Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Another guide for turning a lot of AI off in Gmail.

"We Beat 'Em Before... (Portland's Version)" This idea came to me late. I think it fits really well since Portland Frog Brigade literally carries no weapons and yet ICE has no idea how to respond to them. Just feckless incompetent goons all around.

She is an expert on authoritarian regimes, in case you're wondering whether peaceful protests matter.

Gee, who could have predicted that the lying machine would create more work, not less….

ICE is younger than my blog ICE is younger than my email address ICE is younger than at least one of my ukuleles

Aren't we all, tho?

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

Mood.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Gmail welcoming the Gemini era? That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

This one is resonating today. #Andor

The U.S. population is around 342 million. 61% is white. When the DHS of the Trump regime talks about “100 million deportations” they’re talking about roughly 29% or nearly a THIRD of the population. You can do the rest of the math to figure out which third, right?

"Wield the weapon that is you." Write the thing. Write YOUR thing, because only YOU can.

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” - Carrie Fisher

"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Matthew 22:36-40

How I'm walking out of 2025

Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself 1. Does this need to be said 2. Does this need to be said by me 3. Does this need to be said by me right now It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)

Bluesky Lifesavers: 1. OnlyPosts Feed. Shows posts from the folks you follow; no reposts or replies! HUGELY helpful for high-traffic days like Portfolio Day 2. Pronouns labeler. Shows your pronouns to anyone using the labeler! 3. Deck.blue. This is how I make clickable hyperlinks + scheduled posts.

The big day has arrived! The day I post the Adama Maneuver again. Next time: 2026 🫡

I'll be honest, these benefit abled folks as well. I find searching Bluesky super helpful since the alt-texts are included so it pulls appropriate media.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

We are closing out tonight with a link to enjoy the legendary table read of The Princess Bride. As long as we stick together we will find our way out of The Pit of Despair. 🖤RIP Rob and Michelle

Be the sort of person whose passing leaves people mourning, telling tales of the good you did, and the kindnesses and heart you showed and shared. NOT one whose passing will inspire parties around the nation and the world.

I’d guess I’m not entirely alone in having assumed it would continue to mean Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics…

CPR should be performed at 100-120bpm. It should be aggressive and done with intent. At 104bpm, I give you your "Do not go to the dark side" song. May the Force, of chest compressions, be with you.

📖We are often asked where you can find reliable vaccine information. It breaks our hearts to say it, but it’s no longer at CDC The vaccine integrity project is a great source & has compiled recommendations from medical societies into 1 place for easier reference: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

An important 🧵for writers, but also for other creatives.

If you don't want all that AI garbage at the top of your google search results, you can stick -ai at the end of your search term and you'll get just the list of links to websites like in the good old days. Yesterday I learned. #GoogleAI #Google #AI #Google AI

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

I keep hearing about the HUGE demand for AI and how bazillions of data centers will have to be built to keep up with the demand. I never demanded any of this, especially not the stupid ass AI overviews on the top of my searches, such as this helpful info that the pride parade is today, Nov. 30.

If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

What Machine, indeed?

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

This is the technological equivalent of not being able to get your house insured in Florida, and for similar reasons. share.google/SOpWK172vQx5...

Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.

Some clarification on the new AI thing in GMail.

Hard day today Here's what we think about trusting CDC

It's actually not under general it's under individual account settings, and it's only for Gmail accounts. But it's there.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

40th anniversary of Calvin & Hobbes? Still think about this May 2020 piece from @chuckwendig.bsky.social (with art use approved by Bill Watterson, which is always nice). www.polygon.com/comics/2020/...

If your financial model is based on theft, you don't deserve to be in business.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

My city remains true to itself! To wit, a bit of history.