We're being run by a bunch of failed fanfic authors.

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable." Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline. Please share. tcpipeline.org

Here is a symphony for everyone. Sibelius 2 (Op. 43) is a great, wondrous, orchestral colossus that strides beautifully and sometimes menacingly across the sonic landscape. This is music to nourish the soul.

Exporting a brand new song to share with my subscribers this weekend feels VERY GOOD! I've been mostly offline since Christmas working on much-needed infrastructure stuff for my cottage industry music-making biz, but am still sharing a secret song on the first of every month. Love to you x

There’s no world in which I’m watching the state of the union. Prediction: He will lie and say crazy shit. I will read about it.

Post old memes to confuse young people

Made a video (!) about my story on chatbots reinforcing user fixations on other real people, and how that reinforcement can lead to real-world harm:

For the win. Now you get to read the credits in the style of my choosing.

You can stress yourself out… or you can spend the evening watching free silent movies from around the world

Just like any other industry that's afraid of change and thinks that it can't transition to something else like cold to clean energy or murdering animals to anything else...It is possible and change should have happened sooner rather than later. The longer you put off positive change the worse it is

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live. Please take it to heart and take action.

Today’s bird on a beer mat. A Housemartin painted onto a 1970s Bulmer’s Cider Zodiac drinks mat (Leo). Beermat painting. Watercolour. High summer is peak time for house martins nesting in towns and villages, swooping around roofs and gathering in groups. darrenhaymanart.com

Puppies playing in the snow 🐶❄️😍

The Republican SAVE Act is a sinister ploy to deny millions of Americans their fundamental right to vote and have that vote counted. We need to say HELL NO to modern-day voter suppression!

I have some thoughts about how deeply shitty it is to willfully replicate the misogynistic trauma trans men grew up with being perceived as girls and told that we’re inferior for our gender, by continuing to tell us that we’re inferior for our gender for being men, too.

The manosphere told some men they couldn't be with women because they were poor and ugly. Offered the opportunity to reject women and retreat to digital fantasies where they could be wealthy and beloved. Now they tell them that they cannot afford the fantasy after they've severed them from reality.

1/ If my given name were to be associated with my postings, as a Jew, I know that my life, my very survival depends upon my anonymity in Bluesky (less than a handful of you know my identity), where I have been pelted, targeted, threatened by antisemites. - Ofherb share.inquirer.com/5Q0fq3

What is something that brought you Joy today? For me, it is this moment of cuddling with my cat Onie, under a warm blanket while listening to the wind blow outside on a rainy, rainy day. I'm also looking forward to a cup of hot chocolate that I know will also bring me joy.

hey yo i wrote a reported culture essay for @motherjones.com about solarpunk it was incredibly fun talking to a bunch of solarpunk thinkers and artists! the magazine commissioned some lovely art for it too le voila: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

If I had $1500 for a scarf (hahahaha!), I'd actually consider buying one. Well played Hermès.

INTEGRITY MATTERS

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

Only 10 days after the celebration of Ruth Carol Taylor being the first Black flight attendant in the US, here's another story about a Black flight family #BlackHistoryMonth

This pretty much sums up Silicon Valley techbros.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

People minimize ADHD and think it’s about not being able to focus on work but it’s small things - it’s forgetting to do a return and missing the window (happened this week). It’s accidentally taking your pre/probiotic pills twice and knowing you’ll have a (literal) shit day tomorrow (did this today)

Can Corner Stores Mount A Comeback? Via @bloomberg.com “Toderian champions a finely grained retail model he calls ‘corner convenience’: a small market, cafe/restaurant or service that ideally would be legal on every street corner across the city and suburbs.” #CornerConvenience

The kind of tech the left is excited about

You don’t say 🙄

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

The man who fancies himself the mob boss of the world is having such a public flameout over this because SCOTUS just took away his best means of bribery, extortion, and graft. That's all this is, and all his tariff scheme ever was.

Announcer voice: “Donald in fact was a very bad boy.”

What haunts me is the “good men” who did nothing while women and girls were used so horrifically. The system depended on them remaining silent, moving through their privilege with smiles and handshakes and high fives.

This is what kills me about the AI zealots: okay, you got to 95% accuracy. Those are impressive numbers for a college exam. Those are "things go boom" numbers in chemical manufacturing.

May this lawsuit move fast and break stuff.

telling my kids this is LCD Soundsystem

“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence & attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams...Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.” -Andre Breton #BOTD Waking Dream Seance: Surrealist Group 1924 by Man Ray

Watching big tech companies use things I deeply loved - things that creative humans shed sweat and tears over - as their personal urinals time and again has been demoralizing. That's why this year I'm finding as many alternatives to big tech products as I can. Want recs? I got your back.

You owe it to yourself to read the 2001 obituary (republished today) for Rose Freedman, the last survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. An incredible woman. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...

This week Historians At The Movies talks about the life, death, and memory of Medgar Evers. Join us on Netflix this Sunday, February 22 at 8pm eastern for GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI. If you believe in what #HATM is doing, share this and we’ll see you soon.

I was jumped in the marketplace of ideas for suggesting that actually three things can be true. Perhaps even four. Then someone beaned me with an underripe avocado

Tom Noonan, unpublished photo, 2008, from the set of THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. Noonan was the first actor I ever saw asking what focal length lens was on the camera, and then adjust performance accordingly - completely aware and controlled.

If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

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"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology. mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries. But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.