look. if pope leo wants to call a new crusade...sign me up for putting data centers to the sword

Cowboy Bebop Director Shinichiro Watanabe repeats what he stated in Carole & Tuesday regarding AI.

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del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness

I... I was lied to!

Gender-affirming care saves lives

This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth. theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...

new strong bad!

COP30 is 30 meetings deep and can't even decide on how to arrange breakout discussions, so...

In today’s least surprising local news, speed display signs aren’t enough to make our roads safer.

every "pivot to video" is fake. it's always fake numbers

I just learned that John Carmack misgendered and deadnamed Rebecca Heineman in his "tribute" over on Twitter. He probably thinks it's okay when talking pre-transition days, but FYI, most trans people hate that. Worse, he never calls her "she," switching to "they" for recent memories. Fuck that guy.

that sure was an interesting take on the original film. zowie. ALSO:

This is the version of the post that everyone needs to see. And all you readers/authors despairing of non-comprehension, etc, we are gaining new fans of fantasy and SF. It might not be the fantasy or SF you personally read, but they're reading and buying where they weren't before.

The claim "there is not a Flying Spaghetti Monster" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Studies supporting the existing of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are being IGNORED BY AUTHORITIES.

The child advocacy nonprofit Fairplay issued an advisory on Thursday warning people against buying AI toys this holiday season. It's not the only group. n.pr/43HKAat

RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language. Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.” Note the language in second photo.

gundam localizers hate memes.

Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position. Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.

Oh my 😰 It's not as if experts haven't been warning for years about the risks of treating orbit as a dumping ground.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

Did You Know? The Inuyasha mustaches episode from Adult Swim's 2004 April Fools' stunt was considered potentially lost…until now! Thanks to olimarfunk and @danmanshow.bsky.social we have a near complete rip (with a few minutes of The Big O) digitized. Please help us find the whole night!

the catholic church is a terrible organization of people with incredibly bent priorities that consistently decides to put the least worst guy in charge.

The Patron Saints of Wraparound Oakleys and Indictable Hard Drives are having one helluva time right now

Sometimes I remember that when the Disney Hercules tv show gave Icarus a mother and named the character 'Momilus' and smile.

loves a good screams down by the perimeter fence

I would really like for someone to break down how much everyone in council and city staff got paid for the dozen minutes it took to say something entirely non binding and non controversial about a sport. also, fuck you steve.

fuck you steve

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fuck you steve

November fucking 12th and I have been whammed

The idea that you can judge someones morals based on the media they consume, that a fictional work will "normalize" or "encourage" behaviour, has been widely debunked study after study If it was true, everyone in canada would be trying to have sex with wild animals since we read this in school

- Buy Bungie for double their actual worth - Ask Bungie for help with service games - Bungie says to cancel them all except Concord - Pre-acquisition projections turn out to be lies and Destiny 2 craters - Marathon on track to be Suicide Squad tier disaster worst purchase in history perhaps

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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

What if @thebitterguy.bsky.social's and I's recurring "rice krispie treats and tang joke", but mom is engaged in acts of premeditated awkwardness.

SD Moving Van was a really good short. I would watch way more of that than world heroes...

remember when cons banned mcu!hydra cosplays for good reason? time to do that again

"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.

I *know* that I *can* use soap on my cast iron pan, because soap has changed since that rule came in, but I also *like* taking care of this one object like a Victorian scullery maid.

china is exceeding the US in nearly every field

It's #extralife game day, please consider a donation to sick kids hospital www.extra-life.org/participants...

You know what? There's actually a tested solution to this! it is brilliantly simple, and it WORKS. I would love to see @bsky.app and @support.bsky.team test this out. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/ju...