Also it's a canary because of this: a Sieve Gorman & co. ltd. Canary rescuscitator, from the Science and Industry museum in Manchester in the UK. A little device to revive a canary after it passed out in the mine. The miners cared about the canary, and I hope cis people care about us, too.

I use canary deliberately here because this stuff kills canaries first, but it kills miners just as surely. If you can see trans people around you thriving, that is an inevitable consequence of these liberties! If you stop seeing trans people, get to clean air as fast as possible

It’s not hard to understand why the post-OWS ended up the way it did when you realize that—however well intentioned—the idea of ‘the 99%’ was effectively an attempt to create class collaboration.

Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!

To be fair I would also rather post on my phone all day than hang out with Don Jr

The one place I've found people who actually understood and cared was a womens' CSA survivors support group: the kind TERFs are virulently opposed to us being allowed in. I was the first Trans women to join, and it helped me so much.

I want to end this thread with something empowering, like "I will not be silenced" but the truth is I fucking AM silent & silenced all the time. I pretend. I get along. Bc even if I do talk about it people literally act like they don't hear me. A lifetime of therapists & teachers didn't believe me.

Until we reckon with the fact that trans women's lives and bodies and experiences actually matter, that they actually tell us something about how violence happens on a SYSTEMIC level and is erased and offloaded on a SYSTEMIC level, then we will never get rid of intimate and family violence at all

I think about the time someone said trans women never suffer CSA, a trans woman replied that she had and the op responded with "being CSA'd doesn't make you more of a woman" just sheer cruelty

It is a bit ironic, in a paper criticizing people for allegedly overestimating the utility of LLMs, they produced something that is wrong but, because it sounds confident and looks like a real paper, might be believed.

honestly I think that we should pass a law denying the protection of any federal law to anyone who received a pardon from Trump. nothing done to them by any other person should be criminal.

everyone likes unlimited PTO until someone tries to use it

fusion rocket gijinkas #art

"buhh how do we pay for universal health care" this is already an enormous hidden payroll tax that just spikes unpredictably year after year. there's endless money for it

every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years

Mitochondria Eve sobbing, devastated, screaming “why won’t you burn” at the plant hanging overhead.

The post I think about all the time, which is much less famous, is about how when Midwest MAGA bros (like US’s #2) convert to Catholicism, what they actually convert to is the Midwestern Protestant’s idea of Catholicism, which is why it’s so messed up. Not a historian of modern Xianity but yes.

Tiny Tim, who was clearly <checks observational data> NOT dead when we last observed him

It would be hilarious if spiking RAM prices were the cause of a move away from Electron/webview-based apps to native apps. I've seen arguments from gamers* that unoptimized games right now are on the verge of unethical*. * yeah, I know * yeah, I know, it's about ethics in videogame optimizat

beavers always tell you they "need to" bite trees cause it keeps their teeth "under control" and it's like, bro listen to yourself. that's the teeth talking

hello! your tractability arguments are, both logically and stylistically, indistinguishable from creationist counting arguments proving that god created humans. you are on record saying you don't think evolution can hill-climb, which is effectively that evolution does not exist. merry christmas

It occurs to me that the concept of the Magic 8-Ball is so deeply engrained that I have never questioned why a pool ball is telling the future. I have just accepted that this is a thing they can do.

Fun fact about Bonnie Brady: she supported opening Long Island coastal waters to offshore drilling when it was briefly floated in Trump I.

Tiny Tim, who did die. The timeline has been irreversibly botched. Save yourselves

Merry Christmas! This is your yearly reminder that mistletoes, uniquely among ALL known multicellular life, do not have working mitochondria. What the fuck? Biology is fake.

cyberpunk dystopia is here, there's colored LEDs all over and I eat too much cup noodle they keep putting bigger pictures of the dictator's face on things but at least on the Nets we still talk freely sometimes your robot girlfriend is secretly a real person nothing's been right since the plague

This is the most bullish BlueSky thing I've seen in a while.

googling normal goyische stuff like "jewish contexts to say 'acid reflux' in"

you have to admit, it would be wild if this loopy theory somehow turned out to be true and also the same guy is also DB Cooper

honestly unbelievable how bad this is, because it won't happen, but it will detrail naval procurement for the third time in as many decades. First we had the failure of the rumsfeld era DD(X)/CG(X)/LCS architecture and then we slammed face first into sequester cuts and now this

Waking David Lynch from the grave to ask if he's heard of this shit

Do you want to help your college/uni? Useful to know: college rankings are partly based on what *percentage* of alums donate *any* amount each year. So if you donate just $5 each December to your school it helps them substantially more than you’d think. A rare case where tiny amounts matter.

one of the most valuable skills in the modern information environment is the ability to absolutely loathe people without altering any of your opinions to more directly oppose them

Seven years from tonight a small asteroid might make a new 1.3 kilometer wide crater on the Moon. Of course the refined path of 22024 YR4 may well rule this out between now and then, but for a couple years there can be a bit of photogenic suspense. Rendered in Electric Image Animator. #Sciart

It is so essential for People In Charge to remember that, when it really comes down to brass tacks, they actually don’t have a CMS login

it's hard to believe but after years of z-fighting I finally won

van Rooij says she's not a creationist and is instead providing this "article" that has evolution in the title. it is INDISTINGUISHABLE from intelligent design arguments around complexity. you can dislike ai but don't fall for creationist cranks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Barbari Weissand Effect

Good news, someone ripped my video and put it on the Internet Archive. If you're having trouble downloading from Filemail, here it is: archive.org/details/60mi...

(programming the holodeck) computer, please become conscious. oh and evil

going to the hague for being the guy who showed mr. beast CUBE

getting to work 4 microseconds late and blaming it on the NIST Boulder atomic clock outage

"AI relies on the uncredited, uncompensated work of artists and we must stop video game companies from allowing AI to replace a process which relies on masses of uncredited, uncompensated usage of other artists work"

THERAPIST: It’s normal to go through the stages of grief ERIKA KIRK: Get on stages for my grief? THERAPIST: No no I sai- ERIKA KIRK: Yeah I’ll take it from here

its funny to see "heritage Americans" posting about how their great great great grandpa was in the continental army or whatever after reading page after page of Washington quotes where he's like "My soldiers Stink Most Pissibly; verily They are Drunken Roaches, Whom I Despise"

there's a lot of new stuff at jmail.world. coming soon: a button that replaces your sense of self with that of the late Jeffrey Epstein for 5 seconds at a time

I have a temporary eye patch in one of our family photos because I ballerina-twirled into my mom's Marlboro Red when I was 3. It's just how we lived. I grew up on malathion and side-stream smoke so I know a Better World is Possible.

hell fucking yes one of the best in the history of "not actually that good" games. sure it's kind of a mess. it's also a mess where i can keep jump kicking mall cops into the wall 30 feet away as jada pinkett smith in a red leather jacket. like i can do just that for an hour

I just wanted to ask a stranger where the restroom was, now we have a inextricably shared sense of self