These folks would like to hit 3,000 signatures before they hand the petition over on Tuesday. Seems like a no-brainer of an idea to re-join the Creative Europe funding programme.

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Nelson Mandela: I was unfortunately detained.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

elon musk's net worth is enough to feed every hungry person on earth for the next 100 years

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Gandalf: Then Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.

Scatches - Stilts worn to keep one's feet above mud, filth, or other unpleasant substances when walking through dirty places. “Every time we visit Uncle Clud, I feel obliged to don a pair of scatches merely to traverse the mountainous heaps of mullock that have accumulated about his premises.”

Simon Harris has 10 Special Advisers, each being paid a minimum of €100k, and up to a maximum of €182k. His Govt has just announced that they are scrapping the living wage their own low pay commission recommended. You’re not angry enough.

That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. Ray Bradbury, The October Country

Please don't let questions of "consciousness" distract from the more concretely definitionally problematic issue that the "AI"s we have aren't even genuinely intelligent. Bullshit output aside, the fact they demonstrably tend to make their users act less intelligently for themselves is a big tell!

How on earth did this get ethics approval? It’s a sick and twisted racist experiment.