Dr Zara Bain
@zaranosaur.bsky.social
Some kind of philosopher | mama of toddlers (yes, plural) | disabled, chronically ill and neurofuntimes | professionally tired | founder and director of disabled-majority transcription and closed captioning social biz @aat-transcribes.bsky.social | goof
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Startup guys once again validating my theory of combinatory slop and cultural stagnation!!
January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Startup guys once again validating my theory of combinatory slop and cultural stagnation!!
increasingly becoming a Instagram person even though I hate about 70% of the captions even when there are captions but mostly because who has the time for all this typing
Relatedly also becoming a voice note person
Relatedly also becoming a voice note person
January 12, 2026 at 6:15 PM
increasingly becoming a Instagram person even though I hate about 70% of the captions even when there are captions but mostly because who has the time for all this typing
Relatedly also becoming a voice note person
Relatedly also becoming a voice note person
Took the kids to a play scheme, missed that they’d moved from one slot to an AM then PM slot, meant to feed kids picnic in park playground but HORROR my eldest found the dog lavatory sandpit and went and played in it before I could stop him so then we had to walk to another playgroup to wash hands
January 12, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Took the kids to a play scheme, missed that they’d moved from one slot to an AM then PM slot, meant to feed kids picnic in park playground but HORROR my eldest found the dog lavatory sandpit and went and played in it before I could stop him so then we had to walk to another playgroup to wash hands
Lawks I am tired!
January 12, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Lawks I am tired!
do I know anyone who does photoshoots especially for brand photography? Ideally London based
January 12, 2026 at 4:46 PM
do I know anyone who does photoshoots especially for brand photography? Ideally London based
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How should EU scholars prepare to avoid losing their files in case the US excludes us from their internet services (including cloud, emails etc.) after the invasion of Greenland? Should I simply download everything I have on onedrive, dropbox, gdrive?
January 12, 2026 at 10:04 AM
How should EU scholars prepare to avoid losing their files in case the US excludes us from their internet services (including cloud, emails etc.) after the invasion of Greenland? Should I simply download everything I have on onedrive, dropbox, gdrive?
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🧵 Important thread for writers.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🧵 Important thread for writers.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
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🚨🚨This is the way: Malaysia and Indonesia block #Musk's #Grok over explicit deepfakes. 🧵
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Grok AI: Malaysia and Indonesia block X chatbot over sexually explicit deepfakes
Sexualised images of real people generated by Grok have circulated on X in recent weeks.
www.bbc.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:22 AM
🚨🚨This is the way: Malaysia and Indonesia block #Musk's #Grok over explicit deepfakes. 🧵
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
decided to treat myself to actually wearing my earplugs while solo parenting my kids all day, 10/10 would do again
January 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM
decided to treat myself to actually wearing my earplugs while solo parenting my kids all day, 10/10 would do again
I’d give a lot today to be able to ask someone else to just take the kids for an hour so I can work and clean or just rest
January 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I’d give a lot today to be able to ask someone else to just take the kids for an hour so I can work and clean or just rest
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Dreamed I was lost in the Barbican on the way to meet Werner Herzog & my thumbs & tongue were made of wax & kept melting & when I finally found him he took one look at me, eyes filled with pity, disgust & a deep intimacy with the void & said “Rose, the furnace of your vanity is destroying you”
January 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Dreamed I was lost in the Barbican on the way to meet Werner Herzog & my thumbs & tongue were made of wax & kept melting & when I finally found him he took one look at me, eyes filled with pity, disgust & a deep intimacy with the void & said “Rose, the furnace of your vanity is destroying you”
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Always been pretty sceptical of "AI inevitability" claims in education but jeez the cash being pumped into it by the Gates Foundation and Abu Dhabi sovereign fund to make AI happen in education in sub-Saharan Africa ... investment is how you make AI "inevitable" www.wamda.com/2025/12/adq-...
