I was gazing aimlessly out the bathroom window at our backyard when the fox ran by from left to right. I knew there was no point fumbling for anything, so I just enjoyed watching it go.

Shirley Temple's Storybook (1950s TV series) is on Prime, and maybe others. I haven't watched a whole lot of the episodes yet, but when they did Babes in Toyland, Shirley got to take the part of the old gypsy and have a crazy cackle and blacked out teeth and looks as happy as she ever has.

While I was out walking, it occurred to me that the majority of music I listen to lately is either a recording that I'm in, or it's me playing live. This brag is not humble.

Think of the LLM as a virtual dog that can eat your homework every single day! And that excuse will never not be true.

I've got this app now that lets me shut my phone off for 15 minutes every day, so that I can't use it, and I have to take a break. Honestly, I'm enjoying it so much I might go for the paid version so I can double that.

This rate of change in methane gas use is insane. 25% decrease in one year. "That growth in battery capacity managed to shift about three times as much power from the daytime...It has caused the need for gas-fired generation to drop by more than a quarter from the same time last year"

My sister has one of those "COEXIST" bumper stickers with all the religious symbols but instead they spell "CORNDOGS"

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, rejoicing as the pigs secret plan came to fruition, attacking the humans and chasing them off, once and for all! Finally, they were free. Finally, they could be a family. But most importantly, finally, they were an Animal Farm."

It'll come down to what dirt there is on him that hasn't come out yet and I kinda have a sinking feeling that they're gonna drop a nuke on him before the election

man I do not trust graham platner as far as I can throw him but I guess it’s him or collins now and the senate math means we are going to need his vote to have any chance to do any of the stuff we need this sucks and I sure hope I’m wrong about him

One of the best parts of growing up as a young dinosaur fan in the 80s was that there were so many books and movies about dinosaurs from earlier decades. I first saw slides from this short through my ViewMaster and they were super formative for this nerd.

This all seems…questionable. But, regardless, it just underscores that the DOJ was full of shit when it said last year there was nothing left to investigate.

Remember when it came out that MacKenzie Scott, who has given away more of her fortune than anyone ever, is richer than before she started giving? That’s the metric by which you have to judge the levels of greed, wealth hoarding & wage suppression the wealthy engage in.

ya know that bug where you're on bluesky or blacksky and you click on a post which shows replies but there's no replies at all? yeah so quite often that's cos the reply came from the other one, and federation between two (2) nodes is a bit hard for atproto [atproto "IT CAN'T BE THAT STUPID" meme]

GenAI companies have been running the loss leader playbook since they launched – trying to lock customers in for cheap whilst losing money. That's all changed now, as GitHub, Anthropic and xAI rack their prices up, one way or another. www.iqsource.ai/en/blog/flat...

It's not too late to do the right thing.

On this fine Beltane morn, I can tell you that as a May Day celebration, my folk horror novel SCRATCH MOSS is down to 99p on Kindle for a limited time only. www.amazon.co.uk/Scratch-Moss...

It's been said before, but bears repeating. If you're a UK citizen and live in Dubai/Spain/ anywhere not the UK, then you're not an "expat". You're an immigrant. Fucking double standard Daily Mail cunts.

Hello, one of our friends in our local #Palestine group, Robert Murphy was kidnapped by Israel in the Global ​Sumud Flotilla group. They are peaceful volunteers carrying humanitarian aid to Palestine. It is piracy. His last message to our group was 9.48pm on Weds. www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Dude.

🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

@moiradonegan.bsky.social: „Political scientists have argued that America wasn’t really a democracy until the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the law that formed the signature achievement of the civil rights movement and sought to end racial barriers to voting when it was passed in 1965.“

One of the things I most admire about Tom Lehrer is that in the instrumental passages of the Vatican Rag, he plays sarcastically. He's just as snide without words as with.

