Alex L
@alexlovelessartist.bsky.social
Alex Loveless is the host of Art Against Mental Illness podcast. #AuDHD artist and tech nerd living in #Scotland. #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #Neurodivergent. #DataScientist and #Python nerd by day.
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Alex L
@alexlovelessartist.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I have a podcast!
It's called Art Against Mental Illness. In it I talk about the healing powers of creativity and provide practical tips, based on my own experience.
Available wherever you get your podcasts.
aami.alexloveless.co.uk
#art #ArtTherapy #MentalHealth #ArtAgainstMentalIllness
It's called Art Against Mental Illness. In it I talk about the healing powers of creativity and provide practical tips, based on my own experience.
Available wherever you get your podcasts.
aami.alexloveless.co.uk
#art #ArtTherapy #MentalHealth #ArtAgainstMentalIllness
The USA is haunted like Derry in IT and Donald Trump is Pennywise.
September 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM
The USA is haunted like Derry in IT and Donald Trump is Pennywise.
Threads was blatantly trying to rage bait me so I deleted the app.
September 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Threads was blatantly trying to rage bait me so I deleted the app.
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It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
September 24, 2026 at 4:56 PM
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
A thread of some of my collage works
September 24, 2026 at 4:59 PM
A thread of some of my collage works
Part of the reason that I like bluesky is that when no one responds to my posts it's because humans think I'm boring rather than an algorithm.
September 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Part of the reason that I like bluesky is that when no one responds to my posts it's because humans think I'm boring rather than an algorithm.
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Tomorrow we are leaving after a week's shopping in London: stockings, tea, underwear, biscuits, flashlight, books about judo & karate, 1 pair of shoes, frying pan (Teflon), silks & scarves, slides etc plus Albert Hall (Vienna concert), Mousetrap & Puccini in Cov Garden. Hope you will like the crab.
September 22, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Tomorrow we are leaving after a week's shopping in London: stockings, tea, underwear, biscuits, flashlight, books about judo & karate, 1 pair of shoes, frying pan (Teflon), silks & scarves, slides etc plus Albert Hall (Vienna concert), Mousetrap & Puccini in Cov Garden. Hope you will like the crab.
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This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists.
If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
September 19, 2026 at 7:45 AM
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists.
If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
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I’ve just discovered that The Illustrated Police News continued into the 1930s as an even more lurid version of the Victorian original. So let’s share some no context badly-drawn sensationalism! First up, ‘ZOO OWNER ATTACKED BY PET BEAR AT SEVENOAKS’, 26 June 1930.
September 12, 2026 at 11:20 AM
I’ve just discovered that The Illustrated Police News continued into the 1930s as an even more lurid version of the Victorian original. So let’s share some no context badly-drawn sensationalism! First up, ‘ZOO OWNER ATTACKED BY PET BEAR AT SEVENOAKS’, 26 June 1930.
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*rubs temples* why am i reading about MPs scrutinising Eurovision track record instead of them taking action against far-right and fascist groups that are harrassing the RNLI, the public, & shutting down infrastructure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs
It comes after the UK's entry Look Mum No Computer came last in May's final, scoring just one point.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2026 at 8:36 AM
*rubs temples* why am i reading about MPs scrutinising Eurovision track record instead of them taking action against far-right and fascist groups that are harrassing the RNLI, the public, & shutting down infrastructure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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September 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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It must be funny if you’re from Brittany (Bretagne) that the country over the Channel is called Great Brittany (Grand Bretagne). It’s like if you lived in Dorset and referred to France as Great Dorset.
September 17, 2026 at 6:16 AM
It must be funny if you’re from Brittany (Bretagne) that the country over the Channel is called Great Brittany (Grand Bretagne). It’s like if you lived in Dorset and referred to France as Great Dorset.
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Anti-vax is an anti-autistic hate movement, premised on hatred & fear of autistic people. Their extremely dangerous lies about vaccines are only coherent if you buy into their manufactured panic about autism.
the thing about antivax is not that it’s objectively wrong (although it is), it’s that even if it were right, you’re saying you’d rather your kid be dead than autistic, and that’s unforgivable
September 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Anti-vax is an anti-autistic hate movement, premised on hatred & fear of autistic people. Their extremely dangerous lies about vaccines are only coherent if you buy into their manufactured panic about autism.
