Comrade Columbae, floodplains truther 🏳️🌈
@finokoye.bsky.social
She/her, queerness as praxis, research as activism, mmanwu-obsessed communist anchoress in training, idk 🏳️🌈🐢🐦
No DMs please, I’m Brit”ish”.
https://finokoye.com
No DMs please, I’m Brit”ish”.
https://finokoye.com
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Public interest tech - that does good for people, communities and the planet - is a no-brainer, so why does no one want to fund it? @jamestplunkett.bsky.social and I have 4 recs for how the UK civic and community tech landscape could be better supported www.careful.industries/blog/2025-12...
Could 2026 be the year of public interest technology? — Careful Industries
Four ideas for sparking investment in UK public interest tech. Written in collaboration with James Plunkett from Kinship Works.
www.careful.industries
December 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Public interest tech - that does good for people, communities and the planet - is a no-brainer, so why does no one want to fund it? @jamestplunkett.bsky.social and I have 4 recs for how the UK civic and community tech landscape could be better supported www.careful.industries/blog/2025-12...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Because I am still an absolute novice at dressmaking, I of course bought way too much fabric for this overskirt BUT otoh…
a) it’s a gorgeous colour b) better to have too much then too little and c) I guess this means I’ll just up the volume!
a) it’s a gorgeous colour b) better to have too much then too little and c) I guess this means I’ll just up the volume!
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Because I am still an absolute novice at dressmaking, I of course bought way too much fabric for this overskirt BUT otoh…
a) it’s a gorgeous colour b) better to have too much then too little and c) I guess this means I’ll just up the volume!
a) it’s a gorgeous colour b) better to have too much then too little and c) I guess this means I’ll just up the volume!
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LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
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"Access as meditation: A love letter to image descriptions & closed captioning" by Bella Milroy=good+free zine on writing alt text (& similar) as reflective opportunity for the alt-text writer. (39 more zines on accessibility+disability justice, many free, catalogued at airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz...)
November 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"Access as meditation: A love letter to image descriptions & closed captioning" by Bella Milroy=good+free zine on writing alt text (& similar) as reflective opportunity for the alt-text writer. (39 more zines on accessibility+disability justice, many free, catalogued at airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz...)
Just want to do flower arranging for the rest of my days, I think.
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Just want to do flower arranging for the rest of my days, I think.
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love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
“Benefit caps” (ie reparative amendments for systemic silliness) are just so ridiculous because the money comes back! The money of the working classes always comes back!!!
Even our ISAs are too basic to truly drain much from the state lol
Even our ISAs are too basic to truly drain much from the state lol
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“Benefit caps” (ie reparative amendments for systemic silliness) are just so ridiculous because the money comes back! The money of the working classes always comes back!!!
Even our ISAs are too basic to truly drain much from the state lol
Even our ISAs are too basic to truly drain much from the state lol
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These past two years have seen protests across the continent. Kenya. Mozambique. Morocco. Madagascar, where the entry into the fray of the security services, Sudan 2019-style, even sent the president into exile. These protests have to do with anger – rage – at our broken social contracts.
We’re in a brave new world – even if our leaders are not
Starting this week, our guest columnist forages for hope in the underbrush of African politics.
continent.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
These past two years have seen protests across the continent. Kenya. Mozambique. Morocco. Madagascar, where the entry into the fray of the security services, Sudan 2019-style, even sent the president into exile. These protests have to do with anger – rage – at our broken social contracts.
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In Solidarity with Sudan: A Bonfire Discussion
Join us!
10 December 2025
15:30 GMT/16:30 CET/17:30 Cairo/10:30 EST
via zoom
Co-organized with Sawiyan, Salam Sudan + Locally Led
Register via www.southsouthmovement.org/in-solidarit...
Join us!
10 December 2025
15:30 GMT/16:30 CET/17:30 Cairo/10:30 EST
via zoom
Co-organized with Sawiyan, Salam Sudan + Locally Led
Register via www.southsouthmovement.org/in-solidarit...
November 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
In Solidarity with Sudan: A Bonfire Discussion
Join us!
10 December 2025
15:30 GMT/16:30 CET/17:30 Cairo/10:30 EST
via zoom
Co-organized with Sawiyan, Salam Sudan + Locally Led
Register via www.southsouthmovement.org/in-solidarit...
Join us!
10 December 2025
15:30 GMT/16:30 CET/17:30 Cairo/10:30 EST
via zoom
Co-organized with Sawiyan, Salam Sudan + Locally Led
Register via www.southsouthmovement.org/in-solidarit...
Right and this is such an interesting… disjoint in UX of LLM interfaces.
There are patterns from eg Google’s image recognition tool for visually indicating (as it’s all black box really) reliability and it’s really telling how a lot of UX discourse laser focussed on essentially micro-copy but +
There are patterns from eg Google’s image recognition tool for visually indicating (as it’s all black box really) reliability and it’s really telling how a lot of UX discourse laser focussed on essentially micro-copy but +
It's really telling that the metrics that they're aiming for are things like "user interaction rate" and not things like "is it correct/helpful"
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Right and this is such an interesting… disjoint in UX of LLM interfaces.