ADQ, Gates Foundation commit $40 million to scale responsible AI, edtech across Africa
ADQ and the Gates Foundation have announced a four-year, $40m partnership to scale the responsible use of AI and EdTech to improve...
www.wamda.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Always been pretty sceptical of "AI inevitability" claims in education but jeez the cash being pumped into it by the Gates Foundation and Abu Dhabi sovereign fund to make AI happen in education in sub-Saharan Africa ... investment is how you make AI "inevitable" www.wamda.com/2025/12/adq-...
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This is a problem. Internet searches have been a cause for concern (and occasionally help) for a while now. A lot of background knowledge is needed to make sense of the suggestions thrown up by searches, but the AI summaries simply aren’t reliable.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM
This is a problem. Internet searches have been a cause for concern (and occasionally help) for a while now. A lot of background knowledge is needed to make sense of the suggestions thrown up by searches, but the AI summaries simply aren’t reliable.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
my eldest toddler just referred to my youngest toddler, who is running around in only a nappy and now hanging like a monkey from the bathroom sink, as a “sweet chaos baby”, in case you’re wondering how my parenting is going
January 11, 2026 at 10:02 AM
my eldest toddler just referred to my youngest toddler, who is running around in only a nappy and now hanging like a monkey from the bathroom sink, as a “sweet chaos baby”, in case you’re wondering how my parenting is going
Related/unrelated I was talking to my partner the other day about just how different the now times are from the before times over on twitter when I used to spend forever and a day chatting shit at length about myriad subjects, and now I’m like “I’m tired parenting is hard buy my stuff” on repeat
January 11, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Related/unrelated I was talking to my partner the other day about just how different the now times are from the before times over on twitter when I used to spend forever and a day chatting shit at length about myriad subjects, and now I’m like “I’m tired parenting is hard buy my stuff” on repeat
I am feeling like a little island, an eyot perhaps, and need some more connection in my life
What are your favourite ways to bring new connections into your spaces and places, and deepen those you already have?
What are your favourite ways to bring new connections into your spaces and places, and deepen those you already have?
January 11, 2026 at 9:58 AM
I am feeling like a little island, an eyot perhaps, and need some more connection in my life
What are your favourite ways to bring new connections into your spaces and places, and deepen those you already have?
What are your favourite ways to bring new connections into your spaces and places, and deepen those you already have?
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January 11, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Hey booboos, if you or someone you know loves a natter, slinging words and supporting people to find services that support their needs, I'm hiring for some more sales & marketing assistants!
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In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
delighted to have spent some time yesterday in the company of mums running businesses who had just had enough of full time parenting over the two weeks of Christmas and were over the moon at the return of school, silence, not being touched
Me? I am two weeks away from this still and I am tired
Me? I am two weeks away from this still and I am tired
January 9, 2026 at 12:39 PM
delighted to have spent some time yesterday in the company of mums running businesses who had just had enough of full time parenting over the two weeks of Christmas and were over the moon at the return of school, silence, not being touched
Me? I am two weeks away from this still and I am tired
Me? I am two weeks away from this still and I am tired
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Twitter‘s solution to making CSAM for free is to make CSAM for profit.
Limiting Grok AI image edits to paid users 'insulting' to victims, says No 10
It comes after government urged Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.
www.bbc.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Twitter‘s solution to making CSAM for free is to make CSAM for profit.
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Giving this a boost, deadline is creeping closer to help keep Maha and family sheltered and fed in ongoing genocide and deadly winter. Click weekly or monthly on a coffee to provide a regular source of income… it all adds up
54/1200 now raised for Maha and family, 20 days left to raise their rent plus food and other living expenses. Thanks everyone who has given and shared these posts. 💸💕🍉
We’re now at 44/1200 for single mum Maha and family, with 21 days to go to raise it — £700 for rent, £500 for food, water, winter clothing and transport. This is the 9th month you’ve kept this family sheltered, fed and clothed — in short, surviving a genocide. Keep it going. 💕💸🍉
January 8, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Giving this a boost, deadline is creeping closer to help keep Maha and family sheltered and fed in ongoing genocide and deadly winter. Click weekly or monthly on a coffee to provide a regular source of income… it all adds up