my favorite jwst images from 2025 🌌

i'm truly an Easter Guy, but you don't get the catharsis of Easter without loving the lil baby wrapped in a blanket that everyone's gotta take care of

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

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This entire weekend

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

People are going to die because of the pending insurance premium hikes. I know the terrain of discourse is inconsistent and goes through a tumble cycle every 24 hours, but I really think we need to hone in on this reality and drive it home for people.

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

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Olivia Nuzzi won't see this, but your friends who look like Yassified Lord Farquaaad will.

go birds!

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Puffins have returned to Northern Ireland’s Isle of Muck (seriously, that’s its name) for the first time in at least 25 years. Tales of puffins on the island “felt more like folklore,” said nature reserves manager Andy Crory, but now they’re coming back. buff.ly/oBQlH6r #ShareGoodNewsToo

nose down ass up that's the way we cyberstuck

Your education cannot be social media. If you're not reading, you're not learning. Podcasts can be educational when they have scholars, authors, etc who actually have expertise on a topic. Reading is essential. When Kendrick said "turn the TV off" it was more than a metaphor.

It's easy to see shoddy research as a bad actor problem. But if AI slop like this can make it through editors and peer reviewers, it means there are systemic problems at work. And I'd argue that at least part of the problem is the overwork culture in academia-- pressure to do more while caring less.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

doing NYE research and:

Hey, yall, I just learned that Life After Hate is on Bluesky! @lifeafterhate.bsky.social You should *definitely* give them a follow, they're a vital US org dedicated to de-radicalization of far-right extremists-- fighting the good fight and giving those people a pathway out.

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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Let’s be clear. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got Trump so charmed that Trump posted two photos of the two of them with Franklin Roosevelt’s portrait behind them AND one of just Mamdani and FDR’s portrait.

Seth Meyers takes #ACloserLook at Trump claiming it was his idea all along to release the Epstein files www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZK3...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

everlasting shame on all these people

Co-signed from an emphatically one-cat household — I’ve got a lot of pics of *this* cat, who would not tolerate any others!

for some reason, i don’t believe them

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

"May we keep building power in relationships that last longer than election cycles." - Adaku Utah

Everyone is hope scrolling now

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

special shoutout to Brad Lander

Also when we *checks notes* don’t exactly come together

Find someone who loves you the way Curtis Silwa loves cats and telling Andrew Cuomo to go fuck himself

This Friday at 3:45 PM EST, I’m calling it. It will be The Holidays. I cannot take anymore input. It’s over. This year is over.

“Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication with a disingenuous press release when the winds shifted.”

If I see any of you citing exit polls in the next 24 hours, I will turn this car around!

Mr president u are cheugy

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

they should let horses trick or treat just leave out a pail of applesauce

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

i like weird art!!!! i like freaky art!!’ i like art that you can’t bring around your parents and coworkers and friends you don’t know well enough to let into your heart!!!!!!!

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

YES! I feel the same way

“I hate it here,” said flatly by the person next to me in line at a new to me [& my partner] Walgreens pharmacy when someone loudly farted.