The eternal furry question: could an anthro grizzly femboy exist?

One of the interesting things in this article is that it deals with act-utilitarianism, which can't be valid because you can't know the consequences of your actions years in advance. What you can know is whether your actions will take away the freedoms of others in the short term.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

"The Reflecting Pool is open, and everyone is having a wonderful time!"

Arrrgh. I've written myself into a nasty corner where a character I like has to make a choice where either option is utterly unpalatable. Either they let a large population suffer, or they save the reputation of a genuinely evil man. And I've set up an ethic that saving people is more important.

GLAAD lays out the risks of an AI-mediated world, including the use of sentiment analysis to block LGBTQ content, inherent bias toward cis- and heterosexism leading to "recommendations for conversion therapy," while enabling more virulent attacks on LGBTQ people. glaad.org/glaad-releas...

I can't read the opening paragraph of The War of the Worlds without hearing it in Richard Burton's voice.

Fox News says that "recognizing the historical and contemporary record of mistreatment directed against LGBTQ people is an attack on 'people of faith.'" In case you needed to know why young people are leaving the church. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

This lovely picture of the Obamas, a new official portrait commissioned for the lobby of the Obama Presidential Library, has the right wing in a tizzy. It "proves" Michelle is in charge and that Barack is probably gay because "straight men don't sit like that." Those people need a life.

I had a brief conversation at work today with a junior over the definition of the word "idempotent." It does NOT mean "You always get the same result." It means, "You get the same object." If the object has changed in the meantime, you get the new version.

An interesting look at whether or not Meta's C-Suite is suffering from AI psychosis to the point where they've spent the last three months breaking the company's engineering culture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-met...

Arizona Christian University contracted with Barna research group (a survey company with a fairly strong right-leaning bias), and are dismayed to learn "only one in seven Americans holds biblically accurate views on both natural and supernatural topics." web.arizonachristian.edu/CRC/2026/AWV...

You should never talk to the police. Never. Even prosecutors know, "It doesn't matter how innocent you are. Unless you're the victim, and sometimes not even then, it is a mistake to talk to the police without your attorney present." www.campolalaw.com/why-you-shou...

"The developer who watches a thing carefully for three years and understands deeply why it breaks in specific ways under specific conditions is often the engineer who gets replaced with AI when headcount needs to come down because the value they provide is invisible until it is gone."

Remember, the far-right Heritage Foundation, the people who brought you Project 2025 and the Trump Administration, have spent millions of dollars collating a breathless collection of "vote fraud" incidents, the paltry sum total of which, in their own words...

THE ULTIMATE SANDBOX (1984) Acrylic on Canvas - 15” x 24” A whimsical portrait of my daughter Alexa that remains one of my all-time most popular images—and a personal favorite! 1/2

THIS IS THE AMERICA WE ALL DESERVE

"That's the oddest thing," he said. "I don't have to tell you that before you had me made, I had always been ferociously androphile, and yet I adore us as much as you do. I spent the first three months wondering if I'd always secretly been a lesbian." #amwriting

"Thanks, mysterious people in black!" (If there was a queer New Yorker, what would be the "universal tag line" for all its comics?)

Sigh. One of the tentacle smut feeds I follow on Reddit has started welcoming AI stuff. There's a scene in a great old (non-hentai) manga I read a long time ago where one character, a librarian, reveals, "We're not the real world." "What do you mean?" "This isn't the real world. It's… out there."

Cruel fate is hearing the neighborhood ice cream truck coming around your block just 5 minutes before you're gonna have dinner on the table.

I kinda hate that kilts have become passe' and even cringe, since I find them really comfortable on those days when the temperature reaches 30C+ / 85F+. "A trilby for your ass." Men's fashions are boring. Why can't have we have skirts and blouses that are manly without being "tactical" (gag)?

I'm always in a good mood, despite the delayed onset muscle soreness, the day after a heavy workout. And I have to remind myself that the guy who's going to enjoy that good mood is probably (barring tragedy) gonna be me whenever I think, "Do I really have to do the workout today?"

