Two Guardians welcoming the Traveler back to Earth. Or, for you non-D2 players, @katsudon.bsky.social and myself at the Arctic Circle marker on Grimsey in Iceland!

Masters of the Universe was DELIGHTFUL!!!! So colorful. And fun. And interested in having a deeper conversation about masculinity than one would expect out of a Mattel property. And the soundtrack, such 80s vibes. I LOVED IT.

TIL this and I’m just. No words. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/li...

Queers of a certain age, we see the name "Laramie" in connection with violence against one of our own and we have a real visceral reaction. I'm glad Rihanna is still alive. I hope someday she's OK.

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

Annals of AI fuckups: an author forwarded me the email below, in which the book club scammer mistakenly sent the AI output instead of the intended email pitch. Note the "strategic analysis", which illustrates the scammers' boiled-frog approach

**slides this toward you like a cat** Hey, hey you. You wanna read a poem? You’re in luck! **opens trenchcoat** **three raccoons fall out** …wait.

The next time a director says bullshit like this, I want the interviewer to ask: "If AI was around when you made your other films, which artists would you have fired?" I mean it. Name real fucking names. Of all the brilliant people you worked with, who do you think doesn't deserve a job anymore?

I'm back. Or at least, I have a website again. It's a start at least. alexkacks.com/2026/05/22/i...

It’s amazing to watch the professional journalism class dance around this:

we should collectively, as the populace of Earth, charge them a toll if they want to come back

This is the first time I have been 100% behind a spaceX decision. I hope they launch really soon.

*that uproarious increasingly disturbing laugh that Henry Rollins does in the Liar video* BRILLIANT. A1 choice!

It’s weird how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”

Two of the most normal possible men running in the Colorado republican primary for governor against Barbara Kirkmeyer. www.cpr.org/2026/05/20/c...

Agree. coloradosun.com/2026/05/12/c...

Colorado peeps, if you missed the Weiser and Bennett debate, you can see it here: www.denver7.com/news/politic...

I've been thinking a lot about the parable of the drowning man lately and how its modern version is everyone who says they understand climate change is happening but we shouldn't worry because human ingenuity will save us. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable...

Maybe it's growing up in the 80s, but something about taking advice about environmental impacts from a dude named Valdez gives me pause lol

Yup. Learning is vastly more efficient in the *long* term (i.e., not in this quarter's profit/expense calculations, counter to standard business practice these days). Businesses—and the general public nowadays—have forgotten this essential fact.

It also comes from a place of profound ableism. To argue that AI is necessary for disabled authors undermines the achievement, skill, and agency of those of us who are disabled and write our own books. PS. Fuck AI

The EU flag is flying at Hungary’s parliament again after Péter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister — the first time it’s been displayed there since Viktor Orbán had it removed in 2014.

The sad thing is that some want to *have written* and what makes it sad is that actually that's not an uncommon rookie state: driven by a genuine "ooh! I have an idea!" just with laziness leading to shortcuts until the rookie learns to enjoy the process itself. & they're denying themself that chance

GOOD. Now let's get some regulations in place around environmental impacts. coloradosun.com/2026/05/07/b...

#Booksky In the mood for fast-paced heists, witty dialogue and badass ladies having adventures? Why not check out Alex Acks @katsudon.bsky.social’s terrific Marta Ramos stories? books2read.com/ap/xyqN6x/Al...

I mean yes, but I feel like this is really burying the lede. (source: yougov.com/en-us/articl...)

I feel like a broken record lately, but I'm frustrated by the way this is generalized. The massive ones that the "AI" companies want are absolutely bad news, but data centers in general have existed for decades and we don't have an internet without them.

Colorado peeps! PLEASE contact your general assembly reps & sens about the data center build still pending! coloradosun.com/2026/04/27/d...

My partner got me flowers this year (first time in my life I'd ever received any) and she mentioned reading a quote like this that inspired her ♥️

One of my favorites was with @stinaleicht.bsky.social moderating, where the guy actually said, "This is more of a comment than a question--" Stina: "No." (pointing to someone else.) "How about you?"

Great article on the lack of consequences for the ultra-wealthy, with a gift link.

Bastion of Hope is just two days away! Fight dragon and necromancer overlords that are definitely not metaphors for billionaires and fascists (they totally are).

www.axios.com/2026/04/26/a... this is one reason I am skeptical that the goal is efficiency/cost savings when "not having to deal with pesky workers who want stuff" and "keeping capital circulating among companies rather than ordinary people" are right there

it's actually wild to watch people take "the govt coordinated reactions to the shooting because the president only cares about his ballroom" and turn it into "they did a false flag shooting attack to get the ballroom", can we please not

The city blocked off part of our neighborhood to tear down a building w asbestos. The teen said "Why did people use asbestos if it causes cancer?!" I told him people thought it was a wonder product and used it EVERYWHERE & told him how the same thing happened w radioactivity... and now AI.

Non-terran geology might be very different. www.404media.co/the-destroye...

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

Silent Hill f is a really spectacular example of taking tone, pacing and style of a longer franchise, making changes to it and still coming out with a work that is a part of the whole. If you removed the Silent Hill name, everyone would be saying how Silent Hill 'Hinako's Bad Fur Day' is.

As every Star Trek fan knows, Dr. McCoy is a simple "country doctor" So he really should have been played by Karl Rural

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

If you haven't reached out to your state reps and city/county council to tell them no fucking data centers, do it. Be clear that it's not a NIMBY thing, it's that this electricity and water guzzling shit belongs NOWHERE. Contact before it's even a proposal. Make your opposition known and be loud.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Seems bad.

unrelenting

Been playing the Soulframe beta and I'm really really enjoying it. www.soulframe.com/en

Because the specious claims by the dumbass in charge about wind turbines somehow causing cancer wasn't stupid and self defeating enough.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0IW...

google gemini: surprise, here's my summary of this email, a feature you definitely did not ask for! me:

Here, let me help out those of us who are deeply concerned about data center water use, i.e., anyone who lives in the west where we are suffering continuous rounds of drought and our states being on fucking fire.