Steve Hubbard
stevehubbard.bsky.social
Steve Hubbard
@stevehubbard.bsky.social
Former animator and academic- occasional sculptor- occasional writer - occasional comic creator - now largely making musical instruments.
Recently finished Christopher Fowlers ‘Bryant & May: Oranges and Lemons’ featuring the introduction of Sydney Hargreaves to the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Now well into the penultimate book in the series, and so almost finished with my year’s reading project. #bryant&may #christopherfowler #booksky
December 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
youtu.be/fPW3B6v60nc?... AI going from bad to worse
OpenAI Wants You To Go Insane
YouTube video by Adam Conover
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...
GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Well it's called history you IEA dimwit and @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and I both have a grasp of it so frankly I'm flattered.
December 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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December 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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I find it *incomprehensible* that people can claim they are "fighting for the rights of women and girls" and not apparently acknowledge that - at the very least - many many reasonable women and girls *disagree with them about this*.
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬

He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
December 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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I joined! Why don’t you? 🫵
I'm just over 100 days as the leader of the Green Party.

We've had several polls where we're in second place above Labour.

And today we found out we are closing in on overtaking Labours membership.

Then we're coming for Reform.

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December 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.

It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”

— Bertrand Russell
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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It’s that time of year. Time to celebrate the Yuletide season with @tomgauld.bsky.social ‘s John Le Carre advent calendar.
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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BBC describing Zarah Sultana as "Far-Left."

But the BBC do not use the term "Far-Right" for Nigel Farage.

Subtle and clever form of manipulation.
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I make a small monthly donation to Wikipedia. If you can afford it, l would encourage you to do the same.
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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#90sTop30

I felt even more nostalgic doing this challenge than the 80s one, it has been a wonderful trip down memory lane... Thanks to @tansleyjames.bsky.social for organising

My final choice goes to the inimitable Mr Carl McCoy 🖤

Fields Of The Nephilim - For Her Light 🖤

youtu.be/6OrsxYevlgw?...
Fields of the Nephilim - For Her Light (Official Video)
YouTube video by Malo Te
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Right folks, let's get this over the line 😀

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 47,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 50,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM