Marco Rubio in 2023

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”

Your daily Shogun

"City of Dreams". A commissioned illustration I drew for @niedermeyer.online a while ago. Still one of my favorite pieces! Haven't shared it here on it's own yet and thought I should! Closeups will be in the comments.

“What I do know is that however Trump and his most loyal supporters and agreeable pundits and access-obsessed journalists attempt to justify this ridiculous war, they firmly believe the cost of waging it will not be suffered by people like them.” Truth. Always read @charlotteclymer.bsky.social.

this thread is so long that it breaks the bluesky mobile app. my phone nearly overheated trying to render it

When I was at university we were terrified of accidentally plagiarizing a fraction of a sentence or not properly crediting sources. How do ‘ai writers’ disregard plagiarism machines?! “GenAI, like ChatGPT, is built entirely on models of stolen artwork, including books. The word is ‘plagiarism’.”

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

Was thinking exactly the same thing. Used to be, when you saw obvious fake shit on facebook (and elsewhere) on April 1, you knew it was a gag. Now, 80% of the shit on FB is fake every day, so the April Fools' gags aren't obvious any more. April Fools went from fun to just more shit to wade through.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

i've said this before but no, social media is not cigarettes social media is sex, drugs and rock and roll. yes, it can be dangerous. it's also awesome. and what matters most is informed consent, transparency, harm reduction, and mechanisms of accountability to prevent abuse of power.

Sorry no insulin for Grandma, we are busy giving Ayatollah Ali Khamenei‘s more extremist son control of the Strait of Hormuz

THE 45 DAY COMMENT PERIOD IS OPEN NOW TELL NYCPS THAT YOU DON’T WANT TEACHERS AND STUDENTS USING THE PLAGIARISM MACHINE TO BURN UP THE PLANET AND LEAVE NOTHING FOR THE KIDS WE ARE CURRENTLY EDUCATING survey.alchemer.com/s3/8751093/G...

Well if I can't plug this now, when can I?? :)

Yeah that’s cool

NASA responded to one Terrible Maps’ terrible maps, and it is glorious.

While Washington wages war on science, NASA just sent humans to the Moon's vicinity for the first time since 1972. Bravo #TeamNASA — proof that public science, when it's funded and trusted, still does extraordinary things.

“He was gay and lived through two world wars and 40 US Presidents” is a fucking outstanding epitaph

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

forgot the most important of the genre

very specifically if you are tempted to pretend It Happened as an april fool's joke please go ahead and preemptively delete the post right now

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov

Quick reminder to everyone: tomorrow is April 1st. You will not be able to trust Anything you read on the internet EVEN MORE THAN USUAL!!!

Further: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security. Fun facts: -DHS is only 23 years old. - Its creation stripped 180,000 government employees of their union rights and other civil service protections. - No one called the US “the homeland” before George W Bush.

I would love to ask Poilievre: Why are we the only wealthy country without high speed rail? Are we simply incapable of building infrastructure? You're saying we should give up entirely?

Just saw something about a soldier who was put on involuntary psychiatric leave for speaking up for Palestine. What sane people collectively fail to understand is that there is no due process to having your life destroyed and being imprisoned against your will, if they call you crazy.

GNU Terry Pratchett

like, I do NOT know how you survive being a young person today. it feels like we've closed off every opportunity they were ever promised while still expecting them to hoist themselves up by their bootstraps, and also the bootstraps cost $39.99 a month and sell your data to raytheon

Thinking about how everyone in the eighties sprung into action when backwards messages on metal albums were supposedly driving kids to commit suicide

Yes, this is real.

Made a few hand-built stoneware galaxy mugs. Just listed. Surly.etsy.com

Your pal Effin’ Birds is facing off against a century-old publishing icon and a whole ass television network in this year's Webby Awards. You can make this more like the time I defeated Jimmy Fallon and less like the time I lost to Ted Lasso by voting here: eatf.art/vote

Would you like these couple of royalty-free skull drawings for your zine, free of charge? Here's what you're gonna do: Download them here and don't use them alongside any LLM stuff in the same publication. Then add me as the artist. 💀 www.patreon.com/posts/154444... #ttrpg #osr #stockart

TODAY'S COMIC: Anatomy of a Jackalope

The CEO of Microsoft felt the need to ask people to stop calling AI slop so yes it is actually a winning strategy. And increasingly, the people who are against AI are the ones who understand it while proponents don't. Turns out understanding AI kinda makes it look worse.

If you need to buy any electronics, buy em now

average people want to love each other and care for their families and play games with their friends and fuck and do drugs and laugh and build things and create things our systems don't reflect this, but it is imperative we don't let them make us forget that most people want to love each other

Begging the average disabled person to understand that their experiences with ableism and healthcare are political and directly related to capitalism

🦋🏳️‍⚧️ ME - TA - MOR - PHO - SIS 🏳️‍⚧️🦋 (2022-2025) #formline #telekitneticart #indigenousart

I will never get over how effectively this administration convinced people in bad faith that they were fighting antisemitism on campuses just to turn around and do exactly this

“I’m not comfortable having my businesses associated with the direction federal enforcement has taken. I have employees, guests, community members from a lot of different backgrounds, & their comfort matters to me. It was a personal & business decision, and it’s mine to make.” 👍

I dont give two shits if Kristi Noem's husband likes cross-dressing. The only thing he should be ashamed of is being married to Kristi Noem.

Literally give me the money. I will make better things. Divide the money between ten thousand random people on this website and there will be better things.

You deserve love. You deserve safety. And you sure as shit deserve a whole lot more than you are being given or even allowed. You are seen. You are loved. You belong. Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all of our brothers, sisters, and siblings out there. May every day get better from here. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

My unpopular opinion is that the photos of Mr. Noem were published as a form of revenge porn and that we don’t have to reshare them to criticize him, or her, for their hypocrisy.

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

“The value of these projects is associated with a different model of natural resource use, and represents a boost to sustainability. It is truly a great asset that the Dominican Republic can offer to the world." globalvoices.org/2026/03/29/c...

If Trump signs an unconstitutional Executive Order to take over voting, we will sue. I don't bluff and I usually win.