Somhairle Kelly
@eithin.bsky.social
Queer, trans, disabled, he/they. Artist, designer, amateur material culture historian, ex-nanomaterials scientist. Open University environmental everything student. Welsh, living in Scotland by the sea.
Fix your hearts or die.
Fix your hearts or die.
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just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
January 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
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Please encourage your moots and favourite artists to enable the mandatory alt text requirement setting where possible!
A lot of people, myself included, won't share others' posts when it isn't present.
For those that struggle there are the hashtags #alt4me and #alt4you that can help 😊💚
A lot of people, myself included, won't share others' posts when it isn't present.
For those that struggle there are the hashtags #alt4me and #alt4you that can help 😊💚
November 21, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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My favourite yoonism: if you think the UK is so bad then leave!
No! Not you, Wales, Scotland, Kernow and N.I.
Put you're fucking hands down!
🤣🤣🤣
No! Not you, Wales, Scotland, Kernow and N.I.
Put you're fucking hands down!
🤣🤣🤣
December 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
My favourite yoonism: if you think the UK is so bad then leave!
No! Not you, Wales, Scotland, Kernow and N.I.
Put you're fucking hands down!
🤣🤣🤣
No! Not you, Wales, Scotland, Kernow and N.I.
Put you're fucking hands down!
🤣🤣🤣
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“Content” is a corpo-brain term, makes me cringe when I hear it in the wild.
You don’t make “content”, you make ART! You write STORIES. Its your WORK (and often play too)!
“Content” is the noise you flick through when trying to find a SHOW you like, don’t cheapen your work comparing it to SLOP. 😤
You don’t make “content”, you make ART! You write STORIES. Its your WORK (and often play too)!
“Content” is the noise you flick through when trying to find a SHOW you like, don’t cheapen your work comparing it to SLOP. 😤
"Content" is a blatantly misleading term to use for fanworks. Fanworks are the antithesis of content; content is produced for individual gain and consuming, whereas fanworks are created out of inspiration and the communal experience.
start using "fanworks" again instead of "content" let's go people
September 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Content” is a corpo-brain term, makes me cringe when I hear it in the wild.
You don’t make “content”, you make ART! You write STORIES. Its your WORK (and often play too)!
“Content” is the noise you flick through when trying to find a SHOW you like, don’t cheapen your work comparing it to SLOP. 😤
You don’t make “content”, you make ART! You write STORIES. Its your WORK (and often play too)!
“Content” is the noise you flick through when trying to find a SHOW you like, don’t cheapen your work comparing it to SLOP. 😤
Of all the things to break the evening before a Jobcentre video call, the broadband microfilter must be one of the worst.
December 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Of all the things to break the evening before a Jobcentre video call, the broadband microfilter must be one of the worst.
Got stuck on a train with Martin Carthy.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Got stuck on a train with Martin Carthy.
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Have any of you used GIMP on both Windows and Linux? I've seen a lot of complaints about GIMP as the only real Linux image editing option, but I don't know whether that's just because these people would hate GIMP on any OS, or whether the user experience is significantly worse in Linux.
December 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Have any of you used GIMP on both Windows and Linux? I've seen a lot of complaints about GIMP as the only real Linux image editing option, but I don't know whether that's just because these people would hate GIMP on any OS, or whether the user experience is significantly worse in Linux.
"This is Berwick – we protect the border between County Montrose and County Snowdon." Better than fantasy authors usually manage, but still leaving out quite a bit of geography there.
December 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"This is Berwick – we protect the border between County Montrose and County Snowdon." Better than fantasy authors usually manage, but still leaving out quite a bit of geography there.
"AI is inevitable and we'll never get rid of it" - mate, they said the same thing about smallpox, absolute monarchy, and Mr Blobby.
December 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"AI is inevitable and we'll never get rid of it" - mate, they said the same thing about smallpox, absolute monarchy, and Mr Blobby.
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‘Hope isn’t a plan.’
Yeah? Neither is ‘this is really hard so let’s not even try.’
Yeah? Neither is ‘this is really hard so let’s not even try.’
December 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
‘Hope isn’t a plan.’
Yeah? Neither is ‘this is really hard so let’s not even try.’
Yeah? Neither is ‘this is really hard so let’s not even try.’
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We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We need Universal Basic Capital. Everyone gets their choice of a hectare of land or a little shop in their hometown to go with their UBI, and no restrictions on what they can do with it.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We need Universal Basic Capital. Everyone gets their choice of a hectare of land or a little shop in their hometown to go with their UBI, and no restrictions on what they can do with it.
We could replace the entire industry with quite a small shell script.