It should have occurred to me sooner that centaurs would wear the short-tail equestrian-style jackets for the same reason equestriennes do: there's more body back there behind the, well, on centaurs it's not the tailbone, it's whatever non-mammalian construct supports the full body.

This is your reminder that Dave Grossman doesn't know shit about shit, he had 0 combat deployments, 0 *non*-combat deployments, and never so much as earned an Overseas Service Ribbon for spending any time outside the continental US.

The funny thing is that whenever someone has snarked, "Nice skirt," whenever I've worn my kilt my sole reaction has been, "Thanks! It has pockets."

The Republican Administration says that recognizing that LGBTQ veterans have unique needs results in an inequitable distribution of resources away from straight veterans, and therefore is not legal: www.military.com/va-eliminati...

It's amazing that, for so many of these people who've tried to attack the Republican Leader, their complaint is "He's committing evil I didn't want, not the evil I voted for!"

"The science is clear: pesticides increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Neurologist Bas Bloem describes the evidence as "overwhelming." France and Germany already recognize Parkinson’s caused by pesticides as an occupational disease. How many more warning signs do policymakers need?"

North Korea envies Iran's "loss."

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

"Surrendering your dignity" and "developing humility" are two very different things. Being disgraced and dishonored in the pursuit of power aren't humility.

"So, if America elected a Democratic president, you'd encourage him to profit off his office the way Donald Trump has?"

I have been told that backing into a parking space is rude because it implies I'm more interested in leaving than I am in wherever it is I am parking.

This is why she didn't tell you until she was 30, Diana.

NPR is comparing a trans woman fleeing Texas for her personal safety with a conservative fleeing Seattle because he was annoyed with his neighbors. This is honestly insane both sides framing to a degree that is just blatant lying by omission.

The Republican party last week turned away a coalition of conservative Muslims, telling them the Democratic party had a place for them.

I remain convinced that with very few exceptions, there is a "The Talk" one gets when you reach a certain class, essentially a warning that if you betray your peers, they will make sure the rest of your life is hellish and short.

Ezra Klein and Elon Musk and Steven Pinker and Cory Booker and Jared Polis and Peter Thiel and virtually zero women?? It’s the ur-group chat

A limerick. Based on a true story.

Rupert Murdoch is buying Roku to help keep pace with Larry Ellison's recent purchases of TikTok, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Here's why media has an inherent left-wing bias.

Every Single Attempt To See What UBI Does Proves UBI Works But instead of using this information to do something, we keep repeating the test hoping for a different outcome.

Sometimes, you just gotta do: `$ git push -am "-780 words. Gotta stop driving to the story."`

Had an argument with an acquaintance who swore Bluesky "had an algorithm." I pointed out that the standard view didn't, it just posted things in the order your friends posted them, no more, no less. Nothing was "promoted," the timeline wasn't rearranged. "That's still an algorithm!"

"The Black Robe Regiment" was as epithet the British hurled at American clergymen who sided with the rebels during the Revolutionary War. Texas intends to teach a mythologized version of it, overstating its influence and attributing membership to people who weren't even clergy. archive.ph/LrFhm

This is where we are: a flashcard app, managed by AI, that helps you fight against AI coding brainrot by using spaced repetition to refresh in your head the facts and terminology the coding AIs have encouraged you to forget. fata.dev

This isn't about "nerds" in the general sense, but more in the "lords of the data center" mentality, the idea that since a small team can write an app used by millions, individual spectrum-adjacent men are now feeling a sense of control they previously lacked. But... mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuc...

Someone on Reddit asked, "What is the fastest lossless compression algorithm?" I manfully resisted replying, "`cat`."

It's dismaying to learn that Kobo, which is my reader of choice, is locked into using a 2013 CSS parser for its epub standard, and as a result the `epubcheck` program will lie to you about whether or not your ebook will work on a Kobo. andreklein.net/your-epub-is...