Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

btw we VERY rarely put our petticoats on sale because they are super expensive to make, but they are on sale right now! #store

Step one: DON'T FUCKING GIVE "AI" YOUR CREDIT CARDS JESUS FUCK WHAT ARE YOU THINKING www.wired.com/story/the-ra...

Patting myself on the back for doing my taxes. Curse you CRA! Just send me a bill or a refund, you already have all the forms.

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In case you're wondering, my recipe for a Good Bluesky Experience here at the three year mark: 1. Decide not to be a dick 2. "Don't engage, just block" for trolls/bots/chuds 3. Mute stressful nouns 4. Follow super cool people of all sorts 5. Choose to have fun over "engagement" 6. Pictures of cats!

Happy 80th Birthday to the legendary Tim Curry! 🖤

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it)

folks, check your app passwords and make sure you have 2FA enabled, the spam network is apparently compromising larger accounts now and deleting all the posts then using them for spam (see full thread)

Say it with me again: the Post Office is a government service mentioned in the Constitution and cannot, by definition, "lose money." It is a thing we pay for, not a for-profit entity.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Hmmm a random account with no posts and following 21k accounts just followed me. I suspect a bot! (Gosh I’m just like Sherlock Holmes over here)

@ceceintheshire.bsky.social we are having weather! It should melt by tonight, hopefully.

Huzzah my Cloaf has arrived!

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

Happy Easter!

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

Board game meetup is at a new venue this afternoon: THE PASTRY CASTLE. I am very excited to try all the pastries. And bring home a boxful if they are good.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

🐈 New comic: You Have Cats?🐈

If you don’t have 2FA active on Bluesky, turn it on NOW. There’s an ongoing attack taking over accounts and spamming with links, which seems to add an “app password” for access externally. Already had one friend’s account compromised and I’m seeing others.

🔐 Account Security Thread 🔐 We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10 🧵👇

today is my birthday & i’d really appreciate it if yall would take a peek at my #store and/or share this! we just put a ton of things on clearance & we’re running a big sale on all cotton items my clothes are made ethically, have big pockets, & come in sizes S-6X store.mayakern.com

This is (I think) a Greater Blue-Eared Starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) & the amazing chrome job is their super-power. They've evolved to manipulate light in VERY specific ways, attracting mates, intimidating rivals. Let's look at the nanostructures that bring this bling into being.

Ugh I was accidentally on the Discover tab and my feed was all mixed up, I hate that

As the Adult Substack Babies rot on Twitter, please subscribe to a real newspaper. It is very on sale this week. $75 for a year delivered to your home. I will continue to dunk on them until they die.

'Heated Rivalry' Soundtrack Coming to Vinyl and CD

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Decided to become an influencer

I can think of a few bloomfs who might need this

That show used what sounded like the tracks for Heathens as the pre-walk-on music. Had to stop myself from yelling WATCH IT

My workplace is a donor to this inspirational rock show for kids. So there I am at 10 am watching a rock show in a theatre filled with middle schoolers and thinking to myself “why is the drummer wearing a shirt?” (It was for the best that he kept it on, really.)

Ahahaha haahhahaha ahahah OH MY GIDDY AUNT 'i will strangle a horse' is *multiple award-nominated* at Yet Another Game Awards. Please do sling me a vote or two - winning an award for my very first game would knock my actual socks off. yetanothergameawards.com

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

These are valuable facilities they’ll be guarding, and I certainly hope they’ve fixed the problem of using a wifi jammer to kill their cameras’ connection to the security feeds, one person flipping it with a pole and another then pulling up and back on the battery handle on the now exposed belly.

Search you camera roll for “Hell”

Wear these & never get bothered by random men asking you to take out your earbuds so they can ask you a quick Q.

We went to a garden centre today and checked out the tropical fish section. I absolutely lost my mind when I found out that Vampire Crabs exist. Look at them!

With another streaming service announcing a subscription price increase today, sounds like it's prime time to get a library card. Come to Kanopy for a catalog of over 30,000+ titles, available without ads or subscriptions through participating libraries. Go to www.kanopy.com to get started.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Heated Rivalry enjoyers should watch this excellent video m.youtube.com/watch?v=sj0B...

Drop something red

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites. Yes. A MILLION. This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp... 🔭 🧪

#LunarEclipse FAQ: Q: Is it safe to look at? A: Absolutely! Unlike a solar eclipse, there's no UNsafe time to look at a lunar eclipse. Q: Do I need a telescope? A: Nope! Best view is with naked eye. Just look up! Q: Does the eclipse portend terror & doom? A: Not at all! The news has that covered.

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

Get your bracket: marchxness.com/thebracket

First games of the March Sadness tourney kick off at 9am tomorrow at marchxness.com

We are having a mandatory work meeting at the crack of dawn tomorrow and they are not providing coffee/tea and pastries. What is this bullshit???