I have a theory that one big reason llms get so much hype is that due to financialization the people in charge of tech companies are finance grifters who have never once, ever, used sed or awk or grep and would be totally unable to describe how they work.
December 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We could replace the entire industry with quite a small shell script.
On the train home. There are teenage day drinkers across the aisle. I have heard a 6-7 in the wild for the first time.
December 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
On the train home. There are teenage day drinkers across the aisle. I have heard a 6-7 in the wild for the first time.
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Nothing pisses me off more than seeing some shitty AI 'art' attributed to William Morris. Bro, he would've HATED that.
December 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Nothing pisses me off more than seeing some shitty AI 'art' attributed to William Morris. Bro, he would've HATED that.
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That time of year again!
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
That time of year again!
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I needed a handy way to carry teabags around, so I designed this little pocketbook. It's a no-sew structure, a drum leaf binding with integral pockets and W-folds to allow for volume. It's now had its test drive, so I can make prettier versions and publish a tutorial soon.
December 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I needed a handy way to carry teabags around, so I designed this little pocketbook. It's a no-sew structure, a drum leaf binding with integral pockets and W-folds to allow for volume. It's now had its test drive, so I can make prettier versions and publish a tutorial soon.
"Everyone, please tell me I'm a creative genius and a rockstar manager?" [Yes] / [Maybe Later]
This is just a shitpost, but there's something to the idea that
Almost every design choice and optimization for large language model-based "AI" comes from the designers' terror of ever hearing the words "you're wrong" or even just "no."
Almost every design choice and optimization for large language model-based "AI" comes from the designers' terror of ever hearing the words "you're wrong" or even just "no."
December 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Everyone, please tell me I'm a creative genius and a rockstar manager?" [Yes] / [Maybe Later]
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As someone who grew up in the countryside the Countryside Alliance has never represented me and my family and honestly fuck them
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Poll released by group as people gather for traditional Boxing Day hunts finds 76% of voters believe Labour prioritises urban issues over rural ones
Keir Starmer’s government has been told it has “alienated rural people” as traditional Boxing Day hunts gathered across the UK ahead of plans to ban trail hunting.
The warning came from the Countryside Alliance pressure group, which released a poll suggesting 65% of voters think the Labour administration unfairly neglects country communities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
As someone who grew up in the countryside the Countryside Alliance has never represented me and my family and honestly fuck them
I needed a handy way to carry teabags around, so I designed this little pocketbook. It's a no-sew structure, a drum leaf binding with integral pockets and W-folds to allow for volume. It's now had its test drive, so I can make prettier versions and publish a tutorial soon.
December 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I needed a handy way to carry teabags around, so I designed this little pocketbook. It's a no-sew structure, a drum leaf binding with integral pockets and W-folds to allow for volume. It's now had its test drive, so I can make prettier versions and publish a tutorial soon.
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"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
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Looking for a #boxingday bargain? 🤭🎁
Why not buy one of our ‘Aye Welcome Refugees’ t-shirts in solidarity with those starting again in safety this winter.
Each sale will help us to build a better future with refugees in Scotland. 🧡
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Why not buy one of our ‘Aye Welcome Refugees’ t-shirts in solidarity with those starting again in safety this winter.
Each sale will help us to build a better future with refugees in Scotland. 🧡
ow.ly/k65J50XMw7r
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Looking for a #boxingday bargain? 🤭🎁
Why not buy one of our ‘Aye Welcome Refugees’ t-shirts in solidarity with those starting again in safety this winter.
Each sale will help us to build a better future with refugees in Scotland. 🧡
ow.ly/k65J50XMw7r
Why not buy one of our ‘Aye Welcome Refugees’ t-shirts in solidarity with those starting again in safety this winter.
Each sale will help us to build a better future with refugees in Scotland. 🧡
ow.ly/k65J50XMw7r
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If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas!
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The River Has Roots ebook by Amal El-Mohtar - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The River Has Roots The Sweeping, Magical Solo Debut by the Best-Selling Co-Author of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR" by Amal El-Mohtar available from Rakuten Kobo. Follow the river Liss to t...
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December 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas!
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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Did you hear about fish Jesus? He was born by immackerelate conception
December 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Did you hear about fish Jesus? He was born by immackerelate conception
Bloody Roman hipsters.
Romano-British mosaic showing depictions of the Trojan War not from Homer's Iliad but from Aeschylus' lost play Phyrgians
www.zmescience.com/science/arch...
www.zmescience.com/science/arch...
Archaeologists Found a Roman Mosaic in Britain That Tells a Lost Version of the Trojan War
Buried in an English field, a floor reveals a forgotten version of an ancient myth.
www.zmescience.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Bloody Roman hipsters.