There are patterns from eg Google’s image recognition tool for visually indicating (as it’s all black box really) reliability and it’s really telling how a lot of UX discourse laser focussed on essentially micro-copy but +
There are patterns from eg Google’s image recognition tool for visually indicating (as it’s all black box really) reliability and it’s really telling how a lot of UX discourse laser focussed on essentially micro-copy but +
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The university has made the recording of my talk available at the link below. In case of interest and you missed it.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The university has made the recording of my talk available at the link below. In case of interest and you missed it.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
Genders in cross diaspora-English revealed depending on whether you call the dude restaurant owner ‘uncle’ or ‘boss[man]’.
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Genders in cross diaspora-English revealed depending on whether you call the dude restaurant owner ‘uncle’ or ‘boss[man]’.
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One of the most infuriating (amid hot competition) things about discussion of closing music departments is the plea 'oh but we love extra-curricular things like orchestras'. It's a wilfully ignorant reduction of what academic music depts do. High level performance is 1 component within ...
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
One of the most infuriating (amid hot competition) things about discussion of closing music departments is the plea 'oh but we love extra-curricular things like orchestras'. It's a wilfully ignorant reduction of what academic music depts do. High level performance is 1 component within ...
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Thanks to everyone who came along to this. I mostly talked about taking a more deliberate approach to tech adoption, and shared some of the findings from this research into how the expansion and adoption of tools like Copilot requires diligence www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Thanks to everyone who came along to this. I mostly talked about taking a more deliberate approach to tech adoption, and shared some of the findings from this research into how the expansion and adoption of tools like Copilot requires diligence www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
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The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
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Andrew, because he’s a dickhead everyone hates; Mandelson, because he’s a dickhead who made the lobby hacks look like bent clowns. Even then, this was all decided offscreen, far from anything that looks like scrutiny. There are no higher principles at work than “Thou shalt not humiliate the lads”.
![NEWS AGENTS
The News Agents • @newsagents.... • 10m
"There is a wild west of amorality in Trump's Washington that doesn't exist in [the UK] - there are still standards to uphold here."
Why have Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson been punished over the Epstein files, but not Trump?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5hyjbx4hnlxe5il24ydnn4sr/bafkreidtwvgscdgbgpay5p5itkv54e5h2grwthteddodatx2qfnuctnmve@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Andrew, because he’s a dickhead everyone hates; Mandelson, because he’s a dickhead who made the lobby hacks look like bent clowns. Even then, this was all decided offscreen, far from anything that looks like scrutiny. There are no higher principles at work than “Thou shalt not humiliate the lads”.
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Please help Nya’s family of eight secure shelter & winter supplies. This cold is getting worse for them in their tent, and the kids are still malnourished, which is a deadly combination.
Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Please help Nya’s family of eight secure shelter & winter supplies. This cold is getting worse for them in their tent, and the kids are still malnourished, which is a deadly combination.
Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
I love how the word ‘sometimes’ just gives that vibe in what seems like almost every language
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I love how the word ‘sometimes’ just gives that vibe in what seems like almost every language
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It’s funny when you lift the bonnet of the budget she has really put forward some evil things
🚨 BREAKING: Chancellor continues freeze on housing benefit – missing a crucial opportunity to prevent homelessness.
As rents continue to rise, this will directly lead to homelessness for many of us. #Budget2025
As rents continue to rise, this will directly lead to homelessness for many of us. #Budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It’s funny when you lift the bonnet of the budget she has really put forward some evil things
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Honestly, I think the average British citizen might actually be shocked to hear how many visit visas are refused for things like births, graduations, funerals, weddings - things that they themselves would never stand for if it happened to their British families…
one of the most endlessly petty "we don't think you'll leave" visit visa refusals imaginable. see also: funerals, weddings
Great-grandmother denied visa to attend Christening in Reading
Tutu Melaku says it is an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Honestly, I think the average British citizen might actually be shocked to hear how many visit visas are refused for things like births, graduations, funerals, weddings - things that they themselves would never stand for if it happened to their British families…
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I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
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Please help out a Black trans man who is need of some bread!
Cashapp: $mphighaf
Paypal: [email protected]
Cashapp: $mphighaf
Paypal: [email protected]
if anyone could send money for
the below
that would be awesome
ca: mphighaf
pp: [email protected]
#HelpFolksLive2025 #trans #disabled #ubi #mutualaid #audhd #voidpunk #socialism
if these systems/orgs were enough so many wouldnt need help
the below
that would be awesome
ca: mphighaf
pp: [email protected]
#HelpFolksLive2025 #trans #disabled #ubi #mutualaid #audhd #voidpunk #socialism
if these systems/orgs were enough so many wouldnt need help
1. Rent: 1100$
2. Pet rent: 40$
3. Electricity: 100$
4. Med Card App: 50$
5. Bike: ??? (Bc transit be transitting)(also cptsd)
6. Wifi: 10$
2. Pet rent: 40$
3. Electricity: 100$
4. Med Card App: 50$
5. Bike: ??? (Bc transit be transitting)(also cptsd)
6. Wifi: 10$
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Please help out a Black trans man who is need of some bread!
Cashapp: $mphighaf
Paypal: [email protected]
Cashapp: $mphighaf
Paypal: [email protected]