1) There is a silly debate about translations that has got me thinking about one of the greatest sentences ever. It is right in the beginning of @cstross.bsky.social "The Family Trade": "The sky was the color of a dead laptop display, silver-gray and full of rain." Translation is impossible.

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It’s only the primary. But also, if you didn’t bother to vote yesterday (for anyone) I expect you to proudly wear your MAGA dunce cap. ~22%? Fuck you. *You*. 🤨 dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps...

a reminder that the USPS has new rules that make it very important to not put your mail ballot in a normal mailbox in the final days: boltsmag.org/usps-postmar...

Out for a ride yesterday, pulled up behind a car with a skateboard in the back window and crutches sticking out of the open side. 😏

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MIDSUMMER SCREAM IS NOW HIRING! 🎃 We are looking for friendly, helpful, spooky folks to join our temporary W-2 event staff for this year's convention, August 7–9 at the Long Beach Convention Center! airtable.com/app0uwWgA2qq...

A good life tip is to never become so universally despised that you can’t even pay Milli Vanilli to show up at your party.

The way these "AI checkers" work is very, very simple. It feeds part of the text into an LLM. If the LLM predicts, correctly, the missing text, it scores that as proof the LLM produced the text. And LLM's literally stole *every fucking book and forum post ever fucking written* to train on.

@dropkickmurphys.com have announced they *will* play a 20m set at Freedom 250 consisting of just one song, cranking up the amps higher with each encore. youtu.be/mSrDkRm7_78

Dedicating this AM’s playlist to The Biggest Loser. 😏🖕🍊🤡🐘 music.apple.com/us/album/suc...

I mean, if the author is doing it I guess that’s one thing, but… 🤨 www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/p...

Alert: the definition of schadenfreude had been officially updated: MAGA voters complaining about data centers being built too close to their property. Poor dears.

These were the *headliners* - the top of the bill! “…and many more!” Was Kid Rock not answering his phone? 😂🖕🍊🤡🐘

Still feels wrong loading the Six Flags app to get Knott’s info. 😕

And we're fucking speedrunning it in 20 years, not 500. 🤦‍♂️🤬

It’s almost June, haunt auditions are starting soon, and tonight I’m watching Monte Revolta & His Band of the Living Dead on YouTube. youtu.be/X-oxDhERt7k

Rise of The Machines

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@thepoliticschicks.bsky.social “We are not sending emails. We are not signing online petitions that disappear into a database. We are mailing paper. Actual envelopes. Actual stamps. Actual signatures delivered to the actual desk of the Acting Attorney General of the United States.” wtaf8647.com

Never been e-stopped on the Jungle Cruise before…

All right, let’s keep the pretentious train going: Everything once in a while, read a book from somebody you disagree with. You will: A: learn better how your enemy thinks B: Be more equipped to intellectually defeat them C: (my favorite) Feel better about yourself knowing your enemy is trash.

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

The only damn feature I want to hear about from Plex is restoring Watch Together in every one of their apps. 🤨

More than anything, all I want is ranked choice voting. Can we just have ranked choice voting, please? That, and dump the fucking Electoral College. Just those two things. Ok, ranked choice voting, dump the fucking EC, and every candidate for any office has to pass a high school civics test. 🤨

Whay I really want to see is who (other than their opponents) is sponsoring the attack ads *against* the various Dem Governor candidates. Anyone have a handy resource for that? 🤨

(Sigh). Is there any polling we trust on the Dems competing for CA governor? I’m prepared to once again hold my nose and vote defensively. 🤷‍♂️🖕🐘

LIGHTNING RUNES is here! Ebook, audiobook, dead trees! Jack Mitchell squares off against a Nazi vampire who's also a werewolf in a postwar fantasy Los Angeles. www.amazon.com/Lightning-Ru...

Source after source told 60 Minutes they fear today’s insider trading scandal about military secrets is tomorrow’s national security scandal. If market-watchers can spot irregular trades, surely enemies can, too. And they’ll make their war plans accordingly. cbsn.ws/4uSxuCf

As usual, Cory Doctorow fucking nails it. “…stop thinking about what the gadget does, and pay attention to who the gadget does it to, and who the gadget does it for.” 🤨 overcast.fm/+AAAC7L3AC6c

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To all the white Republican professed Christians across this country: To hell with you... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-hell-wi...

Any time I have lunch with a train chugging by overhead that’s a win. Riding the bike through some lovely twisties all the way up there and back down is even better.

Closest character I've got so far that's Just a Bastard is the faerie Flicker Bean, who turns orphans into guerrilla fighters that raid honest, hard-working pirates. Just for the stuff they might have. Evil Tinker Bell, basically.

Accurate Edit for Clarity: "He should live long enough to... be held accountable for his... crimes." Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologize if you found the image inappropriate. 💙-mh

Never mind true intelligence. The machines have mastered sarcasm. *Now* we’re fucked. 😏

If anyone reading this thread uses Chrome, this, via @draglikepull.bsky.social, seems very helpful: www.tomsguide.com/ai/check-you...

When Rudy Giuliani dies, remember that he won't be able to see the mean things you post about him. But the rapidly decomposing president who sees him as a political partner and who's worried about his own impending death absolutely will.

Democrats convert empty warehouses into shelters for the homeless. Republicans turn them into concentration camps to torture people without due process. The two parties are not remotely the same.

It's amazing but not unexpected how many of the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism are for stories that are basically, "Man, that Donald Trump and his evil administration really do suck."

Trust Cory Doctorow to find the silver lining to the unbelievable idiocy of MAGA. Not for us, but for (literally) the rest of the world. 🤦‍♂️🖕🍊🤡🐘 pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/p...

What is painfully obvious in these moments isn't simply that the person allegedly leading this country is a terrible human being; it is that anyone still defending him, applauding him, justifying him, and celebrating him probably is, too... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-good-pe...

'Hey, Trump Supporters, No Cinco de Mayo For You. (Seriously, Sit This One Out.)' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-trump-...

Hottest of hot takes: only people who deeply give a fuck about the thing should run companies that make the thing. Cheeseburgers, software, doesn't matter. If your Steam library is empty, you don't get to run a games studio. www.selfonomics.com/p/only-the-...