Another "Wow, I feel ancient now" moment today: The English-language Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday!

Washington Post, Everyone Else Offer Starkly Different Opinions On Whether Washington Post Is A Piece Of Shit www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I have been offline for most of today and just found out about Minneapolis. I am going to begin cutting people who support this out of my life. You should, too.

This is the kink we shame.

Can someone on the ground near a detainment camp start a volunteer transport network? People could sign up to drive refugees home, one leg of the trip at a time. Animal rescues have moved dogs cross-country this way for years.

Getting ready to fall over for the night, but just to say: Gotta buy a hearing aid soon, and it’s unfortunately gonna be pricey. Want to assist? Buy a stack of DRM-free ebooks, cheap! (Offer not available in the UK due to Brexit—sorry.) https://ebooks.direct/products/ebooks-direct-whole-store-bundle

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

AI is a neat little statistics trick, and it has some interesting applications in science and medicine etc., but by and large the costs outweigh the benefits for other uses. Oh and btw this should be a massive red flag that, economically speaking, it's just a huge con.

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

i have a PhD, i made an 18 page list of resources about why AI sucks: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Congratulations to everybody on the BSFA Awards Longlist! Including @atgreenblatt.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, @jordankurella.com, @genni.bsky.social, @foxesandroses.bsky.social, @cornellwriter.bsky.social, @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social, @thesuiway.bsky.social, & @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social!

2026: the year so bad that even the Third Amendment is suddenly relevant

*hop hop hop*

Never give up. Your town needs a new eccentric who talks to ravens, wears jewelry made of ancient bones, and stalks the forest atop a steam powered mechanical wolf. I believe in you.

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

And the boys (who weren't born yet or were about *three*) who missed the *original* He-Man room, run by the fabulous Art Nadel, would have been HORRIFIED by how female-friendly/feminist the original writing team was. (I should know. My office was down the hall. I drew the first map of Eternia.) 😏

Hi we're abstaining because it sucks ass, hope that helps

Here’s the thing about alt text: it helps everyone! Sometimes, I don’t know what is in a photo without it. Plus, it’s fun! I won’t share anything without it. Most people here do the same. Join us.

This is it. This is The Great Filter. We've created Sexy Barista Is Super Interested in Watching You Solo Game (SBISIIWYS).

This. And also, in some world markets, when you borrow a book from a library, the author gets a small payment just for your borrowing it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...

we all have sacksville-bagginses in our lives

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

Just crazy thinking out loud but what if consequences were for more than just poor people

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

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mwoohahahaha

Just saw a content-theft account reposted by someone here. A tip: if their bio says something like, “if you own the original, DM me,” you can tell they are happy to steal, mislead, and profit off other people’s work (and don’t want to be called out about it in public). Personally, I block on sight.

when it's definitely going the way you thought it would

Filled out without any semblance of politeness or ambiguity about how this would (will) be nothing but a disaster for Discord. I have not actual hope it will make the slightest difference, but I'll take the cold comfort of pointing to the I Told You So, as that's prob. the only comfort to be had.

Need I say more?

Unsure? Ask to have your titers drawn and find out if you still have coverage.

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And a measles alert for South Australia as well www.5mu.com.au/local-news/m...

Mandatory registration for SIL and online platform providers to start in July 2026 www.disabilitysupportguide.com.au/talking-disa...

I am a non-seroconverter for the measles vaccine. This means I have no immunity to measles despite being vaccinated multiple times. By ensuring your vaccinations are up to date you help limit the spread of measles, which by extension protects non-seeocoverters such as myself

*sigh* Reminder: Are your vaccinations up to date? Are your children's vaccinations also up to date?

Quite the unintentionally ironic use of this song about young men whose fathers were rich enough to get them out of the draft!

Your local librarian here to say that it’s great if you read lots of books this year, alright if you read barely anything, that audiobooks, romance and graphic novels are all valid formats and genres, and that some authors suck but we’re still not stopping you from reading them.

Nothing says "publisher prepping for 2026" like adding "Both of us promise to never never NEVER use genAI in this project, and if either of us do, deal's fuck'n OFF" clause to your publishing contracts.

What could POSSIBLY go wrong? 🤦 🙄 🤦

evangelicals be fucking normal in public: challenge level impossible

Scary Solstice everybody! #CthulhuCarols www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTpV...

Which so many trans people said was exactly what was going to happen

From 12/8-1/1, several of my ebooks are 25-50% off in ebook at Smashwords for the 2025 End of Year Sale. (These ebooks can be side-loaded to Kindle, by the way...) www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

We’re going to see stuff like “The DOJ released these pages which match these emails from the Epstein estate but Section 4c is removed from the DOJ files so let’s compare and see what the other copy says…HOLY CRAP!!!” and this might speed the eternal damnation up tbh.

My shitty take is batch releases are good, actually, bc the people checking multiple data points for confirmation can do a better job working with several hundred thousand pages instead of millions. Goes without saying they’d censor the most damning stuff, so what will come out now is not the worst

Ladies, do you like Having a credit card Going to college Wearing pants Voting Leaving a man who hits you Not worrying that divorce means leaving your kids Not being called sugar tits in the workplace THANK FEMINISM

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase