Tim Pearsall

Actual human

AI has no conscience.
AI is not your friend.
Are we the fools dancing while the ship goes down?

Choose humanity.

[Tim Pearsall @TimothyPearsall]

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[David Pogue @Pogue]

76 years ago, Ray Bradbury published "There Will Come Soft Rains," an apocalyptic short story about a time when we have wiped ourselves out—but our AI obliviously continues automating our empty smart homes.

Bradbury set the story on August 4, 2026.

https://t.co/0jBNbjt4Ng

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I'm a 64 year old British Jew

I used not to understand how the Holocaust happened. How could so many ordinary people go along with Hitler & the other evil leaders?

But when I see so many of the British Establishment (& others) support, enable, justify or deny the Gaza Genocide, I think I now understand

The truth is profoundly disturbing

[Sec @SecularScarlet]

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

- Arthur C Clarke

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

#FairyTaleTuesday #Folklore #DidYouKnow

[Lucy Thomas seeing beauty everywhere NO DM please @LucyTho55134197]

#thicktrunktuesday

[SelineSigil @SelineSigil9]

In English tradition, the first roll of thunder after August 1st (Lammas) foretold the fate of the remaining harvest; a rolling rumble promised abundance, while a sharp crack warned of trouble. #folklore

[Sec @SecularScarlet]

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

- H G Wells

[Tim Pearsall @TimothyPearsall]

@OutlawsPoetic "...not one is demented with the mania of owning things."

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Half of England is in drought after record-breaking heatwaves, yet most of our media want to talk about the "problem" of refugees whilst giving airtime to absurd & dehumanising policies from Reform UK.

Politicians who scapegoat refugees and migrants have no interest in making your life better.

If they really cared, they would take on corporations holding this country to ransom.

They would end the daylight robbery of privatisation.

And they would tackle the real cause of society's problems: a grotesquely unequal economy that sucks wealth away from the majority to an elite few.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

4 generations of monarch butterflies lived and died this summer. The one on your flowers right now is the 5th, and it's built completely differently from every one that you've seen so far.

The previous 4 generations lived 2-6 weeks, mated, laid eggs, and died. The fifth generation is born in reproductive diapause, meaning it won't mate until spring.

Instead of spending energy on reproduction, it converts every calorie from nectar directly into fat for a 3,000-mile journey to mountain forests in Mexico it has never seen.

It will live eight times longer than its parents. Fly ten times farther. Navigate using a sun compass in its antennae that corrects for the sun's position across the sky and switches to magnetic sensing on cloudy days. The destination is encoded in its genome across generations that have never made the trip.

That butterfly is in your yard visiting your flowers right now, fueling up.

What it needs: goldenrod, native asters, ironweed, and boneset are the premium fuel sources for the crossing. No pesticides on those plants or anything near them. A yard that's still blooming in August is a way station the super generation desperately needs.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Same water. Same tank. But the one on the right has oysters.

A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. Oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay once filtered the entire Bay, 19 trillion gallons, in under a week. Today, with less than 1% of the original oyster population remaining, it takes over a year.

We ate them. We dredged their reefs. We dumped nitrogen into their water until the algae blooms choked what was left.

The Billion Oyster Project is working to restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor. Restored reefs in Maryland's Harris Creek can now filter the entire creek in under 10 days and remove nitrogen equivalent to 20,000 bags of fertilizer every year.

Nature had this figured out. We just have to restore the oysters and get out of the way.

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

🚨 Water crisis? Depends who you are.

Southern England is in drought. Yet reports claim a US billionaire is trucking up to 13,000 gallons of water a day to his Wiltshire estate - despite a ban on tankers filling up from nearby mains.

The estate sits within the Environment Agency's southern England drought area, where rivers are under growing pressure after one of the driest summers on record.

Britain's water system has one rule for the public. Another for the powerful.

Last week, River Action revealed that Britain still has more than 14,000 commercial abstraction licences, allowing businesses to take up to 43 TRILLION litres of water every year. Meanwhile, water companies continue to lose nearly two billion litres of treated drinking water every day through leaking pipes.

It's time to stop asking the public to pay the price for a broken water system - and start fixing it.

We need a Government with a credible National Water Resilience Plan: fix leaking infrastructure, restore rivers and wetlands, reform outdated abstraction licences, and manage water like the precious resource it is - not wait until the next drought to act.

https://t.co/qw7Cc34IgZ

[Nastia @Nastia1890]

Visions of Gran Canaria,
Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre
#Art

[Tim Pearsall @TimothyPearsall]

"...baking inequality into the timetable."

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

Andy Burnham is right, but we need to call this what it was: state-sanctioned vandalism.

The Conservatives systematically stripped sport, music, and drama from state school timetables, dismissing them as frivolous extras while preserving them for elite private schools. They treated working-class children as industrial units to be tested and processed, not young people who deserve a full, rich life.

The defense from the educational establishment was always economic efficiency. Teach the basics, pump up the league tables, ignore the rest. It was a narrow, philistine view of education that left an entire generation poorer for it.

Every child deserves access to sport, instruments, and the arts, not as a luxury, but as a birthright. If we only teach state school kids to read and count while private schools teach theirs to create, perform, and lead, we are simply baking inequality into the timetable.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Thames Water's creditors are desperately trying to ward off the company being taken into special administration

Here is why their latest proposal is nothing but a stalling tactic

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“It is the worship of money that I wish to consider: the belief that all values may be measured in terms of money, and that money is the ultimate test of success in life.

This belief is held in fact, if not in words, by multitudes of men and women, and yet it is not in harmony with human nature, since it ignores vital needs and the instinctive tendency towards some specific kind of growth.

It makes men treat as unimportant those of their desires which run counter to the acquisition of money, and yet such desires are, as a rule, more important to well-being than any increase of income.

It leads men to mutilate their own natures from a mistaken theory of what constitutes success, and to give admiration to enterprises which add nothing to human welfare.

It promotes a dead uniformity of character and purpose, a diminution in the joy of life, and a stress and strain which leaves whole communities weary, discouraged, and disillusioned.”

— Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

We need hundreds of volunteers. We did it in Gorton and Denton, and we can do it in Greater Manchester."

Join co-Deputy Leader Mothin Ali in Manchester this Saturday.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society.

This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.”

— Albert Einstein

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We can yet make amends, manage our impact and once again become a species in harmony with nature. All we require is the will to do so.”

— Sir David Attenborough