This thread is amazing, a real “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” vibes. 🧵

www.tumblr.com/vaspider/796... Saw this on @vaspider.gay 's tumblr and it warmed my heart - the post shows the winner of this year's sheep to shawl competition at the Lambtown festival in CA. This brings me SO MUCH JOY. 🏳️‍⚧️💗🐑

My dad made me this at my request. We’re in LA County, so I ran it last week with our poor air quality. I’ve made several Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for 10’s elementary school.

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

also: trans ppl tried the approach @stellacreasy.bsky.social is outlining we spent ten years doing everything the way she says things should be done the result? we won the argument keir starmer and rishi sunak just said 'no' what she's arguing doesn't work in practice. it's a myth that it does

YOU CAN EXTEND YOUR SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 10 BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT BEFORE OCT. 14! Yes it's only for one year, yes you should consider Linux, but if you just don't want to deal with this shit NOW, here's a comfy raincheck. It says "$30" but I just did for free: windowsforum.com/threads/how-...

Ohhhhh, I know what I'm giving to my fire marshals tomorrow to make them sad and delve into The Code. futurism.com/future-socie...

Every city, every town - your participation matters. When enough of us take to the streets in protest, we will make a difference. Take this chance to be part of a coordinated nationwide collective effort. Join us on Sunday at your local March for Palestine. PLEASE REPOST & TELL YOUR FRIENDS 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Supportive Parents MtG through the Omenpaths AD: Emily Mazza Another one for Omenpaths, also in one of my favourite recent planes. What can I say, I have a soft spot for Magic schools...

Thread. And a reminder: sex addiction is not real. It’s a religious scrupulosity issue and it is promoted and marketed by religious and parachurch organizations as both a money-making grift and a means of social control in high-demand religious movements. it’s not an addiction.

ginkgo leaves for #peachtober25leaf day! 🐸🍁🍂 #frogart

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" the (misattributed) quote goes. To my mind, it isn't so much a call to arms as an explanation of why we're in this mess. "Doing nothing", in this case, means "tolerating bigotry as a valid point of view".

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

obviously there's a lot of problems with child labor, but it's too valuable for big business for it to ever go away, so you need to embrace it early or your kids' resumes will be left in the dust

Amen. (And I repeat, no bugging her about this.)

Jonathan Chait on Qasim Rashid demonstrates yet again "The failure of corporate media to hold power accountable—and its instinct to attack those who do"

This is true and the video is amazing

Like for real. The plot of Spirited Away is about a kidnapped child forced into a life of indentured servitude in realm of gods after her mother and father are magically forced into becoming pigs by a witch. Meanwhile, Princess Mononoke exists.

This is the cutest and funniest damn autism explainer I have ever seen. I definitely saw myself there a few times.* * diagnosed by peer review only but holy shit the section on AuDHD was FAMILIAR. https://youtu.be/VLq8RPwDnMc?si=_vVlPw17sf2yBPtL

Comrades, I would love it if you'd support the artist behind this brilliant, stunning book cover: patreon.com/theyarebirds

What is Steven Pinker’s expertise on systemic discrimination in the awarding of Canadian federal grants? universityaffairs.ca/news/parliam...

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years. Thread

Simplified novels can be great for kids or for people who don’t have an easy time with reading. But writing them takes skill and it takes sensitivity - both to the original author and to the eventual reader. AI won’t give us that.

Antifascist historian plans to leave country, his flight inexplicably disappears from the system after he’s already gone through security. Cool cool cool. I’m just thinking of a few months ago when antifascism scholars like Jason Stanley & Timothy Snyder were mocked as cowards for fleeing the USA.

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence. Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important. It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

This is what every Democratic state needs to do, tell its state university leaders that they will lose all state appropriations if they sign the compact. Take the decision out of feckless college administrators’ hands.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

This is my antifa membership card.

Carney’s reckless approach to AI policy should raise serious questions about his infrastructure & US policies as well. In all three, he seems to be relying on his own (non-expert) judgment, ignoring complexity & others’ expertise in favour of speed. But decisiveness isn’t the same as good judgment.

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID. “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

And I just want to reiterate this ( from a thread deep in replies). I started doing this work before any of these tools existed. The number of my contemporaries in the field who have died by suicide is NOT A SMALL NUMBER. The work is incredibly traumatizing.

tl;dr TOS and user bans are kept squishy and nonspecific to give sites wiggle room to selectively apply the rules (favoring celebrities, for example). The CEO wading in and shrieking that it is THEIR decision! THEIRS! You will not bully them! takes that fig leaf away and gives ownership to the CEO.

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

this movie probs has the best character acting animation ive ever seen n at least half of it is from hana my emotionally gifted expressive queen

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

all the high level, most senior expert world leading computational linguists whose work i admire as scientists are absolutely united in thinking that ai is bullshit. i just think you should know that

Daily bunny no.3101 flying by night

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

btw I'm all for boycotting terrible companies that either promote the genocide of Palestinians or treat LGBTQ+ people (and employees) like garbage but this really demonstrates how the culture wars of the right are artificially amplified on social media versus them taking action/real world sentiment

I've done this to this crowd with great effects. If you get into a camera shot wearing something obscene it ruins some turd's chance at lying through their teeth on the six o'clock news

I don't doubt that Trumpism will soon crumble and things will return to a seeming normal. But what worries me is whether we will again make the mistake of offering impunity to these degenerates because if so, we're just waiting around for fascism that sticks.

This misses some material analysis. Connection to land is essential for revolution. Irish people, Indians, Algerians—they fought not just for their "country" but for their land. In settler colonies like the US, our culture is to just move/take over somewhere else instead of fighting to fix our home

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen... The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Tomorrow is the big day for Jester & Fjord! Are you all ready to celebrate the wedding in perfect Mighty Nein style? I’m sure nothing will go wrong at all 😂 A reinterpretation of Leighton’s “Call to Arms”, dedicated to the bride & groom💙✨ #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart @criticalrole.bsky.social