My trio of short stories, "Freespire Nights" is now up on @gettheoreads.bsky.social ! Sex and skullduggery in the post-magic steampunk city of Freespire. www.theoreads.com/story/88fdf0...

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

folks, she did this as a show of support and resistance to Putin, it's not some IOC plot. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Meanwhile, in Germany, the public weighs in on what they think of the Epstein Administration. #BrutalButAccurate

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

This sounds like the blurb for a poly romance...

Interesting piece so a quick translation: this author ran her book through AI (i know, booh) which then altered the sex scenes to shift towards a male perspective, removing clitoral stimulation and more emphasis on penetration scenes. But yeah, keep AI away from your work at all costs!

Link to the post: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Proposal: vampire romance is necromantasy

Business opportunity: App that recruits people with low credit scores to shop for you

I loved this book. Got it from the library.

Become ungovernable

There aren't any of them I dislike--I have quite sweet tooth--but the almond cluster is the least best.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

The "AI revolution" in science is going so smoothly that my instititutional library is having to deploy multiple technical protection measures against "poorly behaved Gen AI crawling" just to maintain its timely service library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...

Now live! @christianaellis.bsky.social GMs #daggerheart, a #ttrpg session of our campaign on her twitch channel www.twitch.tv/christianael... Players include @amaster101.bsky.social @nobilis.bsky.social and myself! Join us and watch LIVE

I'm in this!

The Golden Nuggets have got fungus zombies to fight. Too bad they're all on spore drugs! Join us for some live Daggerheart actual-play on #SoManyLevels! Live on Twitch at 7PM Eastern! twitch.tv/christianael...

Roses shift red Violets shift blue Indicating velocity Relative to you 🧪 ⚛️ ❤️

Smol (not big)

unfortunately it's tuberculosis

There had to be a better way to state that this CPB used his position to coerce his married, *biological* neice into a relationship.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Here's the thing with AI et al. LLMs were, and potentially still could be, an interesting and even genuinely useful technology. They were chugging along fine in the background for some years before this hype train started, and I can see why early innovators feel aggrieved that everyone hates it now.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "It's in the syllabus"

Nothing destroys religion better than a state church, and nothing protects it better than secular government. Counterintuitive but true

Never take cake to the beach.

another institution disgraces itself by licking the tyrant's boot

AI creates new jobs when?

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

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Discord leadership only people on planet who think adding age verification to Discord a good idea: aftermath.site/discord-age-ve...

Sowing doubt to infect the momentum on the Left. Don't buy into it, even the big AI chat boxes are written by people with vested interests in seeing the files suppressed. Do your own homework, make your own decisions, listen to the witnesses. Stay strong

Beautifully drawn, compassionately written, and brilliant in all ways, I cannot recommend SIDE QUESTED highly enough. Plus there's a wicked witch queen named "Boopsie." Who could ask for anything more?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/149... Hello everyone! My Kickstarter is now live! Please head over and grab a copy of the 5th book in The City Between

I have heard this about calling myself fat so often that I have a stock response at this point: I recognize that word makes you uncomfortable, I am sorry you are having a feeling it is difficult for you to manage, I’m still gonna need you to manage your feelings and not my language. 

This is a familiar feeling

The kids that this Super Bowl party decided to co-celebrate the retirement of 6 7.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-bad-bunny/

Listening to lots of Moog music this morning an thought to share this absolute gem [captions on]: youtu.be/B7UmUX68KtE?...

I know WE are all exhausted, scared, furious, depressed, and wondering whether anything we do can stand in the face of such relentless evil. The answer is, yes. We can, we do, and we ARE withstanding the relentless evil.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...

Anyone remember an old TTRPG called "Paranoia"? It featured a ubiquitous artificial intelligence, "Friend Computer," that controlled (or tried to control) everything and everyone. It was tended by an elite cadre of "High Programmers." Been thinking about that one a lot lately, for some reason.