All right. There's the confirmation. Call your US reps and tell them to impeach. Call your US senators and tell them to publicly support impeachment. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please. Script.

This Upton Sinclair quote never misses “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

screenshot in case the post gets taken down or deleted

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

I wrote this before grok even existed

Based on data from 27 reports, basic income recipients are more likely to find long-term employment, and not a single pilot has resulted in reduced work. Recipients also experience less stress, because of course they do.

Rewatching The Blacklist and the pace (and editing) of this show is absolutely wild. There's a revelation at the end of the first epsisode that I remembered as happening towards the middle of the first season. Something fun about a show that throws it all down so quickly.

AND ANOTHER THING: Tech Bros will sometimes suggest that the Plagiarism Machine doing plagiarism is no different than artists learning from and copying their influences. But the thing they fail to recognise there is that even the most derivative work by a person still tells me something about them.

What A Year. It's time for the biggest of cheers for our fantastic guests and our awesome audience who all helped make 2025 so special. To celebrate we've crammed some of the best (and worst!) moments into this short video!

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.

This is awesome news! Nasal vaccines don’t just provide needle-free immunity to disease. They also activate immune systems that traditional vaccines don’t, providing better protection from disease.

This is why I don’t trust the "Never Trump" Bulwark guys. They’re perfectly comfortable with real people being harmed, so long as the harm comes via a process they can label “liberal democracy.”

"She helped to pass a fascist bill, which is 100% part of liberalism" is what he should have said, if he was being honest. Then he could explain how liberalism holds the door open for fascism, if he was being honest. See also: the Social Democrats, 1933.

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS. You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir https://goodlaw.social/658abc

resolution for this year: writing letters to get things done (like we did in the 1980s for Amnesty, remember that?)

Does Griffin Newman know about this?

So I know that Starstruck Odyssey, The Unsleeping City, and Fantasy High are my 3 favourite Dimension 20 settings, but if we break it down into seasons, I'm struggling with the order.

"I'm not horny right now if that's what everyone is worried about" bsky.app/profile/impa...

If you ask someone when they were forced to apologize for being white, they will absolutely name a time when they were asked to apologize for doing something racist and they conflated doing racism with being white because they have a vague understanding of the power dynamics of white supremacy

If only I could explain the joy of working through a story moment that wasn't working to a tech bro, they would understand why Gen AI has no value.

This is a bit of a tangent, but it gets back to the point eventually I promise. One vid I enjoy that periodically pops up on my Insta feed is a Ryu cosplayer picking up an Emma Frost cosplayer at a con. Ryu has a bit of a dad bod, receding hairline, and is barely over 5 feet. Emma towers over him.

Dead Internet Theory is real and I would advise you to remember it before you engage with trolls. Even if you discount the literal bots, there are professional Devil's Advocates, The Willfully Ignorant, and The Attention Starved. It's not worth your time to engage with them.

You know, it was @ashcanpress.com who first alerted me to the fact that there was no sibilant 'c' in ancient Greek. Accordingly, 'Cyclops' would have been pronounced 'kee-KLO-pes'. Anyway, the preorder cutoff for KEEKLOPES #1 is approaching fast. Get 'em in by January 11, chums!

Exactly this. They never want you to be bored because then you might pick up a paintbrush, a screwdriver, or a difficult book.

Meanwhile this is *machine learning* and what it is *good at*. Not generative AI bullshit, actual useful predictive statistical models. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Trump has really illustrated for the masses that the mechanics of civil society are irrelevant to those without shame. That's always been the case but he's really laid it bare. I wonder if there'll be consequences.

For example, do you want your accounts to be filed by Christina, or by X-CELL, who styles herself as an over the top prison warden? You could be defended in court by Raymond, orrrr Mends Ray-A, lawyer by day, Mad Science Machine Maintenance Man by night.

We need to expand the number of industries in which its common to receive a cool nickname. As it stands, rappers, roller-derby players and wrestlers are some of the lucky few, but don't we all deserve that joy?

I'm calling a moratorium on Avatar (the blue guys) discussions, indefinitely. You can have your ball back when I'm convinced you won't pull out the exact same conversation every time.

That time of year again!

It's just such a regressive culture that fetishes "new ideas" without ever stopping to think about what the problems are and how to solve them. It allows people to create problems only to sell you the solution. And creates a culture of consumers who think that ideas are worth a damn.

In response to the Vox article claiming we need AI because we're "running out of new ideas": we don't need new ideas. "New ideas" are what's killing us. It's the mindless pursuit of "new ideas" that sees Tech Bros with no hearts recreating trains, and cable, taxis, and fucking feudalism.

So this is me from a couple of weeks ago, trying to work out The Christmas Song. Season's Greetings, friends 🙏🏿🎅🏿

Merry Christmas nerds

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

what does it mean if the ghost of Christmas Past turns up at 1, says "nah not feeling this one" and then vanishes? that's good right? asking for a friend

And Schrödinger’s Tiny Tim, who both DID and did NOT die,

He’s making a list He’s checking it twice One day it’ll be released By the Dept of Just-ice

The thing about structure is that it’s not a straitjacket, it’s a service. If you’re going to ignore it in your story, you’d better replace the expected beats with better, more engaging ones, or people will just wait for the expected beats and be annoyed you’re taking too long to deliver them.

I know this has been said many times but that "only democracy in the middle east" lie needs to never be uttered again.

Viva Greta.

“Hey kids, need a seasonal job? Come cover up crimes for Christmas.”

Writers, this is your regular reminder: sometimes show, sometimes tell.

One of my most firmly held beliefs is that only cowards change the gender in songs when singing covers. Buble, I'm talking about you. "Santa Buddy"??!! Unacceptable. LET IT BE GAY, BUBLE.

ok genuine answer and possibly a subskeet of most of the replies here but anything that tells writers to ignore writing "rules"/structure and write from the heart can be really quite damaging - I know writers who think reading books on structure is an admission of failure which is so silly!