Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old 192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!

Here's four goblins in a wizard robe trying to scam their way into a very secret wizard meeting ✨️ #myart #goblins

It's a snow and wind storm today. Spud does not approve.

not a hard q tbh especially if you're familiar with genre. NK Jemisin for starters

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My water bill is twice its usual amount. Am i paying for the Microsoft plant or is there a leak domewhere? Like, seriously, i didn't even HAVE water for a bunch of days in there.

We had to stop allowing students to use Canva, a tool that actually was useful, because they added shitty generative AI that couldn’t be trusted to not make porn. Just fucking ridiculous.

the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along

there are benighted lands on this planet where a child can be born into statelessness but such barbarism is nearly unknown in the Americas, home of hummingbirds & redwoods, the great river & the great cordillera bsky.app/profile/hann...

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter wasn't actually that intense. A lot of the "queer community" pilloried a trans woman and ran her out of society entirely and buried her literary future because they felt like it and they could taste blood in the water, and that's how all this works.

Algorithmic feeds cultivate a kind of panicky helplessness in their users and that’s so insidious

And I really think the broad sentiment of needing to get fucked up shit off the internet entirely is deeply intertwined with that fact. People not only don’t know how to curate their experience, the architecture of these platforms makes it difficult to impossible to do so

I feel like there's a lot of insight to be gleaned about current attitudes toward transgressive or disturbing art if you know how often people's response to something delivered to them algorithmically is basically, "Who the fuck are you, and why are you in my feed?"

Once again indoctrinating the youth with Marxist ideas by forcing them to read 1840s Europe's most radical and influential work of anticapitalist literature, A Christmas Carol.

a person making six figures has more in common with someone who is destitute than they do with a billionaire

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

"But I was trying to find your wholeness from your parts. " 😢

You guys my last pen has a flying squirrel on the nib and it came with a little guy

Three times now I’ve had the pleasure of listening to @maryrobinettekowal.com read first pages of writers’ work at different retreats. Watching her discover the work’s cadence and adjust accordingly, in real time, was a testament to the skill it takes to be a good narrator.

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Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.

Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good

We don’t need to coddle the billionaires when places are electing BLANK SPACES OVER REPUBLICANS we need to create the policy that the are REQUIRED to fill To fill in that space

And I know Trump isn't doing this, but this is part of a deeply toxic work culture that valorizes never resting, and this is making us mean, stupid, and reactive.

Hey I heard it's irrelevant and undeserved prize day! I just won the Zoo of Mesopotamian Mesomorph Prize for Absolutely Not Procrastinating, Ever. What did you win?

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It's time to talk to you about my cat.

Anyhow, TeaSource is awesome and you can use the code GINGERSNAP25 for $10 off your order and it's a struggling small business like everyone else but holy shit this inflation is unsustainable.

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things

The constitutional right for Republicans to win elections no matter how hostile the electorate is against them

"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."

The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

… and he SERVED ✨

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FUCK ICE

Never shop Temu. Not even once.

Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros would be the latest in this harmful trend — and could kill the movie theater industry. If Netflix gets their way, their increased domination would make things worse for viewers and artists. www.wsj.com/business/med...

The onion just prints the news now

Chickasquee #birds 🌿

I'm always confused when writers change the plot because a reader figured out what was coming. Surely that's good? Surely that means the breadcrumbs have been laid out appropriately?

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.

There's no excuse for ProPublica's position on this issue. We need a fair contract, with real job security and GAI guardrails, now!

Additionally, management struck out: 1️⃣ Language that would prevent GAI from producing editorial work 2️⃣ A requirement that AI-generated content be clearly labeled and reviewed by human editors

It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I do, and her mother has a fundraiser for the costs: www.gofundme.com/f/help-adrianas-family-during-this-heartbreaking-journey

Do you remember Adriana Smith, who died 9 weeks pregnant and the state animated her corpse with machines because of their anti-abortion laws? the baby, Chance, has been in the NICU ever since, and the family is on the hook for every dime.