied centaur women on facebook. People who are much younger, only know 3 or 4 walled gardens and only maybe 1 has died on them so far. 37161060
Reposted by ThomasWsunyi @sunyidean.com · 10/10/2024This book placement at Heathrow airport 512457559
Reposted by ThomasWErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 21/09/2024I'm sorry, you're telling me the people who stole all the art in the world to make computer software that can't do basic arithmetic would tell a lie? futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...futurism.comAI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies ClaimedTech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations. 3535281527
Reposted by ThomasWTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/09/2024My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books. 191258434
Reposted by ThomasWPatrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2024How is this different from what Big Tech is doing? 1312422
Reposted by ThomasWJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/08/2024Loved Alien Rehash. It's invigorating when we learn nothing new and get the same scenes watered down to shove into our memory holes. If they could add odd pathology that's squirmy and unbelievable shower scenes that'd be great. Also, charming backstory just prior to character death. 141024
Reposted by ThomasW Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social · 14/08/2024Spotted in the bar at @glasgow2024.bsky.social - find them at easterconglasgow.org where there's a mailing list you can join! At least two other bids for future Eastercons are also in preparation - expect to hear more in October after everyone's had some post Worldcon R&R. 0135
Reposted by ThomasWGlasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures @glasgow2024.bsky.social · 31/07/2024The Glasgow 2024 Programme is live! You can explore the full programme from our website via ConClár at the link here: guide.glasgow2024.org (1/6) 15341