Grant opportunities for disability & tech projects/nonprofits! www.openassistivetech.org/new-grant-op... Talk with me if you are interested! #DisabilityJustice #AssistiveTech #Accessibility #Grants #funding

Let the ais have goblins and pigeons! Have you no soul

Here is an AI trained just using text from 1931 or earlier, which leads to a lot of interesting experiments: can the model independently develop later inventions? Can it learn to code from examples alone? You can talk to the model here: talkie-lm.com/chat Details here: talkie-lm.com/introducing-...

Parallel Agents just shipped. Mix and match any agent, run them all at once, and manage everything from a new Threads Sidebar. Claude Agent, Codex, Zed's agent, or anything on ACP. One window, across all your projects. zed.dev/blog/paralle...

New grant opportunity for disability & tech nonprofit organizations or programs: www.openassistivetech.org/new-grant-op...

have you guys seen the Dutch cover of The Hobbit cuz I hadn't

Truly disheartening to learn that even the far side of the moon isn't far enough to get away from him

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air

Update: the Tennessee House passed HB 754, which will create a public list of trans residents, by a party-line vote of 70-21 this morning. Shortly before its passage, Republicans, again on party lines, rejected Democrats' attempt to remove the provisions that collect and publish trans people's data.

4. Finally, this sensitive data will be released to the public as part of a “comprehensive annual statistical report,” posing a risk to the privacy and safety of trans Tennesseans. HB 754 is quite possibly the most dangerous anti-trans bill proposed so far. It must be defeated before it’s too late.

3. All four of these things are considered to be “individually identifiable” information under HIPAA, as they are specific enough to allow a a person’s identity to be discerned. As such, it will essentially allow the state to create a list of trans Tennesseans, exposing them to state surveillance.

2. The information HB 754 would collect includes the date of a trans person’s gender-affirming care appointment, the person’s county of residence, the name and contact information of their healthcare provider, and a list of all the mental health diagnoses they have ever received.

1. Yesterday, Tennessee Republicans advanced a bill that will create a public list of the state’s trans people. HB 754 forces medical providers to hand trans people’s medical information over to the state government, allowing the state to identify them. transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-...

Tune Up Tuesday -- like a day spa for wheelchairs - at the Disability Cultural Center! www.openassistivetech.org/tune-up-tues... Our next one will be April 7th!

HIM: AHOY! HER: AUGH! Do you MIND? I'm breast-feeding my chickens here! HIM: Sorry. I'm Richard Bissell, author of A STRETCH ON THE RIVER and co-author of THE PAJAMA GAME. My new book is a fresh and original story about a river that rises, floods a farm house and ruins everyone's pajamas!

Just in case people are unaware of the history of this, this song explains how it all started. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNy...

Joyce Ng has gone missing. She is an open source and open hardware advocate and fights peacefully against the rise of Christian right-wing nationalism. There is reason to fear she has been apprehended by authorities: social.coop/@cwebber/116...

Fun & weird! R.U.Sirius interview with science fiction writer Joan Slonczewski: magazine.mindplex.ai/post/ai-pers... #microbiology #ScienceFiction #AI

Tune-Up Tuesday! Free wheelchair repair DIY, inspection, maintenance, how to make accessories, and more. Free toolkits you can take home. Next week at the Disability Cultural Center in SF 2:30-4:30pm. We'll be hosting these monthly! disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/tune-u...

Current mood, from that fucking article about women scientists and misogynist horribleness in epstein files (19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...) youtu.be/Q-7-DDgUh_E?... #FuckTheseFuckingFascists

Fizzbin having a stretch #CatsOfBluesky

I can fix him (murderbot) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl8n...

The UK just proposed new school guidance that effectively bans even social transition for trans students (using a different name, pronoun or haircut). It implements a full bathroom ban while requiring mandatory outing of trans youth if a teacher suspects they are trans. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I hate to repost this but people need to remember hiw unhinged this dude is and everyone who thinks like him

Hey now, I'm a cat star, got my tail up, so proud! Hey now, I'm a cat star, put my paws up, and meow!!! I am licking your bowlllllll! Take a good look, at my butthoooole

Under blanket, warmed by my legs #CatsOfBlueSky #SiameseCats

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Final song was "DtMF" as I YET AGAIN correctly predicted should I go buy a lottery ticket or something??? A song about appreciating the people in your life while you still have them, it resonates on a personal level and calls back to the themes of diaspora I'm not crying you're crying

people not in MN cannot comprehend how hating ICE is now a core cultural component of being Minnesotan. it’s babe the big blue ox, loons, hot dish, and ICE OUT NOW

Like a full 30% of the current US was Mexican territory until the mid-nineteenth century, that culture and heritage and language didn’t up and vanish after the Alamo or whatever, acting like Spanish isn’t a huge part of the American tapestry is super short-sighted and ahistorical

The kittens are cosy in their pie tonight #CatsOfBluesky

what are the seven layers of dip

One more cherry pie cat pic now that they are settled in under the crust #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Hanging out with Joan Slonczewski talking about AI in out living room. Come tonight to her talk at Frontier Tower! There's still room! #AI luma.com/minds-in-tra...

Khaaan and Fizzbin enjoying their cherry pie #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

Khaaan is ready to play today and keeps fetching toys to me from up on her cat shelf! #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

the mold grows toward food not because it knows where food is but because it dies everywhere else call that intelligence call that art call that the only freedom that matters the shape left by everything you couldn't do

the mamdani charisma check memes are sending me. ppl writing D&D scenarios where he keeps rolling nat 20s and using them to deliver public service announcements "did u know u can check out board games at ur local library? 😊" absolutely unhinged way to learn about civic resources but i support it

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

Khaaan and Fizzbin playing on the bed #CatsOfBluesky

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked. dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein cops: … prosecutors: … anti-trafficking task forces: … cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting

GALLEGO: Let's say Trump wins that lawsuit. Where would that $10 billion come from? BESSENT: It would come from Treasury GALLEGO: So, taxpayers? BESSENT: Yes. Part of the 44,000 whose returns were leaked GALLEGO: They're not suing

Gelernter endorsed Trump 3 times. He's an evolution and climate change skeptic who thinks women should stay home. He was a member of the "race science" Human Biodiversity Inst. After an unflattering profile in the WP, The Atlantic published an indignant piece calling him a "pioneering polymath."

I never want to hear conservatives pretend to care about kids health and safety ever again. Fuck ICE and fuck them for the rest of recorded time.

Columbia Heights (Liam's school district) cancelled school today because of a credible bomb threat at Liam's elementary and multiple ICE vehicles parking in the high school staff parking lot at 6:15am.

Holy shit. Not only was Tulsi Gabbard present for the raid on Georgia's election center, she called Trump and put him on speaker phone to the FBI agents conducting the raid! (Gift link)

Just doing Watergate out in the open