Watching Season 17’s Taskmaster and getting a glimpse of what Britain and these poor bastards think is a flan (which seems to be a thick, large dish-shaped crust full of runny beige liquid) and I’d feel sorry for them but that would probably violate one of @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social ‘s rules

I got back to my hotel and saw the foreground involved FALL FOLIAGE! In California! I had to stay up to finish the edit. Glad to live in this universe with you all ❤️

We have learned nothing

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Today is perhaps a good day to remind people that Jimmy Carter personally and publicly pled with Obama to recognize to the State of Palestine before his second term ended and Obama just ignored him lol

CW: Child abuse TIL: Richard Gardner, who invented Parental Alienation Syndrome (mostly from his own resentful divorce) was also all in on in-family sexual contact between parents and children, and believed that it was the reactions of us puritanical prudes that was traumatic. I need to go vomit.

long overdue but good to see Israel’s monstrous campaign of genocide is finally shattering the international pro-apartheid consensus

What an amazing cosmic coincidence that Dana Terrace's smash-hit new indie show dropped the very moment Disney stomped on the sharpest rake imaginable. Also, watch Knights of Guinevere.

Fluff.

Maybe the “debating other people‘s basic human rights is intellectually stimulating and ethically sound” folks can go for their own tent with the fascists.

We had a tortie who was the sweetest smoosh, even at the vet. I've also met lots of sweet, gentle torties while volunteering at our local shelter every week. I think if people are looking for "tortitude" they will find it because that's just how confirmation bias works.

ICYMI, someone has been making @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social ‘s life hell and she could use help. Please share!!

“Defund the police is a bad, confusing statement” - country that has given the cops more money than any other country in the history of recorded time

Even if you don't give a fuck about the human rights of trans people, diagnosing trans people as the reason Dems lost is inaccurate, and if you're working from that inaccurate info, you're going to implement the wrong fix.

The Harris campaign was *terribly* run, staff were **incompetent** And to now blame the Democratic loss on trans people is just incredibly fucked up and the kind of la-la-la land fantasy thinking that loses elections.

top shelf "he just tweeted it out" stuff here

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

This Etruscan guttus - a vessel used to store and pour liquids in small amounts, or to refill oil lamps - is shaped like an elephant. It may have been inspired by the elephants first seen in Italy during the invasions of Pyrrhus and of Hannibal of Carthage in the 3rd c. BCE. 🏺 300-200 BCE.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

woah @propublica.org what the hell. you let your writers write their own key point summaries instead of using AI, but you're scamming voice actors/etc. for "cheap" audio?

A Riverside sheriff's deputy became "obsessed" with a fitness influencer, using police databases to track her down, even making up a crime as an excuse to visit. But a judge ruled "nothing actually happened." My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

My characters can’t consent. They’re not real. THEY’RE. NOT. REAL.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher @macmillanaudio.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com Wonderfully written, well thought out, dark, and chilling. openbookposts.com/2025/09/20/w...

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

I’m in tears. I was literally going to visit BWAC tomorrow.

They ruined clothes, and we let them. It used to just be women's fast fashion, but now even men's jeans are 30% stretchy plastic. Most clothes made now are so bad you might as well order them online and get them shipped straight to the landfill to save time.

Random aside: I know everything is shit but I gotta say, my dad loved movies and even as a kid I knew he really felt the lack of Latine representation on screen. That a *Chilean* actor is such a star in 🇺🇸 Pedro Pascal leads news about this story, is one more reason I wish he was still alive.

Marvel’s Mr Fantastic & SW Mandalorian makes Pedro Pascal a Disney ‘tentpole’. He’s got a trans sister & experience dealing w/ fascists bc Pinochet is why his family ended up in America in the 1st place. Many stars will flock to his side bc like Mark Ruffalo, he’s a genuinely nice person.

Street outreach teams's wishlist is here: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/....

It will be in the 30s tonight. By next week, below freezing every night. First snow, probably early October. So let's get both teams stocked up. Shelter wishlist is here: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/....

They have two wishlists, one for the shelter services and one for their street outreach team. And I don't like Amazon any more than anyone else, but if it helps keep trans kids safe where there aren't other options? I'll patronize and promote them every time.

Okay, tonight's local urgent needs. So, let's try this again and see if we can get anywhere without interference from the overprivileged performative class of bad-faith actors.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Same with NYC state and local electeds putting shit on the line and getting arrested at Federal Plaza while Jeffries whips votes for fascists

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

Yeah absolutely, but I bet a lot of people didn't think this was going to be that bad. And to make matters worse, H-1B visa holders are REQUIRED to leave the country to renew their visas every few years, so right now there are likely thousands of H-1B visa holders outside the country.

Biggest terrorist attack on journalists since Charlie Hebdo. I'm sure everyone will be covering it

TFW you wrote a novel about the Canadian tech corridor just expanding wildly for no particular reason whatsoever, following COVID: us.macmillan.com/books/978076...

victory gardens but the victory is over existential dread

Here is 28 seconds of sleeping cat with little sleep noises for your calming down needs.

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I graduated art school in the late ‘00s into the recession & “collapse of the print industry”, working artists said they’d no idea how my gen ‘would survive.’ Rates have been worsening for decades now, but seeing AI replace artists is truly vile. AI is all well and good until it comes for your job.

This is the third installment in the AI Killed My Job series, after tech workers and translators. It focuses on visual artists, illustrators, and graphic designers. I received so many submissions from visual artists that I couldn't include them all, and, just a word of warning, some are very bleak.

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.