If you're someone with means for comfort, PLEASE consider directly donating to folks asking for mutual aid. MA asks grew exponentially this month & everyone who wants to help went straight to institutions or food banks. Now folks are hungry & out of meds. Waiting for nebulous SNAP isnt an option.

every star trek episode is titled Ere Fire Down From Olympus Came and every plot is "what if a comet had a milf on it"

Let’s go #NoTrillionaires See you outside a Tesla showroom on Saturday week (Nov 15) #TeslaTakedown

ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful. Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least. It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people. And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.

Now the world may know! My one-act play "The Failure of the Century"--a bit of a Lovecraftian A Christmas Carol--will have a staged reading as part of the Talos V Science Fiction Theatre Festival! Dec 13th! The theatre is also a pub! Details: www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk/whats-on.html

Daily bunny no.3131 is directionally challenged

Fuck. 400 million. We are doomed

abundantly clear that the six monsters currently running the Supreme Court do not think trans people are real and want them to go away they know what will happen to someone presenting as the other sex when their passport doesn’t match and they want it to happen their power must be broken

A Stranger Things final season press tour junket has been underway since Monday, but there’s one topic Netflix doesn’t want raised: A viral report alleging star Millie Bobby Brown accused co-star David Harbour of on-set bullying.

They are just straight up torturing people to get them to sign deportation papers Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

It would be cool if the Dem's asked their donors to open their pockets and help them feed people instead of just whinging about it on social media. Ordinary people are doing more than the party that supposedly cares about its constituents. Get creative. People are hungry.

And to be clear, I don't want to see another goddamn photo op of another pol "volunteering" at a food bank and getting in the way. I WANT TO SEE THEM RAISING MONEY FOR HUNGRY FOLKS TO BE ABLE TO EAT. Tehy've got plenty of mouth for themselves; let's see them fucking use it for something better.

I am so ANGRY, and getting angrier by the hour. Grabbing my unsubbed e-mail, selling it far and wide, FUCKING CARVILLE having it now, can't even come up with a new beg, never mind reason and my broke disabled ass is working 16 hours a day, most of it on feeding people.

YUP. I'm really tired of getting 4 recycled begging e-mails a day from a certain gubernatorial candidate* while I've been literally killing myself for the last two weeks to get grocery cards in the hands of folks who can't buy food, put gas in their cars, or have secure housing. * Yes. Her.

It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #TBT featured work that dates back somewhere between fifteen and seventeen years, one in Wings's informal series of layered-bezel works: wingssilverwork.com/throwbackthu....

i can't believe someone paid to "do politics" suggested that Democrats not call these people "weird"

this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!

we're all looking for the guy who introduced unprecedented coarseness, vulgarity, and flippant violence into national politics

This is the only thing musk will be remembered for.

I don’t really want to hear defeatism from people who don’t live in the U.S. or who have already left. We’ve got fighting to do and a democracy to save.

my new mayor getting sexual predators off the streets on day 1 i KNOW thats right

It took me a bit to focus on the "biological pronouns" part of Murphy's opinion, but, in my defense, that's only because the concurring opinions contain myriad unbelievable claims. Judge John Bush, another Trump appointee, might be the worst opinion of the bunch.

I really hope them stealing people's work is what brings down AI

...and worse, that you have lived several decades since the 80s and not gone "that was fucked up" instead of stating you having polite dinners with war criminals as if it's a flex of what a citoyen du monde you are.

like, ok, these were the young grandparents of your friends in the 80s in Germany, but combine "they remembered those years as good years" and you knowing exactly what they did in the war and it kind of sounds like you were soaking up jolly war stories from Nazis without pause...

imagine posting "I have had polite dinners with former members of the Waffen SS" as if that's a normal thing to say or do or not something that should get you roundly checked and shunned.

If sex were so biological they would not be fighting tooth and nail to make everyone fall in line with never giving anyone any other options

But anyway, the things I did because they were my own weird obsessions (which is nearly everything I've published) went well, and the time I did what people told me they wanted, that ended up being my lowest-selling book so lesson learned, keep doing whatever I want 🤘😌

That said, the one time I said I wanted a print of something, the artist put it in the shop, and I bought it, but it was probably something @spunk-rock.bsky.social was planning to make a print of anyway

Speaking as the girl who learned the hard way: This goes for writing too 🙃

Discussiouns of Gen AI by tech overlordes alwayes reade lyke Mary Sue fanfic

I've had this tab open for awhile, since seeing @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's post when I opened this app. And yes, it an impeachable offense in my view storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is some of the worst legal writing I've ever read from a federal appellate court. "Biological pronouns" is, in my view, grounds for impeachment and removal of Judge Murphy.

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

One more pair, these cute little hearts of turquoise. Different types of turquoise but the make a perfect pair. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

A pair of butterfly conchas with Kingman turquoise. Bold and beautiful! blacksky.community/profile/did:...

These are smaller but so gorgeous with the ingot drops on each one. And the color variance of the Cripple Creek turquoise is beautiful! blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Some more turquoise earrings coming up! First is this beautiful pair of teardrop earrings. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Wings's newest masterwork, look at this gorgeous Kingman turquoise necklace! blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Another gorgeous cuff featuring Kingman webbed turquoise! blacksky.community/profile/did:...

OK that's it for tonight - please click through these posts for more details and pricing. This is more than jewelry, this is wearable art. Please feel free to share!

Here's another large cuff with an unusual focal - fossilized dinosaur bone! Aptly named "An Ancient Wisdom". blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Check out this gorgeous bold cuff called "Wildlands Medicine". That landscape jasper looks like a painting! blacksky.community/profile/did:...

The other Warrior Woman pin is "A Dance with Fire and Storm." Wings also takes commissions, and can make a differently gendered or a nongendered pin if that speaks to you. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Wings has two Warrior Woman pins in his inventory. This one is "For the Pollen and the Light". blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Here is an unusual cuff called "A Prospering World". It's one piece of silver split and shaped to look like the coiled Serpent. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

This is another bracelet that I would dearly love to have - "Weaving Snow and Fire". Look at that stunning snowflake obsidian cabochon! blacksky.community/profile/did:...

This is a pair of oval conchas that are just sterling silver - no stones, but decorated with freehand scoring and stamping. "Sun and Moon and Morning Star." blacksky.community/profile/did:...