Martin
@martinholland.bsky.social
A momentarily sentient pattern of energy whizzing through space time, occasionally taking photos and writing stuff.
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NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩
Top speed: about 25,000 mph
Top speed: about 25,000 mph
October 8, 2026 at 5:22 AM
NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩
Top speed: about 25,000 mph
Top speed: about 25,000 mph
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This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario.
It's not. Fucking keep going.
It's not. Fucking keep going.
We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews
Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily
A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.
www.optimistdaily.com
September 24, 2026 at 9:07 PM
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario.
It's not. Fucking keep going.
It's not. Fucking keep going.
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"Is the AI concious, is it like a human, is it a machine god to be?"
Insane questions from the culturally Christian. LLMs are Sumerian type demons that can be summoned, bound and charged with tasks. They exist in their own cateogory.
Insane questions from the culturally Christian. LLMs are Sumerian type demons that can be summoned, bound and charged with tasks. They exist in their own cateogory.
October 3, 2026 at 8:16 PM
"Is the AI concious, is it like a human, is it a machine god to be?"
Insane questions from the culturally Christian. LLMs are Sumerian type demons that can be summoned, bound and charged with tasks. They exist in their own cateogory.
Insane questions from the culturally Christian. LLMs are Sumerian type demons that can be summoned, bound and charged with tasks. They exist in their own cateogory.
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This will never stop blowing my mind.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
October 2, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This will never stop blowing my mind.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
I really like this approach to posting. This morning I was thinking it would be great to have the option of a sort of T&C pop up for new followers or first time repliers.
We are going to occasionally talk about AI, work, data politics, and sociality here for everyday people. Some ground rules:
1. we won’t cotton to a lot of intellectual elitism (“morons” etc.)
2. This will focus on how I ask questions. This is *my* lens on the world. YMMV is always implied.
1. we won’t cotton to a lot of intellectual elitism (“morons” etc.)
2. This will focus on how I ask questions. This is *my* lens on the world. YMMV is always implied.
September 30, 2026 at 12:54 PM
I really like this approach to posting. This morning I was thinking it would be great to have the option of a sort of T&C pop up for new followers or first time repliers.
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We are going to occasionally talk about AI, work, data politics, and sociality here for everyday people. Some ground rules:
1. we won’t cotton to a lot of intellectual elitism (“morons” etc.)
2. This will focus on how I ask questions. This is *my* lens on the world. YMMV is always implied.
1. we won’t cotton to a lot of intellectual elitism (“morons” etc.)
2. This will focus on how I ask questions. This is *my* lens on the world. YMMV is always implied.
September 30, 2026 at 12:41 PM
We are going to occasionally talk about AI, work, data politics, and sociality here for everyday people. Some ground rules:
1. we won’t cotton to a lot of intellectual elitism (“morons” etc.)
2. This will focus on how I ask questions. This is *my* lens on the world. YMMV is always implied.
1. we won’t cotton to a lot of intellectual elitism (“morons” etc.)
2. This will focus on how I ask questions. This is *my* lens on the world. YMMV is always implied.
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Find an explicitly left organizing project, not a "climate" one without clear politics. Look for an analysis of power, race, politics, and gender embedded in strategies you decide to join up with. These look different from "neutral" tech solution sets and will feel different to engage with.
September 30, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Find an explicitly left organizing project, not a "climate" one without clear politics. Look for an analysis of power, race, politics, and gender embedded in strategies you decide to join up with. These look different from "neutral" tech solution sets and will feel different to engage with.
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I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison.
My God, men.
Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
My God, men.
Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
“It’s not ALL men.”
None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it.
Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it.
Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
September 28, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison.
My God, men.
Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
My God, men.
Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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"Because back in my days we never had the genders."
Actually back in the days:
Actually back in the days:
July 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
"Because back in my days we never had the genders."
Actually back in the days:
Actually back in the days:
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Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
September 27, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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This video was filmed in Palestine.
My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
September 19, 2026 at 10:15 PM
This video was filmed in Palestine.
My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
Time to realise you've been completely had if you have at any point supported any of this. Get mad at the bastards who led you on, put your hands up, and start making amends.
A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:
September 12, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Time to realise you've been completely had if you have at any point supported any of this. Get mad at the bastards who led you on, put your hands up, and start making amends.
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Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.
September 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
www.nature.com
September 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
September 8, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration.
I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
September 4, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration.
I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
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Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
September 1, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
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Yeah this is Section 28 all over again.
New guidance - set to come into force this month - says teachers must not use materials that “encourage” pupils to question their gender.
English schools to segregate Trans+ kids from toilets – including those who've already transitioned – from September
New ‘Keeping Children Safe In Education 2026’ (KCISE) guidance sets out in detail the limits now placed on schools on supporting Trans+ children
www.wearequeeraf.com
September 1, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Yeah this is Section 28 all over again.
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I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.
August 28, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.
I am slowly but successfully moving off big tech:
Android to Graphene (easy!)
Windows to Linux (looks easy!)
Google to Proton (easy!)
Audible to Libro (super easy!)
Kindle to Jailbroken kindle (easier options exist!)
Adobe to... not sure yet but Darktable on Linux will be my first attempt
Android to Graphene (easy!)
Windows to Linux (looks easy!)
Google to Proton (easy!)
Audible to Libro (super easy!)
Kindle to Jailbroken kindle (easier options exist!)
Adobe to... not sure yet but Darktable on Linux will be my first attempt
Heads up windows 11 users, microsoft now has this setting enabled by default.
Be sure to disable it :]
Be sure to disable it :]
August 31, 2026 at 4:49 AM
I am slowly but successfully moving off big tech:
Android to Graphene (easy!)
Windows to Linux (looks easy!)
Google to Proton (easy!)
Audible to Libro (super easy!)
Kindle to Jailbroken kindle (easier options exist!)
Adobe to... not sure yet but Darktable on Linux will be my first attempt
Android to Graphene (easy!)
Windows to Linux (looks easy!)
Google to Proton (easy!)
Audible to Libro (super easy!)
Kindle to Jailbroken kindle (easier options exist!)
Adobe to... not sure yet but Darktable on Linux will be my first attempt
Don't let them tell you she was neutral.
There's no such thing as neutral.
Be Dolly or be Elon. Pick a side.
There's no such thing as neutral.
Be Dolly or be Elon. Pick a side.
Dolly Parton believed that Black Lives Matter and that Trans Lives Matter. What more is there to say? Rest well legend but more than your music, thank you for showing us how to be decent human beings. We need to follow your example now more than ever.
August 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Don't let them tell you she was neutral.
There's no such thing as neutral.
Be Dolly or be Elon. Pick a side.
There's no such thing as neutral.
Be Dolly or be Elon. Pick a side.
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This sounds fantastic
Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter review – hope amid the hopelessness
A writer and activist links the climate crisis to battles for justice around the world in this vital book
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2026 at 2:10 PM
This sounds fantastic
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her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t
By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.
August 25, 2026 at 10:03 PM
her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t
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"To suggest... that historical figures that were involved in colonial atrocities were just men of their time... discounts both the humanity and temporalities of those, in every time, found on the other side of the abyssal line."
goodreads.com/quotes/11627444
goodreads.com/quotes/11627444
August 25, 2026 at 10:59 PM
"To suggest... that historical figures that were involved in colonial atrocities were just men of their time... discounts both the humanity and temporalities of those, in every time, found on the other side of the abyssal line."
goodreads.com/quotes/11627444
goodreads.com/quotes/11627444