Late winter pasty dry skin like "hai this is what you'll look like all the time in ten years"

Leak from a pipe above has resulted in a possibly ideal spot to grow mushrooms in my basement utility room? Why waste a good leak amiright (plumber has also been alerted)

If you try to understand the minds of some of the stupidest and most evil Christofascist leaders alive (careful) you might speculate that the US has triggered a war between Iran and Israel with two intended outcomes: boosting oil prices and destabilizing Israel with intent of Christian colonization

Maybe we already achieved artificial general intelligence we just vastly overestimated the threshold of human general intelligence

Unregulated AI is being live-tested on the global population, leaving us in a sort of cognitive Hunger Games-esque scenario where only the well-informed and mentally+physically-able are meant to thrive/survive. I find this unacceptable. she-what.ghost.io/o/

People who overuse emojis are emojional manipulators

i feel like i get two maddening options - clicking "like" and "share" of horrors, thereby participating in the cruelty-as-hyperreal-entertainment - feel grotesque for "ignoring" horrors, as if that were humanly possible both are corrosive

“All of a sudden, his cognition had dramatically fallen,” said Fox. “His working memory was crap, and his critical thinking had diminished," How this article didn't mention that chatGPT and personal LLMs literally ATROPHY THE BRAIN is extremely frustrating.

Every day I try to counter the doom by rabbit holing until I find something that makes me go "waaooow" and yesterday it was this - the universe looks like a yin yang which I think is neat www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/lopside...

From our team in the Middle East: As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, millions of Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way”, promising amnesty if they surrender. wrd.cm/4l0QScB

No you don't understand, this war is PRAGMATIC. Oil prices will RISE which is GOOD for investors, you see? Yes inflation will rise too but we must all play our part. What else can corporations do while demand for oil is steeply decreasing? Don't we want to BUILD??? Ungrateful plebs!

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

AS I WAS SAYING. Carney's "more ambitious" plan was always about collaborating with Trump. Every policy, every action he's put forward aligns with the US Regime's policies.

If there is a "rupture," Canada has picked a side. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

I'm so mad about this. We've BEEN FUCKING TELLING YOU. Mark Carney cannot be trusted! He is the proudly capitalist leader of a country built on the bones of children that has never reckoned with that and continues to destroy our own environment via resource extraction!

Me to friends on Insta: "I'm no longer using or adding value to Meta products, here's why." (stated again and again) Friend(s) on Insta: "Understood. I will send you reels I think you might like." Me: "Thanks but I don't want them." Friend(s) on Insta: "Understood. Here are more reels."

Learning badass evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis was Carl Sagan's first wife who divorced him because he expected her to do all the housework just tracks so hard lol

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

It's springtime in my house wheeee! Every year I germinate about 2000 seeds to plant sell and share. These are my early starts, and I've opted for the snail method, experimenting with kraft paper (over foam sheet rolls or cell trays)

The Liberal government of NB is proposing to sabotage our thriving higher ed sector. It's hard to tell if this is incompetence, malice, or neoliberal disaster capitalism. Regardless, it's not too late to turn back. @kristiallain.bsky.social and I explain for @canadiandimension.bsky.social.

Friendly locals at the garden centre and antique store fixed me

Well well well if it isn't the most snow I've ever seen in my life

Comparing yourself to others who've accomplished great things – "great things" meaning impactful, positive contributions to society – thinking "I missed my window": This isn't a competition. Brilliance is brilliance, impact is impact. The timeline doesn't care how old we are. Keep going.

Anyway if anyone wants to interview me about driver’s licenses, I hyperfocused my way through a dissertation about this and i think am one of maybe three experts on the topic

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Wednesday is my Friday and both my teens went to bed wooooo time to trash the place

Listening to Duran Duran's 'Invisible' and the song keeps blending with the background effortlessly, almost like it's...

Honestly so audacious of legacy media sites to have paywalls after invasively siphoning and selling data from every site visitor (article is from 2022, I wonder why we didn't hear about it) theintercept.com/2022/02/01/s...

I wonder if they can visualise web-surfing data yet. I bet social media would look like thick cords with "surfers" weaving around them

When y'all are deciding what music to listen to does anyone else approach it like "when do I want to be?" Like kinda using the music as emotional time travel?

Vanilla beans come from orchids???? How did I not know this. I was a pastry chef for like four years and then a flower farmer for also four years

My 18yo wants to watch the Sex and The City series and watching it again I am slammed by the fact that we almost evolved past it but have since reverted to a culture so much worse than it

Found a new horror: on a whim searched "cloning" in the Epstein files and ya it's very likely those degens are cloning themselves

Realised I can display live posts on the map bluesky-map.theo.io?live=1 (there's also an option under the settings cog to display post text, in case you really want to be overstimulated)

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

Limiting access to photos means “protecting yourself from accidentally uploading multiple pictures you do not intend, & ensuring that the app can’t access more than you want, either by accident or malicious intent,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @HuffPost.com. www.huffpost.com/entry/phone...

NEW: An Alberta energy company developing a gas-powered AI data centre lobbied the Carney government 37 times before clean energy regulations were suspended. Read our scoop below 🔍️

To Northerners experiencing the final throes of deep winter: everyone does not hate you. They think everyone hates them too. No one hates anyone, we just need to smell fresh soil.

'Metacognition' has been my word of the day for the past few weeks (word of the weeks?) – working in comms I'm on the periphery of tech, always trying to bridge between tech dev and nontechnical consumption. I enthusiastically agree we need to tune into how our own minds work before diving into AI.

Finally got some thoughts out re: "adapt or die", and how I really don't want AI to become the next catalyst for rabid societal division. she-what.ghost.io/adapt-die-or...

What about a fight scene where they headbutt each other so hard both their heads explode

Finally got some thoughts out re: "adapt or die", and how I really don't want AI to become the next catalyst for rabid societal division. she-what.ghost.io/adapt-die-or...

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I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

“I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech,” Jeanrenaud told 404 Media. The app’s Play Store page says after identifying a device, a user “may act accordingly.”

Realized I don't have the energy to navigate another campaign of ostracizing people for their concerns and curiosities during heaving systemic shifts

My latest story is out. Bots get banned on social media. The workaround? Real humans posting AI-generated messages in a gamified system, coordinated by an AI command centre. And it's being offered to your local town councillor. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/24/i...