All undertaking the same action, absent any coordination. A structure emerges without a blueprint, an ensemble without a conductor. A stand alone complex.

Editors want an oh-so-fun premise paired with an execution that does absolutely nothing challenging. Smooth, featureless, conventional, and expected. Something that feels like the average of every other story in every other promag. You know, precisely what an LLM does.

And what is this catnip? Was it the prose, the characters, the worldbuilding? Well, no. Upon examination, all of those were weak. No, the thing Bona mentions that made this story irresistible is...the premise. That's it. Just the premise. No wonder you all got rolled by a bot.

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Happy belated pride month to the bisexuals

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

Libs graduating from no political literacy to no literacy at all. Good for them, the country needs more people who can't fucking read confidently making stupid decisions.

In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town? The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.

Kinda been obsessed with this video lately

We provide the truth you deserve to hear

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social Man, if you were too up your own ass to make an apology you could've just said nothing. Chudding out on the Nazi site now has me directly questioning your competency as a journalist.

this is the official scooby doo account

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

Dragonslayers

took a month off of social media, but i'm back! Yonge plays guitar for a death worshipping girl band 🎸

Happy 4th of July to Chibodee Crockett and his multicultural pit crew only. It takes a REAL AMERICAN to pilot a kindergartner's What I Want To Be When I Grow Up? homework (a mecha quarterback cowboy boxer surfer astronaut)

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

I’m still on the road to recovery, but I’m doing my best to keep going. Your support would mean the world to me. 💙 www.gofundme.com/f/58f3ck-sup...

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

I would kill or die for Larry

Whatever you do don't look up who the dsa candidates who won their primaries are, just trust me bro they're all racist white protestants i promise

Louisiana’s Republican attorney general has been indicted on criminal charges by a grand jury in New Orleans.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

I was so-so on the LARB [insert personal backstory here] but then they went and published this searing thing lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

France alone reported 1,000. Allowing tens of thousands of people to die as policy to deal with the consequences of climate change and then under report it, is fascism. The homeless and hospitalized were the most severely affected.

The ruling in Trump v. Slaughter may seem technical, but it represents a radical change in how our American government has functioned since the 1930s and, in some cases, since the founding.

NEW: Last year, the Trump DOJ dropped its oversight of troubled police departments in several cities, claiming the reform efforts were “factually unjustified.” But officers continued to engage in the same abuses, per a new ACLU report.

this whole online ID verification push stuff is turning me into a weird crank at rapid speed because I've never seen such an unpopular policy forced through with such speed in so many countries simultaneously with basically zero real consent from any population, just pure elite collusion

Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more. Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Star Fox sometimes reminds me of group projects in school

'I aspire machine' vs real machine

He's not inauthentic for being the straightest gay man ever to live, he's inauthentic for pretending to be a human being and not some kind of demonic lizard person while his house is full of souvenirs from Afghan warlords.

sorry i got logged out of bsky once and I was too lazy to find the password

@aohelll.bsky.social vtuber sketch [ twitch.tv/genczilla ]

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

Local trans polycule in shambles after it turns out Natalie really did just want to run a regular old game of Battletech.

my comic for #makeaterriblecomicday2026

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Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

You know, I don't think there's a real difference between a box with a code for a download and a box with a disk that starts a download. In either case there's no data preservation in ownership of the box, if the server goes you're equally fucked.

Supergirl Kara

What an interesting game

I keep reading "40 who drowned trying to find relief from the heat" and fighting the urge to scream. We have come to a place whose path was CLEAR. A point of absolute suffering and sorrow we KNEW was ahead. But profit meant more than people, and it will always be so until we force a change.