Steph
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This is a cob (dirt) wall in Dorchester on Thames. It’s two feet thick, probably sixty feet long and it’s home to hundreds of solitary (mason?) bees! It’s Grade II listed, and an example of how heritage building survival is important not just for the vibes or the history.
June 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is a cob (dirt) wall in Dorchester on Thames. It’s two feet thick, probably sixty feet long and it’s home to hundreds of solitary (mason?) bees! It’s Grade II listed, and an example of how heritage building survival is important not just for the vibes or the history.
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If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
June 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
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Turning online archives into resources for training data not only exploits and devalues the archived works, but also renders these archives literally unusable. Like all extractivist business models, #genAI ultimately threatens to destroy its own foundations. It's not generative, but destructive
Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
June 27, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Turning online archives into resources for training data not only exploits and devalues the archived works, but also renders these archives literally unusable. Like all extractivist business models, #genAI ultimately threatens to destroy its own foundations. It's not generative, but destructive
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May 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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When you remember it's Easter Sunday and perfectly acceptable to have chocolate for breakfast.
April 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
When you remember it's Easter Sunday and perfectly acceptable to have chocolate for breakfast.
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Won’t be too long before the outlook is peachy!
‘It’s A Wonderful Life’, ‘Peach Melba’, ‘Indian Summer’, ‘Mrs Oakley Fisher’.
Happy #RoseWednesday everyone, have a good day take care. #roses 🌱
‘It’s A Wonderful Life’, ‘Peach Melba’, ‘Indian Summer’, ‘Mrs Oakley Fisher’.
Happy #RoseWednesday everyone, have a good day take care. #roses 🌱
April 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Won’t be too long before the outlook is peachy!
‘It’s A Wonderful Life’, ‘Peach Melba’, ‘Indian Summer’, ‘Mrs Oakley Fisher’.
Happy #RoseWednesday everyone, have a good day take care. #roses 🌱
‘It’s A Wonderful Life’, ‘Peach Melba’, ‘Indian Summer’, ‘Mrs Oakley Fisher’.
Happy #RoseWednesday everyone, have a good day take care. #roses 🌱
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Barnes & Noble in Georgetown with a stark “Bohemian Rhapsody”-referencing book display this weekend.
April 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Barnes & Noble in Georgetown with a stark “Bohemian Rhapsody”-referencing book display this weekend.
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Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
Would we want a country like that?
Would we want a country like that?
Tories to force vote to disapply Human Rights Act in immigration cases
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights- just privileges that can be taken away by people in power when they want
youtu.be/yhXzz_alkSk?...
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights- just privileges that can be taken away by people in power when they want
youtu.be/yhXzz_alkSk?...
Kemi Badenoch to force vote in Parliament to disapply the Human Rights Act in immigration cases
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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March 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
Would we want a country like that?
Would we want a country like that?
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Hemingway, evergreen
February 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hemingway, evergreen
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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The weather might be gloomy but the pops of colour in our winter gardens are anything but! 🤍💜
The winter garden at Polesden Lacey is looking very colourful @nationaltrust.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The weather might be gloomy but the pops of colour in our winter gardens are anything but! 🤍💜
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Back in April 2024 then Foreign Secretary David Cameron warned against Donald Trump pressuring Ukraine to cede territory to Russia to end the war
February 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Back in April 2024 then Foreign Secretary David Cameron warned against Donald Trump pressuring Ukraine to cede territory to Russia to end the war
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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
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As the internet gets shittier it’s gotten easier to be off it and read more books lately
February 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
As the internet gets shittier it’s gotten easier to be off it and read more books lately
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Keep going. No matter how bad things may seem. No matter how many tears you’ve cried. No matter how hopeless it seems. Keep going. You are worth it. You are able. We are here. We won’t let you fail. Keep going
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Keep going. No matter how bad things may seem. No matter how many tears you’ve cried. No matter how hopeless it seems. Keep going. You are worth it. You are able. We are here. We won’t let you fail. Keep going
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Maybe I’ll plant some snowdrops this spring, as a present to myself next January.
We can all agree on how pretty a sea of snowdrops is, but how do you grow them? 🤔
Snowdrop bulbs need to be planted in late spring.
Any garden is fit to grow Snowdrops, just make sure they are kept in a shaded area with moist and well-drained soil with some garden compost mixed in. 🌼
📸John Millar
Snowdrop bulbs need to be planted in late spring.
Any garden is fit to grow Snowdrops, just make sure they are kept in a shaded area with moist and well-drained soil with some garden compost mixed in. 🌼
📸John Millar
February 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Maybe I’ll plant some snowdrops this spring, as a present to myself next January.
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a nice reminder to the press that there is nothing you can do to pacify these people or buy yourself leniency
this appears to be based entirely on subscriptions for Politico Pro that many govt agencies pay for. but it doesn't matter, this is now fact for roughly half the country for eternity and will be used to do whatever they want.
February 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
a nice reminder to the press that there is nothing you can do to pacify these people or buy yourself leniency
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“It appears as if there is an unelected billionaire more or less running the federal government right now, who none of us voted for, who seems to be breaking both [the] law and potentially the constitution all over the place”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘It’s been madness’: US federal workers reeling over Trump-Musk takeover
Office of personnel management workers say anxiety is palpable amid intimidation and threat of dismissal
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“It appears as if there is an unelected billionaire more or less running the federal government right now, who none of us voted for, who seems to be breaking both [the] law and potentially the constitution all over the place”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...