Mini Thought

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Pine martens are an option!

I went pine marten, as I've been involved in helping their reintroduction to Wales, and then I wrestled with myself for an Age before finally going hedgehog.

Birds: puffins were the easiest choice. The UK - and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in west Wales specifically - has a significant portion of the global breeding population of puffins, thanks to Skomer and Grassholm islands. In a country with the biodiversity depletion we have (bottom 10% of countries globally for biodiversity), the islands of Pembrokeshire are almost obscene in how high their biodiversity is, and it's for breeding specifically. We can be justly proud of those. Plus, puffins are fun clowns.

And then I agonised about the others until I finally went for the Great Spotted Woodpecker, a bird I do periodically see and get excited about every time

The Lumped-Together-Others: the bumblebee, you have to. I adore bumblebees.

And then I went for the marsh fritillary, because it's super endangered and I'm an environmentalist with a specialism in habitat management and ecology, and therefore spend a non-trivial amount of my time explaining how to manage for the little assholes.

1) uses literal slave labour in countries like Kenya - Once again, Black slaves are being used to "improve" the world with absolutely no care to their welfare or wellbeing. In fact, they're being deeply traumatised by the images and information they have to see as they load all the info into the computers. So slavery and trauma. Good job.

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Frankly, that should be fucking enough for everyone to make it stop. But no.

2) emits an absurd amount of CO2 and uses a crazy amount of power and water, and is quickly undoing what progress we've made against climate change.

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3) destroys communities with the e-waste-- primarily marginalised communities- Once again, screwing primarily Black neighbourhoods

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4) steals material from people with no compensation or credit. Most recent example, ScotRail stole the voice of a voice actor for their announcements and refused to notify, pay or credit her. They've recently backtracked on this because of the backlash, but they've got away with it for some time.

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5) It's bad for your brain, with one study saying it 'atrophies' your brain, and another that 'warns of a phenomenon known as "mechanized convergence," in which reliance on AI leads to less diverse and creative outcomes. As more users accept AI-generated suggestions without sufficient scrutiny, there is a growing concern that originality and contextual nuance could be lost. AI’s tendency to generalize information may lead to homogeneity, where different individuals working on similar problems arrive at nearly identical solutions — often missing the complexity that human insight can provide.

Other key concerns include:

Decline in independent problem-solving skills – With AI handling much of the cognitive heavy lifting, workers may find themselves engaging less with deeper analytical processes essential for innovation.

Increased risk of misinformation – AI models, despite their advancements, still generate errors, outdated information or biased responses that require human oversight to detect and correct.

Reduced diversity in thought – Overreliance on AI suggestions can lead to standardization, minimizing original perspectives and creative approaches'

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There are multiple sources for all of this-- these are just one or two links to prove my point. The fact is, there are dozens and dozens of sources for each of these, I just ran out of energy.

But all this means

this argument only makes sense if you

1. dont understand how any of human biology works

2. think of porn, depiction of the sexual act, as containing the primordial fucking sin, something that corrupts the minds of anyone looking at it