Thinking about AI and those writers who say they don't read because you don't need to read to write, which is technically true, but like, don't you enjoy reading? I don't know how one decides to be an artist without finding joy in art.

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

In addition to violence that @kattenbarge.bsky.social has pointed out, this is an opinion so fundamentally high on a cultural narcissism that insists that stories are just vehicles for personal fantasy. In this case, a fantasy world where women have no agency or interiority.

Working on something really stupid.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Woke mom or thot grandpa?

People lose their jobs not because of their disproportionately male chief executives but because of the lady in charge of telling them about it, I am a very savvy anticapitalist

One of my favourite relationship dynamics is nerd-dad and retired partygirl-mom

I think if I post this on threads I will literally be clobbered with a proverbial mallet should we find out

Bank Street is about 1.3Km. Imagine how good bus lanes would be for transit service, not just on the 6 & 7, but every route that connects to them. strongtownsottawa.ca/bank

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

The Artemis II crew emerges after a safe splashdown off the coast of California, concluding a historic journey around the moon. https://cnn.it/41qt7BW

If I was Jeremy Hansen, I would simply not come back to Earth.

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

Do people even like reading? If there's tasty story in a endnote I'll go out of my way to get it. It's like tacitly refusing to eat jalapeno poppers because if it was important it would come with my entree. What the fuck are we talking about?

Four astronauts have blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the Artemis II mission for a journey around the moon. Follow live updates and track their progress: https://cnn.it/4dokajM

My mom watching the Artemis II launch: You know, when we were in Florida I wanted to go to the Kennedy Space center, but you and your sister said no. Me: Oh, you should have forced us. Her: I should have. Me: It's ok if you resent us for that. Her: I do.

Ol' Skippy wouldn't know a good idea if it knocked him over the head and tied him to some railroad tracks.

Obviously the thing that people feel most about oil prices is what they pay at the pump. It changes daily, even multiple times a day, and it directly impacts their quality of life. I get it. But I don't think people understand just how intertwined our society is with the use of petrochemicals. 1/4

When I was in university, I realized that all of my romantic relationships have been "interracial". That term meant nothing to me, because, being mixed, there was only a small sliver of people I could be romantically involved with that wouldn't classify as "interracial". Fantastic article btw.

I grew up Catholic, but in my adulthood I don't really believe anymore. This was an obvious mistake, because now I have to somehow live with the idea that some people will never face consequences for their actions.

An amazing member of ours put together this graphic that really encapsulates perfectly the situation on Bank Street. There is only so much space available, and we must use it as efficiently as possible. Parking isn't that. Please sign up to delegate on March 30th in favour of bus lanes!

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

My mother on physio for her plantar fascititis: "It's a never ending cycle, and then you die."

I know it's not all Americans, but if your neighbours suddenly started bragging to everyone on your street that they could murder you in your sleep, the dissenting opinion of one of their children wouldn't be enough to make me feel safe again.

It's a ton of liberals too. So many people told on themselves last year by being like "obviously Canada should be part of the US but not like this!"

I'm happy for the Americans who won in their respective sports, but it's hard to be excited about any American win, especially against Canada, when you know it will immediately be used to justify why they should kill you.

Matt "Theocratic Fascist" Walsh, Trump regime propagandist, and world renowned shit-eater has some very interesting things to say about a sport he admits he hates when it allows him to pretend he isn't a loser in the 99th percentile.

People on Bluesky: “sPoRtS aReN’t PoLiTiCaL” The United States men’s national hockey team: *parties in their dressing room with Kash Patel*

I spent a bunch of the Olympics trying to convince myself it's ok if Americans win things because the athletes aren't the politicians but then Kash Patel parties in the locker room and the White House does this

Oh I fucking hate them

Stay classy, America.

Losing to the states wouldn't be so bad if they weren't fucking insufferable about it.

Every time something in my life goes wrong, I'm just gonna blame it on Left Wing Agitators. Didn't do the dishes? It's the domestic terrorists who dirtied them. Didn't live up to a promise I made? Violent protestors stopped me. Ran a stop sign? C'mon, I was fearing for my life!

For further reading.

Movable type toaster that lets you burn text messages into bread. Glutenberg press.

It’s infuriating how many people claim to care about fictitious “child trafficking” conspiracies about trans people and Wayfair and Democrats but will miss, ignore, and distract from actual government agents kidnapping children in front of their very eyes

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noem’s only regret is that her goons didn’t kill the dog too

Might be the stupidest and most "well duh" thing to say but as a Canadian, it's hard to convey my mindset shift after Venezuela Everything I thought Trump wouldn't be stupid or brazen enough to do now feels like it's actually a far more realistic possibility than I was previously willing to accept

These rat motherfuckers scream contradictory orders, then murder you in broad daylight before bragging about killing you to their pigfuck friends, and then lazily calling you a domestic terrorist between smoke breaks at the American Auschwitz.

ICE shot a woman driving away from them in the face in broad daylight and immediately began to smear her as a perpetrator of violence and domestic terrorism. The greatest threat to Americans is our own “law and order.”

Extremely graphic, but this is the most clear angle I've seen of this straight-up murder. The woman's car wheels turn away, and the ICE officer SHOOTS HER ANYWAY. In broad daylight. Impunity. This is the bloodthirsty fuck who fired the gun MULTIPLE times:

Minneapolis mayor refutes claim that ICE's fatal shooting of a woman was in self-defense and tells the agency to "get the f*** out" of the city. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4sw5yDK

Homeland Security is demonstrably lying, which we know thanks to the bravery of the protesters who filmed the whole thing. The wheels turned away. ICE shot her in the face multiple times, in broad daylight, anyway.

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.