Megan Rapinoe losing out on a world cup advertising brand deal for being an outspoken trans ally as a result of AI decision making underlines how these tools function as mechanisms for censorship and blanding culture into nothingness.

In a pluralistic, institutionally secular society with any pretentions of freedom of thought, belief and lifestyle, it must occasionally fall upon our educators to be willing, able and supported in telling parents to shove it.

Pretty useful for everyone and more proof you don’t need AI

no, being a shmuck isn't unmasking

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

well okay so the english won against the norwegians but in only a few days theyll have to face the french. anyway thats quite enough about September 25th 1066, lets look at some football news

Just want to remind everyone that Lindsey Graham saw Trump clearly for who he was. Which makes Graham’s subsequent fluffing of Trump all the more shameful. That self-debasement is Graham’s true legacy.

"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing

#FridayReads Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey

“Why do WE have to get rid of our rapists but the Republicans don’t?” Setting aside all moral implications, it’s because around 70% (if not more) of Democratic volunteers are women and if they get totally disgusted with the party nobody is winning any elections anymore.

The Creepy Caller Problem Protecting library workers from inappropriate (but not explicitly obscene) calls americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc... #publibs #skybrarians

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

Thanks to the holiday I'm at an SCA event instead of being #SaturdayLibrarian

#FridayReads Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham

For the people saying critics of Democrats on immigration from the left don’t have an alternative, I always say “go look at the Statue of Liberty, that’s our immigration policy.”

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

ICE is handcuffing nuns walking into mass, you fucking human hemorrhoid

And finally, do you want to attend a takedown of the whiniest Supreme Court justice ever, the brain-rotted Samuel Alito? Well, this is the auction for you. Fueled by spite, logic, and the joy of calling out this absolute brain turd for the history fool he is.

Just like Jesus Christ, famous hater of the poor

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

My review of Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir in Shelf Awareness #books #BookReviews #booksky www.shelf-awareness.com/readers/2026...

Ok I have an idea. You ask me a question. Any question you like. I chug 500 mL of water and then tell you you’re very pretty before I make up a random answer, untethered from reality. In return you give me a billion dollars AND I’ll come to your house and leave the fridge door open.

BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”

#FridayReads The Devil Knows Her Name by C.N. Vair

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

My review of An Ordinary Sort of Evil by Kelley Armstrong for Shelf Awareness #books #BookReviews #booksky www.shelf-awareness.com/readers/2026...

funny how that works

#FridayReads Victorious by V.E. Schwab

My main worry is that we’re banning social media for kids but not AI. So you can’t speak to real people online anymore, kids, but you sure can talk to your fake artificial friend who weirdly loves to talk about taking your own life!

Religion aside: Gill calls Talarico's reference to God as nonbinary "blasphemous," but while that term has a modern context, belief that God is beyond gender is super common in Christianity. E.g., the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "In no way is God in man's image. He is neither man nor woman."

#FridayReads Damned if I Do by Percival Everett

Pope Leo: "Every boat that arrives does not bring only migrants; it brings with it a question: what world have we built, if so many brothers must risk death to seek life?"

🚨Trump is going to deport Iranian women who PROVED to an immigration court that they would be persecuted in Iran to the Central African Republic, a country so dangerous to others the U.S. recommends no American travel there. Trump is destroying this country's legacy of freedom!

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

How much of a hot take is it to say I don't think corporations should be said to have EGOTs? Do we know if any of the same humans even worked on Schmiggadoon as on the projects that made up the EGO? #TonyAwards

Megan Aldrich, 30, works full time in an attempt to avoid starving to death, but is forced to choose between showing up to work and being the sort of person who doesn’t cry in the shower.

I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.

In the US, the right has been on a multi-decades long attack on academia broadly and the humanities in particular, destroying tenure, using political power to destroy academic freedoms and now devastating federal funding for the humanities, but the Chronicle asks: has the left gone too far?

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

I am #SaturdayLibrarian so I can't go to Pride except for a wild dash through on my lunch break. And I'm being transferred to a branch later this summer so next year I won't be within dashing distance. #LibraryLife #Skybrarians #LibrarianProblems

My review of How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles in Shelf Awareness #books #BookReviews #booksky www.shelf-awareness.com/readers/2026...

“I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.” -Leo Tolstoy

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

The first of a group of undiagnosed neurodivergent friends has finally figured it out, making it only a matter of time before the others start toppling into a big heap of late-discovered burnout, reports have indicated.

#FridayReads Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan

Spent a plane ride reading Pope Leo's Encyclical on AI. Many thoughts to share later, but this will stick with me: "The quality of a civilization is measured not by the power of its means, but by the care it is able to offer, by its ability to recognize the other as a face not merely as a function."

This should be punishable as a serious felony. I mean, you can't steal much more from someone than their work and identity and reputation.