Dry January < Dry white wine January Dry martini January Dry your eyes January Drive someone crazy January Dry the paint of your brand new masterpiece January Dry Tortugas National Park Catamaran and Snorkeling January

Someday we’ll find out our CAPTCHAs are IDing crosswalks and stoplights for self-driving cars in real time, like we’re all in the dumbest Ender’s Game remake ever

New post about jury duty right before the holidays — fun stuff about knee surgery, personal injury law and, most importantly, science communications! open.substack.com/pub/sheribom... #scicomms #medicalmalpractice #sciencewriting #substack

I went to check out the lit-up Washington Monument. The internet did not prepare me for the fact that it has a one-million-decibel AUDIO TRACK that can be heard half a mile away and basically says USA IS GREAT. STARE AT THIS GLOWING OBELISK. These are truly unprecedented times

I couldn’t find a gif for Cher’s ridiculously amazing Christmas single “DJ Play a Christmas Song” so I made one — you’re welcome! 🎄🪩🌟

New post! Some thoughts on nanobots, tiny computers, and molecular machines—plus a science joke! 🤖🩵 open.substack.com/pub/sheribom...

Fun quiz + article about practical ways to identify #AIslop (besides zooming in to spot weird artifacts and hallucinations). Signs of AI videos to look for: - Framing/timing that’s too perfect - Shorter video length - Original sources that don’t make sense in context www.npr.org/2025/11/30/n...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

Even if this is accurate, half of growth is not as much as it sounds like. Go ahead and go backwards — human workers can fill in the gaps! #AIbubble

Fall Fashion Giveth (stickycomics.com) #comics #pants

Why end the world ourselves? that's robot work. (stickycomics.com) #comics #AI

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

With the onslaught of generative AI content, we’re poisoning our information streams. This is the new book burning. Soon, information and imagery from the before times will be treasured as legitimate and uncorrupted. #AIslop #AI

Even the flowers have skulls … in #southarlington

Imagine dropping this on your face while doomscrolling in bed 😭

I started a Substack! This will be a new home for some of my longer-form content. My first post is about how “good enough” AI content might just ruin everything great. Let’s do better, guys! Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/sheribom...

Can’t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if they’re perfect

At Target yesterday, I took a look at the books they have on the endcap right by the cash register — the top spot for popular fiction. The two books with the top-shelf spots were SFF with non-traditional routes to publishing: -This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman - Alchemised by SenLinYu

Best giant skeleton I’ve seen so far! 💀🧱🖤

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Remember when only the dumpster was on fire?!

The weather is feeling a little apocalyptic these days 😳 wapo.st/3VfL4zV

Isn’t it ironic, Duolingo? Don’t you think?

Emil Bove is 44 years old. Looks like he’s been making horcruxes ☠️

#southarlington is haunted - stay away!

I’ve been thinking a lot about this scenario too — the fact that AI might be “good enough” for people, and then it’ll kill everything great. I’m working on a post about it (coming soon!). Really great insights in this essay from @cwarzel.bsky.social

This is a new Murderbot short story, coming out later this week on Reactor Magazine. It’s about ART and its crew, set before Network Effect, and how ART finally decided to tell them about meeting a rogue SecUnit.

New: It appears lightning struck the Washington Monument at 12:02 a.m. The view is from two STATter911 cameras. The second and fourth shots are slow-motion versions. #weather #lightning #washington #stormhour @arlnow.bsky.social @capitalweather.bsky.social @stormhour.com @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social

I made a tiktok about the fucking tanks - filmed by bicycle with @sheribomb.bsky.social #trumpparade #nokings www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjGJDJsg/

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

Fascinating analysis and imagery of human migration patterns disrupts some of our assumptions on where and when people migrate (from NYT w/ data released by… Meta 🙃) Gift link! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

Nth-stage capitalism is… cute?! www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n...

I figured out how Kristi Noem does her hair 👀

Next they’ll ask the 5 bullets emails to be sent via Signal 🫠 

Steampunk con shut down due to norovirus 😳 This seems a little too on the nose for “Wild West,” when infectious diseases ran rampant (an era that’s probably coming back thanks to the current admin 😢)

The County Hoard is managed by the County Dragon 🐉😆

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Almost starting to miss those carefree dumpster fire days of 2020 😭

all hail the postertifa at work in Arlington, VA! #teslatakedown

Chef’s kiss for this burning Cybertruck costume 💯🔥

Speaking of #BuyNothing - this week is the Feb 28 #EconomicBlackout 🇺🇸✊ #comic #webcomic

Elon Musk pulling some dumb middle management shit to mine federal data #MuskEmail #OfficeSpaceMemes #badDOGE

we are simply unprepared for a crisis of these proportions 🫠 (stickycomics.com) #massfirings #comic

poetry for the ages happening on tiktok: we're in the middle of a #HostileGovernmentTakeover I'd like to talk about it, but I'll be late for work and if you say, wait a minute, who d'we have to stop this? we had one but you didn't want that lady in office www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuWV...

A lot of love for the VILLIANAIRES sign today at the Capitol! Download it here! bsky.app/profile/sher...

Cleaning out some drawers and I came across this. I got it at the NIH during COVID in 2020. Remember how awful things were pre-vaccine? Let’s not forget that decades of NIH research brought us effective COVID vaccines, which saved millions of lives!

Photos from the NEA rally in support of the Department of Education, teachers and public schools and against the confirmation of WWE wrestling star Linda McMahon. #NEA Entire album on Flickr - flic.kr/s/aHBqjC2hpe