There’s just no subtlety or smarts to transphobic thought and its a mistake to assign it any. Its a very base and banal thing. Just the manifestation of belief in the base structures of patriarchal heterosexual society and that people should know their place in it

being a hater is important. or rather, if you are a hater by nature it's better to not deny it. we need ecumenical haters, haters with a willingness to keep open minds, haters who can explain why they like something just as assiduously. That way when they say "this is dog shit" it has real power

“This all had me wondering: what’s Indian food without the heat? The historian in me has an answer: spiciness is historically contingent.”

Health experts: Your synthetic text "AI" overviews are misleading, for example see this about liver function tests. Google: Okay, we'll block "AI" overviews on that query. The product is fundamentally flawed and cannot be "fixed" by patching query by query. A short 🧵>>

“So, no longer speak about “aiding” Ukraine. The Ukrainians are aiding Europeans and Americans by fighting for their survival. We owe them our gratitude, not the other way around.” By @phillipspobrien.bsky.social phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

🪶 The birds of the British Isles and their eggs. London ;F. Warne, 1920. [Source]

Now that we’re all on the same page with the extemporalized New Weird as a style or method rather than a period, what New Weird books are we looking forward to this year? Weird cities are the style of the time, right

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

100/124 writers due at Adelaide Writers Festival have pulled out, as has sponsor, the Australia Institute. I'm loving this display of solidarity, and rejection of racism and Islamophobia.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

gah look at this! Look at the photos! and then read the interview because it's also amazing: globalvoices.org/2026/01/08/w...

this system is fucking atrocious, it's actually a bunch of interconnected systems of power and it took 600 years for these people to get this entrenched and powerful and that's with constant opposition in one form or another it's a generational struggle you just need to stay plugged in and work

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

four words I never thought anyone would put together, but now I have a need: uranium glass lobotomy set

"GenAI is the futu--

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Another great reminder that we don't need to retreat and scurry into silence when it feels like right wing forces are surging on climate. If anything, now is when it's most important to be persistent, clear and focused on message discipline!

I feel like "everyone carries the panopticon on their person at all times" and "it's trivially easy to produce realistic fake audio/video on demand" are each incredibly destabilizing on their own, both socially and epistemically, but the combo of the two is going to be wild in ways we can't predict

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

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No 'regulating', these are infoweapons that need to be banned and their creators disgraced and exiled from public life.

This was such a fun interview! Talking with Julia is always a pleasure 💖 Getting to read this long poem out loud was also a joy!

Iida Turpeinen’s BEASTS OF THE SEA made it on the NYT bestseller list and it’s the recognition it deserves. A poignant book about understanding our capacity for driving other species to extinction - and how awe and self-proclaimed love of nature can be destructive.

*groans in cognitive psychologist*

Again... little girls Remas & Toleen shouldn't have to rely on strangers to afford basic survival needs, just as they shouldn't have to face any aspect of this unceased genocide. They can't afford for us to forget them. Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

How does the EU keep being so disappointing all the time?

So deeply sick of seeing cities around the world burn under bombs.

The ship was carrying sanctioned goods from Russia to Israel, because of course murderous regimes will work together

Happy New Year to the haters, the losers, and the far left marxist transgender extremists, which I think covers everyone here.

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who else started watching Heated Rivalry thinking they’d learn about hockey? I can’t be the only one

the neon catholicism of vietnam is genuinely peak in terms of design i wish more things were neon

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Barnes and Noble is having another one of their pre-order sale for members. One of the books you can grab for 25% off if you're so inclined is Ballad of the Bone Road, which officially comes out 1/27! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ballad-of-...

Cannot agree more. And the lack of ability to recognise the end of the USSR as liberating for societies harmed by Soviet imperialism is a result of decades of marginalization of the perspectives of the very same affected populations. This calls for major long-overdue changes in how knowledge is made

In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.

I remain a cozy hater, and this thread expresses why

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's ongoing genocide. Palestinians have been left to die homeless & starving in brutal winter, & the recent storm has flooded the camps & destroyed what shelter they have, & Bluesky deletes them constantly:

The section on Mary Oliver, Carl Phillips, and queer poetry—the reciprocal nature of queer syntax!—echoes some of the ways I’ve been thinking about who sees who, who *recognizes* who, and how it’s entirely possible to avoid becoming legible to straight society (while being obvious to the rest of us)

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Not to brag but a friend gifted me a polypore, chemically treated so that it can go on the wall as a piece of decor

my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas

The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.

There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.

my name is cow and wen its nite and when a star is shiyning brite and three wise men give me the nod i walk up close I lik the God

yall this is so, so funny to me 😂

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