Good to see Hell following responsible urban planning practices and taking the necessary steps to accommodate inevitable population growth. Yes in my Circle!

It's wonderful discussion of generative "AI" and LLMs, but it's also a much-needed celebration of what it is to be human and use language as we learn to understand and explore our world.

This is digital humanities

Fuck yeah let's gooooooo (Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England by Richard Rastall with Andrew Taylor) #MedievalSky

This is Maple. She wants to know why you needed to take a photo at this very second. You caught her and her teef by surprise. 12/10

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

Artemisia Gentileschi cornering the market on paintings of women killing men in gruesome but inventive ways. Love that for her!

damn gurl are you medusa because i get hard when you look at me

brown gravy at night, potato's delight white gravy in the morning, fresh biscuits take warning

You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

ok. because we all could use a little joy here are some silly medieval hedgehogs for hedgehog day:

Off to the word mines for the day but everyone needs cheering up on a Sunday like this. I've told this one before but anyway, gather around, children, for this is the story of how my paternal grandmother, the quietest woman to ever live, beat up the most famous magician in Asia during his act

Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.

I'm not saying this is a coup. But if you *were* going to do a coup, how would things look different from recent events -- seizing the federal payments system, federal purging law enforcement, threatening to sic armed US Marshals on civil servants guarding classified data

If it ain't illegal, it ain't civil disobedience.

Renaissance hottie alert.

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

incredibly cat content (watch the whole thing)

running the federal govt the same way I figure out which breaker powers the garage

Most scholars I know--affiliated or not--just want access to resources behind paywalls--subscription journals, databases, books. No one I know is going "gee I wish I had AI tools to mine those resources for pithy, questionable syntheses." They can't even GET TO the resources. THAT is what they want.

In the 1700s, people would rent a pineapple for their party. Not to eat. Just as a status symbol for everyone to look at because it was so expensive and special. Well, I've got an 18-pack of eggs from Costco and some bulk Kirkland French roast if anyone is looking to impress...

Sorry guys. My bad

Life imprisonment for being undocumented. Bill title: "AN ACT TO CREATE THE MISSISSIPPI ILLEGAL ALIEN CERTIFIED BOUNTY HUNTER PROGRAM" because "Fugitive Slave Act" was already taken.

If all you are doing is immersing yourself in the horrors of the world and you are so far down the moral injury burnout well that you are screaming at others for not joining you in it, you need to read this old thread. bsky.app/profile/raha...

A 🧵 about the history of honey and bee-keeping: 1/? Bees first began to make honey about 200 million years ago, long before there were any people.

Scratch a transphobe, find a misogynist

Loads of spelling mistakes in this.

when i say im doing something for "the time being" i dont mean for a period of time i mean im doing it for the horrible time being who is constantly ordering me around like im his administrative assistant but wont even tell me his true name

This is Saige. She is curled up into a perfect little ball. As you do when you are a perfect little girl. 12/10 (IG: minidoxiesaige)

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

DurangoAnarchists on IG giving an example of what information is actually helpful instead of sharing vague ~*Resistance Vibes*~ nothing burgers 🖤✊🏽

We've finally defeated cancel culture. Now people only get fired for criticizing the government

The Horniman Natural History Gallery features this stunning walrus. It was transported to England, purchased in 1886. There, the taxidermists, having never seen one in the wild, stuffed it until the wrinkles smoothed out. This is a fully inflated walrus, my friends. MAXIMUM WALRUS. (📷: Tom Natt)

Someone on here said that we've just replaced the four humours with the names of neurotransmitters and that's so right it's not even funny.

This is a great reminder from day one of how they work; three or four times a day, every day, they will do something and then insist they didn’t do it and force everyone to burn out arguing that it is what it is. The sole purpose is to exhaust you and it will absolutely work if you let it.

A 'potential' housing crisis? Babe, we are already there.

At least the government can’t ever take away THIS TikTok! He’s public domain!

There is a secret sauce that makes college 🏈 possible. It isn’t the traditions, pageantry, religious devotion of fans, drunken tailgating, or lucrative tv contracts. No, what college 🏈 is predicated on is *structural coercion.* @derekcrim.bsky.social and I explain. lithub.com/american-col...

megawealth is a curse! you become acutely aware of the needs you have that cannot be satisfied through material means AND you are socially ill-positioned to be in a place where you can experience authentic human connection because everyone around you has every incentive to lie to you!

This back-and-forth between two Tumblr users is everything I love about #Tumblr. "Someone should invent a word for when you're jumping and popping...." ino.to/PsKwMCT

"When are bears most active?" #tumblr #funny #reddit ino.to/kkkh7gV

As clear an explanation as I've seen of the larger issues with the Skrmetti case: It's not just about denying care to trans youth (but not to cis youth), which is horrible enough. A negative result would undermine the cornerstone of women’s equality in law. By Naomi Schoenbaum. shorturl.at/07q1H

The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."

Reading @ryannorth.ca's book 'How to Invent Everything (a guide for the stranded time traveler)' has given me a new appreciation for technology that we take for granted - currently getting deep into kilns which seem pretty foundational for... well everything! www.howtoinventeverything.com

I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.

Look, I know object permanence when I see it

look i made it the 1979 ibm warning

I used to feel so inadequate compared to fictional characters who had an effortless facility with learned quotations, but then I realised that it's just the book version of being Very Online.