This thread is exactly why I support @senadorajulie.bsky.social for US Senate over John Hickenlooper

When I bitch about things that seem silly like, say, Apple and Windows increasingly Fischer-Pricing their systems at the expense of locking out functions we should be able to tweak, this is why. The inevitable end of "I don't want to learn how to use things" is "I don't want to learn or think."

also while we're on the topic of ways to help ensure your birth control is maximally functional oil based lube + latex condom = broken condom this includes mineral oil and Vaseline FYI for more on choosing the right lube for the job, check out this post from Scarleteen

We're reaching the point where someone who simply reinvents what Google used to be will make bank.

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

This is, by my count, the third time in two years that a Cybertruck has been driven into this *particular lake* in North Texas. The driver, after bailing out, was arrested for not having a boating license & operating a water vehicle in a restricted area, which is the icing on the cake.

You don’t have to do this to yourself. There are non-Google options. Kagi is one of rude best search engines I have ever used: kagi.com

This is going to be devastatingly bad

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

it's always a great fuckin day to read my FREE short story about ✨a plague that kills billionaires✨

Colorado’s lakes, reservoirs won’t have enough water for most kinds of boating this summer

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

Bluesky has been good this week. You have earned a picture of Kelpie and Muffles snuggling aggressively on the bed.

"What happens if we tag CPSC?" We take that listing and send it to CPSC's eSafe Team who have been very busy and live for this stuff. bsky.app/profile/cpsc...

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

congratulations, graduates. i'm honored to speak at your commencement. this is a proud moment for you, your family, and your friends. the future is in your hands. and the most important task of the future is to feed the Gaping Maw (students start booing, one student yells "fuck the gaping maw")

Ads for plugging back into the Matrix.

I want to say I have never seen anything as overhyped as LLMs, but I’m old enough to remember NFTs.

The guy who sued 27 women after users in a Facebook group called him “clingy” and “psycho” had his case against Meta dismissed after a judge suggested that his attorney filed AI-generated errors and non-existent citations. @samleecole.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/are-we-datin...

The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others.

On the other hand, if you’re suing a billionaire, start demanding their AI logs in discovery

and having those studies can be important for fighting legal challenges against public health policies

Everybody here

It’s not just handing out cash to insurrectionists. It’s part of a project that started with the mass funding of ICE to use stolen public funds to create spoils for loyal foot soldiers that exist beyond any accountability. It’s how these things work and it will grow as the economy craters.

Do people… not get taught how to do research anymore? Citations aren’t difficult; it’s literally the whole thing. You don’t make a single argument unless you have a citation for it. Is this not how people do it anymore???

Omfg. Study after study has shown that the reason 12-step groups work is because of the human connection. Literally community is the treatment for addiction. This “AI AA” bullshit is going to kill people who would otherwise have sought help where it actually exists: IN MEETINGS.

Hell yeah. Don't let bosses convince you that you don't deserve more. Don't let someone who hoards $100 million tell you that working people don't deserve $100,000. Instead organize and get yours.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

OK OK I will share my Sources with you ladies who really need decent clothes and are, like me, really annoyed by this. A thread. 🧵

He reads the silly post He reads the scoldy post He reads the jokey post And the pedantic post He reads the posts that remind him of the bad site He reads the posts that remind him of the worst site Don’t screenshot that, troll behavior

I bet more than 3% of iPhone users listened to that U2 album at least once.

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

I think the author started crying halfway through

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

I am at my ✨fucking limit✨ Get the sticker: mcapriglione.art

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

If you've ever wondered where to start reading my books, I have a guide here: www.courtneymilan.co... /jb #HistoricalRomance #ContemporaryRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #CourtneyMilan

In Kansas, a judge looked at the medical evidence on gender-affirming care and found the evidence simply does not support the state ban on these treatments. Don't believe the propaganda. Youth trans care is not a particularly tricky or nuanced medical question. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you haven't yet finalized getting your ticket to attend That Thing you were meaning to go to (whatever That Thing means for you... for instance, the Nebula Award Conference that is sneaking up at an alarmingly fast rate), go ahead and do it today.

Thursday's launch will be our last launch with our existing factory. 5 skirt designs are going live Thurs, and they have a lil something new! This will be the last launch of circle skirts for the foreseeable future. Read more about that & what you can expect here: www.mayakern.com/blog/the-fut...

"When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat" Correct! You ask, who built this ship? Do they have a good track record of building ships? Is my safety a priority, or were safety measures too time-consuming or costly? Do the people in charge care about my wellbeing?

Righteous 🔥 and correctly blames Polis. @briannatitone.bsky.social "who sponsored the original 2024 bill and voted for the replacement, acknowledged that workers and consumer rights groups faced an insurmountable obstacle: Governor Polis would not sign a bill without the tech industry's support."

Doing this to cars full of high people is a betrayal of Taco Bell’s social contract with our nation

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

I love walking into @skeuomorphpress.org & finding amazing things that our students & patrons made!

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

How bad is the Colorado governor's commutation of Tina Peters' sentence? So bad that even the Republican DA who prosecuted here pushed back, and told Polis to talk to the county officials who have to deal with threats that followed Peters' felonies. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...