Love how colon cancer keeps killing people under 50 and yet insurance doesn't cover colonoscopy without cost-sharing until age 45. I just paid $1,584 out of pocket for mine thanks to my deductible and copays

1 sale = 1 real tree that I personally plant 🌳 Treeplanter DEMO OUT NOW! Build your idyllic woodland by combining trees, plants, fungi and ruins. So help me plant fuck loads of trees 💪🌱 store.steampowered.com/app/4139840/...

I didn’t need new yarn. I got new yarn. I didn’t need a new project. I will have a new project come March.

Whoever submitted “I bring you places so I don’t have to kiss you goodbye” - that’s such a great one, I put it in BOTH 🤣

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards! Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.

Nerd awards! Nerd awards! Go nominate for nerd awards!

James Van Der Beek and Bud Court dying the same day, a bad day for millennial and boomer teens alike

No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk. Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.

Someone really needs to take Michéal Martin aside and remind him why exactly we named it O'Connell St and why there's a fucking massive statue of the man who led a national rent strike at the top of it.

Look. Whenever I hear "Think of the children" coming from people my automatic reaction is that someone is trying to manipulate me into supporting them in something sketchy. You can't look at how this government funds children or children services and thinks it gives a fuck about them.

Of course, being on it (for a few more days) I'm in a unique position to criticize, but I'm actively mad they're just doing the exact same scheme and took forever to deliberate on doing that. It should be bigger, it should be longer, and the pay needs to increase (overall, not just BIA)

If you have any information about this whatsoever, I’m marisakabas.04 on Signal

Brooding Sky, Towards Dunstanburgh Acrylic on 120 x 60 x 4 cm canvas. Available from Fiona Dane Gallery, Craster

the cool thing about landsknechts was that they were exempt from sumptuary laws (laws detailing what clothes different social classes could wear) because they were considered to live short, brutish lives. so they fucking rolled with it.

Also, idk who needs to hear this but you can buy yourself flowers just because you deserve something bright and pretty and you're worth having nice things

Hey y'all. A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews. Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂

"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work

Thread. In addition: we are at 140 year old tech with fountain pens. Most of the innovations are incredibly far out of patent. As with knitting patterns, 5 points of difference is sufficient, and it need not be drastic. Boosting corporate interests never ends well. Diversity of manufacture does.

We'll be heading to @stanzapoetry festival next month, Saturday March 14, with Charles Lang reading alongside Isabelle Baafi, from their acclaimed first #poetry collections! Tickets available through the StAnza website, and the event will also be streamed online! 🎟 byretheatre.com/shows/stanza...

I spent a long time trying to figure out what to do with my Harry Potter books, because just dumping them in a little free library felt wrong. So I mailed them to this artist who was turning them into portraits of murdered trans women www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/11/a...

The list of towns in Ireland with a 20,000 pop. can fit in a single post: Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Drogheda, Dundalk, Swords, Navan, Bray, Ennis, Carlow, Kilkenny, Naas, Tralee, Newbridge, Balbriggan, Portlaoise, Athlone, Mullingar, Letterkenny, Greystones-Delgany, Wexford, Sligo.

Honestly, Grok and other GenAI fabulists should refuse to “unblur” or “unredact” victims’ faces. 1) The victims’ privacy should be respected even if it could predict the photos perfectly. 2) It can’t! It is making things up! It is not reliable! Any similarities to a real person are a coincidence.

But if you care about these issues I always tell people to go join the FSC because they allow membership from anyone even if you're not in the adult industry and porn is 1000% the vanguard of every single one of these issues, perpetually. www.freespeechcoalition.com

I welcome you to explore behind the scenes of audiobook narration in the Behind the Mic: Audiobook Narrators Panel hosted by the @brailleinstitute.bsky.social on Tuesday, February 17 at 11:00 AM PT. Register at no cost: www.brailleinstitute.org/find-service...

Misleading headline - The cases aren't dismissed in the usual sense - they judges just said that they need to be pursued in NZ, not the USA. He's not been cleared.

It's so, so bad, and the entire premise it's founded on is absolutely bullshit.

Discord is a member of Netchoice, the trade organization that's fighting these laws in the US, and they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined. I can't say for certain[1] but I HIGHLY doubt they are doing this because they want to.

Love Vince Guaraldi's music. Always feels like a soothing, inherently good thing in the world.

How seriously are the government treating this? Well, it's still €325pw, 4 years after it was €325pw. How much has shopping gone up by since then? Insurance? Your domestic bills? Rent?

News that the bidding process for homes in Ireland is pushing up prices is likely to come as no surprise to anyone who’s been through it. If you have bought a home in Ireland in recent years, we’d love to hear about your experience for a forthcoming article on this topic.

#AICouldNever Aretha Week continues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xroR...

ICYMI, the full Half Time show with Bad Bunny, aka the Benito Bowl. youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?...

This thread is and is not about Mornington Crescent, and is well worth reading. As someone who ended up in more than one game of MC without ever having heard of it, it is *utterly baffling* to have it assumed you know context you’ve gone your whole life without. Which is also not just about MC.

Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53

Here is a true thing and it has nothing to do with sales or marketing or my of that noise. If your blood family sucks, come be with us. I get the privilege of inviting you to be an honorary X-Man and you get to ride in the Blackbird and steal Gambit’s beer and be part of a family that loves you.

Guest announcement! Oisín McGann is an award-winning writer and illustrator. His latest novel is 'Steel-Plate Subversive', an alternative history espionage thriller. He lives somewhere in the Irish countryside, where people don't have to hear him ranting about AI slop. @oisinmcgann.bsky.social

I am closest to NMR Spectroscopy Researchers. I have no idea what to make of that.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

#AICouldNever Oh, okay, let's have Aretha Week. Here she is at 22 years old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=93S2...

Reminder that the Luddites were not opposed to technology, they were opposed to technology being used by the wealthy to oppress the poor. They only went after factories where advancing technology was used as an excuse to lower workers' wages. So I'm PROUD to be called a Luddite when it comes to AI.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Duke Ellington (at piano) and Cab Calloway, with trombonist J.C. Higginbotham and trumpeter Hot Lips Page looking over the Duke's shoulder, taken in 1939. Photo: Charles Peterson. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

there is value in people from unexpected demographics signifying allegiance to progressivism; it makes vulnerable people feel safer around them/in public, and it gives others from their demographic “permission” to join them - as most humans won’t swim against a current alone

A big part of why I don't call myself a "cozy" creator, even though I may play games in the cozy genre is that some of those those spaces seem to prioritize "comfort" in an unproductive way. My channel is comfy, and if it provides a small escape, that's great, but my existence is still political.

This is an attack

Seán Ó Néill agus an Sandman. Cérbh é fhéin? Sé Joe Soap na Gaeilge, an ea?

It’s #Caturday so indulge me… An intro post to my babies. Born in March, among 9 kittens from 2 mums, in my friend’s garden. Being allergic, he setup a safe nest outside & fed them as much as possible. I first met them at 4 weeks old. I meant to adopt 1 or MAYBE 2. ⚠️ Brace for cuteness. ⚠️ 1/7

Just your regular PSA that actor Vincent Price was cool as f*ck: Here he reads Native American student’s poetry in 1967 at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Price established the Vincent Price Awards in Creative Writing for Native students, a stipend that was in place

There’s a phenomenon that parent coaches and therapists call “soiling the nest”. That’s when kids are coming of age, about to leave for college or independent living, and they start acting a fool at home. It’s a way of emotionally separating. I’m here to tell you that adults soil the nest, too.