Ever seen a poll result that is basically telling the pollsters themselves to go touch grass?

Me to @laaauren.bsky.social whenever one of us says the word "erratic".

There's too many to choose from, but this one always made me laugh.

"Your job is so fun," yes, but did you know I have to single handedly fight no fewer than sixth algorithms every day for the privilege of telling people to not set their beds on fire.

It feels like people really like to give this Pope jerseys.

The same people who "not all men!" get really mad if survivors of sexual assault assumed that maybe not all men.

Someone on here told me "stop anthropomorphizing Trump" and that has often been helpful

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Even before current generation of GenAI tools, people would brag about their AI/automatic photo restoration/colorization tools, and it always have me the same unease about distorting history. 'Restoring' Old Photos With AI Is a Fundamentally Broken Concept | PetaPixel petapixel.com/2026/03/28/r...

This is not actually hypothetical. Blake Leeper's legs were amputated at age 4. He became a world-class 400m runner on running blades. World Athletics used a dubious metric to say the prostheses he'd used his entire career made him "unnaturally" tall, so he couldn't compete in the 2020 Olympics.

Transphobia cooks your brain. You spend years screaming "everyone fits neatly into two sexes!" and then reality hands you Khelif or Caster Semenya and you can't adjust. You can't say "this is more complicated than I thought." You just call her a man, because the framework demands it. Fundamentalism.

Under Maryland criminal code, calling ICE in order to obtain something of value (e.g., labor) is extortion. Maryland Criminal Law § 3-701, the Prevent Extortion from Immigrants Act, makes this a felony punishable by 10-20 years in prison depending on the value she allegedly obtained.

Elizabeth Banks

This is an excellent thread up and down with a whole lot of takeaways, including that growth as a person and living in a society and developing skills all have as a necessary factor that we sometimes feel bad.

If HP or not being influenced by other people is more important to you than the wellbeing of the people JKR is using HP money to harm, that’s a value you hold that you should probably be aware you hold. If that conflicts with your self-image, it’s up to you to figure out which to change.

also, while I feel like these conversations often devolve into “and it sucks anyway” I think that’s besides the point and risks falling into the “only good people can make good art” trap it doesn’t actually matter whether it’s good or not - you still shouldn’t give her your money

King: death of the author? what's that? Rowling: it'ss real sssimple Rowling: you continue to conssume harry potter media King: uh huh, ok, i'm following Rowling: but you don't worry about what i do with the profitss King: uh King: what WILL you do with the profits? Rowling: don't worry about it

Just to be very clear: "death of the author" is intended to inform *literary interpretation*. It has *nothing* to do with the societal implications of consuming or supporting a given work. It's not a magical Get Out Of Jail Free card that frees you from ethical responsibility as a consumer.

Dear British Commonwealth and Europe, RE: the US,

We are a warning sign not a grade curve

Potterheads, I hope the nostalgia was worth crushing little girls' dreams you nostalgia fucking twats. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Free as in use-after

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

The only thing more psychotic than the glee with which Andreessen sees his lack of introspection as a positive is his take on history to justify it. Freud invented guilt? WTAF.

[Sade voice 🎵]

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

Is that a lot for DOD to spend on crab? I have no idea. Quick Google says there are ~1.3 million active duty members. Was this $1.54 worth of crab each, or was it the joint chiefs and Hegseth w/ $200k worth of crab each? Also: as per XKCD, hed should read: Hegseth spent $93000M, incl. $2M on crab.

Feels like the kind of thing a lawyer with expertise in Name, Image, and Likeness rights might successfully form a class action about?

COMEMIERDAS

Ok, I took the stupid thing, and I am angry both at how clearly better all the human passages were, and that according to this quiz, that is the minority opinion for most of them. (By a slim margin, usually, but COME ON🙄)

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

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You have to really believe deep in your soul that your audience is deeply foolish in order to write a piece arguing that less societal acceptance of transness would be in the best interest of femme boys. As if trans bathroom panic hasn't led to the harassment of butch cis women and fem cis boys.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

My debut single Sueño Americano is out! Here's a fun lyric video to accompany the rage dancing 💃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEa9...

glow_in_the_dark_cats.psd

Hey, remember: if you recognize any of the guys in the pictures, no you fucking don't. Also? This shit is the funniest thing I've ever read. Transferred in stable condition, were they? With luck, they'll be back on the streets if an NYU pillow fight gets out of hand.

Whole thread is worth a read.

Dorina is awesome, and this song is so good. Give it a listen, you won't be sorry.

It's a bop! Support independent artists&cool humans like Dorina by buying this on Bandcamp or iTunes, sharing it on all your socials, and streaming it in all the places!

My daughter just recently told me that her after-school teacher said she "didn't know if she would call Indians 'Asian'". 🙃

hi guys I know I haven't been very active lately, and I don't talk about where I'm from often, but the government made some really scary announcements today so I thought I'd share to let everyone know what's happening. here are some posts from twt for context

If y'all are in the mood for some shitty LLM-generated spam to block, go ahead and block @trailerswiper.bsky.social. All their replies have this same formula, although a bunch of them just truncate randomly at the character limit.

Robert Duvall was part of some of the Great Movies of American Cinema™. I think to remember him today, though, I'm going to rewatch the very sweet and underrated *Secondhand Lions*.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

AYFKM? The only way to disable Gemini AI summaries in Gmail is to also disable useful older features like putting events on your calendar and auto-complete suggestions for search? Fuck off, Google.

Macbeth: SHIT

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.