this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

i believe this is related to the rise in people who are utterly incurious about anything not directly beneficial to themselves

“An atrocity is not when some artwork is horribly executed; it is when some artist – or other person – is, horribly, executed. It applies to crimes against humanity, not crimes against the humanities.” sesquiotic.com/2022/05/08/a...

All the "free speech" folks from the last fifteen years have taken the position: "This is bad, but it's the fault of the left for going too far."

i don't know how to parody this anymore

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

This is what “ keep men out of women’s sports” should mean. Disgusting.

After a fall in early 2020, my 84-year-old mom had to have a cognitive assessment to screen for a concussion. When asked who was president, she looked at the doctor, blinked, and said, "That asshole Donald Trump, duh."

My mother (who is still with us) has dementia. She was asked last year by a neurologist “who is the president?”her response was “I can’t remember, but I hate him!”

In my mother's last years a number of medical personnel earnestly told us that they'd stopped asking people who the president was because people either refused to say it or it agitated them.

Lose the M and ruin a movie Skyfall because, let’s be honest, Dame Judi made that film

lose the M and ruin a movie

Lose the M and ruin a book The Ill on the Floss

Its interesting that regular people can be charged for "standing by" during a shooting, but cops can't (thinking of Uvalde) www.wzzm13.com/article/news...

Several years ago, I was coming out of a local bagel shop. Dude looks at my e-bike, rolls down his window, and says "That's cheating." I looked at him and said "Dude, you drove an F350 to a bagel shop. I don't think you get to judge cheating."

They think you're stupid.

how can you not be romantic about baseball

There really is a Will for everything

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Me at 30 (with Aina) and me at 55 (3 years ago, with Aina)

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

We all die in a Navy submarine Because there's no vaccine Because there's no vaccine

Let's go for anchovy canapes, leg of lamb, and German apple cake

staying in a fancy hotel for a few days is nice but nothing hits like returning to your shitty little apartment where all your garbage ass crap is

lololol - Bluesky managed to put an "adult content" label on an image which YOU CANNOT ACTUALLY SEE

Sitting on a bench. Waiting at a bus stop. Crossing the street. Enjoying a Fourth of July party. These are the things people were doing in NYC when drivers killed them. Just wait. They’ll blame “medical episode”.

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Travel and learn languages. And then after the year was up I might write something about it…

The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley). Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.

Puns are the best! #ACES2026 #ACESPunSlam

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

from the AP Lit FB group, this kind of thing happens across states—

Here, have some culture www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5xS...

I am not gifted at being early to many things but waiting for a flight? You mean liminal space where no one can reach you and all you have to do is sit back and read? Preferably with a newspaper from a country you don't usually get them from? Can't think of a better use of time honestly.

The people who tell you to get to the airport at the last possible minute are 1. Wrong and 2. A lot more comfortable with losing serious money on missed flights than I’ll ever be tbh

Everytime Gardiner talks about being silenced this is the clip i think of. #yyjpoli

One more time, for the Monday evening crowd: my translation of the fight between Wolf-boy (Beowulf) and Grinder (Grendel). I may revise it. I think I didn't ever use "fuckhead" as a description of Grinder, and it does belong somewhere.

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

bring back shame

video games taught me that you know you're headed in the right direction when you encounter more & stronger enemies, and get better loot by defeating them

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of: “people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

Non-traditional office

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

as another cis dude, this is absolutely true. Cis men are typically not encouraged to think about gender, except in very negative ways ("you're unmanly if you have any emotions other than rage"), requiring you to walk a tightrope greased with unfollowable rules, over the pit of The Gay.