I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

i need allies to stop looking at the ongoing horrors that trans people are facing and responding with "wow imagine what will happen when this comes for [others]" yeah that'll suck, can we talk about it happening to us RIGHT NOW? we're more than the canary in the coal mine. we deserve to live too.

One thing I have learned spending hours coordinating addresses to send whistles to is that there are so, so many churches that are trying to protect people in this moment and making their spaces open for whistle kit making, community gathering, and so forth.

Idk who needs to hear this, but if your government requires your dead name or assigned gender at birth on your documents it has nothing to do with you detransitioning or who you are as a person. It doesn't change you, it just makes your government wrong.

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

📣 NOTE: To clarify, the 6-month moratorium on Medicare medical equipment enrollment is for new *suppliers,* not enrollees. Still horrible & likely illegal, but not QUITE as horrible as it would be otherwise. Also, it looks like the $260M is around 14% of Minnesota's total Medicaid budget.

Subscribing to the print version has been on my todo list for a while. The prospect of passing WaPo is what got me to pull the trigger.

It doesn't come up often, but it definitely has its place.

There's a lot going on. But it deserves FAR MORE ATTENTION that Whiskey Pete is going to seize the means of AI production so he can 1) engage in mass surveillance of Americans and 2) shoot without human intervention. Dystopias this bad would be deemed unrealistic. www.axios.com/2026/02/24/a...

It saddens me that people of color especially women of color have to immediately offer disclaimers that they aren't self-aggrandizing or potentially fraudulent whenever they get attention for their good deeds. I know why folks feel compelled to do this but it's unfair. You're great. No caveats.

We are getting a lot of questions about book recommendations for Advanced Readers (younger kids reading above their grade level). Have you tried Novelist for Kids? It's available from our Berkeley Public Library page. Here's a sample page of Read Alike suggestions for The Hobbit!

Happy birthday to the first Black man to be nominated for Best Actor in a movie, the first Black person to win best actor in a leading role, and the first Black man to slap a White man on camera. Happy birthday to Sidney Poitier, who was born 99 years ago today, and who only passed 4 years ago

This...this is brilliant and we must start training the Corvid Liberation Airforce

The discovery that ICE began using Subarus shook me to my core. My culture is not a costume

Kentucky bill would limit use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/02/18/k...

I've been saying for decades that most Olympic events would be improved (for casual viewers, at least) by releasing predators onto the course. This wasn't exactly what I had in mind, but it's wonderful.

Race has been the American elite's most useful tool in keeping workers from organizing together. There *might* have been rich folk capable of trying other tools in the past, but this particular group of nepofucks just keep doubling down on something that's getting less effective every year

The depression has been kicking my ass again/still, but I saw something this morning that actually made me feel better about myself. Whatever other issues I might have, at least I'm not so broken that I own a Cybertruck.

I'm not saying the Big Valley is why I'm a lesbian, but ... it's probably not unrelated.

Hey so this is important. Amazon is removing ALL erotica and new queer books from its Amazon associates program, which seems to be a first step towards delisting these books a la itchio. This includes my book, your books, and the books you like to buy. This is bad news, and we can expect worse

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

It's way too christian for my tastes, but "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free." hits hard.

“These hoes wanna live in Omelas” is going to stick with me.

Normie libs: burn down buildings that might become concentration camps Chuck Schumer: We're gonna make sure the guards at the concentration camps can't wear masks as often

The utter shame of seeing your alma mater missing from the enemies list. #Cal gets no donations from me until they make this list.

Incredible news. The gender critical crowd has been trying to capture EU institutions and so far they've failed. The EU may yet be a safe haven for trans people.

Fannie Lou Hamer's niece is proud to see her aunt's Presidential Medal of Freedom on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. "We don’t need to wipe this history clean. I know there are a lot of efforts underway right now to rewrite the stories, but we need to keep telling the stories.”

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

The exact thing that antizionist/non-Zionist Jews have been warning would happen, is happening — thanks to the Israeli government's insistence that Israel, by definition, speaks for world Jewry and that any criticism of Israeli's policies is antisemitism. This inevitably LEADS to antisemitism.

hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How can an '86 Mustang convertible be a classic car? It's what I learned to drive a stick on.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

The New Testament isn't my area of expertise, but I don't understand why we're not talking more aggressively about Matthew 25. It seems very clear that ICE agents are condemning themselves to hell and they really should be made aware of that.

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

My depression is really overplaying its hand today. It's trying to convince me I'm the worst person in the world but I know that Stephen Miller exists.

This is exactly the kind of breakdown of the show I, a person who has never listened to Bad Bunny until tonight, need.

I don't have much Spanish, but I'm pretty sure I heard the word "Taíno" which means it was probably some good anti-colonialist shit.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

DID YOU KNOW? If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home! They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Blessed are the dildo flingers

Is anyone who follows me using AI for code? Have a coding session coming up soon? Can I pair with you? I'd like to know more about the current state of AI coding and I think the best way to do that is to watch someone who uses it and is willing to take questions.

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

The Thanksgiving episode of WKRP.

Hopefully there will be a 28th Virginia flag made of whistles.