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"...because that was Harvey Milk’s big strategy, to come out, and it worked. That was why the gay rights movement wasn’t quashed in its early stages, because people came out and everyone realized, like, Oh, queer people are all around us and they’re, like, pretty OK..." HARVEY MILK WAS MURDERED

it's very difficult to take seriously the idea that some people are incapable of understanding the clear purpose of these laws at the moment they are proposed.

Goddamn I've heard of snow days and even experienced a few when I was living in Ontario but never heard of Heat Days TM when it gets so hot they have to close schools

Did you know that Bookseller Jenn is an author, too? She's currently running a Kickstarter campaign where readers can preorder the 10th Anniversary Edition of her short story collection, Ordinary Souls. Rewards start at $6. Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jsb... #booksky #reading

Velocipastor no nos dio el mejor CGI de la historia para que ahora me digas que la IA es inevitable

Alan Rickman didn't get dropped from a great height on the count of "one" when he'd been told he would go on "three" so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable".

Billy Crystal didn't improv lines so funny Cary Elwes had to be replaced with a dummy so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Georges Seurat didn't lay down hundreds of thousands of tiny dots on a 6x10 foot canvas so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Sigourney Weaver didn't sink a half-court basketball shot over her shoulder in Alien Resurrection so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast didn't direct this insane tracking shot in 1927 Wings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable

Peter Jackson did not use forced perspective and practical effects to film the "unfilmable" Lord of the Rings so you could tell me AI is "inevitable".

Tech CEOs in 2026: ‘We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it’s portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it’ Jim Henson in 1955: ‘yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit’

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

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Also Lorraine is so horny, my god, someone needs to spray her down with a garden hose. I know that’s the joke, but the girl is feral.

Watched the Back to the Future movies for the first time since I was a kid, and I’d never caught that Doc Brown’s line about cellular rejuvenation was an excuse to not have Christopher Lloyd wearing the 1985 old man prosthetics because both versions were indistinguishably “old” when I was 7.

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

Hey it’s Make a Terrible Comic day! Be nice to yourself or else #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026

California’s new eight-hour battery is making its grid even more renewable. California has switched on Tumbleweed, the first major US battery project able to discharge power for eight hours, twice the usual duration for grid batteries. Canary Media buff.ly/jBKQxrf #ShareGoodNewsToo

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This is a really good thread for writers:

It's #WIPWednesday again. I got a lot of progress on my last week off with Bulldogs, goblins, and skeleton warriors all from @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social

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Kermit in the calm before the storm.

How are all @tkingfisher.com‘s protagonists so deeply relatable?? Just started Hemlock & Silver and the awkwardness and reluctance…honestly I relate hard to everything except snorting snake venom 🤣

Wait wait wait Trump "inspected" the reflecting pool's paint job by getting *driven around inside the empty pool* in the 6 tonne presidential limo, and supposedly vandals with some sharp sticks are the culprits for the damage?

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

So when i don"t draw kaiju destroying ai data centers, i am commissioned by amazing ppl for birthday gift. i could draw mon mothma with everybody tbh . it's a reprise of meeting on the turret stairs ( it's my fave painting )

Patients taking duloxetine may want to check their medicine bottles after federal regulators announced a recall affecting nearly 375,000 bottles of the commonly prescribed antidepressant. bit.ly/4uKaLrx

THE MUPPET PIMPERNEL

This is one of the best explanations of why the billionaire class is so all-in on AI that I've ever read, and I'm in awe.

The dead have their lithic lookouts, their proxy eyes with which to scan our world. We are watched by a mechanism of stone surveillance that does not sleep and is constant in its judgement of us. For some, paranoia is undying. – #CJosiffe

Reminders: 1. Juneteenth ain’t got shit to do w/ “unity”; it’s about when the memo arrived to Galveston, TX in 1865 that this slavery shit is over 2. Opal Lee fought for decades to make Juneteenth a national holiday, so don’t insult her w/ some “it should’ve never been a national holiday” bullshit

Like many people, I used to be a straight woman who played ukulele on the Internet. Now I'm a trans man and my voice has dropped and it's been emotionally complicated... and we're bringing that whole energy out this November. If you remember the Doubleclicks... please help us spread the word!

Not my best work, but felt like this was what's on the menu for Bsky today.

happy pride month ! let's all protect eachother ⚔︎

Artist! Quote with your blue art!

I'm sure marathon is a delight, but I want to be dancing across the frozen wastes of Europa by myself with a fistful of supernova and a sniper rifle with a past.

Every time I see someone say "the pronouns have just become a gimmick" I look over at the folks who say they love the pronouns and it makes their heart happy and start trying to figure out how to put even more pronouns in the next book.

Artist! Quote with your blue art!

I'm really happy with how the watercolor version of this sketch turned out 😊 It feels good to be learning new things with every painting!

We have arrived home safely from #ChicagoSteampunkExposition and have unloaded. Currently in the process of getting energy to unpack. Thank you to everyone who stopped at our table. As always, it's a delight to see @leannareneehieber.bsky.social even for a little bit.

"They call her 'The Old Lady'..." - Carson Davidson, Railway with a Heart of Gold (1965) Dolgoch is a very old locomotive, and you can visit her at the Talyllyn Railway in Wales! Where do you rank her amongst our engines? Plan your visit 👉 www.talyllyn.co.uk/plan 📸 Nathan Spence #HeartofGold

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. So thankful the people of #ChicagoSteampunkExposition found my mushroom worthy of first place. Guess I'm an award-winning miniature painter now. Mushroom is Mushroom King from @reaperminiatures.bsky.social

As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.

Cosmic horror is great because it just kinda invents itself. Spend a bit too long thinking about the sun and you realize it’s a radioactive death ball larger than your mind has capacity to comprehend, so inherently dangerous that looking directly at it will harm you, and it’s just sitting there.

Day Two of #ChicagoSteampunkExpo