Stheno
@sthen0.bsky.social
World-weary word-worker, parent of puns, and antifa alliterate. He/she/they. Cisatlantic SEND worker.
There is no god & Sinéad Ó Connor is their prophet.
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Stheno
@sthen0.bsky.social
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Wes Streeting is a rubber-faced eugenicist Quisling.
He’s his own Spitting Image puppet.
He’s his own Spitting Image puppet.
Emperor announces he will build an arena for his birthday gladiatorial games.
“A republic , if you can keep it” indeed.
“A republic , if you can keep it” indeed.
Trump announces he is building a stadium for 100,000 people in front of the White House for the UFC fight on his birthday
January 30, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Emperor announces he will build an arena for his birthday gladiatorial games.
“A republic , if you can keep it” indeed.
“A republic , if you can keep it” indeed.
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I interviewed 300 high achievers about their morning routine, and you will never believe, they all have inherited family wealth.
June 20, 2024 at 1:57 PM
I interviewed 300 high achievers about their morning routine, and you will never believe, they all have inherited family wealth.
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my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 29, 2026 at 10:22 PM
my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
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Should you use AI for that?
Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no).
It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices!
sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...
Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no).
It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices!
sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...
January 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Should you use AI for that?
Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no).
It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices!
sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...
Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no).
It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices!
sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...
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They did announce it.
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 AM
They did announce it.
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"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
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Beth Hapworth, 32, expressed relief at having her suspicions confirmed that everyone else was in possession of clandestine instructions on how to live their lives.
Autistic woman conquers world after discovering allistics’ secret life handbook
An autistic woman has finally been given the keys to the kingdom after unearthing the elusive How to Person handbook the neurotypicals have been hiding from us, it has been announced. Beth Hapworth,…
thedailytism.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Beth Hapworth, 32, expressed relief at having her suspicions confirmed that everyone else was in possession of clandestine instructions on how to live their lives.
Yes, Rachel, it is. That’s how societies work.
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 30, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Yes, Rachel, it is. That’s how societies work.
Here we go again with the replacement of labour with capital.
And “Luddite” is somehow a fucking pejorative.
And “Luddite” is somehow a fucking pejorative.
'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk — and we know why
A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now
www.thetimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Here we go again with the replacement of labour with capital.
And “Luddite” is somehow a fucking pejorative.
And “Luddite” is somehow a fucking pejorative.
Not just no, but fuck no, never.
January 29, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Not just no, but fuck no, never.
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JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i finally know why the ungrateful kidss thesse dayss have been rejecting harry potter
Barker: we all figured that out a long time ago
Poe: clive
Barker: oh i'm sorry edgar
Barker: am i wrong?
Poe:
Poe: no you're not wrong
Rowling: i finally know why the ungrateful kidss thesse dayss have been rejecting harry potter
Barker: we all figured that out a long time ago
Poe: clive
Barker: oh i'm sorry edgar
Barker: am i wrong?
Poe:
Poe: no you're not wrong
January 28, 2026 at 5:49 PM
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i finally know why the ungrateful kidss thesse dayss have been rejecting harry potter
Barker: we all figured that out a long time ago
Poe: clive
Barker: oh i'm sorry edgar
Barker: am i wrong?
Poe:
Poe: no you're not wrong
Rowling: i finally know why the ungrateful kidss thesse dayss have been rejecting harry potter
Barker: we all figured that out a long time ago
Poe: clive
Barker: oh i'm sorry edgar
Barker: am i wrong?
Poe:
Poe: no you're not wrong
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Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
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To say aloud that the vice president is friends with Nazis and to point out that his Holocaust tweet is crafted so as not to offend them is to sound crazy to everyone who doesn’t know both are stone cold facts. Frustrating thing.
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 5:34 AM
To say aloud that the vice president is friends with Nazis and to point out that his Holocaust tweet is crafted so as not to offend them is to sound crazy to everyone who doesn’t know both are stone cold facts. Frustrating thing.
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Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
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I think about this post a lot.
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I think about this post a lot.
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if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
January 28, 2026 at 10:19 AM
if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
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To those in Minnesota and everywhere else.
January 28, 2026 at 12:34 AM
To those in Minnesota and everywhere else.
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There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:40 AM
There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
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Yer da hides inside if he sees people who aren't white.
What percentage increase would be reasonable in your view? Or should UK governments turn a blind eye to ALL people working here illegally? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Crackdown on illegal working in UK leads to surge in arrests
Raids on businesses such as nail bars and takeaways have increased by 77% since Labour took office, the government says.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Yer da hides inside if he sees people who aren't white.
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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Time to switch to DuckDuckGo if you haven’t already. They have an AI mode, but for now at least, it’s easy to disable.
Google now moves mobile users into AI Mode when they ask a follow-up question in AI Overviews, taking them out of the main search results page searchengineland.com/google-ai-ov...
Google AI Overviews follow up questions jump you directly to AI Mode
This will result in less traffic to your site and more traffic to Google's AI Mode. Plus, Gemini 3 is now powering all AI Overviews globally by default.
searchengineland.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Time to switch to DuckDuckGo if you haven’t already. They have an AI mode, but for now at least, it’s easy to disable.
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Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban.
UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia.
Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.
UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia.
Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban.
UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia.
Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.
UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia.
Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.
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!!!!!
Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban.
UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia.
Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.
UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia.
Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:29 AM
!!!!!
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I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief www.ft.com/content/c309...
‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief
Dario Amodei posts 20,000-word essay detailing potentially catastrophic risks from powerful technology in years to come
www.ft.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
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