I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

fellow engineers, you really need to start asking yourself some questions when building something: 1. how will the police use what i'm making? 2. what kinds of people are the police going to use it against? 3. how many people will be harmed in silence before we find out?

Unidos somos América.

"Content extruder" is the perfect term for people who use the slop plagiarism machine to make "art".

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

In all sincerity, if they get this through and agree to fund DHS, I will never vote for a Democrat again. I am floored by the spinelessness, and I've been had too many times. It's just embarrassing that it took me this long to figure that out.

I know he's busy with the new job, but I can think of one guy who might be able to convince Trump that his natural charisma and likeability are being undermined by the actions of a certain evil thumb-shaped vizier

this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.

I know it’s not healthy to be so angry all the time but also “stay angry, little Meg” runs through my brain like a lifeline these days

We will all be judged by what we did at this moment.

Very cool—thanks for the update! Today I got gassed by the federal government two times within a few blocks of my house

Please be aware that contrary to their fundraising ads, @forwardblue.bsky.social has no relationship with the No Kings mobilizations, no record of doing anything in support, no inside information, and is ignoring requests to cease advertising that suggests they are involved.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

The Trump regime is literally allowing this stuff to be sprayed on our food.

"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?" A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro -> www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...

Local water district is trying and failing to cope with the fact that sewage sludge is increasingly contaminated with PFAS and there's simply no cost effective way to deal with it. I'm sure spraying unbreakdownable chemicals on crops is fine, though.

Larry Summers wrote a memo claiming that Africa was "underpolluted", and we're supposed to be surprised that he's also a sex pest scumbag? He should've been ostracized by the left three decades ago.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

There are so many reasons to vote for Mamdani, and many more reasons why one should not vote for Cuomo. A huge, not insignificant one, is rewarding @lindseyboylan.bsky.social for the nonstop work she has done to make sure sexually abusive old men don’t get to lord over all of us anymore.

happy "the car clock is finally correct" day to all who celebrate

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

hey Mr Onion @bencollins.bsky.social how can I carry the Onion in my bookstore in Western Mass? FWIW I used to read it on paper in the early 90s and so glad you've brought it back!

sure would be nice to have private accounts right now

@postoctobrist.bsky.social just got this ad served to me on insta and I think they meant it for you sputnik1957s.com

Today is yet another sad day for America. Our political landscape filled with hate instead of love and humanity and it must change. It cannot go on like this, it is unsustainable. 1/3

Always has been.

Centrist Mamdani was Obama.

you could not pay me money to read any amount of words on “blueskyism” if you are tempted to write a screed about social media website you don’t read then go outside

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Rock for Light, Sandinista!, Revolution Girl Style Now, Low End Theory, 13 Songs, Personal Best, It Takes a Nation of Millions, Big Science, Rid of Me

Framing human rights in terms of "the average" explicitly means discarding those seen as "less than average", including the sick. That's just eugenics. It's exactly how eugenics operates. It's an explicitly eugenicist position. These people should be shunned

As a professional public health scientist I can't believe I have to remind "journalists" that the whole fucking point of public health is not to protect the *average* but to protect the *vulnerable*. Protecting the vulnerable protects everyone. The framing here is murderous, apologetic, eugenicist

I just can’t find the humor in the false fear generated by Republicans in DC because it’s not sincere and it’s not really funny, it’s their way of saying that Black people don’t belong in society, that Black people are inherently unsafe, and that it’s worth using violence to segregate us.

Mass revolt from queer authors in the UK after a major LGBTQ+ writing prize longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF. 11 authors and 2 judges have withdrawn from the Polari Prize. One of those withdrawals, that of June Thomas, is newly confirmed by our reporter, @evanurquhart.bsky.social. Read more here:

Transgender people aren't even close to the real problem. We just show everyone what the real problem is, which is that standards for women are so severe society thinks it's ok to destroy you if you don't meet them.

August is here, which means the Philly Bookstore Crawl is almost upon us! 45 stores, dozens of authors, tons of events and giveaways in the region. It’s a huge labor of love of mine, and I hope you’ll come out and celebrate the area’s bookstore scene. ❤️ www.phillybookstorecrawl.com

Have to repost this periodically

This video was the absolute peak of computer graphics and it has all been downhill since then. Come to think of it, it may have been the peak of all use of computers ever

I've taught at Brown several times and it was always a great experience at a smart, community-minded institution. Never again. The level of cowardice and the willingness to comply is absolutely shameful and baffling. I would not willingly associate myself with them again.

This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker. The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

That’s how much they hate us. They’re burning birth control.

hey @signal.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, today Signal tells me that there is "something wrong with your username", & if I try to fix it as it was, it says a username can't have a "." in it. Wha? Huh? It's been on my biz cards and in my sig for literally a year - please don't make me change it!

I would personally burn down an antebellum mansion in exchange for one (1) meal of Ethiopian food yes it is in fact that good what is that guy talking about

The chick is like hold my grain… 🐥 🥰

Not sure about this new Andrew Cuomo ad

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?