I love y'all, but there are so few people who would be willing to pay a real fair-market rate for the items my wife crochets. Some of the one-off items that she has *donated* as prizes for fundraisers are quite literally worth THOUSANDS of dollars, after time & materials.

Whenever someone I'm talking politics with gets antcy about the term "socialism," I bring up professional sports and how rarely teams pay for their stadiums up front and/or anything approaching their share of taxes once their stadiums are built.

Remember: the current iteration of LLM "A.I." is a souped-up Markov Chain generator. Basically fancy predictive text. And it can't reliably *count*. Literally, the first thing we taught the fancy rocks to do once we stuck the lightning in them. Gods, I can't wait for this bubble to pop.

I hope everyone understands that this was never about the grade or religious freedom. This was a targeted attack on a trans faculty member, and it succeeded.

Hey gang, Now that news agencies have had the weekend to actually read what's been released, we're starting to see that even with the ridiculous level of tampering & redacting there is some *heavy* topics covered. Please remember to practice self-care & potentially sit this week out offline.

When they ask me what radicalized me

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- GenderBender, 1 of 11 companies FDA is trying to force to register chest binders as "medical devices," fires back: "Chest binders aren't a medical device in the same way that scissors used to give someone a gender-affirming haircut aren't a medical device."

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

gentle reminder-

raised by x-men and gargoyles to adore broad shouldered women and despise wealthy technofascists

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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

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Me right now:

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

These photos don't do these pins justice. They are gorgeous and I was so thrilled to be able to pick them up at PAX Unplugged this year! Go do yourself a favor and add them to your collection today!

I think I'm sticking with 1200×800, but I'm willing to bet that I'm on the road a bit more than Lanaruse.

God. If you can say “I think you should have the same rights as everyone else but now isn’t the time…” then you don’t think everyone should have the same rights. You’re just a cowardly shitbag trying to convince yourself that you’re a decent person. But you’re not.

The thing about RFK jr. being a terrible head of health and human services is like…yeah. Yeah, he is literally the worst possible person for the job.

As always, the alt text is the best.

This is well-worth your time reading. As end-users, we should *always* be pushing the corpos only focused on the bottom line for more accessibility.

I think on some level conservative NIMBYs oppose more housing because they dislike the idea of young people having more choices in how their lives are going to unfold

Finally got around to reading this. Really important piece that I hope more folks read, because this articulates a lot of the issues that I've had in my mind for a while with digital accessibility, in a much better way than I've been able to express. We can all do better. Me, you, everyone. Period.

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

Call to John.

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

Just realized twitch purged more videos without announcement; this is now the 4th time this has occurred that I can recount Please stop deleting my stuff, is what I would like to ask twitch, instead I will say “I am glad o export everything important to YouTube” Your move twitch

This is why I uninstalled Fortnite.

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Standing shoulder to should with Big Pharma CEOs Trump says his plan is to ask Big Insurance CEOs to lower their prices If he really wanted to be tough on insurance companies he would be pushing Medicare For All, not begging them for mercy

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

I continue to stand on 'AI is rotting your brains.' When I was art director for Into the Motherlands, my artists got prompts from me that were anywhere from 3 lines to 4 paragraphs. All of them met our art needs no issue.

My wife works for Lowes part-time. I can absolutely confirm that leadership both at her store and in corporate is the real deal. They literally put their money where their mouths are. When our family had to unexpectedly move this fall, their contingency fund saved our bacon w/ moving expenses.

Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.

Last post for a while as I go into vacation: I want to thank everyone who was in my corner this year, who shared my work, and kept me going. I see you. I hope your holidays and the new year are amazing for ya. See you in January. 💙🤘💙

As much as I would love to join in the conspiritorial glee, the real answer is so much more banal. He's bored out of his skull and hates the tedium of a real, big-boy, 9-5 office job. He said as much 6 months ago. Either way, good riddance to bad rubbish.

Heh.

The US government called NCAR a “stronghold for left-wing climate lunacy” which is a wild thing to say during the 2nd hottest year on record, in the middle of horrific west coast storms and flooding, in a year that saw wildfire-red skies and hurricanes devastating Jamaica, Asheville and more

Add to this the fact that those who are opposed to providing basic human decency to others seem to unanimously be willing to ve violent to get their bigoted ways, and well...

Got a stonking four commissions done for Games Done Quick / Black in a Flash for their Kwanzaa merch, featuring their mascot, Joy! Thank you so much for trusting me with these 💛 🎨 CLIP Studio Paint Pro v2 #shazshanghariart

Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.

ok that's it, if you write "i promise this is interesting" in your youtube thumbnail they should reject it and make you wait 24 hours to upload another. clearly you think it's interesting or you wouldn't have made the video. if that's your best thumbnail idea you need to rethink your content.

There aren't enough holiday ghosts out teaching the rich lessons these days.

Vanity Fair’s portrait of Karoline Leavitt isn’t body shaming. It’s an artistic critique of the illusion of white supremacy along with the hypocrisy and insecurity of Trump’s fascist foot soldiers

An absolute win for archival and hobby history

"This shit isnt going away" is such a moronic thing to say. They are pushing ai in every part of our lives because they NEED their investments to work. The billionaires need ai to work. It's wildly unpopular, they are hoping we roll over and take it.

going to #AGDQ2026? like shiny stuff? bring your small swappables to the crow trinket trading meetup on monday afternoon! stickers, buttons, pins, coins, figurines, shiny rocks, keychains, marbles, origami - anything that tickles your crow/magpie/corvid brain goes! got questions? let me know!