*taps my book wild faith* as noted in literally the first chapter, the Satanic Panic never ended, it just took a nap for awhile this shit about daycares is literally just the 1980s warmed over. can we bring back cool hair instead of christian vigilantism www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...

Satan

I spoke with @alexboyd.bsky.social at the Toronto Star about the Franklin the Turtle memes and the right wing populists posting these memes. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Meanwhile he's also bragging about having recently run over a guy with his Tesla

Relatable public domain image archive find of the day. Me too, man, me too. The Chimera Looked at Everything with Horror, by Odilon Redon (1886)

It is utterly terrifying that citizen alert apps are now using wonky-ass AI to generate crime and disaster alerts that often end up being mistaken. This can and will get people killed. www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...

Our favorite festive spud is back - this time with New Year greetings #newyear #holidays #potato #vintagecard

oh great, it’s going to be like the Brave Little Toaster but with even MORE cosmic horror

Rest in peace you absolute legend of an artist

If you make AI products you should be strapped down and forced to watch the Sorcerer’s Apprentice segment from Disney’s Fantasia (1940) on repeat, ludovico style, until you internalize the lesson

Not really, my evangelical church always taught that the Christian God is a sadist and his followers should strive to emulate that (This is why I left)

will die on the hill that podcast and youtube video are completely different, podcasts are audio only, if you're making youtube videos you aren't doing podcasts, if it's not in my phone's podcatcher it's not a podcast, no one wants to watch people talk into a microphone, podcasts are for chores

I've run into this issue too trying to book a local hotel during an ice storm

A major moment in PKD + Religion scholarship: "The Esoteric Theology of Philip K. Dick," edited by George Sieg and Michael Barros, comes out Jan. 8 from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social and @popandtheology.bsky.social !

Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.

Just found out that Participatory Culture Wars, which I co-edited with @simoned.bsky.social and @benlitherland.bsky.social, has been named one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2025! Great news to end the year on.

As they were walking along and talking, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Tiny Tim, who did not die, went up by a whirlwind into heaven

Oh my god.

The US State Department says it will deny visas to five people, including a former EU commissioner and the heads of three European organisations combating online misinformation, for seeking to "coerce" US social media platforms into "censorship". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Back in my hometown where the evangelists are aggressive, the drivers are aggressive, and the headlights are aggressive

I started reading Guy Deboard’s Society of the Spectacle (1967) and it’s remarkable how much this describes the actual project of Silicon Valley

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

I love reading. in fact I love reading so much, that I will re-read the same paragraph 10 times over, in an attempt to pay enough attention to register it properly

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

I think this goes along with the etiquette that's being pushed on us like "real friends don't ask for help when they're moving or when they need a ride to the airport" We weren't always this isolated from each other

After the 7 November attack at SMAN 72 in Jakarta, I analyse the rise of memetic violence in Southeast Asia: our youth replicating notorious Western attackers encountered through digital platforms. gnet-research.org/2025/12/22/c...

We can’t put Pandora back into the Omelas hole.

People sometimes ask me what harm AltNPS is doing, and it's this. This right here. AltNPS didn't do ANYTHING for this cause, and never even mentioned it before today. @protectparks.bsky.social is who made the difference (among others), but lots of people will now believe it was AltNPS.

Already unacceptable to use LLMs to draft filings and even worse, if you do, not to have checked the citations. But if you ARE going to do that, why of all LLMs out there would you use *GROK*?

As a Catholic it’s very bizarre to me to see the children (Evangelical, non-denom MAGA Christian Nationalists) yearn for relics, martyrs, and pilgrimage yet find it abhorrent when Catholics do it with our relics, martyrs, and pilgrims. The house is glass.

What people.com/turning-poin...

Great piece here with a lot of nuance; it's unlikely that a chatbot will be persuasive enough to radicalize someone who wasn't already interested, but the lack of regulation in chatbots promoting violent speech in communication with the sycophantic nature of the conversations should be considered.

Timothy Loehmann, the ex-police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, has been fired from his position as an armed ranger in West Virginia

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

After Vanity Fair's two-part report from inside the White House was published this week, questions and conspiracies swirled regarding how the story came together. In a Reddit AMA, journalist Chris Whipple answers those queries—and many more.

folks they are almost out of ai assistant names. there are not many left

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

I love this so much

Haotian, a Cambodia-based company by Chinese founders, blatantly markets its face-swapping tech to pig-butchering scammers in the region. After WIRED contacted Telegram about it, Haotian's Telegram channel suddenly became unavailable today. New story by @mattburgess1.bsky.social @lhn.bsky.social

Very pleased to have co-authored this research with Laura Vitelli to forward the concept of Participatory Memetic Violence to help strategic countering and intervention in ideologically-diffuse violence. gnet-research.org/2025/12/18/p... 🧵 - 1/...

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

This is extremely important

Dear Bluesky hammer&sickle crowd: That new dude in your group? He’s an FBI agent.

Earlier this year, I reported for @propublica.org and @wisconsinwatch.org how Wisconsin's name change law creates a de facto database of trans people, which is dangerous in times like this. Now @lmcgaughy.bsky.social breaks the news that Texas has done just that: www.kut.org/politics/202...

I am trying to think of a time when so many right-wing Christian folks have come out as strongly against Trump as they currently are re: his Rob Reiner comments.