On this pride month, I find myself asking the same question over and over again: why, in what is supposed to be an increasingly enlightened age, are we still having arguments about whether some people deserve the same dignity, respect, and rights as everyone else? To me, that's bullshit.

I don't get Bsky tabs. There's Following, Discover, Popular with Friends, & Latest from Follows. These seem to be: -posts from people I follow; -yesterday's posts from people I follow (which I've already read - look at the ♥️s); -RTs from people I follow; and -people I follow Repetitive much?

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

I absolutely hate this man, but having watched my Mum try to make herself a sandwich, this was painful to watch. Put this horrible old man in residential care, where he can get the help he needs, and stop inflicting his dissolving brain on the rest of the world.

You know how a lot of us GenXers are like "there's less quicksand in my life than I expected"? It's this. This is the quicksand we were warned about as kids. Social media. It sucks us right under. We didn't escape it after all.

The Alt text is on point for this image.

My jaw actually dropped at this picture. I don't know how to immediately process the heinous hideousness of generative A.I. and its byproducts except thru sarcasm because it's all so deeply vile and contrary to humanity.

There isn't enough focus on the people who could stop this shit.

last time knicks won was 1973 great year imo i wonder if any other interesting events happened that year

When Hitler fell, the purging of that mindset wasn’t de-Hitlerification, it was de-Nazification. When Saddam fell, it wasn’t de-Saddamification, it was de-Baathification. When Trump falls, it will be de-MAGAfication, not de-Trumpification. The entire movement’s hatred and corruption must be purged.

“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it

folks, they’re calling the tarp “the white flag of surrender”

They tried to hide but I got em anyway

For the love of Jane Yolen... The people we admire most, those whose work inspires us, always seem to leave too soon. And so I light a candle in a metaphorical icon: this time for Jane Yolen, because her memory is really and truly a blessing. www.instagram.com/p/DZe9Xy2iKZA/

no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

Petition to put the names of the cover artist, editor and literary agent of every book IN THE BOOK On the copyright page, perhaps I want to know who makes your beautiful covers, and I want to know which editors/agents I should be paying attention to!

Deeply upsetting news. Anthony Head was magnificent, and his Giles character in Buffy remains one of the greatest and more inspirational mentors in fiction for me. Rest well, Ripper. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Black romance readers roll deep!

I become unreasonably happy when I cobble together something that solves a small problem. My latest: My windows are top openers which I am too short to open when there's a sink in the way. So I have put together a bamboo garden stake with a plastic hoop to make a tool to open and close the window.

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

I am very intently NOT watching Eurovision, but a quick glance at social media shows me that the country that shall not be named and Australia are in the top three right now. I'm confused. Neither of those is a European country. I'm not qwhite sure how they qualify?!?

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

If we're to have any shot of getting out of this, I really need my fellow white people to get past our apparently hardwired belief that something being illegal means it's impossible. Because I keep having the same conversation over and over again.

”It should be for everyone.” I so agree with my friend below. Wake up people , evil is crawling out from under it’s rock ! It never left us, it’s been here all along.

FFS people. If someone asks a very specific question about an obscure aspect of a subject, don't post the Wikipedia link to the subject. They've already looked at Wikipedia. They've done the easy Google. Now they're asking for the deep data. Following up with a link to Grokopedia is worse.

A reminder that if your part of Wales elected a fasci… sorry, Reform MS yesterday, it is your civic duty to bury them with so much trivial and tedious constituency work for the next 4 years that they don’t have time to target the vulnerable. We’ve got this. ✊

I have had some good news. I was expecting it but it is quite a LOT better than I was anticipating. I don't quite know how to deal with it. My stomach hurts and I am ever so slightly hyperventilating.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Keep Britain Kind

I've left my home & family to move in with my other family to look after them. It is, I know, the right thing to do. But it is very hard. It's hard to be the adult with your parent. To try to maintain their dignity, and be patient, and kind, and NOT be patronizing. That last one's really hard.

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

This is AWFUL and should get national press.

Spotted in the wilds of Hartlepool, UK: T. Kingfisher's "A House with Good Bones", at a WH Smith. No sorry now they're TG Jones or something. Anyway, the UK cover is gorgeous 😍

Am watching the "new" MasterChef. Of course as soon as a South Asian cook starts to cook an innovative but typical South Asian dish, the judges immediately go "oh dear, there are spices in every element." Yes. That's how South Asian food is supposed to be! Dumbasses.

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week to those who celebrate! And really, that should be all of us! #Booksky #sapphic #LesbianVisibilityWeek

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

imagine if we treated DoD the way conservatives treat the Post Office

It is very nice to see JD Vance fail utterly and profoundly at doing International Diplomacy, on every possible level. Imagine it from his POV: Iran talks failed. Orban forced to skitter out of office. The Pope actively hates you.

Here's a picture of Christina Koch using hardware I designed the electronics for and wrote the firmware of

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

Yes it may be futile but I’m gonna say that if you’re a congressperson it’s part of your job to do things that may not work simply because they should be done and it’s your duty to lead and set an example.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Americans have already been using credit cards to buy necessities like groceries for years. It’s unacceptable and Susan Collins and repubs in Congress keep making things worse. We need change. Maine needs a senator that knows food policy and what it’s like to rely on govt assistance. Maine needs me.

As someone who lived through portions of two martial laws and the ongoing militocracy in Pakistan, the last thing I want is for the US military to get so fed up with Trump that they remove him (once they get a taste of political power democracy is in danger in my experience). And yet ....

They’re making this woman pay $500 a month to talk to her husband.