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"Magda Goebbels made a great strudel"
October 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Magda Goebbels made a great strudel"
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Me at 13: this is amazing, never read anything like this before
Me at 30: half this book is Heinlein yelling at the kids to get off his lawn
Me at 30: half this book is Heinlein yelling at the kids to get off his lawn
September 14, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Me at 13: this is amazing, never read anything like this before
Me at 30: half this book is Heinlein yelling at the kids to get off his lawn
Me at 30: half this book is Heinlein yelling at the kids to get off his lawn
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When I read the news nowadays I can't decide whether mankind is
a) Having 'a bit of a turn', but will be OK.
b) Dangerously impaired by some form of neurological degeneration & in need of urgent intervention.
c) Simply fulfilling nature's inbuilt command to become extinct like any other species.
a) Having 'a bit of a turn', but will be OK.
b) Dangerously impaired by some form of neurological degeneration & in need of urgent intervention.
c) Simply fulfilling nature's inbuilt command to become extinct like any other species.
September 14, 2026 at 1:56 PM
When I read the news nowadays I can't decide whether mankind is
a) Having 'a bit of a turn', but will be OK.
b) Dangerously impaired by some form of neurological degeneration & in need of urgent intervention.
c) Simply fulfilling nature's inbuilt command to become extinct like any other species.
a) Having 'a bit of a turn', but will be OK.
b) Dangerously impaired by some form of neurological degeneration & in need of urgent intervention.
c) Simply fulfilling nature's inbuilt command to become extinct like any other species.
My read of the whole "must slow down development of apocalyptic AI" is "progress of apocalyptic AI has hit the diminishing returns skids so bad that no meaningful progress is possible so Dario and Sam need a way to climb down without looking like idiots"
Also does this mean the AI bubble has burst?
Also does this mean the AI bubble has burst?
September 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
My read of the whole "must slow down development of apocalyptic AI" is "progress of apocalyptic AI has hit the diminishing returns skids so bad that no meaningful progress is possible so Dario and Sam need a way to climb down without looking like idiots"
Also does this mean the AI bubble has burst?
Also does this mean the AI bubble has burst?
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"If you showed up at Defcon and gave a talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?""
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"Once you understand that these are chatbots that were designed to complete challenges like this, using tactics like this, you can understand that the chatbots didn't "go rogue." They did what they were designed to do"
Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 13, 2026 at 8:53 AM
"If you showed up at Defcon and gave a talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?""
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Cats and owls are the same animal.
September 12, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Cats and owls are the same animal.
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Beano #1915, March 31, 1979
September 12, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Beano #1915, March 31, 1979
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My clothes have shrunk.
September 12, 2026 at 8:12 AM
My clothes have shrunk.
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Moulin de la Couleuvre at Pontoise, 1881
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12323
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12323
September 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Moulin de la Couleuvre at Pontoise, 1881
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12323
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12323
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Proud today for the launch of Building A Feminist Nation. I'm putting an amazon link here but you can find/order it in bookshops and libraries too. I was so happy when I was asked to write the foreword to this venerable publication. What an honour. www.amazon.co.uk/Building-fem...?
September 10, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Proud today for the launch of Building A Feminist Nation. I'm putting an amazon link here but you can find/order it in bookshops and libraries too. I was so happy when I was asked to write the foreword to this venerable publication. What an honour. www.amazon.co.uk/Building-fem...?
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All I kept thinking on the coach was 'why me'.
September 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
All I kept thinking on the coach was 'why me'.
September 9, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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It's interesting to think about what would be possible if an organisation as large as Google or Facebook or OpenAI went actually, *actually* evil. People don't dream anywhere near big enough about this kind of thing
September 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
It's interesting to think about what would be possible if an organisation as large as Google or Facebook or OpenAI went actually, *actually* evil. People don't dream anywhere near big enough about this kind of thing