Talking on your phone in a waiting room is so rude. T-T

My Pennsic encampment (the LGBTQIA+ group within the SCA) is hosting an online silent auction fundraiser! There are some awesome items 😄🏳‍🌈 The encampment is my home away from home, and a place for some of the most amazing people to safely gather (and be giant nerds together 💜)

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THANK YOU an explanation that rules out social media and smartphones

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Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Folks: This starts tomorrow w/Annette Gordon-Reed. The fee is for all of the classes together. (Library of America is a non-profit committed to keeping great American writings & letters in print. Full disclosure -- I'm on their board because I believe in their cause.) www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

Me when people tell me I should stop using em dashes because it "looks like AI" 👇

Twelve-spotted Skimmer and Slaty Skimmer dragonflies #Invertebrates 🌿

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

i’m in love. 😍

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

That big boom heard around Boston was like a meteor:

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Agree with this whole thread.

It's even better now, right? <looks into this a bit> oh no

In the pink with blossoms ...

A painting from the first half of the 19th century of four Haudenosaunee women in traditional dress, painted in the Iroquois Realist style by Native artist Thomas Jacobs (Seneca or Tuscarora).

I want you to hear straight from me about what happened at Delaney Hall on Monday and what I saw inside the facility. ICE out of control. GEO Group profiting off of human misery. People living in inhumane conditions. Let me walk you through it.

Teaching my daughter and her anemic boyfriend how to skip stones

I am the AI killjoy asking my colleagues over and over: How did this use case overcome the ecological and social costs? How did using stolen intellectual property get justified in this instance?

"We experienced an anomaly" uh huh

Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain tissue news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026... #Alzheimers #dementia #menopause #WomensHealth

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Solidarity with E. Jean Carroll and all survivors who face legal retaliation and criminal prosecution for speaking the truth. This is both remarkable and utterly unsurprising. Survivors have been jailed, retraumatized, harassed, and sued into silence for far too long.

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

Warm evening here so just perfect for some pool time for Black-billed Magpie #birds

One of the, uh, quirks of growing up where I did, even though there were a lot of lakes (it is Minnesota), I rarely did lake swimming (because fertilizer runs off into those lakes and makes algae grow). The summer camp I went to was on a peninsula on a lake, but swimming in the lake wasn't allowed.

Bullfrog of the day (with surface tension)! Wednesday, 27 May 2026

understanding the nature of storytelling and how it authors the beliefs (and therefore the realities) of people around us is both powerful and an excellent fuel for existential and moral crisis your words are capable of being so powerful if you spin their webs right. what do you do with this power?

I am not a religious person by any means, but if I saw this in person I'd assume the gods are speaking to me directly

The absolute bare minimum effort we *should* be seeing from electeds anywhere. “I ran up and put myself between the ICE officers and the crowd, and that’s when they started to shoot at us with the pepper balls — as well as using the pepper spray — and were tackling people."

I will have soo much more to say about this but putting an apology for the Catholic Church permitting slavery in the context of how AI is changing work is a bold yet theologically boss move

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Button Block Building (1892) on Water and Clybourn

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

I worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor for three years in my teens. This is spot on. Non-paywalled version gcaptain.com/drowning/

It feels inhumane that you can’t opt out of commercials for addictive products. People should be able to one-click their way out of ever seeing ads for stuff like alcohol, drugs, and sports betting on apps and streaming services. This shouldn’t be controversial at all and should be very easy to do.

100% - there's at least a decade of reseach supporting Faine. Even if access is solved, algorithmic media's usefulness is temporally contingent. Warnings posted during the event may not be seen until hours later.

5. Employers love the fact that people cannot just leave their jobs. A lot of employers. Economic precarity is to their benefit.

Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.

Can you have a successful D&D mission in real life? One of the players adopted Rocco and he is on his way to his new home #caturday

the arctic says trans rights

We are asking each WI candidate for governor this question. Attend our forums to hear from them. danedemocracy.org/forum/