Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Trivial & Unimportant. Designer, Depressive, Welsh Space Force Fitness Instructor She/Her/Madam.

[Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Digibirdy]

@SophiaMyles You ok my lovely?

[Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Digibirdy]

@sunnkssdseraph @soigomaa 👏

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

Imagination Library has 40k followers, but should have MORE. If you can't donate in Dolly's honor, then we could at least help grow the platform and its visibility by following.

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

[Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Digibirdy]

@ArtGain What a wonderful talent you are.

[Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Digibirdy]

@MikeKalinowski WHAT!!!!!!

[frostzy @lmkifiwin]

PLAYSTATION GOES DARK ON AUGUST 23

seven days. consoles off on purpose.

- august 23, 7:00 pm local -> august 30, 7:00 pm local
- no logins. no sessions. no purchases on any sony platform
- called by @DoesItPlay1

sony ends disc production for every new playstation game in january 2028.
a new release becomes a download, or a box with a code in it.

the petition is approaching 350,000 verified names.
sony's public reply, twenty-six days in: nothing.

so the community stopped asking politely.

engagement is the number sony leads with every quarter, ahead of hardware.
the published figure only samples the last month of a quarter.
the internal dashboards read every single day.

a week-shaped hole in late august lands on someone's desk long before
november does.

a petition needs sony to choose to read it.
an empty server counts itself.

#PSBlackout

going dark on the 23rd? reply with your timezone.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

Devon and Cornwall police are keen to speak to anyone with information over a 81 lambs going missing , they are marked with red and number with black and green dye marks , the farmer said he noticed a massive drop in numbers one day whilst out to feed them on his farm in Kenn near Exeter
The farmer said the missing livestock are Suffolks, Charollais and Texels and crosses between these breeds and would be considered larger than most commercial lambs.
Anyone with information, relevant dashcam footage, CCTV, or who witnessed anything unusual is asked to contact Devon & Cornwall Police on 101 or via the force website here, quoting reference 50260193233.
PLEASE SHARE ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA AND CAN ALERT OTHER FARMERS !

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[Mousumi Bakshi 📣 @mo_bakshi]

I meet amazing ppl all the time. Mia Hansson is one of them. 10 yrs & 58 metres in, she is stitch by stitch recreating the Bayeux Tapestry

Her full-time job is caring for her disabled son, & no, she doesn’t have tix for the exhibition! C’mon @britishmuseum

©️BBC/BritishMuseum

[IGN @IGN]

Sony's PlayStation Network services have been offline for hours today, leaving fans unable to play some digital games. https://t.co/UyyGdyBUzn

[Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Digibirdy]

@DANIELPEMBERTON What a fabulous work history you have x

[Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Digibirdy]

@drjenwolkin Stop explaining my life 😂💀

[Manel Cota @MaNeo_O]

Thanks! Ubisoft Barcelona did all the underwater levels. And that same team is being fired right now because Ubisoft thinks thats what we deserve :)

[Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Digibirdy]

@MeCookieMonster Good for you cookie. Keeps things regular. A regular gut is a healthy gut.

[Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Digibirdy]

@RinoTheBouncer Nope. And I’ll be grabbing lots of physical discs second hand.

[Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Digibirdy]

@DANIELPEMBERTON It irritates me to my very core when people take their phones out in the cinema. Just mindless addiction

[Dr Digibird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Digibirdy]

@GellertDepp 17!