This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

I’m gonna tell you fascists You might be surprised People in this world Oh they’re getting organized You bound to lose You fascists bound to lose (www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBhESEt2/)

ROLL IT BACK @bsky.app . You're making the site unusable! Why are we blocking ADULT CONTENT from CONSENTING ADULTS? The people that don't want to see it can already filter it. The filters work fine, THIS DOES NOT. Hold that thought- furthermore, why are we blocking SFW content from EVERYONE? TEXT??

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

Let's stop making plastic crap Together

And worth noting that the politicians say 'trans' because they can't say f****t, but their supporters hear f****t. Because fundamentally all of this is crippling gender-insecurity from a bunch of oversized manchildren - the worst thing they can imagine, their terror, is being called 'not a man.'

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Truly, I would argue there is maybe no single more important figure in 1970s/80s cinema than Marcia Lucas. Yeah George and Martin and Steven directed the movies but she is the one who took what they made and spun it into The Stories that we all love to this day. Her shadow looms LARGE.

A great example of how crucial the editor is to the cinematic process. This scene intercuts three separate sequences with clear stakes and readable action in each one, each building on the others to form a single coherent arc. In the hands of less assured editors this would be a shambles.

After having seen STAR WARS 500 times as a kid, I remember having my mind blown learning that the entire "the death star is about to blow up the rebel base as its being attacked" beat of the ending was invented in the editing room using outtakes and ADR. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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I keep thinking about this video I saw of an illustrator who's job was taken by ai. She said the company started posting ai images that looked like hers but with tons of mistakes they wouldn't have tolerated if she had made it.

Think I've got to side with Patagonia here.

I told you this place is always crowded, we should’ve called for a reservation 😩

So if you don't know native plants, NE Aster usually blooms starting in *September/October*

Getting into flow state is an incredible high. Brain goes brrrr and even after you're done it can lift you for DAYS.

Any time a creative turns to this tech, they are saying "I do not respect the people who do this thing. I do not value their creative contribution to my vision. I think they are so worthless, they can be replaced by the machine that ate their work." It's not surprising this is seen as hostile.

Ideas are cheap. Anyone can have ideas. Everyone HAS ideas. There’s no barrier of entry for having an idea. You don’t need genAI. Scribbling your idea onto a piece of paper is infinitely more creative and rewarding than feeding it to the stolen slop machine in return for a soulless render.

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

For people who think that AI is inevitable or worry it is, I made starter packs of game devs refusing to use AI, and in less than 24 hours had more than 200 devs ask to be included. Creatives don't want this and won't use it. You just need to support those who won't use it.

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

You know what's kind of awesome about living in the generative slop times? Seeing something new, doing some light searching to check if it's fake, and then realizing anew we actually live in a world of goshdanged spectacular wonders. time.com/article/2026...

I made another Pokemon figurine! This time it's Ampharos :) #pokemon #ampharos

Hey folks, I'm doing another art supplies drive for my incarcerated friend, Jeremiah, and the people in his art program. The prison continues to support his teaching art and doing art therapy, but they don't have the money for supplies. Tohelp, You must use BLICK ART MATERIALS.Com 1/

Masks are an extremely cheap & relatively efficient way to prevent all kinds of airborne illnesses getting into your own body. They don't harm surrounding people, they are easy to carry, can't be used in any devious way, yet that MD seems bothered by this completely innocuous things. I miss adults.

This is a great series, go grab it!

This needs too be normalized at conventions.

LRP sometimes you just wanna feel very bad, uncomfortable feelings through fiction. It may be in seeking catharsis, but it's not a requirement. Fiction is intended to be a vehicle one can explore the whole spectrum of emotions one can experience...so why limit that for yourself IT'S NOT REAL

There's a theme in these lawsuits where a librarian has been fired for refusing to remove books or discriminate against LGBTQ+ folks. They are not losing. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/edu...

OOF.

We can get universal healthcare in this country but we are going to have to fix...so much shit...to get there.

Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.

New dinos in the making 🦖

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

Texas solar is projected to beat coal for the first time on the ERCOT grid. This news isn't getting the attention it deserves.

But remember, AI data centers are going to boost the American economy! While driving the people who lost to AI out of their homes due to rising utility costs.

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"This is what it looks like when workers hold the line – it sends a message to every media company in the country that AI cannot be used to circumvent union contracts or undermine journalistic integrity." Academics please take note!

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

Looked out the window and saw this tiny surprise visitor to the yard. 🤩

This is a cat checkpoint, post your most recent cat picture: Fern keeps eyeing the trees like she REALLY wants to try climbing them

Funny how the NYT never runs polls asking if the Republicans should move more towards the center, innit? Funny how nobody ever asks Republicans if they'll consider moving to the center when the President's polling numbers are under 30%.

Sometimes the bus doesn’t come when it’s supposed to and you’re like “shit I guess I’m walking home” then you start to walk along the river and get treated to this

Happy International Bee Day! In the Rethinking Lawns lab @negauneeinstitute.bsky.social Chicago Botanic Garden, we're working to help turn our lawns into better spaces for native pollinators. To celebrate, have some id keys for Midwestern/NE American bumblebees! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Give Sarah money. Sarah gives back ten fold in energy, science education, and to communities all over the country. Just do it.

Ghost shark, carnivorous sponge among 1,000+ newly discovered marine species

FRIENDS: this is a NATIONWIDE bill going to a vote in the US congress. the previous book banning bill, 7661, tons of yall called over several days, and it started running out of gas. So they shoved the same stuff under a different number and voting on it as fast as possible.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_R... today I learned about the Great Raft, a permanent log jam over two rivers in the Arkansas/Louisiana/Texas area that existed from circa the 12th century until 1830 when the US Army Corps of Engineers destroyed so ships could traverse those rivers.