Again reiterating my belief that “non-binary” is eventually going to go down the same route as “socialist” due to right-wing abuse of the term. Just like a “socialist” now is someone who wants potholes filled, a nonbinary person will eventually become a dudebro at the gym who does not beat his wife.

On deskilling, we always knew; it's the AI hypers who want us to forget: "This experience has demonstrated that it is impossible to create an absolutely reliable automatic system, and sooner or later people face the necessity to act after equipment fails." — Valentina Ponomareva

#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA): 1 Common Grackle 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Downy Woodpecker 4 American Robin 5 American Goldfinch 6 House Sparrow 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 8 American Crow 9 House Finch 10 Mourning Dove #Birds #BirdsongDetection #BirdWeather

And now a message from the Moth Promotional Board: Want to see cute moths like this? Grow 'weeds'. That's right. Do less gardening, be less tidy, make less effort! & get ecologically super-important, pollinating, beautiful, fluffy flying kittens!!

Genocide does not make Israel's people safer. Ethnic cleansing and environmental catastrophe does not make Israel's people loved or respected. The slaughter and expansionism has to stop. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Developers say there's plenty of water for a giant data center in southern New Mexico. Some locals are skeptical.

Remember, Gillibrand's son worked his internship at A16Z — the same firm that hired a man as a partner solely on the basis that he strangled one of Senator Gillibrand's constituents to death.

🇧🇷Topetinho-ruivo 🌎Lophornis cf. delattrei Descrição sucinta…

Hey, I got a new starter pack for ya! Big Nope to "A.i.," Data Centers, & Big Tech A work in progress chock full of people & groups providing info about and organizing against the pernicious effects of "A.i." and its pushers. go.bsky.app/3w9a45V

IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

President Trump put all flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on hold for his birthday celebration, as “the air traffic controllers were not warned, nor were the airport staff or travelers.” trib.al/8v2z5OP

First I'd heard of the Cozumel fox, hope there are exciting updates from the camera trapping and hair snare efforts soon! 🦊

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

Hey darlings, I love to see all the images you post but SO MANY of them are posted without Alt Text. Please make your content accessible by adding descriptions to pictures and GIFs. If you toggle on the alt text reminder in your settings it will help you get into the habit. Thanks so much!

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

My dear tourists who have learned of ranch: Buy the powder. It’s in packets or shaker jars. You will need some combination of mayo, milk, sour cream, greek yogurt, and/or buttermilk to make it at home (packet says mayo/milk; mess around with the others.) It’s BEST when freshly made.

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy has proposed eliminating the U.S. Forest Service’s airworthiness inspections for aircraft that fight wildfires. The idea itself could benefit Sheehy personally.

Mars bees! (Not really Mars bees.) (Probably.)

If you own a bar or other business that puts up flyers, consider posting something like this

Trump promised to make the drains run on slime, and as we know, he always keeps his promises. *taps earpiece*… ah, wait…

Right, it’s terrifying to consider the possibility of kids not reporting groomers and abusers if they’re afraid THEY will get in trouble for defying age verification laws.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Apache helicopters on fire off the Strait of Hormuz. I watched rugpulled shitcoins glitter in the dark near the Arc de Trump. All those moments will be lost in time, like Ecto Cooler in drain. Time to die.

#DailyBird 🤖 Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), 25th February 2024 es: Pico Pubescente, fr: Pic Mineur Larz Anderson Park, Brookline, Massachusetts Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 70% crop, 1/500s, ISO 640 #Birds #DownyWoodpecker #DOWO #Woodpeckers #BirdOfTheDay #DescribeYourImages

very cool illustration of ranked choice voting and how it worked in Maine’s gubernatorial Democratic primary via www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...

Palantir irrité par l’annonce de la fin de son contrat avec la DGSI : « On ne peut pas faire ça comme ça, sur Instagram. C’est un sujet ultra-sérieux »

The league made an exception during the World Series last year when players on the Blue Jays and Dodgers put #51 on their caps for Alex Vesia, whose infant daughter had just died. Doing that was technically illegal too, but I guess the league read the room.

#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA): 1 Common Grackle 2 House Finch 3 Downy Woodpecker 4 Tufted Titmouse 5 House Sparrow 6 American Robin 7 Chipping Sparrow 8 Mourning Dove 9 Northern Cardinal 10 American Goldfinch #Birds #BirdsongDetection #BirdWeather

This is fascinating. The BBC’s own scrutiny of its flagship TV News discusses its clear bias towards selective reporting of crimes committed by immigrants & asylum seekers and no one from the News team will defend it. What is going on behind the scenes? www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Having a Thiel acolyte who also works at "Tools for Humanity", Sam Altman's global id and crypto currency", on the board for "W" the European social network the EU is pushing, saying it'll respect privacy and enable trust is certainly a choice. As was announcing it at Davos. wsocial.eu

1935 - 2026. Same supremacist violence strategy, new targets. ‘What you’re seeing is a race based pogrom’. (Claire Hanna MP, 2026) [7/7]

This is the moment Mayor of Boston Michelle Wu officially made Boston and Glasgow sister cities today at The Haven, a Scottish pub in Boston A formal agreement will follow next April during Tartan Week

A young Japanese golden eagle that was born at a Tokyo zoo was released in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, as part of efforts to bring the species back to the area.

A good thread of questions — not small ones…— about what remains murky with W's vulnerability. @anna.wsocial.eu: we've both been privacy professionals, so you know exactly how serious this is. What's the plan?

As we approach America250, I wish to point out that if not for woke George Washington mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox, we probably wouldn’t have made it to America001.

Oh, the biofilm is just getting started. It’s probably well past the seeding phase, and the algae getting killed off by their “nanobubbler” ozonator and whatever peroxide they’re dumping in are just gonna provide nutrients for the unkillable biome wedged deep in the convoluted polyurea matrix

can we stop doing the data center bamboo post because there's a nonzero chance someone will take it seriously and fuck their area's biodiversity up lol

BREAKING: Missouri judge strikes down nearly all state abortion regulations #moleg #mogov

In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.

Exc: First Government department quits Twitter over racism and violence concerns Richard Hermer sent a directive to staff last week saying the Attorney General's Office would be coming off the platform observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Peak rain rate of over 2 inches per hour today in NE MA; total of 0.89 inches, of which 0.74 fell in about 90 minutes. #MAWX

Reposting because: a) new book! and also because b) every pre-order of this queer Toronto ghost story/crime/horror novella (~22k) for fans of Sara Gran's Come Closer, and Talk to Me and Shikoku, currently goes toward me refilling prescriptions (that run out Saturday). Links below:

The Trump administration has repealed the 2024 Public Lands Rule, stripping conservation of equal priority with industry across 245 million acres of federal land. Consequently, the DOI revoked a Montana grazing permit for 950 wild bison, ruling leases must prioritize commercial livestock.

Trump spectacularly failed his latest cognitive test

We are gonna see SO MUCH of this image in campaign ads for the rest of the year. ALT: A large fragment of the new paint from the reflecting pool floats up from the bottom of the pool, looking like dirty sheet plastic.

Fun discoveries in #birdWeather PUC data…

DO YOU WANT A TULPA THIS IS HOW YOU GET A TULPA

If gender is something that can change, it is much harder to use as a chain. The promise of making all women slaves again is what keeps the gender panic factory in business. (me adding hot sauce to Charlie Jane's already spicy newsletter)