Sio and Tell
@sio-and-tell.bsky.social
Kindness is a radical act.
Geriatric millennial, cat parent, linguistics enthusiast. I will write again.
Probably.
Image in profile street art from Osan's "Cat Alley"
Geriatric millennial, cat parent, linguistics enthusiast. I will write again.
Probably.
Image in profile street art from Osan's "Cat Alley"
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Sio and Tell
@sio-and-tell.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Intro post:
I'm Sio (they/she)
Right now I'm a TEFL/TESOL teacher in 🇰🇷
I like cats (I am graciously allowed to live with 2), trees, k-pop, happy endings (not a euphemism) and food. I believe that true kindness and viewing other humans as humans will change the world. More to come when I change jobs!
I'm Sio (they/she)
Right now I'm a TEFL/TESOL teacher in 🇰🇷
I like cats (I am graciously allowed to live with 2), trees, k-pop, happy endings (not a euphemism) and food. I believe that true kindness and viewing other humans as humans will change the world. More to come when I change jobs!
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It didn't happen this time, but eventually hackers are going to get people's prompt histories and it's going to be wild
ChatGPT maker OpenAI reports data breach. Here’s what we know so far
ChatGPT maker OpenAI reports data breach. Here’s what we know so far
Identifiable customer data from users of OpenAI’s API was leaked following the breach, the AI company said in a statement.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It didn't happen this time, but eventually hackers are going to get people's prompt histories and it's going to be wild
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The kids are alright
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The kids are alright
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spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
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not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
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Labour party today:
- Disabled people can’t drive Audis, BMWs and Mercedes on Motability. No to £25k Audis but £36k Nissans are fine
- Discredited PFI to return for funding NHS projects
- Trial by jury to be axed except for most serious cases
That’s just today
- Disabled people can’t drive Audis, BMWs and Mercedes on Motability. No to £25k Audis but £36k Nissans are fine
- Discredited PFI to return for funding NHS projects
- Trial by jury to be axed except for most serious cases
That’s just today
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Labour party today:
- Disabled people can’t drive Audis, BMWs and Mercedes on Motability. No to £25k Audis but £36k Nissans are fine
- Discredited PFI to return for funding NHS projects
- Trial by jury to be axed except for most serious cases
That’s just today
- Disabled people can’t drive Audis, BMWs and Mercedes on Motability. No to £25k Audis but £36k Nissans are fine
- Discredited PFI to return for funding NHS projects
- Trial by jury to be axed except for most serious cases
That’s just today
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
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The proposed settlement changes are really difficult to understand and very stressful if you or someone you know is a migrant. Read our explainer below so you can stay up to date with what's happening.
Last week the Government announced changes to settlement, turning the lives of millions of people upside down. Here's what we know so far 👉 www.praxis.org.uk/news/explain...
Created with @gmiau.bsky.social
Created with @gmiau.bsky.social
Explainer: statement and consultation on “earned settlement” — Praxis
On Thursday 20th November, the government published a statement and a consultation on their planned changes to settlement in the UK (also known as indefinite leave to remain or ILR). In sh...
www.praxis.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The proposed settlement changes are really difficult to understand and very stressful if you or someone you know is a migrant. Read our explainer below so you can stay up to date with what's happening.
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There always seems to be money for cruelty, doesn’t there…
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
There always seems to be money for cruelty, doesn’t there…
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This is improvements in "governance & stability"?
The junta are burning villages & displacing people all across the country & the fucking US wants to send people back there.
The junta are burning villages & displacing people all across the country & the fucking US wants to send people back there.
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is improvements in "governance & stability"?
The junta are burning villages & displacing people all across the country & the fucking US wants to send people back there.
The junta are burning villages & displacing people all across the country & the fucking US wants to send people back there.
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
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This is £600m from the same university sector that is pretty close to collapse in a growing number of major institutions?
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is £600m from the same university sector that is pretty close to collapse in a growing number of major institutions?
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
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Nobody ever fucking goes away anymore
Andrew Cuomo, back again with an epic two-hour radio segment rehashing his campaign points and attacking the guy who beat him, is not going away quietly.
hellgatenyc.com/andrew-m-cuo...
hellgatenyc.com/andrew-m-cuo...
