Let's talk about this fucking guy. youtu.be/vlKDQ3fwI5w

I wanted to see this show *so much* but then the run ended. But then they started a second run! Got tickets. Delayed getting to the 90-minutes-away airport (my fault) and arrived during boarding and they wouldn't let us go through security. Stayed with family to get the next flight ~4 am.

Masking at conventions makes so much sense I don't know why we don't all do it. The chances of getting get sick at a con are so high we have a cute little name for it: "con crud." That its easy to get COVID at cons should come as no surprise. Why would you not want to protect yourself and others?

You cannot be fucking serious

my hands are shaking with rage and grief. i shouldn't have to do this. the edited text on this image should not exist. this should not still be happening in 2025

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.” Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

This story just infuriates me every time. Even surface level, who the fuck thinks a bottle of liquid labeled opium is actually opium? This isn't an editorial cartoon from the 1600s or a 60s batman episode. Jfc

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

reminder the two off switches in google admin settings that say they can be used to turn off gemini actually don't do what we want them to. only way to turn it off it is to directly contact support for them to expose a secret third toggle that really turns it off. (also: it cannot help you do it 🤖)

I needed a bracket 2 deck, and this was a theme I've wanted to build for years. Finally had the motivation to go ahead with it recently.

Having spent years failing to successfully figure out the theme of @specialbeamcannon.bsky.social's Princess Lucrezia theme deck, I have decided to make my own. I'm not sure how esoteric my theme is, but every card *and token* fits. Sideboard is alt versions that fit. moxfield.com/decks/rqaA53...

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Well I hope it works out because it sounds like it would be really fucking bad if this was a bubble.

Any other President in history says something like this to a military crowd and there's articles of impeachment drawn up before the start of the next business day.

They thought it would hurt everyone except for them. They knew they were voting for people to be hurt, they were excited to watch the suffering. They just didn't think they'd have to experience it too. Which is incredibly delulu, but here we go again with the shock that they also need safety nets

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

An officer who can't keep their cool while under confrontation, especially if it's just verbal insults, should not be allowed access to weapons that can KILL people.

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

a common sentiment I've seen about MagicCon Atlanta has been "they shouldn't host events in the South" while i understand where this comes from(feeling like The South™️ is hostile to queer ppl) it fails to acknowledge an often ignored part of our community: people of color(specifically black folks)

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

the flotilla tracker no longer shows any vessels, and the iof claims all but one boat has been intercepted - unclear which one 🙁🙁🙁 flotilla activists are being held in a high-sec prison, NOT normal for immigration detainees

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer. www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

Israel is deliberately blocking this aid from reaching millions of people they are intentionally starving in the midst of a genocide—funded by your tax dollars—and illegally kidnapping people who try to help.

These boats are carrying food, baby formula and medical supplies—items that are desperately needed in Gaza. International representatives have independently verified the cargo on each ship. They pose no harm. It's only aid.

On the Gaza flotilla live stream, one by one, boats are intercepted by IDF & blasted with water cannons until comms are jammed & the feed for each boat goes down. Israel is illegally kidnapping civilians on international waters, & they're preventing the world from witnessing.

Wait till they start generating videos of mass shooters in cctv style with them wearing political shirts and pushing it within minutes of a mass shooting on Twitter. This is absolutely corrosive to any sort of trust in society.

Very good 🧵. I know you’re Going Through It, because we’re all Going Through It in September 2025. But trust me when I say it is so much harder if you lose your health, your friends, your livelihood, your identity as a person who exists in the world. You’re one unlucky infection away from that.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Fascinated by "not thinking" being a thing people come believe is desireable. The vacant ecstacy of zombiehood. Consciousness slowly vanishes, evolved out by symbiosis with graphics cards, but mankind somehow continues. A bustling planet, devoid of mind.

Censorship never stops with just one book, one newspaper, one person. The end goal of censorship is always complete control. For Christ's sake, Kimmel just showed a video of the President's own words. Stop capitulating. It will never save you in the end.

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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I will simply say this: Charlie Kirk said a lot of things, easily looked up, that I don’t think the Catholic Church would or should feel comfortable endorsing with this kind of unfettered enthusiasm.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

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That's called extortion.

This goes along to prove that even if you keep yourself apolitical, like the coward Jimmy Fallon is, you are not exempt from being punished anyway. You might as well take a stand against the fascists!

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

"Trans people did not suddenly invent themselves in the Year of Our Lord 2018. Nor did advocacy on their behalf suddenly take on a more strident tone—if anything, the reverse. What changed was an aggressive top-down campaign from political and press elites. " www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Go buy some stuff from @hookieduke.bsky.social right now--or if you can, go buy in person at a convention! My shirt from DragonCon two years ago is one of my favorite articles of clothing and means so much to me. 🖤💛

Hey. You. Sad person reading this. You will never, ever, in your entire life, even if it lasts one quintillion years, will ever be as big a failure as this. Never. You will always, forever, for your entire life, even if it lasts one quintillion years, be better than this. Give yourself grace. <3

Just gonna do a quick search of posts to see what the CEO of Bluesky offered up when my reps were shot or when kids were gunned down

I'll be pretty sad if we lose Cybersand Harvester one update after we lost Deep Dive. I'd understand it, just like I understood the DD ban, but like DD, CH is fueling my enjoyment of Standard. I guess DD leaving led me to MuslihaT so I might have a similar reinvigoration Corpside but I'll pout first

i wrote this in *2017.* since then the right wing media has grown extensively. and yet it looks like no lessons learned. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/char...

Why? Why should parents and children "use AI together?" Why not make an ethical choice not to use it together? Why is the implicit and explicit message always "you must use it, there is no other option"

People shouldn't be fired for quoting a dead bigot. People should be fired for advocating euthanizing homeless people.