The *moment* that Epstein buddy stops paying these freaks to babble hate speech, their viewership and fame vanishes below that of like, a mid level celebrity cat. 11x more people tune in each week to watch Holley Muraco's rescue beavers, than they do one of these forsaken kirklings.

I skimmed it so you don't have to: the guys leaving are a bunch of the most loathsome tech bros, plus someone I've never heard of described as a "car loan magnate." I'm guessing all of them together contribute less to their communities than one regular family that left CA because of housing prices.

This is a scam and shouldn't be allowed here or anywhere. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/01/m...

"The recent change to our course-management system has meant that I need to re-upload every document and assignment and reassign every homework. I will be attending three two-hour training sessions to help me do this." buff.ly/lv7w8kf

Trump and Johnson lost on ICE funding, but you’d never know it from coverage.

"Boyle wears Trump’s hallmark red ties, mimics the double thumbs up in photos, and ends his emails with, 'Thank you for your attention to this matter...'" Trumpworld is breeding a generation of super-suckups that would make Eddie Haskell blush for shame. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

ITS ALL HAPPENING!

Though Louis Sullivan is not mentioned, Buffalo's claim that the Guaranty building is one of the first true skyscrapers holds up. 🗃️ #Buffalo

"In Louisiana, where Black people make up roughly a third of the population, the congressional maps were specifically drawn so that a third of the districts were majority Black. Does that seem fair to you?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...

Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall DHS was in talks with the wildlife refuge that hosts the ancient site to make sure it was protected, a local archeologist said. theintercept.com/2026/04/30/a...

Today in “The platform must be institutional reform, & it needs to be ready to go right away in January 2029”: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

hats off to susan collins for making an entire career out of voting against her party only when her party is going to get what it wants anyway

Let me be clear: Everything is on the table. Everything, including the things that people like me will absolutely balk at when it comes down to it. But it can "be on the table" as long as that's understood.

Happy May Day from Fidel Catstro and Frida Katlo! They won’t come if you call their names, but the will always come running when they hear The Internationale.😻 #MayDay

I actually think, of the various public-facing AI projects, Google search AI summary is *by far* the most damaging. It's high visible (default on every search), it has Google's imprimatur, and it's *laughably* bad even by the standards of other AI. (ChatGPT does not credit the moon thing.)

thinking about the rod dreher illusion in light of the tucker carlson news. these guys only have the appearance of popularity because of a small number of rich patrons behind the scenes. they’re loud, they’re everywhere, but their ideas aren’t as popular as they’re made to appear.

Lock your account down so people can't steal it from you! 2FA on Bsky is clunky, but it works!

This is a good bruise to punch because in my experience people don’t know MPs are paid by twitter & are fucking furious when they find out

There are elections next week, and you should notice that the pretence of impartiality just goes straight out of the fucking window, any time the dirty hippies get too big for their boots and need a good stomping back down.

Whoever decided to put customer returns and queries on the same counter that sells lottery and tobacco etc in supermarkets deserves a special place in hell, perhaps full of queues.

AOC tells PabloReports that the reinstatement of the agent who shot Renee Good is a reminder of why Democrats should not give ICE and CBP a dime. AOC: Every single person that that man encounters is in just as grave danger as she was in.

With the reveal that post-Fox Tucker Carlson has 7.3k subscribers, reminder that *all* rightwing media is a miserable enormously unpopular and wildly unprofitable failure, only kept aloft via the largesse of a handful of billionaire pedophiles pumping them with endless amounts of cash.

Have you seen this on the @theguardian.com website? I only ask because as a subscriber I cannot trigger it to see it on the page. It is an ad that I made for them that appears to non-subscribers so I can never make it appear.

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

For those that haven’t seen footage of the arrest that Zack Polanski has criticised and Mark Rowley (and others) thinks is ‘appropriate use of force’ And note, this isn’t a ‘one off’ or because the man was armed. This happens regularly to people who have done nothing wrong bsky.app/profile/skwa...

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John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...