Wild that this list of topics to help people find books they might desperately need are subject to self-censor online.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Wild that this list of topics to help people find books they might desperately need are subject to self-censor online.
Reposted by siah
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq@jpeg)
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
Reposted by siah
I’m so proud to be part of this initiative.
Parents have set it up BUT we welcome ALL OF YOU to sign our Transparent Pledge in support of trans+ people.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
You can sign anonymously if you need to.
Let’s get to 500 signatures by Monday.
Share. Share. Share.
Parents have set it up BUT we welcome ALL OF YOU to sign our Transparent Pledge in support of trans+ people.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
You can sign anonymously if you need to.
Let’s get to 500 signatures by Monday.
Share. Share. Share.
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’m so proud to be part of this initiative.
Parents have set it up BUT we welcome ALL OF YOU to sign our Transparent Pledge in support of trans+ people.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
You can sign anonymously if you need to.
Let’s get to 500 signatures by Monday.
Share. Share. Share.
Parents have set it up BUT we welcome ALL OF YOU to sign our Transparent Pledge in support of trans+ people.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
You can sign anonymously if you need to.
Let’s get to 500 signatures by Monday.
Share. Share. Share.
Reposted by siah
If you would like a signed Everything Will Swallow You hardback for RRP + P&P, I have a fabulous selection of art by my mum, Jo, which I'm sending out for free (one linoprint with each book). Let me know your address via hello@tom-cox.com while stocks last.
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If you would like a signed Everything Will Swallow You hardback for RRP + P&P, I have a fabulous selection of art by my mum, Jo, which I'm sending out for free (one linoprint with each book). Let me know your address via hello@tom-cox.com while stocks last.
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
Reposted by siah
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent horses and ponies I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent horses and ponies I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
Reposted by siah
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
Re-watching GoT. Was so relieved when one of the brothers got a specific coloured cloak.
Wilkes explained: “It was a lethal combination of the casting director having a type and me being totally face blind. Basically I spent most of the season thinking a married couple were siblings.”
Autistic woman works out who all the characters are just in time for season finale
An autistic woman has finally worked out who all the characters in a new TV show are, just in time for the season to reach its conclusion, sources have claimed. Miya Wilkes, 30, who spent the first…
thedailytism.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Re-watching GoT. Was so relieved when one of the brothers got a specific coloured cloak.
Reposted by siah
What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean “cheating on your partner” stupid, I mean stupid stupid. Like, once, I had this bubble bath which smelled absolutely delicious, so I took a big glug of it. That kind of stupid. (It did not taste delicious.)
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean “cheating on your partner” stupid, I mean stupid stupid. Like, once, I had this bubble bath which smelled absolutely delicious, so I took a big glug of it. That kind of stupid. (It did not taste delicious.)
Reposted by siah
I wrote a thing! Because I am VERY NORMAL and can ABSOLUTELY COPE with having my sleeves rolled down...
An autistic man has raised the terror stakes this Halloween with a costume that friends have described as “genuinely horrifying”.
Chilling! This autistic person’s Halloween costume is neurotypical man
An autistic man has raised the terror stakes this Halloween with a costume that friends have described as “genuinely horrifying”. Gavin Monks, 26, reportedly eschewed traditional Halloween…
thedailytism.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I wrote a thing! Because I am VERY NORMAL and can ABSOLUTELY COPE with having my sleeves rolled down...
Reposted by siah
cautionary tale
October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
cautionary tale
Reposted by siah
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
Reposted by siah
Here we go again... The high cost of UK energy has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with the marginal price of gas, which sets the rate. If renewables were setting the price, bills would be much lower. We need to squeeze gas out of our system, asap.
#politicslive
#politicslive
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Here we go again... The high cost of UK energy has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with the marginal price of gas, which sets the rate. If renewables were setting the price, bills would be much lower. We need to squeeze gas out of our system, asap.
#politicslive
#politicslive
Reposted by siah
I made a whole space suit costume for this, and the orange overalls came with a fireproof coating that absolutely stank. So I washed them, and now ALL my clothes stink. (And maybe are fireproof?)
In conclusion, this level of commitment deserves a repost.
In conclusion, this level of commitment deserves a repost.
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I made a whole space suit costume for this, and the orange overalls came with a fireproof coating that absolutely stank. So I washed them, and now ALL my clothes stink. (And maybe are fireproof?)
In conclusion, this level of commitment deserves a repost.
In conclusion, this level of commitment deserves a repost.
Reposted by siah
the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"
Reposted by siah
Big thanks to everyone who's listened to our podcast with @timjerrome.bsky.social about queer rural history!
We'll be back with Tim in 2 weeks' time for another pod, sharing some of the stories that Tim has found in our archives to date.
Search 'Absolute Units' wherever you get your podcasts.
We'll be back with Tim in 2 weeks' time for another pod, sharing some of the stories that Tim has found in our archives to date.
Search 'Absolute Units' wherever you get your podcasts.
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Big thanks to everyone who's listened to our podcast with @timjerrome.bsky.social about queer rural history!
We'll be back with Tim in 2 weeks' time for another pod, sharing some of the stories that Tim has found in our archives to date.
Search 'Absolute Units' wherever you get your podcasts.
We'll be back with Tim in 2 weeks' time for another pod, sharing some of the stories that Tim has found in our archives to date.
Search 'Absolute Units' wherever you get your podcasts.
Finally!
Been waiting on someone to make this connection.
Been waiting on someone to make this connection.
i think we should bring dadaism back as a response to The Horrors. it made sense during world war one
October 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Finally!
Been waiting on someone to make this connection.
Been waiting on someone to make this connection.
Reposted by siah
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
Is it possible that if you ask people "What are potato chips made from?" that they think the question is so insulting they purposely give the wrong answer?
They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...
Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune
New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.
fortune.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Is it possible that if you ask people "What are potato chips made from?" that they think the question is so insulting they purposely give the wrong answer?
Reposted by siah
October 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by siah
All the bands I listen to have profile pictures where they look really upset, angry or disappointed to see me
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
All the bands I listen to have profile pictures where they look really upset, angry or disappointed to see me
Reposted by siah
Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.
Reposted by siah
And there it is. The entire attack on Netflix is just a grift for far right influencers to promote a religious streaming site.
October 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
And there it is. The entire attack on Netflix is just a grift for far right influencers to promote a religious streaming site.
Reposted by siah
What you think your brain is supposed to do
October 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What you think your brain is supposed to do