With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

Pre-stream is live. Come hang out vcr.trashnightvideo.com

No matter how well-known Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire" is, it deserves more.

Always wonderful to see a good #FencePost complete some lichen and topped off with an excellent bird (Carolina Wren) #FencePostBirds #birds 🌿

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

Countdown to the release of Faith of Beasts... Tell your friends and remind your enemies. www.amazon.com/Faith-Beasts...

Then that winter he flew south again by way of Bermuda: 24hr overnight flight to Bermuda, 2 days rest, 24hr to Cuba. Ask yourself this: How did Harper know how to navigate trans-Atlantic to Bermuda? That's gutsy. An all or nothing trip.🌎 3/3

I finally updated my bird photo site with a few new ones. Here’s a preview— check it out!: feather.town/march-2026/ #birds

I finally updated my bird photo site with a few new ones. Here’s a preview— check it out!: feather.town/march-2026/ #birds

haters are one of Chicago’s most vital exports. they don’t grow them like that anywhere else. if you have been hated by someone from Chicago you never forget it. Leo talks like a guy who has to call up his confessor twice a day to yell about some new Truth Social post that’s making him see knives

I enjoyed how peaceful this story felt

on the jim crow travesty that is the SAVE act (gift link)

FYI: Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline

Have you seen a robin yet? www.jerthorp.me/post/have-yo...

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

For about $2.5 billion a day, we could provide a $500 per month UBI to every American — adults and kids. Poverty would be reduced by 65%. Child poverty would drop by over 80%. Extreme poverty would be essentially eliminated. Inequality would drop by about 20%. We can do/be so much better than this.

The news is terrible but I’m going to continue posting birds and frogs and flowers and the sky because looking at nature can help us keep going in the face of all the awful. Please take good care of yourselves #birds 🌿

Birds do it Bees do it Other creatures in the trees do it Let's do it Let's create a residential structure using our own saliva

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.” www.therage.co/persona-age-...

Reporter: Do aliens exist? Obama: *chuckles* Technically no, a time ghoul is from Earth. Just not today’s Earth

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

Universal Basic Income is like making 100 million tiny bets, any one of which could pay off and change the world. A kid goes to college. An inventor in their garage. A poet, a painter, a composer; the book that becomes a movie that becomes a franchise; a programmer inventing a TikTok.

LEAVE THE BEHELIT ALONE PUT IT BACK

"America will get better and better," declared the Reverend Jesse Jackson on the stage of the 1988 Democratic National Convention. "Keep hope alive." Find some hope today in Jackson's speech as we remember the life of one of America's civil rights icons.

Ah, I see that we have finally decided that the solution to our health problems is to embarrass us all to death.

Anyway to my burger cishetler mufos, now is the time to be loud on behalf of our trans and queer friends. I refuse to throw them under the bus so we can nominate some "respectable" pervert who will lose in the general anyway. We can course correct on this now and win, but there's not much time

Our new paper is out today in Animal Behaviour: "Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: Ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals." By Connor Acorn, Jenn Foote, & me. @animbehsociety.bsky.social How loud is an Ovenbird's song? It depends... 🧵1

Kinda ironic that people who are really into the Epstein files are themselves Epsteinphiles

Jesse Jackson Jr. also had an under appreciated sense of comedic timing. Watch his fake sermon on SNL.😂

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We’re moving into the “Find Out” stage.

Ominous bird valentines.

too many kids today have never destroyed the family PC with sketchy downloads you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer

people often don't know what's relevant to doctors, and a good doctor's job is to know what follow up questions to ask to get to a correct diagnosis and course of action. chatbots just can't do that www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...

From a local FB birding group… 🪶

Hard work is not the path to success, hard work is the path to maybe doing ok. The path to success is doing massive and severe fraud

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

NEW: Early last summer, @agreenberg.bsky.social texted me something truly outlandish: A man actively being held captive in a scam compound in Laos had reached out to him. He wanted to blow the whistle while risking his life and trying to escape—and he had receipts. This is that story:

I spent the last year writing a book about the ridiculous demands of what it means to be masculine. But a guy who takes care of people who served our country, asks a woman “are you ok?” When she is in distress and looks out for his vulnerable neighbors seems like a pretty good role model for a man.

when Spock does the neck pinch, even on bad guys, he always catches them and sets them down very politely. letting this guy fully just drop, leaving Jim to try to awkwardly scramble to catch him, is Vulcan for "it is always morally right to punch Nazis"

It was inevitable.

Tip: You're going to be mostly safe if you stay indoors, silent, keeping doors and windows closed. #HeroneerTipOfTheDay

Pgn #critterposting

This was the point in the bus thread where I started to wonder if it was a metaphor for this present moment in time.

This guy!! 👇