This is a nice example of just how seriously bad the behaviour of developers is bsky.app/profile/jiga...

Lookin' good, Barn. Not sure if I only had a tiny amount of time to live that I'd spend it scolding people who want policies that would make the world a better place, but you're built different.

I love My Adventures With Superman because THEY UNDERSTAND IT SO WELL. THEY GET THE POINT. THEY STRUCK CLARK KENT WITH THE SHOUJO BEAM AND NEVER LOOKED BACK

environmental storytelling

ikea has this new storage chest for kid's rooms that looks like a mimic, and I applaud this kind of thinking. it's good to teach children about the dangers of mimics early, so they don't fall prey to one the first time they go adventuring

Oh this bill sounds amazing. Please spread the word and call your reps to tell them to VOTE YES for HR 4678 💜 this would be a huge anti-censorship win.

ALIKE IN DIGNITY

Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and he’s the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

What does it know

despite my last gf being a hilarious 5'1", I notice that (as a six-foot-tall man) I tend to date closer to my height but I will happily date *taller* if the opportunity ever arises

no matter what they are, single-player games still want you to win meanwhile, the person playing on the other end of the internet connection (or next to/across from you in-person) is not gonna roll over for you

Imagine writing a book, research paper, article, whatever, and halfway through you realize that you're just doing a robot's homework. I would just walk into the ocean.

Just write your own self-insert fanfic like a normal person jfc

Witch Hat Atelier is cozy Naruto

The bois are back at it again with a stubbornly positive review of a classic! Take a listen if you haven't had a chance yet. youtube.com/watch?v=ebMD...

I want to be sure folks understand this headass argument Federal courts held that Louisiana enacted a racist gerrymander, so Louisiana finally passed a fair map instead Now the Supreme Court says Replacing a racist map w/ a not-racist map is ALSO illegal racism ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Another part to add to this equation: UCLA (and I assume other u’s) is heavily encouraging faculty to build very specifically defined “online courses,” delivered via Canvas, consisting almost entirely of videos and quizzes that can be administered by TAs, without faculty involvement.

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

This is really sad, but it's a valuable lesson. The trend towards dismantling online news sites via clickbait, listicles and AI started with entertainment. What begins in comics always ends up in the wider world. www.thepopverse.com/comics-newsa...

Just two words: AQUA TIMEZ.

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So very sorry to hear that Gerry’s gone. He was a ridiculously prolific writer and, as I found out in more recent years, a very nice guy. RIP, sir.

I still don’t know if I’m 100% on Bogdanove, but this homage to the Fleischer shorts is chef’s kiss.

The Supreme Court has affirmed the President's authority to dismiss any and all members of congressional designated boards - even if the enabling legislation prohibits it. The only exception is members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. 6 members of the Supreme Court are to blame for this.

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

understandably Moleskine, a company that sells paper for $20, couldn't spare the profit margin to pay a human artist to draw several small, single color pictures. besides, where could they be expected to find an artist in 2026 who knows what Lord of the Rings or fantasy is? what is that. too obscure

Oh man yes this

The claim isn't that social media is dead (yet). It's the assumptions that made it coherent as an object — human production, social circulation, public observability — can no longer be presupposed. We need new concepts and methods capable of studying what comes next.

Platforms aren't just tolerating this — they're building it in. Meta launched AI Studio and piloted its own AI personas. X put Grok in the interface. If engagement is the metric, it doesn't matter whether a human or a model produced the content. Users have become optional.

Second: generative AI is breaking the link between platforms and human content production. Over 40% of long-form Facebook posts likely AI-generated by late 2024. More than half of long-form LinkedIn posts in 2025. "Slop" is the word of the year.

We are no longer commenting or even liking. Just watching. Likes, shares, comments — "active" signals — are being displaced by watch time, dwell time, scroll hesitation. Preference is inferred from micro-reactions. The 'prod-user' has become the user-spectator.

I’m on Teen-Mom-stars-show-their-kids-their-episodes TikTok

Any time bsky is down, it's bc Why is giving us a little waterboarding to cool down.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

So i was thinking... why carry around separate library cards for the city and county library systems when i can just print both barcodes onto the same card, along with some amazing art @monsterologist.bsky.social drew of my Star Trek OC? So i did that thing. #iMadeThis

Always nice to see a bit of good news. 🧡 Three cheers for Mexico's monarch butterfly population, which is still in danger, but which rebounded to its highest level since 2018.

SAVE act failed in the Senate today!!!

Whether or not the two things are actually correlated, it is incredibly funny that Bluesky started experiencing near daily tech fuck ups right after the team started bragging about using vibe coding

#Filmnoir #filmsky #moviesky #tvsky #NoirNeckties Actor Alan Reed was not only the blackmailing “beefy assistant” in THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946), he was the voice of Fred Flintstone (1960-1977).

many of our problems would have been solved if, in the 80s and 90s, democrats/liberals had responded to gop ideas with a lot more "that's the fucking stupidest thing ive ever heard, shut the fuck up" instead of "that's an interesting idea, i have a different take..."

This is just incredible. And free! And online!

NEVER COMPLY IN ADVANCE

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.” This is why we should fund science. 🧪

thank you, wife

Nap Comix #395 Oh no I made myself cry Read all the Nap Comix episodes for free on Webtoon: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/na... #NapComix

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com