Andrew Cuomo Is Riding This Thing All the Way to the Bottom
Cuomo and another washed up former governor telling each other "exactlyyyyy."
hellgatenyc.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Nobody ever fucking goes away anymore
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As @paleofuture.bsky.social notes in this thread, these images were probably created using Google's Nano Banana Pro image generator. NBP is really good at making photorealistic images that are getting really difficult to spot in the wild.
I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
As @paleofuture.bsky.social notes in this thread, these images were probably created using Google's Nano Banana Pro image generator. NBP is really good at making photorealistic images that are getting really difficult to spot in the wild.
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*Sigh*
It is bad and evil to desire a majority white country. This should not be controversial. Ethnostates are bad. Racial purity is bullshit. There's no such thing as white culture because there's no such thing as the "white race" and white people aren't better at anything than anyone else.
It is bad and evil to desire a majority white country. This should not be controversial. Ethnostates are bad. Racial purity is bullshit. There's no such thing as white culture because there's no such thing as the "white race" and white people aren't better at anything than anyone else.
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
*Sigh*
It is bad and evil to desire a majority white country. This should not be controversial. Ethnostates are bad. Racial purity is bullshit. There's no such thing as white culture because there's no such thing as the "white race" and white people aren't better at anything than anyone else.
It is bad and evil to desire a majority white country. This should not be controversial. Ethnostates are bad. Racial purity is bullshit. There's no such thing as white culture because there's no such thing as the "white race" and white people aren't better at anything than anyone else.
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Horrendous & punishing for thousands of people including c.25,000 children seeking protection with their families who got status in the last five years (luckily children in care and care leavers are out of scope of the settlement changes)
At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Horrendous & punishing for thousands of people including c.25,000 children seeking protection with their families who got status in the last five years (luckily children in care and care leavers are out of scope of the settlement changes)
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Mohammad, an MSF nurse in #Gaza, spent months fleeing airstrikes and starvation with his children. His 5-year-old son Omar was seriously injured and later medically evacuated to MSF’s surgical hospital in #Jordan.
He’s now recovering.
Read their story: ow.ly/Usos50Xun5Y
He’s now recovering.
Read their story: ow.ly/Usos50Xun5Y
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Mohammad, an MSF nurse in #Gaza, spent months fleeing airstrikes and starvation with his children. His 5-year-old son Omar was seriously injured and later medically evacuated to MSF’s surgical hospital in #Jordan.
He’s now recovering.
Read their story: ow.ly/Usos50Xun5Y
He’s now recovering.
Read their story: ow.ly/Usos50Xun5Y
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It's so easy, if someone declines the offer of an alcoholic drink, to just move on to, "Well, is there something else I can get you, instead? Soft drink? Cup of tea?"
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It's so easy, if someone declines the offer of an alcoholic drink, to just move on to, "Well, is there something else I can get you, instead? Soft drink? Cup of tea?"
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Anna's Archive has stolen people's work and then has the audacity to ask for donations.
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Anna's Archive has stolen people's work and then has the audacity to ask for donations.
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I often have to spin up teams with people from all over the world.
So at kick off we all say our names and how all we like to be called. And we practice saying it
We then have a virtual mispronunciation tin where each time you get it wrong you put a bag of Haribo or equivalent IOU in :)
So at kick off we all say our names and how all we like to be called. And we practice saying it
We then have a virtual mispronunciation tin where each time you get it wrong you put a bag of Haribo or equivalent IOU in :)
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I often have to spin up teams with people from all over the world.
So at kick off we all say our names and how all we like to be called. And we practice saying it
We then have a virtual mispronunciation tin where each time you get it wrong you put a bag of Haribo or equivalent IOU in :)
So at kick off we all say our names and how all we like to be called. And we practice saying it
We then have a virtual mispronunciation tin where each time you get it wrong you put a bag of Haribo or equivalent IOU in :)
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Migrants moving to your local area is not a “legitimate reason” for racism.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Migrants moving to your local area is not a “legitimate reason” for racism.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
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In the latest Guardian Blind Date: marathons; abattoirs; and harsh lessons from the University of Chopsticks.
Read my review:
Read my review:
Henry and Sarah
2025: where every day is like Sunday. A Sunday in Hell, while old episodes of RI:SE play in the background. Today we are going for a v quick spin round the latest GBD, between Henry, a 28-year-old …
theguyliner.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In the latest Guardian Blind Date: marathons; abattoirs; and harsh lessons from the University of Chopsticks.
Read my review:
Read my review: