One thing about how I grew up is I explain anything I don’t understand as , “probably the CIA.”

It must be a very comforting thought. Everyone's secretly using AI to write emails and come up with things to say to their family for them, you're not a deeply weird person, everyone else is doing it too, just secretly! The cowards. At least you admit it. You're the brave truth teller for saying so.

"Everyone's using AI" Okay, who are you trying to convince? Because every time I see this take, and it's a lot, it screams insecurity and shame, it reeks of desperation. You sound ashamed of offloading your thinking to slop merchants and desperately wish it was the case that everyone else is too.

I’m logging off for the day. Too many blue-no -matter-who’s comparing the White House’s current state to a trailer park. Wrong. That’s rich ppl shit. Those ppl up there all went to Harvard. Professional managerial class. 5th Avenue. That’s your folks.

we are dealing with actual nazis. that’s how they ought to be treated. stop confirming their judges. stop pretending bipartisanship is a virtue. they want to kill immigrants and they’ve been given billions to do it.

This “calorie standard” language is sinister as fuck. Basically we’re feeding them enough to stay alive but nothing more.

this is the way

Told someone today that I don’t look at anything they send me because they sent me some ai slop once, and I can’t risk it.

Member of @authorsabb.bsky.social @jerroldconnors.bsky.social came through in the best way and assembled this for us all! Know thine shitty bills!

I just noticed that last setting, and I’m disappointed by it. I wonder how much I’ve missed.

"One friend said he'd be waiting for me at the airport. He said that I had no idea how important this was to all of them. He said that their families could be rich, pay off all their debts, and afford to send their kids to private schools for better lacrosse coaching."

Salinas CA farm workers are harvesting strawberries in the rain. "We must keep working in this weather, otherwise we'll lose our jobs. It's difficult because our clothing gets wet. The cold makes it worse as we get the shivers. But we can't afford to lose our jobs." #WeFeedYou

I do not think it is possible to do this. The world today is so different from the one I grew up in. If you add cell phones into a story that doesn't have them, there are so many "why didn't they--" questions that arise.

My daughter could not understand why, in Beezus and Ramona, they didn't watch TV after school. It led to an interesting conversation about what life was like at that time and how much things have changed since then.

I remember reading one of my kids one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, and when we got to a bit about them digging a hole for an outhouse, she was scandalized: "The poop will fall into the subway!"

An analogy that literally erases someone else’s labor. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

"A wizard should know better!" Peter Jackson's disappointing and downright ironic statements on AI: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The voters of NY-10 have a big choice to make — between one candidate who will always defend your civil liberties, and another who’s sacrificed your privacy to expand the surveillance state.

I'm sorry those old cartoonists y'all love did the AI but I'll be your new cartoon dad. no prob. I'll never do AI or nfts or nothin'.

what my body wants: me to drink my weight in liquids and electrolytes, turn the screens back off for awhile, and get some activity in so i can sleep tonight what my brain wants: me to figure out what "milli vanilli concert" even means in 2026

It's so striking how much conservative ideology rests entirely on lies. You can look up which books are getting assigned in colleges! The idea that higher education has a "disdain for Western civilization" is laughable.

I love going grocery shopping, I get to hand pick the ingredients we're going to use to make food 🤪 These guys are so weird

lmao

"Gender Critical" is the belief that this obviously infinite back and fourth has a conclusion with a definition that actually works how they want it to

since apparently JKR is spouting nonsense about "gametes" again, here is my in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become so obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...

No but sure you're right any day now the technofreaks will stop spending a full US annual UBI every like 8 minutes trying to make human people as a whole obsolete to give us a UBI I'm sure they will, it's just around the corner

Hmmm what could it possibly mean when every genAI company's profit lines go red and down and the only one green profit line that goes up, and it goes up very high, is Nvidia's isaiprofitable.com

The thing with grifting is it actually seems like *so much more work* and it rarely ever pays off, the grifters just *make it look* like it's lucrative so they can sell you the grifting course.

Recently stumbled into an online argument of a group of people I wasn’t really aware of which are “Beatles snobs” that think some Beatles music is sublime and the rest is for stupid normies and I dunno man I don’t know why this song about submarines is good but this one about saying hello is bad

AI is inevitable. That's why we're sneaking it into everything, hiding it in hard to find and turn off places, forcing it into products that don't need it, suddenly claiming old things we've always done is now done with AI. Because it's inevitable. You don't need to do all that when things aren't.

alright this guy absolutely has scrambled eggs for brains

its a shame the veggietales refuse to depict jesus because then you could have a crowd of produce demanding "jucify him!"

Desire is the root of all suffering 🧘

me in 2017: alright we’ll start at that show at baby’s. starts around 10pm. after that my guy says he’ll be at wayward social, we can pick up and go to that one party or we can just chill there. heard about an afterparty in red hook or we could just hit up the bread factory and go home me in 2026:

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

this is not something the official party should do but progressives should def be asking republicans that since they know for sure god is male, how big is his weiner

"you didn't spend 3 years of your life making something specifically for me, a stranger, and i am personally offended by this" - people who also leave comments like "what can i substitute if i don't like beans" on a bean soup recipe

I would rather that police showed up 4+ minutes faster in response to the most desperate phone calls seeking help than show up to tens of thousands of surveillance alerts a year which overwhelmingly result in nothing (except police hassling someone unnecessarily)

Milli Vanilli is too on the nose for how fake this administration is

Funny story: 13 is the same number of service members who died in the pullout from Afghanistan, for which Biden received brutal bipartisan media coverage for months

I realize all that logical gotcha stuff about the definition of a woman hasn't actually been very helpful to trans women, but it has led to terfs saying “gametes” a lot, which is pretty funny

"Trump could cure cancer and they'd hate him for it" is such an interesting mental circuit breaker for trump supporters. In lieu of trump actually doing anything good they invent him doing the greatest thing and it's like "cool, I never have to think about politics again, trump good Ds bad"

This is why it is imperative that we don’t laugh when men make bad jokes that aren’t funny. They get the idea that they are inherently insightful and humorous when they’re just dumb.

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

See also, this article from Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa, where a storm survivor talks about the dehumanizing way aid workers were treating people.

Learned recently there's a whole subculture of halal BBQ joints in texas, originally because Texas's quite-large Muslim population couldn't eat at ones that also prepared pork, but now it's a whole thriving culinary niche. Real "glorious American melting pot" stuff

🧵I was actually thinking about the term "loneliness epidemic" today, & what if humans have always experienced loneliness but we're finally advanced enough as a society to have made a little room for people to express a need for emotional intimacy, but not advanced enough to know what to do about it.

this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

Mood

This lady loves to invent new ways of going on vacation