hot take but if “the west” can be destroyed by the presence of women, then it deserves to be destroyed and i’m glad it’s dead

if we allow trillionaires to exist, then we have failed as a civilisation and as a species

A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕

i don’t chase, i attract. mostly mosquitoes, but still.

Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.

the tech industry is pretty funny, because a bunch of pretentious dudes invented software that generates sentences and now they think they’re demigods

why do they want to turn it into an AI and robotics juggernaut? is it because their car sales are doing poorly? do they understand why that’s happening?

You can't even call Tesla shareholders a proper cargo cult though, because half the time Elon can't make the car go.

this is no longer an embarrassing time to be alive. it has become an actively offensive time to be alive

oh, fuck off

generative AI works by returning the statistically most probable reply to your query. in other words, it’s mediocre by definition.

at this point, i’m convinced that half the AI things out there are just ways to fool you into giving more data to the slop machine

semi-regular reminder that soldiers aren’t allowed to use tear gas in combat because that would be a war crime

the trouble with the 5th of november is that in 2025, blowing up parliament doesn’t sound like a bad idea

more than 2 million votes in a NYC mayoral election for the first time since 1969. turns out, the way to fix voter apathy is to give people a candidate they actually care about. who knew?

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

loving all the videos of new yorkers dancing in the streets

i’ve been a regular donor to @wikipedia.org for years, but this is testing my willingness to continue. genocide denial is not neutrality. ignoring the verdict of 16 international organisations is not neutrality.

You can’t find closure staying on the same page #poetry

the word of the year is a number, and that feels very on-theme for 2025

“stiff, smart, and straight” is how some of the world’s worst people describe themselves

i didn’t have elon musk stealing Wikipedia and making it racist on my 2025 bingo card, but in hindsight, i probably should have

every time i see footage of protests in america, i think about how the military isn’t allowed to use tear gas in combat zones because that would be a war crime

for those who weren’t here yet, an anti-black racism incident was the first major issue bluesky management faced here. back then, jay simply chose to ignore us completely until people started talking about contacting her investors on linkedin.

all of this is doing wonders for my impostor syndrome. if these absolute goobers can succeed at creating a social network then surely i can’t be that bad.

sighing heavily and setting the “days without bluesky’s management publicly humiliating themselves” sign back to 0 again

it feels increasingly ominous when people ask me if i'm enjoying the fall

"you can never see posts that Bluesky doesn't want you to see, but you're free to ban more posts or users beyond what Bluesky will ban. This system means that Bluesky inc retains the power to use their effective monopoly to suppress speech Graber finds distasteful"

it feels increasingly ominous when people ask me if i'm enjoying the fall

if you’re ever in a relationship with someone who chooses to talk to chatgpt instead of talking to you, it is over and you need to leave

This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000! To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

so apparently, some people can use she/her pronouns for an AI-generated image but not for a trans woman

there's a reason why half the out and out racists online have AI generated Ghibli profile pics and it's because being pro-ai in and of itself has become a dogwhistle

twitter: OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??? threads: I bet you never even eaten pancakes why r you lie about that? bluesky: lol i'm pancakesexual mastodon: Actually, you're not even talking about pancakes. Let me explain. There are many types of cakes made in pans and people like you are most familiar wi

it's like campaigning to give rights to mad libs

anyone else have a toxic ex who talked like this?

live your life in such a way that no youtuber will ever introduce a topic by saying your name in comical exasperation

Rage is not a home “At some point you will feel and express rage, and you will doubtless be right to do so.” — Judith Butler Inspired, in part, by @courtneymilan.com. #poetry

wait, is he dead again? when he talked about shutting down the government, i didn’t think he meant—

the trouble with all social media apps is that they're run by people who don't give a shit about their userbases and don't think that's a problem.

please see a therapist

still relevant

CEO: we're all trying to improve this place You: so you're gonna kick out the guy who keeps trying to kill me, right CEO: You: You're gonna kick out the guy who has literally helped kiwifarms target me personally, right CEO: WAFFLES

seeing as this is the kind of official response we can expect, i’m just going to leave this as a non-sequitur reply to everything she posts

un jour entier pour être une petite patate 🥔

in the 21st century, Plato’s cave has a text interface

Feliz Dia de Meninas Malvadas a todes que celebraaam! #MeanGirlsDay #Oct3 #October3

heh. super earth.

no, we would like bluesky to be consistent with its policies and enforcement. it wasn't us who stopped moderating bigotry, nor was it us who started suspending people for no obvious reason. we would simply like things to be the way they were.