@thewaroncars.bsky.social Spotted on a Cambridge, MA sidewalk. (After dark, current phone cameras are amazing.)

WA-03 Rep @gluesenkampperez.house.gov betrays WA voters once again by voting with Republicans to cut funding for WIC, including access to fresh fruit & vegetables. If you’re a WA-03 voter please consider choosing @bhennrich.bsky.social instead in the primary.

Everywhere.

Have been thinking about BACKROOMS more and more (especially when reading the interesting analysis people have been making about the film’s potential reflections on AI/the internet) so went back to see it again. Not only did it grow on me even more, but the hangups I had almost entirely faded away 📽️

More than 4,000 people just showed up in Collin County — which Trump won by double digits.

Virtually everyone now acknowledges that the Russian ground offensive in Ukraine is stalled. A notable exception, of course, is Putin. Maybe he'll figure it out soon. Cathy Young on Ukraine's turning of the tide: www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-russia...

There is a world where the Disney live-action remakes are instead Muppet remakes. In the words of Pope Leo XIV, “To hope is to bear witness that the earth can truly resemble heaven."

THERE ARE NO TRANSPHOBES WITH HONOR. NO TRANSPHOBE WILL SEE THE GATES OF STO’VO’KOR.

This, for anyone interested, is what an American fascist looks like

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

Trump's recent disclosure of his stock trades is a tale of profiteering, with telling connections between his purchases and his public support of companies. bit.ly/4dXnm4z

Everyone please watch this baby condor try to get in its box like a miniature drunk person in a chicken costume.

Here's my transcription of Strauss' full quote, which makes it clear that Seattle is not going to be satisfied with the current proposal. He said we need to build light rail to Everett and Tacoma before expanding beyond what was in ST3—not before expanding to Ballard. Seattle voters approved both.

You have to admit, "Be stupid" is an easier motto to follow than "Don't be evil."

I was put off by this book's style and structure at first, but then I realized it's probably perfect for the intended audience. And now I think copies should be airdropped into all offices and educational institutions. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

This is a news org agreeing to one candidate's bigoted framing and then telling us it's what really matters. Shame on NPR for playing into this bullshit.

I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country.

will they write an equivalent "James Talarico attacked Ken Paxton for releasing a child rapist, putting release of pedophiles front and center in the race" piece or do they only amplify GOP attacks for some reason?

OSPI Superintendent Chris Reykdal said broadening free meals to all Washington students will help reduce longstanding stigma.

It’s a shame that it’s not getting more attention just who Don Jr’s new wife is. In the late 1990s, her father served as Epstein’s private banker and notoriously wrote a glowing character reference letter for him.

Getting desensitised to Trump’s evil but did you know his administration is getting ready to fund violent anti-abortion vigilantes and he’s using the Justice Department to harass the woman he raped? msmagazine.com/2026/05/26/t...

Delightful (sound ON):

Conservatives are terrified of Dems finally understanding that the people yearn to tell Republicans to shut the fuck up

Trump snaking Cornyn in the Texas primary is doubly hilarious because not only is that Senate seat now 100% in play for the Democrats, but any hope of a 2nd reconciliation bill died in Texas tonight. Between Cornyn and Cassidy playing out their terms, the votes just aren't there.

This is both completely delusional and totally unsurprising, Third Way neoliberalism revealed for the right-wing enabling ideology it always was

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

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the traditional polyam flag looking so goofy isn’t the only reason i am a relationship anarchist, but it’s certainly one of them.

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

If you are in the SF Bay Area and can show me a pneumatic tube system in action (the bigger the better), please get in touch! I am writing a story about a future pneumatic tube system and need to experience how they sound and smell and everything else.

Me, a week ago www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-ex...

"What’s more, three of those Democrats — Gillen, Gluesenkamp Perez and Vindman — are members of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which advocates for LGBTQ+ rights."

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

"I think this is an industry that didn’t understand what it was doing and, now, doesn’t understand what it did."

Our new pied-à-terre tax will have the ultra-wealthy elite — those who own $5 million apartments in New York City but don’t actually live here — pay their fair share.

#IsGodIs "Moses Sumney never wanted to score movies. Then, he read the 'Is God Is' script: www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/film-t... @moses @hollywoodreporter @amazonmgmstudios

If you like stories about female rage, and if you're a Black woman or femme-presenting person who has felt nothing but rage with every recent news headline there is about Black femicide? (Of which there have been far too many.) #IsGodIs is a film that truly deserves your time and your attention.

At the climax of #IsGodIs, I yelled “let’s fucking go!”” And the theater cheered! You definitely wanna see this with a crowd!

There seems to be a popular genre on LinkedIn in which LLM-poisoned individuals use LLMs to write gleaming odes to LLMs. It's a bit frightening. Also, I know more than one person now who is in the throes of some form of AI psychosis.

This isn't a battle between left and right. It's between up and down. Know who the real enemy is! visibility brigade ✊

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It’s what the headline says: “Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees”. Go figure. But to be perfectly clear, **even if AI was more economical**, it would still be dehumanizing and immoral

It's the EXACT shit people who dream of apocalypse bunkers full of slaves in shock collars would value. Because that's who's running the show, now.

You're not excited about technology anymore because what we're calling "technology" these days isn't even considering your desires when it's being developed. What's not disinterested in you is outright exploitative and hostile, even fundamentally anti-human.

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend” is a banger. And a rallying cry for artists in the AI slop era.

It's wild that software used to come in a box, and you installed it and your computer did a useful or entertaining thing. And now there's a system that requires access to ungodly amounts of human-created data, and humans need to clean the input, and fix the output, and I'm supposed to be impressed.

Sunset of Cockatiel 🌤️ #birdart #cockatiel #digitalart #fantasyart #creatureart