Oh, we are evolved enough, dude, that's why so many people hate it.

Me in my Bluesky Bubble

Is this the most progressive answer on trans issues in the race? My resistance to him is waning.

i have no evidence of this but remain convinced that answering this question with conviction is more appealing to more voters, including those who tell pollsters they disagree, than trying to thread any number of needles to find the maximally acceptable answer

Introduce yourself with 10 artists you've seen live Jackson 5 John Denver David Bowie Sarah Vaughn Bruce Cockburn Indigo Girls Tracy Chapman Ferron Mariam Makeba Bobby McFerrin

A democracy is being dismantled before our eyes and only cartoonists, comedians, and independent journalists are covering it. threads.com/@jeffkoterba

Hollywood needs to make movies set in the 18th and 19th centuries that realistically show infant mortality so that people really understand what it was like before modern medicine. There is a lot of criticism to level at modern capitalistic medicine, but treatment of infants isn't one of them.

i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

I'm so old. Back in my day, all we had to help us learn to think more deeply and communicate more effectively was reading, writing, discussing ideas with other humans, and guidance and feedback from specially-trained humans.

“One day, all we guard will be surrendered. “ Li-young Lee, on learning to accept and embrace the fragility and temporality of life, in his poem: To Hold #poetry #WritingCommunity

This is a great thread!

You're trapped in the last TV show you watched, where are you? Pittsburgh, PA

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Has it ever occurred to you that we need Star Trek now more than ever?

I have been summoned

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

“Here we show through six studies that government control of the media across the world already influences the output of LLMs via their training data.” This is, hands down, the best paper I’ve read about AI. Kudos to this rockstar team!

It's amazing how every paragraph holds progressively *worse* details. Just an absolute dumpster fire of a car, company, and human being.

I think @leahlitman.bsky.social, @kateshaw.bsky.social, and I were on the vanguard of law professors with podcasts, but otherwise, I agree wholeheartedly with this rave review. Thanks, @daltonrushing.com!

A detailed thread about my fiction writing: I've been writing science fiction since 2006, and have written and published 12 novels and novellas. The big themes in my books include: 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+ characters 👽Aliens & First Contact 🏛️Culture Clash 🚀Space travel Details below and here: maxwellpearl.com

Yeah, I'm "under-babied" by choice, thank you very much.

(lights a cigarette) Kid, let me tell you of the glory days of the local BBS you signed into at 300 baud (takes a drag from the cigarette) (chokes violently on the cigarette because he doesn't actually smoke)

Great thread. I do think it's is quite likely she is going to run, and I have to hope that Harris decides not to, because an AOC candidacy would be electric, magical, and I love how terrified the billionaires would be.

This whole thread. I think the obvious answer to the question "Why do people continue to vote against their own interests?" Is that their interest in white supremacy and patriarchy is bigger than their interest in their and their family's own lives and healths.

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

I guess it might be better or more interesting for me to be talking about my writing here, or maybe opining about the political realities of the moment. Instead, it seems to be nonstop AI shitposting.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Everyone knows Representatives are not supposed to represent those who live in their district, but all those who live outside of their district

This is terrific and alarming. In order for AI to work as intended, companies hire thousands of independent contractors as trainers, subjecting them to countless indignities and labor law violations, all while they have Gen Z supervisors with slippery standards no boundaries.

God she never f'ing misses.

A web page just told me everything it learned about me without asking. It knew my city, my device, my GPU, and how long I hesitated before scrolling. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

1/ Hantavirus update as of 10am PST May 8: Count is still 3 deaths and 5 more infected. Dozens of people across a dozen countries are being monitored, including in the United States. What is happening with the cruise ship? We now have some answers (and some relief for those on board.)

Might I suggest one of these, Brian?

Pitches for Dem CA Governor, GO!

Tiptree--who was he or she? Documentary bout to make the festive rounds and I hear I am in it. But also, like, some known guys such as Samuel R. Delany and cool biographer @julie-phillips.com. Check out what's up with it at jedsamer.com/tip-alli/

Trump is trying to end black political representation in Congress because he's an old-school racist.

This is key to why most SFF readers start in childhood, and it can be a struggle to learn how to read SFF as an adult if you didn’t start teen you still knew how to read like a kid.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: West Wing Star Trek: DS9 Battlestar Galactica Black Mirror The Pitt Bones Sense8 Sex Education Firefly Babylon 5 Scandal Defiance The X-FIles

"For Star Wars day, give us your top 10 sci fi films": (not in any particular order) Star Trek: The Voyage Home Star Wars IV: A New Hope Matrix Blade Runner District 9 Contact Children of Men Gravity Moon Brother from Another Planet Bonus: - The Martian - Rogue One

May the fourth be with you...

Farmers vote Republican because they're people with money & property. So they vote like people with money & property. That's it. It's not rocket science.

They cut school lunches and THIS is the bipartisan school funding bill they come up with? Fuck you.

'dress for the job you want!' the job I want:

Can confirm.