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

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Meahwile, this asshole… kotaku.com/mark-zuckerb...

It's taking our ability to think for ourselves and to interact with real humans because that is too difficult (read: requires us to feel bad at times and consider other people's feelings). This shit has got to go so we can retain our humanity!

because I know y’all can’t click and read

i have been fortunate enough to live a life in the arts, creating things and following hallowed footsteps. its something many buckaroos dream of, and as someone who has done it, THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS i received are the moments in between. if you generate with AI, THAT is what you rob yourself of

Just finished one of those books i disliked so much it killed my interest in reading anything else by this author. At least I’ll get some credits at the used book store?

Every time I start to get a bit too hopeful about human intelligence, I see something that brings me back down to earth: a reviewer who picked up a thriller/horror book, read it, and was mad because they “assumed it would be more romantasy.” I didn’t like this tofu I assumed it would be a steak

So can I go now, or…

THAT'S RIGHT, MOTHERFUCKERS, I WON A WEBBY AWARD. Here's my 5-word speech. #webbys

Name a song with "girl" in the title but replace girl with squirrel if you'd like: Volcano Squirrels (My first thought was West End Squirrels, but someone posted it down the post-chain. Luckily, Veruca Salt came thru for me)

Name a song with "girl" in the title but replace girl with squirrel if you'd like: Jessie's Squirrel

Hot take on hardcovers. We actually should ditch hardcovers...for YA and MG. These should be paperback first, hardcover as special items. (And of course we need to fix the royalties issue for authors.)

Tricia identified the central problem that makes trying to grade AI-generated or AI-assisted student papers so crazy-making. It’s not writing! It has no writer! There’s no voice to discern, no unified set of ideas to untangle. It’s the literary equivalent of odds and ends at the bottom of a Lego bin

Go fund this Kickstarter! The book will be amazing and also it’s very fun watching it smash through all the stretch goals

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

If you use AI to generate a book cover, I'm automatically assuming you used AI to write the book and I just won't read it. 🥰

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— The Expanse Spaced Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Battlestar Galactica (new one) Schitt’s Creek PBS Mystery! Nova The Good Place Fawlty Towers What We Do in the Shadows Reservation Dogs Andor Loki Fleabag The X Files

blessed beltane, may your fires burn it all to the ground and your wildflowers root from the ashes 🌞

The word “wholesome” on here gives me hives. Wholesome… according to whom? This isn’t even a dog whistle anymore, it’s a foghorn. It’s vile.

Ya'll don't even know how big a deal this is So many Indig people still MASSIVELY distrust giving birth in hospitals. Forced sterilization, nurses pressuring new moms to give up their kids for adoption "so they'd have a good life" all reasons why having sovereignty over birth MATTERS

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

This one hurts. The game won’t be the same without him

Happy Earth Day.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

The tumblr post about RMS Carpathia reminded me of one of my favorite paintings ive ever done of an ocean liner

It is breathtaking

“The friction matters” I’m lucky to work in a k-12 system where I have the autonomy to ditch the tech and do assignments in class. You can absolutely tell who does their own preparation for major assignments, and who has always been doing their own preparation, too arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Oooohh this is gonna be so GOOOOD!!

one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"

It’s nice to not be ashamed of my ancestral homeland for a change! I hope Hungary is only the start

In case you didn't see it yesterday, the entire Reanimator Mysteries series is on sale for a limited time! Grab it for an autistic necromancer, his undead love, and the mysteries that bring them together🫀

Think ADHD makes waiting for an appointment hard? (Appointment at 3, can’t do anything all day) Try ADHD and waiting for a book to be released. Book comes out Monday, so I guess I can’t read anything the entire week before. (This post motivated by Renaissance by @pretensesoup.bsky.social )

WNBA star Brianna Turner has written an article denouncing the new invasive sex testing requirements of the IOC. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Best photo. Excellent child.

I need a poster to hang in my classroom

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

Now more than ever y’all desperately need to read @swordsjew.bsky.social book Wild Faith and help yourselves understand exactly how and why the Christian right is manipulating the US government into this war with Iran This is one of the most important texts of our era.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Reposting / reboosting - help support medical care for this sweet little face!

"Moon's haunted"

Product placement is getting creative these days

What a beautiful moment.

Did not expect to find myself sobbing over the Artemis II crew naming lunar features, while watching them crying and hugging. What a beautiful moment. www.youtube.com/live/z-j1uxB...

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

Another #transroghtsreadathon is done, so here’s the roundup. Read less than hoped due to burnout, but still finished some new faves. 5 books read (3 loved, 1 liked, 1 disappointment) 4 books dnf'd (not bad, just not for me) I donated to a local org’s mutual aid for gender affirming hair removal

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

just for the record "death of the author" means "the author doesnt have total control over the meaning of their own art" not "its okay to give money to hitler if you liked his paintings as a child"

Very Good Girl is getting expensive medial treatment on her wee snoot. Link to help pay for it is below