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I want to lay Shipwrecked and comatose Drinking fresh Mango juice Goldfish shoals Nibbling at my toes Fun, fun, fun In the sun, sun, sun

RIP Rob Grant

This is Art

Worst byelection result for the Tories since the Glorious Revolution (1688) apparently. Between that and Reform's pitch being entirely "ugh trans women", it's almost as if transphobia wasn't hugely popular.

Love surprise vet bills, especially right at the end of the month.

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title! WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS Yes, *all* And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think... I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website. He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.

Good decision for Netflix, a disaster for Hollywood and probably for America too www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

Was having a convo with @bachynski.bsky.social & we decided that it's of upmost importance to start gathering the oral histories of those who lived through the time before polio vaccines, measles vaccines, etc. They can provide important perspectives and they will not be with us for too much longer

If we're going to have an economy in which the big AI companies get all the memory, being forced to go back to Nokia candy bar dumbphones would be a nice silver lining

This actually does not seem to be real all of the sources I can find for it are about majors doing a movie the only reference to Levi being in a all stem from this one post that says via deadline with no link to deadline because that article does not exist. I swear checking sources is not hard.

Jonathan Majors may have passed Gina Carano in the all-time bag-fumble standings

The guy with the Nazi tattoo retweeting a Nazi.

This is very true. Robert Johnson's favourite music to play was polka. Muddy Waters' repertoire when Alan Lomax discovered him was mostly Glenn Miller stuff and Gene Autry cowboy songs. The idea of the "bluesman" is a white creation.

For anyone who's interested, here's the transcript of an oral history I did a couple of years ago with Tony Tyson, the Chief Scientist at the Rubin Observatory

It's almost a decade late, but the publishing world is finally taking the Brockman/Epstein connection seriously. The institutionalized misogyny and white supremacy of 21st century pop science was no accident. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

Increasingly of the opinion that the government simply shouldn't keep records of individual people's sex or gender. Like, at all.

Ok, I was already sold on Strip Law, but the Vic Fontaine episode is killing me

imo Roblox gets a pass on a lot of stuff primarily because like (and i'm being serious here): it looks like Lego can't be gambling (really) if it's lego can't be extremist (really) if it's lego

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

For comparison, Greg Radick @hpsleeds.bsky.social recently posted about how he worked with biology colleagues to incorporate full lectures on the history of genetics, including risks of determinism & eugenics, into the department's main intro courses *before* students studied Mendelism.

That’s my first baseman. 🫡

For anyone who's interested, here's the transcript of an oral history I did a couple of years ago with Tony Tyson, the Chief Scientist at the Rubin Observatory

The sheer volume of data coming from the new Rubin Observatory is staggering. In *one* night it issued 800,000 alerts, indicating something that changed in the sky: a moving asteroid, variable star, supernova, etc. Rubin will be an astonishing discovery machine. 🔭🧪 noirlab.edu/public/news/...

The creator of Einstein doesn't want to do shit of the sort, he wants to scam money from schools, thats the whole business plan

Awesome that we're going to have a surgeon general who takes advice from the voices she heard during a bad trip

Honestly this joke is almost perfectly crafted for me. Gawain, you are SUCH a Nish Kumar.

also the USPS should do web-hosting and email services

As Tommy Robinson continues to tour America and meet up with prominent figures on the far-right, here's another example of just how intertwined the extremist movements on both sides of the Atlantic have become (Jared Taylor heads up the white supremacist American Renaissance group)

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People treat them like they’re a news outlet instead of Catturd2 for libs and it’s very strange.

Honestly, the more I read about the BAFTA thing, the more I think that John Davidson, Michael B. Jordan, and Delroy Lindo should all sue the pants off of BAFTA and the BBC. Deliberately airing the tics is bad enough, but they *mic'd Davidson's seat*. That's not negligence, that's malfeasance.

Broadly: the danger of nuclear risk and escalation with AI is not concentrated in giving presidents a bad machine advisor urging escalation. Instead, that risk is in automating any Stanislav Petrovs out of the chain of launch, as you need *restrain* to respond to sensor error indicating odd launch.

Another year, another plea for help from someone whose work is the basis for a $200m blockbuster movie.

A strange game. The only winning move is to FIRE ZE MISSILES

the bluesky demo is such that at least one gen x person on here is going to see this and have flashbacks to getting their ass kicked in the school cafeteria

Still seems crazy that Richard Hanania wrote for years under a white power banner and is just like, part of the media landscape.

So I gather It didn't Happen?

[Marc Cohn voice]: Ketchup in Memphis.

I hereby formally retract all previous posts supporting or celebrating the US men's hockey team

Costco promotes its executives from within its own workforce, and is wildly successful. The lesson from this is that corporations should only be allowed to hire executives from the pool of Costco workers

living with a cat meaning learning @arr.bsky.social thought

Yes, but on the flipside, that just goes to show that if our housecats were large enough, they would absolutely kill us for sport

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

I've been woimpilled It's time for some woimposting

Another fun fact: If "Mr. Brightside" were a person, it would be old enough to go to a bar and drink and belt out "Mr. Brightside."

doing my important work

Clowning is to Gen Z theater kids what burlesque was to Millennials