You can either join your union, go to the meeting, and get in the fight, or you can watch them kill higher education in the US. This will not pass. There will not be a natural reset. You fight or die.

solidarity is fucking beautiful www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Watch “Sorry to Bother You” today hits way different. After Epstein, Theil, Space X, the irrational stock market — all of it.

Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran.

Similarly, if the anthology can't pay you a professional rate, the editors shouldn't be making it.

Pushing back might mean you help less experienced writers. I made a stink about this once and was told by the editors that giving up all the rights was standard practice. No it is not, I said. They changed the contract for all of us. 💪

the saddest story about X-Bomber - that i didn’t hear until a few years ago - is that although it got canceled in Japan it was so popular in the UK that they offered Go Nagai money to make a second season - but a studio fire destroyed all the puppets and models :(

but then, ofc, that shit had to compete with STAR FLEET/X-BOMBER

i have vivid memories of watching the original cartoon when it first aired in the UK - i must have been about 9 or 10 - and realizing it was shit

Polluting Black neighborhoods is a natsec imperative. 🫡

Please do not say the sentence "kids don't want to feel the adult behind the book" but also yes they fucking do. One of the best parts of being a kid is reading a book that is just out of your grasp of maturity. Feeling like you're getting an early preview of the world.

sitting in my parents backyard at 8am this morning, drinking coffee and listening to the birds, I was suddenly deafened by a low flying B1 bomber returning to RAF Fairford from Iran you can never escape the US empire, even in its death throes

Eid Mubarak! Wishing all those who celebrate a joyous Eid ✨

At a certain point, the destruction of shared cultural memory (this is one of many sites it’s happening) starts to seem less stupid and more outright sinister. "updating” literature to reflect a constantly-moving present day is literally 1984 stuff.

Me on "Backrooms" and "Exit 8" (and, tangentially, on "The Way Inn"): apollo-magazine.com/backrooms-fi...

they were calling it a vibe recession 2 years ago when every real person knew their groceries bill was up at least 25%, and then they cry about nobody taking legacy journalism seriously

the peasants are made to subsist on slop and everyone gets excited about the pope dropping an encyclical, 2026 vibes are feeling pretty throwback

resistance twitter liberals touch grass challenge 2026

wrote this in 2022, and was never really about prediction market gambling, unless it actually was www.noemamag.com/line-go-up

use mine everyday - hard recommend

i genuinely despair at how much time was lost not finding other ways of pushing back at genAI because ppl - lots of them on here - just kept saying "nobody wants this" instead of, I dunno, spending 5 minutes looking at youtube thumbnails

lol y'all need to get off ed zitron's dick - a year ago his whole take was "AI will fail because nobody i personally know wants to use it" and when I told him that was wishful thinking he stuck his followers on me until i blocked him yet another motherfucker that constantly fails upwards

friends, i think i'm losing it "He drove us all night to find my favorite constellation. You can only see it a few times a year and there are really only a few places you can see it." 🔭🧪 have i been wrong about how THE SKY works this whole time?!

also: today in unwritten Ballard novels

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ITS HAPPENING ITS HAPPENING ITS HAPPENING ITS HAPPENING www.eurogamer.net/rumoured-wit...

data center boom will be a huge boon for urbex youtubers in 5-10 years

Boots Riley is resolute in his belief that AI proponents and studio heads who say that gen AI is the future of filmmaking are simply lying. Read the full interview from @charlespulliam.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

cancel your spotify subscription. if you must listen to corpo pop then steal it. take the money you save every month and spend it on bandcamp or subvert of patreon or whatever. or go to a gig. those musicians will actually notice you’ve done it.

and the even worse, and also already rich, Joe Rogan

I mean if The Original Wage-Depressor™ can't figure out how to depress wages further with AI

even putting this fresh hell aside: piracy remains a more ethical alternative to spotify, because you’re not pretending to be ethical while giving your money to the owners of a platform that only substantially rewards its already rich artists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live Aphex Twin Bandulu Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy Renegade Soundwave Public Enemy Floorplan Herbie Hancock Psychik Warriors Ov Gaia Innerzone Orchestra De La Soul Kraftwerk

"we're going in a new direction"

I, a person who grew up in a tropical country, know how to deal with heat. I’ve also lived in places experiencing heatwaves with no ventilation / cooling, insufficient awareness of helpful fabrics / clothing, and poor transit options. You cannot individualize your way out of a climate emergency.

I truly cannot with Heat Discourse from people who live in places that have the infrastructure to deal with hot weather at the expense of people who live in places used to and built for much colder temperatures. Heat kills people *regularly* and it especially kills people who are unprepared

reading cozy science fiction as i warm myself by the glow of a burning forest

if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever, while someone posts some new cozy science fiction

I have filled this out, and with a heavy heart I have to say it is clear the government thinks it can magic away the problem of online harms - 80% of the questions are centred on mythical age verification technology that does not exist.

me: drives my hog dog car through the windows of your store me: i was just testing the glass

TERFs knocking on the toilet cubicle door.

maybe i don’t read no good anymore but confused by what the word “test” means here

me: well trump said they basically had a deal so probably they’ll have started bombing shit again by the morning lolsob amirite the news: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

no gods no masters no billionaires no popes

BREAKING: a centuries old institution of colonial oppression is not going to save anyone from a decades old institution of colonial oppression

the moment we stop for 10s and squint past the PR haze is the moment we see these characters for what they are in essence - head figures of giant structures of power, bound to keep mutual solidarity and support. past that, future outcomes like this one tend to become easier to anticipate/expect