Proud to be one of the lucky 311,785.

Ahahahahaha what do you mean the TECHNICAL ADVISOR to Bluesky just blocked over 300k users by following an ANTI-AI, AI HATERS blocklist. Embarassing.

alt text is making some breaking news tweets visible rn despite the pic/vid outage. hint ;)

I assume tonight's game is being played on an aircraft carrier somewhere in the pacific and that's why it's so late

In response to some bullshit going around: Can we please fucking destigmatize men being nice to / caring about / engaging with kids? These are normal adult mammal instincts; what's fucked up is that we beat them out of people based on gender and/or assume they're inherently predatory.

One thing I worry about a little in this backlash is that "data center" will become a dirty word in general. Data centers are in fact vital infrastructure, but not at nearly the scale the "AI" companies want.

Read the article. No, the WHOLE article. Yes, the entire thing. Then pop into the quote posts and despair for the state of media literacy in 2026.

I’ve always wanted to hold a small pinball tournament where the only rule was that you’re not allowed to move Meatloaf.

As a laid-off infrastructure admin (the people who *actually* fix outages), all the shitty "jokes" about AI are extra insulting. Would it hurt you to learn how these systems actually work?

Also, it’s a free social media product. you can chill out for a bit. (they got me taking up for bsky, jheeez)

Yeah, the AI jokes were never funny for anyone who knows the infrastructure admins are the ones doing the real work during outages.

A hot take, but this is 100% correct. The rhetoric also ends up being used against GAC as well.

Not quote posting because I don’t want to dunk a tiny account, but Swalwell facing consequences is not a distraction from the Epstein files, what the actual fuck is wrong with you.

Okay bluesky I need your help I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home" Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

we want candidates who wish to salt the earth from which the MAGA cancer grew so that similar poisonous vines can never befoul the world again

To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance

One of my cousins in Texas teaches music. She’s just switched schools and needs some money for a group rug and some beginner keyboards. This school serves a historically underfunded group of kids. Help out if you can! She’s just shy 250ish.

I feel like every cis straight White guy needs to experience, just once, having been deeply wronged and risking trusting an authority figure to right it only to then have that authority wielded against them and for it to result in them being worse off for the attempt. It would teach a lot.

what I'm hearing

This one hurts since Brust is kind of an old friend of a local con. But accountability for your faves might be even more important than for the guys you don't care for, exactly to prevent the kind of bullshit that that fondness might otherwise enable.

Since people are asking who it is, I'll name him: It's Steven Brust. He has engaged in sexual harassment against friends and colleagues, particularly at and around 4th Street Fantasy convention. It is the reason why he has been excised from the con and is no longer welcome there and part of it.

I think it really is about “opposite team” for so many people. About this and also in general. Actions are not moral or immoral in and of themselves; what determines right and wrong is who’s doing the thing Which is pretty goddamn monstrous as well as morally bankrupt

This is it. If Swalwell cares one tiny bit about his party or his state, he drops out right now. We have two other Ds who are close to him in the polls. He leaves, the Rs are obliterated.

impossible to tell if he's annoyed or just lost in thought (commission)

I know it's still considered impolitic to say it, but Hillary Clinton couldn't go nearly as hard as she could and should have with Trump on this shit for the simple reason that it would have meant talking about Bill.

FUCKING THIS. EVERY DAMN DAY we have to deal with a whole bunch of putting some man's "value to society" over our basic humanity. EVERY DAY. "But he'll be a good president." Find someone else. "But he's a good comedian." So will someone else be. "But he catches footballs good." FUCK OFF WITH THAT.

If I never have to read some person saying "what happened to innocent until proven guilty" about why some guy should still be elected to one of the most powerful positions in the country despite numerous sexual assault allegations it will be too soon

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

From April 10, 1988. Hard to believe FoxTrot is 38 years old today...

I've already got one ill-advised trip to Chicago booked this summer. Do I have to make it two?

Missed my train to the game (at an unfamiliar station) because I made a wrong turn trying to park. I'll make it but not before first pitch, and I'm sitting here making chicken-and-egg arguments about transit frequency in my head.

Left two voicemails and then got caught a bit off-guard when @bennet.senate.gov's Denver office answered the phone. Had to quickly adapt my script to talk to the staffer, but it felt good to at least have the confirmation that someone heard it.

I'd explain the difference between code and infrastructure, but none of you cares, you just want a cheap shot.

Hey, remember when this event cancelled him from their event in 2019 after they found out he was a sex pest and hasn't had him back in the last seven years? I see somebody found the right devil to whisper into Ranger Stop's ears to decide to just ignore that.

Fresh troll account free for the blocking.

So Erin Reed blocked me over this one but I’m going to take a few minutes to point out why this “reporting” is so bad and repost a few times to hopefully spread the word. TL;DR Erin either doesn’t understand anything about NYC law or politics or is outright lying about what’s happening here.

And in horrifying news, Idaho's governor has signed the felony bathroom ban, with 5 year penalties for second offense bathroom usage, into law. This is the most significant criminalization of trans people to date. On trans day of visibility no less. It will require a new "Do not travel" warning.

i swear to fucking god the is/ought collapse is the worst thing about microblogging

by far the worst tendency on this platform is its tendency to interpret a description of something that happened or is happening as an endorsement of that thing I have been reading Mark on conversion therapy cases for years and he has always been very clear about how awful it is

My biggest frustration in this place is still the tendency to leap to the interpretation that assumes the worst intentions. Intentionally vague because it applies to many things, but there are definitely a couple of recent examples chewing on me today.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

No. An apology is not enough, not the second time and ABSOLUTELY not the third. Making real amends—doing clear work to undo the damage and make a better world—is the bare minimum to begin the journey back to trust. And it's a journey, not a single step. Also, stop reposting this fucking grifter.

More directly: Attie isn't the slop/art theft machine. It sorts things into buckets. In a complex but low-stakes application like post curation, that's (probably) a good thing.

A lot of people have been kinda befuddled by the phenomenon of "every white pro baseball player is a Republican" but it makes sense once you understand "your parents are rich enough to think spending $25k/year and countless hours on travel baseball seems reasonable" is the filter for participation

I don't know enough yet to know where I truly stand on Attie, but the perennial assumption of bad faith on this site is just *exhausting* some days.

More directly: Attie isn't the slop/art theft machine. It sorts things into buckets. In a complex but low-stakes application like post curation, that's (probably) a good thing.

Do people understand there are applications for machine learning that aren't "just churn out some slop for me"? And that classifying posts for feeds is actually a pretty good one?

In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.

So, I've been trying to read up on the candidates to be voted on at the state assembly in two days, and anyway, this is why I will never, ever, ever vote for @breslinforsenate.bsky.social. This is absolutely disqualifying in my opinion.